The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Why is Marcone such a heavy magical hitter?
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 06, 2020, 11:15:12 PM ---He doesn't have to [claim to be lazy].
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So he didn't?
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---I think you are. (I could be wrong because he's been vague on this point). I'm pretty sure everyone has some level of magical talent. The biggest thing that separates practitioners, especially small time practitioners, from everyone else is the ability to sense magic.
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Charity had magic and gave it up. So use it or lose it. But no one in the books ever gained magic in their 40's. None of Molly's family, not Butters nor anyone else. No minor practitioners ever made the jump to the big time. When Harry soul gazed him there was no indication that he was a practitioner. And Jim has Harry name him as a vanilla mortal. Jim can do as he pleases, he gets the paycheck, but it is what it is.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on December 07, 2020, 02:28:13 AM ---Charity had magic and gave it up. So use it or lose it. But no one in the books ever gained magic in their 40's. None of Molly's family, not Butters nor anyone else. No minor practitioners ever made the jump to the big time. When Harry soul gazed him there was no indication that he was a practitioner. And Jim has Harry name him as a vanilla mortal. Jim can do as he pleases, he gets the paycheck, but it is what it is.
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The fallen do give the hosts powers they don’t had before, not just a little knowledge and education, and the kind of power differs from coin to coin.
They can do things with their fallen they could not do before and in Marcones case that is some magic stuff.
Bad Alias:
How old was Victor Sells? His power seems to come out of nowhere or increase all of a sudden.
--- Quote ---If Charity had been possessed of a monster gift, of [sic] if she’d been constantly around and involved in magic during the course of the pregnancy, it would have been more difficult for her to reduce it to practically zero like that. But instead, she was making a deliberate and willful choice to deny her children’s potential a chance to find a chance to take root and bloom.
Maybe her kids, if they wanted, could go out and work hard and stir up a latent talent. A watershed sort of life event might do something along those lines–shake them up enough to jump-start a dormant gift. But then, that’s most of humanity in the Dresden Files, really. Everyone has some kind of ability, if they just want to look hard enough to find it. That’s where the Alpha’s came from.
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Emphasis added.
Having the magic nerd fallen angel is probably the exact sort of thing mentioned in that paragraph to jump-start a dormant gift. Combine that with the efficient use vs. raw power aspect, and I don't find Marcone being impressive surprising at all.
We've also seen how quickly Harry can learn things from Lash, the shadow of a Denarian he's choosing to not utilize. If Marcone is fully cooperating with Namshiel, he might not even need to learn magic. Namshiel might just be able to do spells for Marcone like Lash did Sumerian and Etruscan for Marcone.
There's a lot of relevant WoJ quotes in the link below. Ctrl+f "talent" and you'll find them easily. Jim even talks about the use or loose it and what it would take to try to get it back. Like I said before, he's equivocal.
https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-magic-in-the-dresden-files-part-2/
I know you avoid WoJ and discount it a lot. That's fine. Death of the Author and all that. However, in the absence of the books being dispositive in the other direction, I generally credit it.
The_Sibelis:
@morris Nic does have magical chops though. He pulls off that plague curse by simply having a battery and he uses the barbarus curse against Harry too. Why he doesn't use magic can be contested, but he is capable.
You somehow assume the power Merlin got was free...?
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