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Who will be the next Blackstaff? (If Eb dies)

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b4utoo:
Carlos is too by the book to pull the trigger on a bus full of school kids for the greater good.

Luccio in a heart beat would.

Harry is done with Counsel.

My bet is the Black staff goes back to winter to balance a scale

Snark Knight:
Depends whether the Blackstaff choosing the heir means the bearer, or the artefact itself.

If Eb is making the call, I don't he would want Harry to have it, because putting the staff with someone Mother Winter could order to return it to her means the end of the Blackstaff as an office of the Council, and he believes in the need for that. It would also force the fight between the WC and Harry that he doesn't want to see happen, and it's an awful lot of temptation to mix up with the Knight mantle.

If the staff is making the call, a lot depends on whether IT wants to go back to Mother Winter. I think in Changes Harry perceived that the staff wanted to be used, and for all her malice, Mother Winter seems pretty self-disciplined about rarely actually exercising direct power. If its semi-sentience extends to having more fun being used for magical war crimes on the semi-regular on earth than it would being kept on a tight leash for centuries at a time in the deep NN, it's probably going to avoid the Winter Knight like the plague, lest he return it. In that case, Carlos is probably a good call as he's in opposition to the Queens' instrument.

If it operates on a lower level without that much if>then reasoning, it's probably going to see the Winter Knight as a preferred candidate if he's nearby. And even aside from the mantle, it would like Harry because here's a guy who gets into lots of scraps and will probably use a tool of violence.

Conspiracy Theorist:
The return of the Blackstaff could win Harry an unravelling, which could cure Thomas of his demon, something foreshadowed with Susan

Mira:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 02, 2021, 12:58:15 AM ---The return of the Blackstaff could win Harry an unravelling, which could cure Thomas of his demon, something foreshadowed with Susan

--- End quote ---

That could work, but would Thomas want to come back if Justine isn't there? :(

Ed0517:
If Eb falls, Luccio is the easily-resorts-to-violence type it likes, and i think it can likely make up for most of the lower power, but it passed her over once for Eb. I think it goes to a name we never heard before, like Christos  getting the senior council nod, so we can speculate on Noname being Black council, like we do for Christos. 

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