The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
A few recent WOJs - !!SPOILERS!!
Direwolf513:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on July 29, 2020, 02:56:56 AM ---Bad Alias - Seems unlikely as in Turn Coat Harry says they have only been there for under 500 years. Merlin founded the Council before the Church. They have had headquarters in Madrid, Constantinople and even the Vatican in the early days. I know it says that he won it in Changes but it really doesn't add up - at all. I think Harry was wrong myself. Or Jim just forgot.
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Merlin was a time-traveler. Who knows what he got up to bouncing around?
vultur:
--- Quote from: Direwolf513 on July 30, 2020, 07:55:14 PM ---Merlin was a time-traveler. Who knows what he got up to bouncing around?
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Also, the Gatekeeper was active in the 8th century. Presumably he used Nevernever time-dilation to still be alive today.
So Merlin could have been a young wizard like Harry around 500 AD (the time usually ascribed to Arthur by those who think he was a historical figure) and still be active around 1500.
I don't think Merlin actually founded the Council before the Church, I think he "re-founded" it after the fall of the Roman Empire and wrote the Laws of Magic, turning an earlier classical organization of wizards into the modern White Council. Arthur and Merlin are associated with the time immediately after the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire.
Dina:
So, internet informs me that Sarissa is a spear, while Maeve is something intoxicating, I guess a poison. I wonder if Mab is angry that one of her weapons belongs to Titania now. But at least she got a pearl now :)
vultur:
--- Quote from: Dina on July 30, 2020, 09:25:51 PM ---So, internet informs me that Sarissa is a spear, while Maeve is something intoxicating, I guess a poison.
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That WOJ is especially interesting because I always took Maeve to be a reference to Maeve from Irish mythology.
Before CD I thought Maeve the Winter Lady actually was Maeve of Connacht. But then we learned she's not nearly old enough, so I figured Mab was Maeve of Connacht once and gave her daughter a form of her old mortal name (some people claim that the name Mab is derived from Medb, another form of Maeve).
Dina:
Yes, I knew a girl called Maeve (a very unusual name here) and she told me her name was a variation of Mab. Your theory had a lot of sense.
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