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What if Merlin is a Mantle? And no not like the title in the White Council.... though in thinking that, maybe Merlin is a Mantle that was forgotten (on purpose or by accident) but though lore/history the White Councile adopted it a title.
I think he's "Wild Fae" in the sense of "not technically owing allegiance to either Summer or Winter Courts. The Erlking is his own sovereign monarch.
That's the bit where I need to track the exact language, and context; they might have just been talking about field-command and battle arrays, not overall mystic politics.
Similarly for the opening night of _Peace Talks_, before Ethniu arrives: was Erl there at the talks? Did he have his own separate "contingent," or was he attached to Mab's group?
Where is that passage?
I'd have to re-read it. Off the top of my head, though: I might suspect it was just a battle-order sort of thing, allowing for Mab to have ultimate field-command of all Fae forces.
No, I think I could be wrong, but Fae like Toot began as a "Wild Fae" as well but pledged his allegiance to Winter after Harry became Winter Knight. It could be that the Erl King started out the same way and as he grew also made a choice and became a vassal of Winter, but that's a guess.
Yes; but the "Norse Pantheon" has no particular supremacy over any others; and thus Odin might be supreme in his hidden-knowledge vs. other Norse deities, he wouldn't have the same advantage vs. the Celtic pantheon (from which Ethniu derives).
I remember vaguely and have to go back and reread that Vadderung acted a bit detached, I don't think he expected to get sucked into it..
4 things, I suspect:
1/ The fomor were doing the "underwater" (& likely "deep sea") thing, which gives a tremendous amount of inherent stealth; and, presumably, the fomor had some other non-trivial stealthy-powers themselves.
2/ Ethniu is an Odin-caliber being herself, and likely could offset most of Odin's "infosec" methods.
3/ I suspect they put it all together relativey fast, to have minimal time for people to screw-up and let things slip.
4/ Last but not (at all!) least, "Nemesis" has incredible stealth-powers, and the Outsider-assault simultaneous with Ethniu's ultimatum suggests the fomor may also have gotten some help on their "stay below the radar" efforts.
Eb and Odin, I recall. Lea (and/or Mab, by proxy) too.
I don't recall any clear signs of Langtry being there...? (there is a puppy on my lap, I cannot go get a copy of Changes to re-read the scenes at Chichen Itza).