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g33k:

--- Quote from: Fcrate on June 07, 2022, 02:49:17 PM --- So you're saying that a titan, who has never been human, and thinks of humans as cockroaches, understands that adolescent humans have pimples, and uses it as an insult to relate to relative youth? I highly doubt that. More likely it was literal.
I'm not sure that Mab was ever a Lady, anyway.
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Maybe young mortal Mab was pimply-faced, and got elevated straight into Winter's royalty by Extreme Events.

Or maybe she's just grabbing a colloquial insult she had heard used, without really understanding it.

Conspiracy Theorist:
The Murphyonic effect which prevents Harry from using technology has evolved, it used to turn milk and to cause pimples and boils amongst practitioners. We know Mab was originally a human practitioner, it is therefore highly likely that as a mortal practitioner 1,700 years ago she had pimples and other skin blemishes. Every practitioner would have. Ethnui’s dig isn’t just at her comparative youth, but also her mortal origins both of which Ethnui looks down upon compared to the older established non-human members of the Accords.

Ethnui alludes to Mab’s human origin at other times during Peace Talks and Battle Ground in a derogatory fashion. Taking on a Mantle would have erased all the skin blemishes.

Given that none of the Senior Council exhibit the remnants of skin blemishes  this shift would have occurred before the last 4-5 centuries. Rashid who is older than this habitually wears a cowl hiding his face in shadows and leather gloves hiding his hands. Perhaps habit from his pimply youth?

g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 09, 2022, 10:23:17 PM --- The Murphyonic effect which prevents Harry from using technology has evolved, it used to turn milk and to cause pimples and boils amongst practitioners ...
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I recall the "sour milk..." but not the pimples & boils (I thought that was traditionally seen as one of the chief effects the Evil Eye could inflict on victims; not practitioners)

Also, some traditions say that a witch always has an "ugly mole" somewhere on the body.  Personally -- not knowing the exact origins -- I suspect the less of being a genuine "folkloric" tradition, and more of being the invention of some pervy medieval inquisitor-type, who wanted an excuse to strip women naked.


--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 09, 2022, 10:23:17 PM --- ... We know Mab was originally a human practitioner ...
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Do we?  I'm not up on my WoJ's.  We know she was mortal, but do we also know she was a practitioner (or anything of her "practice")?


--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 09, 2022, 10:23:17 PM --- ...
Given that none of the Senior Council exhibit the remnants of skin blemishes  this shift would have occurred before the last 4-5 centuries. Rashid who is older than this habitually wears a cowl hiding his face in shadows and leather gloves hiding his hands. Perhaps habit from his pimply youth?
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Once the "aura of ugly" moved to become the "Murphyonic field," I presume the wizardly "healing factor" would have fixed most scars &c.  I'm pretty sure the modern version is newer than 4 centuries old, however.  I bet it's newer than 200 years.

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