The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
“You Know What He Was Meant To Be”
Ed0517:
But their power may be recoverable -didn't Harry say Mort's power had faded away, when he was doing fake seances and medium stuff, yet he regained it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on February 28, 2023, 05:22:00 AM ---But their power may be recoverable -didn't Harry say Mort's power had faded away, when he was doing fake seances and medium stuff, yet he regained it.
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I don't think so, what I remember Harry saying is that Mort hid his power from the White Council because he didn't want to be a part of it. Elaine did the same thing, so it is possible to appear to be a lot weaker than one really is. So apparently short of a soul gaze there really isn't a way to gauge just how strong a talent a person has except by the magic one can do, which can be hidden. In the case of Mort, I believe Harry also said he had also thought Mort was a minor power until Ghost Story and he really saw him in action. That's when he made the remark that Mort had hidden his talent to stay out of White Council hands. I believe earlier Elaine remarked to him that she thought the Wardens were pretty easy to fool, she had done it for years.
Conspiracy Theorist:
‘Another player,’ I said. ‘Someone we haven’t seen yet.’ Harry to Murphy page 177, Proven Guilty about someone chaining up Pell’s Theatre. We have seen Molly, Darby Crane, Lucius Glau
The Theatre creates a route to the Phobophages lair just outside Arctis Tor, and was likely used by the Black Council in the attack organised by a weakened Cowl, who we haven’t seen other than taking a swipe at Harry’s car. Fair enough Harry hit him with a car first. The attack by Hammerhands was directed by Cowl at Pell, he isn’t their usual young hormonal victim as Murphy points out to Harry, and Pell isn’t one of Molly victims. They needed the Theatre shut during the horror convention when it would be swarming. Would Cowl/Nameless be mortal enough to summon Hammerhands or would he have to get Peabody or some other mortal stooge to do it? ‘
‘Crane,’ I said. ‘What do you want?’ He smiled a nasty smile. ‘To build the future,’ he replied. ‘Networking is very important in my business.’ Page 202 Proven Guilty. Was Crane getting into bed with Cowl? Nameless and Glau may have been professionally associated, why take your lawyer with you unless you are hammering out a bargain with another lawyer?
Page 204 Lasciel confirms the Thorn Manacles are Faerie make - provided by Nameless who would have access to them, when it was realised Harry was once again involved. The Whamps are just about to start their campaign against the talented, with Cowl’s help, a demonstration for the fearmongers of their efficacy?
Page 224 ‘I believe you,’ I said. ‘But I don’t think it was a coincidence, either. I think you were there for a reason. Maybe one you didn’t know.’ Harry to Madrigal, Madrigal was being used to firm up the link to the Phobophages lair near Arctis Tor, he had been booked for a year previously, so this and the attack on Arctis Tor was planned before Dead Beat
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on February 28, 2023, 06:06:54 PM ---‘Another player,’ I said. ‘Someone we haven’t seen yet.’ Harry to Murphy page 177, Proven Guilty about someone chaining up Pell’s Theatre. We have seen Molly, Darby Crane, Lucius Glau
The Theatre creates a route to the Phobophages lair just outside Arctis Tor, and was likely used by the Black Council in the attack organised by a weakened Cowl, who we haven’t seen other than taking a swipe at Harry’s car. Fair enough Harry hit him with a car first. The attack by Hammerhands was directed by Cowl at Pell, he isn’t their usual young hormonal victim as Murphy points out to Harry, and Pell isn’t one of Molly victims. They needed the Theatre shut during the horror convention when it would be swarming. Would Cowl/Nameless be mortal enough to summon Hammerhands or would he have to get Peabody or some other mortal stooge to do it?
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Except they weren't generic "phobophages," they were fetches, so that "other party" was Mab. Fetches are directly Mab's (not generic Winter). Scarecrow, you will note, took Molly straight to Mab. Scarecrow was Eldest Fetch; he certainly knew Mab was there atop the tower, watching the climactic scene of the melodrama he had enacted at her bidding.
The Scarecrow's Way from the theater debouched right near Arctis Tor and the Winter Wellspring. I doubt anyone -- not Maeve, not Nameless, not Denarians -- can work Ways that close to Arctis Tor, without Mab noticing (if the earlier assault on Arctis Tor (whose signs they saw) came by way of the theater, it's certain that Mab was completely aware of it.
