The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Cowl's Identity [FPOTM2 11.2016]
Anubissama:
The problem with LaFortier being Cowl is simple. We have seen his body.
Not only did we see his body but also Merlin the strongest Wizard in the world, and Listen-To-Wind the best magical healer in the world have seen his body. Not only have those two exceptionally powerful Wizards (one of them an unquestionable master in the knowledge of the human body) seen the corpses, they also did heavy duty investigative thaumaturgy and examination with said body.
To, after that, still trying to claim LaFortie could have faked his death somehow, is a wee bit on the tinfoil hat side of theories.
Unless your theory is that LaFortier was Cowl, and Cowl is unknowingly to as dead already. After all the last time we saw Cowl was in White Night, and LaFortier died in Turn Coat.
Shift8:
--- Quote from: Anubissama on July 14, 2017, 05:40:13 AM ---The problem with LaFortier being Cowl is simple. We have seen his body.
Not only did we see his body but also Merlin the strongest Wizard in the world, and Listen-To-Wind the best magical healer in the world have seen his body. Not only have those two exceptionally powerful Wizards (one of them an unquestionable master in the knowledge of the human body) seen the corpses, they also did heavy duty investigative thaumaturgy and examination with said body.
To, after that, still trying to claim LaFortie could have faked his death somehow, is a wee bit on the tinfoil hat side of theories.
Unless your theory is that LaFortier was Cowl, and Cowl is unknowingly to as dead already. After all the last time we saw Cowl was in White Night, and LaFortier died in Turn Coat.
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Unless LaFortier is exceptionally more powerful than assumed. We know that he has been trying to up his power level to 9000 since the beginning. And as a necromancer, its entirely possible that he knows magic that the WC is too unfamiliar with to detect properly. He could have switched bodies, or simply made things appear different than they were.
And then there is the Athame. Personally I always found it odd that Luccio killed LaFortier specifically with a knife. I wonder if some kind of ritual was performed.
Anubissama:
Yes, Cowl as trying to up his power, with rituals that take whole cities as a sacrifice. You think you can do that unnoticed and then go to work the next day meeting the most powerful and knowledgeable Wizards in the world?
Dresden who is a supernatural thug and is crapy with his supernatural sense can detect small black magic rituals days after they have been done. To claim that you can hide Dark Hallow equivalents from SC, Wardens, and who knows how many other Wizards, not to mention the multitude of ancient and powerful Wards around Edinburgh is absurd.
And the knife was explained. To do magic you have to believe in it, brainwashing Luccio to attack an SC with magic would have necessitated such strong mind manipulation that it would leave traces (and probably break her psyche too) defeating the point of framing her and Morgan in the first place.
wardenferry419:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 14, 2017, 04:11:14 AM ---I'm solidly in the Cristos camp, so it's hard for me to be objective. LaFortier seems technically possible, given what we know of faking one's death. But from a "feels right" perspective, it doesn't, at least for me.
As for Kumori, I expect the reveal to be similar to the Bruce/Selina reveal in Batman Returns. Quite suddenly, unexpectedly, there's going to be a private moment of revelation in a public place between Harry and Elaine, where he realizes she's Kumori based on something she said, and she realizes he knows.
And they'll both smile through the pain. And they'll dance, and try to figure out how they can stop the reality of it from crashing down on them. And then they'll realize they can't, and after finding and losing each other so many times, their relationship is over, and they'll never have another chance.
And then she'll walk away, and he'll let her, because he can't do anything else.
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Ohh, I like this idea about Harry and Kumori\Elaine. Hope Butcher sees it and "make it so."
Shift8:
--- Quote from: Anubissama on July 14, 2017, 06:40:31 AM ---Yes, Cowl as trying to up his power, with rituals that take whole cities as a sacrifice. You think you can do that unnoticed and then go to work the next day meeting the most powerful and knowledgeable Wizards in the world?
Dresden who is a supernatural thug and is crapy with his supernatural sense can detect small black magic rituals days after they have been done. To claim that you can hide Dark Hallow equivalents from SC, Wardens, and who knows how many other Wizards, not to mention the multitude of ancient and powerful Wards around Edinburgh is absurd.
And the knife was explained. To do magic you have to believe in it, brainwashing Luccio to attack an SC with magic would have necessitated such strong mind manipulation that it would leave traces (and probably break her psyche too) defeating the point of framing her and Morgan in the first place.
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With enough power you can hide anything. Plus that may very well be the reason he faked his death, so that he didn't have to play council anymore. I don't see a problem here, especially since we know cowl was able to change the appearance of things.
Thats one explanation for the knife. Or its precisely the kind of cover that would make no one notice.
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