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DF Spoilers / Help finding a Theory (Marcone is Arthur to Harry's Merlin)
« on: June 06, 2023, 10:20:25 PM »
I was reading some older threads and came across a theory that Marcone is being set up as a King Arthur figure to match Harry's Merlin figure.  Not that Harry is Merlin, but that he is filling the shoes in this age that Merlin filled in the last one and that Marcone is filling the shoes filled by Arthur before.  I googled it and my Google Fu is usually quite good, but I can only find references to it (things like "That fits well with my Marcone is Arthur theory, and that would make Hendricks Lancelot." or "I don't like your theory because I think Jim is setting up Marcone to be Arthur and your theory conflicts with it.").

Was this a discussed theory? Does anyone have a topic that dug into it at all?

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DF Spoilers / Fallout of E=K
« on: April 26, 2023, 08:10:15 PM »
Do me a favor, assume Elane is Kumori.
Assume Elane is still alive.

What does that mean for the Dresden Files and the future.

Specifically (but not limited to) the Paranet is being managed in part by Elane and signs point to the Paranet either replacing the White Council or merging with it.  If Elane is Cowl's loyal apprentice and has been shaping the Paranet she will absolutely have been shaping it to replace the White Council and join Cowl's Circle (black council).  This will do a LOT of damage to the forces of good (Harry).

How else is Elane positioned to cause problems and what kind of damage could she do with the Paranet?

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DF Spoilers / Tomas talking in Demonreach
« on: April 18, 2023, 09:55:59 PM »
When Harry put Tomas in Demonreach he told Alfred to use the Penitence Protocol:
Contemplation: He is to be shielded from any communication with other prisoners not enduring the same protocol.

I believe this is the protocol that the British guy who says he deserves to be here is under...

So what conversations do we think Tomas and British are having? Swapping hair care tips?

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DF Spoilers / Maggie Dresden's GPA
« on: April 13, 2023, 09:19:57 PM »
In Christmas Eve we find out that Maggie came home from her first semester of school with a GPA 'above 4.0'... Maggie is in Elementary School (my math says 5th grade).

GPA is out of 4, the highest you can get is 4, straight A's is a 4.0.

In Highschool if you take AP courses you get +1 point per AP course (so an A is 5.0) making it possible for a HIGH SCHOOL student to get higher than a 4.0.  A Junior High School student would need to take a high school level AP course to get higher than a 4.0, an Elementary School student would not be able to get a 4.0. Period.

Goof? or did Maggie skip grades? (Skipping grades (three of them?) AND taking AP classes and getting straight A's and doing all that after immigrating from South America to Chicago and growing up without parents and...)

This is just a mistake by Butcher right?

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DF Spoilers / Christmas Eve and Prime Numbers
« on: April 13, 2023, 09:02:43 PM »
[q]I opened the envelope. It had one piece of paper in it. On it was written a very large number. [...] I picked up the piece of paper. If you left off the decimal points, it was a prime number. It represented the costs of medical care for tens of thousands, and funerals for thousands more.[/q]
This always struck me as strange... who looks at an 8-10 digit number and thinks... oh that's prime...

If I recall correctly Harry calculates prime numbers in his head to help control the winter knight mantle (logic over instinct) and Mab says Summer=emotion; winter=logic... (end of battlegrounds harry says the eye was pure hate and how could you survive it, mab says hate and love are the same force in opposite directions, while the opposite of hate is logic, she ran the numbers and knew she could survive).

Has Harry calculated prime numbers for so long in his head that he got to the BILLIONS and kept going?
Is the Winter Mantle influencing Harry, making him more logical (cold logic) without him realizing it and this lets him look at a number and know it is prime? (some form of limited intelectus)
Am I missing something and there is another explanation? (he did sit down for a good cry after molly left before noting that the number was prime... it is possible he tried to factor it for a while)

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DF Spoilers / The Archive (Mechanics)
« on: April 12, 2023, 08:29:13 PM »
When the Archive dies the construct passes to her daughter and the construct was built with a protective instinct, the host will avoid danger and bias towards protecting herself... So, what happens if the Archive dies without offspring?

Will the construct unravel?
Will the construct pass to the eldest descendant of the prior archive (cascading back as needed)?
Will the construct pass to the nearest compatible vessel (as the mantle of the winter lady does) say a random librarian?

Can an archive adopt a daughter to create a safeguard or does it have to be a natural daughter? Can the construct pass through a male (Say an archive has a son, who grows up and has a daughter, can that granddaughter inherit if the archive has no living daughters?)

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