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Mac, A T-Shirt, and the 1994 Unseelie Incursion

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jonas:

--- Quote from: Kindler on December 13, 2017, 01:31:31 PM ---That's not shown, as far as I know. Mac's first appearance is in Storm Front, and Harry describes the bar the same way he always does (to the point that I skip the descriptions now). Harry was already a customer, so that wasn't the first time he was there. I don't think we see that.

Do the comics have Harry showing up there for the first time?

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first time he actually talks about how it always feels like an old home or some such iirc. How he'd always felt comfortable there or something... I could see this as him getting his Sight On for prophetic things.

wardenferry419:
It wasn't as strong as it was with DR but he was younger; but, it had that deja vu feel.

raidem:
Since I've read the Amber series, I now wonder if the card motif on the T-shirt hints that Mac can be associated with playing cards.  In Amber series, each of the major characters that have traveled either the Pattern or the Logrus can be depicted on a Trump card. Using this card, you can mentally contact them, reach them so as to summon them to you, or ask them for shelter to bring you to them via the Trump card.  Since the shirt depicted in T-shirts are all spades, and it is known that is some card games this is a trump suit, there is a "trump" connection being made between Mac, McAnally's bar, and cards.

So, I'm wondering if Mac is a Trump character from Amber, likely either Corwin, Merlin, or maybe even Corwin's father Oberon, though the last likely not but possible.  These Amber characters need not be same as Dresden Files ones.

Now, if we go with Mac as a Amber character either Order or Chaos or both, then he is likely one to be engaged in high-order multiversal events.  He could feasibly do things in several times all at once, etc.  In some parallel world, Corwin is even considered a Archangel.

So I'm essentially arguing that Mac may be a character from another series altogether.  Jim has blended him in to his.

raidem:
As to mjolnir symbol on the shirt accompanied by peace rune, the link to storm gods for that shape is often a motif.  I'll add that corwin attuned to the jewel of judgement which gives him power over storms.

See one of my earlier comments about Mac being a storm God in the first book of storm front.

Corwin doesn't play much with storms in Amber but he attuned to the jewel which allows him to do so.


--- Quote ---In the Near East and other parts of the region, eventually, axes of this sort are often wielded by male divinities and appear to become symbols of the thunderbolt,[9] a symbol often found associated with the axe symbol. In Labraunda of Caria the double-axe accompanies the storm-god Zeus Labraundos. Similar symbols have been found on plates of Linear pottery culture in Romania.[10] The double-axe is associated with the Hurrian god of sky and storm Teshub. His Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun.[11] Both are depicted holding a triple thunderbolt in one hand, and a double axe in the other hand.[12] Similarly, Zeus throws his Keravnos to bring storm. The labrys, or pelekys, is the double axe Zeus uses to invoke storm, and the relative modern Greek word for lightning is star-axe (ἀστροπελέκι astropeleki)[13] The worship of it was kept up in the Greek island of Tenedos and in several cities in the south-west of former Hellenic Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times in the cult of the thunder god of Asia Minor (Zeus Labrayndeus).
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Based off that, the Labrys are often wielded by gods associated with thunder, storm, lightening etc.
The first symbol though is undoubtedly of Norse origin though there may be other cultures where it exists and represents peace too.

raidem:
Storm Front
Mac Bar: First Introduction

Upon Entering:
The dim, comfortable room was empty, but for a pair of men I recognized by sight at a back table, playing chess.
Upon Exiting:
The chess game in the corner was still in progress, both players puffing up a sweet-smelling smog cloud from their pipes.

There is a short story by Roger Zelazny where Corwin has to ride to Amber and make it in time to visit teh Hall of Mirrors.  Upon his journeying he stops to rests for the night and wanders a bit.  He hears a sound and spies upon Drworkin and Suhuy (representatives of Chaos and Order) playing chess, Chaos bets that Corwin won't make it in time, the players switch spots and Dworkin moves Suhuy's chess piece.  Suhuy has to reflect on the move and bids the night.  Corwin gets back to his camp and makes a beeline with his horse to Amber to get to the Hall of Mirrors in time.

Anyways, the jist is that these two players at Mac's are actually representatives of the cosmic powers and they are moving their chess pieces around.

“Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains”

--- Quote ---This story picks up with Corwin (yay!) after he leaves Chaos. He rides a blue horse named Shask, a Chaos creature who can talk and change shape. Shask warns Corwin about the Dancing Mountains which lie between the shadows of Chaos and the shadows of Amber and are constantly shifting.
At night, Shask turns to stone (apparently a hereditary condition) and Corwin sleeps until he is awakened by a sound. He explores to find a depression in the mountain where two figures are playing a game. One figure is seated on the ground and the other hangs upside down in the air as they move pieces on the board. Corwin recognizes the seated man as Dworkin, his grandfather. His game pieces include a griffin, the Unicorn, and Castle Amber. His opponent is soon revealed to be Suhuy, Dworkin’s counterpart in Chaos. His pieces are a Fire Angel, the Serpent, and the Thelbane (the king’s home in Chaos). Neither man can see Corwin, but Suhuy mentions that Corwin won’t make it back to Amber in time to find the Hall of Mirrors and get the answers he needs. Dworkin warns Suhuy not to underestimate Corwin. Then the two men shift position and Dworkin moves a Chaos piece, a woman, which Suhuy objects to. He needs to study the move, so both men agree to reconvene in a few days before disappearing.
Corwin returns to Shask and when the steed awakens, Corwin asks if he knows what a hellride is. Shask does, noting its often harmful effect on a mount’s sanity. Corwin thinks Shask’s mind is up to the task. Corwin knows he has to get to the Hall of Mirrors quickly and so they prepare to depart.
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