“Not possible,” Mab said. “If it was work I could do myself, I would.” Which . . . I believed, actually. “Why not?” “Certain aspects of my power have to do with choices I made when I was mortal,” she said. “There would be . . . compatibility issues. This is part of the task the Knight was designed for.”Did Mab have a child with Papa Raith? Jim reuses ideas and Margaret did leave Thomas to his own devices. That would be one hell of a compatibility issue. :o
Butcher, Jim. Battle Ground (Dresden Files) (p. 395). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Here we have a secret that a lot of people know about Harry. The question is why won't they tell him, isn't it? In fiction that can only mean one thing. Whatever is going to happen will be interfered with if Harry finds out early. It reeks of time travel. ::) >:(Harry needs a home in Chicago. It needs to be cool and defensible and it needs space for allies.
Another interesting idea(to me) is the castle. Why introduce it? And why place it at Harry former home? Was Jim laying foundations? The Marcone's vault was the key to opening a portal into Hades domain. Is the Castle the key to opening a portal somewhere else? :)
What kept Mab from marrying Lara? Think about this one. Is Lara Mab's mortal child?Did Mab have a child with Papa Raith? Jim reuses ideas and Margaret did leave Thomas to his own devices. That would be one hell of a compatibility issue. :oThe same reason Molly can't have sex. It has all to do with the maiden-mother-crone complex. She has a role in winter and she can not abandon it. It would harm the story and so endanger the whole of fairy. Also her mantle would probably stop her.
I got a ton.
The same reason Molly can't have sex.
Or is limited as to whom she can have sex with. Either Mab had her daughters before she became Winter Lady, then Queen, or she was able to have sex with a select few. Ritual or not, Mab had sex with Harry when he became her Knight, or rather he mated with Winter. It could be if it was during her fertile time, Maeve and Sarissa were the product of Mab and some other Winter Knight's mating.Mab obviously can have sex as a winter queen because she is not the maiden and not the crone but there are restrictions caused by her role.
Maeve and Sarissa were the product of Mab and some other Winter Knight's mating.
There was a WOJ that their father was a "famous Austrian composer" ... and I don't think any of them went down in history as notably brutal figures.
Harry needs a home in Chicago. It needs to be cool and defensible and it needs space for allies.Castles are a pain to heat. And they're expensive to maintain. The Brownies are going to want a raise. Which is why a castle would be up for sale. But it was obvious in Ghost Story that the castle was going to end up in Harry's hands. answer too ordinary.
Castles are a pain to heat.Gargoyles, winter knigts and spirits of intellect don't mind.
And they're expensive to maintain. The Brownies are going to want a raise.De brownies were summer and Lilly's. They are gone now.
Which is why a castle would be up for sale. But it was obvious in Ghost Story that the castle was going to end up in Harry's hands. Answer too ordinary.Even more when he discovered his lab was still there.
Per the quote I gave you whatever it is happened while she was still mortal and as such has nothing to do with her being Mab.It had to do with the choices she made as a mortal which resulted in becoming Mab. But her children she got when she was Mab. They were only a few hundred years old and Mab is much older. She could and maybe even had to get them when she became queen.
Castles are a pain to heat.
tension-tightened faces. “Old woman,” Corb taunted. “I remember you as a bawling brat. I remember your pimply face when you rode with the Conqueror. I remember how you wept when Merlin cast you out.” Mab’s face . . . . . . twisted into naked, ugly, absolute rage. Her body became so rigid, so immobile, that it could not possibly have belonged to a living thing. “Tell me,” Corb purred. “If he was yet among the living, do you think he would still love you? Would he be so proud of what you’ve become?”So Mab and Merlin were a thing. Yet he cast her out, for what? Having a child with a succubus?
Butcher, Jim. Peace Talks (Dresden Files) (pp. 278-279). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
The last reflection of Molly wasn’t the girl. Oh, it looked like Molly, externally. But the eyes gave it away. They were flat as a reptile’s, empty. She wore all black, including a black collar, and her hair had been dyed to match. Though she looked like Molly, like a human being, she was neither. She had become something else entirely, something very, very bad.This sounds a lot like Mab's judgement form. Another of the other things he sees in the soul gaze is the Molly like this.
One was an emaciated version of Molly, as though she’d been starved or strung out on hard drugs, her eyes aglow with an unpleasant, fey light.Which of course foreshadowed Ghost Story.
Harry in Demonreach would know what's coming and what price he will pay and what his choices will cost him. Jim foreshadowed Molly's possible fall from grace and in the end I think she will backstab Mab for giving Lara what she can't have. This possibility was foreshadowed when Harry soul gazed her.This sounds a lot like Mab's judgement form. Another of the other things he sees in the soul gaze is the Molly like this.Which of course foreshadowed Ghost Story.Mab’s judgement form is more terrible and majestic. I thought it was just Molly as a full blown warlock.
I think he's coming back to try and do at least three things, save the mortal who became Mab, save Molly and fill Demonreach in the final showdown in the Bat.
