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The Arthurian Connection

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Avernite:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on February 06, 2019, 11:39:21 AM ---Right you are Avernite - I have corrected it to say Artemis. No idea why I put Demeter...perhaps alliteration. The Summer connection is interesting...I will muse on that. I have always wondered how other Deities in the Greco-Roman pantheon factored in against Hecate. In most traditions Hecate is the daughter of Atlas (the Titan) and is nowhere near as powerful (might wise) as Hades or Zeus. Not sure how she would compare to Artemis but I imagine similarly ranked. Which is confusing considering the enormous might of all six Queens of Faerie. Though I admit in some versions Hecate had influence over the Underworld, Sea and Sky as a gift for helping the Olympians during the Titanomachy (Titan war).  Hades seems only to rank in at about Mab's level...maybe higher, maybe not (he seems to have less influence in this age, by his own admission). I seem to remember an old WAG about Hecate being the one who split herself, and that perhaps a number of gods (whose influence in the world was waning) poured much of their power into the Queens.

Yeah it is a bit of a mess - but there are some strong connections, especially the Elaine one that really tells me I am close to whatever Jim's plan for her is.

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Well, Faerie supposedly got its TRUE power from the blood spilled on the Stone Table, possibly before the split between Summer and Winter. So Hecate's initial power level is slightly unimportant.

That said, with Gaia, Demeter and Artemis, Greek mythology had 3 goddesses who could be pretty decent fits for the entire Summer side. Add in Hera (vengeful but protectress of the home/marriage as Queen) and Athena (recruiter of heroes for the Lady) for Winter and the whole Faerie hierarchy with Hecate as Mother Winter could be formed by a Greek alliance.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on February 07, 2019, 06:13:48 AM ---Sort of the other way round though - Christianity when it traveled across the sea borrowed and converted stories from English and Norse mythology, though of course it did end up going both ways in the end.

... He has already touched on Rakasha Raja - and in all honesty I wouldn't mind finding out what else goes on in the rest of Dresden's Earth. There are more places than Chicago, let alone America. Not everything significant would happen there - it just doesn't add up.

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Six of one, a half a dozen of the other. (And for the English and Norse mythology, a lot of what we have to go on is just what some scholars think happened).

A lot of significant things have happened outside of Chicago and America. We just didn't see them because Harry wasn't there. (Or he was and it was Mexico). I'd like to see more of Dresden's world and other belief systems worked in, but based on what Jim said about the amount of research he would have to do to "get it right," I don't expect to see it. There'll probably be things like Shiro mentioning the Jade Court, the Rakasha, the bird people from Changes, the Japanese thing from the Butters story, but I'm not expecting any sort of deep dive.

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