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Christmas Eve story - Huge question
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 24, 2020, 04:31:12 AM --- However none of that answers the question as to whether or not the Lady has to be a virgin upon
receiving the mantle of Lady. Once she becomes Lady, celibacy is one of the things the mantle demands of her.
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I think the mantle selects the best possible available host based on how close the hosts nature is to the mantles nature. It is never ideal so the mantle will start pushing the host to change nature in its direction.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 24, 2020, 12:21:36 PM ---I think the mantle selects the best possible available host based on how close the hosts nature is to the mantles nature. It is never ideal so the mantle will start pushing the host to change nature in its direction.
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Makes you feel for Molly, if she was a poorer fit to the Summer mantle than a woman who had been living (and fighting, subtly and unsubtly) in Arctis Tor for centuries.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I think the mantle selects the best possible available host based on how close the hosts nature is to the mantles nature. It is never ideal so the mantle will start pushing the host to change nature in its direction.
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In theory, according to Mother Summer, "The mantle returns to the nearest reflection of itself."
But Lily was hardly that, and in fact Aurora turned her into a statue so she could hide the Summer
Knight's mantle inside her. Then when she was transformed back and Aurora died, the Lady's mantle went to her as the nearest reflection. I am not sure though how near to the mantle's nature Lily was.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---In theory, according to Mother Summer, "The mantle returns to the nearest reflection of itself."
But Lily was hardly that, and in fact Aurora turned her into a statue so she could hide the Summer
Knight's mantle inside her. Then when she was transformed back and Aurora died, the Lady's mantle went to her as the nearest reflection. I am not sure though how near to the mantle's nature Lily was.
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I think Mother Summer was talking specifically about the Knight mantles there, and saying that only one of the summer queens could have hidden it.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 24, 2020, 06:07:01 PM --- In theory, according to Mother Summer, "The mantle returns to the nearest reflection of itself."
But Lily was hardly that, and in fact Aurora turned her into a statue so she could hide the Summer
Knight's mantle inside her. Then when she was transformed back and Aurora died, the Lady's mantle went to her as the nearest reflection. I am not sure though how near to the mantle's nature Lily was.
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Are you talking about the Lady's or Knight's mantle going to Lily?
Knight's: When Ronald Reuel died, the Knight's mantle went to Aurora because she was the nearest Summer Queen. She chose Lily as the Knight.
Lady's: The Knight's mantle is part of the Queens. So the Knight would already have a part of the Lady in them, so it makes sense that the Lady's mantle would go to a Knight with the proper plumbing.
Or at least that's my take.
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