Mab -- or maybe Lea -- had made certain that Molly's early magical efforts led her down dark-magic paths, so she'd be a semi-warlock in need of Harry saving her by assuming the Doom of Damocles (Harry is really predictable in this regard).
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on February 28, 2023, 06:06:54 PM ---... Was Crane getting into bed with Cowl? Nameless and Glau may have been professionally associated, why take your lawyer with you unless you are hammering out a bargain with another lawyer?
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I go with Harry's gutcheck here: "Crane" didn't know who he was getting involved with. Glau was the cut-out. But remember -- Glau was more than just "Darby Crane's lawyer," he was Madrigal Raith's "right-hand-man," so of course he was nearby.
Conspiracy Theorist:
It has always been presumed a Denarian led the attack on Arctis Tor, because of Hellfire but the sheer scale of the attack is far greater than any Denarian, what if it was Lucifer himself? It would explain Uriel being able to ally with Mab and approach Dresden.
Proven Guilty page 320 “I thought I could overcome what stalks us all.” Lea to Harry in the ice Prison. Fate?
The Fae’s time will end as did the gods, was she trying to avoid this?
Page 234 Harry hears The Erl King’s horn. At this point he is definitely Winterfae.
Page 235 ‘This entire field trip isn’t what we were meant to think it was,’ I told him. ‘We’ve been used.’ Harry to Thomas .By Mab. Auditioning Molly, breaking the stalemate with Summer, and exposing Nameless (the latter we learn from the Law) as being complicit in the attack, and Maeve as lying
‘And one day last week, Sandra Marling and I had a talk. And during it, she told me how they were discovering that the presence of a very strong source of fear could bypass all kinds of psychological barriers. Page 340 Proven Guilty. Marling set up Molly with Madrigal to be the fall guy - two potential Marlings -Kumori/Sarissa or Laplander?
I shrugged. ‘Coincidences happen,’ I said. ‘And I don’t think God’s got me warming up in the bullpen to be one of his champions.’ Harry page 357 by Peace Talks Harry has changed his mind
Peabody is at Molly’s hearing in Chicago ergo he was around at the execution a couple of days earlier. Paperwork. He would therefore have been around to meet up with Cowl driving his Chrysler.
Page 371 - 233 Harry invokes God once publicly and another four time internally.
‘That’s Michael. Knight of the Cross.’ ‘Which Sword?’ the Merlin asked idly. ‘Amoracchius,’ I said. The Merlin lifted a brow and nodded, never looking at me.
We later find out the sword has been called Excalibur and the OG’s Merlin’s to dispose of - later Harry’s. That just gripes the Merlin
The Training camp was attacked by Outsiders, a mortal had to whistle them in - Peabody? Another reason for the meeting with Cowl days before? Second point the Swords are very effective against Outsiders when even Ebenezzers magic isn’t. Cowl organised both attacks at the same time, Peabody summoned the Outsiders and Cowl left the door open for Fallen at Arctis Tor, ostensibly to rescue Nemesis/Lea. The dual attack tactic in Battle Ground and what allowed Michael to come to the White Council’s aid, and eventually Molly’s, the future Winter Lady.
‘Spare me,’ I said. ‘Hell, Michael, I had one of those bastard Denarians here last year. Quintus Cassius. You remember him? While I was lying there watching him slice his way into my guts, I thought maybe it would be a good time for someone like you to show up. You know. One of those Denarian Knights. I thought to myself, hey, it would be a great time for one of the Knights of the Cross to show up, eh?’ I shook my head. ‘It didn’t work out that way.’ Foreshadowing not a Denarian anymore, Harry saved by a Knight to be. Sometimes Jim Hugs himself with glee to know what is coming.
The Gatekeeper fixed Little Chicago, he came in via the Never Never and Leas’ Murder Garden under permission of Mab, he stopped Harry using it the first time with as he had foresight of Molly’s Call. He fixed it when Bob was with Harry at Splattercon so Bob didn’t see him, and it was fixed in time for Harry to track Molly’s entrance to the NeverNever in Pell’s so he could get to Arctis Tor to rescue her, and turn up for the denouement with the White Council. It was the Gatekeeper all along with nudges from Mab and an unannounced Uriel.
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