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Eh. It seems to me this was a battle where Heaven and Hell were on the same side. After all, Marcone gave Harry the blood he needed.
well j calls Drakul something monstrous stuck in human form. Doubt he's strictly a vampire. Though. His son was the one
Who
Made the BC. Though I do find it intriguing that Drakul can make undead vampires even if maybe he,'s not one himself. I assume his son was the King 👑 of the BC. Will be interesting to hear to their backstory. And if Jim does a strictly BC book then Kincaid HAS to be involved since he might be something similar to his former boss himself. A scion of a human and something monstrous. Though to be fair we don't know if Drakul is really a scion.
If you want to know what the council fears, look at what Butcher has done with Harry. He controls a prison that is so dangerous that it has a fail safe designed to destroy the Great Lakes area. He accepts no judgement but his own. He has a temper of epic proportions and if provoked could commit murder with magic and would feel no guilt while doing so. He committed genocide. I think that covers the bases.
I wouldn't sit next to him on a bus and if I lived in Chicago I would move to Miami.
Both of those are intriguing characters. I hope we get a talk to talk. Between Listen or Harry..mayhaps to team up to take down Corb.. With Ethnui binded , I think it's a only matter of time before King Toad tried to assassinate him..I do realize that Harry buried Listen underneath an Land Tsnumami but he's too important a character to just kill off like that: Now that we know that he is Starborn.
My hope is that he comes seeking Dresden's help to take out Corb
. Hopefully we see him in 12 months to tell Harry alittle about being Starborn and just what the heck the Stars and Stones are?
What would be even better is a SB team up ----- Listen ,Harry,Drakul , Elaine ( or was that just a theory) and God knows who else..
but there it is. I reckon you 'gazed him, Hoss, but it ain't a lie detector. You know that too.,
(3) Harry is the Adult, not the Toddler
While I like the toddler with a gun metaphor, in this metaphor Demonreach is the toddler, not Harry. Demonreach is sort of a super-natural Bam-Bam from the Flintstone's cartoon. Harry is the adult, because his threat assessment and response software is more calibrated.
Starborn appear to have a duality, that of the Starborn but also the Destroyer, they can destroy mankind as well as save it. That was Morgan’s fear, Justin had already gotten to Harry and maybe turned him to Destroyer. Which is why he was so hard on Harry.
But that is double subjectivity. First there is the soul gaze itself and then there is the merlin communicating it. Maybe the Korean boy could have been saved.
It’s actually listed in Elaine’s page of the Dresden Wiki.
Jim definitely had “The Lady of Shalott” in mind when creating the character, she died alone and untouched in her tower of unrequited love when Lancelot passed her over (Elaine Lilian (The Lily is a sign of purity in the poem and wider)Mallory) here this Elaine survived both Harry and his love. Not to be confused with the other Elaine in Mallory’s Morte d’ Arthur, who was Galahad’s mum (or is it, does Harry have an adult son by Elaine (who wasn’t pure and untouched) who will take the Grail from Nicky?)
Justin was an ex Warden and knew Bob was on the most dangerous artefacts list (below the Eye of Balor, The Spear, The Shroud, The Crown, The Placard and Excalibur) which in no way should be in the possession of an individual wizard. Ever. So he didn’t tell anyone in the White Council.
He may have told whoever he was working for but the people he was working for weren’t very nice, abducting children, so I doubt he told them about his Ace in the Hole
Much more nuanced, a character who is DED thought Elaine was a Starborn according to Jim. Everyone was looking for Harry who dropped off the face of the Earth because of who he was, a wizard Starborn. If everything else fails why not put a fake out there to see who took the real thing? You need a child of approximately the right age with magical ability, you can fudge the records on the former, and the child’s memory, but not the latter.
Justin may have used the Walker to help enslave Elaine, which proved she was NOT Starborn, she wasn’t immune to their influence.
Yes, but given the inherent subjectivity… how much good hard objective data really comes from a “soulgaze”?
Apparently in WOJ in 2010, Justin DuMorne thought Elaine might be a Starborn like Harry.
This may suggest he didn’t have Elaine’s exact date and time of birth, but her apparent age and general background may have made him suspect this, whereas with Harry he definitely knew. But what if his suspicions were incorrect? Someone fudged things and placed Elaine as a candidate for Justin to find, as bait? One of the other players using a fake Starborn to find Harry (the real deal) when neither his grandfather nor Morgan could find him?
Could Elaine Mallory have been the Merlin’s plant? And he still lost her? It would explain why no one looked for her from the White Council, too many inconvenient questions would have arisen about the Merlin using a 10 year old girl as bait.
This theory allows Jim to lie/not lie and confuse the issue as to Starborn, which is exactly what it has done for the last 12 years.
Elaine’s medallion? Set dressing and perhaps a magical tracking device.
