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You big beautiful nerd you! Bringing Science into this.
Butter' s theory makes sense given the info he has. And everything he sees just shows him how scary THE WK IS.
The WK IS more powerful than anyone including  Butters thinks. I think he is in the same range has most Fae Eldest.

Thank you, I think.  But I'm just trying to think like the character would think.  As Harry says, his nerd .... er junk is larger than everyone else's. 

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I'd love to know exactly what Butters was looking at after Harry made that ice block to Dave them on the waterfront. That's probably the deepest he's ever drawn it in and used. I imagine in my head some wicked version of old man winter lol
I don't think it's precisely a battery tho. Even if that's the basic usage Harry can see for using it. From how it's described, I think it's an active channel TO Mabs power source. His limit's are potentially only her limits as far as raw power. He'd just have to give himself over enough to winter and have the precise ingenuity of how he planned on using it. It may, probably, kill him to push past a certain limit. Though that'd depend on how he manifest that energy. Through spell work? Yea, he can only personally gas so much before he's drained. Mortal an all. If he was just using himself as a raw conduit for it, more similar to when he took on Maeve in CD. Then he might be able to handle it. Though what'd he manifest as is up for debate. Something like the snow monster from frozen lol.

Harry is making a mistake accepting too much of what Butters theorizes.  Butters is the one who gave Harry a reverse magic feather by explaining that the Mantle just hijacks his pain thresholds.  Butters had seen a lot by then, but not nearly enough to be a magical, but not magic consultant. 

In the Lake, Butters is doing some quick math.  Phase changes -- ice to liquid/liquid to steam -- represent absolutely stupid amounts of energy.  He has just realized how much ice Harry made in just a few seconds to float half of a sunken warehouse to the surface and it probably compares quite favorably to a small power plant: 

According to Wolfram Alpha it is about 3.19 x 10^6 KJ (to freeze 30 tons of water), and if it took 30 seconds that works out to be .1 Mega Watts. 

So, yeah that's a crazy feat of power all things considered 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Is Nemesis already in Demonreach?
« on: July 25, 2023, 09:30:41 PM »
How does the Island fit with the Oblivion War?  What if an inmate is "forgotten"?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Reforming the WC
« on: July 25, 2023, 09:28:59 PM »
Can Starborn be Nemesis infected?  I thought that they couldn't be affected.  That's why Justin was so keen on having Harry and Elaine -- two Starborn wizards that obeyed. 

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If I were a cattle rancher, would I consider myself more rich with more cattle or with less cattle?  Particularly, when the cattle feed, clothe and largely police themselves.  I think that is they answer. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Nicodemus in mortal form
« on: September 19, 2022, 03:16:50 PM »
I wonder about this scene.  For Murphy to have broken the sword, did Nicodemus have to be sincere in surrendering the coin?  I would think a false repentance to be particularly blasphemous and so Nicodemus would have earned any judgment inflicted by Karen. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: The castle and the island, theory
« on: August 03, 2022, 06:41:08 AM »
Most castles were pretty small, certainly small enough to fit on a Chicago city block.  Of course, they could also be bigger.  The Tower is very big, as it was expanded repeatedly over a thousand years.  The castle in Edenborough is also much bigger than a city block.  These are on the much larger size; however.  Most castles are much smaller. 

Conwy Castle in Wales is a bit bigger than a city block, but not that much bigger.  I've seen many castles in Scotland and Wales that are about half or one third the size of Conwy

https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/conwy-castle

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DF Spoilers / Re: Personality and Magic Affinity
« on: August 01, 2022, 03:31:12 PM »
I'm not sure about this, but I seem to remember a WoJ that said that Harry is actually good at Water Magic too, but really hadn't received much training in it and so doesn't think he's good at it.

