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So I was google Inez and found this picture. Are they that sure she is going to walk off at night? Lol. Sad really that they have to protect her from the mortals… or are we protected from her? 😱

In Cold Days, Harry lists of a number of Winter Knights from history, including:

• Gilles de Rais (Serial Child Murderer and possible 6-time wife murderer)
• Andrei Chikatilo (Serial Killer)
• John Haigh (Serial Killer)
• Fritz Haarmann (Serial Killer).

This got us on the podcast wondering:

**What famous historical figures secretly wore the Summer Knight mantle?

If the Winter Mantle pushes one to be a Serial Killer and sadist (if you're not strong enough to resist it like Dresden), what would the Summer Mantle turn you into if you weren't strong enough?

The only Summer Knight we know of is Ronald Reuel, who is obviously a Tolkien stand-in, so maybe the Summer Mantle brings out one's creativity? Perhaps famous playwrights or philosophers? Do any of them have connections to the fey?

The obvious answer is Shakespeare, but who else might there be?

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This will be discussed on the next episode of Recorded Neutral Territory, with the most insightful answers being featured on the show.

RNT is a chapter-by-chapter re-read podcast for the Dresden Files. We recently released our third Summer Knight episode, where we discussed the return of Elaine and tried to piece together her motivations for seeking Dresden early in the book.

This year, I started sharing photos of my own figures and dioramas online with the wider internet outside of some figure and dio groups that are a pretty safe audience. This sub and the Dresden FB page were the first places I shared my stuff that wasn't exclusively for toy photos, and the encouragement and kindness I received from you all really helped me take the next big step of putting my portfolio online.

My stuff got noticed by a couple of toy podcasts, which led to a call from an artist whose dios I've admired for years. And now I have my first toy convention next week as an exhibitor/vendor, and I am scared sh*tless in the best way possible lol (KravarKon in Newark, OH).

Anyway, THANK YOU. And when I get back from this con and my heart rhythm regulates again, I'll start on my next passion project to share with you guys first. Sneak peek pic attached; stoked to put some time into our favorite hang spot.

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Art used for Warhamer Fantasy Battle Rulebook (3rd edition).

The Lich Master Heinrich Kemmler with Mikael Jacsen. (yes that is a Michael Jackson reference, more so if you know about the Pepsi incident)

I started this series about a week or two ago and, unfortunately for my self control, I got through the first three books in about 2 and half days. I was listening to the GraphicAudio versions and had absolutely no idea Book 4 wasn’t out yet.

I’m currently stuck at home feeling sick, and I was genuinely devastated when I realized there wasn’t another GraphicAudio installment waiting for me. Also, this might be a little inappropriate, but Harry’s voice actor has no business making him sound that attractive. Even the older Harry voice is ridiculously good. The sarcasm, the noises he makes, the delivery?? Everything is just chef’s kiss.

Now I’m sitting here wondering if I should wait for the GraphicAudio version of Summer Knight to come out, or should I just read the book and listen to the older audiobook?

Glenn Close would nail it.

I think my favorite side character is Mouse.

Went on a short 4 night cruise this March from Tampa over to Progreso, Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula.

The entire point of the cruise was to take an excursion to see Chichen Itza. 2 hour bus ride there, 90 minute guided tour, 2 hour bus ride back to Progreso.

It was hot as hell (coming from someone who has lived in Tampa for almost a decade), but the experience was incredible. Our tour guide was a local who still spoke some of the Mayan language, which he said many in that area still use. The Yucatan in general is interesting just because I didn't realize how flat it was, with very little for shade. The trees are relatively small.

The main photo is of El Castillo, the Mayan pyramid. However, when we were walking around we saw the area in my second photo. The Warriors Temple, surrounded by columns. At the top of the Warriors Temple the guide told us that there was in fact a large stone table that was reserved for ritual human sacrifice.

He then made an off hand comment that most of the info they were able to learn from Chichen Itza was from excavation, because many of the Mayan texts did not survive as ages passed. The other issue was European conquest, in which many historical items were taken and brought back to Europe.

One of those items was specifically from Chichen Itza, a book of sorts, that dated back to the 11th century. One of the oldest of it's kind, believed to have been written around 1200-1250, and possibly a recreation of an older text at the time.

The book vanished from history for a while until it was rediscovered in 1739 in Germany, in the city of Dresden. And that is where it remains to this day.

I thought that connection was pretty cool. Sorry for the long winded post.