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whitelaughter:

--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on October 17, 2020, 12:15:45 AM ---Still, it makes me wonder at the mechanism behind the Wamp's clothing.  It's like it's enchanted in smart cloth that obeyed Lara's presumed mental command (attacking the enemy) even after being detached.

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Well, if it was flayed from someone/thing that was under her control, the enchantment would only need to handle movement. Possibly strip away the humanity from a rival vampire, so that all that remains is a mobile skin?

Griffyn612:

--- Quote from: whitelaughter on October 17, 2020, 01:00:46 AM ---Well, if it was flayed from someone/thing that was under her control, the enchantment would only need to handle movement. Possibly strip away the humanity from a rival vampire, so that all that remains is a mobile skin?

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But it doesn't act or look like skin.  Otherwise Harry would have been more adamant about how gross it looked.  And it's described as looking like fabric, so it's not likely even leather.

I'm trying to think of any enchantment we've seen that's even remotely like what the fabric is.  Short of spirit possession animating objects (like Bob and the statues), we haven't seen that level of manipulation, other than Before's tendrils, like TCF said.

But I took that as more that Before is used to having tentacles, and he made something that would let him control them like regular limbs.  I don't think they would have worked if detached.

We've seen the Wamps mess with Little Folk before, using them as lamps.  I'm wondering if they're doing the same with the cloth, imbuing it with some spirit creature similar to Bob but not in his class.

And depending on the level of cooperation, would Harry do the same with his duster to make it similar to Strange's cloak of levitation?

Conspiracy Theorist:
The White Court is Etruscan in origin, it is the language they choose to converse in. The Etruscan’s had their own version of the Fates,  same beings different names to the Greek.

What if the cloth was a gift from the Fates? A Ravelling as opposed to an unravelling. Given that The Queens of Faerie are inheritors of the Greek Fates (amongst others) it may explain what Winter wants with an alliance with the White Court, they are revisiting an old association. Oh and the God of War in the Etruscan Pantheon, the Ares equivalent is  Laran.

I think that the White Court arise out of something that happened in relation to Erus (Eros) and Psyche,  the original Whamp being a scion of them or their daughter Volupta/Hedone corrupted somehow. Psyche is depicted with butterfly wings (Psyche is Greek for butterfly) it’s no accident that is how we see Thomas depicted in Grave Peril.

Rigil Kent:
It may also be completely new. In Peace Talks, when Harry goes to Lara's place (before the Wardens ambush him and interrogate him about visiting her/sleeping with her), he (Harry) notes that the wards on the Raith mansion have been seriously upgraded. Stands to reason that Lara also got some new badass clothes at the same time since she's obviously prepping for the worst...

Telynn:
I wondered about those clothes too.  It isn't like Butcher to write about something like that and not circle back around to it with a further explanation.  Hopefully in the next book.

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