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Could Maggie have taken up a Coin?
Mr. Death:
The way it's most consistent with the story is that Malcolm is Malcolm and Nicodemus is Nicodemus.
What makes Malcolm special is that he's just a mortal man who was good and fell in love with Maggie. Shoehorning other people into his backstory misses the whole point of him and Maggie's redemption.
raidem:
I'm fine with that. What I'm thinking about for Malcolm/Nic really needs lots of setups and explaining, etc. It is a bit complicated.
Having read the Amber Chronicles, I've started to like that Malcolm is descended from a family of walkers. Walkers that can travel to and from parallel worlds. This would make Malcolm's bloodline important and one more reason why Harry and his bloodline via Malcolm important to target.
Mr. Death:
Then I would ask that you keep that to the wilder threads you've already made about Dresden and Amber.
This thread is actually one of the semi-plausible theories that I can kinda get behind, and I'd prefer to keep talking about that instead of derailing it into something that is, at best, extremely unlikely and contradictory to the nature of the characters involved.
Griffyn612:
I guess one question, which has already come up in this thread once but wasn't specifically addressed, was which coin she would have had.
Lasciel's is the obvious answer, but maybe not the best.
Rosanna's coin is another interesting option, but was presumably in use by Rosanna when Margaret was active. I don't know if we know how long Rosanna has been Tessa's second, but I was left with the impression that it had been a while.
And then there's Thorned Namshiel. Again, we have no way of knowing how long the previous host was in possession, but Namshiel being a caster coin makes it an interesting pairing.
The rest aren't particularly special, from what we've seen. And there's the possibility that she had one that's still secure somewhere and out of circulation.
The thing that appeals to me about Namshiel is the idea that Namshiel's host ended up infected, with Namshiel either going along with it or being helpless to stop it.
If Namshiel went along with it, it makes you wonder about this rebellious streak that the other Denarians didn't seem to know about. Given Margaret's rebellious nature, it's an interesting pair, and makes me wonder about the possibility that she influenced Namshiel somehow.
If Namshiel didn't go along with it, but lost control due to infection of the host, it makes you wonder who the host was, and when they were infected. With Margaret potentially being involved with Outsider business with Raith and the Sidhe, could it be that she gave up the coin, and someone else involved (and infected) picked up the coin?
Not to mention the potential for familiarity with Winter, if Margaret was involved with Mab like some theorize. It'd make the attack on AT more interesting.
Of course, Lasciel has a lot of interesting possibilities, like Lash knowing Margaret's history, but there's also the issues, like neither her nor Nico using that fact to help recruit Harry. Seducing Harry with the promise of info about his mother would have been incredibly tempting. Offering to appear as her, or share the memories of her life with her, would have helped Lasciel seal the deal.
Mr. Death:
I'm not sure how well Namshiel would fit -- given what we know about the Denarian naming scheme, he seems like one who's more in control than his host. Maggie seems more willful than that, so I don't see her getting along very well with Namshiel.
Rosanna's coin, it's harder to say. She does seem like someone who's been in the game with the coin for a while, so it would depend on just when Margaret was going around with Nicodemus; by default, it would have to be before she took up with Lord Raith, since that seems to be the very last thing before she gave up on that life. So that's 30+ years in the past.
We don't know enough about Rosanna to make a yay or nay of it, unfortunately.
Lasciel still makes the most sense to me, though yes, it is odd that Nicodemus wouldn't have used that information. Lasciel did hide quite a bit from Harry, and in her last conversation she seems to imply she knows a lot more about Maggie Sr. than she'd previously indicated. In fact, that she knows what Maggie was thinking when she left Lord Raith.
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