The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Now THAT's what I call a Sample Chapter!
Mira:
--- Quote ---I don't think the Svartalves are that important of a nation, really. Rescuing Thomas during the talks was a potential disaster because if it had become known, Mab's representative was breaking the rules at a major diplomatic meeting for Mab's Accords.
Now that that's a "fait accompli" I think the political picture is different.
The larger problem is that if Thomas was just released from Demonreach now, he'd die. There needs to be a solution for the whole "Hunger eating him" aspect first.
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I think that depends on what they contribute to the fight against the Titan. Also I've begun to reread Peace Talks as a lead up to Battleground. On the reread, it is obvious on the run in the first chapter that Thomas was up to something, that it wasn't just nervousness and anxiety over Justine's pregnancy. Who put up to it and why will be big factors I think. Another thought as I read given
that they used birth control that failed and White Court Vamps are for all intents and purposes sterile as Thomas put it, was there another father? If it was a set up and Justine is a part of it, it could be.
Does he know for sure there is an embryo Hunger inside her, or is he just assuming it?
--- Quote ---Which is one reason I think the 'kicking Harry out of the Council' bit is a ploy. We know he'd never do it, at least short of a Changes-level situation, but the people on the Senior Council who still think Harry is a potential ticking time bomb... given the binding power of oaths, he could just extract an oath from some titan to kill all his enemies on the Council and then release it.
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Except on the reread, from what Eb said, not everyone on the Senior Council even know he is the Warden of Demonreach. What is interesting is if Christos is Black Council as Harry and Eb both seem to think, why is he going to the Peace Talks instead of being there for the vote? And Eb is talking about Harry going off to glad hand and politic for his position, when Harry says he can't because he is on the security team, Eb didn't seem to know about it. Now supposedly he is the head man for the security team, yet it is Carlos who claims to be who wants Harry on the team.. So is it yet another sign of dementia in Eb that he has forgotten that fact? Or is Carlos about to be the one close who stabs Harry in the back? Another thought, the bearded guy Harry blows away in the trailer, Christos?
Arjan:
Harry:
--- Quote ---Come on. I'm a wizard. We have union rules against telling anybody anything
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Rashid:
--- Quote ---If we both survive the next several hours, I will settle matters between you and the Council, which knows only as much about our roles as it needs to—and that isn’t much
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Don't assume someone on the council knows something because another council member knows. With important information the opposite is more likely.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: Arjan on September 17, 2020, 02:27:22 PM ---Don't assume someone on the council knows something because another council member knows. With important information the opposite is more likely.
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Yep. One of the things I've been anticipating in Battle Ground for years is the possibility of seeing Harry's opponents in the White Council realize just how badly they've underestimated him, when they watch him go all out against the fomor bigs, or even bind Ethniu into a cell.
Like a bigger version of the moment when Ancient Mai had to radically rethink everything about Harry when she realized he was partnered with a foo dog.
The_Sibelis:
I think it's ironic they're targeting him for being Mabs knight when we know they're all sitting on power ups of some sort themselves. Like if those were public I'm not sure most of the senior council would have a leg left to stand on in that argument.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on September 17, 2020, 03:33:40 PM ---I think it's ironic they're targeting him for being Mabs knight when we know they're all sitting on power ups of some sort themselves. Like if those were public I'm not sure most of the senior council would have a leg left to stand on in that argument.
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Certainly not Martha Liberty, we find out she is great pals with the Loa, which suggest she is also a Voodoo Priestess (which looking on Wikipedia goes back to the White God as creator) Harry though has a much closer relationship via Uriel. She may therefore also be a candidate to wield soul-fire as basically a female Father Forthill who is also a wizard, and may have access to clerical magic.
We know Eb has the Black Staff, we don’t know what else he may have tucked away.
Recent WOJ indicates that Listens to the Wind shapeshifting isn’t learnt, and his power up may be something like the Tarnhelm
The thing is Senior Council can take centuries to achieve the power ups Harry achieved in a decade and a bit, and I suspect Christos hasn’t yet had the time to pick anything up (although he may have been promised much)
Harry has:-
(1) Soul fire
(2) the Winter Knight Mantle
(3) the Placard
(4) the Athame
(5) the shroud
(6) the crown
(7) Warden of Demonreach
(8) Bonea
Not even Eb knows of (1), (3) - (6) and (8)
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