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DF Spoilers / Re: Demonreach, Ley lines, and Harry's connection
« on: September 12, 2021, 10:13:37 AM »Sorry, Trekkie nitpick - "City on the Edge of Forever"
I knew that, sorry about that, very hard week....
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I knew that, sorry about that, very hard week....
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DF Spoilers / Re: DragonCon 2021 Starborn or Star Born?
« on: September 11, 2021, 11:37:58 PM »Quote
Later, one of the other questions was about Harry's free will. Jim said that his free will is dependent upon how many commands Mab saddles him with.
Well, I can see that, based on what she did to Slate, hard to have free will under those kinds of threats.
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Jim answered, Yes, and yes. Since mortals are the only ones who have free will, the queens must start out with free will. Which is odd, because we've already seen examples of how Molly doesn't have free will in all things, already.Yes, as time passes she becomes less human.. Or is a bit more complicated than that? Kind of like angels, all kinds of power but the greater the power the greater the constraints they have to live under.
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DF Spoilers / Re: I can see why some of the gods would be in pro wrestling
« on: September 11, 2021, 02:36:58 PM »Considering the power would have actually gone over to winter instead of having a matter/anti-matter reaction that takes out a summer knight sized chunk of winter's power there's got to be some kind of filtering system in the stone table, we just don't have details.
That happens and the world is in danger either way, there has to be balance.
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DF Spoilers / Re: I can see why some of the gods would be in pro wrestling
« on: September 11, 2021, 11:11:26 AM »I agree completely on every point. I'm with you.
I am as well, let us hope the outline is flexible..
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DF Spoilers / Re: California Crew
« on: September 11, 2021, 11:10:22 AM »True, but if ever a place was in need of a good feng shui team it would be Chicago during the rebuild. Considering what happened there, Chicago could either become a real epicenter of supernatural activity in the world or totally anathema to it since the mortals there are so sensitized to it now.
Well, no place in more need of some serious feng shui than Harry's new home, the castle.. I can see Lara insisting on it.
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DF Spoilers / Re: DragonCon 2021 Starborn or Star Born?
« on: September 10, 2021, 05:02:06 PM »I am also thinking that 12 months compared to a normal book should be easier and faster to write. If a normal book is 80% stand alone and 20% based on the previous books, and those 20% are to some degree complicating mainly complicating things, not making them easier. Then 12 months 7s just the opposite.
Perhaps a lesson learned as to why it isn't a good thing to let too many years pass between books.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 10, 2021, 04:56:56 PM »As a Doylist the text is the text. If the passage I cited isn't meant to enlighten the reader, what exactly is the point?Well, in the practical sense killing the Knight just because you can would be a bad recruiting tactic. On the other hand keeping him alive under torture sends a massage that says, being a traitor has it's cost.
Be it a bad Knight,incompetent Knight, or no Knight, makes no difference really it upsets the power balance.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 10, 2021, 10:13:38 AM »But things would have been even. Knights are like paper cups. Use them and replace as needed. Mab was holding out for a really good one in Harry, but push come to shove, a temp works just fine until then.
Would they? They weren't when Slate was Knight.. With the kind of power the mantle has, Knights are not like paper cups at all, a bad Knight is a lot worse than no Knight at all.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 10, 2021, 05:14:21 AM »Quote
One and a half. Finding a real piece of work to be temp Winter Knight wouldn't be hard for the scary queen of faerie. It wouldn't even have to be a good candidate to be as good as Fix.She already had that in Slate and he was a traitorous disaster, no, though it was Maeve that picked him, Mab would make certain that mistake wouldn't be repeated.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Demonreach, Ley lines, and Harry's connection
« on: September 10, 2021, 03:21:51 AM »Harry and Luccio have a conversation about Ivy's relative power level in SmF, I think. The White Council puts her around the level of the Summer/Winter Lady, but Harry thinks it's an underestimate. My impression is that Ivy might not have the sheer power of the Ladies, but much better control. Not to mention the soft power of that much information.
But not in that point of time, Ivy was still a child, on one hand she could play the part of the cold Archive, but in many aspects in reality she was a very young child with a child's emotional needs.
Kincaid understood that, as did Harry, but at the same time they both were clueless as to how to meet those needs without screwing up the delicate balance between the Archive and it's host.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 10, 2021, 03:13:18 AM »Quote
Mab being down her top three agents is getting closer, but Mab didn't know she was down her top three agents at that point.
She knew she was down a Knight, and her right hand go to Fae, Lea... That is two out of the three.
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At any point, Mab could have appointed a fill-in Winter Knight while she convinced Harry to be their replacement.Could she? I doubt it is that simple, 1] the new Knight would have to be willing to kill Slate,2] the new Knight would have to handle the power of the mantle and take orders,3] I doubt the new Knight would resign, so someone would have to be willing to kill him or her.
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“A much more serious reason would be an issue of the balance of power between the Courts of Summer and Winter. Any reaction to the invasion would alter what resources one would have at hand. If one Court did not act in concert with the other, it would provide an ideal opportunity for a surprise assault while the other had its strategic back turned.”
There is your answer..
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 09, 2021, 10:01:18 PM »No, I don't at all believe Mab was worried about herself being infected. Ordering fetches to bring Molly in is WoJ confirmed, and that kind of action isn't any more drastic than ordering her forces to teach the Reds a lesson. The idea that Mab needed healing from Nemesis doesn't work.
Sure it does, those infected with Nemesis don't act irrational all of the time. If they did they'd be too easily spotted.. Take Justine, totally infected when she worked to get pregnant then black mail Thomas into an assassination plot, she almost had Harry completely fooled when he went to break the news to her, then he couldn't put his finger on it, something seemed a bit off, is all. However he didn't have time to figure it out. Lea was mostly rational, rational enough to realize what had happened to her and appealed to Mab for a cure, but not before she had spread it to Maeve. Mab wore the Knife also for a time, so it is completely logical that she also suffered a degree of infection or feared that she had to go in for prophylactic treatment.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
« on: September 09, 2021, 07:49:33 PM »After making the decision to not retaliate for no clear reason and confusing both Summer and the White Council. Something happening after something else doesn't mean it happened because of the first thing.
One possible reason, she had been infected, so clearly retaliation under those circumstances is risky at best.. Mab knows that, she also knows if she gave herself time and treatment like Lea she could overcome Nemesis. Why she kept it all secret? Imagine the chaos if even a hint that she might be infected got out.
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DF Spoilers / Re: DragonCon 2021 Starborn or Star Born?
« on: September 09, 2021, 07:45:32 PM »It's always possible he really wated to write Twelve Months. Motivation seems to be a massive booster of writing speed for many authors.
Or considering the rumored personal problems he has suffered of late, and no, I do not want to go there at all, that is his business. Writing and putting his head in another universe even if only for a few hours a day can help sort out personal problems and pain. He will not have been the first or will he be the last, author, artist, or creative person to do so.. Often it turns out to be the person's finest work.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Demonreach, Ley lines, and Harry's connection
« on: September 09, 2021, 07:37:50 PM »Quote
This is a classic what if story.
Yeah, consider, what if Susan had never gone to that party?