Ivy already knows about this. It's a text. And she already knows us either an exalt or a primordial (based on language). Whether we ask her or not won't change her actions. Also, I am fairly sure that Archive can't force Ivy to do things. Prevent her from doing things, but not make her do them. And even if it can, this would be a breach of her neutrality if she explicitely moves to counter balance us specifically.
Of course there are worst case scenarios where we are one of the things she's meant to keep out of Creation, and she's just biding her time, but again, asking her about this won't change anything, I think.
Not necessarily. The Archive copies all mortal records and seems localized to earth at that.
This is a poem written by a Sidhe in Faerie. Fey can't give things permission to poke the mortal world with their memory, they're one of the things that would be blocked out by mortals forgetting them. Mab explicitly spread around brothers Grimm and later Disney stuff to make this all but impossible.
Reading everything in the spirit world is a significantly harder task than what the archive is doing and doesn't offer much gain for the effort.
It does force her to do things, insofar as there's a difference between them. The Archive has a job, Ivy does it and has no other option while it's hers.
The relief valve is supposed to be that an Archive can choose to pass it on if they can't do the job anymore, but Ivy has no family to give it to.
As to the neutrality bit; that's in service to the job. The crown is a special case that can easily be argued to be a problem the Archive must see addressed or risk complete failure. Ivy can't build herself a kingdom, but things like the true Venatori are proof of her ability to gather resources to advance and protect her position in the war.
The appearance of one of the only two currently serving Knights of the Cross suggests otherwise.
Heaven presumably took a look at a whole list of shit outside North America before sending Sanya to the Norway/Russia border.
Not every job they pull is about crazy high level stuff. That thing in Cleveland for example; it would have been bad, but it wasn't a profound sign of anything.
We dont know this. One way or the other.
Whether the stars actually cause the events, or are just visual indicators for other deeper cycles has never been made clear.
You're the one making strong claims here; if it's unclear the null hypothesis is that they aren't.
The people in the know actually have been around long enough to have some idea about when to play games and when not to.
Longterm homeowners dont drag their trash to the curb everyday, only on trash day.
Follow the movements of local events and reacting explains it better. Nobody has complete information, they know enough to make good plays but not so much that they can make perfect ones.
It doesn't open up questions like "why did Hades know all this, but the fallen didn't and got played for it?". You could just keep piling on restrictions, but at that point you're just taping over plot holes.
Its presumably not a new restriction.
The Raksha had no authority over Exaltations when they were Raksha; I dont see how that changes after they became Dresdenverse Fae.
No, thats nonsense. The Primordials and Neverborn of Creation could exert no control over the choices of the Exaltations; even when the Yozi stapled first circle demons on the Infernal Exaltations they suborned to change their criteria, they were essentially along for the ride as the Exaltation insisted on making its own choices.
Mab's potent.
She's not "manipulate a Celestial Exaltation's choices" potent. Neither, as far as I know, is Mother Winter.
There's a difference between not be able to attempt something and be blocked from succeeding.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the exaltation being impossible to manipulate. The base criteria literally did change completely for different exalt types when they got reworked, and that's not even what Mab would need to do here.
When Uriel arranged for Molly to exalt he didn't strong arm the exaltation, he arranged for it to get loose when she was the only even vaguely valid option nearby and it couldn't get away on its own*. That's why she even got it in the first place instead of going to a person with a stronger infernal resonance.
Getting a marginal candidate into her own garden with no other mortals in the same dimension to choose from before getting grabbed again doesn't require primordial power to arrange if you know the trick of it.
* The exaltation is not an exalt. It can do a lot, but without a wielder there are more limits. Which is why trapping them worked where putting the entire Solar deliberative in a single box and keeping them there would have energetic consequences.
We're an E3 Exalt, not a Primordial or an Angel or a Celestine or even a high-tier Incarna.
You significantly overestimate our capabilities if you think that we can materially alter the activation of an Exaltation by scrying it. Thats my opinion.
