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Second Aristh:
I don't really buy that Mab's mantle somehow slipped. I think Ethniu really is a heavyweight. Just look at her handling Ferrovax:
--- Quote ---The goddess walked forward, staring down at Marcone. She circled him, shaking her head in judgement--and still no one moved. She pointed a finger at Ferrovax without looking at him and said, "Introduce me to this ephemeral."
For a few seconds there was silence. Then Ferrovax spoke in a ragged voice that sounded like it was being dragged out through his teeth. "This is Ethniu. Daughter of Balor. The Last Titan."
Ethniu lowered her pointing finger. Ferrovax gasped and staggered, putting a hand on the back of his chair to balance himself as he breathed heavily.
--- End quote ---
That being said, Ethniu came fully armored with a legendary artifact against Mab's party dress. I could buy that the Titanic bronze could have some effects that hid from Mab exactly how threatening that Ethniu was before revealing herself. Her kick through the wall was clearly a sucker punch against Mab's passive defenses.
raidem:
I wonder if HWWBehind, HWWBefore and the other outsider knight are part of the same being from the outside. In order to kill all three you are going to have to kill their puppeteer.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on July 17, 2020, 06:24:25 PM ---I don't really buy that Mab's mantle somehow slipped. I think Ethniu really is a heavyweight. Just look at her handling Ferrovax:
That being said, Ethniu came fully armored with a legendary artifact against Mab's party dress. I could buy that the Titanic bronze could have some effects that hid from Mab exactly how threatening that Ethniu was before revealing herself. Her kick through the wall was clearly a sucker punch against Mab's passive defenses.
--- End quote ---
She might have had a little iron thrown in for good measure.
Avernite:
The whole entrance thing made me wonder if the Fomor are stupid, or just nemfected.
If there's one thing the current crop of powers is good at, it's cloak-and-dagger, sure... but the way to fight that is not to unite them all in a full-on slugfest. It's to chip away at one of them, show them weak, and then move on to the next. Suckerpunching Mab? Smart. Telling them all straight up to do their worst or slink over to side new-guys? Not smart. Marcone was needed to keep it together, because like a good mortal he defies anything, but still...
Or, of course, Ethniu is the distraction, and knows it, but gambles she'll thrive through it all anyway.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I work on the view that Mab went along the sucker punch as it achieved her ends, uniting the Accords members and shaking out fairweather members such as Ghouls. Remember that The Red Court are gone and the Denarians have left the Accords, the White Court are better behaved under Lara rather than her Papa, all due at least in part to Harry, and again because of Harry the Bigfeet are joining. Mab has been manipulating events and Harry to turn the Accords into a proper alliance for years. I don’t believe she stopped having been punched through two walls, she immediately turned it to her advantage, she knows unlike the Accord Members or the Fomor of Harry’s Armoury and relationship to Demonreach she helped set it up for just this circumstance. That’s her ‘ counter sucker punch’
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