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[PT Spoilers] WAG/Theory: The Cycle and the "Black Council"

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vultur:

--- Quote from: ClintACK on August 15, 2020, 06:08:59 PM ---Sounds plausible.

I do wonder what an Outsider victory looks like, though.
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We seem to have conflicting information on this. Mother Summer (who ought to know) says in CD that "everything ends". But we are also told that the Outsiders once occupied our reality. So who knows.


--- Quote ---It's conceivable that beings like Ethniu, or a post-Darkhallow Cowl, could find a comfortable place in the very different universe that follows the return of the Old Ones.

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I would tend to think that the Faerie Mothers are powerful enough that they would survive if anything could.

On the other hand, their nature is likely closely linked to this universe. Perhaps an entity like Ethniu could survive radical changes in the universe's nature that the Faerie Courts couldn't.

Or ... well, if travel between parallel universes is possible via wizard magic, then the real powerhouses should be capable of it unless their nature constrains them to a specific reality (as might be true for the Faerie Courts). So the destruction of an universe wouldn't necessarily be fatal to all natives of that universe, if they could flee to another.

I'll be very interested to see in MM if "home-universe" Harry is still the Winter Knight when he's in the mirror-universe.

Yuillegan:
Well, to be fair we don't know the nature of how they occupied reality. It could have been a far more chaotic 'soup' of existence where the laws of physics were breaking down. Not to mention, Mother Summer didn't say everything ended immediately. If they are anything like the Hellboy Old Ones they like to make the world suffer first. And Hellboy really just stole that from Lovecraft anyhow.

We still are not yet sure if the Mothers are like Uriel in that they are multiverse level beings. I'd say that's very possible. So perhaps they would survive...but be weakened.

I would say that perhaps even some gods and other such entities wish for a return to the days before Time existed. Perhaps some of them resent being forced to experience reality the way they have to now. The Outsiders certainly seem to.

Maybe some of these beings like Ethniu have been promised the opportunity to 'reform' the world when the Outsiders reduce it back to the more malleable state that it was. Perhaps they merely believe they can wrest control from the Outsiders and believe they are using them to beat the competition and the defenders of the status quo.

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