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[PT Spoilers] Why Wait?

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Bad Alias:
I don't think this is why Ethniu waited, but she could have waited because of the recent, at least to a being thousands of years old, combined explosion of the human population and technology is the reason for the attack. It took a few decades for Ethniu to realize the trend of human civilization was a trend instead of an outlier. Then it took a century or two of planning to set up favorable circumstances. How long did it take Kemmler to engineer WWI? 150 years?

morriswalters:
Couple of possibilities about why she would wait.  One it could be related to what Peabody did in Turn Coat.  Jim never mentions the ultimate purpose of the mind magic.  Alternately this could be a working and she is going away to give time for the members of the Accords time to tear themselves apart as the working farts with them. Everybody's amped up and reacting in the odd ways.

Jim spends some amount of time talking about how Harry can throw off the effects of the Outsiders and the opening salvo when the corner hounds port in is a mental attack. It makes the why of the Peace Talks a little less random.

The_Sibelis:
So much has to do with balance in the DF perhaps the opening created by the absence of the Reds is bigger than just the physical holdings? Perhaps, like spreading out the apocalypse or Necronomicon they were taking up a metaphysical space the fomor can now accupy?

vultur:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 03, 2020, 10:27:27 PM ---Then it took a century or two of planning to set up favorable circumstances. How long did it take Kemmler to engineer WWI? 150 years?

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Well, this is kind of the question I'm asking.

If Ethniu can kick Mab through walls without even using the Eye, then she has the Eye of Balor on top of that (which Harry says is probably a "city killer"), and she's immune to any physical force (according to Etri) - why does she need to set anything up? Why does she need an army at all?

I mean, from what we saw of the Red Court at Chichen Itza in Changes, I think Ethniu could have flat out destroyed the Red King and Lords of Outer Night without breaking a sweat. (Their "divine will" attack presumably wouldn't work on a much more powerful god, and without that - they were mostly just somewhat stronger and tougher Rampires.)

So, basically, why were the Fomor ever outcasts in the first place if they're led by someone much stronger than Mab and apparently stronger than Ferrovax?

Mira:

--- Quote ---So, basically, why were the Fomor ever outcasts in the first place if they're led by someone much stronger than Mab and apparently stronger than Ferrovax?

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  It apparently is a lot more complicated..  Notice Ethniu made her power statement, and she and the Fomor left.  They had the element of surprise and threw some weight around, but they didn't finish the job.  So maybe they are not as strong as they appear?  Meaning if given a minute to get their act together,  the combined power of Mab, Vadderung, Ferrovax and others may gave taken them.

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