History Headscratchers / CodexAlera

** Oh. I must've missed it. Wiki/TheOtherWiki also mentions some stuff like because they can sense metal, they can fight in absolute darkness. It still seems a bit odd that we never see any metal furies, though; when the feral furies invade Riva in ''First Lord's Fury'', metal is the only fury that doesn't appear, when they could've been, say, creatures made of scythe-like blades.

** According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, modern scientists commonly define "species" as "the largest group of organisms in which two individuals are capable of reproducing fertile offspring, typically using sexual reproduction". Assuming Kitai and Tavi's child is not infertile, under this definition Marat and humans are biologically the same species (and so are neanderthals and cro-magnons, incidentally). However even that definition has some shortcomings (see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem species problem]]). It should be noted that the modern definition of species is not one that has always been used by all scientists, and many organisms once considered different species are now known to be the same species, and vice-versa. So, FantasticRacism is the most likely explanation here. The characters in-universe are most likely using (what we would consider) an outdated or esoteric definition of species.

** There is mention throughout the series of actual discrete furies. Pretty much anytime Amara or Bernard or Isana are working, they use their own named furies, and even the High Lords seem to use specific furies. For example, Aquitaine has probably a dozen individual furies under his command that appear as discrete entities, and the the Vord Queen's entire strategy for attacking Riva hinges on the use of thousands of wild furies. The interaction between urban Citizens and their furies is more like Avatar-esque bending, while interactions between rural Citizens and their furies is much more in line with Pokemon.

** what is meant by 'Tavi is officially 17 and actually about 19' ? Isana stunted his growth so others would look at him and assume he was too young to be septimus son but she never outright lied to Tavi or Bernard or any of the other people they lived with about how old he was. In the first book Tavi is fifteen but looks a couple years younger in the second book, where we meet max, Tavi is stated as being 17 and then in the third book he is 19 .

** Powerful furrycrafters are required by law to produce as many offspring as possible (see the entire sublot in book 2 with Amara). It is quite likely that a high lord is legally forbidden from using contraception.

** We see a similar reaction from the queen in Canea, who condemns Tavi for his individuality and is shocked that he is still willing to sacrifice himself to eliminate her. I think the Caulderon Queen's shock about the lack of "purpose" is ''denial''; what she (and the Canea Queen after her) really can't accept is that the Alerans' are as devoted to their species (a greater purpose) as the vord are to theirs. In short, the all-consuming, xenophobic, superiority complex vord cannot accept that they are NotSoDifferent.

** Butcher didn't choose the ideas, someone else did. That guy probably felt these ideas were bad, and didn't realize that Anything + Jim Butcher = CrazyAwesome.

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Could have sworn Tavi was around 20 by Captain's Fury.]]