Okay I'm quite unsure what you're getting out of here right because God not just being the Christian God or being more than just the Christian God is important but it also means there's more interference in general the more deities he even partially claims to be the more interference that you're talking about.
Oh that's completely my bad. Sorry. I misunderstood what you meant there also you're just completely right I have no idea what exactly is going on with God but the fact remains that like if God is at all Old Testament God he did melt Sodom and Gomorrah he did Kill or send Uriel to kill all of the firstborns of Egypt he did the command the Israelites to genocide the peoples of the Judea so that they may claim the land. He did test Abraham's faith by asking him to sacrifice his son to him. Though he didn't follow through God that is he did ask for that to happen.
True, but we know that fae can be incompetent. Maeve genuinely was in canon, even before being infected with Nemesis. And that, due to feudal oaths, obligations of vassals pass onto their lords, as shown by Leanansidhe's obligations as Harry's godmother passing onto Mab while she was indisposed. And, as I understand it, oaths pass on from mantle bearer to mantle bearer (please someone correct me, I really hope to be wrong, because that (the oaths dying / resetting with the current mantle holder) would actually be a sane-ish method of keeping them from accumulating). This stuff basically has to accumulate over millenia.
What I mean is that the basic conflict of their nature is one that is very much older than the coins and doesn't make sense outside of the context we see right now.
Or that the Jades overstate their own importance. The end goal that must be preserved here isn't their supreme place in the hierarchy, ultimately they got slotted in to fill the role of a faction who's only canon properties are that they're called the jade court and never leave one particular valley in China.
No I understand that perfectly well it's just that Uriel is in Canon the one who killed all the first born of Egypt and in the modern days he's still just a regular angel. The big thing wearing the mask of God or whatever it doesn't particularly matter Uriel is still The Spook of Heaven The Watchmen and also the Slayer of just only God knows how many children directly under God's word.
To who are they stating that importance to. What important are you talking about being actors of a God on Earth is a thing so common that I'd have an easier time listing civilizations in time periods that don't supposedly have those that I can do it instantaneously. Where is there importance because on some level what they're saying is they were functionaries of Heaven that were given remit to act on Earth. They've got the disciplines and the history the records and the curse to prove it.
Nothing about the lore of the 10,000 places them as the center of the universe. The fact of the matter is someone from on high in the bureaucracy of gods that actually managed the Middle Kingdom cursed them and following the dharmic paths relieves that curse. Believing it to be the will of the August personage of Jade, the will of Heaven, the will of whoever the fuck laid the curse it doesn't particularly matter.
Maeve is a bad example. She's basically locked into the mindset of a horny teenager. She can only mentally grow so far if at all, on some level her being incompetent is kind of out of her hands. For the Leanansidhe thing, it's a bit weird because we know that the Fae can just trade favors, IIRC that's how Mab got her's out of Harry. That may extend to obligations rather than it being an automatic thing. Though it's also the case that having a Court in debt to you gives you some kind of magical inherit leverage over them, which is why Mab wants you to spend them ASAP so maybe it does work that way.
But this is true for all Winter Maidens, not just Maeve. When one third of your ruling triumvirate is eternally sexually frustrated and horny, it's not a recipe for good decisions. It's bad design.
They would probably murder you for offering it. Or at least Mab would. However, it's important to remember - while working under the command of the Ancient Sorcery binding (I forget the name) fae do not accrue or discharge debts. So, if we teach the spell to, say, Harry, Mab could get her debt system free fae squads. She would simply have to use the favor Harry owes her to get him to bind some fae of her choice and order them "follow Mab's orders as you normally would".
Well, it's a good thing that "Mab" is actually the one in charge. If the oaths are owed to the Mantle then going up the ladder may mean that any oaths made as the Maiden don't carry since you'd be Mab afterwards as Butcher put it, but this is getting too speculative..
I don't know, Mab seems to like collecting weapons to get one over on Summer and killing Molly isn't exactly easy or costless even if you think you can manage and don't know about the clone mechanic.
Around the time when we met the Archive in Mcanally's pub we ended up learning about her relation to them, though I don't recall if we knew she was in charge exactly. We had to decide what to do with an unknowing Outsider worshiper, which they usually just kill. I remember the idea that we should make them men in black laser mind wipers to deal with them.
My point was that literal biblical canon isn't necessarily canon to the setting of the Dresden Files. They're still just stuff written in a book by people who admit they don't understand what they're talking about. Your position assumes the Bible is an accurate reflection of DF history or a perfect recording of the intent of Heaven rather than something humans wrote.
Names are important and harder to get wrong. Recordings of events are much tricker to keep accurate. Especially when you've got lots of people fiddling with it over a long period of time talking about events they weren't personally there for, many of whom may not have entirely pure motives.
Cite is a snippet Uju posted from the Warrior that I'll link instead of quote directly since he seems to have taken a break from the quest.
It's a common practice because it's an excuse to justify excesses among the powerful.
I was being hyperbolic, but you get the point. Also, being good enough to shake a curse doesn't mean you can fistfight the person who cast it.
She was notably bad because Mab has a shred of humanity left she couldn't bring herself to give up. Maeve shouldn't have gotten the job, but her mother wanted her to live forever in a position of strength.
At that point there's no reason for him to have the mantle of any of the judeo Islamic Christian God if that's true. That's not people groping at an elephant and trying to construe a full image by feel. That's just everyone groping at air and imagining things which at which point why bother. There has to be some level of Truth to these things otherwise why bother using shards of the cross in the Holy swords why is there any power to the Shroud of Turin why is there any power to Holy symbols involving God. Why are the denarians a thing.
Angels aren't human and that's particularly true in Dresden Files being a being of infinite compassion does not actually prevent you from being a being capable of slaying an infinite number of people. Uriel can grimace and have his heart ache for the apostles of the denarians that he killed when they stormed Michael's house he still killed them.
Okay that's fine but the entire Narrative of the 10,000 is that they have lost that authority/position it's not really a justification of anything when it's we must reclaim this thing that we used to have and we do that by following these Dharmic Pathways that the people that created us set out for us.
At this point it doesn't matter if it was Heaven heaven. Whoever has laid the curse whether they were functionaries put forward by God or Angels or actual gods at one point, it doesn't matter. What matters is that following the pads of Dharma relieves the curse.
Though it could literally just be that God it made an oopsy. He made a process similar enough to exaltations that when he saw them getting indolent and complacent in their position he cursed them and probably destroyed the trials and then they just reappeared in the afterlife because; no you don't get to take back making Divine champions you gave them remit over the Earth of the Middle Kingdom you gave the disciplines and the enlightenment the supernatural energy and the ability to grow over time you get to deal with your Divine champions.
