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Battle Ground Cover Art
Yuillegan:
Okay, Harry has a spear. But on closer inspection it very well looks like a wizard staff with a bayonet...perhaps Harry affixes his staff with the Knife (Spear of Longinus) that he picked up in Skin Game...creating the Spear of Destiny.
Which makes sense. The blade is long for a knife, with a cross guard. The shape is reminiscent of a Roman spear. However...it isn't bronze.
But it does track that Dresden would need a powerful new weapon against the Titanness and her forces.
Also the theory that Dresden is Vadderung's past self is looking more likely. Vadderung's wields Gungnir ("swaying one") that never missed it's mark, and was unstoppable. In some interpretations it was considered to always be fatal and to make the wielder... invincible. Rather similar to the Spear of Longinus, no?
Also I might be reading to much into the artwork but the green magic light in the staff often means he is channeling Demonreach magic, when he channels dark blue and green it means Winter and light blue and white means Soulfire. So what does the red/orange light mean? Does Dresden get Hellfire again? I know Jim has said that is impossible to wield Soulfire and Hellfire together, as they are opposite sides of the same coin...which could mean Harry learns to "flip the coin" so to speak, transitioning as needed.
EDIT: https://www.jim-butcher.com/posts/2020/battle-ground-cover-revealed
Yuillegan:
Further, I think that if you examine the Peace Talks cover it appears he has not yet affixed the Knife to his staff.
And I might be stretching here but it does appear that the staff/spear has...tendrils? Attaching the knife to the staff? Is this the Blackstaff? I would say not as this staff has runes, and the Blackstaff supposedly is unadorned and unmarked. Yet as many have suspected, Peace Talks is possibly the book where Ebenezer bites the dust. Which seems obvious that Harry will get that role, as it would create more problems/opportunities. So maybe it IS the Blackstaff. The combination of the Blackstaff and the Knife/Spear seems like a super weapon, perfectly suited to killing Immortals and causing destruction.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Further, I think that if you examine the Peace Talks cover it appears he has not yet affixed the Knife to his staff.
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Knife or Spear of Destiny? One of the weapons he got out of the vault and what Nic was really after, not the Grail.
--- Quote ---And I might be stretching here but it does appear that the staff/spear has...tendrils?
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Runes clearly I believe, a lot of them are carved on his staff and light up as needed. The power of the Spear head would make them light up.
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 25, 2020, 12:44:04 AM ---Knife or Spear of Destiny? One of the weapons he got out of the vault and what Nic was really after, not the Grail.
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Knife and Spear are the same thing - at least in theory. It is true it hasn't been confirmed, but a lot of the lore around the Spear of Longinus have it as a Knife in it's present day. If you read the description of the Knife in Skin Game it gives a good indication.
Yes it was one of the items that are related to the Christ, one of the weapons that were in Hades' Vault. Obviously not the Holy Grail...Harry suspects Nic was really after the Knife but that isn't confirmed and there is a good thread about why Nice may have not been lying about the Grail. I suspect he wanted ALL of the weapons myself, and had different purposes for each individually - and maybe one horrible plan that involved all of them.
--- Quote from: Mira on April 25, 2020, 12:44:04 AM ---Runes clearly I believe, a lot of them are carved on his staff and light up as needed. The power of the Spear head would make them light up.
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Indeed the runes are clear, yet perhaps Harry had to carve runes on the Blackstaff. It isn't implausible to think he had a reason to do that, perhaps related to attaching the Knife/Spear. I don't doubt the Knife could cause the staff to light up, but wouldn't it be with that same holy power that Ammoracchius uses?
Of course everything in the covers had to be taken with a grain of salt as often there are red herrings and artistic licence by the cover artist - such as Harry's non-existent Hat that is on each cover.
nadia.skylark:
Isn't the blackstaff black? The staff in the picture is brown.
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