Huh, it would seem Kim is on the same page as L RE: White Council.
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Where did you find that first one?
I copypasted them from someone else's post when they transcribed them, they're from a recent interview about LAR Ping.
I can has link?
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
So according to that interview he says something along the lines of "we might see some jotun in the next book."
WELP.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
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Hm. Jotun-Aesir peace talks?
Now that has the potential for disaster.
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
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Maybe ask Thor if he wouldn't mind staying home for that one.
Does it count as foreshadowing if the Paranet Papers speculated on the Jotun showing up and then they do?
Because their Catch in the book is listed as 'Mjolnir.'
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
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That whole writeup admits they're following mythology and guesswork more than hard facts, though, and it's not like the RPG statblocks haven't been very wrong before.
If it is right, though, the non-Thor segment of the population can fall back on elemental opposition, attacking fire jotuns with ice and suchlike.
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Heh.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
From our DFRP Session:"Can buildings have a glass jaw?"note
Dresden might approve of that.
edited 20th Jun '15 2:01:06 PM by 3of4
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And then Wardens chopped off her head?
Or she carved a trail of terror and death soon after?
Or everyone was all like, "Oh, good thing he lived."
As a wizard, caving in a roof on someone does not seem like the result of a good roll, unless wizards must always live in fea of a nat 20.
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About that second WOJ, it's interesting how the Council does its best with the situation they currently have, but they do nothing to change it in the first place. The Paranet, by spreading awareness of magic to beneath-wizard-level talents, is probably doing more to prevent black magic rampages than any amount of beheadings, and helping the would-be black mages along the way.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
@Aesir-Jotun "Peace Talk": So no Dresden girls bonding time, then? 
Just kidding!
Though I wouldn't mind those.
@Glass jaw building: Civilian demolition corporation is basically expert on this, since most of their job is basically performing Hokuto no Shinken on dilapidated buildings.
@White Council ineptitude: It could be attributed on Senior Council`s ages and bad experiences on wizard communities during last millenia. Also, cheap public communication that quickly overtook muggle world usually cannot be accessed by most wizard.
Oh yeah, their anti-tech aura, that shit has not helped at all.
Considering the Fomor and jotun are 'cousins', they probably show up as muscle, not as a part of the settlement itself.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
In DFRP the player has power of decision (and he should discuss it with the GM) about the exact nature of the outcome. So its only a lawbreaking when the player decides it is. For example I could simply take that very good roll and decide that it threw the sniper off the roof as it collapsed and he landed on the next roof a floor below, with an epic headache 
(it was apparently not a human anyway)
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re: White Council, I can't remember where it comes up, but it's implied pretty heavily that the main reason they've lapsed into ineffectiveness is because the population of humanity has exploded in the last few centuries. In 1800, there were barely a billion people in the world. 200 years later, it was six billion. Now, only 15 years after that, it's seven billion and change. Given that White Council level wizards can live for centuries and take decades to really grow into their powers, there's no way in hell the White Council has had their numbers keep pace with the world population at large. That means fewer people doing more work — which means more lopping off heads to prevent a warlock from going free, rather than having the luxury of a rehabilitation process like Harry and Molly benefited from. It also means more people becoming warlocks in the first place out of nothing but ignorance (again, like Molly) because there's no one to teach them the laws of magic.
The solution, of course, is to get more manpower — which Harry has done with the Paranet. Just because they don't have White Council level powers doesn't mean they're idiots — and there's a hell of a lot more "minor" talents than there are people with proper White Council potential. Harnessing that is pretty much the best possible way to deal with the White Council's manpower issues — especially if the Paranet has a way to get the White Council proper involved if they run into something truly out of their league.
edited 21st Jun '15 4:53:27 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
It also ties in with the minor theme Butcher has of 'monsters have it easy'. While it was funny in Small Favor when Harry gets all jealous of Thomas being so cool fighting when he doesn't practice, doesn't exercise, and doesn't moisturize, in a sense all the 'monstrous' bad guys grow stronger easier than the nominal good guys. It's Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards played horrifyingly straight, and the 'warriors' have a bigger start.
edited 21st Jun '15 4:20:22 PM by SCMof2814
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Probably more along the lines of Evil Is Easy, if that's a trope.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Well, since fey are involved, Blue And Orange Are Easy can be more accurate.
edited 16th Jul '15 1:56:53 AM by TheCuriousFan
I vote for trolling.
Two interesting Wo Js that I've found (that appear to be incomplete, maybe I'll look up the full ones later).
Could you introduce Váli (Son of Odin), just a thought.
I can’t steal your character, I have to respect the world that you’ve built but I think we’ll actually get to see some jötunns (I think the plural is jötnar) in the next book which’ll be nice.
You can imagine the reaction of the… einherjaren (pronounced: in-hairy-are-n).
“Jötuns? Jötuns, yes! finally we get to do something significant.”
They’d be totally pumped about something like that and everybody else is gonna be looking at them like they're insane, that’s the kind of things those guys would be worked up for. Big league fighting against the jötuns.
And one about the White Council and the Black Council.
The White Council has long been my example of good intentions run amok, they were meant to be something that was good and positive and a force for protection and enlightenment but instead they kind of wind up being a bunch of thugs who end up killing a bunch of kids because they’re badly playing catch-up because they can’t keep pace with the world that has accelerated around them.
[…]Black Council is on the other end, the White Council is a force of restraint and keeping things buttoned down and under control and the BC is more along the lines of, “Well, if you got the power you should use it anyway you want to, you’ve got the power that’s what it’s for.”
They’ve caused all kinds of havoc that even Dresden hasn’t realised yet. And still more bad stuff that’s coming in the future, hehe.