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Peace Talks

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Peace Talks	comment	Warning! All spoilers for previous books are unmarked on this page!Peace Talks is book #16 in The Dresden Files.The one where Harry handles security for a convention of some of the most powerful entities on the planet.It's been a rough few years since Harry Dresden destroyed the Red Court. The death of such a powerful faction resulted in a massive power vacuum, and the monstrous Fomor have been trying to exploit it, seizing territory from others and abducting magical creatures of all types for their own evil ends. But now, after years of low-grade warfare, they say they want peace. They propose a series of talks to hash out their differences, and the other factions agree. In fact, Baron Marcone of Chicago does more than agree: he volunteers to host the talks right in his hometown.And poor Harry Dresden winds up on the security team.Once again surrounded by enemies, Harry must use all his skills to ensure the safety of himself, the other wizards, and the innocents of Chicago. But this time, even a wizard as strong as Harry Dresden might not be able to keep everyone safe.The first six chapters have been made available to read on jim-butcher.com, which also has an official trailer for the book. You can also read an excerpt from a later chapter here. It released on July 14, 2020, and is part of a duology. The second part, Battle Ground, released on September 29.
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Peace Talks / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Peace Talks / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Marcone asks Carter LaChaise if heâ€™s one and states if he and his kin run, hide, and refuse to honor the Accords' mutual defense pact then heâ€™ll be seen as one to the entire supernatural community.
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Peace Talks / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Peace Talks / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: When Harry realizes how driven by hatred Ebenezar was, how out of control he became, and how if Harry had actually been there and not secretly on the boat, he really would have died by Ebenezar's hand, he has a breakdown, knowing that things will never be the same between them.
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Peace Talks / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Peace Talks / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: From the trailer:
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Peace Talks / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Peace Talks / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: After many, many books. Harry and Karrin finally get together and have sex, as well as declare their love for each other.
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Peace Talks / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
Peace Talks / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Harry and others in the know realize that the Outsiders massing a large assault on the Outer Gates at the same time that Ethniu declares war on the world is no coincidence, and must mean that they're working together.
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Peace Talks / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Peace Talks / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Harry wonders if telling Ebenezar that Thomas is his other grandson might help improve their relationship, but decides that McCoy's long history with the White Court wouldn't be patched that easily, and it may even backfire and make things worse. Sure enough, McCoy goes through a lot of emotions at once when he learns the truth, but seems even more determined to kill Thomas out of horror and disgust.
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Peace Talks / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Peace Talks / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Ethniu makes her presence unambiguously known by smacking down Mab and then saying that they must destroy The Masquerade. Mab's defeat immediately demoralizes everyone present except Ferrovax, and Ethniu even manages, by force of will, to choke Ferrovax mentally so he can only speak when she allows it.
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Peace Talks / int_19db6967	type	Ancient Evil
Peace Talks / int_19db6967	comment	Ancient Evil: Ethniu and Corb are old enough that they remember when Mab was a child. The former further remembers Odin when he was far stronger and more on the divine-side of the scales.
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Peace Talks / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Peace Talks / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Peace Talks was billed as the bloodiest entry in The Dresden Files to date. Numerous of Marcone's staff are slaughtered, but the only named characters who die are either introduced in this book and have only a single, relatively unimportant scene, or are from a short story rather than the novels themselves. This is probably because the book grew too long and was split into two, with the latter half being the one the trailer refers to. And the implied body count of unnamed, offscreen civilians is immense.
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Peace Talks / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Peace Talks / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Harry really should have picked an earlier moment to tell Ebenezar that the White Court vampire he's so trigger happy towards is also his own grandson. On the other hand, given Ebenezar's hatred for White Court vampires, which Harry repeatedly compares to his own regarding ghouls, he might not have reacted very well at any time; this is why Harry didn't tell him earlier.
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Peace Talks / int_1e68311c	type	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction
Peace Talks / int_1e68311c	comment	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction: Ramirez's reaction when Harry asks if the Council is requesting he serve as their representative at the talks.
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Peace Talks / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Peace Talks / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Well, if the pin is one of the nails from the Crucifixion and incorporated into a holy sword, the answer is now canonically one. When he's summoning Molly, Harry uses a teen pop magazine, a can of Dr Pepper, a watermelon Ring Pop, a jar of Nutella and sandpaper. It stands out as weird... until you remember that her surname is Carpenter.
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Peace Talks / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Peace Talks / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Corb enters the meeting chamber and the first thing he does is fling Gwynn ap Nuddâ€˜s head into the middle of everyone. Mab is less than pleased with this.
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Peace Talks / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Peace Talks / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: Harryâ€™s grand plan to save Thomas and make sure he canâ€™t be traced is to put him in a cell on Demonreach, a side effect of which is to be confronted with all the pain he has inflicted on others. Ebenezar promotes this trope in regards to parenting, and given what happened in this book and previous books, he's got a point; Harry, however, is right that Maggie being with a foster family didn't save her from the vampires, just as foster care didn't save Harry from Justin trying to turn him into a magical enforcer and Ebenezar staying away from Harry's mother didn't save her from the White King.
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Peace Talks / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Peace Talks / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: While the vote hasn't happened yet, thereâ€™s a very strong chance that Harry could suffer this from the White Council and be stripped of his title of Wizard because of his various actions in the past books, including a fear of his dual loyalty to the Council and Mab as her Winter Knight. Assuming he survives the beatdown and flash-freezing Harry deals to him, the sidhe noble who placed a mental whammy on Warden Yoshimo is banished from Winter lands and holdings by decree of Winter Lady Molly.
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Peace Talks / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Peace Talks / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: When Ebenezar discovers that Thomas is his grandson, he immediately begins a spell to destroy the boat. Harry stops him, and the spell appears to kill Harry instead. For a moment, we see Ebenezar completely break down as he realizes that he's just murdered his grandson, although it's unclear how much it's sunk in that this happened while trying to kill his other grandson.
