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Battle Ground foreshadowing
Mr. Mouse:
Butcher seems to be foreshadowing Mab's death and with it Molly becoming overwhelmed. Combine that with Harry saying he's not trying to get out of the Winter Knight mantle without freeing Molly from hers (and hopefully an answer to his own paralysis) and I wonder if the answer isn't Mab gets killed either as the spark for the BAT or in the first book. Molly goes nuts over the course of a book or so. Harry then uses the Crown of Thorns* to remove the Winter Queen mantle from Molly (and later the Winter Knight mantle from himself). Seems most likely that Lara becomes Winter Queen with maybe Elaine (who was Sidhe trained while with Aurora for years) becoming Winter Lady during the BAT.
*The hypothesis being that thorn manacles were created as a pale imitation of the power of the Crown of Thorns whose power strips immortality and/or a mantle from the wearer.
Conspiracy Theorist:
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*The hypothesis being that thorn manacles were created as a pale imitation of the power of the Crown of Thorns whose power strips immortality and/or a mantle from the wearer.
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One of mine (it feels right, doesn’t it, containment for Drakul and Lucifer outside of Demonreach). The courts I think are going to be replaced by humanity as the last defenders of the Outer Gates (I posit the cycles ends with the Singularity and birth of a White God, the Endgame) If so Mab, Molly and Harry are all going to be released from their Mantles in any event in the APOCALYPSE. Harry and Molly might survive this but Mab? She has been institutionalised. Our last image of Mab, in a nursing home sans her mantle and mortal , confused and effectively suffering from extreme Alzheimer’s I think is a definite possibility. Harry is doing the opposite of what Mab is asking, he is helping her retain her humanity through her links to her family and friends. That may be her salvation.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mr. Mouse on April 21, 2022, 05:45:32 PM --- ... Combine that with Harry saying he's not trying to get out of the Winter Knight mantle without freeing Molly from hers (and hopefully an answer to his own paralysis) ...
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I'm pretty sure Harry is already cured. I suspect his own wizard's "constitution" or "healing factor" did it, while Winter powers provided a sort of support-structure, like a cast supporting things so a bone can knit.
In Cold Days, at the start of Chapter 29, Harry says he's not bound by Winter Law... and looses protection of the WK Mantle. Oh noes! He feels a bunch of pain hit, and fatigue, and goes numb from the waist down... I'm pretty sure that was Mab, directly intervening, specifically to deceive Harry.
Before that had happened? Lacuna & her posse had got their iron nails (and her fish-hooks) into Harry and negated the Mantle... but Harry could still feel the pain below his waist, and still move his legs... Ergo, he is no longer actually paralyzed. But it suits Mab for Harry to keep thinking she has that hold over him.
Conspiracy Theorist:
There was no medical assessment of Harry’s spinal injury, he assumed his back was broken resulting in permanent paralysis. Mab would not disabuse him of that notion, if it got her her Winter Knight.
Harry may have merely have had an injury resulting in a temporary paralysis with sensation and function largely returning once the initial trauma had subsided. Months not decades to heal. He still needed the Winter Knight Mantle, but he intended to cheat Mab, so Mab cheated him right back (pun intended). By Cold Days he had healed.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 22, 2022, 01:36:21 AM ---There was no medical assessment of Harry’s spinal injury, he assumed his back was broken resulting in permanent paralysis. Mab would not disabuse him of that notion, if it got her her Winter Knight.
Harry may have merely have had an injury resulting in a temporary paralysis with sensation and function largely returning once the initial trauma had subsided. Months not decades to heal. He still needed the Winter Knight Mantle, but he intended to cheat Mab, so Mab cheated him right back (pun intended). By Cold Days he had healed.
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That is true, no x-rays were taken.. However he also got what he needed, instant rehab even if it wasn't broken so he could save his daughter. Though from Uriel's reaction to his condition I wouldn't bet against it being broken either. And yes, Mab demonstrated that she could return his back to it's previous condition.
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