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Some personal theories I want to get feedback on.

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Yuillegan:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on April 23, 2023, 01:21:49 AM ---Plus, the blessed kerchiefs the Knights wrap dropped coins do in seem to be able to block the summoning. And that's just a portable field measure to secure them for transport, so it stands to reason that their coin jail monasteries have better countermeasures.  On the other hand, it's also possible they're mistaken about it being the kerchiefs (they do get a fair bit wrong about the Lash situation) and it's actually the presence of the Knights themselves, or near-saintly priests like Forthill, who are jamming the summoning like they jam Anduriel's listening.  Rotate the wrong dude out of the monastery, and the merely averagely-good personnel no longer pose a problem to Nic and Tessa rubber-banding their crews back to them?

As for the Kim theory, she doesn't necessarily have to have a particular affinity for the dark. Kumori seemed more like a deluded idealist, with a side order of healthy fear of how easily Cowl could kill her if she accepted Harry's suggestion to turn on him.  Telling her that he could reverse her necromantic resurrection - or convert her into a regular controlled zombie if she got out of line - would be a pretty effective stick alongside the carrot of learning to use dark power for her own morally good (at least, self-proclaimedly so) actions.

The main drawback I see to it is that the kind of necromantic resurrection she demonstrated with the critically injured gangster in Dead Beat seems to require the deceased to be pretty fresh. Death being a process rather than a binary, it seems like necro-healing can only catch them up to a certain level of how far gone they are.  So if Cowl had snapped her up as an apprentice acquisition of opportunity after MacFinn killed her, the window of opportunity is almost certainly before she made it to burial. And while I'm sure he could do that easily in and of itself, it would leave a missing body where the official system is expecting one to be accounted for. Given Karrin's interest in her, that seems like the sort of thing it would be a stretch for her not to notice and end up questioning Harry over.  Not impossible if he was using mind magic really widely to cover his tracks, but still a pretty big stretch.

I will give credit that most of the Kumori theories have been blind to the possibility of Cowl bringing back a dead character, though. That bears considering.

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Part of the danger of Anduriel is apart from the Angels themselves, I doubt many beings know the full extent of his powers. Perhaps not even most angels necessarily (he wouldn't be much of a spy master if he couldn't spy on his own kind). So it wouldn't surprise me to learn the Church is unaware of certain loopholes. Not to mention I suspect the Church is riddled with misinformation (and indeed, disinformation perhaps from Denarians etc).

Kim just doesn't seem like the type to touch dark magic. By connection, I mean she had no link to the bad guys. No sob story to make her turn dark. Apart from being murdered, I suppose.

Kumori, as you point out, seems deluded. Maybe even magically so (enthrallment comes to mind).

I agree, the longer the being is dead the harder it is (particularly if it is human). Probably to do with things like souls having their final resting place etc. But I wonder if there is a hard limit for how long a person can be dead for. I suspect not, but it might just require special circumstances etc.

In any case, why would Cowl expend such resources on a throwaway hedge witch? She was no solid power herself. All to upset Harry? That would say Cowl has a personal interest in hurting Harry, and yet supposedly the two are unconnected. If Cowl personally wants to hurt Harry it would suggest he and Harry have history, which makes other theories far more likely.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Kumori was interested in Necromancy because she thought it could heal death, this is another point for Sarissa, as a Changeling who had not made her choice she was essentially as long-lived as her Fae twin sister Maeve, but without the inherent power of he Fae Heritage (but not her human heritage, Mab was a wizard first) she therefore saw mortal friends, lovers, family, etc die through accident, old age etc time after time, and though someone connected with Kemmler could help her find a solution. What she really needed was to talk to Michael Carpenter, or Father Forthill. She was therefore deluded, she meant well and Cowl/Nameless played on that to gain a hold over Mab’s daughter and spare to Maeve.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 24, 2023, 12:01:47 AM ---Kumori was interested in Necromancy because she thought it could heal death, this is another point for Sarissa

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I don't discount the possibility, but I'm not convinced it's the only one, either.

For one, if we're open to Kumori being someone Cowl revived by necromancy ... what about Aurora?  Interest in healing, check. Delusional and already connected to Nemesis, check and check.  Would cause Harry pain to face again, check. And there have been a relatively limited number of antagonists who tried to convince Harry to go along with their plans or stand aside because they believe they're doing the right thing, rather than threaten or bribe him off a case - Kumori and Aurora were two of those.

Not sure I actually believe that theory, but she does tick a lot of boxes.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Raising the dead tends to generate a lot of psychic noise,  not saying Cowl wouldn’t do it, but he would hide it amongst a lot of other necromancy like during Dead Beat or Battle Ground, he was very busy during Dead Beat so I would think he might have tried raising someone during Drakuls little shindig.

Maybe he brought back Kemmler….

Maybe he did it before….

Melriken:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 24, 2023, 07:19:11 PM ---Raising the dead tends to generate a lot of psychic noise,  not saying Cowl wouldn’t do it, but he would hide it amongst a lot of other necromancy like during Dead Beat or Battle Ground, he was very busy during Dead Beat so I would think he might have tried raising someone during Drakuls little shindig.

Maybe he brought back Kemmler….

Maybe he did it before….
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I like the thoughts, but I think Kemmler is outside the limits...

I would expect you could Raise anyone in Chicago beyond (like papa Murphy) but not anyone who has passed on from there.  And my guess is that the power required is proportional to the distance between the body you are Raising and the Spirit you are putting into it and the difference between the two...

It is much easier to raise the dead as they are dying then if you wait, and the longer you wait the harder it gets... if you don't actually have the body you want to raise you can still do it, but need a replacement body (Corpse Taker style) but the closer that body is to the soul you are stuffing into it the easier.  But at some point you can't raise someone because they moved on, and that period varies by person (Lots of people who died more recently than Papa Murph passed on, but you could still go get him).

Then again the afterlife isn't clear in Dresden Files... Harry was a walking Soul in GS, but everyone thought he was a ghost, and everyone thinks ghosts are echos not souls... so how wrong is everyone?  Are ANY ghosts Echos or are they all really souls like Harry? Are some one and some the other? Is sanity the difference? IE a ghost is an echo, but a soul can use it like a body and ghost insanity is what happens when a soul loses it's hold on the echo.

If you can find a ghost can you give it a body with necromancy? is there a practical difference between that and raising the dead?

I do agree with the thought that at least one of the times Kemmler came back it was with help... but would Cowl be one to do it? He doesn't seem to really like Kemmler in DB.

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