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Peace Talks / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
Peace Talks / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: The titular peace talks are a gathering of the Unseelie Accords signatories to finally hash out an arrangement with the Fomor. Except the Fomor and Ethniu are really just gathering everyone to announce their intentions to wage war on humanity, and to tell the signatories to Join or Die.
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Peace Talks / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Peace Talks / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Lara notes that she might be a monster, but she has limits on what she will do against certain foes. Most of those involve a person's family.
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Peace Talks / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Peace Talks / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Despite the fact that it gives him a magical protection that burns her to the touch, Lara is genuinely pleased to learn that Harry and Karrin have finally gotten together.
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Peace Talks / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Peace Talks / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Harry gets into a row with Ebenezar, defending his decision to allow Thomas to know about Maggie. Then Thomas attacks the svartalf embassy, which immediately puts Maggie in danger.
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Peace Talks / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Peace Talks / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Harry is getting remarkably good at these. He manages to survive Ebenezar's wrath by using a doppelganger created by Molly Carpenter that he projects his essence into. It distracts Ebenezar long enough to get Thomas to safety. Played with by Lara Raith assuming Harry imprisoning Thomas in stasis is one of these when it was really just the only way to keep him alive.
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Peace Talks / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Peace Talks / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Ethniu turns out to be the true mastermind of the Fomor.
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Peace Talks / int_3af9f8b6	type	Magical Gesture
Peace Talks / int_3af9f8b6	comment	Magical Gesture: In the climax of the story, Ebenezar rides to a confrontation on a large flying boulder that he keeps in the air with his fingers crooked in what Harry refers to as a "mystic sign." Harry further describes it as a "mystic shorthand" for the spell keeping the boulder aloft.
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Peace Talks / int_3b2ee7b6	type	Instant Turn-Off
Peace Talks / int_3b2ee7b6	comment	Instant Turn-Off: Harry and Karrin get frisky while he's visiting her early in the book, only for their movements to inadvertently aggravate one of the injuries she incurred from Nicodemus's beating in the previous book. Harry's arousal vanishes almost instantly. (They try again at the end of the chapter and apparently use their imaginations to figure out ways around the issue.)
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Peace Talks / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Peace Talks / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Exactly what did Lara do for Mab that led to the Queen of Air and Darkness owing the Queen of the White Court three favors? She claims to Ebenezar that it involved "visa issues." McCoy and Etri already know each other somehow. Given that they've both been around for centuries (possibly even longer in Etri's case), this isn't surprising. Harry comments that the last time he went to a party, things went kind of sideways. McCoy says, "me, too." Maggie Sr wasn't the only person close to him that Eb lost to the White Court, though he declines to elaborate.
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Peace Talks / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Peace Talks / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: Harry asks the svartalf on guard at his and Molly's apartment if it would kill him to let them in without going through the security passphrase procedure. The svartalf, Austri, just stares at him and says that it potentially could kill him, being a security procedure and all.
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Peace Talks / int_3f4ec001	type	DestructiveSavior
Peace Talks / int_3f4ec001	comment	Destructive Savior: Ferrovax is still a major power. When he joins the alliance, he notes that he'll need to contain his own power or he'll wipe out more of the city than Ethniu and the Fomor will simply by showing up.
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Peace Talks / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Peace Talks / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The title of the follow-on book Battle Ground (2020), announced so quickly after this one came out, makes the outcome of the titular peace talks rather obvious.
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Peace Talks / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Peace Talks / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: An accidental one by Harry towards Lara. He imprisons Thomas in one of the crystals on Demonreach, which keeps him safely beyond the reach of the svartalves and keeps Thomas's hunger from devouring him. But this also means that if Lara wants Thomas back she'll have to keep on Harry's good side, since he's the only one who can release Thomas from his imprisonment. Harry had not realized that particular point until Lara pointed it out.
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Peace Talks / int_47f92c8c	type	Giant Footprint Reveal
Peace Talks / int_47f92c8c	comment	Giant Footprint Reveal: From the end of the first chapter:
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Peace Talks / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Peace Talks / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Harry's father used this, as part of being an illusionist—the audience expects misdirection, so you have to be good at having them look one way while you do something in another direction. Harry uses this when he has to retrieve Thomas from the basement of the BFS castle, and uses a combination of a veiling potion and a distraction.
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Peace Talks / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Peace Talks / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: Karrin is now under investigation for her role in the Skin Game bank robbery, especially since it resulted in an innocent bystander being killed.
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Peace Talks / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Peace Talks / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Harry's "conjuritis" results in the involuntary conjuration of whatever was in Harry's mind when he sneezes, including metaphors. It comes up via Lara sparring with Harry that while she can turn on her lust-induction power whenever she wants, she can't always turn it off when it's unwanted.
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Peace Talks / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Peace Talks / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Harry manages to accomplish a Batman Gambit on Lara Raith entirely by accident. By putting Thomas Raith in stasis, Harry is the only person who can pull him out. As such, Lara Raith now must keep Harry alive in order to see Thomas ever released again. She believes it was a master stroke of manipulation when it was just dumb luck. Harry even lampshades it, wondering in his Internal Monologue if he's been hanging around Queen Mab too much.
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Peace Talks / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Peace Talks / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Ebenezar can't comprehend that a vampire of any Court can be anything other than a scheming monster. He'll kill one at the slightest excuse, even his own grandson. In fairness, 99% of the vampires we meet are scheming monsters, and it's not as if Thomas himself hasn't pulled off some impressive schemes of his own—they just usually have goals like "protect my family and lover" and "keep me from being a complete monster." Odin's employees view all of the Forest People as monsters because Grendel was one of the Forest People who took to war against them. River Shoulders at one point takes an Einherjar aside and tells him Grendel was a loony and that the rest of the Sasquatch bear the Norse pantheon no grudge over it. Later, Harry has to reinforce the point when the Valkyrie Freydis Gard says some insulting things about River.