I feel like this is the hinted at "back to school," thing that has been foreshadowed where Harry trains with River Shoulders and maybe learns some shapeshifting.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Other Whamp houses?
« on: July 19, 2022, 04:55:16 PM »
I agree that it is no coincidence that:

Love (Ammorachius) v. Lust (Raith)
Hope (Esperachius) v. Despair (Skavis)
Faith (Fidelachius) v. Fear (Malvora)

And, that the White Court "oath" is "Empty Night." I also agree that Ammorachius, which has gone unclaimed thus far, will be key for Thomas.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Ramp vs Whamp origins
« on: July 19, 2022, 04:45:10 PM »
I'm in camp of the Whamps starting as a Wizard's deal, made by an ancient Etruscan wizard looking for a pathway to immortality. 

As for the Ramps, it support it depends on whether one considers the Red King and the Lords of Outer Night as simply the very first humans exposed to the Ramp "pathogen," or whether they were actual denizens of the Never Never that relocated here. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Lara Raith marriage consummation
« on: July 19, 2022, 04:41:22 PM »
I'm not convinced that White Court females can reproduce.  We have only one very ambiguous example of Vittorio and Cheserina Malvora.  Cheserina is described as an Aunt and Mother in just a hand full of pages.

We know that Madrigal and Madeline are the children of Lord Raith's brother, who had a very unfortunate parachute-less sky diving accident. 

I think we know "the Skavis" was the son of Lord Skavis.

We know that the White Court girl in the Big Foot novellas was the daughter of that minor White Court Lord. 

Again, we have many, many examples of children of male White Court Vampires, and only very questionable example of a White Court Mother. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Lawyers and dating Lara Raith
« on: July 18, 2022, 08:05:10 PM »
His contract was actually fairly specific, and he also carefully devised an escape mechanism -- he arranged his own murder and had Molly erase the memory.  This speaks to his careful planning. 

I withdraw the accusation of stupidity, since Harry didn't think the money would matter since he was going to be dead (one way or the other) afterwards. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Lawyers and dating Lara Raith
« on: July 17, 2022, 04:24:48 AM »
Harry didn't ask for an account when he set up his conditions for becoming Winter Knight. He probably still has one but Mab is withholding it to have another lever on him and has forbid her people from telling him about it. It would balance the cheat he tried to pull with his attempted suicide quite nicely.

Ah, excellent point.  He could have asked for access to the accounts and she would have complied.  Since he was too stupid to ask for them, she wouldn't just volunteer.  Nothing is given in Winter (excepting Christmas).


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DF Spoilers / Re: Greeks vs Romans
« on: July 17, 2022, 12:51:53 AM »
Not so (for the first bit).

The Etruscans were essentially contemporaneous with the ancient (pre-Republic) Kingdom of Rome; the Republic stage of Rome saw the end of the Etruscans as rivals of theirs.   The Romans definitely borrowed from the Etruscans (several loan-words have been documented, for example).  It may well have gone both ways, but we know a LOT more about the Romans.  Etruscan "borrowings" from Rome -- if any (I assert the extreme likelihood thereof) -- are AFAIK lost to the ravages of time and Empire.

Mycenean Greece predates both; then Greece had a fragmented "Dark Age" for some centuries.  The "Archaic Greek" era and the rise of the "Polis" city-state model in Greece was, again, roughly contemporaneous with the early Etruscans & Romans.

(I am unclear how much of this historical trivia is relevant to the Dresdenverse; but, see below!)

This is... an excellent point.

Given that we learned relatively long-ago that the Whamp "court language" was Etruscan, the lack of further info is indeed "suspicious" (OTOH, I wouldn't put it past Jim to simply be holding this back in order to provoke speculation, as a red-herring sort of thing).

We haven't deciphered much of Etruscan as of yet, but I think they are hopeful a they find more stuff.

I think it is interesting that we know very little of White Court origins.  I suspect that they are the offspring of a powerful Etruscan wizard that "did a deal." 

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Harry would not agree.

Fair enough, but Harry performatively complains above everyone in authority.  I stand by my assertion that Mab is objectively a good boss.

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