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“You Know What He Was Meant To Be”

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Conspiracy Theorist:
In Blood Rites Harry is rescuing the puppies stolen from Brother Wang - they have been brought to Chicago because presumably this is where the mastermind behind their theft dwells. In Zoo Day we learn this was actually successful MyShadow and his sister were in fact taken before Harry rescued the rest of the puppies including Mouse. The actual abductor is a Sorceror, another one in Chicago after Victor Sells and Leonid Kravos.

The Winter Court had been resident in Chicago from Grave Peril and Nameless was part of the Court, upon expulsion from the Court he practices as a lawyer in Chicago. Nameless was the mastermind behind the puppy theft. The swine. For some reason Nameless required a corrupted Foo Dog, but then Nameless is Cowl and part of the Black Council. All three Sorcerors are connected to Nameless.

Thomas this time asking the question of Harry page13 Blood Rites

“Thomas laughed a little and shook his head. ‘I don’t get it.’ ‘Don’t get what?’ ‘Why you do it.’ ‘Do what?”

Harry is still burying his head in the sand over his motivation.

Page 14 - Thomas who meets up with Harry one or two days a year at this point knows about Bob, and Bob is a big secret and Harry blithely just carries on when the “Talking Skull” is mentioned. How did Thomas find out?

The A Plot and B Plot are unrelated -Raith made that clear in The Deeps.  No motivation is given for Mavra bringing her scourge to Chicago, no Athame, no Word, no recruitment drive, so the most likely explanation is that it was a favour owed to Cowl, or better yet owed by Drakul to Cowl,  specifically as a trap for Harry in much the same way he used Ortega in the previous book, they have a pre-existing relationship from before Grave Peril, and whilst Harry annoyed her he really didn’t do anything to justify her setting up a trap for Harry, fearful that Harry would derail his long-term plan for the Leansidheand in disrupting the Winter Court.

Cowl of course organised the photos of Harry, Murphy and Kincaid which turn up at page 14 of Dead Beat that Mavra uses to blackmail Harry, his back up plan.

Conspiracy Theorist:
In Dead Beat note that Harry has his ‘dream’ of his father just after visiting Mort, who lets slip that he knows Colin Murphy, we find out later in Ghost Story Colin Murphy works for Uriel, so this would suggest Mort is indirectly working for Uriel at this point at the point where he starts developing a backbone. Many theories suggest Malcolm was sent by Uriel, after Lasciel crossed the line,  this would appear to confirm this. The Mort episode also seems designed to mislead the reader that Malcolm is a ghost. Malcolm is I believe the ‘balancing’ allowed to Uriel following Shiela making her first appearance in Bocks, suggesting Malcolm is the equivalent of Sheila, a shadow of the Malcolm in the Good Place, but not cut off from him like Sheila is from Lasciel.

Page 136 Dead Beat ‘‘No one can tell you that,’ he said. ‘Not me. Not an angel. And not a fallen angel.” The only Angel Harry knows at this point is Mac, and he is not  going to tell him anything. It’s at this point Uriel can directly intervene outside of the Swords.

g33k:

--- Quote from: Ed0517 on February 18, 2023, 12:53:04 AM --- ... Casting Dierdre down to the underworld? Do you think she saw that coming? And that was his daughter
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Deirdre?  She knew, yes.  She was 100% on-board with the plan; regretful, but resolved.  She obviously knew it was coming.

She even foreshadowed it, during the private convo she had with Harry, in the rafters(?) of the warehouse... she was a bit melancholy about having to die for Daddy's plan, but convinced it had to happen.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Up to Kumori saving Marcone’s man on Whacker and two thoughts struck me:-

(1) whatever Kumori did generated significant cold, forming ice which is indicative of Winter.
(2) she saved the life of one of Marcone’s men, Marcone owes her or whoever holds her vassalage. That’s important, it could have been any random passer-by but was she deliberately targeting one of Marcone’s men for exactly this purpose?

This would suggest Cowl engaged the outside contractor to deliberately engage Marcone’s man with Kumori waiting in the wings. Nameless may not have a penchant for healing as a Demi-god of Discord, requiring his use of Kumori in his stead, someone with a penchant for healing. Kumori doesn’t have a major talent for showy magic page 224 Dead Beat, Kumori wasn’t strong enough to wrestle the book away from Harry not using his magic, but even a minor talent can be honed with instruction and practise. Was Nameless gaining control over Sarissa by teaching her the Necromancers version of healing he learnt from Kemmler, but couldn’t use himself due to his nature?

