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Staves are usually wooden, three to six feet long, and engraved with runes. They are often used as [[Focus|magical foci]] by [[wizard]]s. The proper hand to carry it is the left hand.<ref name="DF03ch01">''[[Grave Peril]]'', ch. 1</ref> By definition, a staff can also serve as a cane, or as a weapon; a cudgel. |
Staves are usually wooden, three to six feet long, and engraved with runes. They are often used as [[Focus|magical foci]] by [[wizard]]s. The proper hand to carry it is the left hand.<ref name="DF03ch01">''[[Grave Peril]]'', ch. 1</ref> By definition, a staff can also serve as a cane, or as a weapon; a cudgel. |
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| − | [[Harry Dresden]] considers his staff the most versatile of all his foci. It serves to simply aid in the redirection of forces, such as calling wind, bending steel bars, channeling lightning, erecting barriers of force, disrupting hostile magics, and sometimes as a big stick for hitting things.<ref name="DF06ch38">''[[Blood Rites]]'', ch. 38</ref> From ''[[Blood Rites]]'' through ''[[White Night]]'', Dresden can access [[Hellfire]] through it. |
+ | [[Harry Dresden]] considers his staff the most versatile of all his foci. It serves to simply aid in the redirection of forces, such as calling wind, bending steel bars, channeling lightning, erecting barriers of force, disrupting hostile magics, and sometimes as a big stick for hitting things.<ref name="DF06ch38">''[[Blood Rites]]'', ch. 38</ref> From ''[[Blood Rites]]'' through ''[[White Night]]'', Dresden can access [[Hellfire]] through it.<ref name="DF06ch42">''[[Blood Rites]]'', ch. 42</ref><ref name="DF09ch41">''[[White Night]]'', ch. 41</ref> |
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Revision as of 23:47, 20 October 2020
A staff is a common magical focus.
Description
Staves are usually wooden, three to six feet long, and engraved with runes. They are often used as magical foci by wizards. The proper hand to carry it is the left hand.[1] By definition, a staff can also serve as a cane, or as a weapon; a cudgel.
Harry Dresden considers his staff the most versatile of all his foci. It serves to simply aid in the redirection of forces, such as calling wind, bending steel bars, channeling lightning, erecting barriers of force, disrupting hostile magics, and sometimes as a big stick for hitting things.[2] From Blood Rites through White Night, Dresden can access Hellfire through it.[3][4]
In the series
Grave Peril
- Main article: Grave Peril
In Grave Peril, Harry Dresden has a newly carved staff.[1]
Blood Rites
- Main article: Blood Rites
In Blood Rites, Harry Dresden uses it as a lance boosted with force magic directed at Lord Raith's guards' car that was blocking the road to the Deeps with Karrin Murphy on her Harley at high speed. The force was shooting out of ahead of them in blue and purple flickers of flame and it blasted the vehicle out of their way.[2]
Changes
- Main article: Changes
In Changes, the Ik'k'uox smashed the Blue Beetle together with Thomas Raith's white Jag. Harry Dresden's staff was in the car.[5]
Skin Game
- Main article: Skin Game
Between Cold Days and Skin Game, he had constructed a new staff on Demonreach using implements left over from the construction of the What's Up Dock.(reference needed)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grave Peril, ch. 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Blood Rites, ch. 38
- ↑ Blood Rites, ch. 42
- ↑ White Night, ch. 41
- ↑ Changes, ch. 27