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DF Spoilers / Re: Nemesis is different
« on: May 31, 2017, 07:00:05 PM »
Quote from: Quantus on May 31, 2017, 06:19:37 PM
But given The Sleepers as introduced directly in Cold Case, and their current prison, I have doubts that they'd be subject to the same sort of Anchor requirement; theirs isnt an issue of getting to the Mortal Worlds from teh NN, its to get to the World as a whole from Outside, and once they make it inside I dont think they require the same anchor to Mortal Consciousness that a NN spirit/godling/etc does.  But I have nothing but abstract conjecture to support that.

As I understand it, the Outsiders are the Sleepers' minions, cut off from their rulers and trying to get back to them (and maybe, specifically, to wake them up?).

I'm not sure whether beings kicked out of the world by the Archive deleting the last awareness of their existence go to a NN pocket dimension, go Outside and join the original Sleeper loyalists for the sake of common cause, or end up 'asleep' in not-particularly-special parts of the NN (like Harry tried to explain to Charity in PG that a lot of the pagan gods that humanity still has awareness of were real, but for practical purposes inactive due to timey-wimey reasons).

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DF Spoilers / Re: Lara-Nemesis-Oblivion War
« on: May 25, 2017, 01:23:59 AM »
Quote from: RobReece on May 24, 2017, 04:14:37 PM
You say her mother was murdered? Do you have a source for that?  As I recall, Ivy's mother was young(upper teens maybe twenty something?) and in love, when her mother was killed in a car crash, Ivy's mom flipped out over becoming the Archive and no longer having "her" life, that as soon as Ivy was born, she committed suicide.

The bit about Ivy's grandmother being murdered isn't confirmed by WOJ, it's just a widely held forum theory that the car "accident" was artificially induced, on the basis that the Archive's host would be a compulsively cautious driver and able to shield against any accident she had any warning of. People generally attribute the presumed hit to either one of the opposition factions in the Oblivion War trying to shuffle the deck to get a less effective coordinator for the Venatori Umbrorum, or Nic trying to lay groundwork for a plot against Ivy's mom on broadly similar terms to what they tried in SmF, but he miscalculated just how badly she'd take it (which would explain why Kincaid hates Nic, since he was friends with Ivy's mom).

Personally, I'm not entirely sold on the whole theory. It's definitely plausible, but so is the accident just being random.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl's Identity [FPOTM2 11.2016]
« on: November 20, 2016, 04:53:35 AM »
Quote from: nedserD C B yrraH on November 18, 2016, 01:29:01 AM
I'm still thinking Christos with all his mysterious past, political control and enough power to be SC. I think his misguided attempts to stop death put him in the Circle camp with Nico and his attempt to become a saint.

I'd put money on Nico being against the Circle, not with them.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl's Identity
« on: November 15, 2016, 01:27:11 PM »
Quote from: Tami Seven on November 15, 2016, 06:42:38 AM
Normally I would have voted for Simon, but I have a feeling that Harry can't sense anything familiar about Cowl. By now I'd figured he'd run into just about every Wizard at least once, or could at least recognized the style of magic.

He might well not have encountered Simon ever actually doing anything. The only time they would for sure have been in the same place would be when he sat on Harry's trial, and Harry had a bag over his head and only caught enough to guess who voted to kill him and who to spare him.

It's possible Simon might have paid Eb a visit while Harry was living on the farm, since they were friends. But even if he did, he'd have to have been doing a fairly major spell while there for Harry to learn much of a sense of his power to recognize it again later.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Reference: Character Foreshadowing
« on: November 01, 2016, 12:08:13 AM »
Quote from: Serack on October 31, 2016, 07:53:45 PM
"There you are":  I'm considering a section of speculative foreshadowing, but that's a bit of a rabbit hole.

For what it's worth, his landlady made some sort of 'there you are' comment when he saved her from the house fire in Changes.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Magic wood(spoilers)
« on: June 07, 2016, 08:46:50 PM »
Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on November 26, 2015, 03:04:46 PM
It won't be large enough for a true spire nation, but it could act as an outpost for activities on the surface, I am imagining giant tree house complexes. We have all heard the dangers of the surface, so they would need safe havens if they wish to visit the ground on a long term basis.

Gwen's explanation of the Aurorans' once-a-generation cycle of aggression suggests they do periodically conquer other nations' outposts, so smaller structures than full spires must exist. The question is whether these outposts are smaller spirestone towers built to a similar design, or constructed after the cataclysm either within trees or from heavy masonry.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Folly Refers to ...? (Spoilers)
« on: June 07, 2016, 08:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Morenath on December 08, 2015, 12:02:56 AM
Dresden being related is a stretch, since the whole legion was swallowed.  He'd have to have been related to a family member that wasn't swallowed by the portal 2000 years in advance.  Just stretches the imagination.

