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Just as she has no choice in collecting on the favor Harry owes her for making the glamour he used to evade Eb.What annoys me about that is that Harry agrees to go with Molly to her parents house in the same conversation as he incurs a debt to her. He could have just repaid the debt by going with her.
[1]If you go back and change something then your create a new future, a branch, [2]but you have to remain in the branch you started from because there is another you in that new branch.[1]Time travel in the Dresden Files might not work that way. Choice makes new universes. Time travel that changes something might destroy that universe or rewrite it. It could create a new branch. It might create temporary deviations that eventually fold back in due to the conservation of history.
Follow the logic if you can find any in time travel. They felt the echos of the attack. But the attack never happened. How could they feel the echo of an event that never took place? This is where the multiverse comes in. The attack did happen somewhere.It depends on whether the echos are of an attack (i.e., what we saw the Lady's doing) or of a successful attack (i.e., Demonreach exploding). The text isn't entirely clear which one it's referring to.
Yep, we agree. In any case Jim will do something different then either of us suspect. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.I don't know (if that's why he gets paid the big bucks). A lot of the people who get paid big bucks write some painfully predictable stuff.
Dollars to donuts that the White Council is tempted to behead Chandler if he comes back from an alternate reality for breaking Laws.Which one?
The vampire leaders knew from Maggie Sr’s dinner argument. I’d be surprised if any senior council member was unaware except maybe Cristos tbh.It seems pretty obvious that Ancient Mai doesn't know from TC where she says that Harry was never really Eb's apprentice. To me, this strongly suggests that she thought Eb was acting out of loyalty to an apprentice, not family member.
I'm really hoping Ziusudra is the founder and leader of the Librarians. I think he'd be perfect for it.I'm not a big fan of the "this guy was everywhere in history and responsible for all the things" trope. I'm fine with such a character being involved in a specific eternal quest, like spreading and preserving knowledge.
- He could be an amalgamation character in the Dresden files, and Harry could meet him and learn at the end that he's also known as Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Noah.
- He could have overseen the growth of the earliest empires, and the wonders they built, from the gardens of Babylon to the pyramids of Egypt to the lighthouse of Alexandria.
I find it interesting though that White Court vampires don't often use it on powerful beings. None of them tried it on the Naagloshii, or on the Denarians, or the Fomor (the leaders, not the hybrid warriors). Seems like they don't just throw it around at everything. We've never even seen it tried on another vampire. Which makes me wonder if it's really only effective on mortals or other White Court vampires (and maybe some Faeries).Lea seemed concerned about Thomas. She wanted Susan's "love" or her memories of Harry. Then Thomas was burned by Lea. I don't think that's a coincidence. At best, it's a misdirection.
A pro like Kincaid will center of mass it, no headshot.Kincaid explicitly takes headshots.
If you’re shooting at someone, you’ve already decided to kill him. There’s no reason to shoot him anywhere other than the head, if you can. And I can.https://www.jim-butcher.com/posts/2020/microfiction-3-con-swap-and-virtual-signing
Pretty sure Maggie Sr. was not a WC member when she died. She was being hunted by the wardens.Morgan was a WC member when in TC.
I think I read something about him being eaten by the dragon, but I have no idea about the source.I remember it too. I'm thinking it must of been a WoJ or the Paranet Papers because it's definitely not from the books.
Didn't Charity say Gregor went mad when Michael killed his patron?Yes.
When Siriothrax died, Gregor went mad. Utterly mad.Ch. 32.
But at the very end, Harry did something Cowl didn't plan for - working with Lara to get out.Because Cowl doesn't know about Harry's loyalty to Thomas because he doesn't know about their relationship.
I like this theory, with one significant quibble: If that was all planned, it was Cowl's contingency plan if he was unable to successfully complete the Darkhallow.That does seem more likely.
I feel like Langtry being the bad guy is the red herring of the series...
I wouldn't be shocked if Langtry, incognito, shows up on Harry's door and presents a totally different picture from what Carlos told Harry.I desperately want Langtry to have orchestrated kicking Harry out of the Council so as to have someone outside of the Council to investigate the Black Council.
I don't know if these are Jim's personal views or not but Harry definitely has a bit of a libertarian vibe. Not that I am saying that's a bad thing or a good thing, just the read I got from what Harry says about such things from time to time.That's kind of how Marcone is portrayed too. Basically all the crime we read about Marcone's organization doing is just business between mutually consenting adults. Even his protection racket is mostly portrayed that way in recent books. The people paying protection are protected from the Fomor. (Normally protection rackets are protection from the person the victim is paying).
We know from Proven Guilty that Merlin holds ALL their proxies.
I suppose Langtry could have pulled rank to move if from an open council vote to Senior only based on the rule Eb used in SK that any senior councilor can move a vote from open to senior council only.That takes three votes (and maybe the presence of a quorum. I don't have the book available to look it up right now). That was the problem Eb introduced in the beginning of PT. Were there three votes after the Battle of Chicago? As Mira points out, Carlos does say that the Senior Council voted. Is there an emergency vote provision we don't know about? Was the vote expelling Harry illegal?
what do you think will cause Harry to take a direct stand again the White Council?My money is it's going to be Harry calling them on their BS. I'm sure what form their BS is going to take. Something like Molly's hearing in PG. Maybe the Council will have become too corrupt.
Explicitly? I don't recall that. I do get that impression from the end of Battle Ground but I don't think she actually said it outright.Mab said “The fusion of bloodlines is how these things are generally arranged,” so I guess she called for it implicitly.
Yeah, well, I don't think "mere mortals" are supposed to have Soul Fire, let alone be able to do stuff with it.I don't think much hatred is because mortals aren't "supposed" to have soulfire. I think it's because Namshiel hates humans.
You will remember that Shaggy was offended by the fact that Harry used against him as well.I don't remember that.
The loss of wings is an interesting idea, but then again it isn't like the Fallen lost their powers either. We haven't seen any Fallen (normally represented by shadows) have wings.There are a couple of Denarian forms with wings or wing like features. There's "Shaggy Feathers" as Harry calls it and Rosana's Denarian form had the classic bat-like wings of a demon.
Betrayal is something that is difficult to forgive, and I suspect that either one major event, or a series of smaller ones led to Eb becoming what I can only describe as bigoted towards things that aren't human.Eb seems bigoted towards some inhuman things, but he seems respectful of the danger posed other inhuman things as well. And bigoted/racist/etc. aren't really the best words when talking about fictional species. They are in fact different. All these supernatural species are dangerous. Sure, some are underestimated, but that danger is ignored at the rist of great cost. See Dead Faerie Queen and the Little Folk.
Consider that most of those being who didn't chose to step-back from reality or give up most of their power were probably taken out or locked-up. Question is, who was doing all that? The Wizards seem like an obvious choice...but probably not unaided.The Archive, covertly of course, probably had a hand in it. It's got to be a lot easier to obliviate a being if it's locked up in Demonreach and unable to preserve humanity's knowledge of it.