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New questions that come from PT and BF
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 04, 2020, 04:15:28 PM ---A thought just hit me as I was walking the dogs around the park. Maybe Mab wants to marry Harry off to Lara so she can feed on him and weaken him. This way she still has an effective Knight, but his power is kept in check so he is less likely to defy her.
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I'm not sure exactly what she's going for. She seemed to imply she wanted the alliance cemented by the conception of a child to unite the bloodlines, but with the low fertility of whampires that can't be relied on any time soon. In Blood Rites, the figure was that humans in a long-term relationship with a whampire usually wear out within a few years even with care taken not to drain them in one shot.
So unless wizard and/or mantle markedly improves Harry's resilience to being fed on, Mab seems to be rolling the dice on whether this marriage idea is going to cost her Winter's starborn asset, maybe even before producing a child.
Telynn:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on November 05, 2020, 03:55:50 AM ---My best guess is that Mab most definitely wants payback from Namshiel, but she's made an investment in Marcone. He's useful to Mab's plans. However, the thing about any investment; whether it's a financial or a business asset, is that eventually it get's used up, fully depreciated, depleted, scrapped or cashed out. If Marcone insists on holding onto his new partnership with Namshiel, Mab won't protect him from the consequences of his actions.
Plus, Marcone has made the same bet that he will remain in charge of all of his decisions; that Thorned Namshiel will remain the junior partner in their deal, that Nicodemus has claimed he has with Anduriel. If we see Marcone start to make questionable decisions, I mean decisions that run counter to the Marcone we know, it may be a sign that Marcone is losing his bet and it will be a time when Mab starts to think that Marcone's value to her has been seriously diminished, that maybe it's time to write him off.
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Maybe I missed something but even if Mab figured out Marcone has a coin, was there something that would lead her to know it is Namshiel's coin?
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: Telynn on November 05, 2020, 04:14:19 AM ---Maybe I missed something but even if Mab figured out Marcone has a coin, was there something that would lead her to know it is Namshiel's coin?
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She was watching during that whole mess (and Small Favour had a lot of unexplained shenanigans, I should really do a post on that, it's nearly as overt as PG) and there aren't many coins available for him to have picked up at the end of that mess.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on November 05, 2020, 04:19:25 AM ---She was watching during that whole mess (and Small Favour had a lot of unexplained shenanigans, I should really do a post on that, it's nearly as overt as PG) and there aren't many coins available for him to have picked up at the end of that mess.
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Agreed. Plus, Mab can count; by which I mean she can subtract those fallen that wouldn't give the holder of their coin much of a chance of surviving Ethniu's full attention. Thorned Namshiel's coin would; at the very least, be one of the blackened denarius that Mab would suspect that Marcone had picked up. If she doesn't know for sure it will probably be a short matter of time before Mab can confirm whose coin Marcone is carrying.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on November 05, 2020, 08:53:16 AM ---Agreed. Plus, Mab can count; by which I mean she can subtract those fallen that wouldn't give the holder of their coin much of a chance of surviving Ethniu's full attention. Thorned Namshiel's coin would; at the very least, be one of the blackened denarius that Mab would suspect that Marcone had picked up. If she doesn't know for sure it will probably be a short matter of time before Mab can confirm whose coin Marcone is carrying.
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Especially since it's not like Harry will say no if she walks up and tells him his next mission is to write down which coin Marcone took up.
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