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Strange Friends
Lash allowed Harry to throw off the Nightmare.
- It's established that Strange Friends happened between Death Masks and Blood Rites. At the end of Death Masks, Harry picked up Lasciel's coin to stop Michael's son from doing so; meaning that Harry already has a passenger by the time of Strange Friends.
- Also, on the headscratchers page, someone noted that in the Dresden Files, when someone realizes that they're acting out of character and are probably possessed, the possession doesn't just break.
- The person who wrote that (me!) got Demonic Possession confused with Mind Control. Demonic Possession is resistable, getting the mind whammy put on you is what makes your brain lock up.
- Therefore, Lash was probably fighting the Nightmare in Harry's mind, allowing Harry to break free of its influence.
False Masks
In False Masks Obsidian the Undying will show up.
- It is just Harry's luck, that while he is an assasination target for good guys, who mistook him for local Kemmler analogue, the real deal will show up (that is real Kemmler analogue, not Kemmler himself. Though addmitedly that could be even more awesome.). And of course since Order of Triune is so busy trying to off the Blackstone, Obsidian will have free reign to enact some apocalyptical plan, that only one intrepid wizard and Mane Six will be able to stop.
- Probably. Finagle tends to hate Harry that way.
- Expanding on that guess: Obsidian isn't just back already, he or an ally of his is actually one of the Order's current leaders. Which explains why they didn't discover him this time around and why everything seemed peaceful enough until Harry showed up...
- The Observer is Obsidian or one of his followers.
- Officially jossed. Obsidian is Deader than Dead thanks to Rashid the Gatekeeper, Morgan, Sanya and Michael killing him when he attacked Earth, all while Harry was in Equestria dealing with the Order Triune.
The Denarians are somehow involved in all of this.
- Okay, I'll admit right off the bat that this probably won't happen, mainly because it's based on Michael's appearance in the prologue. But damn it, I will continue to believe that the Denarians are in some way connected to Obsidian until I am proven wrong. Because If this is the case, then there is a possibility that Michael will ride Unicorn!Dresden into battle. And that's just too hilarious a mental image to give up on.
- Confirmed in a roundabout way. Celestia has met and fought Nicodemus, defending some Christians against him in the early part of his life. Because she senses Lash in Harry, she forbids him to return to Equestria until the matter of Lash is resolved.
Obsidian never was immortal.
- The original Obsidian is long dead, and all the ponies the Order Triune killed since were simply the victims of similar misunderstandings as Harry is now. (Which isn't to say that some of them couldn't have been villains in their own right — just that they weren't in fact all the same guy reborn.)
- Alternatively Obsidian is immortal, but Order Triune eliminated its share of innocent unicorns as well, just due to being paranoid.
- Semi-confirmed. Obsidian hasn't attacked Equestria in 1200 years because he's been gone the entire time and became a Demon Lord. At best, the first few times he was fought, he was just really hard to kill. And the Order Triune seems to have done just that.
Obsidian's Immortality is the Body Surfing kind.
- And it only works on black unicorns. That is to say, when Obsidian is killed, his ghost floats around until it finds a black unicorn to possess. This explains why history records say that Obsidian had a different cutie mark every time he came back. It also means that the Order Triune has been keeping him dead by denying him new hosts.
- Expanding on this, Obsidian's attempt to return this time will fail when he tries to possess Harry, because Harry isn't actually a pony.
- Officially jossed. Obsidian is Deader than Dead thanks to Rashid the Gatekeeper, Morgan, Sanya and Michael killing him when he attacked Earth.
The ponies who took Twilight Sparkle at the end of chapter 11 are Obsidianites
- We know that somepony who did not look like members of the Order took her after using some kind of mental whammy on her. If those someponies were with Celestia, no whammy would be necessary. Ergo, we have a third party involved. And who would be a better third party to involve than followers/disciples of the real Obsidian? [Name derived in obvious fashion from Kemmlerites]
- Jossed. As it turns out, the mental whammy wasn't cast by the pony who took Twilight, it was a mind-imprisoning spell that the Order Triune had planted in her head as a failsafe in case she somehow escaped. At first blush, the pony who rescued her doesn't seem to be an Obsidianite cultist, either. He's quite enigmatic and his ultimate role in the overall story remains to be seen, but he's not outright hostile and is even content to let Twilight go her merry way.
King Sombra was the original Obsidian
- An evil black unicorn with a talent for magic. He existed before the Order was pushed underground so the timeline appears to fit.
