Thread:Ursuul/@comment-30270234-20170609223942/@comment-28083312-20170609224531

I don’t think sentient expressions of natural forces are quite what they are. Like in Cold Case, they reproduce which seems to signify life. There’s also the fact that mortals such as Molly can take up faerie mantles & become them, signifying that the bearers of the mantles could be anything. I think you might easily say that the mantles are personified emanations of natural laws, & they affect their holders accordingly, but underneath the mantle could just as easily be a mortal as a god, & what is a god but a being with an exceptionally slow & powerful mantle? If Molly put down the mantle, she’d just be a simple woman, albeit with some command of magic. Whether or not the mantles themselves are alive, the people holding them certainly are, otherwise how could they make choices within the bounds of their orders as Molly did in Cold Case?