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Name someone you want to appear in Peace Talks
Bad Alias:
How the Merlin spun Harry's death could be played so many ways by Jim. It's plot relevance alone could easily range from not mentioning it at all to it being a major plot point. Even if it isn't ever mentioned in the books, I can't imagine the Merlin didn't at least attempt to derive some political benefit from Harry's defeat of the Red Court and death.
I think I missed your theory about Elaine, but it seems like a sound idea.
Just because Fix stops being Fix doesn't mean he would stop trusting Harry. The Summer Knight formerly known as Fix would still have all the information necessary to trust Harry and maybe use that to try to get the better of Harry. On the other hand, based on the way Fix has behaved towards Harry since Small Favor, it could be argued that the Mantel has been doing all the driving for a while now.
If it weren't for the time that is likely to pass between Peace Talks and the book after Mirror Mirror, I'd bet that if Tilly is in Peace Talks, it would be at the end. I'm imagining something that would need to be addressed in the next book. On the other hand, if everything explodes in the first few chapters, that sort of situation could develop in Peace Talks. I've been assuming that the peace talks exploding would be centered somewhere around the climax of the book, but it could be the instigating event setting up the "main event" of the novel.
Whether or not red vampires exist, the Red Court is broken, so I don't see them surviving as a species, for now, "saying that in the larger picture nothing can ever really change" because the world is as truly changed by Chichen Itza as it could be by just about anything short of a mass extinction level event.
spiritofair:
Gatekeeper has to be involved, it would seem, as he straddles the world of the Winter Court (working on the Wall) and the White Council.
I'd like to see the other signatories to the accords that we've never seen before. Drakul? The shapeshifting guru? Ferrovax?
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 12, 2019, 08:54:05 PM ---Just because Fix stops being Fix doesn't mean he would stop trusting Harry. The Summer Knight formally known as Fix would still have all the information necessary to trust Harry and maybe use that to try to get the better of Harry. On the other hand, based on the way Fix has behaved towards Harry since Small Favor, it could be argued that the Mantel has been doing all the driving for a while now.
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I really disagree with you here. Fix decided to trust Harry and Lily died as a result. I think that is how Fix will see things. It's true that Fix knows more now that he did before, but I think his emotions will overcome his reason. We have the example of how the Winter Knight's mantle can affect the reasoning ability of the mortal carrying it. Do you think the Summer Knight's mantel will be less powerful in how if affects its holder?
Allow me to explain further. The real kicker, the thing that will probably gnaw at Fix is that Harry had both the ability and opportunity to take out Maeve before she killed Lily, and Harry failed to do so. Harry came close, but that will only make it worse in Fix's mind. I think that to Fix, this will be Harry's unforgivable sin, the thing he won't forget or let go of. Actually, I should say it's the thing the Summer Knight's mantel won't allow Fix to let go of. And it will be the mantle that he carries that will push Fix's feelings into overdrive. My prediction is that at some point in the future Harry will be forced to kill Fix in open combat. I don't see why this would happen in Peace Talks, but will happen eventually. Perhaps it will be the event that pushes Harry to look for a way out of being the Winter Knight, but that's a different issue entirely.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 12, 2019, 08:54:05 PM ---If it weren't for the time that is likely to pass between Peace Talks and the book after Mirror Mirror, I'd bet that if Tilly is in Peace Talks, it would be at the end. I'm imagining something that would need to be addressed in the next book. On the other hand, if everything explodes in the first few chapters, that sort of situation could develop in Peace Talks. I've been assuming that the peace talks exploding would be centered somewhere around the climax of the book, but it could be the instigating event setting up the "main event" of the novel.
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Your ideas here seem sound to me. However, I could see Tilly making his presence, and his mission, known to Harry and yet still not playing that large of a role in the story's finale. Events could still move too fast for Tilly and whatever forces he controls to react, or they could be involved and holding the line somewhere (bit players essentially), while Harry does the heavy lifting where it really needs to get done. This could be setting up Agent Tilly, and the the mortal authorities in general, playing a more proactive role in the future.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on August 17, 2019, 06:50:21 PM ---I really disagree with you here. Fix decided to trust Harry and Lily died as a result.
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That's ... way too much of an oversimplification, and I think it's really selling short Fix's ability to follow events that he participated in and which happened right in front of him.
Lily died because she trusted Maeve. Fix knows who was holding the gun, and he knows that Harry was trying to stop Maeve. Fix trusting Harry just plain does not play into the sequence of events that ended with a bullet in Lily's head. If anything, if Fix had trusted Harry sooner, they could've taken out Maeve successfully.
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Cat Sith, because Cat Sith. ;D
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