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Question about the Queens and the Mothers
Con:
Theres a few WOJ on the subject.
1. That there was one Mother Summer before our current one:
--- Quote from: Jim Butcher ---1. the mothers - how does a queen become a mother? like after a thousand yrs, old winter dies and mab becomes the new mother?
Essentially abdication. The previous mother wearies of her duty and moves along. There's been one new Mother Summer during recorded human history. Mother Winter has never retired.
--- End quote ---
As for the nature of Fae Mantles theres a bunch:
--- Quote from: Jim Butcher ---if the Ladies become the Queen, what happens to the Mothers at that point? The thing is that the Mothers are kind of the foundation. So, it’s not so much what happens to them because the little mantles changed. It’s what happens to the little mantles if the big mantles change. So, if someone whacks the being that is, for all intents and purposes, Baba Yaga, and then Mab succeeds, then Mab becomes the new Baba Yaga, and Molly gets drawn up to Mab, and they have to find someone else to become the new Lady. But on the other hand, the Mothers are extremely powerful beings
--- End quote ---
So there's that to chew on.
As for theories. Before the Fae it was the Greek and Norse gods and mythologies that protected the Outer Gates. Is the most commonly accepted theory.
Personally I think it was Dragons before them, but thats just my WAG.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Con on February 19, 2020, 11:27:35 AM ---Theres a few WOJ on the subject.
1. That there was one Mother Summer before our current one:
As for the nature of Fae Mantles theres a bunch:
So there's that to chew on.
As for theories. Before the Fae it was the Greek and Norse gods and mythologies that protected the Outer Gates. Is the most commonly accepted theory.
Personally I think it was Dragons before them, but thats just my WAG.
--- End quote ---
There are also the Egyptian gods, the Babylonian gods and others before the Greek and Norse.
Kindler:
Man, that WOJ has always made me wonder whether or not we've met the former Mother Summer. I think someone had a WAG that Mrs. Spunkelkrief (however you spell it—Harry's landlady) was Mother Summer originally. Anyone recall any random old ladies Harry's met on the page? Especially in Summer Knight, Proven Guilty, Small Favor, Cold Days, and Skin Game?
kbrizzle:
@Con
IIRC Jim has said that Dragons were in charge of stuff like continental shifts or something - they were never guardians at the Gates.
@Kindler
I don’t think we’ve met old Mother Summer (yet anyway). I wonder if she abdicated when a Queen that she was very close to died (before Titania) - Summer royals don’t seem to deal with loss well.
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