The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
What does the White Council Do?
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 19, 2019, 09:12:09 PM ---Dunno... I thought they were created as a cover-organization by the original Venatori of the Oblivion War...?
I guess wizard-hunters could have been co-opted as a cover. Wizards&witches would seem to be the obvious ones to be harboring the sorts of information that those older Venatori might want to suppress, so... maybe?
Maybe the O.W.Venatori decided to unify a bunch of previously separate groups of wizard-hunters under the "V.Umbrorum" umbrella, and hide themselves as "invisible cells" within the larger organization?
I'm kind of inclined to look at the witch-hunts of the Inquisition, which points to the Ordo Malleus...
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I just can't think of another candidate group that they "grew up" into that's in the books. There aren't many candidates. The only human occult organizations we know of are the Venatori Umbrorum and the Thule Society. I'd say it's the Thule Society because the one time they were noted, they were considered enemies of the White Council, but they were first mentioned in A Fistful of Warlocks, which was published after the WoJ.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 19, 2019, 09:12:09 PM ---Dunno... I thought they were created as a cover-organization by the original Venatori of the Oblivion War...?
I guess wizard-hunters could have been co-opted as a cover. Wizards&witches would seem to be the obvious ones to be harboring the sorts of information that those older Venatori might want to suppress, so... maybe?
Maybe the O.W.Venatori decided to unify a bunch of previously separate groups of wizard-hunters under the "V.Umbrorum" umbrella, and hide themselves as "invisible cells" within the larger organization?
I'm kind of inclined to look at the witch-hunts of the Inquisition, which points to the Ordo Malleus...
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I agree the Malleus makes sense - which grew/evolved into Forthill's club. Men of the Church standing sentinel against the darkness of the supernatural world.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 19, 2019, 09:12:09 PM ---I'm kind of inclined to look at the witch-hunts of the Inquisition, which points to the Ordo Malleus...
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When I read that, my brain went to the malleus maleficarum, and thought you were referencing something from outside the Dresden Files. I forgot about them. They do make a decent candidate, but I'd imagine a group which formerly hunted wizards would be more impressive than what we know of Father Forthill's order. Especially if they've "grown up" from that instead of something like, "become." But that could just be parsing Jim's words too carefully.
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