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Mac's True Nature (spoilers for BG)
kevinm:
I wanted to give some thoughts on the revelation about Mac. I know another thread got into this but angels both of the holy and the fallen variety are kind of my thing (www.youtube.com/c/paranormalencyclopedia) so I might have some additional insights.
First yeah Mac's an angel, particularly one of a type known as the Grigori or the watchers. In angelology (mostly Jewish) they were given the job of teaching mankind civilization and/or magic (kind of depends on the source) but lusted after human women creating half breed children known as nephillim or anakim (Goliath incidentally was from these blood lines). Generally they are seen as fallen angels/demons but i don't think that's the case with Mac... at least not exactly.
So in some European folklore there's actually three groups of angels. The Holy Angels (Michael and the other angels that remain loyal to God), the fallen angels (Satan and his ilk) and what you might call the tripped. These were angels who refused to take sides when Lucifer rebelled against God. They weren't cast into Hell but they were no longer allowed to remain in Heaven forcing them out onto the Earth (incidentally Dante mentiones them briefly in The Divine Comedy placing them in the outer part of Limbo, Hell's first level although before Charon and the river Styx). Some European legends actually associate these angels with the origin of the faeries but I don't think that's where Jim's going. I think Mac is just an angel barred from Heaven but not cast into Hell from the ranks of the Grigori.
Mira:
I think the ranks of the angels that refused to take sides fits Mac, and what few comments about him that are in the series. The fact that the bar is neutral territory, this also fits with that. However knowing Harry is changing him, little by little he is being forced to take a side. It began with tossing the keys of his Trans Am to Harry so he could get to Victor's lake house in Storm Front, to making a real statement and commitment in Battle Ground, a blood oath of a type, putting a smear of his blood on the Placard, thus swearing that anyone that comes through the door of his bar to hurt those inside it has to go through him first.
hiddendotgif:
Forcing Mac to take a side may have significant fallout - not as big as if Michael had misused his borrowed Grace, in terms of scale, but similar, in my opinion
Mira:
--- Quote from: hiddendotgif on October 27, 2020, 12:05:20 PM ---Forcing Mac to take a side may have significant fallout - not as big as if Michael had misused his borrowed Grace, in terms of scale, but similar, in my opinion
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Mac isn't being forced, apparently as he is now, he does have free will, so far he hasn't "used" whatever power he has, he might not be able to. He did heal very quickly back in Cold Days from a gun shot wound to the stomach if I remember correctly. It isn't quite like Michael though, he was loaned for a time Uriel's Grace, Grace that Uriel isn't free to use, but because he does have free will, Michael could have chosen to use and abuse.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: kevinm on October 27, 2020, 03:04:41 AM ---These were angels who refused to take sides when Lucifer rebelled against God.
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I believe there's a WoJ where he says Lasciel refused to take sides. If so, Mac's status as a "tripped" angel would need to be because of something other refusing to take sides. Or Jim will have to change that. WoJ is just something he's said. I don't consider it canon until it's in a book.
Mac might be able to do whatever he wants so long as he doesn't use his angelic power. It would be a very good reason for him to keep himself "out." If he gets emotionally involved with anyone, he might not be able to resist the temptation to use whatever power he has.
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