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DF Spoilers / Murphy's background
« on: March 08, 2021, 04:16:56 AM »
1. So we know there was something in her past about Big Dogs that made her afraid of them. We know Rawlins once faced a "Thing" (I suspect Black Dog but can't find it anywhere) and was saved by her father Jack Murphy. That and Rawlins is one of the few people to get away with calling her Karrie. It might've been the same incident.

2. Her husbands.
-First husband was when she was 17, he was a bad boy with a Harley. Gregory Taggart about a decade older dies at 42 in Blood Rites.
-She had to sneak out to go to prom which she would've been around 17 and possibly dating Harley guy.
-Mama Murphy doesn't approve of divorcing her *second* husband implying she agreed with the divorce of the first.
-So my Theory is that Taggart was abusive, leading to Murphy's Martial Arts obsessions and trust issues.

-Husband number 2.Rich. FBI guy. Got together cause they were on the job, which later makes Murphy more hesitant to do the same thing with Dresden. Though admittedly this is fresh from the backdrop of her little sister marrying said ex. turning him into brother in law.
As psychologically analysed by ID Harry and summed up by Butters as " Wow. Catholics" (I'm from a large extended Catholic family so I don't take offence. It happens.)

As for Murphy's career well we know most of it as it happens in story. First met Harry when she fought a Troll as a Beat Cop got bumped up/down when she refused not to consider supernatural as possibility, so by the time of Welcome to the Jungle she was taking lead for the tougher investigations. The only other relationship we know of is with Kincaid, which on an ethical level Man Toy with professional assassin is a bit ick for me. (Then again Harry and Lea might be the same and I have less problems with that)

I know its a bit academic at this point as we're unlikely to see her again anytime soon.

Am I missing anything vitally important?

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DF Spoilers / Childlike Wizards
« on: March 06, 2021, 09:24:24 AM »
So we all know about the general rules of paranormal children but quick recap.
WOJ:
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in the mid-long term is going to be Maggie Dresden goes to school. She's gonna go to St Mark's Academy for the Gifted and Talented which Harry is gonna try and get them to rename Resourceful and Talented and they won't. But it's where a bunch of the supernatural kids go to school, kind of the scions of the area and there's an unspoken rule in place "we let the kids sort things out themselves, we don't get involved in the kids' problems as long as nobody dies the kids sort it out

So there's a recent WOJ about childrens monsters and how maybe only a couple wizards on the white council are actively aware of them and those ones are considered wierd like Radagast the Brown childlike.

WOJ:
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Priscellie: And the previous one was from Kimberly Sanco? Thank you again. Derek Burger asks "Since there are monsters that can only be seen by children, what happens if or when a wizard uses the sight when one is present?"

Jim: He would go right past it if he wasn't, if he didn't have a childlike mind. If he could not- if he was not in contact with his inner kid if he did not have a good conversational relationship with his own imagination he wouldn't see it at all. And there's really not a lot of wizards who would. There's relatively few who would still be connected enough to that childlike sense of adventure and mischief that they would be able to connect with kids on that level, that's a rare thing.

Priscellie: What percentage of the white council is aware of these creatures that can exist?

Jim: There might be a dozen people on the council who know that and probably most of them who know that have talked about it and been considered wackos by everybody else. Which is just the perfect way for wizards to react to something like that in the Dresden Files "oh that can't possibly be real!", like that. It's for me the proof that wizards are definitely human since it's the reaction they have in the face of something like that.

Klaus the Toymaker was the not so subtle implication
which brings u the debate of who he is and whether or not hes another- yes I'm gonna say it- MANTLE- of Vadderung/Kringle. Kringle would definitely know as THE Fae about protecting and bringing joy to children.

WOJ on Klaus:
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My favorite is probably from an unpublished short story I wrote, set in the Dresden Files universe, but during the Battle of the Bulge. The Nazis had a sorcerer operating out of an old monastery, and the White Council dispatched the Belgian wizard, Klaus the Toymaker. Klaus's magic is all based around using children's toys as focii. My favorite moment was when he killed a couple of SS-summoned demons with a windup wooden duck.

The other Wizard that comes to mind for me would be the extra sensory wizards around so potential candidates include:

Molly. Her jobs as WInter Lady is to recruit Fae children and she wrote the OG book Maggiee uses.
WOJs:
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Q:  Harry says several times that Molly isn’t going to be a good combat wizard, but she seems to hold her own.
A:  Harry still sees her as a little kid AND she’s a girl.  Those are two things that Harry has a hard time looking past.  She really could be very dangerous, but not in the same way Harry is – and that’s how Harry measures combat talent: sudden and intense violence.

