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A question about Listen

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g33k:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 07, 2022, 07:54:33 PM ---... Harry's risen from the dead.
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Well... from the almost-dead.   ;)
But yeah, Vadderung indicates it's "special," and "not as common as you'd think" -- it makes him interesting, worth paying attention to, for beings who previously haven't thought him to be so.


--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 07, 2022, 07:54:33 PM ---He's the Winter Knight.
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Honestly, this is nothing much.  I think Bob likened the Knights to Kleenex -- useful for a certain kind of mess, but fundamentally disposable, and not worth much attention or effort, nor any regret for their loss.

Mab's long labors keeping Harry alive into & through Ghost Story would appear to be exceptional; or maybe Bob was wrong...?


--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 07, 2022, 07:54:33 PM ---He hang's with  Archangels.
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Yeah, this one seems like an extreme case of "exceptionality."  Uriel himself mentions that his degree of interaction with Harry is highly unusual.  "I can hardly remember the last time I spent this much time with one particular mortal" (n.b. not I can't remember (which would imply NEVER... because... Uriel ffs!)).  So, a turn of phrase, a vernacular meaning "it has been a very long time."


--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 07, 2022, 07:54:33 PM --- And he knows a thing who knows a thing.
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  Honestly, this one is just Harry...  It's the trope of the "hard boiled PI."

Conspiracy Theorist:
Population increase and density in earlier cycles would have presented a single Starborn, in 1974 the world population was almost 4 billion, in the previous cycle 666 years before in the 1300’s only 10% of that with 390 million in the cycle before that in 700 AD 200 million 5%.

Drakul may have been the first instance of multiple Starborn in the cycle, he is a failure yet the Others were still shut out ergo there were other Starborn of his generation one of whom succeeded. This cycle must have been a nightmare with 10 times the number of Starborn expected born based on the preceding cycle. It’s only perhaps taken two cycles to get out of kilter due to population changes.

Of course this may have been planned, it would have been fairly simple to track down a single Starborn with magic, but 20 of them running around would confuse any spell.

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