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[CD spoilers] Cowl = Simon reference thread
madness:
--- Quote from: Aein on January 10, 2013, 04:57:10 AM ---This doesn't exactly make sense to me. To me, this argument assumes that we've seen every human SC-level wizard in the Dresdenverse, and that because we've seen them all, Cowl must therefore be one of them. That's a pretty big assumption, with no support to back it up, especially given Harry's notoriety for unreliable narration. A wizard of SC-level skill could easily hide their existence from others if he or she so chose.
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Harry has not met most of the Senior Council eligible wizards. Most of them appear to be hermits or retired or whatever.
That does not mean that the OTHER Senior Council eligible wizards are not familiar with them though. I find it highly unlikely that people like Langtry, Eb and Rashid are not familiar with all of the 250+ year old wizards on the White Council. They may not have seen some of them for a century or two but they would likely recognize them if they ran into them - which is the whole point of the disguise.
phoenixjustice:
--- Quote from: peregrine on January 10, 2013, 05:36:57 AM ---And Cowl has at least made vague allusions to Council internal politics.
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Exactly. His line struck me, since the council values secrecy so much, how would he know that they're 'rotting.
--- Quote --- "The Council is not what it was," said Cowl. "It has rotted from the inside, and many wizards who have chafed at its restrictions have seen the war with the Red Court reveal its weakness. It will fall. Soon. Perhaps before tomorrow night."
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peregrine:
Also, even if Cowl is Simon, and everyone would no longer give him help, knowing that Cowl is Simon would still enable them to better defend against him. People know him, people know what he can do, to some extent. As Cowl, he's a cipher, and harder to predict and defend against. Also, if he was planting metaphorical landmines in the Council, outting himself as Simon would make the Council more wary of things he did.
I personally do not think Cowl is Simon, but if he were, there's still PLENTY of reasons to hide that fact.
peregrine:
Then again, what was the timeline for Archangel>Dead Beat? Because Cowl was talking fairly current events, and if he had been "dead" for several years by then, he wouldn't have known what's going on in the Council.
Then again, Peabody was still active, and could have been feeding him info.
TheCuriousFan:
Archangel fell about two days before the White Council meeting in Summer Knight IIRC. It had been three years since then in Dead Beat.
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