We know in The Law that Nameless will go to work for Marcone, was this the favour he traded on to get a foot in the door? I can’t see Gard being agreeable to Nameless unless Marcone thought he had good reason to overrule her. Nameless was fully in Winter at this point as the attack on Arctis Tor which led to his exile had yet to come. This would suggest he was planning on exile at this point.

So a female Winter Mortal, with a penchant for healing, part of Mab’s Court where Nameless could gain a hold over her would suggest Sarissa is Kumori if Cowl is indeed Nameless. We won’t be introduced to Sarissa until Cold Days and it strikes me as very Nameless to target Mab’s Changeling daughter twin to her bully Maeve? Using Lloyd Slate as part of his plan to gain a hold over her? All the speculation as to Kumori from Dead Beat to Cold  Days would be rendered irrelevant.

Jim certainly has a pattern of dropping something pertinent in one book which is seemingly inconsequential and then revealing a pertinent connection in a later book. Colin Murphy as a ghost  for example in Dead Beat, revealing that ghost works for Uriel in Ghost Story after Uriel has revealed himself to Harry.

It would also seem that Nameless has a penchant for manipulating women, we see this directly in The Law with Miss Laplander, but this would include Maeve, The Leansidhe, so easily Sarissa as well. He would have figured she was the spare Winter Lady, I bet he stoked Maeves paranoia over this leading to Lily’s death, inadvertently freeing Sarissa from his hold.

In Summer Knight Mab says that this is the last time that Maeve hires the help. Did Maeve choose Lloyd Slate based upon Nameless recommendation? That Slate was always Nameless man due to his heroin habit? That he could use Slate to bully the Winter Changelings and manipulate them like Ace in engaging the Tigress to take out Harry? which is exactly what he did in Summer Knight?

Page 231 the Erl King is described as Wildfae in Peabodys book, written approximately a century before, but in Battle Ground is definitely part of Winter. Did the book or Kemmlers creation of the Darkhallow force the Erl King to choose Winter? Page 241 would suggest so, Mab knows about The Word and Peabody’s book and the danger that it represents. Who did she find that out from? The existence of the Word was known to Bob, the heirs and from The Law Nameless. Nameless may have traded that to Mab as his price for entry into Winter, gaining the Erl King as a powerful and unlike Nameless a TRUSTWORTHY Vassal. In return for a vow to not summon the Erl King or cause him to be summoned, could that be why Cowl is trying to destroy it at first?  Could both Nameless and The Erl King being bound by Winter Law mean that Nameless/Cowl couldn’t use the summoning, but could hijack Harry’s if Harry isn’t doing it on Cowls behalf? Cowl was only destroying copies of the book, preventing others from using the Darkhallow, initially because it was no good to him.

Mavra knows about the Word but not about the Erl King, did Nameless trade knowledge of the Word to Drakul? But not about the Erl King? so Drakul couldn’t use it? Harry giving Mavra The Word means Drakul has only half the solution

Page 239 of Dead Beat, Mab has caught Lea and put her on ice forcing Cowl’s hand at this point is Cowl going back to the earlier plan of the Darkhallow to get enough power to break free from Mab?

g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on February 25, 2023, 08:02:14 AM --- ... (1) whatever Kumori did generated significant cold, forming ice which is indicative of Winter ... Jim certainly has a pattern of dropping something pertinent in one book which is seemingly inconsequential and then revealing a pertinent connection in a later book ...
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That's a fascinating notion!
I mean... it's not a sure thing.  Like... "died in erotic ecstacy" isn't a sure-fire proof Whampire, there's other entities that do the "succubus schtick."  And there's plenty of phobophages other than fetches, so it took a while for Harry to figure that out in Proven Guilty.

So maybe Kumori's powers (or the specific magic she used) are something non-Winter but still cold & icy.  But as you note, Jim loves to toss out cross-book breadcrumbs.  My gut says you're on the right track.

I think, though, that Kumori being "Winter" is actually evidence *against* her being Sarissa:  at this point, Sarissa is a changeling & hasn't Chosen; she is not Winterfae and has no Winter magic on-tap.

I'm still on Team Harry for CowlWAG's:  Cowl = Future!Harry & Kumori = WinterLadyMolly.  Cowl's powerset is remarkably similar to Harry's.  When Harry dumped the car onto Cowl, a quick flash of a Shield (bracelet or no) to survive the impact, then a WinterKnight power-move to push the car off of himself.

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