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Questions Specifically for Jim, Part 3
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Thanatos on June 01, 2010, 01:26:51 AM --- It stands, even as crazy as it may make Mab to have finally gotten whom she loves, only to have him independent, unowned again. Really, do you think Maeve or Aurora made such a production to celebrate when they claimed Slate or Reuel?
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"loves " ?
Harry is the strongest wizard of his generation, and Mab may well know about his nigh-unique power over Outsiders; that's plenty of reason to celebrate exceptionally, without an atom of love involved.
Aakaakaak:
So to play off Ms. Duck's idea a bit...
Is it possible for a pure mortal human (with or without powers) to become fae or sidhe through an ascension or other means?
Thanatos:
--- Quote from: neurovore on June 01, 2010, 03:54:20 PM ---"loves " ?
Harry is the strongest wizard of his generation, and Mab may well know about his nigh-unique power over Outsiders; that's plenty of reason to celebrate exceptionally, without an atom of love involved.
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Harry has a history of making nonhuman minds a little more human by the way he interacts with them, such as with Bob and Lash. it's almost as if thinking of them in human terms causes his mortal free will to rub off on them a little. Mab is far more powerful, so her core nature would stay the same, but he may have left some scratches on the surface of the glacier. To someone that's never perceived herself in any way outside her own eternally unchanging nature, that might be significant. That may be part of why she's been acting increasingly odd lately.
cass:
Changes Question....
(click to show/hide)When Harry calls Mab and ends up on the Stone Table, he notes that "it was after the equinox" and it therefore made sense that it was in Winter's domain. I was under the impression (from SK) that the table changes hands on the solstices, when the Courts were at the height of their power-- Summer relinquished its hold on the table at Midsummer, Winter gave the table back at Midwinter. The equinoxes never really came into the transfer of power in Faerie as described in that book. Is Harry just out of it here and using the wrong word because he's had a tough day and a half, or is there some wrinkle with the equinoxes and control over the Table that's never been explained onscreen? I tried working it out that the Courts exchanged the Table on the equinoxes as well as the solstices, but that ended up implying (with the knowledge that Summer relinquishes the Table at Midsummer) that Summer controls the table after and equinox but before the solstice (eg. during spring and autumn)-- which doesn't work with Harry's observation.
Thanatos:
I noticed that too, Cass, but I figure that either Jim used the wrong word or the editor changed it to the wrong word. Midsummer/Litha and Midwinter/Yule are indeed solstices. Since so much of Summer Knight is based on that timing, as opposed to the smaller part it plays in Changes, I'll take SK as the dominant reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_year
I think modern Druids tend to focus on the solstice & equinox days (using the "Alban-" names), but since in-between times are supposed to be more significant to witches, Wicca considers the halfway points between a solstice and equinox to be it's greater holidays. Since many Celtic groups considered a new day to begin just after sunset, celebrations for Samhain would have begun on the night of the day before (10/31) according to our current calendar that starts the new day at midnight. Thus, if Harry was born after sundown, he's a Samhain baby.
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