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“You Know What He Was Meant To Be”
Conspiracy Theorist:
The Tigress was hired by Ace to kill Harry, completely separate to Aurora’s plot, to gain protection from Maeve and Lloyd Slate from the Ramps, who we know were working with Cowl from Grave Peril.
Maeve moved her Court to Chicago around the time of Grave Peril, forcing Aurora to move her Court to Chicago as well. This suggests Cowl may have influenced Maeve on this point.
The Athame raised Lea’s power level above Maeve’s in Winter, destabilising Winter quite apart from its Nemfection of Lea.
We later learn in Cold Days that Ace is the Redcap’s scion, and latter still in Battle Ground that the Redcap was in fact a spy for Mab in Maeves Court for several decades.
Cowl would have wanted Auroras plot to succeed and having seen several of his schemes badly damaged already by Harry and sought to take him out of the equation.
In The Law we learn Nameless has been cast out from Winter due to suspicions as to his loyalty. As part of Winter he most likely would have been drawn to Maeves Court as a Demi-god of Discord.
Lloyd Skate was the only Winter conspirator in Aurora’s Scheme, Nameless would have had access to him as part of Maeves Court and it would be in his nature to stoke his jealousy of Ruel and push him into Auror’s Scheme.
At page 203 of Summer Knight Maeve says” ‘There,’ she said, once I’d been seated. ‘Not so untamable as he claimed.’ Harry asks who and she dismisses it as no matter. Cowl would be in a position to know Harry’s nature, Nameless in a position to inform her of it.
Cowl is Nameless, hiding in the fringes of Maeves Court in Undertown when Harry visits, sowing discord to the Winter Lady and the Winter Knight, manipulating them to pressure Ruel through the Winter changelings and then have Slate kill him paving the way for Aurora’s scheme to destabilise the Courts.
Conspiracy Theorist:
In Death Masks Ortega challenges Harry just as he is about to get involved in the fake Shroud caper, did Cowl put Ortega up to it to eliminate Harry from it? We know Cowl has ties to the Red Court and later on we find a Denarian is working with the Black Council, so Cowl should be aware of what Nicky is planning, and wants it to go ahead so uses the Red Court to do his dirty work, like Ace and the Tigress in Summer Knight, Harry is facing two apparently unrelated threats but Cowl links them.
Cowl of course would be unaware that the Shroud is a fake, that would appear to be knowledge held by Hades, Uriel and Mab at this point.
“because God said so.”page 59 Death Masks Harry explaining the theories limiting The Fallen, eventually shown to be correct and subject to balance in his dealings with Lucifer and Uriel.
Ed0517:
You presume the Denarian knows what Nic is really planning. I do not think ANYONE, other than the actual Fallen, knows that. Casting Dierdre down to the underworld? Do you think she saw that coming? And that was his daughter
Mira:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on February 18, 2023, 12:53:04 AM ---You presume the Denarian knows what Nic is really planning. I do not think ANYONE, other than the actual Fallen, knows that. Casting Dierdre down to the underworld? Do you think she saw that coming? And that was his daughter
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Maybe not that, but the fact is she was willing sacrifice. To be a willing sacrifice, one has to be prepared to sacrifice for the cause. Also I don't think it was Nic who planned it.
Conspiracy Theorist:
‘Don’t you think you should?’ Page 93 Death Masks
Ushalvhas The Cabbage Patch Doll who knows an awful lot about Harry, asking Harry why he does what he does, and Harry replies he doesn’t know. U obviously knows Harry is Starborn/Destroyer and agent of change driving his destiny and Harry won’t start asking UNTIL bloody Peace Talks, more than a decade later.
Yes Harry you bloody well should.
It should be noted it was at this point Bob says the shroud isn’t on his frequency but suggests U as an ally of the Loa who are next mentioned in Battle Ground as serving Martha Liberty suggesting U, the Loa and Martha are attuned to that frequency an indicator Martha has Soulfire, which is why LTW can recognise it, later in the series.
“ ‘Do too,’ he replied. ‘I know more about you than you do yourself.’ ‘Such as?’ ‘Such as why you chose this kind of life for yourself. To appoint yourself protector of mortal kind, and to make yourself the enemy of any who would do them harm. To live outcast from your own kind, laughed at and mocked by most mortals. Living in a hovel, barely scraping by. Spurning wealth and fame. Why do you do it?’
Page 222 Death Masks Nicodemus to a freshly laundered Harry recalling the earlier conversation on page 93. Both Heaven and Hell have told Harry the same thing.
Not something I was looking for but on page 300 Harry laments the absence of his shield bracelet (lost earlier to Nick) later on the same page the absent bracelet is burning his wrist- Beta reader failure.
Page 315 Death Masks A dying Shiro to “ ‘Harry,’ Shiro whispered. ‘Nicodemus is afraid of you. Afraid that you saw something. I don’t know what.’ This is before the epithany Harry has that the Noose can kill Nick, but after the Barabus curse has been cast.
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