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DF Spoilers / Where have the Black Council and the Grey Council gone?
« on: February 09, 2026, 04:21:44 PM »
Seriously? Why no mention of either in this book?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Matter crossing a circle boundary… disrupts the circle
« on: January 15, 2026, 01:34:29 AM »Harry does say, I think in Changes, that dust on his summoning circle in his lab degrades its efficiency. In Changes he also creates a circle purely in his mind.
From this, I take it that intent and human will are close to 100% of the deal. Not quite, but very, very, close.
Doesn’t this mean it is impossible to “accidentally” break a circle? Doesn’t this mean that “intention” is all a circle is? That if you believe in a moving magical circle… and genuinely believe it exists and protects you, in the DV, it should do so?
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DF Spoilers / Matter crossing a circle boundary… disrupts the circle
« on: January 14, 2026, 06:58:49 PM »
How does this operate? Does it apply to any physical matter of any size crossing a circle boundary?
If someone is talking to someone in a circle and spittle from their mouth crosses the circle boundary is the circle disrupted? What about blowing air across a circle boundary does that disrupt a circle? Circles obviously aren’t hermetically sealed as they are magically not physically boundaries.
I’m sure intention and belief come into it. But this is really confusing. Why would accidental spit not disrupt but intentional spit would? Is it the intention of the people inside or outside that controls entirely?
If someone is talking to someone in a circle and spittle from their mouth crosses the circle boundary is the circle disrupted? What about blowing air across a circle boundary does that disrupt a circle? Circles obviously aren’t hermetically sealed as they are magically not physically boundaries.
I’m sure intention and belief come into it. But this is really confusing. Why would accidental spit not disrupt but intentional spit would? Is it the intention of the people inside or outside that controls entirely?
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DF Spoilers / Re: List your top 5 Dresden files books
« on: January 08, 2026, 06:16:56 PM »
1 Changes
2 Dead Beat
3 Skin Game
4 Small Favor
5 Proven Guilty
2 Dead Beat
3 Skin Game
4 Small Favor
5 Proven Guilty
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DF Spoilers / Re: Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: October 22, 2025, 12:43:24 AM »So the island is the source of the leylines and provided the energy for the denarians to create the greater circle to contain Ivy. I would hazard a guess then that it provided the power for Merlin to set down spells/enchantments to create Demonreach. We know from another quote in Cold Days that the energy that keeps people away is the body heat put off by the prisoners. I wonder if it also has tainted the leylines/well. Rashid warned Harry not to touch the leylines. Was it because it was too much power for him to handle or potentially corrupting due to the prisoners?
In Cold Days Harry says to himself that “the well” for the leylines is the “bodyheat” of the prisoners contained in Demonreach. That means the Leylines didn’t exist before the Prison did.
Now, what is interesting is the idea of using the prisoners own power to keep them contained.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: July 29, 2025, 02:40:41 AM »All that being said, as I am typing this, I realize that this prison was established by Merlin in the beginning days of the White Council. The White Council mapped the ley lines. It is possible that the prisoners are the original source of the ley line. Merlin could have created the prison and the ley line developed as the prisoners were added or he could have created the prison on top of an existing ley line and the prisoners supercharged it with their body heat.
It is called “the Well” because that is the “wellspring” of the leylines radiating from the Island. I believe that is made explicit by Rashid when he confronts Harry in Turn Coat
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DF Spoilers / Re: Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: May 06, 2025, 01:44:04 AM »Just you wait, it's only a matter of time until Harry defeats communism by making a giant statue of himself and butchers the evil pacifists.
What about the chickens who personify “evil”?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: April 17, 2025, 03:01:36 AM »What if Merlin is a Mantle? And no not like the title in the White Council.... though in thinking that, maybe Merlin is a Mantle that was forgotten (on purpose or by accident) but though lore/history the White Councile adopted it a title.
Lord… I hope not.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Do you think we'll see Elaine again?
« on: April 11, 2025, 07:17:05 PM »
Yes, we will see Elaine again. It wouldn’t surprise me to see her in the next book.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: April 11, 2025, 07:16:02 PM »
I really think Harry… is… Merlin… we will see.
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DF Spoilers / Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
« on: April 10, 2025, 12:35:32 AM »
Seriously.
Merlin is said to remember the future the way other man remember the past. We know, given how Demonreach was created, that Merlin played with time… hard. We also know Harry will at some point break the law against time travel. We know Harry felt a kinship to Demonreach even before he claimed it… why is that?
It makes sense for Harry to… be… Merlin.
Merlin is said to remember the future the way other man remember the past. We know, given how Demonreach was created, that Merlin played with time… hard. We also know Harry will at some point break the law against time travel. We know Harry felt a kinship to Demonreach even before he claimed it… why is that?
It makes sense for Harry to… be… Merlin.
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Erl King a Vassal of Winter?
« on: March 25, 2025, 08:18:49 PM »I think he's "Wild Fae" in the sense of "not technically owing allegiance to either Summer or Winter Courts. The Erlking is his own sovereign monarch.
That's the bit where I need to track the exact language, and context; they might have just been talking about field-command and battle arrays, not overall mystic politics.
Similarly for the opening night of _Peace Talks_, before Ethniu arrives: was Erl there at the talks? Did he have his own separate "contingent," or was he attached to Mab's group?
The Erl King doesn’t appear in Peace Talks only in Battle Ground
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Erl King a Vassal of Winter?
« on: March 25, 2025, 05:54:16 PM »Where is that passage?
I'd have to re-read it. Off the top of my head, though: I might suspect it was just a battle-order sort of thing, allowing for Mab to have ultimate field-command of all Fae forces.
It was in the general discussion in Dead Beat regarding the EK. And it was explicitly stated in Battle Ground (during the discussion with EK and Vadderrung before the big fighting starts that EK is Winter Fae.
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Erl King a Vassal of Winter?
« on: March 25, 2025, 01:55:26 AM »No, I think I could be wrong, but Fae like Toot began as a "Wild Fae" as well but pledged his allegiance to Winter after Harry became Winter Knight. It could be that the Erl King started out the same way and as he grew also made a choice and became a vassal of Winter, but that's a guess.
But the discussion explicitly states that the Erl King is on par with the queens of Faerie… that he’s a peer of Mab. If he randomly joined Winter between Dead Beat and Battle Ground that would be a huge shift in Winter’s favor… it is an unbalancing of forces. That doesn’t make sense.
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DF Spoilers / Any other Chronichles of Prydain recognize “the Huntsman”?
« on: March 24, 2025, 02:57:05 PM »
Read the Chronicles of Pyrdain as a kid. There are “Huntsman” in that story as well.
