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Rereading Summer Knight, Big Clues as to Who Orchestrated Simon's Murder
Mira:
On the reread after reading Turn Coat it isn't very hard to connect the dots really. In the meeting of the White Council and just before Eb is informed that his friend Simon has been attacked and murdered by the Red Court. He is shocked as is the rest of the Council when they hear the news, Simon was the Red Court Vamp expert, his tower was impregnable, the consensus is that someone from the inside had to have betrayed him, but who?
Okay, this is kind of dropped because they need to seat a new member of the Senior Council to take
Simon's place. As we know Eb challenges for the seat, so the Merlin turns to Peabody essentially to
call the roll of those present in line for such a position.. Very deliberately in my opinion, Jim writes about Peabody muttering something then "brushing his nose with his finger leaving a big smear of ink. Hello.. Since in Turn Coat under the influence of Peabody's ink Luccio murders LaFortier, it isn't to great a leap to surmise that Peabody with his ink influenced someone to betray Simon to the Red Court. The question is who ordered him to do it?
a3dfiend:
Another line of thinking is expressed when Eb and Listens to Wind are talking to Martha Liberty before the meeting too. They imply that Dresden is going to be blamed because he was taught by Dumourne, and Dumourne was taught by Simon. But they dont know about Elaine being an apprentice too, so they never bring up that option. So if Simon really was killed, it could have been Elaine who let the reds in. If however, Simon turns out to be Cowl, then Elaine could be Kumori returning to her master's master to complete her training. Her placement within the Summer Court could also be part of Cowls plans, slowly infecting each group from the inside. She appears to defect from Aurora to help Harry, then again she is part of the group of dying women in WN, but Cowl is working against the White Court so it makes sense for her to be on the inside there too "helping" Harry until the Skavis targeted her. She is too banged up to help Cowl at the White Court coup, but gets immediately put on the inside of the Paranet when it is created. So if she is working for Cowl/Simon, she is going to be in that same position in the future when she will be forced to choose sides.
Mira:
--- Quote from: a3dfiend on October 07, 2019, 06:56:52 PM ---Another line of thinking is expressed when Eb and Listens to Wind are talking to Martha Liberty before the meeting too. They imply that Dresden is going to be blamed because he was taught by Dumourne, and Dumourne was taught by Simon. But they dont know about Elaine being an apprentice too, so they never bring up that option. So if Simon really was killed, it could have been Elaine who let the reds in. If however, Simon turns out to be Cowl, then Elaine could be Kumori returning to her master's master to complete her training. Her placement within the Summer Court could also be part of Cowls plans, slowly infecting each group from the inside. She appears to defect from Aurora to help Harry, then again she is part of the group of dying women in WN, but Cowl is working against the White Court so it makes sense for her to be on the inside there too "helping" Harry until the Skavis targeted her. She is too banged up to help Cowl at the White Court coup, but gets immediately put on the inside of the Paranet when it is created. So if she is working for Cowl/Simon, she is going to be in that same position in the future when she will be forced to choose sides.
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But there is no evidence that Elaine knew Simon or he, her. Also unless she got different information she never knew that the White Council or it's members existed. I do believe that Elaine may have been the carrier for the infestation that led to Aurora's madness.
No, one has to look at the long term goals of whomever was backing Peabody. In Luccio's case the goal was to turn the Council against the Wardens, also to knock out the two most effective Wardens.. In the case of Simon, not only taking out the "expert" on the killing of Redvamps, but the defense against them as well.. By affecting someone on the inside because all were in agreement that was the only way the vamps could have gotten into Simon's tower would sew divisions among those trying to fight a war.. In both cases those divisions could be expanded out in the future BAT which was the real goal here.
g33k:
It's pretty clear that Harry and Elaine were (largely) peers. Same assignments from DuMorne. They'd split/share the work, copy each others answers, etc.
And Harry (at that point) hadn't the slightest idea how to assaut a major ward-protected site like Archangel.
If it was Elaine, she got that info from someone other than DuMourne.
DuMorne having survived the fire, and being the source of the info taking down Archangel, looks likeliest to me.
Mira:
--- Quote ---DuMorne having survived the fire, and being the source of the info taking down Archangel, looks likeliest to me.
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Possible, but the simplest answer given what happened in Turn Coat makes the most sense. Peabody was influencing with his ink and making suggestions to someone who could in turn betray Simon. Now a lot depends on whether or not Jim planned to foreshadow or drop a hint that many books ahead of what happened in Turn Coat... But I still think he was being very obvious about the ink and Peabody in Summer Knight. There is no indication that Peabody is merely a slob, we know now that he has been influencing the Senior Council for years with his ink.. Remember Rashid said they'd have to go back a dozen years or more and revisit decisions the Council had made under the possible influence of the ink.. Also there is this if someone as strong as Luccio could be influenced it isn't a huge leap that the same thing had happened to someone close to Simon.
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