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Twelve Months - What our you expecting from it?
Mira:
--- Quote from: cander891 on May 16, 2024, 12:49:40 PM ---One item that has been spinning in my mind is that the marriage is to solidify the alliance between Winter and the White Court. Marrying Laura to the Winter Knight.
Harry's way out of this.... what if by the end he isn't the Winter Knight anymore?
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Yeah, we know Mab has her own agenda on a lot of matters.. One wonders is it really to solidify the alliance or more to protect her Winter Knight from the White Council?
g33k:
--- Quote from: cander891 on May 16, 2024, 12:49:40 PM ---One item that has been spinning in my mind is that the marriage is to solidify the alliance between Winter and the White Court. Marrying Laura to the Winter Knight.
Harry's way out of this.... what if by the end he isn't the Winter Knight anymore?
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As I've said above -- I don't think the White X Winter alliance is the main point at all. Sure, that's what Mab would have us think (and I expect she wouldn't object to having the Whampires in her service) but really now: when Mab sets out a motivation, we should expect the another motivation behind that; and another behind that.
But Harry giving up the WK mantle? Dubious, IMHO: the ongoing theme of the Dresden Files is powering-up Harry so he can survive the BAT. The WK mantle gives him a physique that puts him on-par with Rampire & Whampire warriors... and he's going to need that!
I think Harry's going to learn the trick of taking-off a Mantle and putting it back on, at need.
Vadderung hinted at it with the Kringlemantle... Chekhov's Mantle, right there.
At a guess, this will happen in "The Wrestling Book" (wherein I expect to see lots of versions of identity and "putting on masks" and taking them off. Pro wrestlers may start with a "hero" persona, then take a "heel turn," or start as "heels" and grow to "honorable," etc).
Mira:
--- Quote ---As I've said above -- I don't think the White X Winter alliance is the main point at all. Sure, that's what Mab would have us think (and I expect she wouldn't object to having the Whampires in her service) but really now: when Mab sets out a motivation, we should expect the another motivation behind that; and another behind that.
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I totally agree with all that you said, that's why I believe that Twelve Months maybe as significant as Changes. Since Changes the story has sort of been treading water, or it seems that way maybe because the books since then have been so spread out.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 17, 2024, 03:55:05 PM --- ... Since Changes the story has sort of been treading water ...
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:o
Harry isn't just nominally the WK -- he's actively carrying out missions for Mab.
Molly is full-grown... and now the Winter Lady!
The Battle of Chicago has made Harry's own propensity for property-damage look like a scuff in the paint (much of TM is largely his recovery from the BoC).
Harry has taken possession of multiple artifacts that each contain power of the same caliber as the Swords of the Cross.
Thomas is imprisoned in the Well on Demonreach.
Harry has been kicked out of the White Council.
Murphy is dead.
This... does not feel like "treading water" to me.
YMMobviouslyV!
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 17, 2024, 06:17:53 PM --- :o
Harry isn't just nominally the WK -- he's actively carrying out missions for Mab.
Molly is full-grown... and now the Winter Lady!
The Battle of Chicago has made Harry's own propensity for property-damage look like a scuff in the paint (much of TM is largely his recovery from the BoC).
Harry has taken possession of multiple artifacts that each contain power of the same caliber as the Swords of the Cross.
Thomas is imprisoned in the Well on Demonreach.
Harry has been kicked out of the White Council.
Murphy is dead.
This... does not feel like "treading water" to me.
YMMobviouslyV!
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It does in the sense that most of these plot points aren't really resolved, wrinkles and minor WTFs, but most do not move the main story along..
Murphy and Harry finally got together, yes, she was a victim of accidental homicide... But resolved? Nope, not really.
--- Quote ---Harry isn't just nominally the WK -- he's actively carrying out missions for Mab
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Is he? Sort of, but honestly the promise of him being the Winter Knight has been a bit of a let down.
--- Quote ---Molly is full-grown... and now the Winter Lady!
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She has been full grown for quite sometime.. She is Winter Lady in name, seemingly doing a good job, but....... Oh and Mab would rather see her dead than Queen if something happened to her.. Where did that come from?
--- Quote ---Harry has taken possession of multiple artifacts that each contain power of the same caliber as the Swords of the Cross.
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Yes, but just what does that mean exactly?
--- Quote ---Thomas is imprisoned in the Well on Demonreach.
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Yeah, well, nothing all that interesting was happening with Thomas anyway...
--- Quote ---Harry has been kicked out of the White Council.
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For now, but how long will that last?
What we have above is a lot of dangling plot lines, some have been dangling for a very long time, lot of new ones added... That's what I mean by treading water, the full story hasn't progressed a whole lot.
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