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[CD spoilers] Cowl = Simon reference thread
Arjan:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 10, 2013, 09:04:47 PM ---I am fond of that notion, because I get the strong impression that knowledge about Outsiders is very rare in the DV (there's a Law against looking for it, and we see in Bob's report of the Council going all Fahrenheit 451 on Kemmler's writings in DB what the Council's policy is like with regard to information specifically about Lawbreaking), and if Simon == Cowl, we then have direct connections between everyone we've seen display knowledge of Outsiders in the series prior to CD (Justin as Simon's apprentice, and Justin and Maggie and Lord Raith linked by Eb in BR) which would be neat and orderly and Occamian.
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But there is one place that most likely has books about outsiders. Lord Raith's library.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 11, 2013, 11:00:13 AM ---But there is one place that most likely has books about outsiders. Lord Raith's library.
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There has to be some source for information about Outsiders getting into the Lord Raith/Maggie/Justin/Cowl-if-he-is-Simon cabal, and maybe Lord Raith has some of that now, but I am not seeing any reason to assume that he's the one who first had it, rather than having learned it from Maggie or one of the others.
Given that Lord Raith appears to be sufficiently low-grade a magical talent to need to work with others to pull off a ritual, though, I suspect that anything he has will at best be specific magical recipes (like Victor Sell's set of spells) rather than that he can be a researcher and designer of sophisticated Outsider-based magic; Maggie seems a much more likely candidate for that to me.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 11, 2013, 03:43:38 PM ---There has to be some source for information about Outsiders getting into the Lord Raith/Maggie/Justin/Cowl-if-he-is-Simon cabal, and maybe Lord Raith has some of that now, but I am not seeing any reason to assume that he's the one who first had it, rather than having learned it from Maggie or one of the others.
Given that Lord Raith appears to be sufficiently low-grade a magical talent to need to work with others to pull off a ritual, though, I suspect that anything he has will at best be specific magical recipes (like Victor Sell's set of spells) rather than that he can be a researcher and designer of sophisticated Outsider-based magic; Maggie seems a much more likely candidate for that to me.
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There was talk about a library, not just a few books.
I do not think Lord Raith had these books for himself. He has a history of enthralling sorceresses and they were for their use as well. As additional lure and as a source of indirect (via the enthralled witch) power.
He might even have inherited from former heads of house Raith. There is probably a lot in there he can not use because he collects them. And he will especially collect books that are against white council law and teachings. Just to make it more interesting and because he can.
Those are my suspicions anyway.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 11, 2013, 05:36:37 PM ---I do not think Lord Raith had these books for himself. He has a history of enthralling sorceresses and they were for their use as well.
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Sorry, where do you get that about the history from ? The sorceresses in BR don't seem enthralled; I doubt they'd have aimed a curse at Inari if they had been.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 11, 2013, 07:16:55 PM ---Sorry, where do you get that about the history from ? The sorceresses in BR don't seem enthralled; I doubt they'd have aimed a curse at Inari if they had been.
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I presume the normal whampire lust whammie but we do not know for sure. Margaret might have been but after her death curse Lord Raith had to preserve energy.
But enthrallment or not the important thing is that he attracts female practitioners to do the magic he can not do himself and a big library is an asset for that.
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