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Who is the most evil character in the Dresdenverse?
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 09, 2017, 08:27:00 PM ---Appeasement is never a solution; it is only a delay.
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To be fair, it's more complicated than that. You can find instances in history where appeasement worked, when the appeased power had limited or tangential aims, and wasn't just looking for an excuse or planning to go all out anyway.
But no, there was no 'off' option on the Red War.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 11, 2017, 02:29:34 PM ---Viewing it as "appeasement" is most of the problem.
The Red Court and the White Council have maintained a stable peace for four or five centuries. That's evidence enough that they can continue to do so.
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Yes, they could do so, if both parties desired it. But the Red Court intended war no matter what, they were simply looking for a way to pretend to be the aggrieved party. Under those conditions, there was no peace option. There was a 'delay hostilities' option, and if the Council was using that time to prepare, it might even be a defensible option. But there's no evidence that the Peabody-influenced Senior Council would have even realized the difference.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Rasins on December 12, 2017, 01:22:13 AM ---Honestly, we don't know where the WC was in War prep. We know they weren't prepared nearly enough. It could have been a Rampire thing entirely.
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We have a pretty good idea that they weren't preparing at all. The whole thing appears to have caught most of the Senior Council by surprise, probably they didn't even realize the problem had been brewing up. It's the old 'the water gets gradually warmer' thing, the frog doesn't realizes it's in trouble until it's too late to get out.
Even without Peabody, the Council leadership had gotten complacent, used to the status quo. Add in Peabody's (if he was the only one) manipulations and you have a White Council caught totally off-guard, completely absorbed in its own business and internal power struggles.
Arjan:
Regardless how weak the council really was it was looking weak and it was acting weak and that attracts vultures. The red court was expanding and states can only expand by looking for victims, that is how states expanded in the past and supernatural states are old school.
That behaviour between states had become somewhat less prevalent lately because war has become more and more expensive in all respects and bigger states don’t let smaller states get away with it but it still happens if states can get away with it. It used to be quite normal. And the supernatural world is old style.
If the red court did not fight the white council in the past it simply meant the circumstances were different. They probably did not meet each other that often or the red court had other things to do. Their social structure was certainly one that was more geared for war than the council’s
wardenferry419:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 12, 2017, 01:40:57 AM ---Growing up next to a conflict that that sort of attitude had been prolonging for centuries has made me extremely unsympathetic to that as a position, and to fiction which presents it as an acceptable solution.
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You have my sympathies for your experiences; but, I tend to be a less-than-subtle and often expeditious in my thinking.
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