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Taking a closer look at Small Favor (LONG)
Elegast:
--- Quote from: King Ash on April 28, 2012, 12:45:20 AM ---This is the one I really disagree with. That holding circle was in Harry's words uber high level magic work, involving sigil scribed gold, silver, glyph scribed gems, symbals and chimes, crystal lights, art work etc. This isn't the sort of thing you build in a day, if the Archive was never part of the original plan, then I can't see any way even TN is going to build this in a day.
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You are probably right. The problem is that it means an extraordinarily complicated plan: capture Marcone, which draws Mab, who names Harry Emissary, who calls Ivy.
--- Quote ---Why does Titania care about Marcone at all?
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WOJ she came just to ruin Mab's day.
Agravaine:
This is some excellent thinking.
WoJ is that Mab won that game. I'd say with a walk-off grandslam.
Gman:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on April 27, 2012, 11:39:07 AM ---Not everyone sees something wrong with the idea of being an immortal superhuman goatman. :P
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It could be as simple as something big and scary is about to kill the human but if he chooses Gruff he would win the fight and get the Summer protection plan.
Vairelome:
--- Quote from: Thork on April 28, 2012, 03:41:32 AM ---The more I think about Small Favor the more I think the book is a lot more "about" Marcone than I had initially thought it was.
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I agree with this.
--- Quote from: Thork on April 28, 2012, 03:41:32 AM ---The one thing about Marcone in Small Favor is that he represents a crisis point for the Accords, the first "vanilla" human member. That's the one thing that makes Marcone a target that Mab and Titania would care about, that makes Marcone's life or death something that the Courts would choose Emissaries over.
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But not this. Marcone is a very interesting character, and I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up as the second most important character in the entire series after Harry himself. (I fully expect that Mirror Mirror Marcone is the protagonist of The Marcone Files and Harry-Dresden-with-a-goatee is the borderline-warlock antihero who occasionally helps him, though reluctantly...but that's another topic entirely.) He's been the target of way too many plots over the course of the books--beginning with both SF and FM--and each of those plots ended up covered in Black Council fingerprints. Significantly, many of those plots against Marcone happened before he became the first purely mortal signatory to the Accords, and in fact the reason Marcone wanted to become a signatory was because it would give him some standing in the supernatural world that had already been gunning for him for several years.
Thork:
--- Quote from: Vairelome on April 28, 2012, 10:43:13 AM ---
But not this. Marcone is a very interesting character, and I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up as the second most important character in the entire series after Harry himself. (I fully expect that Mirror Mirror Marcone is the protagonist of The Marcone Files and Harry-Dresden-with-a-goatee is the borderline-warlock antihero who occasionally helps him, though reluctantly...but that's another topic entirely.) He's been the target of way too many plots over the course of the books--beginning with both SF and FM--and each of those plots ended up covered in Black Council fingerprints. Significantly, many of those plots against Marcone happened before he became the first purely mortal signatory to the Accords, and in fact the reason Marcone wanted to become a signatory was because it would give him some standing in the supernatural world that had already been gunning for him for several years.
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You're absolutely right that a lot of the plots against Marcone predate Small Favor -- hell, the first two books in the series are both "about" Marcone in a lot of ways. Storm Front is the story of a gang war between Marcone and whoever trained Victor Sells to make ThreeEye, Harry just got caught in the middle. Fool Moon is an attempt by whoever gave the FBI those belts to take out Marcone, not Harry (probably for the same reasons as in Storm Front -- most of the organized crime in the Dresdenverse is supernatural, and Marcone's a competitor).
But in Small Favor particularly, he's just signed onto the Accords, and I think that's a likely reason that Mab (as opposed to, say, Lord Raith) would get involved with rescuing Marcone at that particular time. Of course this is pure speculation. Maybe she just wanted to give the Denarians generally a punch in the kisser for all that Hellfire. Maybe she somehow figured that if she didn't get involved Harry would die, and she wanted to preserve him as a potential Knight. But maybe the Accords were part of her angle also.
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