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TheCuriousFan:
There's a whole lot of details in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgyJNMA4q8

(click to show/hide)-Wrestling book provisional title is Body Slam.

-Mirror Mirror is a few years ahead, things got worse faster there.

-One Uriel in multiverse, other really high level guys have the same deal. Mabs of parallel worlds would be parallel and able to talk to each other if they wanted but they're busy. The Mothers are much closer to Uriel, they're close to gods like Zeus or the Native American gods, this will be covered in the story.

-Thomas' prison duration is one of the things Jim isn't sure of.

-Some of Wild Bill and Yoshimo in next book. Chandler is still an unknown for Jim.

-Mac and Mort had short stories that happened during Battle Ground.

-Eye of Balor would be dangerous to basically anybody, even Uriel if he decided to take the hit for some reason.

-Mab's not a weapon collector, she prefers to make herself the weapon.

-Cristos is an earth mage, better than McCoy at overall earth magic. McCoy is the guy who fucks you over by being overall good at everything (e.g. air magic for dealing with earth mages). Morgan was the combat specialist earth mage while Cristos is better overall.

-Mother Winter would have gone for Vlad Tepes and people like him (e.g. Stalin) as her knight. She only really cares about if they'll be completely relentless at getting things done.

-Aleister Crowley was an illusion specialist wizard who ran a cult. The White Council were like "we just got through the burning times, and now you're doing this", John Dee was a wizard.

-There is actual magic associated with royalty (oh joy), Mab does not disrespect Elizabeth in England because she can do things and this will appear more.

-Lea most likely in Twelve Months, she'll probably be the one to kick him in the ass and tell him to get moving.

-Dresden keeps growing up in unexpected ways, fight with Lea once he finds out the deal might not happen now thanks to character development.

-fae have always been general mooks at the gates, they've recently got autonomous leadership (as in during the past few thousand years) thanks to getting a sponsor heavily implied to be Hecate and leadership put into place.

-there were forty or fifty thousand starborn at first, over the last 40 years they've been whittled down.

-Drakul and Dracula are much older than their historical counterparts. They've been a few different historical monsters.

-Black Court isn't much older than Dracula, Drakul just wanted a small handpicked crew of competent minions while Dracula was the one who went big on recruitment and annoyed his dad in the process.

-Jim is still going with 2 million as the figure for the diamonds.

-Jim had actually forgotten about the favour to Odin, it's going to have to come back at the worst time.

-Unseelie Incursion started with Reuel vs Slate and spiraled from there.

-Harry's body might have been taken over by Bonea if she was born without Molly there.

-Wizards look down on tool using as a crutch with the exception of staffs, you're supposed to just do things.

-The castle probably wasn't Camelot itself.

-Harry vs dragon will happen.

-Vadderung was actually a threat to Ferrovax in a fight during Peace Talks. They were two gunslingers staring each other down. Ferrovax does not like Vadderung.

-Hugin and Munin are bodyguards most of the time. The only missions they get are stuff like "Loki got Thor in trouble again, go arrange things so he can get out without letting him know you're there".

-Revenants/Einherjar are made with soulfire, something Vadderung has over other gods, he can make things real. He might have gotten it as a result of deciding to be mortal.

-Nemesis can only be in so many places at once.

-The whole point of Starborn is that they don't have to put up with stuff like Nemesis taking them over. Nemesis can't figure out humans all the time, it spends a lot of time with them but it's still alien to them.

-Thorned Namshiel's potential infected status is a I'm not gonna tell you kind of question.

-Uriel might not have known about Justine being infected in Ghost Story, stuff from the outside can't really be detected with magic.

-British Prisoner was stuck in there by the first warden.

KurtinStGeorge:
Thanks for posting.  I just listened to the Dragoncon interview with Jim which came out a couple of days ago.  I'd post a link but you can find it on YouTube if you like.  I didn't find it very interesting and IMO the interviewer talked too much.  This interview is much better.

Yuillegan:
Just a few extra, but great write up!

- Eldest Gruff and the Leansidhe both are and are not similar. Both are advisors but it seems Lea is quite a bit more dangerous...Jim seemed to first say Gruff was nowhere near as important as Lea.
- Kincaid is still doing work for mortals.
- Most fae who were not at the Battle of Chicago were at the Outer Gates.
- Cat Sith may not have survived falling into Lake Michigan. But he may return.
- Cowl and Kumori and Black Council were very busy not being at the Battle of Chicago and being crushed by Ethniu. They specifically don't go out and fight in the open where possible.
- Lots of people may have died such as previous characters in the books.
- Mab was made to fight. Not necessarily Ethniu but it happened anyway. She survived even where other's wouldn't because Mab was prepared.
- Mab has many weapon statues like the Bean full of weapons.
- There is always an Eldest of each race of fairy. It's a mantle but also not.
- Democracy is a human fad to Mab.
- Who runs the Gates is less about which pantheon had the most/enough Faith from mortals and more about who was currently in the right place/right time.
- Librarians will probably show up at the end of the next book "Twelve Months"
- Forty or Fifty thousand starborn IN THE CURRENT CYCLE. Last 40 years got whittled down. Note* I assume Jim is telegraphing how many are born at once.
- You don't have to be mortal to be starborn. You just have to be in the right place. To be "unlucky".
- Drakul was likely immortal like Vadderung.
- Zeus created a body for Athena so that her as a Spirit of Intellect could be a god.
- Justine in Cold Days got to the Island (Demonreach) without even Demonreach knowing. Nemesis cannot be detected unless you already know it is there.
- Nemesis knows the mortal world better than any other Outsider. But not necessarily to the point where it actually understands them. Jim compares it to reading a large block of highly complex code. You might be able to read it but not know all of it.
- Nemesis can be anywhere but it can't always replicate human reactions and things. It is imperfect by definition. It must be fought with logic and intuition.
- Nemesis has a hard limit on how many it can possess/infect (which confirms my theory).