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said "okay I am rounding up these kids and taking them to war but these are /my/ kids and I'm going to teach them how to crush everyone in their path" so that's a little more, she is becoming more assertive and more confident as she goes

Listens to Winds: He talks to various animals specialising in little critters who like candy bars. Every kid thinks they can talk to animals at some point.

WOJ:
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Listens-To-Wind's shapeshifting isn't purely a matter of wizardly skill (though his healing abilities are), for example.

Chandler: His sensory as of a WOJ is he can see potential paths of the future, he has some childlike humour in that he sorts an avengers to hate of some sort.

Not sure if this a point for or against him but, relevant WOJ's on Chandler:
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What kind of magic does Chandler specialize in?
Chandler does a lot of Divination, and a lot of stuff that is involved with time.  Which puts him in a very finicky spot, a very high profile spot on the council.  It's one reason why he's a Warden where they can keep an eye on him.  He can actually do things to screw with the flow of time and look back in time and find things out, and occasionally to look forward in time and see things.  Although that's very unreliable because of the whole free will nonsense.  He's an information gatherer for the most part.  He's not as much of a punch you in the face type, but he's really really useful which is why he has got a lot of status among the young wardens.  He's got access to what the old wizards think is valuable, which is information.
(Jim also says here that Chandler's hat and bowler look is based off of John Steed of the 1960's British Avengers show)
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Even younger wizards who are more his age like Chandler, who was brought up in a very British tradition and Chandler's the kind of guy who would say "but a gentleman wouldn't", that's his point of view.

Martha Liberty: She uses Dolls for her main magic trick.Contacts in Nevernever so presumably shes aware of the fringes of childhood monsters.
WOJ:
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Thaumaturgy, specifically information-gathering. She’s got legions of contacts in the Nevernever and the mortal world alike.

Rashid: He's the Gatekeeper a Way Walker on par with Margaret Le Fey and one of the council exerts on mind magic and can also see paths of the future thanks to his eye. Nemesis would find children an easy target for possession just like Nicodemus thought about little Harry Carpenter. Part of his perview would be checking children.

Yoshimo: She could scan Harry's emotional state so might be able to scan children similarly.

So thats my list of POTENTIAL wizards who would know or be able to fight/interact with children and their monsters, that we know of. Share your thoughts.

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DF Spoilers / Did Kincaid know Drakul was in town?
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:22:14 AM »
So did the Hellhound know that his former kennel master was in town and what his plans were?

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DF Spoilers / Why the White God needs Worship
« on: February 15, 2021, 03:03:54 PM »
So beyond the usual reasons of Old Gods needing worship for power or longevity. WOJ is one Archangels across the Multiverse and one God with capitol G.

So The White God needs prayer for the same reason Mab needs deals to act and intervene. Mortals have to ask (pray) for the White God to interfere with Free Will.

According to Uriel Free Will is about choice, and he nudges things for more options and Free Will.

White God is bound by the rules he created. He can only intervene with Free Will if a person asks for it of their own volition. The same way a Denarian can only act through a mortals Free Will.

Even Agnostics like Sanya.

So that's the theory. God needs Worship to intervene in Free Will. "Ask and ye shall recieve."

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DF Spoilers / A Wizard, a Vampire and a Werewolf walk into a bar...
« on: February 14, 2021, 06:48:08 AM »
A Wizard, a Vampire and a Werewolf walk into a bar...

Mac looks up and says "Harry, Thomas, Billy. The usual?"

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DF Spoilers / Ethniu and Mother Winter would get along
« on: January 13, 2021, 08:52:53 AM »
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I feel like Mother Winter could be the one to say all this almost word for word.

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DF Spoilers / Eb's Kenku Favour
« on: January 06, 2021, 03:48:48 AM »
So we know of atleast one instance a Nuke was used by Morgan to kill a Skinwalker.

It's widely theorised Kemmler was nuked atleast once.

What if Eb's Kenku favour was that Eb warned and prevented the Kenku being killed by one or both of the Japanese Nukes?

It''d fit with the scale of the favour. Kenku Army for preventing Kenku Genocide.

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DF Spoilers / British Empire/Commonwealth Fae
« on: January 03, 2021, 09:57:25 AM »
So we have two WOJ's on the Fae in Australia.

The first during the 2015 QnA.

"I was talking with a friend about the faerie courts, and since we live in Australia, we were both wondering what the explanation is for the seasons being reversed in the southern hemisphere. Does Titania take a vacation down south for Christmas? Or is there a seperate pair of courts for the south?

"Oh, no, they'll just rotate interests. Mab has more power in the southern winter, Titania in the southern summer. Though, as fundamentally northern-hemisphere, basically Western European beings, they don't have the kind of absolute reign there that they enjoy in other parts of the world, and their relationships there consist more of strong alliances and consensus influence among a much larger population of Wyld fae."

and this more recent one from the Dresden Files Podcast.

