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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 21, 2012, 04:21:44 PM »
Quote from: HateEgo on December 21, 2012, 04:05:33 PM
Since we're on the subject of Mab's power during different seasons.  Did anyone consider that to Mab and Titania the changing of seasons if just a shift in Where they have more power?  After all, while it may be Summer in Chicago it's Winter somewhere else.  In a technical sense the Lady's have no clear dominion anywhere,  the Queens trade continents twice a year, and the Mothers live in a single cottage.  I think there is some symmetry there.  Thoughts?

Good point, the Winter/Summer shift as described is very Northern Hemisphere-centric.   But I just chalk that up to "The story takes place there mostly", and assume that yes, Winter and Summer likely go South in the Off-Season.  This could be why their domains are persistent in the Never Never year round, because it's always Summer/Winter somewhere.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 21, 2012, 02:37:35 PM »
Quote from: King Ash on December 20, 2012, 09:50:14 PM
Her mainlining off winters source works just as well for her changing the seasons. Just by being there she draws energy from winter to the mortal realm.

I would say that spending months in our world instead of Faerie attempting to keep Harry alive taxed her rather than what season it is.  The source of Winter being in decline due to the season giving her less access to her power works as well.

*shrugs*  I'm not buying that logic but ok, to each his own.    Seeing as the winter was early and unusually cold during the events of Small Favor as well, when she was just hanging out to give Harry and edge seems to suggest that Winter follows her. Hell Bob even pointed that fact out to Harry.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 20, 2012, 04:13:17 PM »
Quote from: King Ash on December 19, 2012, 09:49:31 PM
Depends on how you are looking at it. I don't think Mab represents the actual season of winter the way the Mother does, she is more in charge of the winter fae.

Quote from: King Ash on December 19, 2012, 09:49:31 PM
I don't think Mab represents the actual season of winter the way the Mother does,
Quote from: King Ash on December 19, 2012, 09:49:31 PM
She has a dramatic effect on the environment,
Her physical presence in Chicago meant that an unseasonably long and cold winter sat on the area until she left.....how does that not represent the "actual" season of winter?  Her presence directly effected the "actual" season of Winter.  That implies she's pretty deeply tied to it.


Quote from: King Ash on December 19, 2012, 09:49:31 PM
but I have seen nothing to suggest that she gets incapacitated during summer the way mother winter did in SF.
Except how keeping herself dominant in the physical world so far into Spring and pushing into Summer to keep Harry alive taxed her to the point of making her look like an insect instead of a woman?   And that Harry even comments to her about how she was pushing herself by staying around when it was becoming the time of Summer.   

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 19, 2012, 02:02:34 PM »
Quote from: King Ash on December 13, 2012, 10:51:42 PM
I would say Mother Winter is Winter, Mab simply has a mainline to the winter wellspring, Harry also has a line to the winter wellspring but it is different to Mab's.

All of the Queens are Winter/Summer.   They are different facets of that power, and represent different manifestations of its nature and purpose, but they are all Winter/Summer. 

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 13, 2012, 10:15:26 PM »
Quote from: syntagmaton on December 13, 2012, 10:06:10 PM
Well, he did instantly hit the floor, didn't he? Winter law seems to be some kind of natural law. There is nobody really there actively reminding you. Things just fall down without being reminded to do so. I don't believe Mab was actively involved reminding Harry of her power. Cause: The law itself was deactivated by Harry's remark (screw Winter). Effect: Mantel dissolved, Harry hits the floor.

Except that Winter is Mab.  His mantle is Mab's power within him.  As Maeve put it to Harry on the  bridge, the power within him is Mab herself, which is why she is weak to him.   He wasn't just saying "Screw Winter" he was saying "Screw Mab"  because they are one in the same.  By denying the rules that he was bound to through oath and fealty, (whether he understood this or not), his power through her would be denied him, and I don't see any reason he couldn't be reminded of this via a temporary paralysis reminder.  Besides, as I said before, we have direct evidence that Winter Fae can, and have healed physical injuries on a mortal before, specifically Harry.  So it stands to reason that a Fae with even more power than the one who healed him in the past, could heal him as part of a bargain.    Harry in fact goes into great detail about how hard it is to heal someone via magic, and that it meant that Leah had a direct line of influence/power over him to be able to pull it off.   By swearing fealty to Mab as her Knight, and boinking her on the table...well....that's about as "direct line of influence" as you can get

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 13, 2012, 10:07:30 PM »
Quote from: Ms Duck on December 13, 2012, 09:51:53 PM
if she didnt heal him, he couldnt stand. :)

Exactly, this isn't The Dark Knight Rises, where they do Blunt Force Trauma Chiropractic treatment.

