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Could Dresden have been wrong about Thorned?
Mira:
--- Quote ---Mab being down her top three agents is getting closer, but Mab didn't know she was down her top three agents at that point.
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She knew she was down a Knight, and her right hand go to Fae, Lea... That is two out of the three.
--- Quote ---At any point, Mab could have appointed a fill-in Winter Knight while she convinced Harry to be their replacement.
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Could she? I doubt it is that simple, 1] the new Knight would have to be willing to kill Slate,2] the new Knight would have to handle the power of the mantle and take orders,3] I doubt the new Knight would resign, so someone would have to be willing to kill him or her.
--- Quote ---“A much more serious reason would be an issue of the balance of power between the Courts of Summer and Winter. Any reaction to the invasion would alter what resources one would have at hand. If one Court did not act in concert with the other, it would provide an ideal opportunity for a surprise assault while the other had its strategic back turned.”
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There is your answer..
morriswalters:
I never said she couldn't, it just doesn't fit my internal picture of Mab.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 10, 2021, 03:13:18 AM ---She knew she was down a Knight, and her right hand go to Fae, Lea... That is two out of the three.
Could she? I doubt it is that simple, 1] the new Knight would have to be willing to kill Slate,2] the new Knight would have to handle the power of the mantle and take orders,3] I doubt the new Knight would resign, so someone would have to be willing to kill him or her.
There is your answer..
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One and a half. Finding a real piece of work to be temp Winter Knight wouldn't be hard for the scary queen of faerie. It wouldn't even have to be a good candidate to be as good as Fix.
Your excerpt is just the explanation on why Summer couldn't act without coordination of Winter. It doesn't answer why Mab ignored the Reds at the time.
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 10, 2021, 03:13:42 AM ---I never said she couldn't, it just doesn't fit my internal picture of Mab.
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Mab is efficient and probably wouldn't act like that without a strategy, but the point is that being down a knight was voluntary on her part. SK was a crisis because it risked losing the Summer Knight mantle permanently. Mab icing Slate for a while is an imbalance on a much smaller scale. It makes the bluffing against weakness theory less likely.
Mira:
--- Quote ---One and a half. Finding a real piece of work to be temp Winter Knight wouldn't be hard for the scary queen of faerie. It wouldn't even have to be a good candidate to be as good as Fix.
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She already had that in Slate and he was a traitorous disaster, no, though it was Maeve that picked him, Mab would make certain that mistake wouldn't be repeated.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 10, 2021, 05:14:21 AM ---She already had that in Slate and he was a traitorous disaster, no, though it was Maeve that picked him, Mab would make certain that mistake wouldn't be repeated.
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But things would have been even. Knights are like paper cups. Use them and replace as needed. Mab was holding out for a really good one in Harry, but push come to shove, a temp works just fine until then.
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