The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
"Hooded one" is hood. Odin is Cowl.
Mira:
--- Quote from: EBRIEN on November 29, 2023, 03:34:42 PM ---If this follows as true, then Cowl/Odin performing the Darkhallow was meant to regain his godhood.
Reminds me a bit of Gaiman's American Gods. Won't spoil it, but there's that scene...
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Was it to regain his godhood? Or to gain godhood? There is a difference.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 29, 2023, 04:02:16 AM --- My question is what is the point? They may appear very much alike, but if Odin is Cowl why is he undercutting himself? Last I checked they don't play on the same team.. Of course that may be the point.
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If my WAG about this is correct, "Cowl" isn't a threat at all -- "Cowl" exists solely as a shadow to train-up Harry, to shake up the White Council, to get various powers-that-be and individuals off their duff's and into action.
Because there really IS a hidden threat; it really HAS been working for years; and Odin wants folks alert to it, opposing it, and ready to fight when the Big One happens.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on December 01, 2023, 09:43:14 PM ---If my WAG about this is correct, "Cowl" isn't a threat at all -- "Cowl" exists solely as a shadow to train-up Harry, to shake up the White Council, to get various powers-that-be and individuals off their duff's and into action.
Because there really IS a hidden threat; it really HAS been working for years; and Odin wants folks alert to it, opposing it, and ready to fight when the Big One happens.
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Could be, hard to tell even at this point. Though it appears that Cowl was at Bianca's party and had something to do with Lea getting the infected knife. Of that is true, he is hardly harmless and I doubt that he shows up with the purpose of training up Harry.
The_Sibelis:
Heh, so just thinking about the parallels with the Dark hood makes me laugh. I
Thinking on it tho, I could basically see "cowl" as his dark avatar. Someone who does in fact have elements of outright evil but is helmed underneath by someone good...
The proper set up, with mirroring.. would be GK is Odins Dark counterpart(much to be said for him being... Thoth?, the Egyptian moon guy idk) tho, GK is inherently good. Makes me wonder... Look at it this way, if GK's role tho dark is inherently good then Odin as mirror though inherently Light would actually be Evil?
Anyway back to the cowl thing.
Mentioned is Odin and Uriel are in similar lines of work. See... This is telling to ME, because Uriel is clearly curating timelines to succeed using his interdimentional knowledge and reach. Odin is also doing similar from within his individual power. If Mab CAN be aware of her other selves I'd bet dollar's to donuts Odins the guy with a council of himself in the multiverse trading stock of information back and forth. When Cowl said he didn't see the possibility of no one getting the power of the Hallow he was being literal. As the timeline went that wasn't a possibility. What Harry did was an act of Fate(heh, big metaphor behind Bob enabling it and later working with a KotC i think) changing the timeline... Or at least changing when the Hallow was to be done and by whom, cause cowl was certain it was happening that night.
I could see Odin using a dark identity to enable good. That's inside his shtick and knowledge of how to maintain balance within reality.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 02, 2023, 12:05:10 AM --- Could be, hard to tell even at this point. Though it appears that Cowl was at Bianca's party and had something to do with Lea getting the infected knife. Of that is true, he is hardly harmless and I doubt that he shows up with the purpose of training up Harry.
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Arguably, this too could have been Odin working to challenge everyone, train Harry, etc.
Nemfecting the Faerie Godmother of a Starborn Wizard, and the right hand of the Outer Gates' chief guardian??!?
Well... yes... If Odin felt that Mab had grown too complacent, too self-confident. Odin might have felt that WinterQueen + Starborn were sufficient guardrails upon a known Nemfection... a "calculated risk." It is, admittedly, a very cold-blooded and calculating sort of action; but I think it hardly beyond Odin's strategic grasp.
And although Mab lost her daughter, it's worth noting: Mab's contingencies were, in fact, sufficient to contain the mess!
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