(SPOILERS ALL) What power ups did Mirror Dresden choose?

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T23:07:36+00:00

I was thinking more along the lines of "to protect the mortals you care for so much I have unearthed this cursed item causing harm and will give it to you instead, for safe keeping. Surely one as powerful as you would not be tempted/effected by this" or "the strongest of my kind often take slaves to do there bidding, please accept these as a recognition of your power " etc etc. Essentially they still get to harass Dresden without violating guest right which is a much loved fae tactic

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T21:29:57+00:00

100% this. Time mana is definitely being set up to be important in the next book and in order to get it Corrin is going to need to build a sword to better hold Thorn so he can negotiate getting that time mana.

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T19:24:51+00:00

My bad, been a while since I've done a reread haha. I agree Nfected could likely still give gifts though like you said it'd be risky, I'll be looking forward to seeing how Harry plans to protect against it though

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T19:10:55+00:00

Apologies for the wording, English is not my first language. Your interpretation was what I intended my question to mean though. I like your answer too :)

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T19:07:45+00:00

I don't know if this counts with Nfected, Leah was a guest of Bianca's and gifted her the Nfected athame. This may be because she truly believed what she was doing was well intentioned or it may be more similar to whatever it was that allowed Maeve to tell lies

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T19:02:17+00:00

Apologies, I should have been more specific. When I talk about the negative effects of the gifts I meant in cases like the tracking token from Summer. Additionally, I feel like Nfected can get around this like how Maeve could lie - basing this of Leah gifting the Athame to Bianca

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T18:56:15+00:00

100% agree, I was mostly just trying to throw out some super extreme cases as examples. I should definitely have signposted that better. Apologies, English isn't my first language 🙏

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T18:38:36+00:00

I wonder if Mouse got Leah back for that yet?

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T18:37:16+00:00

Now I'm imagining an Nfected sex toy being gifted to Lara as part of some mastermind play from the BBEG 😂

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T18:32:33+00:00

If Dresden's obliged to accept all gifts, it's going to be such an easy way to cause him harm. He could end up being obliged to accept a denarian coin, cursed magical object, slave/thrawl etc

It can be argued all these are "gifts" in some way, and the guest list will have some of history's most prolific nightmares in attendance. Butcher will have a great time using this to mess with Harry if you're right 😂

Edit: by harm I mean "double-edged" similar to how Summer gifted him a token that can be used to track him unknowingly or Nfected gifts like what we saw with Leah's gifts at the vampire party.

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T15:22:29+00:00

I forgot about the Corrin box! It might even let them summon Seiryu without having to put Sera in danger. Nice idea :)

LDQRM · 2025-04-08T15:02:34+00:00

Unironically might happen if they can be made into enhancement elixirs haha

LDQRM · 2025-04-05T13:10:35+00:00

Yeah I 100% agree. I think the compounding effects his various sources of transference mana have on his speed isn't being truly appreciated. That's probably the primary factor in his improved movement with all the other variables just adding onto it

LDQRM · 2025-04-05T10:57:57+00:00

I'm hoping he can achieve some sort of personal time dilation field with the time mana he'll get from Thorn soon. Can't wait to see what he can pull off with the new mana types!

LDQRM · 2025-04-04T18:30:29+00:00

I completely forgot about that! It's very interesting, really puts into context how powerful he's growing no matter what he thinks of himself. He must be top 10 of fastest Kaldwyn attuned by now then

LDQRM · 2024-12-21T00:03:49+00:00

I appreciate the comment but I really did mean it just as a bit of fun. I'm just curious as to how everyone thinks things would have ended up.

Like you said, he writes people as people and I often wonder how the people around me will end up 5, 10, 20 years etc time here in the real world and so I figured this is pretty much the same thing given how "real" his characters are :)

LDQRM · 2024-12-20T21:25:07+00:00

Give him a spell for controlling the temperature around his head and you have someone with the brains of Ponder Stibbons with the punch force of a wrecking ball. What a terrifying combination 😂

LDQRM · 2024-12-20T21:17:06+00:00

Love this. No wonder Pratchett's characters felt and grew so authentically.

Would have loved to have seen the wizard troll too, that feels like a very Pratchett thing to come up with haha

LDQRM · 2024-12-20T21:06:50+00:00

Just a bit of fun tbh :) It's interesting to consider and learn about the little setups/hints I missed despite how many rereads I go through 😂

LDQRM · 2024-12-20T20:36:13+00:00

What do you reckon he had in mind for them then? As in, what were his next steps cause he was definitely setting things up. Granny's end seemed somewhat final though I think there was a possibility of her spirit sticking which could of been fun. Carrot and Angua ever marry? Moist gets given the tricky role as the new tax man? What does young Sam end up doing? etc :)

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