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In Retrospect The Relevance Of Storm Front and Full Moon

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Conspiracy Theorist:
Working on the presumption that ALL the case files are part of a significant whole (as Jim constantly is asked to recount “where did you get the idea….” ) Storm Front and Full Moon have to have serious connection to the whole.

Harry had destroyed someones previous  plans to destabilise Marcone’s operation (Storm Front) by training Victor Sells and destabilise Chicago’s FBI (Full Moon) with the HexenWulf Belts where Marcone was being used as a Bogeyman to get the FBI involved.

Why?

We learn much later in Changes that the FBI Headquarters connects via the NeverNever to the Erl Kings Realm, and the Red Court seem to know their way around the Building (that’s the Eeb’s style, they did it with Harry’s building)  At this point the reader assumes through Dead Beat the Erl King is Wildfae. We later learn he isn’t in Battle Ground and is in fact a vassal of Mab’s and indeed one of her heavy hitters.

Cowl had undertaken attacks on both Lea and Maeve through the later Athame plot in Grave Peril. This suggests that he was behind the plots in both Storm Front and Full Moon and that they are in effect the same scheme, to secure a back door to the Erl King’s realm for a sneak attack, to destroy or cripple her vassal, exactly like that which occurred through Pell’s Theatre on Arctis Tor to free Lea/Nemesis.the Red Court would be up for this, removing competing predators and this may have been Cowl’s price from the Red King in dealing with the Duchess Ariana’s attempts to get her revenge prematurely on Eb. Imagine Battle Ground with the Red Court instead of or as well as the Fomor and the Red Court sending a bomb ahead of the attack into the Erl Kings hall, as part of the destabilisation agenda, with the aid of the suborned FBI.

Of course this presumes Cowl is Nameless with knowledge of the Erl King’s realm (as a major vassal of Winter) and the FBI Headquarters (as a major defence attorney in Chicago).

Mira:

   My take, Marcone, exposure to Harry opened up a whole new realm of power to Marcone, which
he has chased after and lusted for for the rest of the series, climax of course in him accepting a Coin of one of the Fallen which has turned him into a powerful wizard.. Stay tuned, the fallout from this will be very messy in my opinion..

We are introduced to Susan,which leads ultimately to the down fall of the Red Court and the introduction of little Maggie.

Hints of a darker power at work which at this point in time Harry is simply calling "The Black Council," so far who or what it is hasn't been really fleshed out... Your theories might apply, but
remains to be seen.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Yes, as regards Marcone, law of unintended consequences. Cowl was working towards Battle Ground from Storm Front onwards a Baron Marcone capable of injuring a Titan and leading his banner into battle was not what he was expecting, nor was the extinction of the Red Court, his original plan envisaged the Black, Red and White Court changing sides, a befuddled and scattered White Council, Demonreach under his cats paws control, the Winter Court in disarray with Lea and Maeve turncoats and the Erl King out of action following a sneak attack, and a destabilised Summer Court. Unfortunately for him Harry occurred. Only the Black Court part of the scheme went off as planned, and it was still a near thing, and Harry still thwarted that.

Harry isn’t even at the Black Council theory at this point, in retrospect he know “Someone” was behind both schemes and is aware there is an unusual amount of bad guy activity in his home town.

g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 22, 2023, 06:11:15 PM --- ... Harry isn’t even at the Black Council theory at this point, in retrospect he know “Someone” was behind both schemes and is aware there is an unusual amount of bad guy activity in his home town.
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I think that as of SF/FM, Harry just think's it's a minor coincidence, a couple of villains giving some power-ups to lower-level types for purpose(s) unknown.

I don't think it's until around volume6-ish (+/- a book or two) that Harry feels "coincidence" has been stretched too far:  there's a organization, and Chicago is getting more than its share of bad-guy attention.

Yuillegan:
I think this is key.

A long while back, I proposed that the Red Court where initially meant to do what the Fomor ended up doing. The Fomor where not being held back because of the Red Court being powerful, as has been speculated (largely due to a misconception that the Red Court were holding back other scary supernatural nations, rather than others simply playing a longer game). The Fomor simply were waiting for the right time to attack the Sidhe, and perhaps were "aimed" at the the Fae Courts by some of those players like Cowl operating in the shadows, or rather spurred into action on the Black Council's timeline.

After all, the incredibly not coincidental timing of the Outer Gates coming under heavy assault just as the Fae are fighting an ancient enemy that might have destroyed them seems to indicate a level of planning.

The Red Court (along with the other Vampire Courts aiding them) were simply the weapon the Black Council wanted to use to end the White Council.

But it's all the same goal. Anything that weakens the defence of reality so that the Outsiders can get in.

Why the Black Council want that is another question, and there is plenty of speculation around that for another topic.

Had the Red Court succeeded in wiping out the White Council, my guess is that the Fae wouldn't have lasted much longer as without the White Council I don't see Ethniu being stopped. Once she had crippled or destroyed Winter, the Outsiders would have eventually got in. And perhaps then the others would have got a chance to rule, somehow. gg

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