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About Bob... (Spoilers All, Spoilers today's AMA)
tacorrific:
Bob is around a thousand years old right? That would seem to align with the time Mab and Titania accended to become Queens, right? Could one of the former Queens of Summer or Winter have created Bob when they died and passed on? The Queen's mantle is still in the story even if the specific character is not. In Cold Days Mab seemed to have some affection for her former knight Tam Lin.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I had long pegged Lea as his mother (see multiple posts) his reaction to her AND she is a muse whose love drives men mad and to their death, sounds like someone dying from a spirit of intellect.
I think the English Prisoner could be dad, hiding out from Lea and Bob in the one place Lea can’t go.
On this basis this could be a previous Winter Knight like Tam Lin who escaped the Mantle. He was associated with the Winter Court before even Mab, and I think Lea is actually much older than Mab. The escape from the Mantle would certainly have enraged the Winter Queen, and may have precipitated events leading to her demise. Mab wouldn’t have been Queen at this point, the English Prisoner might not be aware there has been a change in Winter Queen, and that it is actually safe for him to come out of hiding.
morriswalters:
Etienne the Enchanter bound Bob to the skull, and the WOJ on the enchanter puts him in the Inquisition which began in 12 century France.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Which would be when he would have fled from Mab, unless he was new born Bob could be considerably older.
BrainFireBob:
Sidenote: Bob's a thousand years old, but Etienne put him in the skull around 800 years ago. Lot of readers connect the two, but there's no reason to- Bob could have been wandering around "free" for a long time before Etienne made him the skull- which has all the earmarks of a bargain; he has to be released from it but he's always safe from the Sun.
Main point: Wrong thread, moved!
Personally, I vote for one of the Queens. Bob's parent has to not mind that he's running around, or not care.
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