"virulent and ever-changing". You don't to cut description I half discarding something that doesn't fit into your view. This is clearly about transformation, about evolution and life.
"Eroding all certainties". Again, you don't get to cut parts of the text off. The fae without their core bindings is an Outsider. You can always trust fae not to lie. To uphold their bargains. Etc. They are not a good fit for Water. They are not Raksha anymore.
Moot point now, but for the record, I strongly disagree.
It's not just about it being about a sacrifice, it's that it's a sacrifice that's directly analogous to the Darkhallow.
And the videos you cite suggest to me that someone orchestrated the rise of the Fey Courts, but that could just mean they arranged for them to murder and steal the power of some third party.
And the fact that taking on a mantle can reshape you to look like the archetype it embodies means that simple appearance is mostly irrelevant. If a band of sidhe killed, consumed the split the power of a previous generation of Triune Goddesses to form the courts they could well look early identical to them.
You have the relationship wrong, I think
The Darkhallow is similar to what was done for the Fae, not the other way around. And it misses a lot of the nuance involved, according to Butcher's later statements on the issue. And Butcher has been pretty clear about the Fae being empowered by Hecate; Hades wouldnt be buddy buddy with Mab if she'd vored a member of his pantheon for power.
No, thats not how it works. Mantles can reshape you. Consuming the power of something usually does not. It was an explicit plot point in Summer Knight when Aurora was trying to dump the power of the Summer Knight into Winter, and again in one of the Dresden comics, the one with the hag.
The Fae were given power and inherited responsibilities; they did not assume a mantle.
Just as a hypothetical... when Molly imagines what a fey would look like
without the rules Iku Turso comes to mind.
Huh.
Gonna have to dwell on this a bit.
Six True Lies of the Wicked City
COMMENTARY
All is Poison is one of those effects that needs Transcendent Lord of Flies to counter.
Fortunately, even at its worst, TLF will cancel it out for both Molly and her party.
And if its used to try to impede her escape, CCC kicks in as well.
Im genuinely curious about what happens to that effect if/when Molly pops Shintai and seizes control of a roughly 2-mile wide bubble of reality.
Should be hilarious.
Eyes Everywhere is largely ineffective in the eyes of Molly rolling All Things Betray.
IC confirmation of ongoing raids by shikome.
Machine Masks runs into All Things Betray again.
And Hellscry Chakra should be able to distinguish between dopplegangers and the real thing.
I will note that Machine Masks is very similar in principle to Splintered Gale Incarnation, Molly's shadow clone charm.
Screams of Steel is not something Molly is really equipped for.
Someone else will have to carry that. There's also the problem that any prepwork with such elementals might result in pre-warning the Wicked City. That said, Cracked Cell Circumvention should proc if they try any bullshit. And Molly has Demonic Primacy to handle a purely diplomatic encounter.
Wreckers Reign: Runs right into Demonic Primacy.
And at the climax, Shintai's reality marble.
Rolls
Water
Leadle Re-roll Water
Fire
*Tiffany buffing herself excluded, she had the time to make her int 10*
Air
Paragon Reroll Air
Wood
Interesting that the Ladle gave Mother Summer a reroll on Water.
No Lydia roll.
And Lash's Paragon re-roll goes to the wrong link.
Monster Summer roll on Wood though.
