Alright I agree with you, however I do believe Odin has backup plans for backup plans incase he failed, and it was for her to take his weapon as her own, and for him to use it against her.

I'll totally buy that Odin had a spell on his gear to protect it from being used by others. But giving up your weapon in battle to weaken the enemy seems like a stretch.

Letting her use it to take out nameless fighters, Hendricks, McCoy, Cristos, Listens, River, Butters, and disarm Sanya all so Lara could pop her in the back of the head seems like overkill. Especially when the same command given at the moment Marcone shot her in the face, or Sanya was cutting her up, would have afforded the same opportunity without waiting for everyone else to fall in battle.

I mean, sure, maybe he had the Doctor Strange foresight to see the one way it could play out as a win. But that just seems like a stretch.

He might have just seen fire and demons surrounding Harry, and assumed Harry was commanding them or working for them. Or he saw the remnants of Behind in Harry's aura, like the junkie did.

I don’t see why not. Not all singing is lying and some of it might be magic.

The Sidhe are so literal that I don't know if they could sing something like "These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these boots are gonna to walk all over you" if they're not wearing boots that they intend to use to curb stomp someone.

I think I read something about him being eaten by the dragon, but I have no idea about the source.

Quote from: Avernite on July 18, 2021, 12:12:01 PM

I would think some waterworks would be an excellent low-side-damage kind of duelling spot. The Niagara Falls, or if Harry has to face a water mage, maybe the Dutch 'Afsluitdijk' for being associated with murdering a sea (don't tell me that wouldn't help the not-water-mage).

Collateral damage to a dam is generally quite the opposite of casualty-mitigating for anyone living down-river.

I could see a short story with Carlos and Listens, where Carlos learns that the largest dams in America are used to shelter the dormant Elder Thunderbirds. And somebody trying to cause chaos tries to destroy a dam to wake one, which would cause massive power shortages and turbulent weather.

With Carlos and Listens both being water mages, it would work well. And it could be some therapy for a Carlos after everything he's been through.

Name: Novomalyn Castle
Location: Town of Novomalyn, Ukraine
Founded: ~1392
Founder: Svidrigaylo Jagiello, younger brother of the Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Purpose: Tower of a castle.

Dresdenverse Relevance:
Ruins of a pentagonal tower in the Ukraine sounds like a place where magic might have been done in the past.

I'm starting a thread to share real-world locations we'd like to see in the Dresdenverse, either visited or mentioned.

First up, Villa Farnese

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Name: Villa Farnese
Location: Town of Caprarola, Italy
Founded: ~1530 (fortress); ~1559 (villa)
Founder: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III
Purpose: Initially a pentagonal fortress; later made into a private Villa; currently state-owned and open to the public.

Dresdenverse Relevance:
It's a pentagonal fortress with a circular core. Along with the U.S. Pentagon, it seems like an ideal structure to contain something (or someone). Not to mention founded by a future Pope? Clearly the Church wanted something secured there.

That it's open to the public now makes it seem like whatever or whomever was there isn't there anymore, or the original purpose was forgotten. Maybe they're hiding it in plain sight, and visitors are unlikely to impact its functionality.

It's not located in Tuscany, otherwise I'd say a tie to the White Court might be apt. Perhaps the Church was done with it and the White Court acquired it secretly using the state as a front.