Not by scrying it alone, but the dragon blooded didn't need to be Celestines to materially effect their activation by opening the door to their cage. I find it unlikely we're going to scry it and leave it alone if we see a working prison.
Im honestly not seeing where you are getting this from. Im not seeking to release more Exalts; I am on record as stating that the Black Vault would be a disaster if it existed and was cracked open. I just happen to believe that you cant sit out an arms race; this is important enough that we cant afford to let other people get a jump on us.
Thats what I voted for.
A person you can argue we'd be mandated to free.
A naked Exaltation? If its dormant, Im quite happy to keep it that way until/unless its ready to move.
As long as we can keep it out of the hands of everyone else that might want to fuck with it while its dormant.
Where I'm getting this from is that we're clearly not just taking a peek. This is most likely going to end with us going to get the thing.
There's also the issue of people picking up information from us. It's not like we have something to protect us from being spied on. Going to add things to the defenses could easily be the thing that reveals them.
If this stuff could be immediately turned into an exaltation road map without our input I'd expect Summer to be on the way to attempting to free a Lunar by now. Our input isn't necessarily a requirement, but it's highly likely to dramatically ease the process.
Plot hooks that have been demonstrated to be actively in motion generally are.
The stone egg thing we saw in Sanya's Interlude was actively sought out by some shapeshifter magician of some sort.
And the QM has stated that they were rolling dice for this sort of thing.
Ignorance does not help us, whether or not we have any interest in hastening any processes.
Progress isn't the same as success. I don't doubt Emma-O has been looking for a another infernal shard since he got the first one, but despite having personal knowledge of how they're hidden, what they look like, and access to the region containing them he's got nothing.
It'll happen eventually, but I don't see a particular reason to believe anyone is doing very well yet.
Lunars are as careful or uncaring as any other Celestial.
There's a reason the original fiction for ExWoD was a Solar showing up at Elysium and YOLOing a venue full of high-tier vampires with a horsehead mask and a mall-bought katana.
Thats the sort of thing that depends on the person, not the type of Exalt.
True, but I was thinking more about stuff like this:
Once upon a time the Lunar Exalted were guard- ians, then slaves, then wild and bloody souls who chewed off parts of themselves to escape their chains, and grew stronger for it. Now they are Chosen from among the outcast and forsaken, the unwanted and broken, the different and discarded. At long last, they no longer have a grand and unifying agenda.
They have power. A Lunar's power carries with it only one insistent and absolute command: that it be used. A Lunar's course through the World of Darkness is one entirely of her own choosing, but rest assured that her passing will transform those lives she touches, and end those which attempt to restrain her.
They're not the worst option or anything, though a well built one will be able to kick our ass pretty quickly if we don't leverage our crafting edge well enough, but Lunars have a whole thing about being outcasts and not playing well with groups.
And if I must have one, I'd rather have a friendly one, or at least one that hasnt been stuffed into a Monstrance/Caul or otherwise suborned by one of our opps because we chose to sit on our hands and hope that if we ignored it really hard that it would go away.
Assuming this is a Lunar, of course. It could always be something else from the Fae, back when they were still Raksha.
I mean, I am trying to get my head around the idea that a high lord of the Fae would want a Lunar or Lunars running around, or that the Fae would weep at the idea that it didnt happen.
And Im not really convinced.
Friendly is better than not yeah, but I containing a Lunar long term isn't an easy thing.
I think there are good odds it's a lunar; the themes are right and this sort of prison setup isn't as necessary for Rakasha.
It's worth noting that he seemed to be the only one, and that everyone else disagreed with him because a rogue lunar would have been a disaster. It looks like he felt that way in the end too.
My read is that he had a specific person he wanted to exalt, but before it could happen they did something that disqualified them from becoming a lunar. Rather than roll the dice he locked it away.
Summer fey could weep for the death of a well meant and wondrous dream dying even if they didn't want it to succeed. Feeling sorrow isn't the same as being sorry after all.
