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New Dresden Files podcast interview.
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on December 05, 2020, 07:02:55 PM ---I hope this is misreported. This effectively would mean that the Gatekeeper is useless as well as self deluded, since his stated purpose is to do what Jim now says you can't do.
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Came from Jim himself. It was implied that the Sight can reveal it's presence but this current WOJ seems to contradict it. Why would mortal wizard Sight be able to see things Alfred or Uriel cannot apparently detect? Feels like Jim just added in the Justine is Nemesis thing in this story without thinking it through. We both feel similarly I believe about how well Jim knows his own series. Just another one of those moments I guess.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, the Gatekeeper still has good old logic and intuition to fall back on.
--- Quote from: Dina on December 05, 2020, 05:17:21 AM ---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.
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Well that's true but I assumed that was more to do with the summoner rather than the being. It's just that this is at odds with what Jim says in the interview (as unreliable as that sometimes is) about how Nemesis doesn't play by the normal rules of magic being an Outsider. Also, Sharkface split itself into 20 beings at one point. Perhaps all of the Walkers can?
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on December 05, 2020, 05:19:46 AM ---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.
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.
Also Ebenezar has his coat and the ring at an absolute minimum.
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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1. I will have to look up that theory, but it sounds very intriguing! Changes that whole conversation...
2. Agreed.
3. Good pick up. I put it down to Jim forgetting what he wrote. He really should have a compendium of information. And not the wiki (full of errors and speculation, missing information).
4. I think it's in one of the write ups around that interview.
--- Quote from: Con on December 05, 2020, 08:03:36 AM ---So who was Bob's parents?
My bet is one of them's Mab.
The Fae's sponsor is Hekate.
Vadderung having Soulfire is awesome.
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Agreed. Still thinking Mab and someone...Merlin maybe? But almost certainly Mab and a human.
Yeah, all but confirms Hecate as the sponsor of the Fae.
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on December 05, 2020, 12:50:27 PM ---Ok so thoughts...
-only one Uriel makes him giving Michael his grace a huge deal imo. If there's only one of him then he was confined to a very small series of timelines for awhile there.
-interesting he put Zeus near the same level of existence as Uriel there.
- if royalty ties into the swords, then perhaps that's part of why Michael seems to have a touch of sainthood going on magically speaking. Besides some of his combat actions like I'm GP the scene where he slammed the door when Molly and Charity were arguing stands out. Almost like he had authority there in his house.
- Bonnie in Harry's body? That gives frightening implications to me about how things become inhuman beings while looking human..
- the Drakul bits.. make me wonder if they weren't frankenstein and his monster? Drakul made him to have a few servants and he went and made a Court to try to impress him. Also makes me wonder if this hints at Kincaid's origins. Another creation of Drakul?
- Chandler seems more and more likely to be the british guy. What if he went back in time with that void out and was eventually snatched up for being outside of his time?
- Harry can make a body with soul fire?
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1. I thought that to. Perhaps he only loaded the part of his Grace that was in Harry's universe at the time. Otherwise the risk seems excessive. Plus he would have been effectively blind (at his level). Creates a huge opportunity for Lucifer or other enemies. Jim also seemed a bit sketchy on this as well. At first he seemed to say that Uriel wasn't overarching, and then he back pedalled and said just one Uriel for the multiverse. If it's like Amber then Uriel could rather easily switch between universes without necessarily being an umbrella over all of them. Perhaps even he can only be in so many universes...many but not all. He isn't TWG after all. In saying that, Jim said Uriel has to deal with multiple alternate Harry's.
2. He hinted at this I think in Battle Ground. Angels, Archangels, Gods...look more different from the human perspective than what they really are. He still hasn't really said why those beings either backed off, are "asleep", or decided to become pro-wrestlers (of all things). It made me wonder if the Archangels were known by other names in other pantheons too. Ethniu's whole 'you traitor, lap dog, coward' thing to the Angel or Archangel protecting Butters.
3. Good point. And the crossing of Red Court vampire in GP and the cleansing of Imariel in Harry. I'd say there is a bigger link than merely the heaven connection.
4. Indeed! One wonders what else might be like that. And it leaves the possibility of what Bob or Evil Bob might do.
5. Hmmm not sure Drakul would settle for being a scientist and his son a sewn together freak. In saying that, I could see a sort of reimagining of the tale. I have long felt Drakul is an experimentor and scientist of sorts, all towards his various ends. Any other ideas of who he might have been?
6. Jim indicated even he doesn't yet know what has happened to Chandler as he hasn't decided that yet. I am still going for Arthur as the British Prisoner.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on December 05, 2020, 07:02:55 PM ---I hope this is misreported. This effectively would mean that the Gatekeeper is useless as well as self deluded, since his stated purpose is to do what Jim now says you can't do.
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no... Just means his eye doesn't rely on magic .
Dina:
Besides, I don't think he was thinking on the Gatekeeper itself.
And about Chandler...is it too horrible for me not to believing JB?
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Dina on December 06, 2020, 12:31:36 AM ---Besides, I don't think he was thinking on the Gatekeeper itself.
And about Chandler...is it too horrible for me not to believing JB?
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As he likes to remind people, Jim is a professional liar, so no.
That being said Chandler is a pretty minor character, so I don't find it that farfetched that Jim doesn't have a concrete idea of what happened to him, rather then just vague ideas.
Dina:
It's just that the description of what happened (the black square) was so precise, I cannot imagine JB thinking that and not thinking what it means. Perhaps he is just trying to downplay what could be something important.
Instead, for some reason, I believe that he is not sure about Thomas. There are many options and I can see him not being sure what to choose yet. Personally, I hope he is back soon because I love Harry & Thomas together. And I need to see him taking care of his child soon because of the family drama annoys me. That also means I want Harry and Lara rescuing the child soon.
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