The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Proven Guilty speculation, because, why not?
kbrizzle:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on June 28, 2019, 09:28:40 PM ---As seen in Cold Days, Maeve doesn't know Mab has set Molly up to be a Lady.
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Well Mab doesn’t set Molly up as a Lady in PG either - all I said was that she had planned to, but it seems like the BC got there first.
Post-PG Mab is aware that Maeve is Nfected, so she has Lea prepare Molly to be a ‘vessel’.
@nadia points out how this plays out in CD
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---This would make the BC seem like rank amateurs - they sent 1 powerful sorcerer with a small army to take on Mab at Arctis Tor??! Considering the BC in DB sends overwhelming power to further strategic goals (like summoning Outsiders & their atrocities against the WC), that seems like an under-powered move with a low chance of survival. Nobody believes that Namshiel could take on Mab, especially in her demesne.
For the attack to have been in line with the other BC ones in DB (a parallel you’re drawing in your theory), it would have to be a lot more savage & threatening, with Mab just about pulling out a victory.
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They sent a small army to achieve a specific purpose. A few details. All the dead that we know about died when hellfire was thrown at Arctis Tor and belonged to the defenders. No bones of any of the attackers is seen, and the only living beings at Arctis Tor that are revealed are the fetches. The portcullis is blown apart, yet the tower is intact. There is no indication that anything other than the fight in the courtyard occurred. And if Mab is so frightened of an attack occurring at Arctis Tor again why is it so lightly defended. One Wizard, one White vampire and two mortal females knock on the door and make their way to the Well Spring with the aid of an automatic door.
I'm not suggesting any time traveling portals, I am simply saying that Mab does something similar to what we know that Maeve did. If Maeve can slow the rate of time for the forces returning to the border to give Summer the time to carry out attacks against the Reds then one could presume that Mab could stretch time to slow any forces attacking her stronghold. And one year after the incursion the Reds are still moving in Faerie unless we assume that Summer sends her troops to the mortal realm to strike at the Reds.
Whatever happened at Arctis Tor happened at the heart of Winter. It takes all the Summer Lady's strength to hold the portal open. If the portal is the path the assault on Arctis Tor occurs through, then it seems reasonable to assume that someone of at least her power level was required to do the same for the forces involved in the assault. If Mab knows what happened she may not know who aided the BC to make it happen. And the list of suspects who could aid them is short. And Summer is the only true credible threat. Summer is the only force that could attack from the border of Winter and hope to win through.
Now tally the forces. Lea is down, the Winter knight's power is not in play. And Mab has to at least be suspicious that Lea has compromised others in the time she has had to spread the contagion.(which we know to be the case) And may fear that Aurora did something similar to Summer. She has to play defense, hunker down and ride it out until the Courts are back at parity and she has the freedom and forces to move against her enemies. And picture this against the background of what we know Maeve wasn't doing, which was keeping the army fed with troops.
g33k:
--- Quote from: kbrizzle on June 30, 2019, 11:50:18 AM --- ...
This would make the BC seem like rank amateurs - they sent 1 powerful sorcerer with a small army to take on Mab at Arctis Tor??!...
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Unless of course Mab suckered them. Made it seem like she was busy at the Summer/Winter border, like only a few Fetches and other minor forces remained at A.Tor...
Then... yeah, a powerful sorceror (using Hellfire, remember) & backed by a Fallen Angel, with a small army in tow, does look like an overwhelmingly-powerful strike force.
But all of this is offscren, and thus (barring WoJ?) pure WAGing.
morriswalters:
Of course it's a WAG. :D
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: kbrizzle on June 30, 2019, 11:58:10 AM ---Well Mab doesn’t set Molly up as a Lady in PG either - all I said was that she had planned to, but it seems like the BC got there first.
Post-PG Mab is aware that Maeve is Nfected, so she has Lea prepare Molly to be a ‘vessel’.
@nadia points out how this plays out in CD
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You said that Mab planned to, and that Maeve leaked this, implying that Maeve knew. If Maeve knew then, why didn't she know in Cold Days as well?
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