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Peace Talks / int_5932d12b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Peace Talks / int_5932d12b	comment	Cerebus Callback: The sixth book of the series started with the famous line â€œThe building was on fire, and it wasnâ€™t my fault.â€� The phrase is invoked here at the end of an early chapter with â€œThe embassy was on fire, and my daughter was inside.â€�
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Peace Talks / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Peace Talks / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Harry says that Lara Raith is his favorite frenemy. She, in turn, seems genuinely happy for him and Murphy on learning of their Relationship Upgrade.
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Peace Talks / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Peace Talks / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: "Guest-right" comes up repeatedly. The svartalves are very insistent on enforcing guest-right, even castigating Ebenezar McCoy and Harry when they get into a public argument about whether Maggie should be fostered (Ebenezar's position, thinking to protect her from threats) or stay with Harry (who notes doing so never seems to have helped anyone in their family avoid trouble before). Later Thomas very severely breaks guest-right by attempting to assassinate the svartalf king, killing one of his bodyguards in the process. When Harry meets with Lara at her house, he makes sure to ask directly if he is her guest every time to keep her and him working under the protections of this concept. When she requests that he indulge her in helping with a training session, Harry notes internally any injury or even his death could be excused as a "tragic training accident". All the guests and attendants to the Peace Conference are expected to abide by these rules. Those who don't will suffer Mab's displeasure. Harry realizes that as Mab's Knight, he will be her man in doling out that displeasure unless the person is out of his league. So, when a sidhe noble uses a charm whammy on Warden Yoshimo with his fiddling as another tries to claim no actual harm had been done, Harry kicks the charmer into a stone wall, breaking many bones, and then flash-freezes him. If he survives being an ice sculpture that night, Lady Molly will have his title stripped and he will be banished from Winter's domain for his actions. The first thing Corb and Ethniu do upon entering the peace talks is to murder all the valets and workers outside, claiming that since they were contract workers, the pair weren't really breaking the laws of hospitality. Shortly after, they dispense with the pretense and outright attack Mab.
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Peace Talks / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Peace Talks / int_5ff56a1f	comment	The peace talks themselves include numerous characters who havenâ€™t appeared in some time. Many amount only to cameos, but the list includes, in addition to the above, Marcone, Hendricks, Gard, Childs, Vadderung, Ferrovax, Ivy, Sarissa, Fix, Cristos, Martha Liberty, Listens-to-Wind, Wild Bill, Chandler, Yoshimo, the Redcap, and Gary the paranoid Paranetter. Even Mavra gets name-checked for the first time in a while when itâ€™s mentioned sheâ€™s been seen recently, although she doesnâ€™t make an appearance. The Genowskwa is likewise mentioned to be back, somehow.
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Peace Talks / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Peace Talks / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Ethniu is a god above Mab and more powerful than the entirety of the White Council as well as other Unseelie Accord members put together. There's no possible way to fight her and doing so is a Bolivian Army Ending everyone agrees to. The thing is she doesn't know that Harry has access to both the Athame and Placard stolen from Hades, and control of Demonreach.
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Peace Talks / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: This is how Austri's death protecting Etri is seen. Dying in defense of his sovereign (and the fact that he was a close personal friend of the royal family) means that the assassination attempt is an offense beyond what weregild can smooth over.
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Peace Talks / int_6760ff37	type	Secret Secret-Keeper
Peace Talks / int_6760ff37	comment	Secret Secret-Keeper: Lara. As it turns out, not only does she know that Thomas and Harry are brothers (as she has for a while) but also that their grandfather is Ebenezar McCoy and apparently has since Thomas was a baby. According to her, listening is an underrated skill in her family.
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Peace Talks / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Peace Talks / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Harry learns that his sex with Karrin early in the book has cloaked him in Love's protection, which Lara finds out when she is burned by him while breaking Thomas out of Marcone's cells. This also means that Karrin has a similar protection now too.
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Peace Talks / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Peace Talks / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Ebenezar may come off as very harsh for his knee-jerk reflexive hatred of the White Court and the way he lectures Harry for allowing Thomas to know about Maggie...but he does have good reason to hate the White Court, and given that they're a race of mind-benders who've enslaved and feasted on countless people for centuries, he's not wrong to worry about their influence on his grandson and great-granddaughter. All Harry can say in Thomas's defence is 'He's my friend, he's different, just trust me!' Which, as he correctly notes, is what abuse victims always say. note Additionally, the first time Ebenezar encountered Thomas the latter had just been thwarted in the act of trying to rape and devour Molly Carpenter (albeit after having been tortured by the Naagloshii for several days) and Ebenezar got a good look at the aftermath of Lara Raith succeeding in raping and devouring her cousin Madeline; it only reinforced his opinion that the White Court are insatiable monsters who turn on their own kin if they're hungry enough. There's also the fact that Thomas is the son (and spitting image) of the man who raped and murdered Ebenezar's own daughter. He is also not wrong that Harry has an impressive Rogues Gallery, most of whom Would Hurt a Child to get to him. In fact, that's exactly what happened in Skin Game, not two months previous, when Nicodemus tried to kill Maggie in order to get vengeance on Harry. And the next best thing happens later in this book, when the svartalfs try to take Maggie hostage after Thomas attacks and tries to assassinate Etri. Harry is utterly disgusted by the idea of leaving Maggie with the Carpenters, arguing that it didn't save her from the Red Court, him from Justin, or Margaret from the White King. Ebenezar, however, counters that the Carpenters' home is much safer than a random foster home (especially one in the middle of Red Court territory). Between Michael's team of guardian angels, Michael and Charity themselves, an archangel-empowered safe room, Mouse, Molly's Sidhe guardians, and a threshold that could probably hold off an army, as he notes, it's just about the safest place in the world outside of maybe Edinburgh.
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Peace Talks / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Peace Talks / int_6d9bc945	comment	Daniel Carpenter is living on an army base somewhere and is expecting a child with his wife.
