JUSTIFIED by Jim! He said at DragonCon he'd cast Thor as Kincaid.

Here's the question and Jim's answer: http://youtu.be/SSUZzzRUSV8?t=32m12s

I would change his hair color though. I always pictured kincaid with darker hair.

Set THAT in stone, yesplz.

I dunno, that power. I would almost be cool with them going off-cannon just to give Rawlins more screentime haha.

Ok guys! Skin game is out! What can we add? =)

Well then, why couldn't Harry follow Peabody by opening a portal in the same place Peabody did and specify "I wanna follow Peabody"?

Peabody didn't have a strong connection to that area. It was just the first place he could manage to open a portal. Thinking "Thomas" doesn't magically establish a connection. It just chooses from available connections. I don't see why peabody would be connected to that particular spot. Remember in Thomas' case he was almost sacrificed.

Also, I think Harry said peabody would open a way, and then from the NN side he would open another way out to the real world. Harry wouldn't know where in the real world he would go, or how that place connected to that place in the NN. If he didn't catch him he was fucked.

Yup, GP establishes that Thomas can open portals in certain places. 

The timing had to be in Harry's control, so I guess he thought doing it himself would be easier/faster.  Harry having an image of Thomas in mind means that you have to posit that the portal spell can also link to dynamic targets on the fly.  That spell is now becoming *really* versatile.

You can still find enough wiggle room to make it all plausible, but...

Maybe.

It's not really the spell thats versitile. I look at it like "Reality is versitile". Basically reality changes connections constantly. All the spell does is capitalize on a connection specified.

Example:  Harry opens a portal using a connection to thomas - > the connection was already established by reality, the spell needed to do none of this - > the portal follows the connection - > the gate to the NN opens and Thomas is standing on the other side.

We mentioned in this thread quite a few discrepancies in regards to opening the ways. In some situations people are shown to open ways that others have previously opened, or expect to be able to open a way and end up in the same place as someone else had previously.

I do not think this is a discrepancy if you look at the fundamental way that the nevernever and the ways function.

The Way of "The Ways" Theory:
Every single thing has one or more ideas associated with it. Everywhere that one place has a similar quality or idea associated with it as another place, that “same-ness” causes the mortal world and the nevernever to touch.

For example, a bar (let’s call it “Origin”) might touch a space in the nevernever, we will call it “Space A” that may be close to the erlking’s domain in faerie because of the similarities in feeling to one of his halls. That same bar ALSO touches another space in the nevernever at the exact same time, “Space B”, which is close to the realm of Dionysus, not in faerie at all. At the same time, it also touches “Space C” in some section of the nevernever where the Pulp fiction movie is real and the fictional bar touches the in-real-life bar “Origin” where it was shot.
Now, each of Origin’s destinations in the feels like Origin” in at least one aspect, but it also feels like quite a lot of other things too! Each of these traits links up to a different place in the real world, that might not even be a bar.

Now, let’s define a “Way” or “One of the Ways” as a place in the nevernever that has a lot of traits/connections, like an airport! A person can get many, many places from that airport.
It just so happens that most of the “Ways” are in faerie, or close to it. Why? Because faerie is the closest spot in the nevernever to the mortal world. It touches the most places in real life. Probably the fae chose to live there for that very reason (They like to mingle with mortals).

When someone says they “Know a Way” all they are saying is they know a place in the real world, that takes them to a place in the nevernever that has a lot of useful connections/associations with real life places – Edinburgh Scotland, Chichen Itza, Ben and Jerry’s, Disneyland, wherever.

Harry mentioned that generally it’s nearly impossible for one person to open a way to the exact same place as another person.

Why?

Because:
1.   You need to be in the exact same spot.
2.   You need to know the exact trait of sameness you are trying to get to. Remember, “Origin” links up to Space A, B, and C for different reasons.

And then, once you get there, you need to:
1.   Be in the exact same spot in the nevernever.
2.   You need to know the exact trait of sameness you are trying to get to. Remember, “Space A” links up to “Origin” but it probably also links up to countless other places, a different place for every trait/idea it contains.
It’s unreasonable to assume a random person would know the exact link Harry or someone else is utilizing on either trip, so it’s generally impossible to open a spot to the same area as someone else.


This rule has many exceptions in the books that are listed previously in this thread. I’m not going to link to all the individual posts here, we are already here.
But a few examples:
Harry expects Molly to be able to open a Way from the storage unit to a piece of the nevernever close to a Way in faerie, that is a trail to a place that lets you cross over into Edinburgh. She would not be able to do so by simply opening a way. But by telling her basically where she would be going, he gave her the keystone/idea/coordinates that she would need to come out where she needed to. If she has just randomly opened a Way without knowing that a “Trail to Edinburgh” was an option, she could have ended up in any one of a million places. Maybe the reality in the nevernever where Dexter’s mother’s murder took place in the Showtime tv show?

When Peabody was running from the Edinburgh complex, Harry was convinced he had to catch him before he jumped into the nevernever, or it would be hopeless. Why? Because since Harry has no idea which “Space” he is aiming for from “Origin” Harry could end up in any one of countless places in the nevernever by trying to open a random gate. This is different than Harry and Molly in the storage locker because Molly was told the general Zip Code of where she was going.




