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DF Spoilers / Re: Unsolved Mystery Book7 Summoning Outsiders
« on: November 24, 2017, 06:33:09 PM »
Depending on the circumstances, Mab doesn't care if Harry kills everyone in his way.  In fact, she'd prefer that.

She's in favour of him being brutal with nobodies.

If he used Winter power as leverage for internal White Council disputes, that could cause her trouble. He'd better have a good explanation if he ever has to go there. But I don't really see Harry disregarding the First Law to just up and murder Cristos anyway.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Unsolved Mystery Book3 Cowl
« on: November 23, 2017, 07:46:35 PM »
Either Susan's or Lea's love for Harry.

To harm the white court, it has to be romantic love between equals (i.e. parent-child love doesn't harm them) and it has to be reciprocated. Harry hella definitely isn't in love with Lea. Occasional lust maybe, but mostly he's afraid of her.

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DF Spoilers / Re: What happened to the rest of the Alpha's?
« on: November 23, 2017, 03:48:05 PM »
I am thinking that, in the fictional world, the crazy ones usually come up with the most interesting ways of using their powers.

I think Bob pretty much said that. Something along the lines that only some of the madmen he'd worked for previously could have come up with something like Little Chicago.

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DF Spoilers / Re: What happened to the rest of the Alpha's?
« on: November 23, 2017, 01:57:42 AM »
Who says he's in a psyche ward because nobody believes him?
Maybe he's in a psyche ward because he actually has some unrelated mental issue.

A werewolf who actually is unstable could be fairly terrifying.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Other Future Dresden works rumor thread
« on: November 15, 2017, 10:05:55 PM »
This forum is small community of various individuals that share at least one bit of commonality, an appreciation for Jim Butcher's work. Though, we do so in different ways. I, myself, fixate on the unsolved mysteries of the series; others have their own interests.

That's the fun part for me. Though I hope Jim will end up attaching more story significance to resolving at least most of the running mysteries than some other series have. (Like the 'Who killed Asmodean?' one in Wheel of Time that ran for like eight books and ended up mattering so little it got a throwaway dialogue line and an appendix mention)

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DF Spoilers / Re: What happened to the rest of the Alpha's?
« on: November 14, 2017, 01:49:08 AM »
What was the catalyst for this? People don't wind up super religious or institutionalised or in deep denial without some sort of catalyst.

Side effect of "Marcie" the deep-cover supervillain messing with their heads?

He said, half-jokingly. Half.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Unsolved Mystery Book9 Cowl again
« on: November 09, 2017, 02:02:26 AM »
I would say that Mavra is opposed to Cowl.

Specifically out of the three Kemmlerites? I'm still not sure whether her motivation in using Harry against them was to retrieve the book for herself or deny it to any other players. But she must have been using a proxy to avoid being noticed as the one opposing the Darkhallow - she's powerful enough to have killed at least Grevane and Corpsetaker single-handedly, if she'd chosen to move openly.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Unsolved Mystery Book6 Lord Raith
« on: November 08, 2017, 01:28:22 AM »
Is this all that unsolved? In hindsight it sounds Outsidery as all hell, even if the specifics aren't confirmed.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Elaine / Kumori thought
« on: November 07, 2017, 08:46:18 PM »
Isn't Warden Yoshimo(?) a female, the chick Harry mails for info on her family lineage being related to royalty when he's researching the swords?

She is. But like Luccio, she was wounded to immobility right before the Darkhallow at which Kumori appeared.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Elaine / Kumori thought
« on: November 06, 2017, 06:16:56 PM »
I can think of three.  Mai, Liberty, and Luccio.  I don't count Molly any longer.

Luccio cannot be Kumori, as explained earlier.

Mai or Liberty can't be so definitively ruled out, but it would have been logistically difficult to split their time between running around in Chicago while the Senior Council were engaged in battle in Dead Beat. Plus neither of them are particularly young, and Kumori said during their one-on-one conversation that she and Cowl had been taking turns trailing Harry, presumably including climbing all those stairs to go talk to "Sheila".

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DF Spoilers / Re: Elaine / Kumori thought
« on: November 06, 2017, 03:28:09 PM »
I don't really buy Beckett being Kumori but sandbagging her power by a couple orders of magnitude when appearing as Beckett.

She was in prison at the time Harry first saw 99%-sure-Kumori on stage handing out treacherous gifts at Bianca's masquerade. And while dipping out of prison for errands via the Nevernever is technically possible, I don't see why she'd go back voluntarily rather than go off the grid and start a new identity.

Also, if Beckett had Kumori's depth of power, I think Marcone would have been hurt a lot worse than just by selling / giving his secrets to the Denarians.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Proven Guilty - some minor unanswered questions
« on: November 03, 2017, 12:31:34 AM »
Earlier, when Harry/Thomas are trying to get away from the Scarecrow, he causes it to slip on ice.   On the face of it, this is a little implausible.  After all, we've seen (Cold Days) that even the Winter Knight has no problem running on ice, and this is a power being from deepest Winter.

Thomas also did way the hell less damage cutting the scarecrow with a steel sword than one would ordinarily expect from a usual Fae.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse vs. Anduriel
« on: November 03, 2017, 12:26:12 AM »
I don't think so.  I think that the Angels are eternal.  Since they can be passed from one body to the next (kind of like a mantle).

From Uriel's actions in SG, it seems their grace functions similarly to a mantle. If you can separate the grace from the underlying being, it's plenty destructible, and the grace would be carried on by whoever was holding it when the angel was killed.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Elaine / Kumori thought
« on: November 02, 2017, 05:37:10 PM »
I would suggest American too.  I don't recall Harry mentioning an accent.  Unless magical shielding was going on, I'd doubt it was Luccio.

They were muffling their voices. But Luccio is one of the few female wizard we're sure cannot possibly be Kumori, on account of how she was busy being saved from almost bleeding to death by Butters while Harry and Carlos confronted Cowl and Kumori.

Harry might not be curious about Kumori because he assumed the apprentice's shield wouldn't have been strong enough to survive the blast. But it does stretch suspension of disbelief that after confronting Cowl again at the Raith Deeps in WN, the realization that he'd lived seems to just have been filed and forgotten. Another villain left out there who probably still has the Darkhallow committed to memory is a rather serious Chekov's Gun to just ignore.

It's possible Harry has put an unsuccessful effort into investigating some of these things - Jim puts it that the case files are basically his worst weekend out of the year - but failing to run that warning up the chain to Morgan and Luccio at the end of the book seems odd.

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DF Spoilers / Elaine / Kumori thought
« on: October 31, 2017, 05:53:28 PM »
So I know Elaine is one of the most prominent suspects for Kumori's identity. There's a fair bit of circumstantial evidence, but does anyone have a good accounting of why she was putting on an apparently full and sincere effort to stop Cowl's plot with Vitto to hunt the minor practitioners to extinction?

It seems like a stretch to attribute it to seeing through Cowl's deceptions after DB and running, but being too afraid to fully come clean to Harry. When Harry suggested leaving him and going to the Council for witness protection in DB, Kumori was confident that wasn't an option because he'd track her down and kill her easily even with protection. How does she survive going it alone with her name in LA's yellow pages?

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