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I haven't seen this brought up in any of the forums yet, and only just now occurred to me.  Near the beginning of the book, Stu tells Harry that the lemurs got past Mort's threshold, but he didn't know how.  Was it ever explained how that happened?

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Corpsetaker, only took a year to almost return him/her/itself to a body

Harry shot Corpsetaker in Dead Beat, that was roughly 5 years before Ghost Story, give or take.  Kemmler was killed I think seven times by the Wardens before he stopped coming back and it never says how often he was popping back up.  My guess is that Corpsetaker just didn't have the experience and/or the know-how to efficiently pull off defying death post-mortem.

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DF Books / Re: Shirt Quotes: Buy Dresden Stuff!
« on: July 29, 2011, 11:43:46 AM »
Great!  I can't wait to see them, I've really been looking forward to coming back from this deployment and decking myself out in some Dresden gear  :)

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DF Books / Re: Shirt Quotes: Buy Dresden Stuff!
« on: July 29, 2011, 11:15:43 AM »
When will we get to see some of these ideas in the Store?  I've seen a lot of great ideas here that met with very positive feedback, but I haven't seen anything new available.

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anyone else expect these initially completely irrelevant and puny faeries to end up as moderately heavy hitters in dresden's arsenal?

I'd like to point out you're talking about a group of Little Folk that managed to kill the Summer Lady roughly 10 years ago.  I would say that in some respects they're already moderately heavy hitters, at least when properly employed.

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Lash having free will was something that Harry pointed out to her in White Night.  He said that there was no reason she couldn't have free will because she wasn't actually Lasciel, meaning that Lash isn't technically a Fallen.  Just like Harry's abilities and perceptions change when he's just a shadow of himself, Lash's must have too.  And while I'm not disagreeing that it could have been Lucifer himself, I think that a Fallen not trapped in one of the coins is more likely.  The Knights of the Cross are a counter to the KotBD but their general purpose is to combat evil, and I'm sure that where a Fallen happens to reside doesn't change the fact that the KotC would be in direct opposition to them.  Also, I certainly never meant to imply that there are Fallen that didn't choose to Fall.  Although now that I think of it, that is sort of implied in the Bible where it says that when Lucifer was cast down his tail swept a full third of the stars from the sky.  I've always thought of that as him taking Angels with him.  These are just my thoughts though, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

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Yeah, but I remember saying something earlier about how if that were the case then wouldn't the fact that the Fallen acted with a mortal proxy make the whole thing not count as "cheating" the way Uriel defines it?

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The only time I recall there being any mention of whether or not the Fallen can enter the church is when Lash says that they choose not to because being that close to God reminds them of what they no longer have and it makes them sad.  That being said, I find it hard to believe that one could just walk in and mess with people though.  I feel like there's something we're missing here or maybe something that Jim just has up his sleeve in the way of an explanation for who this Fallen might be.

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Maybe I'm just not remembering, but has there been any mention in the DV about "namers"?  I had thought that was mostly a Rothfuss idea.  I could see myself getting on board with the idea of Harry having some sort of affinity with names, but as far as I can remember there hasn't been any real mention of it so far.  Not until Uriel's seemingly overreaction to being called Uri.  Which I still think might just be due to removing "of God" from his name.  He may have just taken it as being brought down to the level of the Fallen, but that's probably reaching.

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There are other Fallen Angels, though...one who is a great deal more powerful than Nicodemus and his crew, and Harry has suspected that That One has been cheating for some time now.

I don't remember this... what exactly are you referring to?

And the Denarians are not free willed beings.  Only the people possessing the coins still have free will.  The Fallen themselves are still technically Angels and subsequently have never been given free will.

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I've noticed a lot of focus on what Harry did to Molly and how terrible it was.  Yes, it was an awful thing to put someone through.  Especially someone you love.  But look at it from Harry's point of view.  It had to be done, and who else could he have asked?  There was literally nobody that could have accomplished what Molly did with his memory while still leaving his mind intact.  Nobody that he could trust to be meddling in there in the first place anyway.

Someone above posted that Uriel doesn't specifically say that it was a Fallen who whispered to Harry.  I re-read it, and yes, he does.  
“That . . . that shadow. It’s an angel?”  “It was once,” he said, and his voice was gentle—and infinitely sad. “A long, long time ago.”   “One of the Fallen,” I breathed.   “Yes. Who knew how to lie to you, Harry.”

I find Ebenezar's absence pretty strange too, but I suppose there are a few possible explanations.  Although I doubt "bogged down in paperwork" is one of them haha.  I hope this is explained in Cold Days, because I have a feeling Harry's going to need all the help he can get pretty soon.  Not to mention it seems an opportune time for the Eb/Kincaid feud to either get resolved or blow up.  Given the nature of both characters, I don't see the "get resolved" option happening.

I'm not sure how he would do it yet, but I really hope that Jim brings Lash back into the series.  She was really beginning to be a great character and then bam, she's gone.  I think White Night was the first book in the series that left me sad at the end because of that.  

I'm also surprised at Maggie Sr nor Malcolm being involved in GS.  Like someone said before, with all the spirits and afterlife happenings flying around this book, I almost feel like "How could either of them NOT be included in it?"

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The Codex Alera is a 6 book series and it's been complete for a couple years now.  That note at the end is at the end of most of Jim's books.  It is an amazing series, and I would definitely recommend it  :)

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First off, Katrwal, I just wanted to say that I had thought the same thing about Maggie Sr, especially when the pentacle was the one thing that was missing from his ectoplasmic ensemble.  We already know that she had imprinted at least a small part of herself into the amulet and into her sons.  Going off that it isn't hard to believe that she is the voice at the end of Changes and that she may be the "parasite" that kept Harry's body alive this whole time.
Second, while I agree that the end could have been more dramatic, I'm glad it wasn't.  We've been dealing with the epic cliffhanger of Changes for over a year, and I would prefer not to do that again.  That is, of course, not to say that the end of this book didn't leave me craving more Dresden.  I'm just saying that at least when I finished this book I felt like it was a more stable ending, and that was certainly a relief.

I forgot to mention that, while unlikely, the parasite could have just as easily been Lash (which would definitely make my day).

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