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Is the "Black Council" just ... Cowl?

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g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 21, 2023, 06:03:04 PM ---One point in Nameless favour in being Cowl is that his very lack of a name makes him impossible lock down, magically.
... but they can find traces of Cowl when he is Cowl which may be why he adopted that affectation ...

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I don't think "Cowl" is any more of a name (in a magically-useful "True Name" sense) than "Nameless."

If "Nameless" is an anti-magical method (shades of Odysseus' "No Man" & even That Other Harry's "He Who Must Not Be Named"), it looks to me like "Cowl" doe that job just as well.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Cowl is not a true name but is a name, as much as an alias a Talvi Inverno, magically it might leave traces, as in the real world. Cowl exists in the White Council Warden Reports from Dead Beat for example (and he probably resents that) but where else? The Reds probably had records of dealing with him and some Members of the White Court. But all they had was “Cowl” and whatever fantasy he had spun them, the Circle whatever.

Ed0517:
I don't think this is a one man deal. Cowl is most likely part of the inner circle, or POSSIBLY a high lieutenant to the Big Boss (Outsider?). But Cowl shows himself too much to be the Big Boss. Not a big Council, but 3-5?

They know who is on the other side. They will take precautions. Meetings in a totally dark room keep Anduriel in the dark (sorry). So could using sign language.

Mab has agents, but doesn't have that supernatural intel ability that Andy does, or Ivy.  Keep it small and quiet, you can hide from her.

The Arctis Tor group may have had NO Circle people, or, possibly more likely, the leader was Circle, the rest are a crew reporting to him. But even Nammy might be just a lieutenant to an Inner Circle guy.

I don't think Kumori is Circle.  She's Robin to Cowl's Batman. Batman was Justice League. Robin wasn't. She's sidekick.

Peabody is an agent. Maybe a lieutenant. He's not leadership.

Vittorio is the leader of a little crew or platoon.

Bianca is a nobody.

How long will it be before Nameless becomes like a mantle and he possibly leaves at least some traces by it? Didn't Harry summon the Erlking as such? Or did he call Hearne? or maybe you can find enough referents to Nameless to point to one nexus who you can find.  Probably as useful as "Cowl". Maybe not enough to summon or curse Nameless, but might find it useful.   

Melriken:
Given the way Harry uses a ton of different names for mother winter… and clearly not all of them… I think 7th son and nameless and several other titles would work as names… not as well as a proper name, but I don’t think not having a proper name is that great of an advantage.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Stop with the Mantles. The nine we have seen appear to be deliberate constructs and not accidental accretions over time, and clearly differ from titles and names because they have an inherent magical structure capable of being transmitted from individuals to individual. Harry has a  name, a Title (The Warden) and a Mantle they are all different despite referring to the same person.

The Law establishes that the lack of a true name makes Nameless so slippery, there was never anything to build upon magically unlike someone given a name who adopts or is gifted with another.

In Nameless we are looking at the anti- Harry, his ultimate opponent, in the way that Harry is on his own so is Nameless except for his allies, agents and cats paws. Nemesis is his Mab, Kumori his Molly (another reason to consider Sarissa), Ash his Mouse etc. Harry is the key character in the narrative, he requires a counterweight.

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