I’m also going to use this theory to explain one of the many crazy “Odin/Mab” creating a gate to a specific place directly things.
Odin creates a lightning gate in the real world. A physical object. Let’s say it doesn’t even do anything. (Gate A)
He creates a lightning gate in the nevernever – say on Midgard. Again, doesn’t do anything. (Gate B)
He then creates an identical gate that doesn’t do anything in an entirely different part of the real world. (Gate C)
These gates do nothing on their own, but because they are identical, that idea/sameness creates a connection between the nevernever and the real world. Like drawing a line with a pencil.
Gate A and Gate C both have the same trait as Gate B.
Gate B has the same trait as Gate A and Gate C.
By creating this sameness, he could then open up a portal at Gate A, which would undoubtedly lead to Gate B. Then he could open up a way at Gate B that could lead to Gate C (or back to Gate A).
From Chichen Itza, Odin’s gate could have tossed Harry on his ass in Chicago. Just like how Mab’s portal in Harry’s WK quarters tossed him on his ass in Chicago.
Harry realizes that ideas connect the nevernever, but he isn’t on the scale where he can easily make new connections. Odin and Mab have enough juice to create similarities between places, and similarities automatically create paths.

Also, by creating a Gate D, Gate B would then have 3 different gates connected to it, and an alternate destination from Gate A. Odin could send his group to one place, and Harry to another, or even send every single person walking through the gate to a different place. All he needs to do is build the similar gates elsewhere. Which…theoretically a God could do?

Note: DFRC curators have permission to edit in new content as they wish since I might not be the only one who would be interested in contributing.


Poll to the audience on this one, I want to compile a list of things Harry has named.

Under the WAG that Harry might have a knack for naming things. It could be because hes Starborn, or it could be because it's his "Talent". Molly has a knack for complex subtle magic, and Harry might have a knack for naming things. Lets come up with a list of all the things he has named, preferably living things.

Try to provide the Original name, the nickname, and the book.

I try to put all of the nicknames he gives in quotes to simplify things.

One instance that goes to show Harry might have a more than normal gift: When he calls Uriel "Uri" and Uriel freaks out. He says something along the lines of don't attempt to familiarize his name with an nickname, because it is part of his nature and purpose. Uriel means "Light of God" and Harry was calling him "Light" (Hebrew)

Edit: I noticed Harry and others seem to be calling Butters “Waldo” a lot now, when it was exclusively “Butters” before. When did this start? Skin Game, or Ghost Story?

-Leanansidhe "Lea"
-Spirit of Intellect in a skull "Bob"
-Pet Cat "Mister"

Restoration of Faith
Welcome to the Jungle
Storm Front
-Marcone's man "Spike"
-Lawrence "Gimpy"
-Victor Sells "Shadowman"
-Hendricks "Cujo"
Fool Moon
-Chaunzaggoroth, renamed "Chauncy"
Ghoul Goblin
B is For Bigfoot
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
- Plant Monster “Chlorofiend”
Death Masks
- Quintus Cassius "Snakeboy"
- The Archive "Ivy"
- Martin – “Captain Mediocrity” & “Pedantic Avenger”
Publicity and Advertising
Blood Rights
-Temple Dog "Mouse"
Dead Beat
-Quintus Cassius "Liver spots"
Something Borrowed
I Was a Teenage Bigfoot
Proven Guilty
White Knight
- Lashiel's Shadow "Lash" – This gave her a bit of his soul and Free Will.
-Vittorio Malvora -  "Grey Cloak"
-Madrigal Raith - "Passenger"
It's My Birthday, Too
Heorot
Small Favor
-Polonius Lartessa "Mantis Girl"
-Named the 2nd Eldest Gruff "Tiny", using it exclusivly after that.
-Order of the Blackened Denarius  "Nickleheads"  Because he said their name gave them too much dignity and he wanted to remedy that.
Day Off
-Random Punk Villain “Darth Wannabe”
Backup
The Warrior
Last Call
Curses
AAAA of Wizardry
Turn Coat
-Genius Loci + Island - "Demonreach"
-Toot-toot  "Toot", "Major General Toot-Toot Minimus". The first was given to him early on, the second in Turn Coat.
-names Chandler "Steed"
-names one of Ancient Mai's wardens "Lucky" because Harry recognizes him as the same one who almost froze to death trying to get word from Queen Mab in Summer Knight. He's also broken his ankle in Turn Coat, and has to stay behind rather than go after Morgan like the others.
-A Naagloshii  "Shagnasty" 
Even hand
Love Hurts
Bigfoot on Campus
Changes
-Martin "Marvin"
-Ik'k'uox -  "the Ick" 
Aftermath
Ghost Story
- Skaldi Skheldson  "Hair Ball"   
- Calls Molly "Molls", the name he was saving for her when she was no longer his apprentice.
- Calls Uriel by the name "Uri" as a tiny bit of insolence, but drops it after Uriel gets upset.
- Calls Uriel by a new name instead of shortening Uriel, "Mr. Sunshine".
Bombshells
Cold Days
-He Who Walks Before  "Sharkface" 
Skin Game – Note: Mr. Sunshine comes up as a name almost more than Uriel does in SG. Hes also MUCH more sympathetic and human-seeming since his new nickname.
-Demonreach "Alfred"
-Fomor Octopus+ape enforcer - "Octokong"
-Nicodemus - "Nicky"
-Looking for people to mention ones they noticed. I’ll add them for sure if it’s Harry naming another person, or if he changes their nickname to something else.

Some of the above come from http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_nicknames. The wikia page was deleted though, so i'm glad I snagged a few there while I could! = )