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Starborn idea
Mira:
--- Quote ---Does that imply that Malcolm was complicit in engineering a starborn? I've never considered that before. That puts a different spin on his character for me. I've never really thought about Malcolm, to be honest, which is unfortunate now that I am. I always kind of chalked him up as a vanilla mortal who got swept up in a romance and found that the world was way more complicated than he thought. But if he was complicit, and there was something specific about Malcolm that Margaret was looking for...
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In my opinion he was, again it is cryptic what he tells Harry, but it fits that Malcolm had a pretty good idea of why he and Margaret were conceiving Harry.
"I wish I could have been with you longer. I wish I could have helped you prepare for it."
Harry asks, "for what?"
But his father doesn't answer.
In Blood Rites Margaret tells Harry;
"I was arrogant. I laid too great a burden upon you to bear alone.."
What kind of burden could she possibly have laid on a fetus or a new born babe for that matter? Only one thing I can imagine, since Harry wasn't born a king or a god, she made him a star born...
exartiem:
--- Quote from: MarcelRED147 on September 18, 2017, 03:34:24 PM ---If that were the case then one of Raith's parents would have to be a sailor and the two would need to be on the run too. Plus magic seems like a combination of all five rather than a representation of one of the elements.
I think you may be on to certain qualities in the parents being a factor though. But I think timing and other events which are harder to "tick off a list" would be involved. I really like the idea of each element in the five points of magic being represented in some way. Has it ever been said that Margaret was trying for a starborn? I think there may have been a WoJ, but I can't remember for sure.
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I wasn't trying to give specific ingredients (except for the love one). I was trying to make the point that even if one knows the receipe, the ingredients are so unspecific that it's virtually impossible to do it on purpose. It's like the recipe says one fruit, one vegetable, one spice, a liquid, and heat.
It may be that you can create more than one type of Star born. Maggie was trying to create a specific type, missed with Thomas and succeeded accidentally with Harry.
Zohak:
Unless she was tapinging into The Being(aka. Star Born) that sponsored Lord Raith or was
the primorial souce of the white court vamps .
The special circumstances being at a time holloween when dimensional barriers where weak
enof to tap into The Being an Outer God of the lovecraft sort.
wardenferry419:
If making a star-born is a lengthy, multi-step process and Elaine has the potential to be a starborn; then who were Elaine's parents that they: A. knew the process, B. could follow the process, and C. decided that the result of the process needed to be conceived?
Mira:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on September 19, 2017, 09:19:18 AM ---If making a star-born is a lengthy, multi-step process and Elaine has the potential to be a starborn; then who were Elaine's parents that they: A. knew the process, B. could follow the process, and C. decided that the result of the process needed to be conceived?
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Yeah, wouldn't be a kick in the head at the end that after all of this it isn't Harry after all but Elaine? Nah :o.... But we've never heard a word about her parentage. So she still could be..
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