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Peace Talks / int_6fd620fd	type	Anti-Human Alliance
Peace Talks / int_6fd620fd	comment	Anti-Human Alliance: When the Fomor arrive, they essentially demand that the Unseelie Accords signatories become this (naturally meaning kicking Marcone out), saying they can join the Fomor in reestablishing supernatural dominance over humanity, or die.
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Peace Talks / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Peace Talks / int_7040b6bc	comment	Harry mentions that the last time he went to a party, "things went kind of sideways."
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Peace Talks / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Peace Talks / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Harry gets Demonreach prepared to trap an Elder God while he gets an athame heavily implied to be made from the head of Longinus' spear and the placard of the Crucifixion in preparation to battle Ethniu. Using both these artifacts is considered the equivalent of arming yourself with two nuclear weapons, and even Demonreach itself is disturbed by the implications.
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Peace Talks / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Peace Talks / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Considering the whopping number of characters for whom The Bus Came Back, itâ€™s worth noting that this is the first full novel without an appearance of Bob the Skull. Daniel Carpenter is living on an army base somewhere and is expecting a child with his wife. Ivy appears without her erstwhile bodyguard Kincaid for the first time. A short story posted online reveals she fired him after he agreed to assist in Harry's attempted suicide, as Harry is her only other friend.
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Peace Talks / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Peace Talks / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Harry and Murphy as well as the entirety of the Unseelie Accorded races are going off to fight the Last Titan and the entire court of the Fomor. Harry and Murphy have some Artifact of Doom help as well as Demonreach but it does feel very much like a last stand.
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Peace Talks / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
Peace Talks / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Join or Die: Ethniu and Corb tell the assembled Unseelie Accords nations to either stand with them or burn with humanity.
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Peace Talks / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Peace Talks / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Harry calls Lara "an apex sexual predator," at which she smirks and says he's not wrong.
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Peace Talks / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Peace Talks / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: As a result of the original book getting split into two, several of the plot threads are left unresolved: Randolph's investigation into Murphy and Dresden's involvement in the events of Skin Game, and the question of who put him onto them. Harry's standing with the Council, and if he'll be cast out. Who threatened Justine in order to blackmail Thomas into attacking Etri, or if that's even what happened. Who sent the cornerhounds after Harry and Ebenezar. And of course, the big cliffhanger itself, Ethniu and Corb's pending invasion of Chicago.
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Peace Talks / int_82a631b8	type	Present-Day Past
Peace Talks / int_82a631b8	comment	Present-Day Past: Based on the timeline, the book takes place around 2015. However, Harry mentions the Notre Dame fire, which happened four years later.
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Peace Talks / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Peace Talks / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Given what Lord Raith did to Maggie Sr, what Thomas very nearly did to Molly and Lara did to Madeleine, combined with the White Court's history of seduction and mind manipulation, and the fact that 99% of vampires are ruthless predators, Ebenezar has every reason to be suspicious of how Thomas is much closer to Harry than any occasional ally should be. It's just that he doesn't know about the fact that they're brothers and that Thomas genuinely does care for his family.
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Peace Talks / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Peace Talks / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: Harry has been spending a lot of time concerned with the fact that Mab could get inside his head and push him over the edge to the dark side. In this book, he wonders if Demonreach, the other supernatural entity he made a compact with, might be trying the same thing. He realises it towards the end, when he has bigger issues to worry about, but the thought is still unnerving.
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Peace Talks / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Peace Talks / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Harry's pedestal of Ebenezar was already broken by the discovery he routinely broke the Laws of Magic as the Blackstaff. However, it's almost completely destroyed when Ebenezar attempts to murder Thomas and ends up killing Harry's doppelganger.
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Peace Talks / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Peace Talks / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Harry asks Butters for help with his conjuritis. Butters just tells him to get some basic cold and flu medication. Harry is a little bothered by this.
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Peace Talks / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Peace Talks / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Cornerhounds are a type of Outsider, so they automatically qualify. Specifically, they're horse-sized quadrupeds covered in tentacles (including a mass of them in place of a head) and with small mouths covering their bodies' lengths, each pack is actually a single being in multiple bodies, and they can emerge from any right angle.
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Peace Talks / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Peace Talks / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Thomas is arrested for trying to kill Etri, and in the process of trying to save him Harry potentially gets himself kicked out of the White Council, gets into a fight with Ebenezar that not only ruins their relationship but results in Ebenezar finding out Thomas is Harry's brother, and in the end has to seal Thomas in Demonreach to save his life. Meanwhile, Ethniu the Last Titan is revealed to be The Man Behind the Man to the Fomor, and after smacking down Mab and blacking out Chicago as a show of force, announces her intention to raze Chicago in the opening move of a war against all of mankind.
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Peace Talks / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Peace Talks / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Casting magic inside a ring of fire is actually banned by the White Council for non-Wardens. Not because it's Black Magic, but simply because it both amplifies the power of any spell exponentially and renders the effects dangerously unpredictable.
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Peace Talks / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Peace Talks / int_90c018ac	comment	Ebenezar can't comprehend that a vampire of any Court can be anything other than a scheming monster. He'll kill one at the slightest excuse, even his own grandson. In fairness, 99% of the vampires we meet are scheming monsters, and it's not as if Thomas himself hasn't pulled off some impressive schemes of his own—they just usually have goals like "protect my family and lover" and "keep me from being a complete monster."
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Peace Talks / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
Peace Talks / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: When the Wardens announce their suspicion that Harry has gone sinister and is lying to them, he points out that they only tracked him down to begin with because Ramirez lied to Harry and used an underhanded trick to keep tabs on him. Chandler, at least, concedes the point.
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Peace Talks / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Peace Talks / int_927b2f11	comment	Considering the whopping number of characters for whom The Bus Came Back, itâ€™s worth noting that this is the first full novel without an appearance of Bob the Skull.
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Peace Talks / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Peace Talks / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Gwynn ap Nudd, a baseball-loving fairy king whom Dresden met and befriended in the short story "Curses," was killed offscreen. His head is presented by Corb.
