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Who wanted the Fomor to rise?
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 06, 2024, 09:21:22 PM ---TYVM!
"C---o" is pretty similar! !n understandable mistake, no harm no foul.
FWIW, tho:
Cairo is a major metropolis; at over 10M people, it's larger than any city in the USA, and in the EU only Paris (I think) is larger (I suspect it depends on whether you're counting by strict city-limits population, or including suburbs); the whole "city smaller and far less crowded than Chicago" bit absolutely rules out Cairo!!!
Whereas "the Congo" is a region, generally pretty jungle-ish, with 2 named nations (Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Congo (mostly sharing the Congo river as their mutual border, in central & western Africa).
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When you mentioned Cairo in your original post, maybe you were remembering that after Harry and Binder witnessed Lara beginning to devour Madeline in Turn Coat; and Harry rescued a wounded Binder from also getting eaten up by Lara, Binder gave Harry Madeline’s cell phone and it contained a phone number in Cairo, though beyond that there wasn’t any other information.
Though that phone number in Cairo probably doesn’t have anything to do with the Fomor, it’s was sure specific about location. Like it might become important sometime in the future. Now that I think about it, Cairo is right beside the Nile. The Fomor could have had a presence there and could have been involved. Though, I suppose this idea belongs in a different thread.
g33k:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 08, 2024, 12:18:13 AM ---... Binder gave Harry Madeline’s cell phone and it contained a phone number in Cairo, though beyond that there wasn’t any other information.
Though that phone number in Cairo probably doesn’t have anything to do with the Fomor, it’s was sure specific about location. Like it might become important sometime in the future ...
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In fact, I suspect it's going to become VERY important... Harry has yet to meet any supernaturals from ancient Egypt.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 06, 2024, 03:11:38 AM ---
I largely agree with most of thi; except:Mr. Sunshine is in a league of his own. The reason that he doesn't just "run the board" (& win) is that he is working to give humanity the freedom & scope to exert their own free will; not to exert his.
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This^^^. I think that this is maybe the key issue. Uriel probably has the raw power to do all kinds of awesome things, but he doesn't have the authority. As JB observed a while back, the last time an Archangel took it on himself to do what he thought best instead of what God wanted, the results were kind of infamous.
Uriel is very sensitive on that point, he rebuked Harry once for shortening his name to 'Uri', because doing so removed the 'of God' from his Name.
I suspect that the key to the resolution of the whole BAT will probably turn on mortal free will in some fundamental way.
Mira:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on September 09, 2024, 04:21:33 AM ---This^^^. I think that this is maybe the key issue. Uriel probably has the raw power to do all kinds of awesome things, but he doesn't have the authority. As JB observed a while back, the last time an Archangel took it on himself to do what he thought best instead of what God wanted, the results were kind of infamous.
Uriel is very sensitive on that point, he rebuked Harry once for shortening his name to 'Uri', because doing so removed the 'of God' from his Name.
I suspect that the key to the resolution of the whole BAT will probably turn on mortal free will in some fundamental way.
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Or I suspect it will turn out more like the poem some of us learned as children about "The Old Lady Who Ate a Fly.." You remember how it goes, paraphrasing, "Oh my swallowed a fly, so she ate a spider to eat the fly.." The Fomor are simply cat's paws for someone else, it isn't that some greater power wanted them to rise, they are simply being used by that greater power.. Various sorcerers, warlocks, etc being used by the Red Court, take out the Red Court and then there is the Fomor, they have been more or less taken out, so the question becomes who is next?
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2024, 06:41:34 PM »
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I would caution against seeing too much in the Fomor's abilities...
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I agree.. It speaks to them being yet another cat's paw, scratching, toying, and distracting.
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