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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's force rings
« on: April 25, 2025, 06:46:11 PM »
Hula Hoop.

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The person is changed from a human into something that eats humans. It does bring up a difficult question about whether we can call a different species "evil" for going along with its nature but humans aren't going to like it.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Choices
« on: April 15, 2025, 03:22:34 PM »
I think that the Darkhallow was similar to normal energy absorption but scaled up drastically and improved somehow. We've seen Harry do energy absorption a lot including the fight in the aquarium in Small Favor. Based on that fight, the typical way to do it has limits because it literally raised Harry's body temperature. The Darkhallow must have some type of containment mechanism to handle the extra energy. Maybe it's a combination of the ascension spell in "Welcome to the Jungle" along with the normal energy absorption?

Either way, I suspect that what Harry was tempted to do in Storm Front, and what Evil Harry did in Grave Peril, would be a scaled down version of the Darkhallow. It would have just been sucking the ambient emotional energy of a dark place to do destructive things. That would have in turn affected Harry in a bunch of different ways.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Choices
« on: April 15, 2025, 02:11:21 PM »
@g33k,

While I may have misremembered (I can't find the specific WOJ), I don't think it's improbable that Harry would have been able to do a mini-Darkhallow. I think that Harry's been tempted to do something like that several times from the very beginning. I'll add a description of the very first time that this has happened in the end of Storm Front below here. For context, Harry has just driven up to Victor's house and he's thinking about his past brush with Dark Magic, the suspicions he's gotten from the White Council, and how slighted he feels. 

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[Harry] could kill the Shadowman, now, before he knew I was here. I could call down fury and flame on the house and kill everyone in it, not leave one stone upon another. I could reach out and embrace the dark energy he had gathered in this place, draw it in and use it for whatever I wanted, and the consequences be damned.


When I look at the part that I italicized for emphasis, Harry is pretty clearly thinking about a Darkhallow-type action. While he isn't discussing absorbing the power of ghosts permanently, he is pretty clearly discussing using the dark emotional energy to power a destructive spell. Harry has also made it clear at other points in the series that doing things like this affects the practitioner. I think that this is what evil Harry did in the end of Grave Peril. Evil Harry absorbed the emotional energy of Bianca's building then lashed out at Bianca with it. Our Harry summoned ghosts then pointed them at Bianca. My memory isn't perfect though so I might have messed something up.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Choices
« on: April 14, 2025, 01:43:57 PM »
Assuming Jim hasn't changed his mind, he's told us what the big choice was. It's at the end of Grave Peril when Harry goes to save Susan. Our Harry summons a bunch of vengeful ghosts to kill the vampires when he could have absorbed their power and lashed out. The other Harry does the later.

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Monica participates in the orgy rituals that Victor used to create them. I think she's somewhat culpable but minimally so. Especially compared to Victor and the married couple (I forget their name). There's also a pretty good argument suggesting that Victor manipulated or abused her into doing it so she isn't.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Grey Council… will we meet it in TM? Who is on it?
« on: March 14, 2025, 01:11:36 PM »
Yeah but we know almost nothing about the Grey Council's part of the battle. I just skimmed through the battle chapter and we're told that Eb uses the Black Staff, that someone shouts "Fuego" (potentially a time traveling Harry), and that Odin/Vadderung helped open a Way. Even though there's a dozen figures, there's no description of anyone outside Eb and Odin/Vadderung that I was able to see. I suspect that the Gatekeeper is one of the 12 because Eb says something about traveling being easier with "a carpet to scuff your feet on" and, when Harry sees the Gatekeeper at the Outer Gates, he uses a flying carpet. We also know that the Gatekeeper was familiar with the Ways. That's still 9 figures that we know nothing about so there's plenty of room for Langtry.

