About Butters reaction to seeing Mab's wound. I ascribed it to shock. Remember Butters prefers working with dead bodies than dealing with injured or sick ones. Plus, I've seen people laugh in what seem totally inappropriate ways after witnessing a violent incident in real life, probably out of shock or disbelief in what they had just witnessed. I think it was kind of like a safety valve to protect them from completely going to pieces.I agree about that happening IRL, but it is a little weird in a book character. It's sort of when in a book (or TV) someone sneezes or coughs. You know it means something. Conjuritis, poison, cancer, TB, Ebola. No one sneezes or coughs by accident.
About the Antichrist, there is a WoJ that Drakul is something inhuman in a human body (or something like that). It sounds like Jesus himself. Therefore, I see Drakul as the dark Jesus, or AntiChrist. So I think the Shroud or the Crown are destined to beat Drakul for good.mmm? I certainly agree with him being on the same archatype as the Antichrist.. but I figure it's a starborn thing too.. the major players keep repeating themselves on the battlefield.... Now that I think on it that whole 666 years things kinda dampens the idea Nic was the last one, though, the gyre cycle is not the starborn cycle to begin with..
I find that less likely now, at least as Drakul, simply because while he was a BAMF, he was not Lucifer level BAMF imo.
Plus it raises an awkward question of where the BAMF quantity of hellfire in SmF came from if Lucifer was running around on earth.It was probably a subsidiary.
Muskogee: Yeah they will, there are ten of them. So I have some questions from our chat so I'm going to read these. So... where is Lucifer in all this? I am remembering he made a play in Small Favour with helping Nick power up the trap for Ivy.
Jim: He runs a pretty big corporation, it was probably a subsidiary.
Plus it raises an awkward question of where the BAMF quantity of hellfire in SmF came from if Lucifer was running around on earth.if he's cut off from it directly it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. He just lacks direct access. Hence the big spell form to channel it.
@KurtinStGeorgeoff the top of my head, one has a better threshold, but the other is a familial home, somewhere Sit Stuart has more power as guardian perhaps. Also the matter of the darkhallow, Morts tied up in the necromancy game going on in DB indirectly. I was thinking if MM Harry specifically did a mini hallow, then the position of Mort is something that can effect other choices and consequences. Other things I'm sure, but I'm tired and getting ready for bed.(overnight last night)
I'd like someone to explain to me what purpose changing the facade of Mort's house could serve in the books.
This one sounds like a continuity error to me, but there are a number of instances in many of the novels of discrepancies that I ascribe to the story being told across multiple Dresden universes. The story is happening with all the major events playing out the same way within each universe, but with minor changes in past events changing things very slightly here and there.
So in Peace Talks Harry says the wooden skull Bonea resides in was made for her, when in fact it was originally made for Bob. The Brighter Future Society changes names to Better Future Society and then back again. In at least one of the worlds with a Better Future Society, Harry says he had never been to Marcone’s castle in the flesh before Peace Talks, but he had gone there in Skin Game. This was probably because in a different Dresdenverse the meeting between Marcone and Mab that took place in Skin Game occurred at a different Marcone property or possibly at Mac’s or even Arctis Tor. It doesn’t matter where that meeting took place, as long as it wasn’t at the castle and it was a place that Harry could discover and go to.
Now, either this is matter of Jim not being careful enough - which is always a chance, or maybe purposefuly Dresden memory not being good enough, and struggling a big.
But if your're right and that's like purposeful multiverse creation by Butcher - this books will enormously grew in my mind - maybe not in terms of enjoyement perhaps as I'm usually not fan of multiverses as they sort of cheapens weight of both free will and destiny in my mind - but most definitely in terms of WOAH Jim pulled this thing of on purpose.
But... untile proven otherwise I will go with simple bit sloppy Butchering ;)
One of the biggest examples of weirdness, is the flash backs early in the books when young Harry comes home from school and Justin attempts to enthrall him, he talks about a naked Elaine painted up with feathers, him being tied up, I think even some blood. Then when Lea helps him to remember what supposedly really happened in Ghost Story, it doesn't match the original flashback at all.That could have happened when he came back to face Justin, he got caught in a binding when that happened.