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How would a new mantle be created
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: JJJP on October 22, 2017, 03:56:42 AM ---I would say there are no new Mantles, just old ones renamed. Or old Mantles rediscovered. Lying dormant waiting for a proper bearer.
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Creating a new mantle was exactly what the Darkhallow was for. Bob said in Cold Days that the reason it had to be done on Halloween was to create a new immortal - he guessed Cowl would have understood that much, but not the other two contenders.
dspringer1:
--- Quote ---I would say there are no new Mantles, just old ones renamed. Or old Mantles rediscovered. Lying dormant waiting for a proper bearer.
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Santa is a mantle - and the concept of Santa Claus has only been around for a few hundred years. The Fey (and thus the mantle of Winter Lady) have only been around for maybe a thousand years.
At the very least, this argues that mantles can be transformed, if not created from new.
wardenferry419:
I guess mantles have core elements but some adaptability to necessity.
peregrine:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 22, 2017, 07:12:19 PM ---Creating a new mantle was exactly what the Darkhallow was for. Bob said in Cold Days that the reason it had to be done on Halloween was to create a new immortal - he guessed Cowl would have understood that much, but not the other two contenders.
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Immortal need not be a Mantle, though.
exartiem:
Kringle is the embodiment of charity during times of sparsity. This concept has existed probably as long as civilization itself. It is called Kringle now, but likely has been called by many other names.
I think most, if not all mantles are 1:representations of some concept, 2: control mechanisms for some force or 3: situational (such as Eldest Gruff).
So long as those conditions have existed, those mantles have as well.
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