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Battle Ground Cover Art
morriswalters:
If you draw the star without lifting your pencil you will always end at the point where you begin. I suppose this is considered up. If you omit the circle it is impossible to attach a chain anywhere other than a point and have the star hang correctly.
Bad Alias:
--- 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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First, note my use of quotation marks. This should indicate to anyone with passing familiarity with various meanings of pentacles have in western society that I'm just saying it isn't a pentacle with a point of the star as the top. Second, what Quantus said. Third, https://www.jim-butcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_0972.jpg.
For the ruby, just zoom in. It's quite clearly not there.
morriswalters:
Well after a little research it turns out that it's called a inverted pentagram and it could be a symbol for Satanism and a demon called Baphomet.
And just because I can, is this evil Harry from Mirror Mirror.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Quantus on April 27, 2020, 10:19:04 PM ---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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I wasn't trying to be sarcastic, it is just something I never paid that much attention to in the pictures, that is why I asked. Though I know the pentacle is important to Harry, however I don't remember the bit
from Small Favor.
--- Quote ---First, note my use of quotation marks. This should indicate to anyone with passing familiarity with various meanings of pentacles have in western society that I'm just saying it isn't a pentacle with a point of the star as the top. Second, what Quantus said. Third, https://www.jim-butcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_0972.jpg.
For the ruby, just zoom in. It's quite clearly not there.
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Some of us aren't deeply into that lore or do a lot of jewelry shopping .. Though I think the Wolf Man has one on his palm in the old movies. Perhaps the artist is just sloppy, or just never read Changes? Having said that one would think that Jim has to approve of the cover art.
Dina:
I believe the pentacle is an artistic license, mainly because I don't think Harry's necklace could change. Just in case, I checked Eb's pentacle in the trailer and is is "normal" (not upside down). Also, if I've seen it well, it has no gem.
It would be so interesting though (I mean, if Harry really was wearing an upside-down pentacle)
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