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If you're a king or a queen it's different because there's actual magical stuff associated with being a king or a queen. For example Mab does not disrespect Elizabeth in England, period. She just does not. Because the queen of England is the /queen of England/ and she can do things. And we'll get to see more of that as we go.

But she doesn't care if she's like in Australia or Canada or any of those.

If it's in part of her realm, yeah, that's a big deal. You don't screw with her in her realm but if she comes to America she doesn't necessarily have access to all that stuff. She's not walking on the ground that her family's been ruling for hundreds of years so."

So thats as much as we know about Australian Fae.

Does this mean Aussie and Canadian Fae are protected from the Child Tribute Tax?

Personally if old Queen Elizabeth is protecting us Aussie's from Mab's domain thats a plus for me.

Personally I have headcanons of the Rainbow Snake (Aboriginal Dreaming story) being a Dragon cpitol D. I also have a character whose an Indigenous Elder Wizard, friend of Listens to Winds but more bitter and less forgiving.

So the only other references to Australia is Hannah Ascher who was hunted be Wardens for scorching three guys and killing a couple of Wardens in self defence. Also she was apparently a member of the Order of St. Giles

There was also a brief mention about Margaret le Fey being able to Walk the Nevernever to Melbourne at will.

So thats about it.

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DF Spoilers / Titania's Duty (BG SPoilers)
« on: November 26, 2020, 08:44:41 AM »
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So I think Mab expects to die and it's Titania's duty to be prepared for it. She's in pain for having to kill her sister. Just as Mab was with Maeve.

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DF Spoilers / Marcone's Power Base
« on: November 16, 2020, 10:41:30 PM »
Marcone has a deal with the federal government agencies.


That's the theory. So I wrote this theory on the board during one of the lull's between book's thought I'd post it again given recent events in Battleground.

The Mob working with FBI and CIA isn't without precedent notably during WW2, but also during the Cuban Revolution. Various Don's and Bosses have worked as informants for extended periods of time in exchange for protection from prosecution.

Marcone making a deal with Namshiel would be a similar basis deal, but as far as human factions are concerned Marcone is the only normal human at the table of  the Accords. Something which the government or human factions would want intelligence on, as well as the fact from their perspective just a normal yet capable human having a seat at the table.

Marcone confirms he has a lot of power in local governance of Chicago, at the Accords sit down at the end, but I doubt he'd 'just settle for the title' as he would put it. If you were an FBI or CIA who would have an understanding of the Mob but not necessarily the Supernatural, well the devil you know.

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DF Spoilers / Kincaid-Bond (Amusing)
« on: October 19, 2020, 11:44:32 AM »
Watching Skyfall. James's childhood butler/games keeper's name is Kincaid.

Got a message from someone that "Well he was between jobs back then".

Kincaid must have needed to do something during the Cold War.

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DFRPG / Librarians (BG spoilers)
« on: October 08, 2020, 12:33:46 AM »
I swear the Librarians were mentioned in one of the RPG material source books but can't seem to find any references to them.

Where were they mentioned?

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DF Spoilers / Star Borns. (Peace Talks and Battle Ground)
« on: October 02, 2020, 06:25:43 PM »
Lash a few books ago
Quote from:
"There was a complex confluence of events, of energies of circumstances that would have given a child born under them the potential to wield power over Outsiders."... You have the potential to hold great power over them"

But thats old news Peace Talks and Battle Ground have given us some new information.

So we know they're resistant to Outsiders. Confirmed by Ebenezar.

They happen once every 666 years.

The information on them itself can be dangerous.

Stars and Stones are actual objects, one that Mavra intended to blood sacrifice to.

Drakul is a Star Born!

Mab implies it's possible for Harry to become immortal which Ebenezar glances significantly at.

Those are the one line summaries.

Discuss.

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DF Spoilers / Vadderung and Ferrovax(PT Spoilers)
« on: September 19, 2020, 04:01:52 PM »
So that moment.

Vadderung is Beowulf.

Both Odin and Beowulf have slayed Dragons.

There was that moment just a subtle tap that made Ferro hesitate and stop, then once the Titan came the Titan was more respectful to Vadderung than she was to Ferro who was basically her puppet.

Given how powerful Ferro is there's also the limitation of that power. Ferro was rather limited in not being about to help the Accords or the new Anti-Titan League, because he could crack reality with his presence

Vadderung has more choice because he's mortal he can directly help.

In that moment that tap of warning and respect stalemated Ferro.

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So upcoming AMA, incredible opportunity, but I'd like to see and hear questions that Jim might actually answer rather than get an "I'm not gonna tell you"or "That seems like an inconsistency"

I can't think of a way to phrase the question the way it might actually be answered but would love to learn more about Margaret le Fey.

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