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"It is not yet your hour."
morriswalters:
I sometimes wonder if Jim didn't model the Council after the Medieval Papacy.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on June 15, 2021, 01:52:52 PM ---I sometimes wonder if Jim didn't model the Council after the Medieval Papacy.
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Then it’s now time for a schism. What is a pope without an antipope?
TheCuriousFan:
I'd be surprised if there's only two sides in the inevitable White Council civil war (which book is that going to dominate? It doesn't really seem to fit any of the next few book pitches).
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on June 15, 2021, 06:37:31 AM ---Then the question is, what does Cowl want to do? Is it merely "I want to be able to practice black magic to my hearts content and kill, control, and otherwise do what I like to people as I am god-king" or is it more around the fact the Council won't allow any political interference, persecute even minor infractions with serious and sometimes fatal results, have no real court of appeal and an overly simplistic and out-dated legal structure, let alone the outdated and overly simply and often unrepresentative voting system, and governing body that is effectively immune to criticism or change?
I mean, if it's the later you can hardly blame the guy. The Council if it existed in our world would be a disaster of an organisation. I suspect though it's a bit of both.
If Cowl is Cristos, I doubt he will continue the charade much longer. I'd expect reforms that benefit him and his supporters to happen, probably while he politically or literally kills his opponents.
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If I had to guess, Cowl had altruistic motives for getting into necromancy way back. Maybe he wanted to bring someone back. He made a similar pitch to Kumori, who also likes the idea of being able to stop death. But Cowl was corrupted by the dark side of the Force magic, probably due to dabbling with outsider magic, and he's gotten worse because of it.
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 15, 2021, 01:59:45 PM ---Then it’s now time for a schism. What is a pope without an antipope?
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We almost had it at the end of Turn Coat, with Cristos "the savior" threatening to take a third of the Council with him if he didn't become Senior.
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on June 15, 2021, 02:17:18 PM ---I'd be surprised if there's only two sides in the inevitable White Council civil war (which book is that going to dominate? It doesn't really seem to fit any of the next few book pitches).
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I don't know that we'll ever see it. It'll probably happen mostly off-screen between the end of one book and the end of the next.
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 15, 2021, 02:59:34 PM ---If I had to guess, Cowl had altruistic motives for getting into necromancy way back. Maybe he wanted to bring someone back. He made a similar pitch to Kumori, who also likes the idea of being able to stop death. But Cowl was corrupted by the dark side of the Force magic
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He had bad dreams about his wife dying in Childbirth you see...
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