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Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
g33k:
--- Quote from: SerScot on July 29, 2025, 02:40:41 AM --- ... I believe that is made explicit by Rashid when he confronts Harry in Turn Coat
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Exactly correct, yes.
Just listened to that scene.
Rashid definitively states that the island/well is the source of the leylines there.
Talby16:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 30, 2025, 04:59:12 PM ---Exactly correct, yes.
Just listened to that scene.
Rashid definitively states that the island/well is the source of the leylines there.
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So the island is the source of the leylines and provided the energy for the denarians to create the greater circle to contain Ivy. I would hazard a guess then that it provided the power for Merlin to set down spells/enchantments to create Demonreach. We know from another quote in Cold Days that the energy that keeps people away is the body heat put off by the prisoners. I wonder if it also has tainted the leylines/well. Rashid warned Harry not to touch the leylines. Was it because it was too much power for him to handle or potentially corrupting due to the prisoners?
SerScot:
--- Quote from: Talby16 on August 01, 2025, 06:34:10 PM ---So the island is the source of the leylines and provided the energy for the denarians to create the greater circle to contain Ivy. I would hazard a guess then that it provided the power for Merlin to set down spells/enchantments to create Demonreach. We know from another quote in Cold Days that the energy that keeps people away is the body heat put off by the prisoners. I wonder if it also has tainted the leylines/well. Rashid warned Harry not to touch the leylines. Was it because it was too much power for him to handle or potentially corrupting due to the prisoners?
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In Cold Days Harry says to himself that “the well” for the leylines is the “bodyheat” of the prisoners contained in Demonreach. That means the Leylines didn’t exist before the Prison did.
Now, what is interesting is the idea of using the prisoners own power to keep them contained.
Mira:
--- Quote ---So the island is the source of the leylines and provided the energy for the denarians to create the greater circle to contain Ivy. I would hazard a guess then that it provided the power for Merlin to set down spells/enchantments to create Demonreach. We know from another quote in Cold Days that the energy that keeps people away is the body heat put off by the prisoners. I wonder if it also has tainted the leylines/well. Rashid warned Harry not to touch the leylines. Was it because it was too much power for him to handle or potentially corrupting due to the prisoners?
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If I remember correctly, Rashid added that Harry isn't ready to control that kind of power yet. I take that to mean at some point Harry maybe ready to control or use the leylines, but he has to either mature more or gain more skill to do so at this point. Whether it corrupts him or not to do so remains an open question. It is my belief that Kemmler did use the leylines in his quest to bring back the dead. It is also possible that doing so corrupted him.
CrusherJen:
I'd honestly prefer Harry and Merlin to be two separate people. We already have hints that Harry is one of the legendary Starborn, having him be the actual Merlin on top of that would be a little too "special" for my tastes, unless it's done very carefully and well. (Butcher could probably pull it off, but it would be difficult, IMHO.)
I'd like to see Harry meet Merlin during the time travel book; I imagine they'd have much in common (being two wizards who had to accomplish extremely difficult tasks to protect the world) and it's another chance to play with the perception/reputation of a wizard contrasted with the fallible human being they actually were/are. Maybe Harry could be a distant but direct descendent of Merlin, that would be fun...
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