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--- Quote from: jonas on June 01, 2018, 07:45:31 PM ---...Was St. Patrick's curse actually intended as a way of containing something, in his own descendants?
*sigh* I can't come up with anything offhand he's likely to answer.

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Well (assuming that demon was telling the truth) we know that being a Saint is mostly like being a Wizard in terms of Power and scope.  So if he actually created the Curse Im guessing it was a DeathCurse.


Ancient Mai is the Oldest Wizard on the Council (by certain measures). Theory confirmed, w00t!


--- Quote ---5) Ancient Mai carries the title for oldest wizard on the Council, but does not see herself as a leadership figure, and regarded Langtry's talents as more suitable than her own for the role of Merlin.
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Magnus:
I also like this

--- Quote ---Oh, they didn't wind up on Mab's shit list.

They wound up on the Custodian's shit list.

And yeah, obviously, we're going to use them more later. I'm too lazy to spend energy to build things I won't use. :D
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That was in reply to this

--- Quote ---First, thank you for creating such amazing stories. I was lucky enough to discover Storm Front a few months after it was released and I've been laughing, crying, and throwing my book across the room ever since. I can't wait for Brief Cases and the new Zoo story!

The question I'm hoping you'll answer:

Will we ever learn more about the frozen prisoners in Arctis Tor?

The Byzantine lovers, the cardinal, the spider (who I think is Arachne), and the three women? I'm fascinated about who they were, how the ended up on Mab's shit list (if that's why they're there), and if they'll ever be freed.

Thanks again!
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groinkick:
Who is the Custodian???

TheCuriousFan:
Well I definitely wasn't expecting some of these answers.


--- Quote ---1) Teach it? VERY quickly. She could alter your perception of time and give you months of pure mental lessons in an evening. If she just did it for you while you sit in the passenger seat? She can do that instantly.

2) Well, with the White Council for sure, and with a lot of human authorities. But if he'd become a friggin' necromancer, he would have found his allies among the dead and dead-adjacent, and things would have generally been a lot gothier. :)

3) Maybe.

4) I can.

5) Can't think of a reason to have him around for Harry's story. Might be a different case in a spinoff.

6) Because it wasn't pressing pause. It was just sustaining them for the duration of the transformation. Once the transformation dropped them back into their mortal form again, it was time to pay the piper. They paid for their life with life, the way all vampires do. They just chose not to take someone else's. But younger half-vamps, like Susan, would have been okay, just older and a lot more tired.

7) HHWB, being a Walker, is an outsider on a power level similar to Uriel. He can do all KINDS of stuff. But also has a lot of weird limits as to when and where he can use his power.
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That last one punches a bit of a hole right through my theory about HWWB being the final thing Harry gets into a slugfest with in the series. Still, it was worth staying awake for this.

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--- Quote from: groinkick on June 01, 2018, 08:38:25 PM ---Who is the Custodian???

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He answered that question again later on.  Looks like he thought it was asking about Demonreach at first, so the Custodian is just Alfred. 

Answered agian he said:


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OH THOSE GUYS.

Yeah, I know who they all are. I don't have a further story role set for them at the moment, they're just part of Mab's backstory. That's kind of her trophy case of personal victories.

If I remember right they're Vlad Tsepes and his lover (who wanted to be together forever), Richlieu (Mab always collects eventually, no matter how tricky you are), that's not Arachne it's friggin' Anansi (Mab, too, knows hubris), and the triumverate of women was actually two women with Mab pulling a Scooby Doo move and hiding among them. Trying to remember, they were a pair of historical French or German or British twin sisters who were burned as witches by a Saint. Mab saved them, sort of. Instead of being burned to cinders, they were transformed to living crystal and used to decorate her bower. Mostly, Mab defeated the Saint, sort of at the end of the middle ages/opening of the Renaissance, when there hadn't been all that many Old Word wins lately.

They aren't really a part of Harry's story, just background details for Mab. Anansi is too much a trickster to be caught forever. He'll get free at some point and have a merry vengeance on Mab's pride and ego. She's just so serious, all the time, a guy like Anansi couldn't do anything BUT give her the grumpy camp counselor treatment once he was free. :)

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