The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Jim interview
Mira:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on September 24, 2022, 04:49:05 AM ---Maybe not. Maybe when there is no Warden, Alfred gets to be ACTING Warden. If the Warden must approve squashing certain invaders, Alfred cannot do it without permission. If there is no Warden, he grants HIMSELF permission, and stops Maeve.
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However Alfred's powers are very limited if there is no Warden. When there was no Warden he could send out vibs so that humans were uncomfortable on the island and didn't stay, he could conceal the fact that the prison was there, but how much he could prevent an assault without a Warden remains unclear. Remember he seemed relieved when Harry took up the mantle and that most of that year before Skin Game Harry's time was spent turning on island defenses that only the Warden could turn on. Justine/He Who Walks Beside needed Harry to get past those defenses.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on September 24, 2022, 04:49:05 AM --- Maybe not. Maybe when there is no Warden, Alfred gets to be ACTING Warden. If the Warden must approve squashing certain invaders, Alfred cannot do it without permission. If there is no Warden, he grants HIMSELF permission, and stops Maeve.
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Alfred has some power, and some discretion in using it.
The Warden can unlock/activate/whatever far, far more.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on September 24, 2022, 04:49:05 AM ---Maybe not. Maybe when there is no Warden, Alfred gets to be ACTING Warden. If the Warden must approve squashing certain invaders, Alfred cannot do it without permission. If there is no Warden, he grants HIMSELF permission, and stops Maeve.
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It would depend upon the protocols given to Alfred by the last Warden. If it was to allow the Winter Queens onto the island but not into the prison, this would make sense pre nemfected Maeve, given the The OG Merlins relationship with Mab. Someone entering without a Queen would end up a smear, unless they arrived in sufficient force to overwhelm Alfred on his current protocols. This would explain the intent to infect a Winter Queen, otherwise the elaborate ruses employed by Maeve to get enough Fae to stalemate Alfred had to be employed. Alfred cannot give himself permission, but can act within his standing orders, and is subject to those limitations . Mab trod carefully and arrived by boat simply because she could not be sure Harry hadn’t changed the protocols given his antipathy to her.
morriswalters:
Alfred wasn't stalemated in Cold Days, Mab tells you as much. The whole bunch could have easily found themselves in either a cell or a grave.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 24, 2022, 01:14:58 PM ---Alfred wasn't stalemated in Cold Days, Mab tells you as much. The whole bunch could have easily found themselves in either a cell or a grave.
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Ah, but as of Turn Coat the Island had a Warden again, Harry didn't know that until he woke up on the Island at the end of Ghost Story.. And Alfred didn't make much of a move until the end of Cold Days, when Harry warned Mab that on hisorder, Alfred would put her in the slammer. Until Harry took full control over his Wardenship, the Island was vulnerable, and Maeve knew that, that's why she chose that moment to make her move.
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