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The Mothers' Cottage and Earth...
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on June 24, 2017, 10:11:51 AM ---Do people really believe in summer less during the wintertime?
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Short question, long answer. I'll spoilerize the background on the theory, which folks can read if they want the details.
(click to show/hide)The theory is that humanity used to give a large portion of their free will to elemental deities that they believed controlled their everyday lives. Storm? That's Odin or Zeus getting mad. Better throw some prayers and offerings their way.
In doing so, humanity empowered the deities to act on their behalf. Which gave them power to defend reality. But as humanity moved away from worship of such pantheons, the power shifted to pantheons that attributed everything to a single deity who's will controlled everything, but was largely absent from everyday oversight of humanity.
I think the belief system bound those deities and their agents from being able to act outside of certain purviews, including gate guardianship. Which meant a new pantheon need to be crafted.
The only thing left, though, was humanity's belief in the turning of the seasons, which still controlled a lot of their daily lives. (more so before the invention of heating and cooling systems 100 years ago)
So the pantheon was created around the seasons. Two Courts were formed. One was warm and kind, because humanity by and large thinks that season is the best. The other was cold and cruel, because humanity feared it.
The power provided by humanity is attributed to the current season, which is what humanity is most concerned with, I.e. the weather affecting their daily lives.
But, humanity also worries about the seasons before they arrive. They start preparing for the winter long before it comes (Lord knows Winter can take it's sweet time coming), and start planning for planting and harvesting times long before it's time to work. That shifting in humanity's attention coincides with the shifting of power between one Court and the other.
jonas:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on June 16, 2017, 03:41:44 AM ---We sometimes see characters speculate about what nastiness might be found in the point in Faerie that corresponds to a given point on Earth. For ex, Nicodemus warned Harry that he really wouldn't like what lay on the other side from Demonreach. Usually there is some correspondence, as much symbolic as practice, for ex: the royal hall of the Erlking lines up with a Bass Pro shop, IIRC.
But we don't see much speculation about the inverse. For ex, what on Earth matches up to Arctic Tor?
Where would you find yourself if you opened a Gate from the Mothers' Cottage in Faerie to Earth? (Not that I recommend performing the experiment.)
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its very obvious the Cottage on DR and the mothers are one and the same. When Harry joins MS on the rock, which is in the same spot as the lighthouse, it allows them to travel to the outergates. Evidence the sleepers and the dreamers(outsiders wanting in) are one and the same?
Bakoro:
--- Quote from: jonas on July 02, 2017, 12:29:52 AM ---its very obvious the Cottage on DR and the mothers are one and the same. When Harry joins MS on the rock, which is in the same spot as the lighthouse, it allows them to travel to the outergates. Evidence the sleepers and the dreamers(outsiders wanting in) are one and the same?
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The Mothers are powerful enough to port around basically wherever they want. Even in Changes it seemed like Vadderung was powerful enough to make an item that opened a wormhole directly from Chichen Itza to Chicago. The Mothers can open a Way from their hut to, anywhere essentially. I don't think anyone can got to the Mother's place, or even find it, unless they want it to be found. I don't think Harry really just stumbled upon them in SK, more like they manipulated the NN so Harry would find them.
Knowing the Merlin, it *could* be that he was just that well-connected that he got a shortcut on his island to see them, but it would be by their Will. Now I could see DR having a shortcut to the Outer Gates on it, that would be awfully convenient.
Let's be real though, if there's any sure-fire Way to get to the Mother's place, it's to use a copy of *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*.
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