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Mab is grooming Harry to be a new Merlin that restarts the white council.

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Shift8:
Notable facts and theories if my memory serves:

-Mab knew the Merlin of old when she was mortal and IIRC there was some kind of romance hinted at. Correct me if I am misremembering the latter part.

-I think that Mab became Mab because of some shit that went down the original white council. I think those reasons were analogous to the desperation that caused Harry to become the Knight.

-Harry is a star born, and we know he was bred to be one by the WC.

-I think the WC had some nefarious reasons for breeding him as such, or at the least some of the members did. Not all members of the WC may have the same motives.

-I think that whatever this is regarding the star born, it goes way back to whatever happened with Mab back in the day when she was mortal or when she became Mab.

-The laws the white council are draconian. This is been a theme from the beginning of the books and it has now come to a head. I do not think this is a coincidence that this happened at the same time as we learned more about Harry being star-born and Mab suddenly became more chummy.

My main theory:

I think Mab is not actually a villain. I think she became Mab because of some kind of BS that went down with the original WC back when the original Merlin existed. I think that the modern council with its draconian laws and general stupidity is in some way the product of what happened back in the day and is a bastardization of the original intend of the council. I think that the current WC had some kind of nefarious or at least misguided plans for Harry as a star born, probably to create a new Merlin. A true Merlin like the old one, who was probably also a star born and that's why he was so strong. Whatever shit happened way back in the day probably had something to do with this, and possibly demon reach. I think Mab has from the very beginning been watching over Harry so that she could get him away from the council, and what better way to do this than make him her Knight so that she could control him and also distance him from the council. I think that she isnt evil though, and in fact wanted a morally good Winter Knight. I think this is why she always threatens to break him but never actually does it, she is testing him to see if he has the character she thinks he has. I think she wants to do this because she realizes that Harry as a star born has the potential to usher in a new Era and she wants to make sure he is worthy of said power and is not corrupted by the council so that he can reform the council and restore it to what it was intended to be by become the new Merlin. In other words, Harry can being balance to the force. I also think that this has obviously been in motion well before the events of the story and that Harry's mother knew about the evil intentions of the white council and thats why she was such a maverick. I think the WC killed Harrys mother, probably because she didnt want to go along with the plan (among other things) and that something along these line is part of why no one has told Harry anything about being starborn. It is also possible that the black council is not entirely evil, and may be a group of people who include both evil practitioners and also people who are rebels against the nature of the current council....and I think Cowl is somehow involved in all this.


Yes I know some of this is spitballing but I had one of those Eureka moments and I wanted to type it all out. What do you guys think? Does anyone have any other facts to support this?

Yuillegan:
Interesting ideas!

I think that's more than just Mab's agenda though. One Eye is probably behind it too. Probably worth considering what they get out of it. Remember, Mab is good for humanity like fire is good for cauterising wounds. Too much Mab, world goes bad. Titania has a purpose after all.

As for the starborn thing, I heard in one of Jim's most recent interviews that the starborn thing has been going on since before even most of the supernatural folk can remember. He somewhat implied (I believe) that it's been going since the Fall. As in, the Fall of Lucifer. I don't think he threw in the whole 666 thing for nothing.

Psyklone:
I concur with most of this.  We will definitely not be completely correct, Jim loves to see us squirm, but we are headed in the right direction.   Harry has been forced to deal with increasingly dark stuff, and for the entire series it has been about him knowing where the line is.  So yeah, Mab testing Harry tracks, also conflict with the WC makes a good deal of sense, as we have seen how screwed up it is with every interaction we get.

I agree that Mab is not Evil, imo just a really weary/tired battle hardened General who has been fighting for mortal kind for millennia, and won't take crap from some know nothing uppity mortal much less a herd of cowardly wizards.  She has referred to herself and Harry as wolves more than once, so she completely sees how the WC has degenerated and despises them for it.

Edit:

That being said, I can't see Harry being the defacto Merlin of the WC 2.0.  He would be mostly symbolic figure head than anything else.

 Also, I have serious concerns on whether or not he will actually survive.  Being a fulcrum for existence doesn't tend to work out for the fulcrum.  We know that these stories are his journals which does seem to indicate he will live, but there are so many ways that could actually come about.  I.e. he dies in the trilogy but due to his foray in GS he becomes something similar to Bob, etc...

magnuskn:
IMO, it was pretty blatantly told us to our faces in this book that Mab was basically a good person who gradually had to rationalize most of her altruism away. Although not all... BG was really a good indicator that she has hidden her good side deep down and sometimes lets it out, in the guise of doing something which benefits her.

Thana†os:
it's also worth noting - that as the books go on, Mab is opening up to Harry more. We are getting more and more small bits of her being "a person" as opposed to being the Queen of Air and Darkness. Look at the Christmas story at the end of BG (where, I might add again...no mention of Mister. I'm a little miffed on that point).

She's really made herself more vulnerable to Harry...likely more than to anyone in a long time I imagine. Obviously, she still has to be "Queen" to his "Knight" but, often in books you have royalty becoming friends with a trusted guard or some-such. The scale is just bigger here.

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