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Battle Ground Cover Art
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: g33k on April 25, 2020, 04:31:59 AM ---Because that cover looks like an urban disaster of larger than typical Dresden scope.
I think the "Terrorist" excuse finally unravels at the end of the book... on live TV.
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"The city was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."
g33k:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on April 25, 2020, 10:17:34 PM --- "The city was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."
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And this time, I had proof!
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 25, 2020, 08:04:37 PM ---Like the hat?
I know it is not an original roman spearhead, I just wondered of somebody would know where the inspiration came from.
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Yeah, like the hat that Harry never wears. I think the inspiration comes form the very important and powerful artifact Harry retrieved from the vault. I cannot remember how detailed the description of it was in Skin Game, which could account for it. The idea is to intrigue us and get us guessing, which could also account for the generic quality of it.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Some things I noticed: Harry's pentacle is "upside down" and doesn't have his mom's ruby. Also, McGrath's signature has "19" after it. Could that mean he had this done some time last year? If so, why was the book announced without the cover art?
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Maybe a dumb question, but how can you tell if a pentacle necklace is upside down? Yes, supposedly there is an up side and a down side to a five pointed star, but the necklace might be different. I think the center of the picture is too fuzzy to tell whether or not the ruby is there or not.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 26, 2020, 06:15:59 AM --- Maybe a dumb question, but how can you tell if a pentacle necklace is upside down? Yes, supposedly there is an up side and a down side to a five pointed star, but the necklace might be different. I think the center of the picture is too fuzzy to tell whether or not the ruby is there or not.
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In the beginning of Small Favor he has a bit where he explains some of the Pentacle lore to Murphy and talks about the first point being the Pentacle's North (or something to that effect) and that the first line you draw plays a role in that, but the way he described it sure implied that the "normal" version has a point facing upward. In most of the other covers I can find good images of at the moment (Cold Days and White Night right now) it has that more normal/traditional point-upward orientation, but in both Peace Talks and Battle Grounds it's point-down.
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