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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl and Kumori are...
« on: October 21, 2018, 05:53:44 PM »
An interesting argument. Certainly possible at any rate. I don't remember that particular WOJ about her identity being someone that will hurt Harry but I am not doubting it either. Makes much more sense though if Kumori is Elaine, particularly in the context on Cowl being Justin.

I recall that one too. Someone asked in a Q&A if Kumori was D.E.D. from the blast when the Darkhallow backfired like Harry and Bob originally assumed, and Jim's answer was something along the lines of 'Why kill off a character when I can reuse her and have her identity cause Harry pain?'.

It's probably actually the biggest single piece of evidence for narrowing down Kumori's identity. There are less than a dozen magically talented female characters who it would personally hurt Harry to find out were working for the Circle.

Elaine
Faith Astor*
Jenny Sells*
Kim Delaney brought back by Cowl's necromancy (which would actually rather neatly explain her motivation to end death, her reluctance to strike at Harry, and her certainty she couldn't escape Cowl if she flipped on him ... I regard it as unlikely, but I can't see a reason it's impossible)
Maggie Sr**
Maggie Jr**
Molly**
Luccio**

* If they even developed wizard-level talents later in life
** In case of time travel / alt universe shenanigans that would cheapen the identity reveal anyway


As for Cowl, most of your points favouring him as Justin could also apply to the case for him being Simon. If the fake death curse was explosive enough, it might have been natural to assume his body was totally obliterated.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Molly
« on: October 15, 2018, 12:38:29 AM »
And souls can be restored too. Harry doesn't have a finite amount of Soulfire for the rest of his life; he just has to make sure not to use too much, too quickly, and not give himself an opportunity to enjoy himself.
Though, as Winter Knight, he'll probably have very few opportunities to enjoy himself anyway, and Molly as Winter Lady will have even fewer...

Well it's not like intimacy with another person is the only way to regrow the soul. Making art would probably do.

But I'm not sure there is a recharge option for somebody who's carrying one of the Queen mantles at all.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Now we know
« on: October 13, 2018, 03:32:52 PM »
Same, though the one or two times I've used it was mostly to search "Google" so maybe I'm not the best judge.

Sort of like https://i.imgur.com/9TxWoa9.png

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DF Spoilers / Re: Now we know
« on: October 11, 2018, 12:46:54 AM »
It appears to be true...  Do a search on Bing for "Dresden Files fox" and it's being reported all over now....

On ... Bing?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Now we know
« on: October 09, 2018, 12:18:43 AM »
That doesn't sound like a total denial either though. More of a "cool it" on someone leaking news before it's properly finalized than a straight repudiation.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Outsiders question, theory and waffle
« on: September 29, 2018, 11:45:29 PM »
One of the Walkers - I think it was Behind, in the flashback from Ghost Story - taunted Harry that the mortal domain was once theirs, and would be again. I don't think he was lying, either. He didn't seem to stand to gain anything from convincing Harry of that, for one thing.

More significantly, the Outsiders have been described a few times as servants of the Old Ones, the Lovecraftian powers that are still within reality but have been suppressed into one extent or another of dormancy. My interpretation is that they're more or less analogous to the more familiar powers, but exiled knights and foot soldiers have been cut off from the progenitors of their pantheon. The troops were kicked outside the Walled borders, while the Old Ones were left inside but dormant. Their war on the Gates is about trying to get back in and rejoin / awaken their masters.

Based on Uriel's statement in SG that he'd been fighting wars, plural, before the Earth took form, and the Fallen's rebellion would only account for one war even if it did predate creation, I take it that TWG and his pantheon needed to get the primal forces of chaos out of the way to stake out the turf for creation. Possibly with the assistance of some of the older freelance supernatural entities that were around then and ended up with mortal religious followings of their own.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Death of Margaret Le Fay
« on: September 18, 2018, 12:49:55 AM »
I'm not entirely sure she so much died as let herself die; possibly to meet one of the preconditions for making a starborn.

Harry was reasonably confident he could bounce the entropy curse back at its originator with that spell centered on the mirror that he tried to throw up around the film studio, until Trixie interfered with his props and held him up at gunpoint during the spell. Maggie evidently had forewarning that it was coming too, to make her deal with Lea. So one kind of has to ask, why didn't she just do her own version of 'return to sender'?

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Horned God, the Triple Goddess and the Pentagram
« on: September 18, 2018, 12:45:40 AM »
We're limited in what we know about the Gatekeeper.  But JB has teased that he might have thrown down with Demonreach and by inference the last warden.  Drag, thump.