"Broken spine?"  *punch* "Cured!!!"   "Testicular cancer?"  *punch*  "Cured!!" 

Mab's got way more power than that.  Healing a mere mortal's damaged body is nothing to a creature at her level of Power

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 13, 2012, 10:05:03 PM »
Quote from: syntagmaton on December 13, 2012, 09:49:39 PM
As far as I understood Harry's conversation with Butters, there is a big problem with Mab's interfering with Harry's natural feelings of his own body. Harry doesn't feel pain, injuries, broken spines, ... but they are there nontheless. I am not sure that Mab would be able to really "heal" him -- healing is more a power of Summer. But Winter can numb you down very effectively until your body is able to heal itself.
By the way: Very interesting that Winter is not able to stop the headaches caused by the parasite. All other pains are repelled.

Except that Winter can heal him, and in fact has healed him in the past.  As I cited before,  in Grave Peril, Leah healed his concussion with a kiss  she didn't make him just forget it, she healed it.  When Harry went to the hospital later to get it looked at, the doctor got pissed off at him for wasting her time with what was clearly a "weeks worth of healing" scar on his forehead.   This wasn't him ignoring the injury, the injury was flat out healed, by an agent of Winter because she had power over him

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 13, 2012, 07:34:11 PM »
Quote from: syntagmaton on December 13, 2012, 06:20:55 PM
Harry doesn't need anyone to help him healing. He is a wizard. Wizards heal, given enough time. Btw, Mab didn't "heal" his back injury, she just made his body forget it and work anyhow (as long as he is respecting Winter law).
Perhaps Harry's natural healing process helps Lash to heal, too?

Well by that logic, Harry doesn't need any kind of treatment or physical therapy.  But it helps  If it looks like Harry might need that extra mental capacity in the next 10 years, as opposed to the next 25+ years, it would be in Mab's best interest to quicken his healing process.   

And I disagree that Mab didn't "heal" his back injury.  I'm assuming you are referring to the part in CD where he says "Screw Winter's Rules" and suddenly felt himself paralyzed again.    I don't think she's making his body "forget" that it's got a severed spinal cord.  She actually healed it.  It's been established that the Fae can do real healing on those they have power over.  Leah did it to Harry in Grave Peril, and there is no reason to think Mab would be less capable.  Also it was worded in Harry's agreement to her that she heal his body, and Mab is a stickler for the letter of the agreements she makes.   Besides, his body wouldn't keep working normally with a severed spine, it would still need to be repaired before it would function for him.  It's more likely (to me) that his sudden paralysis in that scene was Mab's way of reminding him to obey her rules, that she owned him, and he better not forget it.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
« on: December 13, 2012, 03:48:00 PM »
Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM
After reading the list, what does everyone think about the theory that Lash is causing the headaches?
That's pretty much the most widely accepted theory on this forum.  That Lash is still inside his head.   I personally don't agree with it since it makes her entire Heroic Sacrifice in White Knight null and void, and I think from a storytelling standpoint that it's more moving to have the shadow of a fallen angel be redeemed through an act of Sacrifice for another.  But hey, both theories are theories so we'll see when it gets published.

Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM
It doesnt seem like a pattern of a type of headache actually matches up to when Lash dies/would be regenerating. I am alone in that feeling?? (before this list, I thought the headaches DID match up to Lash)

Actually to me personally it lines up more with what happened in Small Favor, when Mab stirred up Harry's brain.  Because before that book, his comments about headaches were usually very minor mentions, frequently after being hit in the head by a badguy, and were as I like to call them, his Obligatory Head Trauma for the book.  It's only in the beginning on Turn Coat that Harry takes the time out to really describe to the reader in intense detail that he is having mind numbing migraines that are causing him really really major problems.  And IIRC he mentions that those level of migraines have only been going on for a few months.   To me personally, all the mentions of headaches before could easily be attributed to the OHT of the book, or having his mind mucked about with by people like Corpsetaker.   

