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Unsolved Mystery Book9 Cowl again
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 01, 2017, 12:47:49 AM ---Neurovore, I have a question for you, sir.
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I am not a "sir", I am a state of mind.
--- Quote --- How likely do you think it is that Cowl is a member of the Grey Council?
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Negligible. I think the Grey Council will turn out to be the Merlin's sanctioned but deniable task force, which nobody has told Harry because he keeps demonstrating knee-jerk paranoia about working with people he disagrees with.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on December 01, 2017, 05:39:03 AM ---Why sacrificing your main pawn which was nicely on track weakening tne white council? Why not make it stronger so it could weaken the Sidhe courts as well? For example by providing it with a better ally by removing the current white court leadership and if that fails making room for the Fomor to take their place?
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I don't see Cowl's main objective as weakening the White Council. I see it as weakening all the supernatural powers, Red Court, White Council, Faerie, everyone. The Red King and the LoONs don't exactly look like pushovers (unless like Harry you actually take the Red King's crazy act in Changes, which conveniently goes away the instant it is no longer useful, at face value.) Making the White Council too weak relative to the Red Court just leaves the Reds free to disengage much of their force; the situation where the White Council and the Reds both get beaten down but are still engaged works better.
I also see no reason to think Cowl's long-term goal is to obliterate the leadership of the White Court, rather than that being a fallback; without Harry interfering, a White Court shift of policy towards drawing them into war with the White Council looks much more likely to come of that meeting in the Raith Deeps.
--- Quote ---In this context it is easy to see why Mab and Odin wanted the red court gone.
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That is providing a answer for a non-existent question, IMO. The Reds made a peace offer, under the terms of the Accords, at the start of Changes, without the intent to keep it. That is grounds enough for Mab to want them exterminated; they are her Accords, and the Reds had PG as a warning already.
wardenferry419:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 01, 2017, 02:58:19 PM ---I am not a "sir", I am a state of mind.
Negligible. I think the Grey Council will turn out to be the Merlin's sanctioned but deniable task force, which nobody has told Harry because he keeps demonstrating knee-jerk paranoia about working with people he disagrees with.
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Apologies if my use of "sir" is a problem. It's a southern thang. So, you think the Grey Council is similar to Cyclops' use of X-force for black ops.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 01, 2017, 03:37:25 PM ---Apologies if my use of "sir" is a problem. It's a southern thang.
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So long as you;re not making assumptions about my gender, I am good.
--- Quote --- So, you think the Grey Council is similar to Cyclops' use of X-force for black ops.
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More or less, though I have only a vague handle on the latter.
One of the first things we are told about the Merlin is that he always has three plans for any situation; a main plan, a backup plan, and an ace-in-the-hole.
Changes makes a lot of sense to me on those grounds. The main plan being to talk to the Reds as if they were sincere about the peace offer (that way, if they are, everything is fine, and if they're not, they're the ones who have abused the Accords and they don't have any legitimate grounds for complaint to muddy the waters), the backup plan being the Grey Council, and the ace-in-the-hole being "hey, all you loyal White Council folks, let's isolate Harry Dresden so he will go elsewhere for support and bring big guns into play against the Red Court, with that gift for mayhem we've seen him display over and over."
wardenferry419:
Well, if so, then the Grey Council weren't in the know; because McCoy seemed very upset by Harry not making the GC meeting.
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