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Why Simon?
groinkick:
Cowl appears to be in charge... But is he? If he isn't, who would you think is calling the shots?
wardenferry419:
Just a goofy thought, what if Cowl is pulling a Raistlin? The spirit of a older powerful wizard sharing the lifeforce of another wizard. Just a crazy thought and not something I believe in.
kazimmoinuddin:
The thing with necromancers, being dead does not mean they are gone.
Bacchus:
Ive long been a supporter of the Simon= Cowl theory but the idea of a dirty aura stumped me on my recent reread.
the best explanation that still lets Simon be cowl i came up with was that even though he was a follower of kemmler he never did much truly black magic. My thoughts were with Kemmler openly fighting the council for decades it would be a huge help to have a high LVL warden/senior councilman as a mole.
With the aura issue this would mean he only ever did minor black magics and mostly was just a battlemage type loyal to Kemmler. i got the idea from things Ebeneezer said that most truly powerful wizards have done a few dark things so some low level taint wouldn't out him. During dead beat out of the kemmlerites he did mostly normal magics and never really raised any zombies. i also wonder if doing black magics like kumori saving the gunshot victim would add any taint at all because the intent behind it was good.
also when he told dresden about the council soon falling it didn't strike me like something he put a huge amount of effort into but more like it was a side effect of his plans of godhood and conquering death. he seems to never have really drank the kool aid for kemmlers cult and more used them for his own goals of conquering death. It wouldn't seem out of character if he fought with the white council to take out kemmler.
Taking his and kumori's actions as a guide he was far more grey then the rest of the kemmlerites who were fully evil.
As to why he faked his death my guess is he's wanted to pull off the darkhallow since kemmler tried it and thought the biggest war the white council has been in during his lifetime was the best shot. To pull that off he knew he would have to fully blacken his aura so he faked his death during the years of prep that would have went into that so as not to quickly be outed by the rest of the council. with his knowledge of bob his attempt wouldn't have relied on the word of kemmler being found as he could steal bob at any time.
as a side note the aura issue also destroyed my support of Elaine=kumori as dresden saw kumori throw spells and Elaine throw spells in the next book and i feel dresden would have recognized Elaine magic when kumori threw spells or a dark aura in Elaines magic in the next book.
sorry for the bad spelling and grammer
dspringer1:
The biggest argument against Simon being Cowl is really that Cowl was a major discipline of Kemler. Hard to argue that Simon could learn necromancy so well and NOT be obviously tainted magically speaking.
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