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DF Spoilers / Battle of Hastings was a Stone Table fight
« on: December 05, 2018, 06:50:24 PM »
So I've been caught up on the series for a few months, had some issues getting back on the site for weird reasons, but I'm back with a fun theory, and I want to know what you guys think. Spoilers up to the latest Anthology below.
So it's mentioned (I believe in Summer Knight, but it could have been Cold Days or Small Favor) that Titania and Mab haven't talked since the Battle of Hastings (1066) and then Cold Days establishes that Mab and Titania aren't the first to hold their mantle (the same holding true for Maeve and Aurora.) I've also seen a bunch of places that Mother Summer isn't the first Mother Summer but Mother Winter is. (I must have missed this in my reading but ok).
WOJ says that the clues for the Blackstaff/Mother Winter's walking stick are from Celtic lore c. 1065. The two interesting things that happened in Great Britain around that time are that the High King of Ireland was deposed and supposedly died in Rome and the Norwegian and Norman Invasions. Since Stamford Bridge hasn't been mentioned yet it would suggest that the Norman one was more important.
My theory is: Whoever stole the Blackstaff did it around 1065, and this imbalance in power caused a Stone Table battle that took place on the 14th of October. During the period of time around the Blackstaff being stolen, and possibly during the battle itself the OG (presumably) Summer and Winter Queens died and were replaced by Mab and Titania (Who were presumably the Lady's). This also when the OG Mother Summer died and was replaced by the current one (if someone could find me the source for the current Mother Summer not being the original that would be great.) presumably as a sacrifice on the Table to balance out Mother Winter being weak.
This also creates an interesting idea for who Lea actually is (since her name is more of a title for Fairy God Mother) that she was originally the spare Mother Winter and that the current Mother Summer could be her sister.
What do you guys think?
So it's mentioned (I believe in Summer Knight, but it could have been Cold Days or Small Favor) that Titania and Mab haven't talked since the Battle of Hastings (1066) and then Cold Days establishes that Mab and Titania aren't the first to hold their mantle (the same holding true for Maeve and Aurora.) I've also seen a bunch of places that Mother Summer isn't the first Mother Summer but Mother Winter is. (I must have missed this in my reading but ok).
WOJ says that the clues for the Blackstaff/Mother Winter's walking stick are from Celtic lore c. 1065. The two interesting things that happened in Great Britain around that time are that the High King of Ireland was deposed and supposedly died in Rome and the Norwegian and Norman Invasions. Since Stamford Bridge hasn't been mentioned yet it would suggest that the Norman one was more important.
My theory is: Whoever stole the Blackstaff did it around 1065, and this imbalance in power caused a Stone Table battle that took place on the 14th of October. During the period of time around the Blackstaff being stolen, and possibly during the battle itself the OG (presumably) Summer and Winter Queens died and were replaced by Mab and Titania (Who were presumably the Lady's). This also when the OG Mother Summer died and was replaced by the current one (if someone could find me the source for the current Mother Summer not being the original that would be great.) presumably as a sacrifice on the Table to balance out Mother Winter being weak.
This also creates an interesting idea for who Lea actually is (since her name is more of a title for Fairy God Mother) that she was originally the spare Mother Winter and that the current Mother Summer could be her sister.
What do you guys think?