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I am so darn excited! I am coming all the way from the East coast to GenCon for the first time this year!You might be able to show up with a generic ticket and step in if there are any no shows. I might just hang around and watch some of it.
I also tried to sign up for the Dresden files RPG but it filled up immediately,there were only 2 sessions of it! Have Jim demand more sessions!!!!!!!!
By that definition, since we know the mantle of the Winter Knight and supposedly the Winter Lady as well can warp the mind of the holder. So what's to stop the Council from declaring both Harry and Molly warlocks and try to give them the chop? Well, Mab may have something to say. So it isn't what is done to someone else's mind, but what happens to one's own. Which makes sense and why the White Council has an almost zero tolerance once a young man or woman performs black magic, not matter their intentions. They are declared "warlock," their mind corrupted beyond redemption, and given the chop... The Merlin explains it very patiently and a bit condescendingly to Harry at the beginning of Proven Guilty.Wait... Corrupting another's mind is against the Laws of Magic. Having one's own mind corrupted doesn't violate a law. Even if the Mantles twist Harry and Molly into all sorts of crazy, they haven't broken a law until they enter the mind of another without permission. I say there isn't even a gray area to think that simply obtaining the mantle of Winter Knight is a violation of the laws.
Its a matter of some debate. Personally I think she is very much a vicious Evil bitch, just a vicious Evil bitch that has had her Evil channeled into a Job that needs doing.It's ok and kinda cool when Darth Vader is on your team.
May not have been a mass ritual like that at all. I figured that WOJ was more referring to the fact that he also took the power of a bunch of spirits, but more of an accumulation over time. We know the guy has a yearly Hunt on Halloween. Give him enough success at that and he would eventually reach critical mass. Cowl was just trying to take a shortcut and do it all at once.I could go either way on the "over time" or "all at once". I doubt that he started leading the Wild Hunt until after he became the Earlking though.
The Erlking did the darkhallow thing?The Erlking did gain much of his power through an assention ritual. Not necessasarily the specific assention ritual known as the Dark Hallow.
TC, chp 36Well there goes that potential clue.
Not gold.
Could it be a color taken from his sanctum, DR? Not the well, but the genius loci itself?Does anyone remember what color the eyes of DemonReach were described as in TC?
i AM aware of this and excluded it intentionally. Holding up a cross believing it will repel evil isn't magic, its faith. Harry even explains this, even says other wizards do believe their deity interacts with their power. By faith magic i presume a magical working applied with a measure of pure faith. Harry calling light to his amulet isn't really any more magical than a dark ages ignorant peasant repelling vampires through shear belief. Now Micheal slewing off vampires whilst spouting prayers or healing Harry in Smf, that could be faith 'magic'.The fact that a dark ages ignorant peasant can repel a vampire is magic almost by definition. It might not be flashy and cool, but it is effective.
Jim read the Prologue and the first chapter to The Aeronaut's windlass at Ad-astra someone was recording so there's a chance it will go up online somewhere soon.Argh, Knowing there is more info out there is killing me since I don't have it. But with not knowing the actual release date, that is probably for the best.
I don't know if discussing them in detail here would be too much so i'll wait for a decision from someone higher up
No, that'd be a windylass.windylass:
I am so hyped for this, y'all have no idea. Well, maybe Priscellie does, but she's a special case.I'm pretty excited as well. Alera was conceived on a bet. Jim has grown a lot as a writer since Storm Front. I am anxious to read a series written by a fully powered up Jim Butcher.