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Mab is Nfected question
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---That's the obvious explanation, but I don't think it was spelled out in the book. If I recall, Man simply said by the time she learned of Maeve's condition it was too late.
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I'm pretty sure that it was said, but not by anyone who couldn't plausibly be wrong. After all, Mab would hardly want to advertise the true cost of curing someone of Nfection if it required Nfecting her.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Cozarkian on May 02, 2019, 01:31:57 PM ---That's the obvious explanation, but I don't think it was spelled out in the book. If I recall, Man simply said by the time she learned of Maeve's condition it was too late.
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In Cold Days, on Demonreach, Sarissa begs Maeve to get help with the infection as Lea did. Sarissa tells her that Mab's power alone isn't enough to heal her, that she must want to be healed. In the aftermath, when it's over, Mab tells Harry that by the time she found that Lea had been infected, that Lea had already passed the infection to Maeve.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Cozarkian on May 01, 2019, 09:14:24 PM ---1. Leah was absent from DM, BR and DB and not done healing as of PG. That's a period of 4 years. Even if Mother Winter could heal Mab in half the time (and I don't see any reason why it would take less time), 2 years is a very long time to not have Winter.
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That's really what I meant about pointing out Small Favor as the latest timing; it was before the Outsiders began their press against the Gates, and there should have been enough time to do it. Mother Winter or Lea (assuming she's cured around Small Favor; I get the feeling she is, at least by the time between books) or both could have maintained order long enough. And if Mab is as good at suppressing Nemesis as she'd have to be in order to behave as composed as she has been, I seriously doubt it would take years to address the problem. Mother Winter was able to make the Unraveling, which can undo any enchantment. Between Mab pinning Nemesis down within herself and Mother Winter targeting it, I don't see how Nemesis would stand a chance for long at all. The timeline would be more like months rather than years, I'd expect.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---Mother Winter or Lea (assuming she's cured around Small Favor; I get the feeling she is, at least by the time between books) or both could have maintained order long enough.
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Mother Winter probably has rules that prevent her from interfering in Mab's domain (actually, we know she does because neither she nor Mother Summer could interfere to stop the war and explain things in Summer Knight). And I'm not convinced that Lea was cured until after Turn Coat.
--- Quote ---Mother Winter was able to make the Unraveling, which can undo any enchantment. Between Mab pinning Nemesis down within herself and Mother Winter targeting it, I don't see how Nemesis would stand a chance for long at all. The timeline would be more like months rather than years, I'd expect.
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If it was that simple, then Winter should be able to win the War against Outsiders easily.
morriswalters:
Lea is known to be first restrained in Dead Beat, at which point Mab shows up when Lea is summoned by Harry. She has the Athema. By Small Favor Mab knows that Maeve was infected by Lea, it's why she quits speaking. We next see Lea in Changes, at which point she tells Harry she can't think about the infection unless she become vulnerable to it again, implying that it is more like a drug addiction rather than a pure possession. Small Favor is the low point in the Winter time line, when she has been stripped of all of her most powerful allies. Lea, the Winter Knight, and her daughter Maeve.
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