1) We saw Ferrovax at Bianca's ball, and again in Peace Talks.
We also saw Dresden summon Mother Winter to Chicago in Cold Days, so we know that it isnt true that they dont come to Reality for fear of death. They dont come to Reality often because Reality cant bear their full weight.
Capital-D Dragons have died in Reality and the NeverNever, so its not a thing that staying in the NeverNever is safer.
The NeverNever was where Summer Lady Aurora was killed, and Reality was where Summer Lady Lily and Winter Lady Maeve were killed. Death is a factor of your being involved with mortal affairs, not your location.
2)Murder is Meat helps you ensure that stuff you've killed stays dead, it doesnt actually help you kill them any better.
Furthermore, Defense Primacy is still a thing here, so if Mab has a conceptual effect protecting her from being permakilled outside of particular circumstances, you'd still be shit out of luck.
3)Thats inaccurate. The exact quote is, and I quote:
No major difficulty is relative.
4)Rashid the Gatekeeper is human. Mortal. Fallible. Its entirely possible for him to be mistaken, espedially about future events.
See when he tried to stop Dresden getting into a confrontation with the White Council in Turn Coat because he foresaw that
And yet because he missed the fact that Dresden had bound Demonreach, his judgement was way off.
Or when he told Dresden outright at tge Outer Gates that he feared Dresden wouldnt live long enough to mature to that stage.
Furthermore, that entire passage has him trying to pep Dresden up.
4)You intend to arrange to murder Mab's daughter, then somehow manipulate Winter itself to handpick her successor, then murder Mab herself. And expect that noone reacts in the meantime. Not Mab, not her allies, and not the various wannabes who would immediately grasp for power.
That seems....implausible.
1. I'll like to direct your attention to the quote I just pulled, but here's it again for your perusal:
So, they spend most of their time NOT on the real world, they spend it hanging around in the Nevernever, all the really heavyweight guys do that. If you're in the real world, well, the problem is that you're in the world, and you're kind of mortal, and something could come along and try and whack you, if they're fast enough, or good enough, or lucky enough.
2.
If Mab has such a thing, maybe. We don't know if she has such a thing or even if it'll be effective against MiM. And even if all that's true, so we just summon Mab on Halloween or someshit. Make a deal with Summer, make a superweapon of our own, as an Exalted there's nothing we can't do. We just need to make sure what we do is something we
should do, which morally I believe it is.
3. Yeah, and? No major difficulty if somebody new took over and reorganizing needed to be done =/= reality-threatening issues. I fail to see what your point is, asides from agreeing with my point.
4. So, you don't trust Mother Summer, you don't trust Rashid the Gatekeeper, you only trust your own belief that Mab's death be very very bad to the point we shouldn't kill her.
I'm not going to lie, I don't trust you (on this specific subject) either. It's entirely possible for you to be mistaken, especially about future events.
5. Kill the Winter Lady (Maeve) for being a monster. Wait for the next Winter Lady to be chosen. Repeat. Then, once they've gotten the message and picked someone suitable/most of the monsters are dead and it falls to someone less horrible, kill Mab.
Not easy, not soon, but very simple and plausible. (This is all just a hypothetical plan for when we're strong enough, which we aren't, and subject to change upon further information, but it remains a possible course of action)
Maybe it was.
Maybe she had other considerations in mind at the time. Morale ones, for example, since Ethniu's power and that of the Eye was based in part on the fear it was able to evoke in the surroundings, and that having someone survive its effects might work.
The impression I got was that in getting Ethniu to focus on her, it was deliberately timed to get Ethniu and her supporting forces to over-commit at that time.
But I havent read that book in its entirety, so I cant swear to it.
Here's a breakdown of what happened:
1. Mab takes a hit from the Eye and gets knocked on her ass.
2. Without the Eye to protect them, the Fomor army gets swarmed by Molly's army and Odin and the Wild Hunt.
3. Harry rides Mab's super-unicorn and summons Titania.
4. Titania, showing off her vastly superior sense of tactics, chooses not to block the Eye but rather dabs on Ethniu (literally dances) and fucking redirects her superweapon into the air.
5.
After redirecting the "super"weapon, Titania then turns the Eye off by making it rain and washing away the Eye's power source (all the despair in the city)
6. Alone, without her army, no longer buffed by despair or the Eye, Ethniu then proceeds to hand Titania, Odin, and the Erlking their asses on a silver platter. She plants Titania head-first into the dirt like a carrot, roasts the Erlking like a turkey, and robs Odin blind of Gungnir.
7. All the while, Mab is busy being useless and doing nothing because she tried to headbutt the Eye head-on and no longer has the juice to do anything. (The other three immortals at least wore Ethniu down for everyone else to bumrush. Mab prevented Ethniu from using the Eye against her army when she could've just had Harry summon Titania and 4v1 Ethniu, given Titania could've redirected the Eye)
The reason they don't leave the nevernever is that both reality starts to crack (contrary to what you said: they don't care about the damage from their presence), they have interests in the human world so they don't want to destroy the place of where they get their stuff.
As for the threats to them, they are very specific things and many only had to be taken into account on earth or just have a very high probability of being faced in reality, for example: God certainly will not send the swords of the cross on a mission to the depths of the nevernever, when their responsibility is to protect humanity and prevent the end of the world (reality).
1. I admit nowhere in that quote does it say they don't care about the damage from their presence. Please direct me to the part of the quote where it says they care about the damage from their presence (what interests could a Dragon/Mother have?)
2. Note Jim didn't say only the Knights are a danger to them. Note he didn't even say you needed to be fast
and good
and lucky enough.
All he said was that if someone was fast enough,
or good enough,
or even just lucky, that they could kill a Dragon/Mother.
And we sure don't see Dragons wandering around when it ain't Halloween and they're supposedly not susceptible to sudden death. We see 'em hiding in the Nevernever, because you sure as hell don't survive for a long time by taking risks on bad odds.