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Peace Talks / int_9578d077	type	My Instincts Are Showing
Peace Talks / int_9578d077	comment	My Instincts Are Showing: When Ferrovax is pissed smoke will blow from his nose, much like from a dragon's snout.
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Peace Talks / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Peace Talks / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Ethniu the Last Titan, though oddly (due to the original plot getting split into two books) she doesn't show up and start putting her plans into motion until the last quarter of the book.
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Peace Talks / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Peace Talks / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The ending of the book results in the Unseelie Accorded Nations all forced to engage in open warfare against the Fomor, meaning The Masquerade almost certainly will be irretrievably shot.
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Peace Talks / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Peace Talks / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Butters spars with Sanya with their Swords of the Cross. He discovers that the reforged Fidelacchius, which he turned into a lightsaber-like weapon when he took it up at the end of Skin Game, can no longer cut mortals (at best it might give them a minor burn), which they guess comes with significantly increased effectiveness against supernatural threats. Sanya suggests a Kalashnikov as a solution.
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Peace Talks / int_9b3c14cb	type	Van Helsing Hate Crimes
Peace Talks / int_9b3c14cb	comment	Van Helsing Hate Crimes: A Downplayed Trope with Ebenezar as he considers Thomas Raith to be a monster by virtue of being a White Court member. Normally, he'd be right but Thomas is a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire and unknowingly Ebenezar's grandson.
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Peace Talks / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Peace Talks / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: This book gives quite a bit of focus on Lara Raith as Harry has to repay Mab's favors to her, as well as work with her to save Thomas from the svartalves.
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Peace Talks / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Peace Talks / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Austri, the friendly svartalf, dies offscreen protecting his king Etri from an assassin early on.
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Peace Talks / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Peace Talks / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Giant Footprint Reveal comes back in the next book. Harry and Lara are, at worst, foulweather enemies on friendly terms. Partly because of the Winter Mantle (probably), they are noticeably friendlier in this book. Later on, Freydis provides cover for Harry and Lara during their rescue of Thomas, by conjuring an illusion of them getting busy in the gym of Marcone's castle. An Einherjar sees it, and Freydis mentions that the rumor mill will have it that they're an item before the end of the peace conference. This turns out to be quite prophetic, but not in the way that's expected.
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Peace Talks / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Peace Talks / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Harry is still driving the huge purple monstrosity of a car he got back in Cold Days. Mab has to remind Harry that the car is technically hers. Harry uses the same obscurity potion he used all the way back in Fool Moon. Hearing that Lara has three favors owed to her by Mab for previous deeds done, and that Mab has delegated two of them to Harry to fulfill, Harry grouses that all he got for his favor from Summer was a doughnut. Mab simply notes that Lara is using her credit more wisely than Harry. When Titania needs to be told some information, Mab requests Fix play messenger because Titania is still not taking her calls. Harry mentions that the last time he went to a party, "things went kind of sideways."
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Peace Talks / int_9e8aa11e	type	Friendly Fireproof
Peace Talks / int_9e8aa11e	comment	Friendly Fireproof: In its new form, Fidelacchius is incapable of harming mortals (with both inanimate objects and monsters remaining fair game). While this means Butters can swing it around pretty freely, it also means that, like the Carpenter house, he's vulnerable to attacks from vanilla mortals (whether working for the bad guys or not).
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Peace Talks / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Peace Talks / int_9f80e1da	comment	Harry and Lara are, at worst, foulweather enemies on friendly terms. Partly because of the Winter Mantle (probably), they are noticeably friendlier in this book. Later on, Freydis provides cover for Harry and Lara during their rescue of Thomas, by conjuring an illusion of them getting busy in the gym of Marcone's castle. An Einherjar sees it, and Freydis mentions that the rumor mill will have it that they're an item before the end of the peace conference. This turns out to be quite prophetic, but not in the way that's expected.
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Peace Talks / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Peace Talks / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: When Harry flat out asks Ebenezar what his problem with vampires is, Ebenezar says they took someone from him. Harry asks â€œMom?â€� and McCoy replies â€œher too.â€�
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Peace Talks / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Peace Talks / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Harry has made friends with Austri, one of the svartalf guards at Molly's apartment, and plays cards with him sometimes. Austri's kid is a friend of Maggie's.
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Peace Talks / int_a655d21c	type	Calling the Cops on the FBI
Peace Talks / int_a655d21c	comment	Calling the Cops on the FBI: Harry and Murphy discover that they're being tailed by several unmarked vehicles containing two Internal Affairs detectives and a surveillance team investigating her. At her direction, Harry puts on speed, then takes an off-ramp and turns their car invisible—to sight, but not to radar guns, which gets their various tails pulled over by an Illinois State Police speed trap at the bottom of the ramp.
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Peace Talks / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
Peace Talks / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Murph was partially crippled by a beating she received from Nicodemus in Skin Game. Freydis the Valkyrie questions her usefulness on their mission to rescue Thomas, and Murph shows she's still got it, physically attacking her and getting a gun under her chin. In response, Freydis propositions her (and later even suggests a threesome involving Harry).
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Peace Talks / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Peace Talks / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: River Shoulders reveals that â€œGenoskwaâ€� is a title for warlike people of his kind, and the one Harry met is really named Blood on His Soul.
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Peace Talks / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Peace Talks / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Ethnui, the Last Titan breaks the magical defenses Marcone placed into his castle with as much effort as walking through a spider's web.
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Peace Talks / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
Peace Talks / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: Lara's part of the plot kicks off with her calling in this to Mab. She did something impressive enough to be owed three favors from the Queen of Air and Darkness. She is being paid back one by Mab herself, with Mab forcing Harry to fulfill the other two.
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Peace Talks / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Peace Talks / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: At least some of the cells in Demonreach turn out to not just be a stasis prison for its monsters, but closer to Physical Hell. The monsters are tormented perpetually as both a way to enact revenge but also prevent them from escaping.
