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Rashid's Eye
KurtinStGeorge:
I like Mira's idea that as a security measure the connection between Harry and Alfred can only be detected while Harry is on the Island. Also, Harry doesn't mentally connect with Demonreach until he physically stands on the island. We found that out when Harry, Molly and Morgan went to the island, just before Harry went back to Chicago and made his phone challenging the White Council.
Yuillegan:
Vecna is fairly new G33k, so I doubt Jim has much association with it. More likely they share some of the same origin materials.
Morris, I essentially agree.
Con, that's a very interesting idea. I wonder what more we will learn about sanctums. But I am sure Rashid has at least one. Does he mutter a spell? I don't have my copy of the book so can't check
Bad Alias - Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying the Mothers (and only the Mothers) represent the entirety of the Fates. I agree that they are merely a part (perhaps the greatest part). But it's a very strange coincidence that the Mothers seem to see the future (from the perspective of an outside observer) almost the same way Rashid does? And considering his job and links to the Fae... It could be that being custodian of the Gates requires them to be a part of the Gates. Power has purpose after all.
I certainly wasn't suggesting there is more than one Outside. I have read the WOJs that support it. But I definitely think that going through the Outer Gates is one of the few ways of travelling through the multiverse...for beings that only exist in one place at once. Angels and the like are different.
Well the Eye of Sauron is actually a bit of a reference to Odin, Tolkien made a lot of references to Odin in his character of Sauron.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on June 12, 2020, 05:52:29 AM --- Vecna is fairly new G33k, so I doubt Jim has much association with it ...
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Jim is an active RPG gamer.
Vecna is a longtime element of D&D, going back to the late 70's (almost certainly before Jim got into gaming).
I mean... my "Vecna" remark was throwaway snark, honestly. I expect Rashid's eye is more mythic/fairytale in origin than it is D&D in origin.
... But ...
Mira:
--- Quote ---If the Mothers gave Rashid the eye, it doesn't necessarily follow that the Gates are part of them. They could just be their custodian. Additionally, I don't think the Mothers are the Fates. I think the Mothers are a Fate. The Ladies are another, and so are the Queens.
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It doesn't mean that they cannot be made out of the same substance either. When you think about it the gates that are meant to keep out Outsiders etc wouldn't be made of ordinary material, so they can be used in defense. It makes sense that Rashid's eye is made of the same material with an added bonus, a mind behind it to take action. It also makes sense that the Mothers had the Eye first
to keep watch, they've been around for centuries before Rashid was even born. Like Harry, Rashid has a role to play, he agreed to it or bargained for it, in return he was given the Eye so he could do his job.
Avernite:
Maybe it's the eye of the Graiai, that Perseus stole to be able to slay Medusa. Those sisters were named horror, alarm, and dread...
Granted that Mother Winter might have inherited it from the Graiai, but seemingly having good eyes herself, she doesn't really need it.
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