Various thoughts and reactions to Battle Grounds
1) Here is Harry’s missing snark. Harry did not sound like Harry in Peace Talks.
2) Chronicles of Prydain!
3) This is where Butcher is strong
4) Is the Za-Lord- and Harry- becoming an independent Erlking or Kringle character? Or is Toot ascending to that role? Harry certainly outed himself on this one. The degree of his influence over the Little Folk was not known except to the Faery Queens, I think. Apparently, he can call to all of them and have them put down their ADHD long enough to listen. Response obviously is dependent on importance of the request.
5) WAG: The ouster from the White Council will be followed with an offer of reinstatement contingent on handing over the Eye.
6) Bob is an enemy of Mab and not just paranoid? That’s interesting. Bob serves Harry.
7) Faeries are “back” to “stealing” children? Sounds like a telephone reporting of Winter’s tribute
Justine had access to Goodman, Lara’s inner circle, Thomas, and who else as Lara’s secretary? Any of them is potentially Nemfected, depending on how it spreads. Will Papa Raith come back into play?
9) Jim’s recent signing answer about Kemmler having been the Warden, and a significant part of the White Council’s time being spent trying to keep him from Demonreach, raises some interesting questions
a. Did the Sidhe assist, and that is what kept him from simply opening a Way?
b. Is that part of the Chekhov’s gun of Harry’s medallion? He can’t be kept from anywhere
c. I’ve long thought that the combination of the Darkhallow and the summoning circle on Demonreach was a Chekhov’s gun itself- Kemmler being the inventor and a former Warden comes close to confirming it
d. Who was the in-between Warden?
10) Ramirez warned Harry that McCoy was under standing orders to execute him if he backslid. Fun question: Is Wizard McCoy under those orders, or is the Blackstaff under those orders? If the latter, Ebenezer can flip Langtey the bird simply by handing off the Blackstaff to Harry. The only control anyone has over someone like the Blackstaff is his consent to being controlled.
11) Listens to Wind and Ebenezer were in surgery when the council voted to oust Harry. Rashid was probably engaged at the Outer Gates. Those three and Martha Liberty were Harry’s “block.”
12) Harry will need to reconcile with the svartalves. Potential future plot point.
13) Harry is competing with Marcone for the title of Lord of Chicago.
14) WAG question: If reincarnation is a thing in the Dresdenverse, are they actually Merlin and Arthur?
15) Valkyries pick Einherjar. Which Gard flagged Murphy and Hendricks? By Sigrun’s mourning, I’m guessing Freydis?
16) Did Harry out himself as Warden? Or is the message that he slew Ethniu?
17) Interesting that Titania was summoned but not the Mothers
18) Mab hints at Harry’s future immortality
19) We finally found out where Molly had made doppelgangers before
20) Will Harry be able to open a Way from the castle straight to Demonreach based on his own affinity and the magical parallels?
21) Can Einherjar actually die, or are the “revenants” like wizards in that they will-eventually-heal?
22) That series of threats Mab issued to Lara regarding feeding on Harry in Peace Talks- need to review how that applies to a wedding.
23) The stars and stones make me think of the standing stones at places like Stonehenge- linked to Merlin
24) Harry going to go back to school with River Shoulders?
25) Namshiel trolled Ethniu. Ethniu is Celtic, which means Scottish/Welsh/Irish/Cornish/Gallic/Gaelic/Breton. When he spoke with her, he deliberately used an upper-crust English accent. That was excellently subtle trolling.
26) The incidentalness of Rudy was spot on- anything else would cheapen Murphy. Murphy went down to her own world
More to come
