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The Red Court, The Fomor, and Could Thomas Have Been?
Mira:
Back in Dead Beat I believe it was, Harry told Morgan that he believed that the Red Court were
acting as cat's paws for someone else. Possible answers were the Black Council, Outsiders, etc.
Then after Changes, the Fomor seemed to come out of nowhere and the conventional wisdom was
because the Red Court kept them in check, removing the Red Court, removed the cork in the bottle so to speak.
I finished Bombshells last night, and there was a curious line about the bomb that was planted at the party by the Fomor. Lord Froggy says to Listen
--- Quote ---Listen bowed his head. "How efficacious do you anticipate your gift to be?"
"The one I made for the Red Court in the Congo was deadly enough," Lord Froggy said, a smug tone in his voice.
My heart pounded even harder. During the war with the White Council, the Red Court had used some kind of nerve gas on a hospital tending wounded wizards.
--- End quote ---
You don't make nerve gas bombs for someone who is an enemy, or even someone keeping you in check. You make them for a partner, an ally, for someone you want to do the dirty work for you.
So Harry was right is appears, the Red Court was a cat's paw, for the Fomor, not the Black Court or Outsiders. What is more, the Red Court were being used as one huge diversion, while the Fomor quietly, stealthily built up their forces under the lake and elsewhere. Not unlike the events when Harry's duel with Count Oretega set off the war before the Reds were fully ready to fight, as Shiro said. Perhaps the events in Changes, Harry killing off the Red Court forced the Fomor to come out into the open before they were really ready? It looks dire for Battleground, but there is a glimmer of hope there as well, the Fomor could be moving before they are really ready to move.
The other part of this is the reason Lord Froggy had a bomb planted at the party that was supposed to celebrate the Fomor/Svartalf alliance or non aggression pact,was to get revenge on Marcone. Lord Froggy is very specific, he wants confirmation that the Baron was there. Then says he will pay for what he did to his brother. Which brings us to the next point, Molly breaks it up and Lord Froggy nearly kills her before Etri shows up and saves her. Lord Froggy is dealt with, however Listen and his Turtle necked cohorts are allowed to go. Molly objects, but Etri says they have no quarrel with the Turtlenecks because they got Lord Froggy.. He was the one who violated their guest law, "you go after the hand that uses the hammer, not the hammer." We also find out that though supposedly Thomas was acting as an agent or spy for the White Court, the Svartalves considered him pretty harmless punishing him with lots of sex apparently, then he was free to go.
Which brings us to the events in Peace Talks. The original bomb was planted by Lord Froggy to get revenge against Marcone. The plan was thwarted by Molly and Atri, though Lord Froggy was dealt with, Listen and company were let go to fight another day. Or seek revenge, in Peace Talks it was a bomb that went off and nearly killed Etri. The Fomor were attempting to get revenge against Etri for what he did to Lord Froggy. Poor Thomas just happened to be there at the time partying, but since he had been an agent in the past, he gets the blame for it. Which also worked to their advantage not just as a diversion, but because of the events in Bombshells plausible deniability, easy to just point the finger at Thomas.
ClintACK:
I like it.
Still needs a bit more to explain why the svartalves are so sure it was Thomas, and why Lara (having seen the video, which Harry hasn't) thinks the same.
Mira:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on August 18, 2020, 01:48:44 PM ---I like it.
Still needs a bit more to explain why the svartalves are so sure it was Thomas, and why Lara (having seen the video, which Harry hasn't) thinks the same.
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It goes back to I think Lara sending Thomas in as an agent to begin with to disrupt the original talks
between the Fomor and the svartalves in Bombshells. Since the Peace Talks were coming up, she may have done it again. However just like Justine said in Bombshells, Lara will deny every time that her or the White Court had anything to do with sending him in. So she is between a rock and a hard place, she may know for a fact that Thomas didn't have or place that bomb, but at the same time if she knows that much, she also is admitting she sent him in there to begin with. The svartalves at the same time could be jumping to conclusions, without motive or evidence except he was there..
That is what is so weird about Peace Talks and why the feel of it kind of falls off the rails. Where in the hell is P.I. Harry Dresden in all of this? Instead of banging Murphy [not that there is anything wrong with that] Harry should have talked to her about forensics. What was the bomb made of? Does it fit a possible White Court MO? How would Thomas have got the materials in the first place? That would have gone a long way to clear Thomas of guilt.
spiritofair:
Crap, I don't even remember there being a discussion of there being a bomb that killed Austri... Do I need to listen to Peace Talks again, lol?
Also, I think the fomor and the red court are both cat's paws of the Black Council.
Mira:
--- Quote from: spiritofair on August 18, 2020, 05:19:13 PM ---Crap, I don't even remember there being a discussion of there being a bomb that killed Austri... Do I need to listen to Peace Talks again, lol?
Also, I think the fomor and the red court are both cat's paws of the Black Council.
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He was the target supposedly, he wasn't killed though, the svartalvef that was a friend to Harry, who's children played with little Maggie was the one that was killed. Who knows? The Fomor might be the Black Council.
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