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They might be back at full strength if you just look at the numbers, but the Wardens took big casualties and difference between even a fairly experienced wizard and a veteran combat wizard is huge. Morgan alone was probably worth a dozen or more wizards by himself. Losing combat trained wizards also makes it much harder to train up new ones (see: they asked Harry loving Dresden to help educate recruits) You also have to factor in losing the ability to craft enchanted swords until Luccio figures out how to make them in her new body. Those things are huge advantages against other magic users. I'm sure the council has a bunch of tricks up their sleeve (they're wizards, of course they do) but they're in rough shape and I doubt they could survive another large scale direct conflict
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Just accidentally found out that Harmony Black 2 is out tomorrow
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Apr 26, 2016 04:36
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Mortanis posted:
I think it, Stiletto (sequel to the Rook), and one other book I'm forgetting all release in June. Edit: I lied, Hanging Tree is August and I can't remember what the other one I'm thinking of is 
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May 3, 2016 18:32
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I think i remember reading that butcher has gotten some things wrong about Chicago that nobody who actually lives there would get wrong. One that I might be making up is the description of Wrigley field when they arrive there for the duel is pretty wrong, as in the entire external area he describes to doesn't actually exist IRL or something
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May 6, 2016 16:40
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There's eight of them now? I stopped at like #4 and was already sick of it the book before but gave the series one more go. Which sucks because I actually did like a lot of the setting, just... not the main character, or the plot, or many of the side characters
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Jun 1, 2016 14:18
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Ornamented Death posted:This is loving stupid. And honestly to be fair to GRRM, dance with dragons is 100k words longer than skin game and cold days combined, while being significantly more intricate. I would be surprised if Winds of Winter wasn't longer than those two + aeronauts windlass as well. GRRM ran into problems because he doesnt keep notes and didn't plot out a lot of stuff beforehand, but he's actually not outrageously slow. The main issue with the Dance delay was that he only talked about pizza and Wildcards for 10 years and would post poo poo like "NEW BOOK UPDATE!!!!!! : wildcards volume 99 is out also do you guys like football"
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Sep 20, 2016 22:14
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Magres posted:I think that'd honestly just be depressing. Harry has hosed up but he tries his best and it'd be a lovely book to spend a few hundred pages rubbing his nose in all of the times he wasn't good enough (because he was put in a situation where it was completely impossible to be good enough). It would be incredibly lovely for harry, you say? 100% confirmed to happen
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Sep 20, 2016 22:57
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MeLKoR posted:Be that as it may you are aware that the only last novel we'll ever get will be the novelization of the show's last season, right? I had a Wildcards gang tag for years, all hope has long since fled my body
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Sep 21, 2016 05:40
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The more you guys post the more I realise that basically everything other than the main plotline in blood rites is pretty good
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Oct 14, 2016 04:59
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I think that post was referring to butcher's decision to regress Thomas being unnecessary, not claiming that there wasn't a good in-universe reason
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Oct 17, 2016 17:51
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vulturesrow posted:Not sure I agree with that personally. I think having Thomas regress helps highlight the immense difficulty for Thomas to keep his feeding to a minimum both from a physical perspective and a mental perspective. White Court differs from Red Court in that they don't attach any special significance to controlling your hunger and in fact Thomas is explicitly criticized for that that by his sister. I actually thought the fact that he was able to control himself that much was a bit glossed over I think Thomas regressing like that is weird only because butcher seemingly took pains to get rid of the rapey bits as much as he could, and then walked it back Mostly i just think butcher lacks the finesse to deal with it successfully. Actually just thinking it over now, it seems like there's a bit of incongruity with how the white court houses feed. Whats-his-name was feeding on fear at splattercon, but as far as I know nobody was afraid of him specifically and he was chowing down on the ambient fear. Yet apparently the Raiths need somebody to be lusting after them specifically? Couldn't Thomas potentially hire himself out as protection at one of Marcone's brothels and siphon off some of the ambient emotion?
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Oct 17, 2016 22:20
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Zore posted:Yeah, let's not forget summoning Mother Winter. He actually hurt her, and he was mostly guessing some of her names. I thought that was more because mother winter couldn't move without her walking stick and so couldn't answer the summons, which would be painful to a fae I guess, than because of anything specific to Harry
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Oct 26, 2016 05:07
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Calidus posted:I have zero shame, I purchased this: https://thetinkerspacks.com/collections/apparel/products/polka-tee I own and wear this shirt regularly I know like 3 people who get the reference
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Nov 22, 2016 03:01
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Not 100% sure what you mean by that, but the Sandman Slim series opens with the protagonist escaping from actual Hell and Lucifer is a character in the books
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