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What does the Merlin want out of Peace Talks
Kindler:
I'm going to be interested to see how the Merlin responds to Harry after a few years free of Peabody's mind-altering ink. He had a rather radical shift in character in Changes, and seemed like he actually wanted to win the war he was fighting for a change. That was just, what, a year of clarity later? He probably won't be Harry's biggest fan, but I think he's going to be much, much more reasonable, and less obtusely conniving and self-destructive.
Froklsnt:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on October 01, 2017, 02:29:02 PM ---I can kind of see meetings happening on demonreach, due to the sheer security in such a location. Anyone who starts a fight here will deeply regret it.
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I could see that happening in the third act, a sword of Damocles over everyone present at the talks. So many possibilities with that idea. But something would have to go seriously wrong first, for the powers that be to choose to allow all those beings onto Demonreach as guests. And Alfred would not be amused.
--- Quote from: Kindler on October 02, 2017, 02:25:08 PM ---I'm going to be interested to see how the Merlin responds to Harry after a few years free of Peabody's mind-altering ink. He had a rather radical shift in character in Changes, and seemed like he actually wanted to win the war he was fighting for a change. That was just, what, a year of clarity later? He probably won't be Harry's biggest fan, but I think he's going to be much, much more reasonable, and less obtusely conniving and self-destructive.
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It is a tremendously relevant point that we have barely seen anything out of the council when they weren't under the BC's corruption. Peabody and his ink were there from the very first time we saw the WCW, in Summer Knight. Our conceptions of the council's motivations may be far more outmoded than we realize.
kazimmoinuddin:
How many would be aware of the true nature of the island? So they could be tricked into coming to their doom.
dspringer1:
--- Quote ---What would the council want with territory? All of the WC wizards we've seen on-screen have had a personal domain or area and couldn't really care about the rest. Half the Senior Council seem to have no interests in material wealth at all.
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Multiple Reasons
1) Much easier to find and recruit wizards in territory that they mostly control. This is not a strong reason as the White Council cannot effectively recruit in their own territory.
2) There are wizards in these lands and the white council dominating this territory makes them safer/stronger/more effective. Many of these would argue for expanding their area of dominion.
3) Keeping the territory means that some other supernatural races does not have it. That means some other supernatural race is not getting a lot stronger and thus a bigger threat.
4) Status
RobReece:
I don't think the Wouncil has the numbers to hold large territories. That was one of the problems with the war against the Reds, the vampires had large numbers of members and servitors, just look how many they had at Chicken Pizza alone, and they could generate more exponentially faster than the Council.
I don't recall seeing anything that says specifically how many wizards there are, but I could be wrong... In TC, Harry calls the 600 members present a "sizable minority" so I wouldn't think that worldwide there are more than say 2-3 thousand? With the majority of them non-combatant types and even those who have combat experience have less strength than Harry. With most of them probably unwilling to leave their own lives and spheres of influence to "hold territory" somewhere else, I don't think its feasible for them to try and establish a "White Council Territory".
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