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Unsolved Mystery Book3 Cowl
wardenferry419:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on November 23, 2017, 05:37:35 PM ---So, in this line of thinking, why has Cowl not already done so? What is Cowl's motivation for letting Grevane get that close to that much power if it's not stage-managing Harry ?
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He was stage-managing but not just Harry. He was waiting for the moment. Kumori showed up behind Harry. So, that meant she was probably monitoring his activities and tracking his path to the vortez. Let the wild card take out the other players. Weaken the opposition and then walk up with strength and seize the power.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 23, 2017, 05:54:06 PM ---He was stage-managing but not just Harry. He was waiting for the moment. Kumori showed up behind Harry. So, that meant she was probably monitoring his activities and tracking his path to the vortez. Let the wild card take out the other players. Weaken the opposition and then walk up with strength and seize the power.
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Everyone was killing each other nicely so he put himself into position to wack the winner and get the prize. He did not know who he was going to confront him at the end of course but his final opponent would be weakened and he would be ready.
Why let someone else get away with the prize when he had done all the hard work?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on November 23, 2017, 05:44:36 PM ---There was no reason for him to weaken the red court, the red court was his tool against the council and was probably intended as a tool against the winter court later.
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OK, that's a very different read on things from mine. To my mind the objective of the series villains as a whole is to weaken all the strong supernaturals, mostly by getting them to fight each other.
--- Quote ---There was of course reason for Cowl to stirr the red court up but they were doing that fine already and a successful darkhallow followed by the destruction of the senior council would have done that job quite well.
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This does depend on believing that a completed Darkhallow would have left a god-tier power actually able to operate on Earth afterwards; we have I think circumstantial evidence that this is not the case, such as Harry explaining in PG that all the old gods are in the NN, and the bassanid in "Last Call" seems to think that was a thing actively and deliberately done.
--- Quote --- He helped to get the darkhallow forward and at the end he started taking power
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Levitating under the thing is not demonstrated the same thing as taking power.
We know from how quickly Cowl and Kumori vanish in the fight with the Alphas earlier that they are very good at fast gates out (the clue that it's a gate rather than a veil is leaving a lingering smell of the same place Peabody runs to at the end of TC.) So setting up a quick getaway that looks like a faked death is well within Cowl's capacities there.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 23, 2017, 05:54:06 PM ---He was stage-managing but not just Harry. He was waiting for the moment. Kumori showed up behind Harry. So, that meant she was probably monitoring his activities and tracking his path to the vortez. Let the wild card take out the other players. Weaken the opposition and then walk up with strength and seize the power.
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We know Cowl is Senior Council power level, I am willing to trust Harry's assessment of that. And we have a reasonable notion of what that means from what we have seen of Senior Council in combat, and more, what we have heard of about Eb's actions.
Given that, Cowl just knocking Carlos out rather than reducing him to a pink mist, just after that bit with Kumori, feels to me like it has to still be a set-up. If Cowl were ruthlessly killing everyone in his way to get to power, there is no reason to leave Carlos alive there; he sucker punches him far too fast to have to worry about a death curse.
There is also no reason for him to have Kumori put a knife to Harry's throat and keep Harry around as a witness, rather than sucker punching Harry from hiding similarly once Harry has taken out Grevane, unless he is setting up a witness.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 10, 2017, 11:44:18 PM ---Either Susan's or Lea's love for Harry.
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To harm the white court, it has to be romantic love between equals (i.e. parent-child love doesn't harm them) and it has to be reciprocated. Harry hella definitely isn't in love with Lea. Occasional lust maybe, but mostly he's afraid of her.
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