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Battle Ground??
Dina:
It is not the same to say "there was an active Starborn" that "the last Starborn was active". If there has not been a starborn in a thousand years, it is much weird that there are two (Harry and Eleaine) at the same time(same age even) in the same country. And it makes them much more special.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on March 25, 2020, 05:06:03 PM ---It is not the same to say "there was an active Starborn" that "the last Starborn was active". If there has not been a starborn in a thousand years, it is much weird that there are two (Harry and Eleaine) at the same time(same age even) in the same country. And it makes them much more special.
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Or there is only one, but two who had potential requirements to be the starborn. Kind of like Harry Potter and Nevil Longbottom..
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Dina on March 25, 2020, 05:06:03 PM ---It is not the same to say "there was an active Starborn" that "the last Starborn was active". If there has not been a starborn in a thousand years, it is much weird that there are two (Harry and Eleaine) at the same time(same age even) in the same country. And it makes them much more special.
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Unless there can only be a Starborn at certain conjunctions that only come around every 1,000 years or so.
My recollection of where that comes from was that it was something like "the last time a starborn was running around both the Ladies died," and it was a reference to when Aurora and Maeve became Ladies.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Arjan on March 25, 2020, 09:22:41 AM ---It was a wou but I can never find them if I want to.
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I dunno if this is all there is, but...
--- Quote ---Uh, the Ladies, Queens and Mothers, their mantles change very, very, very rarely in general. I mean, Mab’s been there for better than 1,000 years. And Maeve’s been there….there was a Winter Lady before Maeve, uh, in Mab’s time. And she didn’t fare so well the last time a Starborn was running around.
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(https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-the-fae/, near the end.)
It's not 100% clear to me, from this, that "the last time a Starborn was running around" is the SAME time as that thousand-years-ago time.
Interestingly, Jim said "better than 1000 years" which would noticeably pre-date Hastings (indeed, predate the birth of William the Conqueror). It could be simple error in speaking; everybody's subject to slip-of-the-tongue errors, carelessness, etc...
Or not.
Everybody's all busy looking at Hastings, while maybe Jim is over there cackling madly about Millenial Madness and the Y1K panic, for example. Charlemagne's kingdom being split into 3 (three Swords?) in 843AD, for another example (or Charlemagne's rise, late 700's through 800AD).
Dina:
Of that quote, I think that Maeve predecessor lived any time in the last 1000 years, it could had been a couple of centuries ago. We don't know if Aurora become a Lady at the same time.
And Mira is right about the requirements to be a starborn.
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