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Conspiracy Theorist:
Because they were after Kemmler, not the island. If they tried to bushwhack on the island the wardens and the Senior council would have lost. Earth Magic immediately cancelled and turned against the practitioners, Alfred coming out and killing at will, several Naagloshii freed to feed on as many wardens as they wish.
If Kemmler ever got back to the island as warden, game over. They couldn’t get him out, so my guess they lured him out on a pretext, slammed the door on him via the ways and then thought they could apprehend him at their leisure.
Getting longitude and latitude means taking the tools and acquiring the knowledge to do so, and having the impetus to do so. I kind of feel Kemmler got caught with his pants down, he hadn’t prepared for being sacked so hadn’t planned a route back in the mortal world, but so were the Wardens unprepared, not realising how powerful Kemmler had become, but Kemmler wasn’t powerful enough to fight through Arctis Tor and defeat a Mab lockdown.
vincentric:
So Kemmler was smart enough to become the Warden, to amass the knowledge to perform the Darkhallow, to form a small army disciples and to cause two World Wars as cover, didn't think to get a real world fix on his ultimate bolt hole in all the time he was Warden? He didn't think to perform a simple tracking spell to some item or landmark he'd left on the island through the veils which do not affect him because he's the Warden? He was never able to reach the North American Great Lakes region and triangulate with his sense of the island's location? He never spent one night on the island looking at the stars and getting a general fix? Because the wardens are out 24/7/365 for 70-80 years keeping him and all his disciples from exploring the area? Even the ones they don't know about?
Extremely convoluted theory of the Dresdenverse's history versus or simple plot reveal that reveals unintended and unplanned plot holes. I'm in the KISS school myself.
Somehow I don't think that Jim fleshed out such detail in the 11th of a 20 book outline when he was turning in the Dresden Files as a school project.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Because people overlook the bleeding obvious, Wizards are arrogant and Kemmler personally has to get close enough to the island to lock on. The wardens job was to prevent that. Then Kemmler locked onto a new plan, the Darkhallow which did not require use of the prison and its inmates. We can presume in Warlocks he was searching for Demonreach. He was then back in Europe to start WW1, presumably a new Scheme, and after that WW2.
morriswalters:
You would have to assume that Merlin was an idiot to buy into this. He builds a prison with a fail safe that would take out Chicago and the environs, yet ignores the possibility of someone like Kemmler. I can't eat that apple. It's full of worms.
For navigation purposes finding an island on Lake Michigan is relatively easy. By the early 1700's the first settlements were on the Lake. Not to mention that the Lake is pretty big and practically unmissable.
g33k:
I think folks are overlooking something, here.
Wizards love secrets. "It's like crack cocaine for them" is IIRC an exact WoJ quote.
Jim has also stated (paraphrased this time) that the Senior Council has all the information to easily figure out the shadowy "Black Council" plot against them, but that much of that info is snippets in different wizards' heads; they are keeping so many secrets that they cannot see the forest for their own personal trees.
Now, consider one Harry Dresden: wizard, snarkmeister, and generally disrespectful jerk (from the WC pov) and ALSO possibly / likely (depending on the wizard making the call) a warlock.
I'm pretty sure the Gatekeeper knows quite a lot about the island & the prison. I bet LTW does, too. I am pretty sure the Senior Council, as a whole, does not know very much about the island; just that it exists and is a ley-line nexus of dark energy. That's enough to make it dangerous.
Because if they did, the prospect of a possible/probable warlock in charge of it wouldn't be Defcon4, it'd be Defcon5 and an all-out effort to kill Dresden.
Remember how many of the SC came to Demonreach when Harry arranged his "parlor scene" / confrontation? On the island, the Warden is a credible threat against Mab herself. Those councilors -- senior as they are -- would fall like ninepins. If they knew what Demonreach was, what it could do, they wouldn't have put themselves there when they had such doubts about Harry.
QED: the "senior council" -- as a body -- doesn't know what the island really is, what it can really do. Only a few of the individual wizards have any idea... and they're busy smoking their own crack-pipes, not sharing with the others.
(n.b. they don't have to really understand the island to know it as a major locus of dark energy, which -- if claimed by a dark wizard like Kemmler, as a sanctum -- could vastly magnify power. They barely managed to take him down, with an entire ocean between the island and the warden! It's obvious he'd be unassailable in any major power-sanctum. Exact knowledge not needed.)
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