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Conspiracy Theorist:
It depends on whether at the time of GP she knew Nameless was working against her. After Arctis Tor in PG she knew and kicked him out, but still kept him under Winter Law. The most we have seen of Cowl is in DB, the book before PG. We see him via Little Chicago (which is maybe why Mab fixed it) and we see him briefly looking into the cavern from the NeverNever in WN. Not Mab’s business.

If Mab went through Harry’s memories when he became Winter Knight (this is Mab and Harry had Molly remove his suicide plot memories beforehand, so yes) Mab has access to Harry’s memories. She will have examined those of GP and the handover of the Athame and from that further examined Harry’s memories of Cowl in DB and WN.

Mab will have known Nameless is Cowl from Changes. Cowl has been keeping a low profile since then, as he may suspect Mab now has Harry’s knowledge of Cowl and he is still subject to Winter Law in the way Laplander is subject to him. Hence no Cowl in Peace Talks/Battle Ground. At this point he probably started working with Listen (not to have him as a Vassal, as that would put him in conflict with Winter attacking the Winter Lady’s family)

Mab must be annoyed that Harry took on Nameless in The Law, as it led to Harry getting two important clues and may result in Nameless getting burnt before her plan for him rolls out. She is clearly setting up Nameless for something and it isn’t good. I think perhaps a collision course with the Denarians and Marcone. She wants the Denarians who attacked Arctis Tor with Hellfire. I think that surprised her, not the assault but that it included one or more Denarians, and it is exposing who amongst them. She has Harry’s memory of his conversation with Nicky in SF, so knows it surprised Nicky and she now knows that Nicky’s control over them is not as strong as everybody thought. Skin Game required Nicky to sacrifice Deidre, creating an irrevocable rift with Tessa and weakening Nicky immensely. Preparation for exposing the Denarian member or members of the Circle given Mab’s penchant for scheming.

morriswalters:
If Cowl were Nameless then the events of Dead Beat needn't to have happened. Nameless is already a deity controlling a witch who did what Cowl attempted to do.  Seems kind of circular. Maybe I'm missing something.

Butcher is retconning Proven Guilty. Effectively saying, oh yeah, I forgot to  tell you that there were characters which you did not notice, doing things that were important to the main story line, that I didn't bother to ever mention until at least ten or more years after the fact. That is a lot of heavy lifting for a reader.

Care to speculate about who will Harry use to to do the legwork on his prenup with Lara? However I did like the chickens. And the disembodied wife. Can you guess about the genesis of the premise of the plot?

@Conspiracy Theorist

There are more similarities between Demonreach and Arctis Tor then you mention. But doors open both ways.  If the point were  to free Lea then why not enter  through Demonreach instead of Pell's theater, thus saving the walk and the need to fight your way through the courtyard? Ditto on attacking the Wellspring directly. Purely descriptively, the portal would be connected to the Well itself rather than on the island in general. The Well is the prison rather than the island.

Mira:

--- Quote ---If Cowl were Nameless then the events of Dead Beat needn't to have happened. Nameless is already a deity controlling a witch who did what Cowl attempted to do.  Seems kind of circular. Maybe I'm missing something.
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My point also, if you are already a demigod, why do you need Darkhallow?

--- Quote ---Care to speculate about who will Harry use to to do the legwork on his prenup with Lara? However I did like the chickens. And the disembodied wife. Can you guess about the genesis of the premise of the plot?
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Though he doesn't perhaps know the laws and politics involved in something like this, but I think Michael would throw Lara's people off balance just a bit.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Nameless is less powerful than Mab say at The Erl Kings level, he is bound by Winter Law and the only way out would be to reverse the balance of power, as he did with Laplander. That may be why he teamed up with Kemmler, he needed to go into Winter but needed a way out when the time was right, which didn’t involve him dying.

Indeed but if this was a scouting visit for Demonreach to ascertain its physical location and the state of its defences then the Way through Arctis Tor is the only option. You otherwise might inadvertently get to inspect the prison from the inside. They may have found out that it had an absentee warden and minimal active defences and where it was. That might have signed Fortiers Death Warrant, Peabody could get to the island safely in the mortal world and become the Warden in a leisurely fashion. However Harry got involved.

Why yes Jim would do a retcon of Proven Guilty. He already has with Morgan’s Microfiction.

vincentric:
There was no need to do convoluted and dangerous cloak and dagger missions to scout Demonreach before the end of CD. Anyone with the will to fight off the passive avoidance aura could just hop on a boat and go there in a matter of hours. Nic and company set up there for a couple of days without any consequences. Demonreach's mental attacks are just something Jim uses to isolate Harry from his friends. They've never even slowed down his enemies.

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