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Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 20, 2019, 08:26:41 AM ---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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  No, it doesn't but it can make the victim paranoid and make them react violently to care givers and loved ones simply out of fear because they no longer know who they are..  Perhaps it is different in the Fae?  If this is so, then Maeve's condition would fit the disease..

Bad Alias:
I don't know Yuillegan, not doing your job when Mab is your boss sure does seem self destructive to me.

g33k:
It's worth mentioning here that "Dementia" isn't any particular disease, it's a descriptive suite of symptoms, with several known diseases &c that can cause it.
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia

I note that "a form of congenital dementia" (Sarissa's phrase) could -- without much regular-ol' faerie fact-stretching, let alone half-blooded free will & freedom-to-lie -- likely be stretched to cover Nemfection itself.

Maybe Sarissa was saying she was Nemfected, and Mab is holding it in check.
 

kbrizzle:
My WAG about the deal between Mab & Sarissa is that in exchange for being a vessel for a Fae mantle (as an alternate to Maeve or the WK, should Mab need to rid herself of an Nfected traitor within her Court & need a ready ‘vessel’ handy), Sarissa has to spend 3 months a year at Arctis Tor.

Being a Changeling who has not yet chosen to be human or Fae, I’d imagine Sarissa would be fairly long-lived. Seeing as she chooses to spend most of her time on the mortal plane, she clearly doesn’t care too much for her Fae nature - we sorta see this with Meryl in SK. Being Fae or a Changeling would be congenital & given the darker impulses of the Winter Fae, I could see someone like Sarissa calling it dementia - it is abnormal from a civilized human PoV.

@g33k
I highly doubt Sarissa is Nfected, given that Mab was grooming her to become Winter Lady as a replacement to the Nfected Maeve... & Nfection wouldn’t be congenital, would it?

I do agree however that Sarissa purposely used extremely vague phrasing about her “disability”.

@Bad Alias
Maeve shirking her duties for ~150 years was probably because Mab kept allowing her to get away with it. Maeve didn’t realize that this was a sign of her love, instead likely viewing it as indifference or weakness on Mab’s part.
Mab should have realized that Maeve lacked the temperament to be a good Winter Lady in the long-term. Like Lily, Maeve probably didn’t understand the full extent of what she was getting into. I mean she couldn’t even have a boyfriend till Mab dies/ abdicates (given that Mab can have sex, but this seems unlikely in the near future) - that & dealing with creatures (of your own Court!) constantly trying to outsmart/ take advantage of you for centuries on end would drive anyone crazy.

@morriswalters
I think the issue is that you can’t retain much humanity & be a Winter royal. Mab does (loves Maeve), & it very nearly kills her/ destroys Winter; likewise Titania is in mourning & it has caused Summer to act erratically since SK. The Ladies are even more human since they are younger - it is the manipulation of the desires of their human nature that kills Aurora, Maeve & Lily in the end.

@Yuillegan
I wonder what happens to the non-Fae denizens of the NeverNever when they are killed in the mortal world - demonic entities etc for example.

g33k:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on August 20, 2019, 08:47:06 PM ---...
@g33k
I highly doubt Sarissa is Nfected, given that Mab was grooming her to become Winter Lady as a replacement to the Nfected Maeve... & Nfection wouldn’t be congenital, would it? 
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Remember that Mab cured Lea (for some value of "cure"), so she wouldn't necessarily find Nemfection to preclude grooming that person as a replacement...

And if the instance of Nemfection was crafted as "likes Mab's bloodline & likes Winter powers" then I could see how Sarissa might regard her condition as "congenital..."

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