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Peace Talks / int_b690b676	type	Fictional Disability
Peace Talks / int_b690b676	comment	Fictional Disability: Harry develops "conjuritis," a disorder where an image in his head becomes real when he sneezes. Ebenezar and Lara give him odd looks and claim it usually hits magically-gifted adolescents.
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Peace Talks / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Peace Talks / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Harry makes a mental note that the Paranet refers to White Court vampires as "Whampires" but he refuses to sink so low as to do so. This coming from the guy who referred to Black Court vampires as "Blampires". Later, he notes that pissing off his grandfather is an incredibly stupid thing to do—and that he'd just spent the last ten minutes arguing with him and implicitly blaming him for Margaret's death.
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Peace Talks / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
Peace Talks / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: Not only is each of the Swords forged with a nail from the True Cross in the hilt, those nails each contain the consciousness of an angel. This explains how Fidelacchius was turned into a lightsaber. The angel inside saw that its sword was broken, cast about for a way it could still do its job, and saw the idea in Butters' head when he caught it.
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Peace Talks / int_ba76806f	type	War Arc
Peace Talks / int_ba76806f	comment	War Arc: The peace talks are meant to finally end the mostly offscreen conflict with the Fomor that's been happening since the aftermath of Changes. Instead, it acts as the prelude of an outright invasion of Chicago that will continue in Battle Ground.
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Peace Talks / int_ba7a0da8	type	Candlelit Ritual
Peace Talks / int_ba7a0da8	comment	Candlelit Ritual: Harry's Summoning Ritual for Molly uses a protective circle, a pentagram of candles that transform to Technicolor Fire when the spell begins, and an offering by each candle. He's done summonings differently before, so the candles are primarily an aid to concentration.
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Peace Talks / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Peace Talks / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Harry is about to get the car going when he finds two monsters—Mab and Lara Raith—have teleported into the backseat, scaring the hell out of him. At least the encounter ends non-fatally for all involved.
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Peace Talks / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Peace Talks / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: When sparring with Lara, Harry makes a remark that she canâ€™t be bothered to help Thomas. In response, Lara throws him to the floor hard enough to see stars, jumps on top of him and threatens to cut his throat. She does not like people claiming she doesnâ€™t care about family. As if flagrantly mocking the Unseelie Accords and Sacred Hospitality wasnâ€™t enough, Corb really pisses off Mab when he mocks how Merlin kicked her out and asks what the man would think of her now.
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Peace Talks / int_bec82f41	type	Anti-Hero
Peace Talks / int_bec82f41	comment	While never evil, Ebenezar has always been far more down the Antihero scale than Harry. He doesnâ€™t understand why Harry would defend Thomas even if it means turning against Ebenezar, and it results in Ebenezar killing Harry's doppelgÃ¤nger. Justified as every other vampire is a ruthless monster.
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Peace Talks / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Peace Talks / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: White Court Vampire fetuses are notoriously dangerous to bring to term. Thomas says that, based on his studies, Justine has about a 50-50 chance of dying in pregnancy just from the baby feeding on her.
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Peace Talks / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Peace Talks / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: Ethniu announces her intentions by unleashing a magical EMP that shuts down everything electrical in and around Chicago. Harry notes that there were nearly 1,500 automobile accidents in the single moment and scores of resulting deaths.
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Peace Talks / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Peace Talks / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Part of The Plan involves Harry and Freydis pantomiming him groping her breast while dancing with her, which, as intended, pisses off everybody present (Harry has to briefly break character to assure Mab that it wasn't real and that he's doing her will). Later Lara uses her succubus power to seduce and then drain an Einherjar to unconsciousness, which is more or less passed by.
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Peace Talks / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Peace Talks / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In Cold Days, Harry pursued Ebenezar's style of hands-off parenting, only for Thomas and Murphy to tell him it was a bad idea to stay completely away. Instead of just visiting regularly, he then takes Maggie into his own home. This backfires just as badly. Given that every other vampire we've seen in the entire series is entirely willing to murder their own family with the right motivation, Ebenezar isn't wrong to be suspicious. It's just that Thomas is the one vampire who actually does have a functioning moral compass.
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Peace Talks / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
Peace Talks / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: This is part of Corb and Ethniu's plot. If the villains succeed in razing all of Chicago to the ground, then it will draw the outrage and notice of the entire mortal world, which will make war on all the supernatural nations. And while they fight, the Fomor and Ethniu will watch safely from under the seas.
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Peace Talks / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Peace Talks / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: When Harry meets Lara in her training dojo, they both get a reveal from the other. Lara learns of Justine's pregnancy and Harry learns Lara has known since his birth of Thomas being Ebenezar McCoy's grandson. Harry reveals that Thomas is Ebenezar's grandson to Ebenezar himself. That bit of news goes down like a lead balloon.
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Peace Talks / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Peace Talks / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The book ends with Harry and Karrin going out to fight a Titan who easily smacked down Mab.
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Peace Talks / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Peace Talks / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Harry plan to steal, er, Thomas goes off without a hitch, using the "tell the audience as we go" technique. What happens immediately after screws up everything, but it's just a coincidence, and the confusion would actually make it harder to identify the thief. However, Ebenezar figures it out and tries to stop Harry. Which is something Harry planned for.
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Peace Talks / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Peace Talks / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: A consequence of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good in that the Fomor were sent to break up the Unseelie Accords by attacking Mab with their goddess Ethniu. What it did was unite all of them against them. It sadly may not be enough to defeat them.
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Peace Talks / int_c9367f60	type	Threesome Subtext
Peace Talks / int_c9367f60	comment	Threesome Subtext: Butters is implied to now have two werewolf girlfriends, though he refuses to go into specifics. Freydis would love to bed Murphy ... and Harry at the same time, if she's had a few drinks first.
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Peace Talks / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Peace Talks / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Harry claims that Butters doesn't know about the Black Council... despite Harry discussing it with him and several other characters in Cold Days. Harry mentions he's never been in the Brighter Future Society's headquarters before, outside of being a ghost; the end of the previous novel, Skin Game, had him go there to pay a wergilt to Marcone.
