The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
[major BG spoilers] About the Council.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on October 06, 2020, 05:03:09 PM ---This. Entirely this. Harry's just a pawn/excuse here in hardball politics by centuries-old wizards.
Carlos even told Harry -- "By unanimous vote, they have already given the Blackstaff the order to execute your death warrant, and suspended it. If you cross the line, they'll send him. And if he won't do it, he'll be charged with treason."
This is the Merlin's ultimate Sword of Damocles to hold over Eb's head -- passed by a "unanimous vote", while Eb and LtW were in the hospital and Rashid was at the Outer Gates.
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Unanimous vote would in this case be The Merlin, Ancient Mai and Martha Liberty (the latter having just had the shit scared out of her by Harry and the Za Lords Guard) Martha didn’t see anything of Harry in Battle, and the other two have always been against Harry.
Dina:
Uh, what about Christos?
ClintACK:
Martha Liberty was on the rooftop chatting with Loa when Harry called the 'Za guard. A hundred thousand pixies answered his call and went to war. Remember that he killed a Queen of Summer with only a dozen of them (and the Senior Council would have been fully briefed on that, since it was his probation test). The efforts the assembled powers had been taking to try and counter the invisible-assassin-squids (who really need a cool name) were far more complicated and far less effective than what Harry whipped up with a minute of *silent* spellcasting and a piece of frozen pizza.
Mab told him: "An impressive display. You frightened several very confident beings tonight. I found it entertaining."
I think that's the moment when Harry lost Martha Liberty's vote.
Dina:
Perhaps you are right, clintACK. Incidentally, I loved that quote of Mab and I really wanted to know who were those "very confident" beings. I think she may have been talking about some of her own people too, as well as Summer. But who else? The ghouls?
To be honest, they have every reason to be afraid. Harry not only is a starborn, the Winter Knight, the Warden, and a powerful wizard on his own right, he also has friends. From werewolves to River Shoulders, from KotC to the wee folk. And they don't even know that Lara needs him alive.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: Dina on October 06, 2020, 11:45:18 PM ---Uh, what about Christos?
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Death by Titan, Eb and LTW we’re both in surgery. The original plan was to put it to the full White Council, because it would have been 4-3 against the Merlin. But with the GateKeeper absent (at the Gate during the attack) and Eb and LTW unconscious, the Merlin was able to sway a frightened Martha Liberty, the supporter Harry knew least. I wonder if Harry was wining the Full Council vote.
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