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Taking a closer look at Small Favor (LONG)
Agravaine:
Storm Front -- Direct Plot against Marcone
Fool Moon -- Direct Plot against Marcone
Death Masks -- Direct Plot against Marcone -- he and the Denarians are competing over the same article
Small Favor -- Direct Plot against Marcone
So about 1/3 of the books are about people going after Marcone.
Agravaine:
Two additional points that might be a problem for the theory:
(1) Mab tells Harry that she doesn't know who took Marcone:
This is problematic for the theory I think because it requires a trip to Demonreach. There is no reason for the story to go to Demonreach, except for Ivy, who is naturally Harry's go-to Accords Arbitrator.
However, the number of powers that COULD contain Ivy at all AND need Demonreach AND be an accords member has to be very limited, and probably pretty close to exclusive.
To illustrate, Summer wouldn't need Demonreach, nor would the Lords of Outer Night. Mavra or a full power Lord Raith would have no hope of containing her. Cowl on the other hand probably could do it using DR, but Harry can't summon Ivy to arbitrate with Cowl.
Counterpoint: Mab might be referring to the ambiguity of whether the Denarians OR the BC-infected Denarians are calling the shots. After all, she isn't stupid and a big giant hellfire pentagram is what Harry would call a clue.
Counter-Counterpoint: There isn't any reason for Mab not to tell Harry this, if it were her belief.
(2) There still is no really solid explanation for why Mab declared Harry her Emmisary Before Marcone is taken.
It really doesn't seem like Mab can just declare someone an emissary for no good reason. Just seems like there has to be some crisis in the fae courts that allows them to call in special agents. But, Mab tells Harry that he has been chosen as Emissary for the purpose of recovering Marcone.
That means that she had to know of the plot before it was executed, hours in advance, which returns us to (1). She somehow knows about the plot, but not who?
Counterpoint: Perhaps it rather suggests that Titania was the first to act. Perhaps the Gruff's initial hit on Harry was BEFORE the Gruffs are named Summer's Emissary. So, Summer takes a shot at Harry and fails. Meanwhile, Marcone get's snagged and Mab declares Harry Emissary. Titania goes with the Gruffs since they are already out and about hunting Harry.
Maybe Titania knows what Mab is planning viz. Harry and is engaging in some pre-emptive strike to foul up Mab's plan.
OR, perhaps it means that Titania is in on the Denrian-Demeter plot against Marcone. Titania's part in this is to get Harry out of the way BEFORE Marcone is attacked.
Gman:
--- Quote from: Agravaine on April 29, 2012, 04:38:47 AM ---Two additional points that might be a problem for the theory:
(1) Mab tells Harry that she doesn't know who took Marcone:
This is problematic for the theory I think because it requires a trip to Demonreach. There is no reason for the story to go to Demonreach, except for Ivy, who is naturally Harry's go-to Accords Arbitrator.
However, the number of powers that COULD contain Ivy at all AND need Demonreach AND be an accords member has to be very limited, and probably pretty close to exclusive.
To illustrate, Summer wouldn't need Demonreach, nor would the Lords of Outer Night. Mavra or a full power Lord Raith would have no hope of containing her. Cowl on the other hand probably could do it using DR, but Harry can't summon Ivy to arbitrate with Cowl.
Counterpoint: Mab might be referring to the ambiguity of whether the Denarians OR the BC-infected Denarians are calling the shots. After all, she isn't stupid and a big giant hellfire pentagram is what Harry would call a clue.
Counter-Counterpoint: There isn't any reason for Mab not to tell Harry this, if it were her belief.
(2) There still is no really solid explanation for why Mab declared Harry her Emmisary Before Marcone is taken.
It really doesn't seem like Mab can just declare someone an emissary for no good reason. Just seems like there has to be some crisis in the fae courts that allows them to call in special agents. But, Mab tells Harry that he has been chosen as Emissary for the purpose of recovering Marcone.
That means that she had to know of the plot before it was executed, hours in advance, which returns us to (1). She somehow knows about the plot, but not who?
Counterpoint: Perhaps it rather suggests that Titania was the first to act. Perhaps the Gruff's initial hit on Harry was BEFORE the Gruffs are named Summer's Emissary. So, Summer takes a shot at Harry and fails. Meanwhile, Marcone get's snagged and Mab declares Harry Emissary. Titania goes with the Gruffs since they are already out and about hunting Harry.
Maybe Titania knows what Mab is planning viz. Harry and is engaging in some pre-emptive strike to foul up Mab's plan.
OR, perhaps it means that Titania is in on the Denrian-Demeter plot against Marcone. Titania's part in this is to get Harry out of the way BEFORE Marcone is attacked.
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Mab may have a bit of Intellicus about stuff affecting her. I think she knew something was afoot with the Denarians taking Marcone and possibly the Archive and it was be bad for her. She likely wasn't sure which faction of the Denarians were doing it at that time. Nick's faction (pro-Lucifer) or the BC faction. She would know Harry is the best choice to foul the plot/benefit Mab and announced him her emissary to force him to be her emissary since Summer would be out to kill him he might as well do the job.
King Ash:
I don't see any reason Mab can't name an emissary for whatever reason she chooses.
Lets say it takes TN and Tessa/Rosanna a few weeks to build the holding circle (total WAG), Mab catches wind of it, as she has been tracking the Denarians due to hellfire being against Arctis Tor. She does some divinations, calls in a few favours from beings with timey wimey vision skills and discovers that they are trying to draw Harry into bringing the Archive into their greedy paws. She decides revenge is on the menu and lets the abduction take place allowing her to get involved via proxy (ie Harry). Titania, being equally skilled at gathering info works out what is going on but decides allowing megolamaniacal hell groupies access to all human information is a bad thing and decides to off Harry (also satisfying her vengence for killing her daughter). The events of SF pan out and Mab is doing Happy dances as the Denarians took a beating, plus her minion saved the archive.
Agravaine:
Mab has named an Emissary only twice -- once in SK to investigate the death of the Summer Knight, once in Small Favor to investigate the kidnapping of Baron Marcone. That leads me to believe that Emissary is a special, if temporary, gig for emergencies
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