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[BG spoilers!!] Margaret LeFay
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 26, 2020, 09:59:49 PM ---She was not on the run her whole life. The difficulty with the glimpses of Margaret’s life we get is that they are difficult to place chronologically.
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I said the majority of her adult life. Eb says "she ran off as soon as she could get away with it. Started taking up with bad sorts out of sheer rebellion."
He makes it sound like she ran as soon as she finished her formal training, and was all but immediately in trouble with the Council. Luccio confirms she was causing trouble for the Council within a year of joining. The wardens were to arrest her on sight. She was wanted for violating multiple Laws.
Add to that, with what we know about her mastering the Ways better than any mortal, and it's safe to say she was on the run a lot. It seems like her time with Raith might have been one of her more stable periods.
I mean, she might have spent years in a place, but the Wardens aren't fools. If there was any effort to catch her, and given Luccio's statement that they were all aware of her being a threat, then she was on the move a lot.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on October 27, 2020, 01:59:02 AM ---I said the majority of her adult life. Eb says "she ran off as soon as she could get away with it. Started taking up with bad sorts out of sheer rebellion."
He makes it sound like she ran as soon as she finished her formal training, and was all but immediately in trouble with the Council. Luccio confirms she was causing trouble for the Council within a year of joining. The wardens were to arrest her on sight. She was wanted for violating multiple Laws.
Add to that, with what we know about her mastering the Ways better than any mortal, and it's safe to say she was on the run a lot. It seems like her time with Raith might have been one of her more stable periods.
I mean, she might have spent years in a place, but the Wardens aren't fools. If there was any effort to catch her, and given Luccio's statement that they were all aware of her being a threat, then she was on the move a lot.
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She ran away from her teacher and started hanging out with the wrong crowd. We also know she exchanged notes with the gatekeeper and she was watched by the wardens for some time. It took time to get her knowledge of the ways. She must have wandered around for years before the death sentence kicked in.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 27, 2020, 05:55:28 AM ---She ran away from her teacher and started hanging out with the wrong crowd. We also know she exchanged notes with the gatekeeper and she was watched by the wardens for some time. It took time to get her knowledge of the ways. She must have wandered around for years before the death sentence kicked in.
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I don't doubt that, but by all counts, she was probably around 18 when she finished her schooling, and close to forty or so when she gave birth to Harry. She might have spent the majority of twenty years on the move.
Which makes me curious as to what she was doing ending up in the Erlking's domain, by the sound of it multiple times. Was she working with Lea and Mab, and going through his area of Faerie on business? Was she in places associated with hunting, and popped in out of necessity like Harry did?
It just makes me curious.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on October 27, 2020, 05:49:36 PM ---I don't doubt that, but by all counts, she was probably around 18 when she finished her schooling, and close to forty or so when she gave birth to Harry.
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Isn't there a WoJ that she was very old when she gave birth to Harry and was only able to conceive at that age because "wizards cheat."
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 27, 2020, 05:55:14 PM ---Isn't there a WoJ that she was very old when she gave birth to Harry and was only able to conceive at that age because "wizards cheat."
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That was due to Ms Duck and others arguing that JB didn't take fertility into consideration regarding her age. The argument was that if she were old enough to be the daughter of Eb and his wife from over a century ago, she wouldn't have been fertile.
The possible solutions were that she aged slower due to a lot of time in the never-never (thus accounting for her fairly youthful appearance in the Raith painting and Harry's vision), or it was 'magic'.
Saying she was forty when Harry was born is likely on the very low end of her actual age. She was most likely over a hundred, but somehow looked considerably younger than other wizards do at that age, and was also still possessing viable eggs.
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