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Queen Succession Rules
Arjan:
--- Quote from: groinkick on January 16, 2018, 07:48:29 PM ---It's been inferred that Molly would become Queen. Leah is second to Mab. She's cunning, dangerous, and ambitious. Don't be shocked if Leah has plans to get Mab's Mantle.
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I used the names to make it more clear but the same thing happened when Mab became queen of course.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 16, 2018, 08:12:26 PM ---I used the names to make it more clear but the same thing happened when Mab became queen of course.
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Yes that's the traditional way it goes. However there are probably other ways. For example Sidhe go out on Halloween to gather more power. If Leah for example killed Mab, in my opinion she'd probably get that power because she would have displayed that she deserved it, by taking it.
Also Mab may have been the one to kill the previous Queen, earning the Mantle. I don't recall if it's been said how exactly she got it. Maeve planned on taking the Mantle from Mab.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: groinkick on January 16, 2018, 08:20:38 PM ---Yes that's the traditional way it goes. However there are probably other ways. For example Sidhe go out on Halloween to gather more power. If Leah for example killed Mab, in my opinion she'd probably get that power because she would have displayed that she deserved it, by taking it.
Also Mab may have been the one to kill the previous Queen, earning the Mantle. I don't recall if it's been said how exactly she got it. Maeve planned on taking the Mantle from Mab.
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The point is no complicated constructions with pregnant ladies before they become mother protected by the queens mantle or whatever needed. The standard method works.
jonas:
--- Quote ---the Lady conceives around the time she gets the Queen mantle.
is why sex was part of the ritual for Mab to make Harry the WK, because it is a tribute to the ritual that the WK makes the Queen.
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And i'd bet part of the ceremony for taking the queens mantle is the WK takes you again. That the Knight's mantle was basically reborn through sex is telling, so is the fact Harry as WK knows he's physically stronger than the Lady and the Lady's defensive measures are purely a physical reaction, not magical per say. So the Queen is the queen because she's done it with the Knight(high technicality, the WK mantle is what was birthed there in the first place)... and the Mother is the Mother because their 'knight' gets birthed into reality as it's own source, no longer based upon reflecting the queen.(see Kringle, Gatekeeper, ect)
raidem:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 16, 2018, 07:32:02 PM ---But another thing has been spelled out. If Mab dies Molly gets the queens mantle and shou can not be a mother at that moment.
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Agreed.
This doesn't touch upon the Mother mantles which I've largely been arguing about. Simply put, the Mother mantels as in Mother Winter Mother Summer and not the lower queens of which you are referring to, require their holder to be a mother. This is symmetric with the lady mantels that require their holder to be a nonmother.
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