Your WAG about Butter's sword is probably on target, or else Jim wasted a lot of setup by going through that rigamarole about the sword not cutting flesh.
What if to get the monster (Ethnui or Corb) Butters needs to slice through Harry or an innocent being held as a shield, it may be a set up for that. Use of the sword on a innocent destroyed or imperilled the swords. Someone relying on that now with this sword of Faith is really going to lose their head (which frankly would be poetic justice for Nudd). The old innocent trick has been tried twice in the DF and must have been used multiple times in the past. Not any longer.
The spoilers have both been extensively discussed in their threads, Nemesis allow one to act without the normal restriction. Cat Sith wants to kill Harry from meeting him, he literally can’t because of his oath to Mab. Mortals operate under free will, it is pointless nemfecting them.Re spoilers...yeah, I wasn't sure of the rules on what should and shouldn't be under a spoiler tag even on a spoiler board. My bad :)
Thomas never says Justine's name. Harry assumes it. It means something, but your guess is as good as anybody's.Exactly. The alternative is that Thomas is trying to say someone else's name. Justin is the only other character that I remember that starts with "J" but would Thomas know him?
What if to get the monster (Ethnui or Corb) Butters needs to slice through Harry or an innocent being held as a shield, it may be a set up for that.True, there may be lots of reasons why the "safety sword" was introduced. The romantic in me wants the sword to save the baby though ;)
The baby is born in February/ March and to the whamps it is wrong to them , they call in Harry, and he perhaps call in Molly, and determine what is wrong, and it is that knowledge which will save Thomas. There may have been a medical reason why papa wraith killed his sons, a recessive tendency for his male offspring to become something else, not Whamp. The baby is what Thomas could become. He is around to be asked. He may know why Justine conceived in the first place, despite being under True Love with Thomas. Thomas consulted the family records, not his father who should know something.
Interesting. I'm struck by the possible February birthday. Thomas's birthday is Valentine's Day. Will his child share his birthday? Does it mean something?until Eb came out with his once every 666 years bit I was certain it shared a very metaphysical meaning close to starborn status... Now idk... Still seems an oddity.
Interesting. I'm struck by the possible February birthday. Thomas's birthday is Valentine's Day. Will his child share his birthday? Does it mean something?
Nemesis allow one to act without the normal restriction. Cat Sith wants to kill Harry from meeting him, he literally can’t because of his oath to Mab. Mortals operate under free will, it is pointless nemfecting them.The normal restrictions on mortals is different than for fairies. If we take your first sentence as correct, then the assumption isn't that there's no point to infecting mortals; it's that infecting mortals will allow them to act without the normal restriction. The question then becomes what is the normal restriction for mortals.
Suppose Thomas Apartment was being survielled by a wizard because it originally didn’t have a threshold, but one started forming when the baby was conceived? and a family came into being. That would reduce the surveillance a wizard could do and they would have to resort to more mundane methods. That may explain the lack of magical residue, and the need to attack the main Raith residence (no threshold) instead for information despite the heightened risk of being found out.Thomas' apartment is his and Justine's home, ergo it has a threshold. That is some protection, against some invasions but not all, for that one needs wards. Thomas doesn't have that kind of skill and apparently he never asked Harry to put them on. However a threshold means nothing if whoever or whatever was invited in, that wouldn't leave any magical residue either.
Wards are for when you really don’t have a threshold, a bachelor living alone in a rented temporary apartment generates a de minimus threshold. The BFS and Edinburgh headquarters need wards because they are nobody’s home. Karrin’s home has a threshold but requires additional protection. The Carpenters have an enormous threshold, but that is weakening as the children grow up and leave home, hence the Angels Thomas living on his own none (monster) Justine moving in de minimis, her establishing it as a home, slightly more. Making a home for a baby kerching meaningful threshold.It's implied Thomas has a threshold in Cold Days because he wonders how Cat Sith was able to enter uninvited. Harry normally anchors wards onto thresholds. See Harry's discussion of his wards on the storage container in Turn Coat. Marcone's castle has a threshold. Harry said so in Ghost Story. Edinburgh has people living there. I don't know if it's enough to form a threshold of any magnitude.
Wards are for when you really don’t have a threshold, a bachelor living alone in a rented temporary apartment generates a de minimus threshold. The BFS and Edinburgh headquarters need wards because they are nobody’s home. Karrin’s home has a threshold but requires additional protection. The Carpenters have an enormous threshold, but that is weakening as the children grow up and leave home, hence the Angels Thomas living on his own none (monster) Justine moving in de minimis, her establishing it as a home, slightly more. Making a home for a baby kerching meaningful threshold.
Thomas’s threshold would be piddly like Harry’s was, as a bachelor it certainly didn’t stop the Toad Demon etc. Harry ended up getting a steel door, and warded up the Wazoo (a technical wizarding term). It’s a big difference losing 5% of your power as opposed to 95%. It is interesting though that Whamps can threshold.
Opening a door is not enough, there has to be an express invitation, see the occasions where Harry has asked to be invited.
Yeah because Harry had a piddly threshold, had that been the Carpenters, the biggest threat of Toad crossing the threshold would have been slipping on the the ectoplasm before it sublimated. Not all thresholds are equal and Jim has been deliberately vague on the point in book to give himself wiggle room.
And Bonea.
Forgot about her and last but not least, Mouse. ;)Home is where the dog is. ;)
Home is where the dog is. ;)