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Peace Talks / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Peace Talks / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Ebenezar admits that he doesn't know what the cornerhounds do with the people they carry off, which Harry finds more terrifying than a straight answer.
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Peace Talks / int_cfc55f21	type	Heroic Wannabe
Peace Talks / int_cfc55f21	comment	Heroic Wannabe: This is how Harry portrays Senior Council Cristos to Lara, noting the man as a statesman variant looking for peace to broker between different sides. Harry further suggests using this aspect when Cristos is seen speaking with Etri on the first night of the Peace Talks. While neither man likes Lara or the White Court, she can use Cristos' desire to make peace and Etri being blinded by rage as a chance to make an opening to either save Thomas or some other opportunity that isn't open to Lara right now.
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Peace Talks / int_d075311d	type	ShesAllGrownUp
Peace Talks / int_d075311d	comment	She's All Grown Up: Harry isnâ€™t comfortable noting that Ivy is now old enough for prom. He also acknowledges that Hope Carpenter is old enough for Michael to officially be worried about her dating life, and realises it wonâ€™t be long before heâ€™s in a similar position with Maggie.
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Peace Talks / int_d1439d39	type	Disposable Decoy DoppelgÃ¤nger
Peace Talks / int_d1439d39	comment	Disposable Decoy DoppelgÃ¤nger: Harry ends up battling Ebenezer McCoy over what can charitably be described as a big misunderstanding. Ebenezer doesn't realize that Harry was using a doppelganger until it was in the process of dissolving after a lucky shot when the battle was basically already over. For bonus points: Harry was casting magic through the doppelganger, at a distance from it, across water, all of which reduced the effectiveness of his spells. He's effective enough — even with Ebenezer holding back — that Ebenezer still had no idea during the battle itself.
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Peace Talks / int_d2086e23	type	Unprovoked Pervert Payback
Peace Talks / int_d2086e23	comment	Unprovoked Pervert Payback: Invoked by Freydis as a distraction.
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Peace Talks / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Peace Talks / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The Chicago Police have this for Murphy, believing that she must have been corrupted due to the events of Skin Game. Rudolph, of course, is happy to believe she's a Dirty Cop and doesn't care about the truth. He just wants to bring her down. Ebenezar is more aghast than weâ€™ve ever seen him when Harry reveals Maggie is living with him. He claims Harry has made her a target to anyone who knows about her, which he notes already includes the svartalves and one White Court vampire. Later, he attempts the same when Harry kidnaps Thomas from the conference. He assumes the White Court must have something on him and is stunned that Harry is willing to die to protect Thomas. Harry fires back at Ebenezar, criticising his own parenting skills and pointing out that his approach of keeping Margaret Dresden isolated didn't work (and implying that it contributed to her death), and his leaving Harry to the foster system (which Harry is clearly bitter as hell about) didn't work out either. Plus, Susan already tried hiding Maggie, and that didn't turn out so well (though as Ebenezar points out, the Carpenter home is much safer than a random house in the middle of Red Court territory).
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Peace Talks / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Peace Talks / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Harry experiences this twofold. After the svartalf embassy burns and Thomas is responsible, he knows he'll have to move out of there. Then he has to enter Marcone's castle—built on the remains of his old boardinghouse—and experiences pangs of homesickness, cursing Marcone for taking his home away (while still acknowledging the Red Court were the ones who actually destroyed it).
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Peace Talks / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Peace Talks / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: The only way to save Thomas as his demon is devouring Thomas' body to survive the torment put upon him is for Lara to give Thomas some of her own reserves, which involves them being naked and her holding him close.
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Peace Talks / int_db52f2ff	type	Surprise Pregnancy
Peace Talks / int_db52f2ff	comment	Surprise Pregnancy: White Court Vampires aren't totally infertile, but they have a hard enough time conceiving that nobody was really expecting Justine to get pregnant.note And considering that screwing both each other and humans almost constantly is their hat, it speaks to how often they have to have sex in order to conceive at all. Thomas also says they were using protection just in case, so it's even more unlikely to have happened.
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Peace Talks / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Peace Talks / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: It turns out that Vadderung (already an example of this trope) has another name: Beowulf. Yes, that Beowulf.
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Peace Talks / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Peace Talks / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded. Wouldn't you know it? Hours before a major gathering of Accord members, Sanya's plane is delayed in Chicago ... seven times. Surely he won't be needed. (No, the Knights of the Cross are not Accord signatories).
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Peace Talks / int_e1a80b5a	type	The Oath-Breaker
Peace Talks / int_e1a80b5a	comment	The Oathbreaker: The Fomor all become this as they break their oaths to abide by the Unseelie Accords after Ethniu humiliates Mab with a single blow.
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Peace Talks / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Peace Talks / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: Harry stomps on Ebenezar's Berserk Button by implying his hands-way-off parenting led, at least in part, to Margaret Dresden's death. When he does, the sky above them gets darker with the old man's rage.
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Peace Talks / int_e42c07e6	type	Holy Hand Grenade
Peace Talks / int_e42c07e6	comment	Holy Hand Grenade: Fidelacchius' upgrade to laser blade is revealed to allow the Sword to no longer bear a threat to mortals. The light passes through them, but it will smite the evil in monsters. Harry grabs one at the end. It's Spear of Destiny and the Placard of Christ in order to fight Ethniu.
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Peace Talks / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Peace Talks / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: River Shoulders reveals that the Genoskwa survived the events of the last book and escaped from Hadesâ€™s vault, and advises Harry to keep a sharp eye out for payback.
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Peace Talks / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Peace Talks / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: Harry recalls that his father Malcolm once told him the key to a good illusion is a great distraction. This will draw the attention of the audience away from the sleight-of-hand Malcolm does. When Harry is preparing to sneak Lara, an unconscious Thomas, and Freydis out through the party while using the obscurity potion, he tosses a second potion onto Rameriez's cloak. This creates a gale-force wind and throws him about. It draws everyone's attention save Ferrovax and Vadderung, but before the former can reveal the trick Vadderung draws his attention with an unspoken message, "Reveal them and I will fight you." This allows the group to bypass the pair.
