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Has Mab become something more? [CD Spoilers]
123456789blaaa:
--- Quote from: KrelianZG on March 05, 2013, 02:44:18 AM ---Freeing yourself from the problems arising from having a soul and strong emotions isn't the same as being willing to lose your soul forever. If Mab was once human, it makes sense that she'd tuck that little bit of her away and hold on to it. I'd guess that Maeve was the first time in a millennium that Mab has made a choice that was potentially the wrong one based on emotion.
I support the "Mab has a soul that is still somewhat detectable" crowd, but I think we're in a unique position to see the one time it has really meant something.
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I can get her wanting to keep it after she first gets the Mantle. After 900 years of the Mantle chipping away at her soul you'd think she'd simply stop caring. Mab is pragmatic.
Unless she made an oath or something...
matolilyfu:
--- Quote from: 123456789blaaa on March 04, 2013, 07:33:18 PM ---Then at some time (possibly beginning with Sarrisa) she began interacting with Mortals too much. They then either gave her a soul back (but only a little) or fanned the ember until it was a guttering flame (possibly this was through soul exchanging as described by Bob in White Night).
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Spending time with Sarissa may have touched the teeny tiny spark of Mab's mother love. I just can't reconcile the idea that Mab was fanning the wee spark of a soul into a little flame, by spending time with Sarissa, while at the same time she was visiting tortures beyond comprehension on Lloyd Slate. (NOT defending Slate or saying he wasn't due some serious punishment.) I just think soul-growth on weekends would be negated by torture through the work week.
KrelianZG:
--- Quote from: 123456789blaaa on March 05, 2013, 02:49:32 AM ---I can get her wanting to keep it after she first gets the Mantle. After 900 years of the Mantle chipping away at her soul you'd think she'd simply stop caring. Mab is pragmatic.
Unless she made an oath or something...
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Following the mantle doesn't necessarily threaten EVERYTHING that makes you a human. I don't see where the mantle necessitates losing your soul. It might be easier, after centuries, to just stop holding on, sure. But Mab is Mab. She won't let anything she values totally slip away, even if it has no value 99% of the time.
matolilyfu:
--- Quote from: KrelianZG on March 05, 2013, 12:58:33 AM ---My "Harry as father of Maeve and Sarissa" is all coming together now. Mwahahaha.
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That kind of skeeves me out. :o
KrelianZG:
--- Quote from: matolilyfu on March 05, 2013, 03:02:22 AM ---That kind of skeeves me out. :o
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As it should 8)
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