The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Harry creates a portal to Demonreach!
Conspiracy Theorist:
Certainly therefore in the mortal realm and not the Never Never,
morriswalters:
Compelling a mortal to appear would break one of the laws of magic and it doesn't seem to matter where the Fae are. The law is about using magic to abrogate free will. Which is what Molly does to her friends. Harry summons Toot in the mortal realm. If you have the true name you can compel the person you are trying to summon. How they get there is on them. Maybe they catch a train from Newark. Jim lays it out in Storm Front and embellishes thereafter, as needed.
b4utoo:
I wonder if Demonreach can be summoned from the island
Mira:
--- Quote from: b4utoo on December 03, 2021, 04:06:19 AM ---I wonder if Demonreach can be summoned from the island
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Technically, yes, you could call when Harry called up Alfred to the shore of Chicago to pick up the Titian as summoning. However Alfred did say that was the extent of it's range and Harry did hold the Spear of Destiny to goose up his power at the time.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Demonreach is Genius loci, a spirit of the place so it will be tethered to a specific location in the mortal world, rather than the NeverNever. Harry summoned it with his Sanctum Invocation (he was fishing for Minnows and hooked Moby Dick) but he was on Demonreach when he did it.
In Ghost Story Demonreach is able to animate a statue in the cemetery but that is voluntary rather than forced through a Summons, and is more akin to a loa possessing a manikin, suggesting Demonreach couldn’t physically manifest that far from the island but only in spirit through an avatar.
I doubt therefore Harry can just summon Demonreach to the Castle with Alfred carrying the Spear or the other weapons.
However could Harry bring part of the island to the Castle? Using materials from Demonreach he should be able to build Little Demonreach and that should allow Harry to not only remotely monitor Demonreach and access it’s Intellectus, from the Castle but to Summon Alfred to Little Demonreach in the Castle as if Alfred were on Demonreach itself. If Alfred can be summoned he can take an entity down, or take Harry back with himself. Harry would then have to figure out getting back though.
If Mohammad cannot go to the Mountain, why not bring the Mountain to Mohammed? Or in this case the Island to Harry.
This is perhaps the most satisfying option, Little Chicago was not a dead end but practice for Little Demonreach. Bob has seen how Demonreach was built, which can be used in the construction of Little Demonreach. Harry has somewhere large enough and secure enough to make Little Demonreach with his ownership of the Castle. Harry will still need to go to Demonreach in person on occasion but less frequently, when it’s not an emergency and should be able to retrieve things and send other people and things there from the Castle.
Only the Warden would be able to use Little Demonreach in this fashion due to the Warden Bond and modelling the Island itself rather than the prison, providing a safeguard.
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