A reminder that they have clay pots there containing different diseases, and one of them is
wormwood, very heavily implies to be from the Bible. There definitely was a different level of existence beyond the curtain of mundanity there.
Wormwood, from the Bible, may well be an actual physical thing.
We have no idea how it works in the Dresdenverse.
Yes, and by this reasoning naagloshii are chumps. They have essentially no restrictions in how they can operate. They are not significantly hindered by thresholds. The weakness, at least here, was rules as "they don't get access to essentially unlimited energy of their native dragon nests", and the Native American thing is because naagloshii are still bound by some ancient pacts. They are free to kill anyone they want, can lie, don't fear iron, and basically have free reign in what to do as far as we know.
Also, a reminder that a large part of a naagloshii's power is stolen mortal power.
We have never seen them cross a human threshold in canon, and if they could cross a threshold, that would imply that they are still a mortal threat after leaving a lot of their power outside the house.
They aren't free to do whatever.
The fact that you dont know what their restrictions are doesnt mean they dont exist.
They explicitly weaken the longer they stay away from their territory; we dont know how it works, could be a curse.
There is zero evidence that they draw power from dragons nests, and actual evidence that they dont; Word of Dresden from observation is that they count as their own self-contained leyline, and we see Shagnasty use a magic circle as a defense, which would have cut it off from external power.
We dont know how their killing mortal practitioners mechanic works for them.
It could be that mortal power adds to their own.
It could also be that each kill unlocks more of their own power that they aren't allowed to use otherwise.
We have no canon idea.
The last line about predators undermines the argument. Because predators are cowards out of necessity - if they get damaged, they won't be able to hunt.
Predators are lazy.
Predators can and do get into serious fights and risk injury over things that matter to them.
They dont do so over stuff that isn't as important.
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I mean, naaagloshii have intellectus for hurting people.
Intellectus.
The kind of thing you only see on angels, the Mothers and high-tier spirits like Demonreach.
Our most setting-breaking ability being the Crown, and naagloshii have an apparently free ability along the same lines, just specialized to how to hurt a person the most. Thats why Shagnasty kidnapped Thomas in canon, because it would hurt Dresden, even though it didn't know why it would hurt Dresden.
And Im being told Im overhyping them.
If we weren't a Solaroid, I'd be bloody terrified for Molly's life. Im still worried about the collateral potential.
