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Who was the real target of the bloodline curse at CI?

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forumghost:
I mean seeing as they hit the Council with a Biological Attack under guise of peace-talks at the same time, I think The White Council was probably intended to be destroyed more-or-less in it's entirety.

Something like:

>Fake Peace Talks to get into the Stronghold at Edinburgh
>Use that twit Cristos to lock up the Non-Idiots 'Dissenters'
>Hit them with a pestilence to cripple them
>Heartblast the Blackstaff to remove that threat
>Clean-Up whoever's left

Sadly for the Reds things kinda broke down before those last two steps. If it had worked, the White Council would have been gone, or at least effectively so:


--- Quote ---"My lord is too kind," Martin said. "Please accept my condolences on the loss of Arianna, my lord. She was a remarkable woman."

"Remarkably ambitious," the Red King said. "Determined to cling to the past, rather than exploring new opportunities. She and her entire coterie, determined to undermine me. Had she destroyed this animal and then made good upon her promise to break the back of the accursed White Council, she would have been a real threat to my power. I take no pleasure in thinking on it, but her death was meant to be."
--- End quote ---

Lennoxx486:
They wanted to get McCoy and Dresden. They were both thorns in the side of the Red Court and black council.
They needed all that power to make it go through the generations. Victor Sells was only able to kill one person with the help of a freaking thunderstorm.
They needed all the built up energy to follow the bloodline beyond the first generation.

Cozarkian:
The target was Eb, he's a very important cog in the White Council's ability to wage war. They might even have had a plan to steal or inherit the black staff after.

Froklsnt:
If we're getting conspiratorial about CI, then the question isn't "Who were the Reds aiming it at?"  The question is "Who were the Black Council aiming it at?"   The reds, with their ties to so many likely N-fected individuals and the Outsiders, were in deep with whatever the overarching conspiracy involving the Outsiders is. We do ourselves a severe disservice if we think about this only in terms of the Red's enemies.

Avernite:
It is also possible that it was a gamble.

As in, they didn't need it so strong - but Arianna had arranged things so there was a good chance Eb would be ill in Edinburgh. Use the curse, and Edinburgh's wards are torn to shreds - so a RC strike team can hit the council while half of it is ill and the other half surprised by the violent destruction of their pretty, pretty wards.

If she misses? Eb is still off the table, as is pesky Harry Dresden, and half the Council is both ill and cowering after seeing even the Senior Council is not safe from the Reds, even when prepared for war.

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