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Tinfoil hat:

Been rereading the books. The Knights are said to hold a lot of power. But we never see then doing anything beyond mortal with winter/summer power. They seem to be wizard level at best. Ditto the Ladies they seem SC level. On the other hand the Knights were have met Slate was a thug. Not brains type.
Then BG was released and Harry uses the banner. The first Knight in centuries to do so. And I started thinking.
In Cold Days Maeve says Harry can kill Mab. Here the thing what if the banner is the Knights true power calling others to your side. My theory is the knights are the field commander of all the fae forces. Wk for winter Sk for summer.
A fully realized Knight can summon forces to his side at will. Including creatures of the fae court he serves. Hold that thought will get back to it.
Remember the Milwaukee incident were the city vanished to hours and the current form of the accords was signed as a result. Once so a WOJ that it was the Knights fighting that triggered it. The Knights involved must have tapped in to their true power unknowingly and started a war between the courts.
Mab and Titania done tell the new Knights they true power. Only a competent knight gets to release what their purpose is.
Meanwhile the Ladies are the 4 star generals meant to give the Knights their orders.

Melriken:

--- Quote from: Tinfoil hat on May 21, 2023, 02:18:21 PM ---Meanwhile the Ladies are the 4 star generals meant to give the Knights their orders.
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No, you wouldn't have a '4 star general' to give a single individual their orders... Each court would need 4+ knights with banners for the Ladies to be 4-star generals to them.

I think that you are right in that the Mantles weren't meant for the last ~1,000 years, they were meant for what is coming next and they have just been holding power intended for others (Harry and Molley for example) to use.

The real question in my mind is were the Fae Courts split in two to prevent the powers of the Knights, Ladies, Queens, and Crones from being used at all? Divide a power in half, give the two halves to different people and set those people at odds with each other to ensure that the power was used to counter itself and not to an end.  If that is the case then Harry will claim the power of the Summer Knight as well to re-unite the mantel and use it for it's true purpose, and Molley will reunite one of the Fae Queen mantels (both halves of the Lady mantel or both halves of the queen mantel).  Unifying that power so it works to one purpose being required to hold off the Outsiders in the conclusion of this generation of the push.

The_Sibelis:
That's already been woj'd on. Summer plus winter knight in one body equals cabloowie.
The fae courts were split to create a balance between them allowing no Shadows of them to form. Mabs actually the shadow, given purpose in reality. Best metaphor I can come up with is the ying-yang and 64 trigrams. The more layers there are the harder it is to imbalance.

Melriken:

--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on May 22, 2023, 06:21:32 PM ---That's already been woj'd on. Summer plus winter knight in one body equals cabloowie.
The fae courts were split to create a balance between them allowing no Shadows of them to form. Mabs actually the shadow, given purpose in reality. Best metaphor I can come up with is the ying-yang and 64 trigrams. The more layers there are the harder it is to imbalance.
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isn't that the quote that says something vague like "I wouldn't want to be the one around when those merge, ouch" or something that the interviewer takes as boom but the quote doesn't actually say? or am I remmebering wrong?

The_Sibelis:

--- Quote from: Melriken on May 22, 2023, 06:42:07 PM ---isn't that the quote that says something vague like "I wouldn't want to be the one around when those merge, ouch" or something that the interviewer takes as boom but the quote doesn't actually say? or am I remmebering wrong?

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matter and antimatter colliding isn't sl that vague.

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