The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
A Curious Speculation From Cold Days
g33k:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 12, 2022, 06:51:39 AM --- ...
I am semi-expecting Mother Winter to order the Winter Knight, "fetch me my walking-stick, boy!"
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--- Quote from: Fcrate on June 12, 2022, 11:28:53 AM --- I thought it was confirmed in peace talks.
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Was it? I recall some hints that way, IIRC, but no positive confirmation. I think there was an older WoJ where he was asked directly, and answers with something to the effect of, "I love it when the fans figure things out from the clues."
--- Quote from: Fcrate on June 12, 2022, 11:28:53 AM ---... Haha. That'd be something to see. But I don't think it was stolen anyway.
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Yah.
That's part of the twisted, torment-Harry bit.
He's trying to figure out how to steal the Blackstaff from the Blackstaff, and it all goes to hell & devolves into a fight (because of course it does).
Eb finally figures out what it is Harry's after.
Eb: "Stars and Stones, boy! Why the hell is the Winter Knight trying to steal Mother Winter's Walking Stick??!?"
Harry: "She told me to. That kind of means I have to."
Eb: "She did not tell you to steal this!"
Harry: "Did too! She... uh... how do you mean?"
Eb: "It's hers, it's just on loan. All she ever had to do is ask for it back!"
Harry: !!!
Harry: "!%$@&* faeries!!!"
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: Dina on June 12, 2022, 03:38:22 AM ---Excellent! Now, what is Cold Front?
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Are you thinking COLD FEET, a suggested title for NEXT BOOK? About Harry’s attitude towards his impending nuptials, and Mab’s solution to it? Hint she does like encasing people in blocks of ice, ask Lea.
The walking stick was pretty much confirmed in Battle Ground when Eb showed the shadow of a crone. It’s quite clear he had been offing “human” servitors left and right, so he would have needed the Black Staff to ward off the psychic damage caused by this. That is dangerous because he is sharing the field with the Winter Queen and Winter Lady both of whom would immediately know this. Mother Winter is an intellectus she knows where everything is at all times. If she has misplaced it is on purpose, like Harry “stealing” the superweapons from Hades, it was an intended transfer of the artefact.
This means that it’s return could be requested at any time. I suspect that will occur when the Merlin tries to appoint a new Black Staff claiming Eb is no longer physically fit to wield it, and won’t against Harry. He needs only a Council majority.
If Carlos is appointed the new Black Staff, he may have difficulties using an artefact of Winter AGAINST the Winter Knight. I suspect doing that may end up worse than when Carlos attempted to have relations with the Winter Lady, and revoke the White Council’s custodianship of it. I think Harry will just pick up the Blackstaff from Carlos cold frozen hand.
Mab could legitimately claim the White Council deliberately abrogated the agreement as to its use, putting the White Council on the back foot. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all part of Mab’s manipulation of Carlos and the White Council, to break them. I don’t think the Molly incident was wholly an accident, Mab set it up, putting all the players in the same place at the same time, with inevitable results.
Dina:
Wow, you really live up to your name, right?
The fact that a theory is wildly accepted and/or even confirmed by the author does not reduces the merit of arriving to that theory by your own thinking. That is why I was so happy the OP posted that, and I thought it was excellent. But I was not sure what he meant by cold front, as in Storm Front there is no mention to the Mothers. Perhaps the OP meant Cold Days but I was not sure, as I do not remember much details of that book.
g33k, I absolutely loved your idea :)
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 12, 2022, 06:14:29 PM ---This means that it’s return could be requested at any time. I suspect that will occur when the Merlin tries to appoint a new Black Staff claiming Eb is no longer physically fit to wield it, and won’t against Harry. He needs only a Council majority.
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Is it actually awarded by Council vote? The senior council would have to vote on it secretly, since the Blackstaff's very existence isn't even acknowledged to all the membership.
I seem to remember something about the blackstaff choosing the successor - although it was ambiguous whether that meant the office-holder or the artifact itself. If the staff itself is semi-sentient and choosing the wizard, it might not give a damn for political niceties like "is the wizard actually a member of the White Council".
g33k:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on June 12, 2022, 09:27:40 PM --- ... I seem to remember something about the blackstaff choosing the successor - although it was ambiguous whether that meant the office-holder or the artifact itself. If the staff itself is semi-sentient and choosing the wizard, it might not give a damn for political niceties like "is the wizard actually a member of the White Council".
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I think I remember that, too... but maybe a fantheory? I'm pretty sure when we saw it in Changes, Harry got the impression it was sentient... or at least, sentient enough to have "wants" of its own.
I also think I remember a WoJ to the effect of, "anyone crazy enough to pick it up -- and strong enough to survive doing it -- becomes the next Blackstaff."
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