The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
There's something about Justine (PT and BG spoilers +WAG)
Conspiracy Theorist:
Wards are for when you really don’t have a threshold, a bachelor living alone in a rented temporary apartment generates a de minimus threshold. The BFS and Edinburgh headquarters need wards because they are nobody’s home. Karrin’s home has a threshold but requires additional protection. The Carpenters have an enormous threshold, but that is weakening as the children grow up and leave home, hence the Angels Thomas living on his own none (monster) Justine moving in de minimis, her establishing it as a home, slightly more. Making a home for a baby kerching meaningful threshold.
The_Sibelis:
🤔 wards are for everyone. most wards are specifically set upon thresholds to draw power from them, this is how Dresden's operate. How the BFS sets wards on everyone's house.. Edinburgh only has wards because they have those stone things that can power them independently.
Wards without thresholds are generally one time use.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 10, 2020, 04:55:01 PM ---Wards are for when you really don’t have a threshold, a bachelor living alone in a rented temporary apartment generates a de minimus threshold. The BFS and Edinburgh headquarters need wards because they are nobody’s home. Karrin’s home has a threshold but requires additional protection. The Carpenters have an enormous threshold, but that is weakening as the children grow up and leave home, hence the Angels Thomas living on his own none (monster) Justine moving in de minimis, her establishing it as a home, slightly more. Making a home for a baby kerching meaningful threshold.
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It's implied Thomas has a threshold in Cold Days because he wonders how Cat Sith was able to enter uninvited. Harry normally anchors wards onto thresholds. See Harry's discussion of his wards on the storage container in Turn Coat. Marcone's castle has a threshold. Harry said so in Ghost Story. Edinburgh has people living there. I don't know if it's enough to form a threshold of any magnitude.
Wards are for everyone who can get them.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 10, 2020, 04:55:01 PM ---Wards are for when you really don’t have a threshold, a bachelor living alone in a rented temporary apartment generates a de minimus threshold. The BFS and Edinburgh headquarters need wards because they are nobody’s home. Karrin’s home has a threshold but requires additional protection. The Carpenters have an enormous threshold, but that is weakening as the children grow up and leave home, hence the Angels Thomas living on his own none (monster) Justine moving in de minimis, her establishing it as a home, slightly more. Making a home for a baby kerching meaningful threshold.
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That isn't true, if I remember correctly Harry says, including his place, that while bachelor homes are less strong, there is still one. I also remember that Elaine reinforced the the threshold for the paranet.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Thomas’s threshold would be piddly like Harry’s was, as a bachelor it certainly didn’t stop the Toad Demon etc. Harry ended up getting a steel door, and warded up the Wazoo (a technical wizarding term). It’s a big difference losing 5% of your power as opposed to 95%. It is interesting though that Whamps can threshold.
The issue is when a threshold is strong enough to force a Wizard to leave most of their power at the door, or significantly depower a spell sent through it, and thresholds are variable changing over time and circumstance. Mort split his house into home and business to maintain his threshold for example.
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