So you think Our Vamp mom was attacking Sharon ? I mean she is very selective and demanding when she wants just to visit a lower ranking vamp, why would she personaly travel to the woods with no real certainty to seperate her from the group only to harm her in some way just so MC could give her his own blood ? Why wouldnt she just use his loyal lower ranking vamps who has a lower chance of exposing herself ?
And the name of the thing in the caves is called Ereskegal and the founder of nos ? I know its only speculations but I never heard the name Ereskegal before.
Everything else you said makes sense, the part about Inanna, Calisto and Malia/Kassandra seems pretty good crafted.
Ok so I will save you scrolling back a zillion pages a little.
Mythology around Calisto from ancient Greece says that she was a lover of Zeus, had a son by him, and Hera cursed her to the form of a bear. She further manipulated the childe of Calisto into hunting her, and it was only because Zeus intervened that Calisto survived. So he set them in the stars as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Now there is a lot more that was going on at the time on our collective speculation, but that was the important bit. (at the time we thought Vision Girl could be Artemis)
Calisto is the Heirera of the Temple, and the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece typically took nobility to be their priests and priestesses. Only Hera had such a position for life. The rest were typically one year appointments, after which the girl married to a noble and was off making babies. Calisto is MILF not virgin material.
Bear line- MC has claws that shame the wolf boys. Marcus and others comment, but Marcus in particular.-he possibly starts to suspect something at this point.
Sharon gets hit by something that was much bigger and stronger than the feral nos. A wolf boy, or a war form Tzimisce would have fit the bill, but so does a bear form Mommy vamp. Mommy also has invisibility, she can wait to strike when she wants to, and as powerful as she is, it is unlikely anyone is going to have a prayer of seeing her when she does choose to strike. Mommy also has gawd knows what else. Mommy also has enough experience to know how hard to hit someone to put them down to desperate measures but not kill them. This kind of Machiavellian thinking is what vampires do. There is no risk of discovery. She can not be seen.
Add to this, that I personally do not buy into the she doesn't care about the MC angle. She makes a point to say to not kill Sharon too soon as she can be useful. She will be much more useful if bound to her child. She has carefully crafted a place for him to come into his power without outside interference and unknown to her, she was influenced by Inanna to place our MC in a position to keep tabs on the evil sister Ereshkegal.
Virgil is from Roman times at the latest (Plubius is not really a name used in 2k+years) and is my candidate for the child that Fabian indirectly referred to when stating that he was amazed that Calisto had chosen to breed "AGAIN". The first time being disastrous if the earlier theories are correct. Virgil is my candidate for that kid.
Ok Ereshkegal ruled over the underworld in Ancient Sumer. The story goes that Inanna wanted to visit her sister Ereshkegal, but in order to do so, she had to pass through 7 gates/gate keepers. At each gate she had to give up an item of jewelry or clothing. By the time she came to her sister, all of her protective symbols and jewels and such were stripped from her, and she was before her sister nude. She was then murdered. She was not permitted to leave on her own, which she could have done, but Ereshkegal did not allow (She is later rescued by a hero.... MC perhaps???) One other bit, Calisto-in my opinion descended from Inanna through thousands of years and a couple of generations, has invisibility, Nos have it. Inanna has it, Ereskegal has it. It all fits nice and neat.
Those are the basics. No need to go into deeper detail. If you do want more, search my posts on thread and you will see some batshit crazy ones!
Peace!
One little addition to the Inanna story, in at least part of the stories she went to Eery (nice nickname for the sis?) with a demand to basically take over her domain and it was for that hubris Eery killed her and held her captive in lands of the death and why most of the other gods decided not to interfere.
