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Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 19, 2019, 04:40:41 PM ---Location 1347 in the Kindle version.  This is the just after the party at Arctis Tor.

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Thanks, I don't remember that..  Found it,  interesting she seems to blame the dementia on Maeve's madness.  One wonders why Mab could help Sarissa but not Maeve..  Also which side of the family did it come from?

kbrizzle:
@morriswalters & Yuillegan
I took Sarissa’s comment to be describing her half-Fae nature since she is a Changeling. Also remember that since prior becoming the Summer Lady she remained a Changeling, she can still lie.

We know that Maeve wasn’t mentally insane per se, she was Nfected. She was also a spoiled girl who wanted power but chafed under the responsibilities that came with that power - working with Nemesis was her way of being utterly selfish/ deluded. She wasn’t really megalomaniacal, just a supernatural mean girl.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on August 18, 2019, 06:12:15 AM ---From a narrative/ furthering the series standpoint, what is the purpose of Ghost Story? While it gave us a much more detailed perspective on tertiary characters (like Mort) & a good overview of the ghost/spirit world, what was the point of the novel? It seems like the central plot could’ve been boiled down to a longer short story

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When I first read the series, I accidentally skipped Ghost Story. I didn't notice until about a third of the way into Cold Days that I had even missed anything. To answer the question, Harry has to confront what he did in Changes, it has to happen in a novel, and be the main focus of that novel. Short stories are generally viewed as supplemental material that the average reader isn't expected to read, or at least that's my impression.


--- Quote ---But as we know, the 200 Wardens (during and previous to Dead Beat) were about 20% of the White Council.
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How do we know that again?

I think Maeve was always crazy. Molly said she had a backlog that goes farther back than Maeve's infection.

Fairies die. They sort of melt because they are mortal and not mortal, so they are partially made of ectoplasm. I'm sure I read that somewhere. Don't recall where.

Yuillegan:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 20, 2019, 02:11:25 AM ---How do we know that again?

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Basic math and inference...although I have a nagging feeling there is WOJ backing it up. In DB in the initial assault in Sicily, the White Council lost 38 Wardens. Harry says directly there are only about 200 Wardens on the Council. But he says basically 20% of the White Council is wiped out in a day. He also constantly and consistently mentions that precious few Wizards are capable of combat magic, and most are Wardens. I believe Backup also puts it at Between 1000 and 2000. I think we can guess even if there are roughly 7000 Wizards capable of being on the White Council, only a small amount would actually be on the Council due to a variety of factors such as lack of resources in finding these potential candidates, the increase in warlocks, the distrust of the council, and predatory actions by sinister actors such as the Fomor.


--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 20, 2019, 02:11:25 AM ---I think Maeve was always crazy.

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Yes - but in a manageable way. Remember when we first meet her in Summer Knight? Crazy, but not self-destructive. Only later does she become infected by Nemesis...from either Leah or Aurora. That's when she really goes off the rails and starts being able to lie and wanting to throw off the balance, like Aurora.


--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 20, 2019, 02:11:25 AM ---Fairies die. They sort of melt because they are mortal and not mortal, so they are partially made of ectoplasm. I'm sure I read that somewhere. Don't recall where.

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WOJ 2014 AMA
Matter from the Nevernever dissolves into ectoplasm in the real world, but the faeries leave a corpse when they die. Explanation?
"Faeries are a unique case in the Nevernever, as the beings who basically straddle the worlds. Plus there are other reasons which are none of your beeswax just yet ;)"

morriswalters:
Maeve doesn't appear to have the symptoms of dementia, and if she had, she would have been dead long since, since that is the inevitable outcome of dementia.  Not compatible with immortality.  The disease doesn't turn you into a psychotic, murdering nympho.  It steals your humanity and then kills you.  I suggest that Jim chose this as a shorthand because he wanted the sisters to be alive concurrently. Which means that Mab made Sarissa immortal.  It could also mean that Sarissa and Maeve were once part of triplets and that one died.

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