The spirit's limp is from the glaciers hitting the island in the last ice age. It has some sort of strained history with Rashid, but Harry was wrong about connecting it to the limp.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who are the members of the Grey Council?
« on: September 16, 2018, 04:07:17 PM »
It is a bit of a conundrum; the known White Council could never have won the war with the Reds in the way the Merlin hinted, and the known White Council could not arrange things so that Harry had his opportunity.

Langtry might have been planning to use some other supernatural WMD, but Ariana beat him to the punch with the bioweapon than disabled most of the Edinburgh complex during Changes.


Maybe?  Up to this point I don't think he's had Harry do anything though.

Well, there was the "try to clear Morgan, but you're on your own if you can't bring in hard evidence" bit. But Harry sort of put himself forward for that anyway.


Or Cowl is Langtry and the purpose of the Bloodline curse was to kill Ebeneezer and Harry.  Leaving him free to use the Dark Hallow to become a god at which point, the Reds would have been toast and the White Council would become neutered.  The Black Council then becomes the new White Council.  With Langtry as God King. Improbable but fun to think about. I assume JB will reveal the plot eventually.

The scene where Cowl and Harry fought outside Bock's over the Erlking book is pretty important to evaluating the Cowl-as-Langtry theory. Specifically, where Cowl says he was curious to see how Harry actually stacked up in a fight, and what the Wardens were so nervous about. It could work - Langtry would certainly have access to the Warden files on Harry, but hasn't seen him directly do much.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Zoo Day spoilers
« on: August 30, 2018, 01:07:02 AM »
The distinction is a little iffy -- from what I understand, a sorcerer is like a wizard without the formal training. A wizard means you're in some way recognized as one by the White Council -- there's mentions of trials and such; I think Jim's said that one basic guideline is they're able to do everything between evocation and thaumaturgy. They might have a specialization and/or suck at one or two, but they have the capability of doing it all.

Didn't GP say something about sorcerers are more limited in their range of abilities, and almost all skew towards destructive?

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Gatekeeper
« on: August 30, 2018, 01:05:07 AM »
I think he's just hello knowledgeable about the Ways. He spoke of Margaret Sr. as a peer in spending a lot of time in the NN.

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no, it was necessary the vault in question actually BE a secured one and not blown wide open lest it change the integrity of the way... had nothing to do with harry believing it was a heigst or not.

Even if you read it that way - and I'm not convinced one should, given Harry's narration that two practitioners might hit different parts of the NN opening a gate from the same earth location - it still means the site isn't going to connect to Lea's garden any more after burning down and then having a castle built over it by new ownership. The connection only existed in the first part thanks to fairly significant work on Lea's part. Once she was no longer required to put in the work to keep up with changes by her bargain to protect Harry, the connection would be lost.

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Gard may have examined the location and found that it had magical protections on the NeverNever side (That leah had placed), and told Marcone that it was a secured area worth having.

The mapping between physical address on earth and location in the NN is based on what kind of place it is, though, not just a 1:1 mapping. Burning it down and rebuilding a castle over Harry's old place couldn't help but chance what kind of place it is. Leah's garden wouldn't protect Marcone's building.

Also based on SG, the mapping between realms is even somewhat fluid based on who's creating the opening, and even down to their state of mind when they cross over. The commonly used Ways seem to be points where the NN is particularly close and gates connect the same locations with a high level of reliability, but in the case of the vault heist, it was functionally important for making the connection that Harry believe it was a sincere robbery rather than a setup with the connivance of both Marcone and Hades to hurt Nic.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mother winters names.
« on: August 24, 2018, 02:36:14 AM »
Baba Yaga seems to be a separate entity. Jim once used her as an example of mantle gaining (I think it was something like, if Mab offed Baba Yaga, she would have to become her, and the Winter Lady would get a promotion). The RPG also mentions her as a separate character, an incredibly powerful and mysterious maybe-fae who Simon Pietrovich is pretty terrified by.

I mean, having to move up a step and be replaced as Queen by the Lady is exactly what would happen if Mab did pull off a coup on Mother Winter...

I'd call it inconclusive from the given info. Kringle and Vadderung are "technically" separate characters too, and I'd almost be surprised if both the Mothers don't have a range of different hats they can put on.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who fixed Little Chicago?
« on: August 23, 2018, 03:05:12 AM »
The book itself flags Rashid as the most likely suspect, so I'm willing to go with that as most unlikely, as the rule of inverse literary probability means that the longer a mystery has gone unanswered, the more improbable the outcome will be.

Rashid was actively suspicious Harry was playing for Team Outsider until confronting him with his suspicions in Turn Coat and clearing the air. I can't see him having gone out of his way to interfere with Harry maybe blowing himself up while not being sure which side he was on. (Plus, as Harry put it, keeping a voodoo doll of the city in your basement would look instantly creepy to any other wizard - Rashid finding out about that probably would have pushed any suspicions he had of Harry over the edge)

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