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Peace Talks / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Peace Talks / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Ebenezar and Harryâ€™s reunion ends with a very hostile comparison of their parenting styles. Specifically, Harry is still extremely pissed at Ebenezar's completely hands-off style that led to him leaving Harry in foster care after Harry's father died and then didn't even tell Harry they were related when they finally did meet (when Ebenezar stepped in to serve as Harry's jailor after he killed the warlock who became his mentor in self-defense). Ebenezar claims to have done it in order to protect Harry due to all the enemies who'd try to hurt Ebenezar by attacking Harry, and justifies his distant relationship to Harry's mother the same way. Harry angrily throws back that his actions didn't end up protecting his mother, nor did leaving Harry and Susan's daughter Maggie (who prompted the discussion) in others' hands protect her: the Red King got ahold of her in Changes and it was only due to his Bond Villain Stupidity that she, Ebenezar, and Harry are still alive.
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Peace Talks / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Peace Talks / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Unfortunately for all concerned, Rudolph also makes a reappearance, investigating the events of the last book.
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Peace Talks / int_e6321da2	type	Info Drop
Peace Talks / int_e6321da2	comment	Info Drop: Harry finally gets an explanation of what it means to be "starborn." Harry was born when "the stars were right," an event that happens once every six hundred and sixty-six years. This allows him to use magic on Outsiders without slowly going nuts. It's implied that this also makes him immune to infection by Nemesis.
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Peace Talks / int_e6f2f710	type	But Liquor Is Quicker
Peace Talks / int_e6f2f710	comment	Freydis would love to bed Murphy ... and Harry at the same time, if she's had a few drinks first.
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Peace Talks / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Peace Talks / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Harry is freaked when a cornerhound shows up. Not because of the hound itself, but because its appearance results in Ebenezar exhibiting fear. Harry notices that Alfred Demonreach shows concern when Harry decides that he will need both the Spear of Destiny and the Placard of Christ to fight Ethniu.
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Peace Talks / int_e99f2959	type	Webcomic Time
Peace Talks / int_e99f2959	comment	Webcomic Time: Due to the six years between the release of Skin Game and Peace Talks. The previous books occurred more or less in real time, released yearly with in-universe intervals lasting between six months to roughly a year. This book takes place at most several months after Skin Game; Karrin Murphy is still recovering from her injuries and Harry is settling into a routine as Maggie's dad.
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Peace Talks / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Peace Talks / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Harry arrives at the svartalf embassy after the attempted assassination, he realizes heâ€™s being covertly interrogated by Etri's sister as she takes him to retrieve Maggie. Theyâ€™ll keep track of everything he says and will not like any discrepancies with his first story, so he ends up giving them a bare bones statement omitting things like his encounter with Mab. A sidhe noble tries this in defense of one of her comrades' actions in putting a whammy on Warden Yoshimo. The female sidhe tries to argue Sacred Hospitality isn't violated as no one is hurt. Harry, having already kicked the offender into a stone wall and broke some ribs, flash freezes him. Molly then backs Harry's actions by having the offender set as an ice sculpture on the buffet table and will have him stripped of his title and holdings. Harry uses this to explain what he's doing with Thomas. He has to "stay on the island"—locked in one of the cells to preserve his life and protect him from tracking magic. Harry doesn't explain this fully to Lara because he doesn't feel there's time to argue with her about it, and she takes this as a means of gaining leverage over her when he really was just trying to do his best for Thomas.
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Peace Talks / int_ebee7b3a	type	Parking Garage
Peace Talks / int_ebee7b3a	comment	Parking Garage: Harry and Ebenezar fight a pack of cornerhounds in one, mainly to keep the potential collateral damage down. It's mostly empty, but a truck's gas tank provides a fuel source for the ring of fire needed to banish the hounds.
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Peace Talks / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Molly still hasn't told her parents about her new role as the Winter Lady. Harry insists she tell them at some point, which she agrees to, but other matters get in the way.
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Peace Talks / int_f09afb0	comment	Lara Raith has similar troubles with Harry when they ally to rescue Thomas. She assumes every action Harry takes forces her to support him if she wants to save her brother. Harry tries arguing but only ends up digging himself deeper, at which point Lara invokes the trope directly by stating that if he's really telling the truth then she doesn't understand him as well as she thought she did.
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Peace Talks / int_f506d08c	type	Broken Masquerade
Peace Talks / int_f506d08c	comment	Broken Masquerade: This is the ideal scenario according to Ethniu the Last Titan. She proceeds to smackdown Mab and begin an attack on Chicago to achieve it at the end.
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Peace Talks / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Maggie has apparently taken on this role for Bonea; even though Bonnie has more knowledge, sheâ€™s still younger, as Maggie reminds her, and thus has less understanding than Maggie.
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Peace Talks / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Peace Talks / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While never evil, Ebenezar has always been far more down the Antihero scale than Harry. He doesnâ€™t understand why Harry would defend Thomas even if it means turning against Ebenezar, and it results in Ebenezar killing Harry's doppelgÃ¤nger. Justified as every other vampire is a ruthless monster. Lara Raith has similar troubles with Harry when they ally to rescue Thomas. She assumes every action Harry takes forces her to support him if she wants to save her brother. Harry tries arguing but only ends up digging himself deeper, at which point Lara invokes the trope directly by stating that if he's really telling the truth then she doesn't understand him as well as she thought she did.
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Peace Talks / int_fec81854	type	Sensory Overload
Peace Talks / int_fec81854	comment	Sensory Overload: When up against enemies that have an echolocation similar to bats, Harry briefly stuns them with a spell he'd been saving to prank Butters: the sound of a Tyrannosaurus rex roaring the tune of "Happy Birthday" at 160 decibels.
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