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DF Spoilers / Re: Lara and Harry
« on: March 01, 2024, 02:51:10 PM »
Per Something Borrowed (I think that's the title. I don't have a reference handy) The marriage ceremony removes true love's protection. Once the wedding goes down, Harry has no protection from Lara.

Other than Mab's warning to Lara to not feed on her knight.

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DF Spoilers / Re: How Murphy could return to the Dresden Files
« on: March 01, 2024, 02:48:11 PM »
Let's face it. Murphy is going to return as a Valkyrie.

But, Murphy doesn't fit the physical model of a Valkyrie, you say. We don't know for certain how Valkyries are created in the Dresdenverse.

One-eye has Soulfire. It makes things real. It's how he rejoins the Einherjar's spirits to their bodies. (WOJ, Dresden Files podcast, December, 2020) Soulfire makes things real.

So, Odin makes a Valkyrie statuesque body from clay (plenty of examples from various myths), uses Soulfire to make it real, then uses Soulfire again to fuse Murphy's soul with the new body. Bob's your spirit in a skull, new Valkyrie.

This would also give Jim fertile ground to give a couple of appearances of the "new character" that we could go back after the reveal and say "Oh, Jim. You absolute bastard! You were torturing Murphy and Harry didn't know!"

Which is the most Jim-catnip thing, ever. And that's why he will do it.

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DF Spoilers / Did Molly teleport
« on: February 16, 2024, 08:50:14 PM »
One of the ways Jim loves to hide things is by showing us the effect and then explaining the cause in an urelated fashion later.

So, at the beginning of Battle Ground, Molly disappears from the docks in a blast of cold air. The Winter Knight feels the cold. Major forces were being thrown around.

Later, Marcshiel teleports during the fight with Ethniu near the lake. Harry is gobsmacked and goes into a long monologue about how awesome this is and how much skill it takes, even when both points are within easy viewing distances.

The thing is, if Molly had opened a way to the Never Never, it would have been visible and Harry's seen plenty of those. But because he didn't see her disappear here and reappear there, he never put two and two together to realize that it was a teleport. (Our hero is not all that bright.)

Is this a clue that Molly is as far above Marcshiel as Marcshiel is above Harry?

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Mother's Cottage
« on: February 04, 2024, 01:37:01 PM »
Because when Hecate split her power into the mantles to sponsor the fae courts, she took the Mother Winter mantle for herself to regain immortality. Thus, the power of both fae courts is hers. The snowflake on the Mother's cottage is merely acknowledging that fact.

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We have WOJ the Greco- Roman pantheon held the Gates before the Fae and that elements of that pantheon poured power into the Mantles of the Winter Court, Harry’s guess as to the mothers names indicates that.
The Dresden Files Podcast interview of December, 2020, has Jim saying that the various pantheons traded off until TWG told them to scram. Then a sponsor came forward to set up the fae courts. The fae had always been the foot soldiers guarding the gates and the pantheon gods provided the muscle. The sponsor replaced the pantheon gods in backing up the fae and put Winter (and some Summer) on the job at the Outer Gates.

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Because the White God told the pantheon gods to get out of reality and have nothing more to do with humanity or to surrender their immortality and stay.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Darkhallow
« on: April 03, 2023, 07:46:37 AM »
Harry, with the blackstaff, performing the Darkhallow on Demonreach on Halloween.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Why is Mab trying to change Harry?
« on: March 19, 2023, 11:38:56 PM »
I highly doubt that anything short of the Mothers could stop a Nemfected Mab.
Murphy stopped Maeve with a handgun.

Mab's already told us when she is going to die. She's bound by fae rules. She cannot tell a lie.

Quote
"I am Mab. The stars will rain from the sky before Mab fulfills not her word."

The last book in the BAT is called Empty Night.


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DF Spoilers / Re: Master of the Future? The Fugitive...
« on: March 07, 2023, 10:59:43 PM »
But, he also doesn't have Kumori with him. Maybe she actually is dead? Seems like it would be an anticlimax. I'd rather it be a dangling plot thread.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Instinct, short stories for puppy rescue
« on: March 07, 2023, 10:58:28 PM »
Molly is the Winter Lady, not the Lady of Chicago. She's based out of Arctis Tor (or Arctis Minora). She barely uses her apartment. When she's in Chicago she's a tourist. Plus, Mab keeps her moving. And that's intentional.

My guess would be Harry, Marcone, Butters, and Mort.

The unknown magic was Ash, Mouse's 'My Shadow'. Cowl calls My Shadow by that name several times.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The fae slaves
« on: January 12, 2023, 02:32:29 AM »
I think that Maeve resisting the mantle drove her crazy. I think that Molly's mental defense training, being hunted and on the run as the Ragged Lady, and straight up fighting for her life in mental combat against Corpsetaker, plus the recent fighting off fae 'frenemies' when she sleeps, will make her mentally tough enough to resist and survive. Plus, Maeve was Winter Lady for up to 300 years. Molly's only got to make it the last book.

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DF Spoilers / The fae slaves
« on: January 06, 2023, 01:43:44 AM »
I finally figured out what bothers me about the fae queen mantle wearers. At least for Sarissa and Molly, the other queens we don't know how they came to bear the mantles. Maybe they volunteered, maybe they didn't.

But Molly and Sarissa are slaves.

A slave cannot choose their own destiny. They are not free to leave at any time of their own free will. And before you get on about Butcher's past choices limiting your current choices, let's apply that to slave-held people in the past. Did their decision to draw water from a certain river lead to them being captured and sold on to slaveholding people?

They may be given power, but they're still in a gilded cage. Worse, since they're immortal, it's an eternal cage. They can't even easily escape it in death.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Magic bullets
« on: December 31, 2022, 09:52:58 PM »


Pull iron filings out of a body with a rare earth magnet? Would hurt like heck, but she'd heal.

Pull iron filings out of a BRAIN. What you get back may not be the same.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Magic bullets
« on: December 29, 2022, 05:11:53 AM »
Normal hunting loads are copper jacketed lead. Shotgun slugs or shot are lead. Although they do make steel shot for hunting waterfowl. Military loads sometimes have iron or steel penetrators.

A hollowpoint cavity could have a steel or silver bead dropped into it and epoxied into place making them deadly to weres or fae.

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DF Spoilers / Re: So Fitz is...
« on: November 15, 2022, 01:00:49 AM »
Unless MacFinn's line died out, and it isn't supposed to until the end of time, there's a Loup Garou running around.

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