OK, I'm not really angry, but this quote from Peace Talks just might derail several ideas that I and other readers have been discussing the past week or two. More than that, it confuses Jim's narrative. Jim probably has it all worked out so it will make sense, but I still find it annoying. So without further delay, here is what Ebenezar said to Harry in Peace Talks about what it means to be Starborn.
Ebenezar - "Every couple or three generations, the stars lineup just right, and what amounts to a spotlight plays over the earth for a few hours. Any child born within that light-"
Harry - "Is starborn. I get it. What does it mean?"
Ebenezar - "Power against the Outsiders. Among other things, that their minds can't be magically tainted by contact with anything from Outside. Which means.."
Which means to me, why the hell was Morgan, the Merlin and anyone else on the White Council; who knows about Nemesis and what it means to be starborn, afraid that Harry was "molded to be a creature of Nemesis."? That last quote is from Morgan's Microfiction.
Didn't they know that Harry is starborn? Rereading Morgan's Microfiction for the umptieth time, he doesn't say anything about Harry being starborn, so I suppose it's possible Morgan didn't know. But Morgan should have known that that possibility existed, unless he didn't know anything about being starborn.
Let me stop for a moment and say why Morgan should have known that Harry might be starborn. Morgan states that he failed to keep his promise to Margaret to protect her child. So Margaret LeFay contacted Morgan when she was pregnant. I doubt it was a face to face meeting because the Wardens had been ordered to arrest Margaret on site and Morgan was a stickler for following orders, but I digress. The possibility of being starborn only happens once every 666 years. You would think that the higher ups in the White Council would be hyper aware of this date. Do you see the issue here and the problems it might create?
Morgan should have been able to put two and two together and realized what Margaret was doing or at least suspected she was trying to create a starborn child. Even if Morgan didn't find out about Margaret's death until a few days after it occurred, he should have wanted to establish the time of her death and Harry's birth. Unless Morgan didn't know anything about being starborn or perhaps he had heard the term, but didn't know what it meant. So under this scenario, Morgan knew about Nemesis but didn't know anything about people who are starborn. I suppose that is possible, but it seems a bit weak to me.
What about the Merlin and others on the senior Council? What is their excuse? Surely, when they heard that Margaret LeFey had died while giving birth, they should have been asking what day she died and what time it was. Shouldn't they have a calendar with the date and time for people who are going to be starborn marked off? Wouldn't they have been checking the birthdate and time of birth of anyone showing enough magical talent
to be admitted to the Council, so they would know if that person was starborn? We know that Ebenezar and Listen's to Winds know that Harry is starborn. They can't be the only one's on the Council who knows this.
Unless, they do know, but only Ebenezar knows that being starborn insures protection against Outsiders. If that was the case, why didn't Ebenzar just tell the members of the Senior Council that Harry couldn't be tainted by Nemesis? I understand that wizards don't like revealing secrets, but this idea borders on the ridiculous.
Other potential problems with this passage:
Is Elaine starborn or not? Because if she is, that kills the OP and a big chunk of a thread I started about Elaine being nemfected. On the positive side, it might explain why Jim hasn't given us a straight yes or no answer to Elaine's starborn status. So, I could still be right.
Was the White Council trying to create their own starborn? Because, if Eb and maybe LTW are the only ones on the White Council who knows what being starborn means, it kills that idea. It would also kill the idea I had that Harry being a destroyer is related to him being starborn. I think this is highly unlikely, so if the Council wanted their own starborn, was that Elaine? Did they fail or did they succeed? We don't know.
Aside from knowing the date and time someone was born, is their another way to detect that someone is starborn? Lea, Mab, Lash and I assume Odin/Vadderung know when Harry was born. How did the Erl King in Cold Days and Drakul in Battleground know that Harry is starborn? For that matter, how did Mavra know? She specifically told one of the other Black Court vamps that Drakul got to eat anyone who is starborn. Is there some supernatural data broker selling information on who is starborn or is there something in Harry's aura that clues them in? A bit off track, but if it is something in Harry's aura that clues-in the characters mentioned above, can Bob see it? Would Bob know what it means?
Getting back to Elaine, if being starborn is something that can be detected with supernatural powers, Titania must know if Elaine is starborn, because she would be able to detect it. You would think that those in the White Council who are in-the-know about what being starborn means would want to create their own starborn detector. Times and dates of birth can be fudged or simply mistaken.
I'm trying to create a narrative where all of this makes sense, but it's a bit difficult. Most of the Senior Council doesn't know that Harry is starborn.
I refuse to believe that, at least for now. So, the Senior Council knows that Harry is starborn, but for some unknown reason think he might be vulnerable to Nemesis. Being a destroyer that Morgan feared might be related to Harry being starborn, but it might be something else. A lot of supernatural heavyweights and at least one supernatural middleweight know that Harry is starborn, but we aren't exactly sure how all of them got this information. Elaine might also be starborn, but she might not be one. If Elaine is starborn, then she can't be nemfected, unless there is a exception that can allow Nemesis to posses someone who is starborn. While this would explain why Morgan and the Senior Council feared and still fear Harry, it completely violates what Ebenezar told Harry in the long quote above.
