The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Fallout of E=K
g33k:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 01, 2023, 06:14:33 PM --- ... Cowl -- even if he is "Nameless" the demgod of discord, as some theorize -- ...
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--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on May 01, 2023, 06:19:35 PM --- ... wait, what?🤔🧐
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Recent Dresden short "The Law" (released AFAIK only on Amazon (Kindle/Audible)) has a character who goes by "Nameless." User @ConspiracyTheorist (here on ParanetOnline) argues strongly that this character is the same as we've previously seen as "Cowl."
Ed0517:
just as an aside, we've seen this a few places E=K, and a rationalization because she could hold a knife to Harry's throat. I just held a pen parallel to the floor, like a knife, standing a foot from a wall (as if I was against someone's back and reached forward). About 5" above my head. Harry's 6'9" to the top of his head. Top of my head is about 10" above the traps, which is the base of the throat in front. So, for harry? 5'11? You can reach 5" up? So she only has to be 5'6", a LOT of women qualify.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on May 04, 2023, 09:06:32 AM ---just as an aside, we've seen this a few places E=K, and a rationalization because she could hold a knife to Harry's throat. I just held a pen parallel to the floor, like a knife, standing a foot from a wall (as if I was against someone's back and reached forward). About 5" above my head. Harry's 6'9" to the top of his head. Top of my head is about 10" above the traps, which is the base of the throat in front. So, for harry? 5'11? You can reach 5" up? So she only has to be 5'6", a LOT of women qualify.
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The more you extend your reach -- particularly outside the "right in front of your torso" space -- the weaker you are. Reaching up *over* your head is a particularly weak space, except for a up-and-down motions (power-lifting, chin-up's etc); slitting a throat is side-to-side. A small person "reaching up" that way is a very-precarious sort of threat; a swift move from Harry would easily take the knife away from his throat.
If the woman holding a knife at Harry's throat were small -- and given the stakes -- I think Harry would have gone for it.
Overall, though, I agree that "tall" isn't a solid piece of data to pin the Kumori-ID upon; at most, it just excludes the shorter women.
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