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[CD spoilers] Small Favor
wildfire393:
--- Quote from: Elegast on December 04, 2012, 02:13:51 AM ---That's a real possibility.
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“You’re telling me that this is why Mab has her power? To . . . to protect the borders?” “To protect all of you from the Outsiders, mortal.” “Then why does Titania have hers?” I asked. “To protect all of you from Mab.” I swallowed. “Titania cannot match Mab’s forces, but she can drag Mab personally into oblivion with her— and Mab knows it. Titania is the check to her power, the balance.”
The way I'm reading this, Titania has an *obligation* to oppose Winter when it comes to any actions taken within our reality. It's as much her duty as guarding the Outer Gates are Mab's.
Shamshiel:
Nemesis's power to influence people is limited. It can't bend them into something totally opposite of what they were. From what we've seen of it so far, it removes some of your natural restrictions, gives you "free" will, and nudges you down roads where your desire or ambition is already leading, but common sense or the order of things keeps you from pursuing. I don't have the book on me, but Nemesis is cited in tons and tons of mortal cases of just this.
Aurora didn't become an evil Winter Fae. She wanted to do something fundamentally inline with her character: end suffering, out of kindness.
Maeve didn't become kind and gentle. She remained selfish and conniving - but Nemesis spurred that selfishness to madness.
Nemesis pushed Aurora as far as she could go.
Now what I think is notable is that Nemesis does this and pushes people toward evil ends, whatever their intentions.
...and a wizard by the name of Harry Dresden also has done the same thing to the shadows of Fallen angels, Marcone, and wildfae, but for noble ends.
Harry is the anti-Nemesis.
EDIT: !!!!!!
Harry himself does this - he does crazy things and exercises free will etc. to do good/noble things (and its contagious.) That's what made him special. The doll/nature spirirt he summoned - it knew about it. If you recall, it asked him WHY he lives the way he does, because the WHY was VERY VERY important.
pharthead:
That makes sense with what happened between Titania and Harry's conversation in CD
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on December 04, 2012, 12:06:42 AM ---Even with her hands tied, she pulls a major play from thin air. The Calvin and Hobbes book is a roundabout way of warning Harry that Maeve is sending hobs. I wonder if Maeve was hiding somewhere nearby and decided to scrap the kidnapping instead of going against everyone at once. She had to know that the hobs were at best a distraction for Ivy.
*Joins Mab's Fan Club ;D
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its also a foreshadow of Harry becoming Winter Knight, and a hint Mab fixed LC.
look up the lasts trip of calvin and hobbes :)
The_Tuninator:
Excellent analysis! Mab is fast becoming one of my favorite characters.
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