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Christmas Eve and Peace Talks theory (spoilers)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 17, 2020, 02:58:03 AM ---Not really. Harry's vote counts just as much as Luccio's. That's a democracy. The selection process for the Senior Council is gerontocratic, but according to Turn Coat, that's just a tradition. As we see it play out in SK, the eldest member willing to serve runs for the seat unopposed.
The White Council is a mostly direct democracy where each member has a vote equal to every other member. The democracy is limited by the authority of the Senior Council to decide any matter before the whole Council itself with a vote of, I believe three Senior Council members. The Senior Council handles routine matters and has more power in times of war. The Council has a republican form of government because of these limitations.
If we consider that the Council has authority over all humans, it would be a gerontocratic-oligarchic-republic.
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The senior council can delegate some decisions but that is her choice, she can not be forced to do so in any official way. The rules that bound her are mostly not real rules but traditions. A new place is filled by seniority as we have seen in summer knight. So a gerontocracy.
There are some other institutions that could be used to build something new upon but those institutions are weak.
Grifter:
--- Quote from: Wrane on July 08, 2020, 07:16:22 PM ---I don't think Murph can take the Summer Knight mantle; one of the prerequisites was a bond with someone close in the court of the faeries. Murph doesn't have one.
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I don't know about Murphy having a bond with anyone in the Summer Court, but her credentials are impeccable. She did kill the last Winter Lady, after all. She rode with the Wild Hunt, arguably led or helped lead it, and gained the respect of the Erlking. And if Titania had the opportunity to take Harry's True Love away from him by making Murphy his sworn enemy, I think she'd make it happen in a heartbeat, and smile while doing it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Grifter on July 17, 2020, 05:08:55 AM ---I don't know about Murphy having a bond with anyone in the Summer Court, but her credentials are impeccable. She did kill the last Winter Lady, after all. She rode with the Wild Hunt, arguably led or helped lead it, and gained the respect of the Erlking. And if Titania had the opportunity to take Harry's True Love away from him by making Murphy his sworn enemy, I think she'd make it happen in a heartbeat, and smile while doing it.
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It wasn't Murphy, Mab used her. She is hurt, everything points to her dying in battle, heroically for Harry. She doesn't want to be the brains behind anything, she made that clear, she wants to be physically in the battle, and she will die doing it.
paranetonline:
--- Quote from: Walter the skull on July 12, 2020, 12:49:04 AM ---I hope this is ok to say.
I think we're being messed with here. Someone who may know something may be stirring the pot. CaptMurphy maybe someone's sock. He or she only made the profile 12 minutes before they posted. Sarek's comment about the thread taking days to approve doesn't mesh with that. Perhaps he knows captMurphy in RL in that case it makes sense. Again this is just my opinion, and isn't meant to be negative towards captMurphy or Serek.
That being said, its always fun to discuss this stuff, so regardless of who the original poster is let's keep going.
I hope she survives and just has to learn to live with her new situation, and that it is used as an opportunity for her character to grow. I think something will happen to heal her in end trilogy.
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I can't say, and don't know, if the account is a sock, or mask, or mantle, or some combination therein. But I can assure you that delays in approving posts are real. I've been very inactive of late due to personal circumstances, so approving newbie posts has largely fallen to Blaze and others of late.
I just logged in to reply to this and found two posts awaiting approval that I didn't even realize were out there. We made it so brand new members can't create new threads to cut down on spammers, but legit new folks typically are lurkers that have thought of something they haven't seen others mention and they sign up to start a thread for it. Then it's up to me or a few mods that are still around to vet the post and approve it. But doing so doesn't timestamp it at the time of approval, it's left down the board at the original post time, and can easily slip past folks' notice. So bumping it back up gives it a fair shot at being seen.
Arjan:
Jim tweeting about Murphy’s funeral is a clear indication that it won’t happen. He would not give a spoiler like that away if it was true in the most obvious sense.
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