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Tunicate posted:There's a quote from Jim on the official forums that rules it out. Really? I assume it from a post-Cold Days statement, link please? Only thing I recall about the Blackstaff is that the original owner wants it back very very badly, and that came from a Changes interview. Personally I am more than happy if that is the case, it makes the universe larger with more factions instead of so Winter heavy.
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Here's a cool fan art I posted in the thread for it in PYF: There's more where that came from in that thread.
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Fried Chicken posted:Really? I assume it from a post-Cold Days statement, link please? Only thing I recall about the Blackstaff is that the original owner wants it back very very badly, and that came from a Changes interview. Okay, it was a signing question. Jim told him that if the fan wanted to figure the blackstaff out, to look at Celtic lore around 1065 AD. That kind of implies that it isn't something made out of whole cloth. Fanspec puts it as the staff of Dagda "This great staff that thou seest,’ said he, ‘has a smooth end and a rough end. One end slays the living, and the other end brings the dead to life.’" In myth it was loaned away by the original owner. And by loaned I mean stolen.
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Thunderfinger posted:Here's a cool fan art I posted in the thread for it in PYF: That's in the Dresden RPG book so if it's fan art it's kind of become semi-official!
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Mar 25, 2013 09:39
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The Rook appears to be 99p on the UK amazon store for Kindle, which is weird. That is the correct book right?
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Awia posted:The Rook appears to be 99p on the UK amazon store for Kindle, which is weird. That's it.
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ConfusedUs posted:It's action packed and bloody as hell, but we, the reader, have no loving clue what's going on for far too long. This sounds like the Malazan Book of the Fallen which turned out to be an amazing story. It's just so god drat confusing starting out.
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Virigoth posted:This sounds like the Malazan Book of the Fallen which turned out to be an amazing story. It's just so god drat confusing starting out. Be fair, we still don't know most of the answers at the end of the Malazan series!
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Masonity posted:Be fair, we still don't know most of the answers at the end of the Malazan series! Just thinking about it makes me want to start a re-read. I've only been through it once.
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Virigoth posted:Just thinking about it makes me want to start a re-read. I've only been through it once. Then you probably don't know the questions, let alone the answers! Read the first book in the new trilogy first though if you haven't already. Adds a new twist to everything.
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Is Malazan-chat going to takeover every Scifi/Fantasy thread in TBB?
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Ornamented Death posted:Is Malazan-chat going to takeover every Scifi/Fantasy thread in TBB? Eventually, yeah probably.
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Tunicate posted:Okay, it was a signing question. Jim told him that if the fan wanted to figure the blackstaff out, to look at Celtic lore around 1065 AD. After reading the Iron Druid stuff, I really hope he doesn't bring in the Celtic deities. Butcher would handle the subject better, but I just don't want to imagine it.
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r0ff13c0p73r posted:After reading the Iron Druid stuff, I really hope he doesn't bring in the Celtic deities. Butcher would handle the subject better, but I just don't want to imagine it. The Morrigan is one of the few things I like about Iron Druid, other than the extremely rough sex that Atticus receives from her (my objection is that Atticus gets to casually gently caress deities). I'd rather read more about the Morrigan and Atticus going to sporting events than what is actually supposed to matter in that series. Dresden would refuse the sex and largely remove the gooniest part of the Iron Druid's treatment of deities.
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r0ff13c0p73r posted:After reading the Iron Druid stuff, I really hope he doesn't bring in the Celtic deities. Butcher would handle the subject better, but I just don't want to imagine it. Cat Sith Mouse Jenny Greenteeth Lea The Redcaps
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TenaciousJ posted:The Morrigan is one of the few things I like about Iron Druid, other than the extremely rough sex that Atticus receives from her (my objection is that Atticus gets to casually gently caress deities). I'd rather read more about the Morrigan and Atticus going to sporting events than what is actually supposed to matter in that series. Dresden would refuse the sex and largely remove the gooniest part of the Iron Druid's treatment of deities. To be fair, Atticus is a bit of a mythic character, being the last Druid and all. But yeah, it is kinda odd how he just casually rolls around bangin everybody.
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I was looking through some of those and I didn't actually know that Mab was a thing. I thought that she was made up for this series. I didn't think she went all the way back to Shakespeare.
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Mouse is a Foo-dog. He's not even remotely Celtic. From the reddit AMA: quote:Q:Is mouse a Foo dog or a Temple dog? My understanding is that Foo dogs are Tibetan celestial beings, and Temple dogs are Foo dogs crossed with mortal canines (possibly multiple generations removed). quote:Q:This question contains a spoiler for my favorite character, Harry's badass best friend Mouse, so be warned.
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Tunicate posted:Mouse is a Foo-dog. He's not even remotely Celtic.
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Cù Sìth is probably where he drew inspiration for how Mouse looks too, since Foo/Temple dogs would look like something between a Chau and the statues in front of temples.
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mikeycp posted:Cù Sìth is probably where he drew inspiration for how Mouse looks too, since Foo/Temple dogs would look like something between a Chau and the statues in front of temples. Pretty sure he bases that off the Tibetan Mastiff.
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SerSpook posted:Pretty sure he bases that off the Tibetan Mastiff. Or that. I didn't know that breed existed. Talk about fluffy dogs, holy poo poo.