I'll comment on a few things now.

1. Ethniu isn't related to the Black Council. This implies to me that while their goals might be linked, they are not aware of it because they themselves are both being manipulated by something like Nemesis.

2. If there is 40-50k worth of Starborn created in any one moment event per cycle, it doesn't seem that special. And Jim's says it's very unlucky. The cost to resist the Outsiders must be high. I'd hazard groups like the Librarians, the White Council, and individuals like Drakul are going around capturing or killing such beings for whatever reasons. Also, this opens up a lot of "who is a starborn" questions and not just from this Cycle. Some of which might not be human!

3. Vadderung is seriously badass. And maybe not all that good. Jim's hinted that Vadderung might be a bit sinister quite a bit, literary device wise. Ferrovax is bad too and seriously hates Vadderung.

4. Vlad Tepesh would have been an ideal candidate for Winter Knight (in MW's eyes) if he hadn't been busy doing other things.

5. Jim has almost certainly combined Drakul and Dracula a bit now, whereas in the early series they were far more distinct. Curious to examine what other identities they have had...perhaps even Gods or Demons. Vampire origins can be traced back to the ancient world (ancient Egypt, South America, parts of Western Asia). Maybe Apophis/Apep and Set? Set and Anubis? Varney? Abhartac?

6. It seems the power and accompanying responsibility that Monarchs have could also connected to how only certain people can be Knights of the Cross. My guess is a combination of human belief and perhaps God-given right to rule power makes Monarchs almost Saint-Level powers.

7. The diamond number is wrong. Jim needs the number to be about 2 million so Harry isn't too rich. Let's all pretend Harry's diamonds are actually poor quality or something or he lost a few.

8. The Wizards looking down on magic foci doesn't add up. LtW uses a medicine bag and Langtry had a wand as well as a staff.

9. H&M are body guards and occasional agents but that doesn't match the lore. They were his spies in the world and if you were going to have body guards Odin's wolves Geri and Freki would have been better choices.

10. If Einherjar are revenants made with soulfire, that almost certainly rules out the Black Court Vampires. It does however point to the white court. However, in Jim's previous indication we have seen the combination of necromancy and soulfire - I suspect he was referring exclusively to the Einherjaren. 

11. How many is Nemesis limited to? Not 13 as magic is a Creation thing and Outsiders don't play by those rules. 3? 300? Any other number seem relevant? Who else is Nemesis in right now?


--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on December 05, 2020, 03:05:46 AM ---Thanks for posting.  I just listened to the Dragoncon interview with Jim which came out a couple of days ago.  I'd post a link but you can find it on YouTube if you like.  I didn't find it very interesting and IMO the interviewer talked too much.  This interview is much better.

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Agreed. Not much new stuff in that one.

Dina:
The hounds were 13 IIRC, so 13 seems like a good number for Nemesis. A number that can be easy to manage in plot terms.

This is a load of information, I need time to process it. Thank you for posting it, TCF!!

TheCuriousFan:

--- Quote ---3. Vadderung is seriously badass. And maybe not all that good. Jim's hinted that Vadderung might be a bit sinister quite a bit, literary device wise. Ferrovax is bad too and seriously hates Vadderung.

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I mean permanently sticking your neck out to help humans at least partially qualifies you as good, he's just real easy to turn into an antagonist if needed (even without the toe stomping in the darkhallow version of things). Though I do like it absolutely confirming my "Vadderung was lying his ass off in the office to move Harry into place" theory.

--- Quote ---7. The diamond number is wrong. Jim needs the number to be about 2 million so Harry isn't too rich. Let's all pretend Harry's diamonds are actually poor quality or something or he lost a few.

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Yep, they would need to be shitty quality diamonds sold only to random pawn shops in Chicago to convert twenty pounds of diamonds into two million dollars.

--- Quote ---8. The Wizards looking down on magic foci doesn't add up. LtW uses a medicine bag and Langtry had a wand as well as a staff.

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Also Ebenezar has his coat and the ring at an absolute minimum.

--- Quote ---10. If Einherjar are revenants made with soulfire, that almost certainly rules out the Black Court Vampires. It does however point to the white court. However, in Jim's previous indication we have seen the combination of necromancy and soulfire - I suspect he was referring exclusively to the Einherjaren.

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And now I wish I could look back on the Barnes and Noble one's wording rather than the quick notes.

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