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groinkick:
Listens to Wind, and River shoulders?  I know that they are pretty powerful but Drakul could stand up to Mab (per words of Jim), and I don't see them being near her level of power.  Mavra said he was having fun....  But he, and the Black Court were there to collect (or consume) wizards.  They took some of them for that purpose.  So I can't help but wonder why Drakul would allow LTW or River Shoulders to get out alive... 

So do you think Drakul allowed them to live, or were those two strong enough to get out alive on their own?  I just don't see how if Drakul is as powerful as Jim said they could have survived.

Yuillegan:
Or even just paralyse all the wizards with his Will, just like the Lords of the Outer Night did to Harry and his Fellowship in Changes?

I have asked these questions before too. Having thought about it for a while I came to the conclusion that sadly it's Jim's writing that is to blame. Drakul didn't get the entrance he deserved, or was built up to have. There is no logical story reason that Drakul couldn't have locked down all the opponents nor any reason he shouldn't have.

If he had trapped all his foes he could have turned them all, if it was powerful new recruits he was after. If they were in his way why didn't he just kill them? As you say, he is meant to be able to kill Mab so it shouldn't have been an issue to take them out.

Even if you try and say he was just having fun by sparring with them, surely such a viscous monster would have wanted to get some personal kills.

The only thing that makes sense was he was testing something or has use for Harry, LtW and River Shoulders in future.

No, it unfortunately seems that due to the rushed books, the split and perhaps some other reasons Jim just didn't write his best scene. Perhaps he would have wrote something that made more sense if he had written a Drakul scene way back when he wrote Dead Beat. Maybe it would have matched closet to what we have been lead to believe. Drakul just came off a little underwhelming...maybe he could never live up to the hype. Which is kinda crazy considering he certainly was powerful and scary. He took on River, LtW and Harry and wasn't worried at all. When the wardens attacked he disrupted them quickly, crippling Ramirez and possibly killed Chandler.

The other possibility is he was distracted by other events, perhaps stuff to do with time travel and parallel universes or more mundane events and had to leave Chicago.

b4utoo:
Quotes WOJ on Drakul...i think I missed something

The_Sibelis:
Naaaa, see. Your forgetting Jim's a DnD player. This was the BBEG making a show of things and batting the A team around to show you that he can. He monologues the whole fight basically. He clearly scoffs at the evil overlords list and does what he wants. Plus as Jim has said recently, he's a hit n run kinda guy, he didn't want to get caught up in a stand up fight for too long. Who knows what kinda reinforcements might show up?

b4utoo:
I don't think Drakul is on Mabs level and no he couldn't kill ltw or river shoulders anytime... He is badass but your saying Drakul can kill Odin or Queen Mab or queen Titania or any of the Queens or the Earl King or pretty much anybody that's been mentioned besides archangel in Dresden Files..enlighten us

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