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The impression I got from Cold Days was that Merlin built the island long before Chicago was even thought of.. Would have to go back and reread that bit, but I seem to remember that when Merlin built it, it was done in multidimensional times including before the ice ages..Five different times, but I don't believe we have any information on particular time periods.
Maybe, but I don't see a reason to do much around PG other than LC. As of Cold Days most of the characters are dead.It also gives Harry a chance to use LC one last time before it blows up. It got a lot of page time for something that only got used once or twice.
I like the ley line connection. I said in a thread a while ago that there must be some way for Wardens to jail monsters because bringing them all to the Island is not reasonable. But bringing them to a nexis point is reasonable.On the Island, they get summoned there, right? Seems like a better idea that way. Ethniu was probably too big to properly summon (order of magnitude bigger than Titania, and she shattered Harry's circle in CD). Once they're there, Alfred can take them downstairs.
I actually agree. Assuming that he will go back then he has already done it for any event that has already made it into the text. You've identified one and I believe there are others. But having Harry fix an event in which he might die is paradoxical. If he dies how does he exist to go back and change the event and how does he know it has to be him?Yeah, I think Harry to go back through time to make sure what has already happened happens (Prisoner of Azkaban style). Chasing someone through time to prevent them from screwing with the timeline is one convenient way to do that, but regardless I expect the time travel book to be the one where the important behind the scenes information of the big bads' actions can be conveyed to the reader. Jim can get Harry's eyes on events that he had no way of knowing or understanding during the regular case files. For example, we get to see how Little Chicago got fixed, we get to see what was going on with Arctis Tor, how did Aurora get infected, who hired Shagnasty, etc.
"Do you have it planned out who Harry’s grandmother is? @6:05Kinda ignores the "That was about it" part, doesn't it?
Yes… Well she’s not alive any more.
Was she significant?
Well, she was a mortal. That was about it."
1. Confirmed he has something planned for Harry's grandmother
2. She's either dead, or undead
3. She "was" mortal could be a play on words. I mean that means she either died or she is no longer mortal (turned for example).
Reading that makes me think even more strongly that something happened to his wife. Either she was killed, or she was turned. If there was no big deal, I think Jim would have just said something like "she past away from old age". Him having a plan for the character to me sounds like it's meaningful and she didn't just get old, and pass from natural causes.
He would have killed Harry by accident (fake Harry in their duel) because he was so angry over it. I don't think anything explains his rage besides someone he loved deeply being taken from him. Someone more than a friend.Eb is angry about vampires in general. I don't think you can pin Eb losing control at the end of PT directly to the mystery person he's referring to after they banish the cornerhounds.
The old man sighed. When I looked back at him, his eyes were closed. His
cheeks seemed sunken. And there was a sense of desperate weariness to him
that I had never seen before. When he spoke, he didn’t open his eyes. “See?
You know why. I hate them because I know them. Because they took
someone from me.”
“Mom?” I asked.
His jaw muscles tightened. “Her, too. What you did to the Reds was a hell
of a thing, Hoss. But the part of me that knows them thinks it was only a
good beginning. God help me, some days I’m not sure I don’t agree.”
“The Red Court got the way they were by killing a human being. Every
one of them. The White Court is different. They’re born that way. And
they’re not all the same,” I said.
“Game they’ve played for a very long time, Hoss,” he said. “You’ll see it
for yourself. If you live long enough.”
Do you have it planned out who Harry’s grandmother is? @6:05
Yes… Well she’s not alive any more.
Was she significant?
Well, she was a mortal. That was about it.
Editor’s note: There’s a 2011 WoJ Where Jim says if he remembers right, she died around 1810
of course. Remember the ley lines begin at the island, the extend at least through Chicago. Iirc the necromancers were using them. Harry, on the island would be able to subsidize his power draw is the main difference.Didn't Nicodemus's crew use it to contain the Archive as well (post-kidnapping)? Luccio's map of leylines helped Harry figure out where to go looking, or something like that.
Yes, but also in Cold Days Harry admits that Bob doesn't everything about everything, that example being Soul Fire. So Bob could be right about the body heat, but what if that very heat is what is up-welling from the island forming and powering the ley?Yeah, prisoner BO is the source of the island's ley line. It was pretty much stated outright.
I'm thinking if that is what it comes down to in the end, it is a real cop out in terms of story telling..Not altered it, but worked in the background to make sure someone else didn't make it worse. Altering breaks the law of conservation of history Odin talks about. It's too hard to do, especially that far back. More like Prisoner of Azkaban style where Harry's maintaining his timeline.
Oh yeah, Harry or someone traveled back in time and altered all of that stuff... That for me at any rate would be a huge disappointment.
I don't imagine it will be and Rashid doesn't need Harry's help for that. Ask yourself why Jim made the choice to have LC be broken.Does he need it, no, but it's more helpful that way for Rashid to be well out of the way of breaking any Laws.
Harry using Rashid as a messenger to give himself a message from the future works well. It also fits with his altercation in TC where Rashid says it isn't Harry's time to defy the WC yet. Yet being the operative word. If Rashid met future!Harry, say at the Outer Gates, he'd know something was going to go down along those lines. Harry couldn't risk telling Rashid too much, though, or he'd jeopardize his timeline.
"Hindsight," I murmured. "You mean he went to the future for this?"
"Well," Bob hedged. "That would break one of the Laws, so probably not. But he might have sent himself a message from there, or maybe gotten it from some kind of prognosticating spirit. He might even have developed some ability for that himself. Some wizards do."
With the attack on Arctis Tor, Little Chicago, and the Corner Hounds I'm wondering if there is going to be a time travel book where Harry is going to many different points in history, chasing someone else who's trying to mess things up.There's a book going to be dedicated to every Law, so we're in for some time travel for sure. My guess is that it'll be the last book before the BAT. That way, it can be used as a way to get Harry's eyes on all the important plot points that have been happening in the background of the other books. Dresden books have a pattern, and that pattern fractals out for the series as a whole. Introduce the problem (StF thru GP-ish), big mid-book fight (Changes thru CD), big aha mystery solved moment (time travel book), finale fight to fix it (BAT).
Plot twist: There was Hellfire, but the one who nuked Mab's army was Dresden using Soulfire.
My timeline isn't muddled.. You are right it was White Night when Forthill got the coin, however it isn't a stretch to think the coin might sill be locked in his office as of Changes.. We have no clue as to how frequent the coins collected by the Knight are picked up.. We do know it was Lasciel whispering to Harry in Changes which speaks to her coin not being very far away, that is my point.WoJ is that distance isn’t really a factor in how the fallen operate in their coins.
What’s the range of influence for the Fallen in the coins? How far can they extend themselves away from their Denarian hosts?
Oh, their range is very, very limited, to this one little planet.
2011 DC signing
I doubt that Namshiel got a permanent boost and I could be altogether wrong about Lucifer helping him in PG. But Jim has done everything but set up a flashing neon sign pointing at Namshiel. And I doubt Jim will revisit it in any case. That Arc is finished. The only real puzzle left will be resolved in the time travel book.The time travel elements in PG do need to be resolved still. Like you said, the time travel book is coming. I’d imagine the events of PG are a major focus. (Also my guess is future!Harry is the source of the Gatekeeper’s message getting Harry on Molly’s trail.)
