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Mac's identity
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on August 21, 2021, 05:38:48 AM ---I think it's also interesting that Mab calls Raphael the Demon Binder (I think it was in SmF?). There are alternative explanations, but if you're gonna call something a demon binder in the DV, somebody giving the juice for Demonreach is probably a good fit for the nickname.
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Raphael isn't known for much in the source material, but what he *is* known for is binding demons. Twice at least. So it's a fitting description regardless.
But yeah, her comment in SmF wouldn't be about Mac. It'd be about Alfred. He's the vessel for the Grace (he calls himself a vessel), so Mab would see him as the bearer of the "mantle". So I think it could work.
EBRIEN:
Upon rereading/listening to Proven Guilty, Lash describes the ward guarding the Carpenter's safe room as a working by Rafael or one of his lieutenants. I don't know that this entirely negates Mac as being Rafael, but I think it's food for thought. A nibble at least.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: EBRIEN on August 21, 2021, 01:48:38 PM ---Upon rereading/listening to Proven Guilty, Lash describes the ward guarding the Carpenter's safe room as a working by Rafael or one of his lieutenants. I don't know that this entirely negates Mac as being Rafael, but I think it's food for thought. A nibble at least.
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Yeah, that's come up before. The hand wave possibilities are
* Lasciel fell before Raphael would have transubstantiated and didn't recognize Mac for what he was. (seems unlikely)
* She started saying Raphael and then remembered he wouldn't be available so she added the leuitenant bit.
* She thinks Mac, even powerless, could have made the wards, and was in town to do so.
* These aren't the wards you're looking for.
morriswalters:
I don't think Mac has lost his Grace, I think he has chosen not to use it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 21, 2021, 05:35:02 PM ---I don't think Mac has lost his Grace, I think he has chosen not to use it.
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Yes, I think there is something to that, I think Mac is unique. For whatever reason he has opted out and has been granted that privilege, most of the supernatural community seems to understand that fact and don't question his status. I think if he were condemned something would have stopped him from adding his blood to the Placard to protect those in the bar.
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