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Black Council "Recruitment" [GS Spoilers]

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Serack:
So in thinking about topics like Lea, Christos, and Nic, I think I might have put a few things together...  The main inspiration for my conclusions is how during the conversation between Nic and Harry before the Rumble at the Shedd, Nic/Andariel seemed genuinely concerned about Harry's account of Hellfire being used at Arctis Tor, and considers such a thing a "contamination" if it's a member of the "Order."

Contamination is the key word here.   I am thinking that most of the “Black Council” operatives that Harry has a chance to interact with aren’t actually card carrying “members” but rather are contaminated somehow into doing things along the lines of what they want.  Contaminated by what?  Some kind of Outsider influence.  Vittorio Malvora was flat out possessed by an outsider, but maybe the same is true for pretty much every operative we have come across…  Others that are somehow contaminated, and possibly by outsiders (to some degree) would be… Aurora, Lea, Vittorio, and some more that deserve more elaboration… 

Thorned Namshiel might have been contaminated, but I’m thinking that Tessa is actually the major vector there, and he was working on her orders. 

Lord Raith might be contaminated, since he is so magically slippery, and when he became Neutralized, the “Black Council” had to act to reassert their sway over the White Court, hence the events of White Night.  He might actually be a “Card Carrying Member” considering Eb thought something “big” was protecting him.

I think the Red King was “contaminated.”  2 pieces of evidence towards this are that Harry thought he might have been going mad, and his hand reattaching was a “super vampire” move that seemed to closely parallel the “super ghoul” stuff we saw in White Night…

Justin is suspect since he was looking for candidate minions that might have power over Outsiders and he was obviously doing some pretty nasty black magic. 

Finally, and this is the big controversial one, Harry might be contaminated to some degree.  He is still tainted with the Shadow of HHWB, and something about the reveal in GS makes me suspect that HHWB let Harry win that fight, and that maybe he actually got some kind of influence over Harry out of the encounter.

ETA:  Elaine was forced to drink that blood by Justin, and she ran to Aurora for help, so she might be the Vector for her...  helps the Elaine=Kumori theories.

ETA2:  I ment to mention that Christos may be contaminated, and thus be mucking things up without being a conspirator.

cass:
So, you think the BC is less a single organized body than a collection of isolated cells?
I'd buy it....but there is that bit with Cowl in WN that seems to argue for at least some hierarchy. Hmm.  Maybe only within a cell?

Serack:
Hmmmm, If there is a conclusion about who is calling the shots, it's the Outsiders themselves...  Heck, HHWB was taking a direct part in Blood Rites.  Don't forget that meerly percieving some of their members can be insanity inducing... and some insanity has certainly been induced.

Serack:
... Elaine...  Drank the blood... ran to Aurora... *twitch*

Second Aristh:
Instead of a bunch of independent isolated cells of Black Council, it seems like the BC is more like a small group that contracts out its more visible actions.  I believe we have actually seen very few BC members who are fully in the know, namely Cowl, Kumori, and maybe Peabody (I can't decide if Mavra is actually BC or not). 

Shagnasty was clearly working for someone, but he doesn't need to be a part of the conspiracy.  All he would care about was getting to go out and torture somebody.
Same goes for the Erlking if the theory that he was the source of the wolf belts in Fool Moon holds water.  Erlking gets to help hunters go after prey; after that, he doesn't really care.

Need a war between the Red Court and White Council?  Just whisper into Bianca's ear and mix it with poor and erratic leadership and her very public murder.  Bianca didn't really need to be a part of the conspiracy (in fact, few if any of the RC did); she just needed to overlook the longterm consequences of her actions and focus on getting revenge. 

Individuals in the White Court covet political power.  All the BC needs to do to get them on board is offer up some juicy way to backstab their neighbor.  The BC doesn't need to include White Court vampires into all of their secrets.

It seems like overall, the BC is set up like an octopus.  It has a central core that sets goals, and many arms that don't really know about each other but will push people around according to what the BC leadership want them to do.

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