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mikeycp posted:Or that. I didn't know that breed existed. Talk about fluffy dogs, holy poo poo. A friend's parents-in-law breed them. They're awesome dogs. I thought Mouse was more of a Caucasian Mountain Dog, although for some reason I was always picturing him as an Irish Wolfhound up until book 8 or so.
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mikeycp posted:Cù Sìth is probably where he drew inspiration for how Mouse looks too, since Foo/Temple dogs would look like something between a Chau and the statues in front of temples.
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Mar 26, 2013 21:38
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My mental picture of Mouse looks a lot like this: What a cute little puppy.
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Raygereio posted:My mental picture of Mouse looks a lot like this: That thing is almost what I imagine the Loup Garou to look like... You know loving terrifying.
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I picture him like a dog version of Appa (from TLA).
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Silento posted:I picture him like a dog version of Appa (from TLA). That kinda makes sense only because I had the same emotional reaction to Harry meeting Mouse in Ghost Story as when Aang found Appa after he went missing. Mouse with those big flat teeth is a ridiculous image though.
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So I found this pointed out somewhere else, but I thought it really interesting. Harry's father died of unnatural causes according to the demon in Grave Peril. While Chauncy may have been lying, let's just assume he's not. In the same book, Harry makes mention of the fact that just before his father's death he started having nightmares. Harry also experiences bizarre dreams a couple others times in the series, most notably in Dead Beat when he encounters his father again (I've seen speculation on the Butcher forums that the forest this one takes place in might even be an early introduction to Demonreach). Another weird one is in Death Masks. This is before he gets Lash's coin and a woman that he recognizes but can't quite place seems to dispel nightmares that involve Elaine and the Denarians, then tells him to rest. You also have the meetings with his own subconscious in Fool Moon. Not sure if Harry's dreams have any real significance, but it's not like we're getting a new book until late in the year at the earliest.
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SerSpook posted:So I found this pointed out somewhere else, but I thought it really interesting. Like you said, there's lots of dream stuff throughout, but it's often semi-throwaway stuff. I'd say we'll see some sort of dreamscape / dreamlands thing eventually. The Outsiders are pretty Lovecraftian, and the Dreamlands was a big thing with Lovecraft. Maybe you can dream yourself into the far parts of the nevernever and that's why it's hard to get to them. Maybe you can even dream yourself Outside, if you're good enough.
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AlphaDog posted:Like you said, there's lots of dream stuff throughout, but it's often semi-throwaway stuff. I'd say we'll see some sort of dreamscape / dreamlands thing eventually. The Outsiders are pretty Lovecraftian, and the Dreamlands was a big thing with Lovecraft. I don't know if dreaming yourself Outside is possible really. The very base aspect of the Outsiders is that they are outside of our comprehension in terms of everything that we know dreaming included, look how they are not really affected by magic in the traditional sense. They may not even dream, hell they may not even sleep. I think entering their realm using a distinctly mortal manner is highly unlikely. But then I really don't know enough about them to say anything definitively, other than maybe that they are giant assholes.
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I did kinda put that wrong. Maybe Harry can dream himself Outside.
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SerSpook posted:Not sure if Harry's dreams have any real significance AlphaDog posted:Like you said, there's lots of dream stuff throughout, but it's often semi-throwaway stuff. I don't know WTF is goin on with Harry's dreams, but if there is one thing I've learned from the series is that everything is significant.  It's part of the reason why I think there's no way Harry's dad is 100% vanilla mortal. Besides the tidbits we've gleaned, a Malcolm reveal is too good of a potential plot twist which is probably why Butcher has kept the character so low-key. When we find out why Malcolm was special, we might learn why Harry is so special.
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Deadbeat posted:I don't know WTF is goin on with Harry's dreams, but if there is one thing I've learned from the series is that everything is significant. Malcolm is only special if he is normal, and the last thing Harry needs is more of a special background considering who his mother and grandfather are. And the starborn stuff. And the vampire half-brother. Milking more out of his lineage would be terrible. Malcolm matters because he is a goofy stage magician who named his son after Houdini, Copperfield and Blackstone and a good man. More than that would dilute things like the Ebenezzer reveal.
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Zore posted:Malcolm is only special if he is normal, and the last thing Harry needs is more of a special background considering who his mother and grandfather are. And the starborn stuff. And the vampire half-brother. I agree with this, though I absolutely believe Malcolm Dresden is one of the spirits/souls that helps Uriel, much like Murphy's father. It fits who he's been presented as and doesn't really make Harry more special, while still allowing him to have significance to the plot. It especially fits with the dream in Dead Beat, unless Malcolm was just Uriel adopting a guise or maybe Lash being particularly sneaky.
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AlphaDog posted:I did kinda put that wrong. That I am much more inclined to believe as a possibility seeing as he is connected to Outsiders in some way. But I'm not sure that would work with what we have seen so far of Harry's talents but who knows what might happen in the next few books.
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Hey, so thanks to all the folks that brought up Greywalker. I'm digging the audiobook. It's read by the voice of Moltov Cocktease/Sally Impossible, so even though parts of it are kinda slow her reading it makes it pretty entertaining.
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KellHound posted:Hey, so thanks to all the folks that brought up Greywalker. I'm digging the audiobook. It's read by the voice of Moltov Cocktease/Sally Impossible, so even though parts of it are kinda slow her reading it makes it pretty entertaining. Hm, I am sitting on a couple credits until my 3 Cheap Months are up...
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