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Is Michael more than he appears?

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Wizard Sibelis:

--- Quote from: vultur on July 10, 2018, 03:19:35 AM ---Well, I was more talking about what would happen if Molly died, not her existence as Winter Lady. When she died in CD, did Lily's soul/spirit/whatever go on to some kind of afterlife, or did she just pop out of existence, or dissolve into the totality of Summer losing individual consciousness, or whatever happens to Fae when they die?

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I wanna know what precisely happens to the host if they die but not on Halloween..

vultur:

--- Quote from: Wizard Sibelis on July 10, 2018, 04:32:43 AM ---I wanna know what precisely happens to the host if they die but not on Halloween..

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According to Bob, they just come back, though it might take months or years. Bob also talks about the "locked stasis of immortality" which is only malleable on Halloween. So it's probably something like the universe having a "saved state" of that being which is automatically restored, though it takes time.

Either that, or something like an uber-ghoul or the Red King's regenerative ability where severed bits re-connect, only scaled up to the point where ashes or individual atoms eventually recombine into the whole being. But I think the "saved state" idea fits better with immortals being static in nature -- it's not so much super-healing as them being an integral part of reality that just doesn't change.

raidem:
It may be that they have saved storage in NeverNever.  Perhaps Mab would have a Save Point at Arctis Tor. And, Molly, or the Winter Lady, would have a Save Point at Arctis Minora.


The immortals then would have a seat of Power that assists in their storage and reconstitution.  Those immortals that don't have such a seat of Power may take longer to reconstitute.

Kindler:
Interesting note: Hastings was fought on October 14 (Gregorian date, October 8 Julian). At the time, I'm pretty sure All Hallow's Eve was on November 1st (Samhain), but they swapped the dates around a bit (used to be in May, which may indicate that Summer was originally more prevalent) so I'm not entirely sure. Regardless, William had to march across England to get a bunch of independent-minded nobles to sign up with the Norman regime, and wasn't crowned until December 25th of that year (surely there was no intended symbolism there). They were still using the Julian calendar, so I think there's some wiggle room with the dates; Samhain might have been November 1st Julian, which would make it November 7th Gregorian, but the other way around gives a date of October 26th.

Anywho, it's possible that it wasn't at Hastings that a Lady died, but in the desperate bid to hold onto power in the weeks that followed.

groinkick:
Here is a question.  If an Immortal is killed on a day that isn't Halloween, when they return do they lose a lot of their humanity since they had to rely 100% on the Mantle reanimating them?

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