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DF Spoilers / Re: Dresden adjacent
« on: Today at 02:56:38 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on Yesterday at 08:13:28 PM
I don't know if anyone has proved it, but I l would be willing to bet every device with a microphone is collecting information on you for the same reasons.

It for sure is.  I had a random conversation with a family member a few years ago, entirely verbally about wild mushrooms, and I started getting ads for mushroom foraging guidebooks for a while.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Did I miss something? [Twelve Months]
« on: Yesterday at 02:52:56 AM »
Might have been edited out.  He'd also said during the writing period for Cold Days that there would be a Cowl appearance or clue coming up there.

Either that was edited out, or he was under a pretty obscure cover as some other character, or Jim had in mind that he was in the background somewhere but not noticed by Harry.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Two questions about Denonreach
« on: Yesterday at 02:47:59 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on January 29, 2026, 08:55:44 PM
Harry didn't say something about a "communication protocol" that only one other prisoner was in?

Definitely.  Strongly implying it was the British guy.

Thomas only ended up being conscious in his crystal for quite limited periods, though. Implied to be pretty much only visiting hours when Harry woke him on purpose.  I figure the British guy was probably trying to ignore him and wallow in his depression.

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DF Spoilers / Re: You'd think they'd change that on day 1 ...
« on: January 29, 2026, 01:26:29 AM »
Quote from: LaraBeck on January 27, 2026, 12:45:03 PM
And, since JB was looking for new beta readers, I imagine a lot of the "old guard" are unable to help these days, which is a shame, I thought there were things in the book that didn't exactly fit and they would have caught maybe.

Wait, where did you see that?  I might throw my hat into that particular ring...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Shorts set During 12M ?
« on: January 27, 2026, 12:52:31 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on January 27, 2026, 12:35:38 AM
I have a feeling Fallen Angels don't have intellectus. Just a guess based on how Just m incorporates real world beliefs and how real world theology says demons have less going on than angels. Of course, Jim changed things as he sees fit and real world theology is extremely varied.

Not universal intellectus, anyway. With the possible exception of Big L.

I wouldn't rule out the Fallen having a more limited intellectus over a particular domain, though.  Like the skinwalkers over how to hurt someone, or Alfred and the Warden over the island's geography.

I don't think Marcone would be a prohibitive character to do any more POV of, though.  Namshiel knowing too much is only a narrative problem writing Marcone's POV if Namshiel is telling him everything, freely and accurately.  Any Fallen who leaves their host volitional at all, is presumably lying and withholding as necessary to draw the host ever deeper.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Drakul and the Origins of the Vampires
« on: January 27, 2026, 12:44:35 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on January 27, 2026, 12:26:33 AM
There's a lot of confusion based on various statements about Dracula, Drakul, blampires, and the Black Court. The best harmonization of all the info, imo, is that Drakul created blampires and Dracula created the Court. I think the most likely answer to the confusion is that Jim changed his mind.

That was my understanding too.  Drakul had been creating a few blampires as a sort of elite praetorian guard, and been rolling that entourage for a long time.  So long as there were very few of them, it was easier to keep their weaknesses under wraps.

Dracula basically said "these are awesome, let's make a whole court of them!" ... leading to the stokerlypse because those are too OP a unit for other nations to tolerate them also growing their population like mad.

Granted it's been through a couple of revisions - I think Jim did change his mind at least once on it.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months Discussion Thread
« on: January 26, 2026, 04:58:17 PM »
I also thought Carlos was a bit too far back to normal given how hostile things left off between him and Harry at the end of the last book.

It also seemed to pivot Lara a little too far towards trying to keep similar standards to Thomas' standards of self-discipline to limit the harm his hunger does.  She's still the same character who described herself as a polite, neat monster who'd destroy the Council through peace ... and got off on disemboweling her (admittedly, awful) cousin for committing treachery.  What I'm not sure of is whether she's playing Harry, or Jim is trying to retcon her to be not as a more sympathetic character?

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DF Spoilers / Re: True Love's Protection
« on: January 25, 2026, 06:43:43 PM »
Quote from: Mira on January 25, 2026, 04:43:33 PM
  I think it's souls that work with Uriel, not shades or ghosts if they are souless..  It all gets very confusing.

I'm not properly sure whether Murphy pere or Carmichael were full souls or just shades, but Uriel certainly seemed to think he could use Sir Stuart.  Wasn't he a shade?  Mort said his retinue were shades, and almost any entity he encountered who thought it was the real person was just in denial.

