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DF Spoilers / Re: About Titania
« on: July 19, 2021, 08:38:59 PM »
Numbers. The Winter Fae outnumber the Summer Fae. Vastly, apparently.
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As I say, it is possible he wasn't in attendance. We will have to wait and see to find out the truth of course. We don't have any information either way at this stage (and are unlikely to get more for a while...).
I will say though, the attack on the Gates in Cold Days subsided after Harry stopped He Who Walks Before and Maeve/Nemesis. Rashid then had time to reinstate Harry as a warden and a citizen of the USA. So based similar events in the series, it would appear the attacks to quieten after the big fight is done and Rashid does appear to contact the Council (if not actually visit Edinburgh).
As for Summer Knight, Rashid was going to kill Harry not because Harry would be kicked out of the Council, but because should Harry be stripped of the protections of the White Council, the onus was on the Council to overturn a fugitive murderer to the Red Court as stipulated by the Accords. Had Harry failed the Trial that the Gatekeeper had set, he would be a dead man walking and so the Gatekeeper felt it better to kill him personally rather than have the Red Court do it. And though it wasn't stated, probably because he also didn't want the Red Court to turn a starborn to their cause - perhaps even make him a Red Court vampire.
I think that Titania is plenty strong on her own, also capable of seeking revenge and getting it, as Harry found out after Aurora died. Isn't there a WOJ out there or something in one of the books that Summer and Winter flip roles as far as guarding the Gates are concerned every millennia or so? Both are forces of nature, and Summer can be every bit as cruel and indeed more violent than Winter. While Mab is cold and calculating, Titania is emotional and volatile, not good to cross either one of them..
I agree with pretty much all of this - except the separation between warlocks and wizards. Unfortunately there seems to be a direct negative effect associated with touching black magic (which is pretty much the same as Star Wars funnily enough). It's almost a form of radiation, it poisons and corrupts whatever it comes into contact with. I am not so sure a warlock can stop being a warlock after a while. They become tainted and mutated, corrupted. It's pretty directly drawn from Warhammer's concept of Chaos.
Yes and no. It's an oversimplification. Sociopaths and psychopaths experience plenty of rage, mania, sadness, even joy. They can experience pretty much the full range of human emotion. It's their processing of it that has issues. As I said, it's an extremely complicated and debated area. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion on the terms as much of what people understand them to be is based on outdated terms and theories, or misunderstandings of the science.
But I do agree that Harry probably isn't either, yet. He could well become one.
Indeed, that's sometimes what makes diagnosis so tricky. And the diagnosis can be wrong which creates even more problems.
Harry does display some worrying psychological tendencies though, regardless. Which could be the result of his experiences affecting his psyche as well as possibly black magic warping him, or perhaps having a more-than-mortal nature (like being a starborn). We just don't know enough about it all yet. But we do know that Harry is one to worry about. He could well have killed Rudolph in that alley and he was out of control, as out of control as Ebenezar seemed too I might add (when they duelled in Peace Talks).
I'd argue he has gone Hulk more than a few times. The real question is what the ceiling is? How big and bad can Hulk-Harry get? What might he do then?
I doubt that he is damned, if he were, Uriel along with the Holy Knights wouldn't help him like they do. No, I think that that is why Margaret selected Malcolm or wouldn't conceive a star born until she met Malcolm. It is the influence of Malcolm that prevents Harry from being damned.
She's the Queen, arguably the most powerful and well-fed Wamp there is. Others aren't going to have her power.
The Wamps are formidable politically and against humans, but against almost anything else, they're on even terms or below. It took publishing a book and arming the masses with knowledge to exterminate most of the Blamps. If someone paid Shagnasty enough, he'd wipe out the Wamps on his own in a month.
It fits with what Lash told about herself when she still thought about herself as Lasciel. About all the countless souls she had seduced and destroyed.
It fits with everything else we hear about the fallen except for the lies their hosts tell themselves.
There are 30 Coins but we've only seen a few of them, and they all seem to grant their host unique abilities. Marcone had a Coin and nobody knew, not even Mab. So it has me wondering if any on the Senior Council have a Coin. Jim said that all of them have a secret ability that they haven't let anyone else know about. A Coin would be a pretty good secret weapon to use. If Marcone could keep it secret I imagine a wizard with hundreds of years of knowledge, and experience could to.
Of the Senior Council members, who do you think would be most likely to have a Coin?
What unique ability would you like to see a Coin give it's user?
If Nicodemus see's himself as some sort of hero, Nemesis could exploit that. Manipulate him into thinking he's saving the world when it's the opposite.