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Rereading Summer Knight, Big Clues as to Who Orchestrated Simon's Murder
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 07, 2019, 03:01:41 PM --- 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 bit 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?
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You are entirely correct... and to be brutally frank -- by this same logic, Peabody could have had Simon himself lower the wards.
Simon sat on the Senior Council, and we're pretty sure all of the SC were especially influenced by Peabody.
Peabody could have had Simon "work on the wards" or could have deluded him that certain visitors were "safe," or... well, dozens of pretenses.
Remember -- Peabody was powerful enough to get the Captain of the Wardens to murder someone on the Senior Council.
Yuillegan:
Great pick up G33k.
We are also assuming that Simon did in fact die at Archangel, and isn't Cowl.
But if he isn't Cowl and someone betrayed him, the whole point was that it couldn't be just anybody on the Council. It HAD to be someone who knew his wards intimately. Which is why Justin is suspected in the first place, but with his albi of being DED, Dresden was next in line. Elaine too would have known had Justin taught her. If Elaine knew, it was because Justin survived and taught her or I suppose she was picked up by Simon. Either way it implicates her as being at least part of the Black Council if not Kumori, making Simon or Justin the real identity of Cowl.
The least likely explanation is that it is some random on the Council. The whole passage in Summer Knight were we find out Simon has been murdered explains that it could only be someone who knew his wards intimately (Eb even expresses surprise that it could even be treachery because of the fact that Simon's tower was impregnable). Later, Morgan says it is presumed that Simon's death curse took a heavy toll on his attackers, but as none of his house hold survived they can't be sure. Also, there were several attacks that precipitated the attack on Archangel but they always had advance knowledge and so were able to suffer minimal loss of life, the exception was Archangel. Seems to very similar to me in how Martin survived so long (indeed as the longest serving member) in the Fellowship of St Giles. I would say that the Red Court telegraphed their previous attacks and lulled the White Council into a false sense of security so that when the attack happened at Archangel they were unprepared. Only after did they beef up security. It is the Red Court's modus operandi (targets made and escapes provided - just like Martin).
Mira - I think you have hit on something though. Our first interaction with Wizard Peabody and the ink is mentioned a lot, even if it was slid in there unnoticed at the time. I wonder if he was somehow influencing the Merlin even then to be more hasty and less considered in order to force an error. I think you are right - Peabody is no slob. I think he was being deliberate in that moment. Not magic of course, that would have been noticed, but something none the less.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on October 08, 2019, 12:55:28 AM ---You are entirely correct... and to be brutally frank -- by this same logic, Peabody could have had Simon himself lower the wards.
Simon sat on the Senior Council, and we're pretty sure all of the SC were especially influenced by Peabody.
Peabody could have had Simon "work on the wards" or could have deluded him that certain visitors were "safe," or... well, dozens of pretenses.
Remember -- Peabody was powerful enough to get the Captain of the Wardens to murder someone on the Senior Council.
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That is very true, ugly, influencing Simon to commit suicide.
Fcrate:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 07, 2019, 07:49:14 PM ---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.
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SHe might have been a carrier, true, but I find it hard to believe that she lived for years in the summer court and not know about the White Council.
And didn't she mention that she distrusted wardens?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Fcrate on October 08, 2019, 01:45:22 PM ---SHe might have been a carrier, true, but I find it hard to believe that she lived for years in the summer court and not know about the White Council.
And didn't she mention that she distrusted wardens?
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Agreed, she had to have known after she ran to the Summer Court. However, since none of the White Council knew about her, how would she go about getting trust enough to betray Simon? Even if Justin told her about his teacher, but then one has to ask, why didn't he mention Simon to Harry?
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