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DF Spoilers / Re: [12M spoilers] Something about the hair
« on: January 25, 2026, 03:15:33 PM »
I kind of just thought she started dyeing it back to its original colour.

I haven't checked PT/BG to see if there was a description then, though.

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DF Spoilers / Re: True Love's Protection
« on: January 25, 2026, 03:13:34 PM »
Quote from: LaraBeck on January 22, 2026, 08:07:08 PM
Yes, I imagine Murphy's shade faded away when Harry "let go" of her.

I'm not done the book quite yet, so granted I might be wrong on this if there's confirmation I've yet to get to that Karrin's shade does just dissipate.

But I'd actually be kind of surprised if that's her fate.  She seems like a *prime* recruit for Uriel's Shade PD, that Harry got a brief look at in Ghost Story.  Working with the ghosts of her father and her old partner, staying in (albeit a very different theater of) the fight?  I'd be surprised if she's not inducted already, and Harry's summonings were just pulling her away from working cases.

I could see her maybe ceasing to take Harry's calls anymore if she starts to think that contact is doing more harm than good to him, though.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Continuity drift - Lara and soul gazes
« on: January 24, 2026, 03:26:23 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on January 23, 2026, 08:12:33 PM
Or some intentional continuity errors because of some multiverse or time travel plot element. I don't really see that, but a lot of people think so.

There's a WOJ about a very small number of continuity changes being a Hint towards something.  In a lot of cases though, it does come down to he forgets which version of some previous book was a draft and which got published.

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DF Spoilers / Eyes in the sky?
« on: January 24, 2026, 03:23:56 AM »
I'm not done the book yet, but those repeated instances of Harry feeling like he's being watched from above... I'm assuming that's a federal spy drone?

If so, what about a piece of technology is triggering his supernatural spidey senses?  I can buy vague perceptions of the airspace over the island thanks to his connection with its intellectus, but back in the city, even after the EMP, there has to be plenty of other technology brought back in from outside as part of the aid effort.

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DF Spoilers / Re: [12M spoiler] From thirteen puppets you are now twelve?
« on: January 24, 2026, 03:02:58 AM »
Quote from: prince lotore on January 23, 2026, 06:44:02 PM
Drakul is star born the outsiders can't touch him and if he joined him mab would not have told Harry that she might need him in a couple thousand years

I don't think starborn confers utter immunity - Harry himself has had close calls with Outsider mental domination almost getting to him.  It gives a mortal the capacity to resist, if their will is strong enough.

Mab's neutrality towards Drakul is a point against him being an outsider.  But, then again, I find it a bit odd that she's willing to have an entire nation of definite Outsider hosts in the White Court as Accords members.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Apprentice spoilers and thoughts.
« on: January 23, 2026, 03:00:15 PM »
Quote from: Dina on January 23, 2026, 07:29:30 AM
We don't know how many of them survived and how many of them are loyal to the Council. As far as we know, Justin could have been one of those apprentices. We simply do not have enough information.

Justin's master was Simon.  That much, at least, was mentioned in Summer Knight.

The rest, though, yeah, you're right, there's not much grounds to speculate on.  Given the skill set Ebenezar would be the ideal teacher for, I'd guess quite a few of them probably wound up in the old guard of the Wardens and/or the 'brute squad' at Archangel, so I can buy most of them being dead by the story era.  But out of a pool that large, there pretty much have to be some still alive somewhere.

Likely a few on the grey council, which would explain Eb compartmentalizing Harry from even meeting them outside of that content - better operational security if he doesn't know them at all.

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DF Spoilers / Re: [12M spoiler] From thirteen puppets you are now twelve?
« on: January 23, 2026, 02:36:04 PM »
Quote from: Dina on January 23, 2026, 07:22:45 AM
I interpreted it the same way. I believe the one in Maeve flew and found a new host. The ones in Lea and Justine were trapped. Are imagine the remaining 11 are infiltrated among all the super nations (one in Cat Sith, I guess). I thought it would be hilarious if one of them were in one of those Black Court elders Dresden reduced to purée, but realistically I don't think Nemesis can go too close to Drakul without being spotted.

Drakul is probably already outsider-aligned - might BE another outsider, trapped within the body of another of the sorcerer-kings. (Maybe)

I suppose there's merit to Nemesis spying even on its allies to watch against treachery, but if it's constrained to eleven - ten, if it hasn't dumped Cat Sith for a new host - would monitoring allies really make the priority cutoff?

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