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In Retrospect The Relevance Of Storm Front and Full Moon
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 10, 2023, 08:12:06 PM --- Apparently no Oberon according to a WOJ ...
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Not so.
Unless Jim has retconned himself since 2012 (which possibility I cannot deny!), when he wrote in a reddit AMA session:
--- Quote ---Oberon… well, the guy kind of wound up between Mab and Titania in one of those romantic triangle things, back around Shakespeare’s day. He didn’t make it.
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-- https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-the-fae/
Conspiracy Theorist:
This sounds like the original Merlin, Oberon is a more modern invention as a name, those pesky Arthurian ‘scholars’ retconned things every 50 Years or so trying to put their own stamp on the mythos just like Jim.
The Courts allow for no King, but the Merlin certainly came between the two ladies of his time.
When people think Of Oberon they go to a Midsummers Night Dream, I suspect Jim did a deeper dive.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 10, 2023, 10:48:13 PM ---This sounds like the original Merlin, Oberon is a more modern invention as a name, those pesky Arthurian ‘scholars’ retconned things every 50 Years or so trying to put their own stamp on the mythos just like Jim.
The Courts allow for no King, but the Merlin certainly came between the two ladies of his time.
When people think Of Oberon they go to a Midsummers Night Dream, I suspect Jim did a deeper dive.
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You are theorizing here in explicit contravention of the facts, as per WoJ.
There are Faerie Kings, Winter & Summer.
But they aren't integrated into their respective Queens' courts:
--- Quote ---Where are the Farie kings? Do they exist?
Yes they do. The Erlking as sort of the Hunter king, and Santa Clause, the Winter king who is not the commercial Santa Clause. The kings are sort of the opposite of the queens in their given season. They are independent of their Queen’s courts. The Erlking is a summer king and he is not a particularly friendly guy, whereas Santa Clause, one of the winter kings, is kinder, the spirit of generosity in a time of bleakness.
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(n.b. the repeated "Santa Clause" error; dunno if we are reading speech-to-text glitch, or Jim had just watched the movie, or what ... )
Conspiracy Theorist:
We haven’t seen Oberon, but we have seen Puck a powerful Wildfae in Wild Card and Puck is as strong as Lea but listed in Midsummer Nights Dream as a vassal of Oberon.
If Oberon existed he would be in love Quandrangle with the Merlin and The sisters. I think instead he may have been Merlin as Merlin is often cited as having been fathered by a demon, but if it was instead a powerful Wildfae this would make him a changeling and explain his extraordinary power.
By the way re-reading Wild Card I believe Harry defeated Puck using sleight of hand skills he learn’t from Malcolm rather than blind luck, Harry cheated but not using magic as Puck expected, and we know from the flashbacks in Peace Talks Malcolm was showing Harry the Magician’s skills.
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