And I seem to recall in one of the most recent Q&A's that Jim flat out says that "The Headaches" start at a very specific timepoint in the series.  Which would imply that before that he was having your vanilla mortal headaches from stress, sleep deprivation, trauma, etc.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: The YLC (Why Little Chicago) thread
« on: November 05, 2012, 04:37:14 PM »
Another thing to mention, is that even though LC was described as having a massive amount of power in it, that doesn't mean it would explode in a deafening blast, with concussive shock waves and such.  The "explosion" could have simply been a massive amount of concentrated fire, enough to flash fire the room and the whole building.   Or maybe the power would've come out in a magical method of destruction.   Remember Bob said the amount of power he had poured into it was roughly equivalent to the power in his fully charged Force Ring.   But it wasn't the same kind of magic.  The power he had pumped into it was one of seeking, investigation, discovery and revelation.  Not a kinetic asskicking spell.    Magic varies based on what type of power you are channeling and to what purpose, so just because the amount of power is equal to a ton of those force rings, doesn't mean it would manifest in the same way.   For all we know, the sympathetic link to Chicago made the power dissipate across the links, making all of Chicago slightly warmer for a fraction of a second.  Or maybe an odd flash of light, and a mild bang sound happened, something disregarded by the population.  Or maybe the fire simply dissipated it, fire is a cleansing force after all, magically speaking. 

Remember, just because a powerful spell is disrupted, doesn't mean it blows up.   Look at Harry when he destroyed the Great Circle trapping Ivy in Small Favor.   He made a point to explain just how much power was in that circle, and how even having just one thing out of place, could level a huge area.  Then what did he do?  He smashed it with his staff, destroying every aspect of that spell.   Did he blow up?  Did the spell site blow up?  Did Demonreach?  No, in fact, nothing negative happened until the very last vestige of the spell structure was destroyed, then the spell broke, and as I recall it was simply a bit of sound and light.  That's it.   Nothing negative or destructive happened, as evidenced by the fact that Ivy and the Heroes were all still alive, and standing at Ground Zero.   And I'd be willing to bet that the Great Circle to keep the Archive restrained, had more juice in it than LC.   So if that spell can be destroyed without leveling an island, I think LC can be burned out without leveling a city block.

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DF Reference Collection / Re: The YLC (Why Little Chicago) thread
« on: November 05, 2012, 02:56:23 PM »
Not to derail the pages and pages of theoretical guesswork about Little Chicago but, is there a WoJ from someone asking him about LC's lack of use in the story?   Because I always felt that it was more of a storyteller, narrative element issue myself.   That Jim sort of wrote himself into a corner with LC, having such a powerful tool would make suspense and tension difficult to maintain for a book, when Harry could frequently solve problems with:

"And then I booted up LC and found *insert important plot element*"  Instead of having Harry get his ass kicked for 200 pages to obtain the same information.  It would make for a less interesting story basically.   Given how much speculation about this has come up, has anyone ever asked him why he didn't use it more than he did?  And did he ever directly answer it?

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Mouse's Origins
« on: September 28, 2012, 12:58:07 PM »
Quote from: Sheaman3773 on September 28, 2012, 12:08:33 AM
Or Mrs. Mouse is the puppy that Harry didn't necessarily save.
Considering Harry's habit of trying to save Distressed Damsels, it would be quite amusing to watch him playing second chair to Mouse being the stubborn, headstrong, White Knight, rushing into danger to save a woman (dog).   He would get to be an amusing hypocrite again, like he was when he first got Mouse, and commented about his puppy behaviour, even though he acted the same way.   ;D

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Mouse's Origins
« on: September 26, 2012, 01:31:09 PM »
Quote from: kytheros on September 26, 2012, 12:58:11 AM
Though, to be fair to the idea, it would likely take time to arrange that kind of thing and have it be carried out.

That's assuming that an Archangel doesn't have intellectus, or foresight to plan ahead.  And I think we've seen evidence enough from Uriel's comments in The Warrior and other places, that he can see ahead to some degree.   

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DF Reference Collection / Re: Mouse's Origins
« on: September 25, 2012, 01:27:51 PM »
Quote from: Cruness on September 24, 2012, 08:30:20 PM
One thing to note, text-wise, Mouse enters the story immediately after Harry is exposed to Lasciel's shadow. Something tells me this isn't a coinicidence. If I were Mr. Sunshine, I might makes sure that a certain wizard that seems to be tied to many important events had a positive influence in his life that balanced out the negative.
Text-wise he might have been immediately introduced, but chronologically in the Dresdenverse it was close to a year's time between the two events.   

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DF Reference Collection / Re: The top selling books in the Dresdenverse
« on: September 06, 2012, 05:02:13 PM »
How to Serve Farie: A Dining Guide to the Never Never by Mouse

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