The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Q&A Fantasyfestival 2023 in Esbjerg/Denmark
Conspiracy Theorist:
Older wizards are immune to mental influence, so I presume it’s younger wizards like Harry and Carlos that are vulnerable. Maggie Snr may have been on the cusp in breaking away from Papa Raith, it took 5 years.
Given the amount of foreshadowing I think it is going to be Carlos. He has been so priggish about Harry and Lara. I seriously think he is finally going to lose his virginity to ALL of Lara’s sisters, at the same time. And he gets a couple of them pregnant. Cue Harry making jokes about having to support multiple children on a wardens meager salary.
White court vamps have limited fertility, but I expect the chances of conception and successful carrying to term is greatly enhanced by having a wizard as a partner (see Maggie Snr)I also suspect a female Whamp, knows they are pregnant almost immediately, through the creation of a second hunger. House Raith had culled it’s male members in the main line, so Lara’s sisters may be looking to increase their numbers, and secure their power base.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on October 01, 2023, 06:13:11 AM ---Seeing the recently posted Dragoncon 2019 transcript makes me think that Harry and Lara may actually get very close if Harry can take advantage of this:
"If a White Court vampire wants to get you all they have to do is get you alone for a bit and be able to touch you, that's all it really amounts to. But there's this whole issue with White Court vampires and wizards but we haven't gotten to that. Hahahaha, oh it's like heroin."
That implies that Lara and/or Harry may not be willing to stop seeing the other after the initial hookup. It does explain that spark they felt at the end of BG.
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Or they will agree to partner, but on their own terms, which doesn't necessarily mean marriage. Why? Because it is useful to them, it is a dangerous world.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 01, 2023, 09:33:08 AM ---Older wizards are immune to mental influence...
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Incorrect: Peabody had the entire Senior Council under his mental influence, all of them "older wizards."
Older wizards cannot be mentally controlled (have their wills entirely overriden) without breaking their minds (that the Senior Council knows of; I bet someone in the Dresden Files knows how to do it, though...).
"Influence" however is a different matter... a nudge here or there; ramping natural aggression up from an "8" to a "9" ... suggesting to a "cautious" mind and a "curious" one that they become allies because "investigation is the better part of valor" ... etc.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on October 02, 2023, 05:29:44 PM ---Incorrect: Peabody had the entire Senior Council under his mental influence, all of them "older wizards."
Older wizards cannot be mentally controlled (have their wills entirely overriden) without breaking their minds (that the Senior Council knows of; I bet someone in the Dresden Files knows how to do it, though...).
"Influence" however is a different matter... a nudge here or there; ramping natural aggression up from an "8" to a "9" ... suggesting to a "cautious" mind and a "curious" one that they become allies because "investigation is the better part of valor" ... etc.
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As they say, "the devil is in the details.." Those nudges were taken very seriously by the Senior Council. Was it the Merlin or Rashid who said they had to review every decision they had made in the last ten years.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The type of influence engaged mind to mind like the Whamps, Peadody DIDN’T employ that method of mind control.
Lara does NOT employ ink. Comparing her methods and Peabody’s is like comparing Chalk and Cheese. Even then Peabody could only make the Senior Council more set in its prejudices and likely a bit more loquacious on secrets whereas the younger wardens could be completely frozen.
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