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Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on October 16, 2021, 08:11:57 PM ---Jim is hoist on his own petard since another WOJ says that he would lie to protect the plot.

Language makes no difference at all.  Toot Toot can understand Russian.  So maybe the Mantle has potentials that Harry has not yet cracked. Otherwise what was Jim trying to accomplish with that tidbit? You know, introducing the idea that Toot can speak Russian, randomly, out of nowhere.

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Also there is this, hasn't Harry mentioned that he hasn't gotten too far assessing the prisoners because too much of that kind of communication or contact can drive him insane, just a little of it and he has nightmares for days.  At least that is how I remember his explanation, anyway my point is, from this tidbit of information it appears that Harry doesn't have to know the language to understand the prisoners.  So the "British Prisoner, maybe Merlin, doesn't have to speak perfectly accented English for Harry to understand him in perfect English.  In other words there is a universal translator on the island, maybe one of Alfred's many jobs, whatever language the prisoners speak, Harry hears it in his mind as perfect English.

Conspiracy Theorist:
The English Prisoner is in my opinion Bob’s dad, WOJ has it is someone we have been introduced to in series, and that may be ALL that very brief exchange was set up to do, at least at this point, because all it is, is a bloody introduction.

I think it is likely a historical Wizard from a fair way back, an apprentice of the Merlin, who was around about 1,000 years ago (given Bob’s age) and hiding out because it was he who found out how to kill immortals (which is where Bob got the info from)that would have made him contemporaneous to Mab when she was the Lady. I don’t think Mab is Bob’s mum, I think Lea given she is a muse, inspiring a man to and early death and he was so excited to see her in GP.

On that basis I fancy Michael Scot/Scotus The Wizard of the North, nice dubious date and place of birth so he could given a Wizards lifespan have been around a couple of centuries earlier under a different name. Had a habit of wearing a skull cap made of iron (the perfect contraceptive for a Fae muse, or to stop his mind being read) and has links in folklore to the Redcap.

We have been given hints of Mab’s past in BG, but Scotus could know firsthand, and how the relationships Mab had with Lea and the Redcap began, and much of the early history of the Court including Tam Lin, Harry’s most illustrious predecessor as Winter Knight and how he got away. He would be made of pure exposition, and likely Eb’s grandfather/ great grandfather/ great great grandfather making Bob Harry’s uncle several times removed. Would Jim set up a joke with its denouement a couple of decades later? yes, definitely.

Of course Jim could be lying and it is the time looped Merlin who is also Future Harry, his denials have I believe always one or the other, not both at the same time.

Mira:

--- Quote ---Of course Jim could be lying and it is the time looped Merlin who is also Future Harry, his denials have I believe always one or the other, not both at the same time.
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Or as the god of the Dresden Files, he is free to change his mind..

morriswalters:
I see the humor of it, but if he don't have a Mantle how does he speak a modern language.

And thus we go round and round and get dizzy.

Ed0517:
...so... when he gets to the reveal, he says "and Bob's your uncle!"?

( probably play better in the UK?)

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