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I thought there were two types of dragon - specifically big-D Dragon like Ferrovax and specifically little-d dragon - and that the one Michael killed (Siriothrax) as the lessor, but still powerful enough that it was considered a hard thing to do. Or... maybe remembering wrong. I need to find my Grave Peril book (I think it was in there)Siriothrax was the least of the big-D Dragons.
Ah, kk, Im with you now.Maeve as the one behind the Hobbs attack doesn't sit right with me. They didn't pose a serious threat to Ivy at all, so it had to be about sending a message, perhaps one that could not be easily sent in another way. Mab sending a warning to Ivy to be careful seems most likely at this point.
I dont know, it feels like a simpler explanation that it was Maeve behind the Hobs (ie Awfully Gauche) and was working counter to Mab interests (in general or for something specific we've not seen), who in turn didnt fully explain to Harry because she didnt want dissension in the ranks to be known. This was the novel she first had to start talking through Grimalkin, so she's aware of Maeve's Nemfection.
I took it to mean he was the most knowledgeable about their tactics and the like. And as GK said, their OTHER assets.Also knowledge of any internal politics that the WC might use to weaken the RC: which LoON wanted to stick it to which other LoON, who doesn't work well with others, who never really wanted to fight in the first place, etc.
There are three(ish) separate effects that I think we've seen:That WoJ was a twitter reply to Griff
The first is the Ritual from BR fueled by He Who Walks Behind (and/or his Boss, w/HWWBh as the standard proxy to be sent). This is notable because anyone can use it on any given day, regardless of affiliation.
The second is Papa Wraith's unexplained immunity to Magic, which we strongly suspect but cannot specifically prove is Outsider fueled.
The third is the stuff that we saw Vitto, and later Sharkface doing. Lash described the attacks Vitto was throwing "as drawn directly from the mind of the Outsider", and then at the end of CD we see the cloud of smoke that presumably is HWWB4 flee from a meatsuit wearing semi-sentient rags or something. There is a WOJ that strongly (if somewhat jokingly) implies that Vitto was possessed by He Who Walks Before, and that vitto was HWWB4's meatsuit in CD. In the WOJ (which Im failing to find a link for at present) somebody asked Jim if Vitto was the meatsuit Sharkface was wearing, and his response was something to the effect of "oh, that would have been coo- I mean, YES! That was my intent the the time..." It was all in a very joking tone, so it's as solid a statement to some. Regardless though I think those are closer to actual possession by an outsider entity, as opposed to a sponsored magic.
Hmm,Yeah, pretty much. Greek mythology gets really fuzzy on some details. Everybody wanted their local gods to be more important so they swapped around characters and family lines pretty often along the edges of things. After that, there isn't really a "right" answer. Olympian vs Titan is often debatable, especially for the ones that stick around after the war.I cant find any mention of her having a specific role in the Titan war.She's more or less of the same generation as Zeus and the other Olympians, so Id thought of her as one of them rather than a titan (damn it's a fuzzy line) but she wasnt one of the ones that Cronus ate, so mabe not. At the wiki level of research there's apparently a lot of debate about her status: apparently only Hesiod's account describes her in such an ascendant way, in stark contrast to other sources, to the point that people think he was trying to "promote" the status of his village's locally preferred patron goddess.
EDIT: OK, I found at least one mention on wikipedia of her in the titan war. Grain of Salt on it I think, as the context is that it was one of several excuses used to explain her continued presence in the pantheon, and it directly contradicts the more widely accepted bit where Prometheus and his mother Themis were the noted Titans that sides with the Olympians. Looks like I was wrong about Rhea though, she saved Zeus and thus made the war possible, but doesnt look like anyone thinks she took part in the war itself.(click to show/hide)
That was Rhea, Zues's mother. Hecate was from a younger generation of the Olympian gods, though Zeus honored her above most (all?) others for some reason (In the DF Id credit it to her also being their Fate rep).From my memory, helping to defeat the Titans was the reason that Zeus honored Hecate above all. Greek mythological timelines can get funky, but she was the daughter of Titans, not Olympians.
As far as the Crown goes, Hades most famous magical Artifact was a Helm of Darkness (which I could see as a reasonable mythological drift from a Crown of Mordite). The myths said it turned the wearer invisible, and was featured in a myth or two, but in a DF context Id speculate that it's not simply visual invisibility but rather a more powerful/absolute sort of Anti-detection. It was supposedly forged along-side Zues's lightning bolt and Posiden's trident, so we're talking their original Items of Office/Power
So, Ive got another simple question.Some of these urban legends might be good to draw from also.
Im the DM for my group and Im currently working on major players in the Oklahoma region. My players gave me input and I want to surprise them as we go, but so far, Ive come up with this list:
White Court
Native Americans (Skinwalkers I know Q_Q)
Bible Belt
Are there other groups that would be fitting for Oklahoma? Im trying to come up with lots of story material and feel like those hit the big ones but, even then, I cant think of minor ones either.
Not sure it would strictly be nessesary, in that Hecate was already a Tripple-Goddess, and so might have already been a power shared across multiple hosts. I agree that they definitely seem to have consolidated Power into the one set (or rather two sets) of queens, but there would have already been a power of three sort of Base form in place without needing a One Greek Goddess per Queenly role to make it happen.Hecate wasn't always considered a triple goddess, though, only in later periods. Within the DF, that might be a clue pointing to Hecate being subsumed into the Queens, or it may not be relevant. Either way, I'm not proposing each Queen being derived from a single Greek source (in fact I think it was several). There were several Greek goddess triads in the maiden/mother/crone style (e.g. Rhea/Demeter/Persephone or Rhea/Hera/Hebe or Clotho/Lachesis/Atropos, and you could throw in Gaia to either of the first two lines to get the promotion style transfer that occurs with the Queens). I'm saying that the absorption of the goddesses could have also absorbed a grudge. If so, the emergence of a grudge in Hastings would be circumstantial evidence of ascending to become Queen.
The problem with the idea of Titania being Demeter is that the "abduction" of Persephone is well before Hastings for that to personal.Depends on which Titania you're talking about.
