There's no need to make someone sift through broken links like that.
I appreciate the sentiment and the help you have given, but it isn't that hard to look up WOJ. And that one is quite an easy one to find regardless, and it's a fairly well-known one. While it's good to help I don't know that we as a community should encourage laziness and wilful ignorance either. Not that I think you meant to do that either it's merely a possibility created by this situation.
Oh so no proof...gotcha!
I don't know whether you were joking or not but either way I think it's probably best not to subvert the thread all that much. If it was an attempt at humour fair enough, sometimes things don't translate well via writing and not everyone's sense of humour is the same but let's move on and stick to the topic. But if you were deliberately just trying to tease another member of the community whilst also subverting the thread and ignoring established WOJ just because you haven't done your homework - you might just want to reconsider your position. This board is for everyone and humour doesn't always carry well (particularly sarcasm) over the web. Whatever your intentions it might be time to get back on topic and come prepared for good-natured thoughtful and at least semi-researched discussion. I'll leave it at that.
Much as this WoJ is clear, the actual canonical text seems to say that it's no longer valid. Ferrovax is very clearly on a different level than Drakul, and Drakul doesn't seem much stronger than a Lord of Outer Night or two.
I get your point but implication and inference via action aren't quite the same as exposition on the part of the author. I don't remember in the series anywhere it actually says Drakul could take Mab, or even Ferro or almost any of the others bar Titania and the Mothers. And you are right this is an old list. It didn't include Ethniu or Angels or Archangels etc. But just because Drakul isn't necessarily as strong in raw power as Ferrovax doesn't mean he isn't stronger than Mab, or strong enough to kill her. Depending on how Drakul's powers work he might be suited perfectly to taking out Immortals like Mab. Perhaps it's more about critical power, or out-thinking his enemies (although this list is just about who has the horsepower - so clearly he has at least that). Drakul seemed far more dangerous than any of the Lord's of the Outer Night. Harry says he feels stronger than the lot of them, and Drakul seems more dangerous than the Red King. Morgan had the Red King - and he isn't nearly as dangerous as Ebenezar was, and Eb was both afraid and respected the danger of Drakul. But nowhere does it recently outline that Drakul isn't strong enough, so it isn't yet canon that he can't. In fact, the only canon we have on the whole thing is the list itself so that's what we should stick to.
Naaaa, see. Your forgetting Jim's a DnD player. This was the BBEG making a show of things and batting the A team around to show you that he can. He monologues the whole fight basically. He clearly scoffs at the evil overlords list and does what he wants. Plus as Jim has said recently, he's a hit n run kinda guy, he didn't want to get caught up in a stand up fight for too long. Who knows what kinda reinforcements might show up?
Not at all, I consider him as a D&D player/DM all the time! But I suspect you are right. Just because the scene didn't quite work when I read it (and clearly for a few others too), doesn't mean that Jim wasn't trying to show how badass Drakul is. I think you might be bang on about he was just playing with them, it occurred to me the other day in another thread. Yeah the hit n run aspect is intriguing. Perhaps he is just smarter than most villains and doesn't get thrown off schedule by petty fights when the real victory is so much more worth it. But as Marcone would put it, that probably means he isn't so sure of his strength as to just wipe out even relatively minor threats. In fact, I suspect this answers why he didn't use his Will attack. Perhaps, like Vadderung and other such beings, he doesn't rely on such a thing unless he has to. The Lord's of the Outer Night went immediately to their super move and showed their hand. More powerful and dangerous beings seem to keep an ace up their sleeve and use other tactics to defeat their enemies, even enjoy the sport of combat. That's far scarier to watch in some ways. Drakul only went for his Will when he encountered Harry and I doubt it was to do with Harry's danger as a combatant. I suspect it was more to do with Harry being another Starborn and whatever else he may be, and because Drakul (like a few other villains) seems to want to test out Dresden. There is almost a long game around testing Dresden but what it's meant to lead to is unclear. He Who Walks Behind, Cowl, Justin, Drakul...there is definitely a pattern somewhere.
