The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Would a magic circle protect against mental wammys?
SerScot:
[quote author=g33k link=topic=54909.msg2359217#msg2359217 date=1689273637]
Dresden magic-rules are whatever Jim Butcher says they are, obviously.
I'm pretty sure that blood/etc provides a link that a circle doesn't break -- it's part of you; so "part of you" is outside the circle!
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Hold on… Corpsetaker didn’t have any of Harry’s blood in Dead Beat. Malvora didn’t have any of Harry’s blood in White Knight. How could Harry’s blood matter?
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 13, 2023, 06:40:37 PM ---Dresden magic-rules are whatever Jim Butcher says they are, obviously.
I'm pretty sure that blood/etc provides a link that a circle doesn't break -- it's part of you; so "part of you" is outside the circle!
--- End quote ---
Dresden rules are hard and fast. Just not seeing it all. However, I'd challenge any discrepancy to be ran through my theorums on the matter lol.
Conspiracy Theorist:
It’s the blood of the person making the circle which empowers it.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 13, 2023, 11:41:03 PM ---It’s the blood of the person making the circle which empowers it.
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that implies they're really just enclosing a space as part of themselves 🤔 and that all magic really does come from within 😂
Seriously tho, the real implications are with summoning. Implying to me to do so you're actually calling like to like with something inside yourself and just using the name as a vector, otherwise it looks more like GP's fishing. That.. that actually jives exactly with my theory on how Nemesis vectors in comparison to the PG summoning explanation...
See folks, everything adds up magically in the DF because I'm fairly sure Jim designed his magic system and then the world around it. The problem is is because of that order of operation a lot of what's going on is based on magic and the world around it specifically so he can't just explain it all. But as he's said he's left all the clues minus one important link in the logical chain. All we're really doing is solving for X. Where the other side equals how the world works/is ordered.
(I really hate encountering that line of reasoning on DF's magical system. It might have holes I haven't seen, but the structure hasn't outright broken that I've seen either)
Conspiracy Theorist:
I think circles are a further protection of the White God for humanity, like thresholds or dawn break, if that is so then working from that premise they are proof against supernatural intervention. Summoning circles are a different matter and require a pentagram inside, and are powered by the practitioner.
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