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Stone Table Sacrifice
Rasins:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 20, 2017, 07:12:24 PM ---It might not. Whoever created the Courts (presumably Hecate splitting her power, plus unspecified allies) may just have ignored the wyldfae as outside of what they needed.
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One would wonder why an uber-powerful entity like Hecate WOULD split her power up?
kazimmoinuddin:
The fomor are the remains of defeated dark pantheons. So they would have few mantles and immortals available, otherwise they would not have banded together. If those few beings of power were stolen away and slain on the stone table, that permantly rob the fomor of that power.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Rasins on July 20, 2017, 07:15:39 PM ---One would wonder why an uber-powerful entity like Hecate WOULD split her power up?
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Well, she wasn't as powerful the sum of both modern Courts at the start - a lot of their power came from sacrifices on the table since the separate courts were established.
As to why she divided her power, she probably understood that earth would need protecting from the Unseelie even as they protected earth and Faerie from the Outsiders. She had to ensure a matched balance at the leadership level out of the pool of power available at the time.
I do hope at some point to find out whether Mother Winter is the original Hecate, or Hecate died sacrificing herself to establish the new order.
Quantus:
The WOJ about the current system being created said that is was due to the previous group's Power/influence in the world being on the decline. By the Hecate connection Im assuming that is referring either to the greco-roman pantheon specifically, or (my much preferred) a larger coalition of the Human Pantheons of the day (including the Aesir, and hopefully others like the Persian or the Hindu or the Egyptian pantheons. Ideally including some pantheons that are all but unknown to contemporary fiction. The decline I think was a general movement of globalization and less and less tribal-nations, etc. Or, the early beginnings of the the ascent of Reason and Scientific thought/observation. Or something else entirely, like a Starborn causing a ruckus.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 20, 2017, 10:19:39 PM ---The decline I think was a general movement of globalization and less and less tribal-nations, etc. Or, the early beginnings of the the ascent of Reason and Scientific thought/observation. Or something else entirely, like a Starborn causing a ruckus.
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I think the Sidhe have been the Gate defenders since at least circa Battle of Hastings, if not longer. That puts the transition too early to tie the previous defenders' troubles to the scientific revolution.
Under the theory that the Sidhe displaced a coalition of pagan pantheons, it's possible the decline was due monotheism overtaking polytheism in much of the world. If many of the members of the previous gate defenders were running low on believers to fuel their power, maybe creating the seasonal courts and passing the torch to Winter was an act of desperation.
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