The pieces are there if you want to put them together,
I just want to see Santa Clause , with a sledfull or werewolf belts.
sadly , we are misisng much of 2008-2010 as the forum archives go.leaving us with the memory ( which has been very wrong before) of old peeps like me.I remember the discussion, vaguely. I do rmeber a lot of folks considering that EK did the belts as a given, for a while. I dotn remeber why.
The talisman provides an anchor for a spirit of bestial rage. Nasty thing from the bad side of the Nevernever.
It was vibrating beneath my fingers, warm to the touch, alive in its own fashion, and full of the power and strength that had been channeled into it. I closed my eyes and let that dark, wild power spill into me, mingle with all the fear and pain and weariness inside of me. It was easy. It was easier than any magic I'd ever done, leaping into me with a sort of hungry eagerness, seeping into me, making pain and fatigue and fear vanish and replacing it with nothing but strength, ferocity.
bestial rage has nothing to do with hunting predators though. a true predator isn't a rage machine. look at a pack of wolves bringing down an opponent. they are methodical. look at Erl when he comes to dresden at the end of DB calm and collected. bestial rage is just a mindless attacker not a predator.bad side of the NN not fae lands. Erl is a Wyldefae not a monster. he has honor and rules. those 2 comments make me think of Ick, the super Ghouls, monsters.
Wild Hunt.""The what?" Thomas said."It's a gathering of some of the more predatory beings of Faerie," I said. "They appear in the autumn and winter usually, usually along with storms and rough weather. A gathering of black hounds the size of horses with glowing red eyes, led by a hunter with the horns of a stag on a black horse."
"The spirits of those who hunt," Mab said. "The energy of the hunt. Of excitement, hunger, bloodlust. Betimes, the Erlking will call those spirits into the form of the great black hounds, and ride the winds and forests as the Wild Hunt.
For me the Erkling is the favorite due to FBI building + these quotes:
About the Erlking's court. We don't know since when and for how long the court lay on the Nevernever side of the local FBI headquarters. It seems quite apparent that the Sidhe can move their area of influence in relation to reality. The Erlking is drawn to hunts. I would assume he frequently changes the location to follow the hunts. During FM for all we know the Erlking may not have had yet taken residence on the other side of the FBI headquarters.
The description sounds like the Erlking a bit, but to me it sounds EXACTLY like the wild hunt. In one of the books, DB IIRC, Dresden offhandedly mentions he's ONE of the beings who can call the hunt. Wonder who else can?
Actually, in the Dresden universe, the Wild Hunt can be led by a number of beings--INCLUDING Cern, but not exclusive to him. The Erlking (who isn't Cern) is a being of Faerie who is in Mab's weight division, if not her equal. I believe he is identified as the ruler of the goblins--which should not necessarily be equated with Tolkeinesque/Gygaxesque goblins. Jim