- If so, it would require a retcon on the part of psychicscubadiver, since Obsidian was mentioned before Season 3 started. Also, the way King Sombra is still imprisoned in his shadow-spirit-form-thing would not fit with the way Obsidian's immortality is supposed to work.
- Jossed. Sombra isn't Obsidian, or even one of his reincarnations, but there is a connection: In chapter 14, It's mentioned that Sombra (referred to as "The last king of the Crystal Empire") went insane after trying (and failing) to duplicate Obsidian's powers.
Obsidian is Kemmler.
- After being defeated once again by the Order, Obsidian travels to Earth and possesses a human body, and gains a new name: Kemmler.
- Officially jossed. Obsidian is Deader than Dead thanks to Michael piercing his heart when he attacked Earth while Harry was gone. Also, Obsidian got his power from bargaining his heart to He Who Walks Behind.
Ponies of Equestria are technically Outsiders
- Equestria is neither part of mortal world nor of Nevernever (as evidenced by Harry jumping out of Nevernever to get there). This would, considering the canon cosmology of The Dresden Files, make Ponies the Outsiders. They are not of the Eldritch Abomination kind, that the Laws of Magic talk about, but still Outsiders. Unless Princesses turn out to be Walkers, that will probably have little to no bearing on the plot.
- This is doubtful in light of recent revelations made in Cold Days, where it's shown that Outsiders live beyond a literal set of Outer Gates. Then again, given that this story was written and planned out before the release of Cold Days, the author might have planned it that way.
- Actually, Word of Jim is that alternate realities exist that you can reach through the Nevernever. Equestria is just one of those.
- Confirmed in Great Power, where Harry compares Nevernever to an ocean, on which Equestria, Earth and probably countless others are islands.
- This is doubtful in light of recent revelations made in Cold Days, where it's shown that Outsiders live beyond a literal set of Outer Gates. Then again, given that this story was written and planned out before the release of Cold Days, the author might have planned it that way.
Pony Molly will appear if there's a second sequel
- Come on, just think of the possibilities with her and Twilight's crushes on Dresden.
Vision Keen is Obsidian.
- Corrupted by the Nightmare Forces, restored by magic later on, currently living out his life in peaceful seclusion, but still with plenty of reason to want to tweak the nose of the Order Triune.
- Officially jossed. Obsidian is Deader than Dead thanks to Rashid the Gatekeeper, Morgan, Sanya and Michael killing him when he attacked Earth.
- Also, he doesn't seem to be against the Order specifically, just the Random Psychic Who Knows Stuff But Won't Reveal Anything, Just Help the Protagonist And Go His Way (do we have such a trope?).
Obsidian is still 'alive'
- While stabbing him with a holy sword is a very good try, it's not the first time he had been declared dead.
Princess Twilight may not turn up in this AU
Much as I would love to see Harry's reaction to this, the introduction of this version of Celestia and Luna means that two very different ideas of alicorns would have to be at play here. However, the very fact that Celestia and Luna are not native to the Equestria universe may mean that both concepts can co-exist, with just one applying to native Equestrian alicorns like Cadance and Twilight.- Jossed by Great Power, where Celestia's narration reveals that Twilight at least shows the potential to ascend.
Great Power
The events of White Night are either in progress or will happen during Great Power.
Meaning that the Lash issue is going to resolve itself soon.- Impossible. It's stated to be the middle of September in the fanfic and White Knight took place the summer after Proven Guilty (which also took place in the summer).
Which of the girls isn't a virgin?
- Most Likely: Rarity or Rainbow Dash. They both seem to have the widest social circles outside of the Mane Six, and both are arguably mature/assertive enough to bring a stallion homenote .
- The Dark Horse(no pun intended) would be Pinkie Pie. Yes, her childlike attitude may make it seem hard to believe she even knows about sex, but let's be honest; her nature is unrestrained in many ways. If she knows about it (and she does), she's the type to have tried it at least once. And being Pinkie, anything she has enjoyed once, she'd probably done more than once.
- I concur. Look at the Mane Six: Fluttershy is too shy for one-night stands (and we would know if she had a boyfriend), Twilight is too prim-and-proper (also, interested in magic more than anything), Applejack wouldn't keep it a secret from the others, Rarity Thinks Like a Romance Novel (hinting at lack of opportunities/inability to recognize them), Dash is a Tomboy through-and-through. Pinkie is the Phoebe Bouffay of the group and the most likely one to have tried something wild.