I also kinda like the idea that Langtry is on the Grey Council. I could see him having a Snape-like arc in the end. It would go a long way to explain why people like Listens and Eb still support Langtry if they knew he secretly acts like Harry wants him to act while simultaneously keeping the White Council as neutral as possible. Langtry is also intelligent enough to keep his wards hidden from obvious view to give the White Council as much of a cover as possible.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Questions for Mab
« on: March 12, 2025, 02:33:26 PM »
Jim has directly addressed this if I remember correctly. Harry asked for and got the ability to save Maggie. He gets strength as the Winter Knight, Lea's temporary help to get Maggie out, and the continuing ability to walk. If Harry asked for a salary, I could Mab saying something "To people paralyzed like you actually are, the ability to walk would be priceless. This is your salary."

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: January 23, 2025, 08:12:34 PM »
I really like this idea. I feel like Jim usually has the next couple of books in his head at any time so he could definitely had started this multiverse idea back in Cold Days with the Molly car scene. Based on it and the continuity errors we've seen, I suspect that there will only be a few timelines that are dealt with or that interact with other. It'll be more like Fringe than Rick and Morty in that respect.

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: December 20, 2024, 03:52:57 PM »
I agree. I think that the best evidence would be a continuity error in Peace Talks and Battle Ground. They were originally written as one book before coming out as a two-parter.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Warden of Demonreach: Dragoncon lore-dump or retcon??!?
« on: September 20, 2024, 02:31:26 PM »
I completely understand why they might want no one in charge. With no one in charge, the island can't defend itself as well because there's no wizard directing or improving its defense but no one can easily release the prisoners either. Harry could release them all if he wanted to. I think that the island is just as safe overall because Harry makes it harder to break prisoners out using an army but easier to break them out using subterfuge, blackmail, or similar. Everyone knows that Harry would commit genocide to save his kid so they could reasonably guess that he'd release a prisoner to save her too. If the Formor really want Ethniu back, they have to know that kidnapping Maggie and demanding Harry to release might actually work.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who wanted the Fomor to rise?
« on: September 06, 2024, 01:13:00 PM »
My suspicion is that the Chitchen Itza event was actually required to start bringing over the Outsiders to help the Formor. A fairly consistent part of the magic system is that the mood or atmosphere of the world matters. Dead Beat had Cowl messing with Chicago to "prime the pump" and Battle Ground showed that the fear of Chicago affected the spells cast during the battle. Since the big spell at the end of Changes affected so many people who weren't the Red Court, I suspect that certain spells would have been easier in the wake of the bloodline curse. I bet that it would have helped summoning an Outsider that is described as a peer to Mab. After being summoned, the Walker then helps the Formor assemble their forces and/or knock down some one like the king of the Tuatha as payment. It then starts assembling it's forces to assault Demonreach.

As for what the Outsiders get out it, beyond a Walker that gets summoned, is more chaos. Mab, Odin, and Uriel are chief forces in alliance for the current order among the natural world. Mab and Odin also established the Accords. Eliminating the Accords could pull away some of Winter's forces from the Wall and a massive global war would kill a lot of the people who could stand up to the Outsiders after they breached the Wall.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dragon Con Jim's almost done with 12 months!
« on: September 04, 2024, 01:19:30 PM »
Is there a video of this? I couldn't find one in a quick skim of YouTube.

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I hope the fact that Lara and Harry share a brother, but aren't technically related, is a source of joking or tension in 12 Months. Lara grew up when the Hapsburg chin was still a good thing and she's had way more incestuous sex than with her half-brother's half-brother (thanks Papa Raith). She almost certainly won't be bothered by this relationship to Harry but he probably will.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: August 07, 2024, 02:05:29 PM »
This maybe a controversial opinion but I'm somewhat hopeful that Jim is taking his time on this. I've seen a lot of series go from beloved to hated or ignored based on the last chunk including GoT and Star War sequel trilogy. My hope is that Jim is taking his time to ensure that Harry's relationships are written well. Since this is first book after Murph's death, first one where Harry's with Lara, first one with Harry out of the White Council, and first one with Harry being personally antagonistic with Ebenezer and Carlos, it could make or break several key components of the rest of the series.

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