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CD Spoilers: The Case of the Stolen Walking Stick
breck:
You ever hear a name and can't quite recall where it came from? I kept seeing baba yaga took me days to remember it was a module in dragon magazine back when i was in college, actually was going to use it but never got around to it. Baba yaga's dancing yurt i think it was called. Back to the walking stick, anyone think that around 1066, before hastings, last time mab and titania talked was when winter assumed the duties of the gate? Perhaps titania's predecessor stole the staff in a power play and was killed for it. Perhaps summer held the gate and winter took over when summer queens changed necessitating a younger queen and to redress balance mother winter loses her staff for a while. Of course that is assuming that blackstaff is the walking stick.
o_O:
--- Quote from: madness on November 28, 2012, 05:48:15 AM ---Finding any wizard insane enough to attempt such a theft would be the most difficult part of the entire scenario.
If something is so insane that even Harry wouldn't consider it then you know that the needle has gone right off the scale.
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Unless Mab herself was sponsoring the theft, to get Merlin to adopt the Laws of Magic, as part of the original signing up of the WC to the Unseelie Accords.
Serack:
In trying to look at this from another angle, I tried to google what important staff might have been at the Battle of Hastings to see who might have ended up with the staff after 1065, and found...
--- Quote ---It is popularly believed that maces were employed by the clergy in warfare to avoid shedding blood (sine effusione sanguinis). The evidence for this is sparse and appears to derive almost entirely from the depiction of Bishop Odo of Bayeux wielding a club-like mace at the Battle of Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry, the idea being either that he did so to avoid shedding blood or bearing the arms of war. The fact that his brother Duke William carries a similar item suggests that, in this context, the mace may have been simply a symbol of authority.
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source
Here's a picture of the "club" being wielded by Odo on the tapestery supposedly commishioned by Bishop Odo himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odo_bayeux_tapestry.png
It's not a staff, but then Dagda's "staff" is more commonly referred to as a club too.
Gotta keep on researching...
o_O:
If, as we suspect, the original thief is the Merlin, then we cannot dismiss the concept of time-trickery (especially against a being with intellectus) of the same order as what went into Demonreach.
--- Quote from: Serack on December 03, 2012, 04:06:23 PM ---In trying to look at this from another angle, I tried to google what important staff might have been at the Battle of Hastings to see who might have ended up with the staff after 1065, and found...
source
Here's a picture of the "club" being wielded by Odo on the tapestery supposedly commishioned by Bishop Odo himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odo_bayeux_tapestry.png
It's not a staff, but then Dagda's "staff" is more commonly referred to as a club too.
Gotta keep on researching...
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DragonEyes:
--- Quote from: Ezakra on December 02, 2012, 05:40:46 PM ---The Iron teeth are a givaway, as is the cleaver.
"In Russian folklore there are many stories of Baba Yaga, the fearsome witch with iron teeth."
look in http://www.oldrussia.net/baba.html
plus numerous other sources
No info on the staff though, she always lived in a cabin in the woods, but it spun around on chicken legs...
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I wish I had read this yesterday. I wouldn't have gotten all excited that I figured this out today.
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