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Demonreach, Ley lines, and Harry's connection
EBRIEN:
A thought...Harry is able to bind Ethniu in Battleground on the shores of Lake Michigan and he says that's the extent/limit of his reach. Alfred's power interacts with Harry's now giving his shield, energy, whatever a green tint. If the island and it's prisoners are the source of the ley line energy in the world, and Alfred is the island (hmmm...), shouldn't Harry be able to do a binding from anywhere the ley lines are regardless of his proximity to the island?
Mira:
--- Quote from: EBRIEN on August 26, 2021, 08:00:40 PM ---A thought...Harry is able to bind Ethniu in Battleground on the shores of Lake Michigan and he says that's the extent/limit of his reach. Alfred's power interacts with Harry's now giving his shield, energy, whatever a green tint. If the island and it's prisoners are the source of the ley line energy in the world, and Alfred is the island (hmmm...), shouldn't Harry be able to do a binding from anywhere the ley lines are regardless of his proximity to the island?
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He might, but he may not be ready to handle that kind power without doing great harm. Remember what Rashid told him about the ley lines and his warning to Harry about them in Turn Coat. First he tells Harry that the island is the source of the power for the ley line, though at that moment neither he nor Harry knew about the underground prison or it's contents. If the source of the power for the ley line is indeed the monsters, evil gods, etc with in the prison, it's source while powerful, is also very dark.
Then Rashid warns Harry about them; page 299
--- Quote ---The Gatekeeper shook his head. May I offer you two bits of advice?"
I nodded.
"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."
--- End quote ---
The other bit had nothing to do with the ley line, but the reason why Harry was there so I'm omitting it. Here is a thought, if Kemmler was the last Warden of Demonreach before Harry, did he try to tap into the dark power of the ley line and was altered and transformed into the evil Kemmler?
EBRIEN:
Ooooooh! I like that reference. (And I'm in a reread cycle one away from TurnCoat). So, years away...it's technically been years (7 in book years, I think...more if you include actual time between release dates). I wonder how he'd handle it now. And I wonder how the Winter Knight mantle would react to the power? Dresden the Unstoppable!
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: EBRIEN on August 26, 2021, 08:00:40 PM ---A thought...Harry is able to bind Ethniu in Battleground on the shores of Lake Michigan and he says that's the extent/limit of his reach. Alfred's power interacts with Harry's now giving his shield, energy, whatever a green tint. If the island and it's prisoners are the source of the ley line energy in the world, and Alfred is the island (hmmm...), shouldn't Harry be able to do a binding from anywhere the ley lines are regardless of his proximity to the island?
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Could have voltage drop. Maybe Alfred can still have enough power for Ethnieu at the waterfront. Maybe he can cage Mab in Joliet. Lesser targets further out. Sort of like why your 100' extension cord is thicker than the 25'. Heavier gauge wire. Also why you do things at nexus points - because you want to be close to the point of power. Chichen Itza and Edinburgh are at noted nexuses.
And I think Demonreach is the source of THAT line. I think there are numerous lines.
Mira:
--- Quote from: EBRIEN on August 27, 2021, 12:51:13 AM ---Ooooooh! I like that reference. (And I'm in a reread cycle one away from TurnCoat). So, years away...it's technically been years (7 in book years, I think...more if you include actual time between release dates). I wonder how he'd handle it now. And I wonder how the Winter Knight mantle would react to the power? Dresden the Unstoppable!
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Yeah, well, I can understand that I am in the reread process myself, however I have a stack of other books I am reading through so a Dresden File reread book comes up about once a year, though I've read several of them several times. That passage happens to be one of my favorites because Rashid is one of my favorite characters. Another interesting bit in that book is the bit when Harry reads one of Eb's journal entries it's on page 379, it talks about how Harry has no clue as to what he has gotten himself into as far as the island goes. What's odd is, Eb says that Rashid says to warn Harry about the island would be pointless, yet didn't Rashid just do that very thing by telling Harry not to pull power from that ley line?
Eb also speaks of a higher power "arranging things" in spite of what they try to do. Eb talks about the "mantle" I assume of Warden of Demonreach, yet until the end of Ghost Story beginning of Cold Days Harry has no clue that he had just acquired a mantle, the Merlin wants him under surveillance and at that point anyway no one is willing to tell Harry what it is he had just done, or gotten himself into job wise.
However the more I think about it now, given the above passage, and the knowledge that Kemmler was the Warden of Demonreach before Harry, it explains what happens at the end of Battle Ground.
The Council isn't afraid of Harry because he is the Winter Knight, they are afraid because he is the Warden of Demonreach. That little demo of binding Ethniu and having her dragged away from a distance scared the hell out of them, they think he used the power of the island ley line to do that and could do even more if he took a mind to do it. Which no doubt he could, if he had to, now it all makes sense, at least to me. Which begs another question about the ley line, I'm thinking now that Alfred is the ley line.
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