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Con:
So we have two WOJ's on the Fae in Australia.

The first during the 2015 QnA.

"I was talking with a friend about the faerie courts, and since we live in Australia, we were both wondering what the explanation is for the seasons being reversed in the southern hemisphere. Does Titania take a vacation down south for Christmas? Or is there a seperate pair of courts for the south?

"Oh, no, they'll just rotate interests. Mab has more power in the southern winter, Titania in the southern summer. Though, as fundamentally northern-hemisphere, basically Western European beings, they don't have the kind of absolute reign there that they enjoy in other parts of the world, and their relationships there consist more of strong alliances and consensus influence among a much larger population of Wyld fae."

and this more recent one from the Dresden Files Podcast.

"
If you're a king or a queen it's different because there's actual magical stuff associated with being a king or a queen. For example Mab does not disrespect Elizabeth in England, period. She just does not. Because the queen of England is the /queen of England/ and she can do things. And we'll get to see more of that as we go.

But she doesn't care if she's like in Australia or Canada or any of those.

If it's in part of her realm, yeah, that's a big deal. You don't screw with her in her realm but if she comes to America she doesn't necessarily have access to all that stuff. She's not walking on the ground that her family's been ruling for hundreds of years so."

So thats as much as we know about Australian Fae.

Does this mean Aussie and Canadian Fae are protected from the Child Tribute Tax?

Personally if old Queen Elizabeth is protecting us Aussie's from Mab's domain thats a plus for me.

Personally I have headcanons of the Rainbow Snake (Aboriginal Dreaming story) being a Dragon cpitol D. I also have a character whose an Indigenous Elder Wizard, friend of Listens to Winds but more bitter and less forgiving.

So the only other references to Australia is Hannah Ascher who was hunted be Wardens for scorching three guys and killing a couple of Wardens in self defence. Also she was apparently a member of the Order of St. Giles

There was also a brief mention about Margaret le Fey being able to Walk the Nevernever to Melbourne at will.

So thats about it.

Arjan:
I do not think wildfae are subject to that tax anyway. They would be winter if they paid tax.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Con on January 03, 2021, 09:57:25 AM ---If you're a king or a queen it's different because there's actual magical stuff associated with being a king or a queen. For example Mab does not disrespect Elizabeth in England, period. She just does not. Because the queen of England is the /queen of England/ and she can do things. And we'll get to see more of that as we go.
But she doesn't care if she's like in Australia or Canada or any of those.
If it's in part of her realm, yeah, that's a big deal. You don't screw with her in her realm but if she comes to America she doesn't necessarily have access to all that stuff. She's not walking on the ground that her family's been ruling for hundreds of years so."

--- End quote ---

Which is odd, because the Queen of England is also the Queen of Australia, Canada, etc. Back when they were changing the succession law from eldest son (or daughter if there is no son at all) to eldest child period, all the commonwealth countries that share the monarch as head of state had legislation changing their succession at the same time, so a firstborn daughter wouldn't split which royal is the figurehead where.

Maybe it's something to do with which land is actually the monarch's home. But that gets even fuzzier for the other parts of the UK  besides England. Is Balmoral still home turf for HRH, as far as Mab is concerned?

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on January 03, 2021, 08:33:25 PM ---Which is odd, because the Queen of England is also the Queen of Australia, Canada, etc. Back when they were changing the succession law from eldest son (or daughter if there is no son at all) to eldest child period, all the commonwealth countries that share the monarch as head of state had legislation changing their succession at the same time, so a firstborn daughter wouldn't split which royal is the figurehead where.

Maybe it's something to do with which land is actually the monarch's home. But that gets even fuzzier for the other parts of the UK  besides England. Is Balmoral still home turf for HRH, as far as Mab is concerned?

--- End quote ---
When I was listening to it, I took him to mean that it doesn't matter which part of her realm she is in. Canada, Australia, England. All the same. But in America, she's just some lady.

Arjan:
Kings in the past have always tried to legitimize and strengthen their rule with religion. Sometimes they were gods, sometimes they had godly ancestors but always they tried to make resistance against them equal to resistance against god. There is a lot of mythology around kingship as a result of this because winners not just write history, they write mythology as well and Jim plays with that.

We here have a king and I am not impressed but the myth undeniably has some power left. In spite of all scandals and idiocy we can not get rid of them.

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