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Hierarchy of the Courts
Quantus:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on August 24, 2017, 08:45:07 PM ---Who ever holds the table can use it to claim power, but I wonder if there is a way for the courts to share any taken power, or for it to go to the lands of faerie as a whole. I had an idea that both summer and winter could work together to take down the fomor, I particular bringing those entities of power they have to be sacrificed on the stone table. This was due to the fact the fomor are said to be part Sihde. The thing is from what we have seen only the court currently claiming the table gets any added power. So for any partnership to work, the power has to shared so there has to be a way.
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I dont /think/ so? The Wyldfae are a huge population compared to the seasonally aligned fae, and per WOJ the seasonal Courts operate more by political consensus within independent wyldfae interests when operating in the Southern Hemisphere, as compared to their more absolute rulership in the north. Given that I dont know that they have the sort of thaumaturgic access Id expect for them to be able to distribute Power uniformly.
As an alternative, the Power doesnt have to be /Shared/ persay, the final balance of power simply needs to equalize out. So if one Court gets a boatload of Power as a result of the partnership, the terms of the partnership could require a gift from one side to the other to redress the Balance. More or less just like Lea and Mab with the whole Athame vs Harry's Debt; the Athame upset the balance of Power (akin to any claimed Fomor Power) so the other interest (mab) was able to demand some other concession that was bargained to be equivalent.
kazimmoinuddin:
The stone table is a place of power for the courts, I wonder if there might be a location key for the lands of faerie as a whole.. So instead of sustaining the courts, the added power goes into faerie which sustains the courts.
jonas:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on August 25, 2017, 08:33:17 PM ---The stone table is a place of power for the courts, I wonder if there might be a location key for the lands of faerie as a whole.. So instead of sustaining the courts, the added power goes into faerie which sustains the courts.
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Ireland somewhere i'd think? Something like Stonehenge to compare to say, chicken pizza. An earthly sanctum for the Courts themselves?
Con:
Cold Days, Harry specifically uses the term "The Adversary" because that's the safe term to use because use of the name Nemesis can risk attracting it's attention.
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 24, 2017, 08:53:25 PM ---I dont /think/ so? The Wyldfae are a huge population compared to the seasonally aligned fae, and per WOJ the seasonal Courts operate more by political consensus within independent wyldfae interests when operating in the Southern Hemisphere, as compared to their more absolute rulership in the north. Given that I dont know that they have the sort of thaumaturgic access Id expect for them to be able to distribute Power uniformly.
As an alternative, the Power doesnt have to be /Shared/ persay, the final balance of power simply needs to equalize out. So if one Court gets a boatload of Power as a result of the partnership, the terms of the partnership could require a gift from one side to the other to redress the Balance. More or less just like Lea and Mab with the whole Athame vs Harry's Debt; the Athame upset the balance of Power (akin to any claimed Fomor Power) so the other interest (mab) was able to demand some other concession that was bargained to be equivalent.
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Makes sense, ugh *bloody Proven Guilty* Fix in Proven Guilty speculates that the reason Mab isn't moving against the Red Court is because of the imbalance of her Knight being tied up at the moment *ba dum ching* which is why her forces are allayed against Summer's Borders.
I wonder if because Mab has gotten Harry and by extension all of his allies, including Molly theirs another imbalance in the forces of Summer and Winter.
An experienced wizard warrior verses Fix and Molly his trained apprentice verses Sarissa whose Mab's daughter. Seems pretty imbalanced to me.
Rasins:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 24, 2017, 08:53:25 PM ---I dont /think/ so? The Wyldfae are a huge population compared to the seasonally aligned fae, and per WOJ the seasonal Courts operate more by political consensus within independent wyldfae interests when operating in the Southern Hemisphere, as compared to their more absolute rulership in the north. Given that I dont know that they have the sort of thaumaturgic access Id expect for them to be able to distribute Power uniformly.
As an alternative, the Power doesnt have to be /Shared/ persay, the final balance of power simply needs to equalize out. So if one Court gets a boatload of Power as a result of the partnership, the terms of the partnership could require a gift from one side to the other to redress the Balance. More or less just like Lea and Mab with the whole Athame vs Harry's Debt; the Athame upset the balance of Power (akin to any claimed Fomor Power) so the other interest (mab) was able to demand some other concession that was bargained to be equivalent.
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But there is no balance between the courts. We KNOW this. There is balance between the queens, but not the courts.
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