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Why Simon?
Rasins:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on September 13, 2017, 03:17:00 AM ---Everything a practitioner does seems to leave some sort of signature on their aura, but in that particular case I think it would show as traces of dark but not exactly evil.
What's most perverted about the way Grevane or Corpsetaker raise undead is that they're enslaving human zombies / ghosts to their will. Kumori presumably would have picked up something more similar to the hints of darkness Harry got from raising Sue - in her case because she was saving a life with dark power but not compelling him to obey her, and in Harry's case because it wasn't a person.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but ...
She actually was compelling him. Compelling him to NOT die. While most believe this to be a good thing, it's not, necessarily.
dspringer1:
Totally agree that Simon (if cowl) would be very good at making sure he was not tainted by his work (or the taint was hidden). I am arguing that there are limits to his ability to prevent/hide taint. If he is entering the end game, he probably needs to do too much dark magic in too short a time horizon to continue to disguise things reliably.
Second Aristh:
Another idea towards Simon=Cowl faking his own death:
As the vampire expert on the SC, they would have looked to him to take charge against the Reds. Cowl would have wanted to play both sides against each other and weaken everyone, but it's hard to steathily self-sabotage when you're in the direct spotlight. If he keeps making the wrong call when the WC is ahead, people are going to start wondering whose side Simon's on.
groinkick:
There could be another possibility. Someone else stationed at Archangel is Cowl... That they betrayed Simon, and aided the Red Court. When it was said that Simon had defended himself from a Death Curse before, perhaps it was Simon's. Simon targeted multiple targets, Cowl could have been one of them.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: groinkick on September 13, 2017, 07:12:22 PM ---There could be another possibility. Someone else stationed at Archangel is Cowl... That they betrayed Simon, and aided the Red Court. When it was said that Simon had defended himself from a Death Curse before, perhaps it was Simon's. Simon targeted multiple targets, Cowl could have been one of them.
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I hadn't considered that. Interesting idea, and perfectly plausible, though narratively it'd be kinda awkward to explain, I think. Imagine Harry uncovering Cowl's identity: "I know how Cowl is. His name is...Steve. Steve Crunderman," and then go on to explain his connection to Simon. It's possible, and it'd be fun to see Harry kind of stumble through an explanation like that.
Here's a question: what was there to know about the Reds that the loss of an expert was really that significant? Everyone knows their main weaknesses; faith magic repels them, sunlight unmasks them, decapitation and blood-bag-stabbin' takes them down. It seems like anything he might know that would be relevant is stuff the Fellowship would, too—locations of Red strongholds, common traits and hunting habits, stuff like that.
Not to speak ill of the fictionally dead, but I think Simon was just padding his resume, like I totally didn't do when I worked as a consultant.
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