Hmmmm, I just thought of an issue with TTHarry acting in PG.  It's a little vague and probably workaroundable but it is a genuine issue that is new.

In PG Slate still holds the Winter Knight mantle.  If TTHarry is still the Winter Knight when he is doing his alleged shenanigans in PG, wouldn't the dual mantle presence present its own paradox?

Dangit, now I've got an itch to create an exhaustive topic outlining the possible LC fix perps, and thoroughly hashing the pros and cons of each.

Edit:  Never mind, wyltok already did an amaising job of discussing most of this here

Is it likely that having 2 WK mantles present at the same time would weaken Winter and supply the heat in the book? The power of the mantles comes from Mab. If she's powering two of them at the same time that might set some limits on her influences and, by extension, supply a simple action/reaction 'boost' to Summer's influences. Might explain why she's in AT, staying as close to the Wellspring as she can.

And, having two mantles together like that would give Mab loads of support why she tells Harry (more than once) he'll be the WK at some point. She knows it because it's already happened.

Not sure. It's so muddy that almost anything could be true.
/sigh

Had a thought but the level of research to check it out is daunting...

Has it been discussed whether or not Ebenezer McCoy is, or at one time might have been... Black Hat?
Anything that reduces that research load would help.
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Saying faith in “anything” can “make magic” is oversimplification. If someone has faith that chicken soup is good for the body and soul, that doesn’t mean it can do healing magic and redeem sinners. There has to be something substantive to believe in…whether religious doctrine/dogma, a philosophical stance/pretext, etc.

An instance of non-religious, philosophically based “faith” could come from a deep and abiding faith in the principles of Plato’s Republic. The American Founders used a lot of that to make a nation out of nothing and it’s still standing (however battered and time-worn). There’s plenty within Plato’s treatise to found a faith-based system of beliefs that could well rival those of any religious organization in the world. Likewise, Marx’s Manifesto contains ample dogmatic/doctrinal tenets for the same. Whether or not a particular form of communism acknowledges religion or not isn’t germane. Does the philosophy of Communism lend towards faith? Ask the Bolsheviks whether their faith was good enough…

Heck, for that matter, Sun Tzu’s (circa 500 B.C.) “Ancient Art of War” could match them. After all, doesn’t Bushido (“Way of the Warrior”, code of conduct adhered to by samurai) embrace every last scrap of the essential nature of Ancient Art of War and still qualify as a non-“religious” faith?  Even Musashi’s “Five Rings”, a central piece of Bushido training literature since the 1600’s, is part of Bushido now; sort of a Bushido “New Testament”.  The seven “virtues” of Bushido are Rectitude, Courage, Benevolence, Respect, Honesty, Honor, and Loyalty… certainly a match for Chastity, Temperance, Diligence, Charity, Patience, Kindness, and Humility the seven Virtues of Christianity. A strong enough belief in Bushido might well convey religious level faith “magic”.

I think it comes down to, what does a one believe in… presuppositionally... without need of proof. That’s the nature of faith.

Duct Tape, peanut butter sandwiches and Sharon Osbournes aside, if there’s something substantive to the belief system, there’s substance for enough faith which, in game terms, will translate to a “True Believer” faith-based character. That’s all the GM needs. Getting the players to swallow it might be another story, but as long as the GM deems it good, it is good.

I’ve done some exploration on this general idea. I’ve already started putting together an NPC who acts very much like Alan Dean Foster’s “Spellsinger”. He does magic through music. I started him out using the “Music to sooth the savage breast” concept matched to the “Will and the Word” basis of the Dresdenesque magic scheme. In other words, his music has power because he believes it does; it’s an act of Faith. I put him together using a lot of Faith Based focus (stunts, with evocation, etc. So far she's sitting somewhere between a Focused Practitioner and a Sorcerer. There are still some kinks to work out, but it’s shaping up. I don’t see why it couldn’t work with other concepts as well. How about Darwinian Evolution? Someone's faith in “Survival of the fittest” matched with an absolute conviction that you are not fit could get ugly.