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The Night of Bad Dreams

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Conspiracy Theorist:
This presumes pregnant/recent mothers inherent tiny oracular capacity is boosted by pregnancy, which if you think about it would be a pro-survival trait, and would be self-selecting genetically, as mothers with a stronger boosted oracular capacity would survive and pass this onto their children  This may be where the human talent for magic arose from, especially as it is matrilineal.

The talented were also especially affected which would be consistent with my theory. Harry has previously split the timeline in Grave Peril, but the effect was not so pronounced because an Apocalypse was much more distant. Conversely in binding the Titan Harry split the timeline again leading to the Apocalpse being pushed back, again not producing the immediate oracular backwash the destruction of the Red Court created.

We are headed to the BAT but Harry’s decisions can bring it forward or push it back a bit, by creating new time-lines. Harry’s journey is to the one where he eventually wins the BAT, so sometimes two steps forward means taking one step back, such as killing the Red Court, Harry brought the Apocalypse forward, but it’s one he can ‘win’. Where he failed the Apocalpse was delayed due to the Red Court waiting to build its strength, but was where he totally lost.

Snark Knight:
It's unfortunate that Harry didn't recover the memory of those minutes he lost after the curse went off while his memories were no longer limited by meat storage during Ghost Story.

On the other hand, spending a few months screaming wouldn't have been conducive to being the fulcrum for Molly and Mort to stop Corpsetaker, so maybe not after all.

The_Sibelis:

--- Quote from: RobReece on April 22, 2023, 01:13:10 AM ---Was there ever a consensus of reasoning behind the Night of Bad Dreams at the end of Changes?  Or was it just rather blunt foreshadowing of a future related event?

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generally, aided by farther connections present in the DF between dreams and alt reality, I consider it a Mandela effect. Though the why is purely theoretical. I think going after Eb, after Harry's bloodline would have hit the root bloodline that birthed magic into humanity. It would have effectively killed practitioners as a thing at the root. The farther deaths are directly caused by that loss, as Dresden says, babies have more magic than the strongest firestorm he can whip up. With magic, creation, to sustain them..

g33k:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on April 23, 2023, 01:29:13 AM ---It's unfortunate that Harry didn't recover the memory of those minutes he lost after the curse went off while his memories were no longer limited by meat storage during Ghost Story.

On the other hand, spending a few months screaming wouldn't have been conducive to being the fulcrum for Molly and Mort to stop Corpsetaker, so maybe not after all.
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I expect it's Chekhov's Amnesia -- something Really Significant happened there.

It will prove to be very important, when we (Harry) learn the details.
 

Conspiracy Theorist:
The term for it is the Mandela effect, collective false memory

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