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Has Carlos sided with the merlin against Harry
Mira:
--- Quote ---That's only a good idea if they are going to be in constant contact with other wardens. In practice, the North American wardens have months to years where they rarely see one another. They have plenty of time to train in methods to avoid detection and recruit followers. Harry sees more major magical action than any other warden besides Morgan and they still think he had the free time to build his plot for world domination.
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Did they spot that tendency in Justin? I doubt that he turned warlock after he retired.. The fact that he hid and stole Bob when the wardens killed Kemmler is a good indication that he was..
g33k:
--- Quote from: vincentric on July 05, 2024, 05:04:16 PM ---That's only a good idea if they are going to be in constant contact with other wardens. In practice, the North American wardens have months to years where they rarely see one another ...
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I'm pretty sure the Harry-as-Warden POV (which is the only one we have) is largely an artifact of post-Ramp-War warden scarcity. But they likely didn't revisit a bunch of policies based on older assumptions (just as they didn't revisit the amount of the "warden stipend" (when in fact the WC is filthy-rich and it's in their own interests for wardens to be financially secure).
Just inertia.
--- Quote from: vincentric on July 05, 2024, 05:04:16 PM --- ... but it leaves out some things that don't add up to evil incarnate rising:
Stopping the Denarians at multiple points while resisting their efforts to recruit you, including actual coin possession.
Having KotC show up to aid rather than oppose you on multiple occasions and being ally, mentor, houseguest, baby-sitter (Molly) and drinking buddy with each of the KotC that served since you've been a wizard.
Getting Soulfire from an Archangel.
Actually, telling the Council about most of these things openly with the exceptions of Bob, the Coin and Soulfire.
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I do not believe most of this list has actually been reported to the Council.
Fighting the Denarians? I think it's known, but that's just being sane; it doesn't prove anything. And AFAIK mostly that only showed up (from the White Council perspective) when Harry needed to act as Winter Emissary in protection of the Gangster Baron... which to the White Council is a bunch of bad-guys mutually backstabbing one another and being incautious around the time-bomb that is an immature Archive. And Harry looks pretty indistinguishable, in all the stabbing and bad-guy'ing & carelessness with the Archive.
Picking up a Denarius? Not on the record! That'd get him killed ASAP: remember, nobody think there's any way to escape.
Buddying up with KtoC's? Not well known.
Remember, Langtry had to ask Dresden which Sword was Michael's. If the WC had realized Harry worked (repeatedly) with all the K's ot C, I bet Langtry would have that info fresh in his mind when coming to a warlock-trial summoned by Dresden.
Soulfire -- not sure anyone knows about that, either. Bob does... but the White Council? The Senior Council? Umm... not that I recall seeing.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Soulfire -- not sure anyone knows about that, either. Bob does... but the White Council? The Senior Council? Umm... not that I recall seeing.]
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I don't think that it is general knowledge, I don't think most if any of his friends know about it. In a fight his enemies are surprised to discover that he has Soulfire. Why? Because it isn't something that archangels commonly give out. I don't think Michael even knows he has Soulfire, or I don't remember that he knows.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 06, 2024, 05:03:53 AM --- ... I don't think Michael even knows he has Soulfire, or I don't remember that he knows.
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I don't think Michael knows enough about wizards & spells to have "Soulfire (yes or no)" on his radar at all.
I think Harry used it on the Cornerhounds he & Eb fought; but I'm not sure it really shows as such... it's possible Eb would just pin it down to "the kid's learned how to pack a harder punch!"
I don't think anyone else on the White Council even had a chance to see Harry use Soulfire.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I don't think anyone else on the White Council even had a chance to see Harry use Soulfire.
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He used it against the Skin Walker on Demonreach, don't know if Listens to Wind witnessed that or since at that time Harry was using it to enhance his defense/offense against the Skinwalker, Listens to Wind might not have recognized it.. It is possible that the gift of Soul Fire is so rare, the White Council wouldn't know what it was if they saw it.
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