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PG: combining Neurovore and Knnn.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Ms Duck on May 08, 2012, 02:48:40 PM ---i think mab has a silly sick sense of humor. as a being with intelelctus, fo course she would know about a comic strip that involves snow goons, magical transformations, and a theme of leaving humanity behind to spend forever in a magical winter wonderland :)
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Do we know for sure she actually has full-blown Intellectus? In TC, Harry speculates that Mother Summer and Mother Winter have it, but says nothing about Mab/Titania.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: knnn on May 08, 2012, 02:54:54 PM ---Do we know for sure she actually has full-blown Intellectus? In TC, Harry speculates that Mother Summer and Mother Winter have it, but says nothing about Mab/Titania.
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id say we can conclude she has something close, even if not full out. she speaks in the future tense, and in broad statements that so far have been pretty darn correct. she probably does not allways undersatnd what she sees, as far as humanity goes, but shes seeing truth.
ever read lord foul's bane? lord foul was seer, and could forsee the future, the past, and the present, but since he was not a prophet he could not interpret his visions corectly. I think that's what mab is- seer but not prophet. thats why she knows so much but her understanding is incomplete.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Ms Duck on May 08, 2012, 03:00:50 PM ---id say we can conclude she has something close, even if not full out. she speaks in the future tense, and in broad statements that so far have been pretty darn correct. she probably does not allways undersatnd what she sees, as far as humanity goes, but shes seeing truth.
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My read on her has always been that she was scary smart and had a lot of sources of information, allowing her to predict certain future events with great certainty (like a huge, cosmic chessboard), but no actual "see the future" powers.
I'm not exactly sure what the practical ramifications of this distinction are, but I'm pretty sure they exist.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: knnn on May 08, 2012, 03:27:59 PM ---My read on her has always been that she was scary smart and had a lot of sources of information, allowing her to predict certain future events with great certainty (like a huge, cosmic chessboard), but no actual "see the future" powers.
I'm not exactly sure what the practical ramifications of this distinction are, but I'm pretty sure they exist.
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either you have a person with complete information but incomplete undersatnding, or a person with incomplete information but more complete understanding; the end result is, errors can be made. I think woj backs the incomplete understanding pov, but its just my incomplete undersatnding. ;D
BlahBlah:
I tend to think of Mab as on par with Uriel, and think of Uriel as a four-dimensional being unconstrained (or less constrained) by time. He (and she) can see past present and future at the same moment, and so can control the flow of events with a precision that is impossible for mere three-dimensional mortals.
It's a coherent way to justify projecting complex plans into the chaos of PG. It is consistent with Uriel's known interventions in SmF and his suspected interventions in other books, as well as Mab's admiration for his methods
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