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Mac's identity
Mira:
--- Quote ---There is the Ley line though that Rashid warned Harry about. That could be the power source. On the other hand I suspect that the ley line is actually something else. I think it's the prisoners power being siphoned off, and sent to somewhere else. Any power they try to exert is just redirected, leaving them powerless.
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Or any attempt to siphon it off sends such a jolt of dark raw godlike power to who ever tries that it
forever changes the user and not in a good way. Though Rashid did leave it open that it was possible to use, but Harry ain't there yet... Hmmmm.... I wonder if Rashid tried at one time? And that is the grudge that the island has against him?
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: groinkick on August 28, 2021, 07:11:41 AM ---Yeah I agree that there is some sort of power source that's required. It could be all mortal magic doing the binding, but it's tied into a power generator to keep everything up and running.
There is the Ley line though that Rashid warned Harry about. That could be the power source. On the other hand I suspect that the ley line is actually something else. I think it's the prisoners power being siphoned off, and sent to somewhere else. Any power they try to exert is just redirected, leaving them powerless.
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I think it was in the books that the prison was the source, and it was the power being shunted away.
The argument has been made before that maybe the prison uses the prisoner's power and puts it through a filter to purify it and remove the taint in order to run itself, and the ley line is the concentrated runoff of evil. But that still doesn't explain how Merlin managed to create it in the first place. It still seems beyond something a mortal can do, even if they were the greatest practitioner of all time and had the Blackstaff and other bric-a-brac.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on August 28, 2021, 03:25:28 PM ---I think it was in the books that the prison was the source, and it was the power being shunted away.
The argument has been made before that maybe the prison uses the prisoner's power and puts it through a filter to purify it and remove the taint in order to run itself, and the ley line is the concentrated runoff of evil. But that still doesn't explain how Merlin managed to create it in the first place. It still seems beyond something a mortal can do, even if they were the greatest practitioner of all time and had the Blackstaff and other bric-a-brac.
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Yes, and no, I think let's go back to Rashid's warning to Harry. [bolding mine] Turn coat page 299
--- Quote ---"First," he said, "do not tap into the power of this place's well. You are years away from being able to handle such a thing without being altered by it."
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A couple of things might be gleaned from what he said, first he doesn't call it a ley line, he calls it a well. It goes back to what he first said, that the the power doesn't come from a ley line..
He says;
Turn Coat, page 298
--- Quote ---He gave me a tight smile. "It wouldn't help you for me to say anything more---except one of your facts is incorrect. The ley line you speak of does not go through the island," he said. "This is where it wells up. The island is it's source."
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So while he won't tell Harry what the source of the power is, I believe Rashid knows, and thinks it important that Harry at least understands that the source of the power was no ley line.
Then when he actually warns Harry not to use this power source, he also says,You are years away from being able to handle such a thing without being altered by it."
I take that to mean that Rashid is saying that Harry is neither ready or strong enough to use it now without being seriously altered by it, but he might be able to use it in the future if he has to without coming to harm.
When you read these two passages carefully what happens to Harry at the end of Battle Ground makes a lot more sense. The Senior Council knows Harry is Warden of Demonreach, they know what happened to the last Warden, Kemmler. I doubt they know Harry used the Spear as a power boost. So to pull off a binding and snatch a Titan back to the island, I'm thinking that many now think that Harry tapped into that power source, and is in danger of becoming another Kemmler. That is what scares them, not his association with Mab or the White Court.
morriswalters:
It's in Cold Days. According to Bob it's the body heat of the prisoners.
Griffyn612's idea is as good as any other. It could also be that the enchantments are fractal in nature or it could be that he repurposed something else that had already existed, despite what Bob says.
Mira:
--- Quote ---It's in Cold Days. According to Bob it's the body heat of the prisoners.
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Yes, but also in Cold Days Harry admits that Bob doesn't everything about everything, that example being Soul Fire. So Bob could be right about the body heat, but what if that very heat is what is up-welling from the island forming and powering the ley?
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