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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's force rings
« on: April 25, 2025, 09:01:51 PM »
Ask toottoot to carry one with him.
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DF Spoilers / Re: How did Vadderrung miss the Fomor’s alliance with the Titan?
« on: March 30, 2025, 09:24:36 PM »
The water is also extra troublesome because of how it disperses magic. Odin and others use magic quite a lot.
Then I guess almost everyone intelligent suspected treachery of some sort, but the kill Chicago was just out of the realm of likelihood.
Perhaps he did not about the bronze armor thing. I guess without it they could just have killed her if she did something so direct.
Then I guess almost everyone intelligent suspected treachery of some sort, but the kill Chicago was just out of the realm of likelihood.
Perhaps he did not about the bronze armor thing. I guess without it they could just have killed her if she did something so direct.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months (blurb'ed & priced on Amazon)
« on: March 30, 2025, 09:09:53 PM »
To me it does not matter so much when the book is published. After a couple of days I am back to "when is the next book coming out". So in the larger scheme of things it does not matter much :-)
Although I would prefer that it does not arrive at a time where I should not throw everything else away and just listen to the book.
Although I would prefer that it does not arrive at a time where I should not throw everything else away and just listen to the book.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Is there something that would happen in a Dresden book that will make you quit?
« on: March 05, 2025, 08:22:29 AM »
Or in the alternative universe she is a full vampire and Harry has grown enough to recognize that he actually saved her soul and move on.
I agree that meeting Susan and not having grown as a character would be boring, but there are also lots of other options.
I agree that meeting Susan and not having grown as a character would be boring, but there are also lots of other options.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Speculation: Was Kemmler like Harry?
« on: January 28, 2025, 10:26:36 PM »
I think that yes, part of it was Eb watching Harry, but for those in the know perhaps it was also just Eb not trying to kill them. Or not having to worry if Eb will try to kill them /have them killed sometime over the next 50 years.
Of course it should be noted that Harry also started a war, he was just a lot quicker about it.
Of course it should be noted that Harry also started a war, he was just a lot quicker about it.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months - What our you expecting from it?
« on: January 17, 2025, 10:21:36 PM »
I know it is not 12 months related, but I think the pro wrestling book might be as much about pro wrestling as ghost story was about a PI who got in jail with the people he had sent there.
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DF Spoilers / Favorite joke lines of the series
« on: January 06, 2025, 09:50:50 AM »
Because it was an excellent idea here we are: What are your favorite joke lines and conversations in the series?
I dont know when I will type my own in because I only have the audio books.
...Maybe there should be a separate thread for what are our favorite joke lines and conversations in the Dresden Files, because there are certainly a good number of those.
I dont know when I will type my own in because I only have the audio books.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's full name
« on: November 21, 2024, 09:53:19 AM »
Some of these lures include a trap though. He would have been successfull in capturing the Erlking in Dead Beat with a circle he made pretty fast. Based on that it seems likely that if he made a circle more in league with the one which held the Loupgarou then he could have held the Erlking prisoner and bargained with him.
I think the lure vs. summon depends on the power level and relationship of the two involved. Mother winter had to respond to Harry because his request was legitimate, but he could (obviously) not have forced her to show up except though obligations between Mother Winter and Winter Knight. But with a being closer to his own power level (like the Erlking apparently) he can force the being to show up if he knows the right names, ritual ingredients etc.
I think the lure vs. summon depends on the power level and relationship of the two involved. Mother winter had to respond to Harry because his request was legitimate, but he could (obviously) not have forced her to show up except though obligations between Mother Winter and Winter Knight. But with a being closer to his own power level (like the Erlking apparently) he can force the being to show up if he knows the right names, ritual ingredients etc.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's full name
« on: November 18, 2024, 02:07:45 PM »
I guess it can mean two things:
1: An outsider cannot use someone inside reality's name against them
2: Saying ones full name inside ones own head is not the same as saying it with ones own lips in the "real world"
With number 1 there is not really much to discuss because the amount of outsider interaction is too small.
With number 2. I wonder if it would be the same if it had been corpsetaker he said his full name to as a defence against a mental attack?
So when summoning someone from the Nevernever it is enough to have read their name or heard it second hand. But with a mortal it has to be heard from their own lips. I wonder how much difference it makes to have heard the name from the beings own lips when that being is from the nevernever.
Maybe there is not that much to talk about after all. I just found it interesting that it is (perhaps) the only instance where it is say ones full name.
1: An outsider cannot use someone inside reality's name against them
2: Saying ones full name inside ones own head is not the same as saying it with ones own lips in the "real world"
With number 1 there is not really much to discuss because the amount of outsider interaction is too small.
With number 2. I wonder if it would be the same if it had been corpsetaker he said his full name to as a defence against a mental attack?
So when summoning someone from the Nevernever it is enough to have read their name or heard it second hand. But with a mortal it has to be heard from their own lips. I wonder how much difference it makes to have heard the name from the beings own lips when that being is from the nevernever.
Maybe there is not that much to talk about after all. I just found it interesting that it is (perhaps) the only instance where it is say ones full name.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's full name
« on: November 10, 2024, 09:00:39 AM »
I only have the audio books, but it is chapter 43 at 5:25 minutes out of 27 minutes.
You could be right that it matters that he only says it inside his own head. I have a feeling that he has done something similar earlier, but I Can't remember when it was.
You could be right that it matters that he only says it inside his own head. I have a feeling that he has done something similar earlier, but I Can't remember when it was.
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DF Spoilers / Harry's full name
« on: November 08, 2024, 10:45:29 AM »
In Cold Days when the Walker does the mental attack on Harry just outside of the Island, he yells his full name at it as part of defending from that attack.
In seems like a logical way to remember who he is in that scene. But does he also give a Walker his full name from his own lips? and does that matter for a future attack? Previously it seemed like a big deal if someone had your name like that.
In seems like a logical way to remember who he is in that scene. But does he also give a Walker his full name from his own lips? and does that matter for a future attack? Previously it seemed like a big deal if someone had your name like that.
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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Olympian Affair (Spoilers All)
« on: November 15, 2023, 11:44:53 AM »Unless an important reason is to spy on aurora and give Albion trading vessels a safe port from pirates in an otherwise hostile area?
Also weird that Dependence would have been a colony spire of Albion, on the other side of Auroran airspace. Real questionable move to put a lightly defended outpost on the far side of the enemy capital.
Perhaps the spire arch also wanted to have a tempting Albion target for aurora to attack that they could afford loosing, but which would press the Parliament to agree to war?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Something That Has Always Bugged Me
« on: July 02, 2022, 07:37:55 PM »
I think it is a really impressive thread. By which I mean that I am impressed by how long it keeps going on, not saying it is thin.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Something That Has Always Bugged Me
« on: July 01, 2022, 11:08:57 PM »
I can't remember reading that Harry ever uses his staff one handed. He is a tall guy, so it must be a pretty long staff. Unless there is a quote that says otherwise I think he always uses two hands when there is a physical action scene with it.
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: May 07, 2022, 08:23:04 PM »
I am going to go with the positive: maybe it is because there are negotiatings for a high quality series on Amazon prime (if that is the name of their streaming service). And this is part of those negotiations. I have not followed the news about the lord of the rings series, but it sounds like they take it serious.