Not necessarily that much of a stretch. The 9'th legion disappeared from Britain roughly contemporaneous with some of the feats attributed to the original Merlin; he could easily have lost a parent, child or sibling among its numbers. And many fans suspect the chain of mentor-pupil relationships linking Merlin to Ebenezar McCoy consists of wizards training their own offspring.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Folly Refers to ...? (Spoilers)
« on: June 07, 2016, 08:28:27 PM »
Quote from: Tsunami on December 03, 2015, 04:44:46 PM
Unless that WoJ about Harry and Tavi sharing a bloodline exists, which i don't know.

The WOJ in question was that a fan asked if there was a shared bloodline, and Jim gave a really sarcastic denial along the lines of "I'd neeevveerr do something like thaaat".

So it's not admitted to, but he was definitely winking at the possibility.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: There You Are
« on: May 30, 2016, 11:31:19 PM »
Quote from: raidem on May 29, 2016, 03:35:22 PM
Changes
... I have to leave off at this point cuz i don't have pdf files for the rest of the books, I got kindle app for them and they don't allow me to copy and paste.  I'll return here.

I believe his landlady said something similar during the fire.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Current DR wardens
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:41:32 AM »
Quote from: Second Aristh on March 21, 2016, 07:37:39 PM
There's a WoJ floating around that it isn't a coincidence that the warden cloaks are grey and match Alfred's.

Wait, what? His cloak is described as dark green in the end of GS, or just dark in most other appearances. I think Harry would have mentioned if it matched the Warden issue ones.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Current DR wardens
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:04:14 AM »
Quote from: ClintACK on March 21, 2016, 07:29:41 PM
I thought he meant that the term "Warden" used to refer to the White Council police force is a nod to the position of DR's Warden.

That was strongly my interpretation.

Some people might question how the spirit is aware of something off the island like the Council's military force, but I don't find it unreasonable that the information flow through which Harry accesses the island's intellectus might be two-way (i.e. Alfred can access Harry's knowledge of the outside world).

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: The Spy
« on: October 13, 2015, 02:21:17 PM »
Reginal Astor makes a certain amount of sense. He bolted pretty quickly when the air raid siren went off - even lost his own second from the duel. Makes me wonder if he had warning.

And of course, it would make a certain amount of scheming sense for the number two House in the Spire to think they could play the Aurorans against the Spirearch and the Lancasters, and expect to come out on top as head of a puppet government in league with the Aurorans after they win the war.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Minerals.
« on: October 13, 2015, 02:17:21 PM »
Quote from: Quantus on October 12, 2015, 03:44:26 PM
Presumable they have tree Farms (or at least known harvesting spots) along those lines.

They must have something to supply ship construction. If the surface is really that bad, they'd run out of people before "walk out into the jungle, cut something down, drag it back" supplied enough wood for airships and the shipyard/docks complex at Landing.

I'd guess at some sort of fortifications around the bases of the spires to make lumberjacking merely very dangerous instead of totally suicidal. Maybe stone-enclosed fortified paths / tunnels out to the lumbering areas, and bunkers they can hide in if any of the wildlife gets too inquisitive.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: The Index
« on: October 12, 2015, 02:08:43 AM »
Basic hypothesis? The Index was the Library's catalog, and the 'frozen souls' left behind in written works can be accessed and controlled through the authors' names. The Wayist monks probably had one of the largest libraries in the world, and hence their catalog would be one of the bigger bites of power available.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Unsubstantiated theory [Mid-End Spoilers]
« on: October 12, 2015, 12:07:56 AM »
I don't know, the prologue had Lady Lancaster predicting
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Strife such as has not been seen since the breaking of the world.

I think we can be pretty sure there was some sort of cataclysm, but if it was a terraforming accident on one planet of a multi-world empire the Builders were from, why not just evacuate to another world rather than eke out an existence under siege? Plus, the reference to horses as 'fantastical animals the supposedly existed long ago' strikes me as more suggestive that this is a wrecked Earth.

I'd actually wondered whether this might be some sort of far future post-apocalyptic Dresdenverse. Maybe the price that magic users pay has mutated from tech disruption to madness. The surface creatures could, potentially, be Fomor guard beasts that got out of control and infested the planet.

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