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Unsolved Mystery Book3 Cowl
Rasins:
--- Quote from: Kindler on November 14, 2017, 06:38:46 PM ---Let's work backwards for a second: how did Cowl get the Athame in the first place? If it's an artifact with enough power that Lea was able to challenge Mab, how the crap did he manage to find it?
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I wonder if it wasn't part of the same hoard that Bony Tony got access to, where the Word of Kemmler came from.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Rasins on November 22, 2017, 03:14:44 PM ---I wonder if it wasn't part of the same hoard that Bony Tony got access to, where the Word of Kemmler came from.
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That hoard only came into the picture later during dead beat, not before grave peril.
Cowl is a senior council level wizard and probably twice as old as Harry at least. He probably knew Kemmler and his expressed disdain might have been sincere or not.
He could have been looking for the athame or some similar artifact for decades and finding it could have been stuff for several novels as far as we know. It could have been in Kemmlers possession and Cowl simply picked it up after his dead, Cowl could have been a warden like Justin.
Or the outsiders gave it to him, they could have picked it up centuries ago in an earlier attempt to break through.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on November 22, 2017, 05:23:17 PM ---That hoard only came into the picture later during dead beat, not before grave peril.
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We only became aware of it during DB. Cowl being aware of it during GP is not impossible. Marcone being set up to become aware of it in DB is not impossible.
The net result of it being released into the wild is a) Grevane and Corpsetaker break cover after several decades of successfully staying off the White Council's radar, and ensuingly get caught and killed, b) Cowl is able to convince Harry that he has tried for the Darkhallow and failed, and is believed dead. Both of these seem to me to fairly obviously serve Cowl's interests.
It also seems to me to be part of the set-up for "convince the Red Court they are shortly going to have a post-Darkhallow necromancer on their side; therefore they assess it as safe to take the chance of attacking the Council in Winter*; therefore they get hammered by Mab's intricate revenge plot in PG".
*I do not think it is specified in PG that the Council were in Winter when the Red Court attacked them, but we know from SK that the Council have right of passage in Winter but not in Summer.
Arjan:
It is power. People want power. I think it is just more likely that he tried to take all the power he could get especially after all the effort he put into it than every other explanation.
Really if he wanted something else he would not have set the erlking loose for example.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on November 22, 2017, 08:53:35 PM ---It is power. People want power. I think it is just more likely that he tried to take all the power he could get especially after all the effort he put into it than every other explanation.
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So as well as convincing Harry, he convinces you ?
I think part of the development through the series overall is Harry learning that not every villain thinks short term, and some of them have smarts enough to pass up immediate gain for more solid longer-term gain.
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