The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Lara Raith marriage consummation
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on July 21, 2022, 09:23:57 PM ---Powerful is a relative term - compare Thomas TO his relatives. Harry and Eb. Thomas is but a wee little bairn.
the Black Court are former humans. Mavra early on was above Harry's ability to take out, save perhaps with his death curse. Whites are a separate breed. You have to be born a Whamp. Reds might have spell ability too
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OK, Reds might have spell ability too means SOME Reds can have spell ability, just like SOME Blacks have it, as they are former humans. Just like SOME humans might have ability. The Whites are NOT humans. Humans CAN become Reds (well, once they could), and MAY become blacks. They CANNOT become Whites. All Reds and Blacks do not have it.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I think the explanation(in a WOJ I think)is that magic and life are linked which is why Wizards live so long, but because vampirism is the stealing of life force (directly or through blood) it dampens any magical ability the vampire has. From Harry to Snakeboy drop in power perhaps. Thomas if rid of his demon might hit a significant wizard power level. Whether that is any use to Harry in curing Thomas is another matter, it does set Thomas apart from other Whamps. Thomas certainly seems to exercise his limited talent, so it hasn’t withered like Charity’s.
Harry treats Thomas as the world treats Harry, as a thug, I need to read that story again, myself, it’s been some time and probably worth going through the earlier short fiction again following the most recent stories, we got a couple of really substantial nuggets in The Law and major revelations in PT/BG, that may alter those stories in retrospect. Probably worth re-reading the original comics again for that matter as they are canon. For example in Peace Talks in the flashbacks Malcolm was teaching Harry slight of hand and close in magic. In Wild Card Harry beats Puck in a card game by apparent sheer luck, but I now wonder, did Harry use slight of hand to cheat because he realised Puck was only looking for magical and not mundane methods of cheating.
A re-read is required.
Harry’s got plenty of luck but all of it is bad.
Thats why other characters POV stories are useful, Harry is an unreliable narrator. He portrays Marcone very nearly right, for example, but is way off on Toot in contrast.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: pcpoet on July 19, 2022, 08:35:39 AM ---I was thinking about the original reasons for arranged marriage and the reasons for annulments and divorces. the main reason for arranged marriages was the combing of two groups after the production of an heir. history is full of stories about what happens when there is no heir produced. So, my question is will there be a child produced by the nuptials or will the marriage be a barren one with either an annulment because the contract was not upheld by either party when a child is not produced.
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Neither the White Court or the Fey Courts use heirs to establish linage. The linage of the Fey is passed through the Mantle which is granted, not inherited, thus Molly. And the Whites use a political mechanism so that while Lara is the leader in fact, she rules through a puppet. Both of the protagonists are immortals in any case. If a Lady is killed a male child could never take up the Fey Mantle. In the case of Lara for a child of Harry to take the leadership of the Whites it would to murder to enable it's demon.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 22, 2022, 01:58:46 PM ---Neither the White Court or the Fey Courts use heirs to establish linage. The linage of the Fey is passed through the Mantle which is granted, not inherited, thus Molly. And the Whites use a political mechanism so that while Lara is the leader in fact, she rules through a puppet. Both of the protagonists are immortals in any case. If a Lady is killed a male child could never take up the Fey Mantle. In the case of Lara for a child of Harry to take the leadership of the Whites it would to murder to enable it's demon.
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Are you sure Carlos couldn’t take up the Lady’s mantle? Virginity rather than gender seems to be the determining requirement there, and that is in short supply in Winter. Carlos could be the Winter Laddy. It’s about his luck with women.
The Virginity requirement would disqualify Lara from Lady, but not Queen (the Mother) and Lara clearly acted as though she were a mother to her siblings, and has tried for a child of her own, so this makes me think she is being groomed as a back-up Queen, especially in marrying the Winter Knight.
Was Mab doing everything in her power to maintain Molly’s virginity pre Mantle? From her recovery from Arctis Tor onwards or before even that? Lea would have helped with the Ragged Lady pantomime post Harry’s ‘death’.
morriswalters:
I don't think Butcher's is that woke.
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