Once Harry Prime is gone Merlin will appear. Mab will be revealed as Harry's true love and will meet the fate of his other loves when she is back stabbed by Molly who will complete her trip to evil. And so on.And of course Molly then becomes MAB later. So she killed herself, somehow, and later travels back in time. At which point early-Harry/Merlin will cast her out to become the cold Mab from the current still-human Molly.
And of course Molly then becomes MAB later. So she killed herself, somehow, and later travels back in time. At which point early-Harry/Merlin will cast her out to become the cold Mab from the current still-human Molly.Well it's your book when you read it, so if it works, it works. This is the book I'm writing in my head since I won't live to see the BAT assuming that Jim actually gets there.
It was early days in Proven Guilty. And until that point I don't think that Jim had shown Mab in that form. But I ain't married to the idea. But if I was Mab I'd wear body armor going forward.Well it's your book when you read it, so if it works, it works. This is the book I'm writing in my head since I won't live to see the BAT assuming that Jim actually gets there.
Perhaps in the next life we can compare notes? ::) Because I doubt that I will live to see the BAT as well.. :(I don't want a next life, one was enough. I had high hopes until 6 years no books, but it is what it is. I'll write my own BAT instead.
Harry in Demonreach would know what's coming and what price he will pay and what his choices will cost him. Jim foreshadowed Molly's possible fall from grace and in the end I think she will backstab Mab for giving Lara what she can't have. This possibility was foreshadowed when Harry soul gazed her.But Harry in Demonreach doesn't solve why Harry would put on a very credible British accent to fool his younger self. Until you can figure that one it's a fairly big hole in the idea.
This sounds a lot like Mab's judgement form. Another of the other things he sees in the soul gaze is the Molly like this.
Which of course foreshadowed Ghost Story.
I think he's coming back to try and do at least three things, save the mortal who became Mab, save Molly and fill Demonreach in the final showdown in the Bat.
It was early days in Proven Guilty. And until that point I don't think that Jim had shown Mab in that form. But I ain't married to the idea. But if I was Mab I'd wear body armor going forward.I don't know why Mab hasn't been wearing armour all this time. Seems crazy to me.
Well it's your book when you read it, so if it works, it works. This is the book I'm writing in my head since I won't live to see the BAT assuming that Jim actually gets there.
I don't want a next life, one was enough. I had high hopes until 6 years no books, but it is what it is. I'll write my own BAT instead.Why not? It's your life. Might be fun to write your own BAT anyway. You might even prefer it to whatever Jim may end up writing.
But Harry in Demonreach doesn't solve why Harry would put on a very credible British accent to fool his younger self. Until you can figure that one it's a fairly big hole in the idea.Okay, why a British accent? Because it's an easy lie. EOS.
Often with time travel stories, in going back to try and change the past the character ends up setting in motion the very events they were trying to stop. The ontological paradox. I am not saying this is the case, but Vadderung made it very clear why it wasn't a good idea to try and change the past for any reason. Better to shape the future via action in the present.
“I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it’s a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.”This is what you're quoting and I think you are misreading it. It's gibberish if taken straightforwardly. You can't change history by shaping the future.
Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (pp. 214-215). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Okay, why a British accent? Because it's an easy lie.
Okay, why a British accent? Because it's an easy lie. EOS.Is it? Seems like it would have been easier not to talk to Dresden, not to mention Dresden's not exactly a great actor at the best of times. If he had dramatically improved his lying, why not talk in another language? He also clearly had enough psychic power to throw Dresden's mind out, even from his cell. He didn't have to talk to Dresden at all. He didn't even WANT to talk to Dresden.
This is what you're quoting and I think you are misreading it. It's gibberish if taken straightforwardly. You can't change history by shaping the future.
Here's how you might do it for a story. Who fixed LC? If Harry did it, how do you escape the paradox? Because someone in the future told you you needed to. And it would be helpful if you changed the future by changing that person now. So if you changed Lasciel's shadow, you produce Bonea who can put the pieces together at the right time and send you back, to do everything you might need to do. It's established that Lasciel knew everything, all of Harry's secrets. You shaped the future by changing her and she changes your past. This closes the loop. Bonea knew because Lash broke Little Chicago. And she could sabotage LC because she could make Harry see exactly what she wanted him to see. Like Sheila.
That's my solution to the bootstrap paradox. Dazzle them with footwork.
Here is my theory on this, and how Jim was able to fib on it while telling the truth. I do believe that person is either King Arthur, or the original Merlin. It's true their English would be way different. However I believe the Island allows Harry to understand anything that Harry wants to communicate with. There were all manner of things trying to whisper to him. Chances are they have been there for so long, and don't even know English, and yet Harry understood them.Well I think you're right about the psychic translator. But I will add something. Almost every British character, or character/being with a British accent, is a villain in the series. Likely this is a leftover from a well-known trope. In point of fact, even some of the British characters that are not out-and-out villains...are still suspect.
If the person was say German, or Chinese, I think Harry would understand them but hear their accent even if they were speaking there native language. It's all tied to the Island, and that no words are actually being spoken at all. It's a form of telepathy. So they think it, the Island deciphers it, and Harry understands it.
And of course Molly then becomes MAB later. So she killed herself, somehow, and later travels back in time. At which point early-Harry/Merlin will cast her out to become the cold Mab from the current still-human Molly.