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Bridger:
Specifically: What is Nemesis' Plan in Storm Front?

While reading SF, there's no real indication that anything deeper is happening.  It just seems like the Shadowman found some old books and learned some intro black magic and used it to make Three-Eye.

Yet in later books we find out that there's a bigger force moving behind all of this.  Assume for the moment that Harry doesn't stop Victor.  What does this accomplish for Nemesis'  What's their end goal in "helping" the Shadowman here?


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Mr. Mouse:
You have to think that third eye being distributed everywhere would have helped the Fomor's campaign.


--- Quote from: Bridger on May 24, 2025, 03:36:48 PM ---Specifically: What is Nemesis' Plan in Storm Front?

While reading SF, there's no real indication that anything deeper is happening.  It just seems like the Shadowman found some old books and learned some intro black magic and used it to make Three-Eye.

Yet in later books we find out that there's a bigger force moving behind all of this.  Assume for the moment that Harry doesn't stop Victor.  What does this accomplish for Nemesis'  What's their end goal in "helping" the Shadowman here?

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Talby16:

--- Quote from: Mr. Mouse on May 24, 2025, 09:03:41 PM ---You have to think that third eye being distributed everywhere would have helped the Fomor's campaign.

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Precisely. Nemesis says in Battleground through Justine that apocalypse isn't an event, its a frame of mind. Flooding the streets with the Three Eye Drug would help lay the framework of that frame of mind in the populace.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Talby16 on May 25, 2025, 03:27:49 AM ---Precisely. Nemesis says in Battleground through Justine that apocalypse isn't an event, its a frame of mind. Flooding the streets with the Three Eye Drug would help lay the framework of that frame of mind in the populace.

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Opening skirmishes, setting the stage for the big battle to come.  The idea is to nibble around the edges unnoticed to weaken, then the take over.  Remember for the first several books the reaction to Harry's theories about a "Black Council" for lack of a better name was rejected by most. 

peterwiggin94:
I suspect that people like Victor crop up all of the time and the White Council deals with them routinely. Victor was different because he had access to a very powerful killing curse, had a burgeoning drug empire, and had a fairly powerful demon that he barely controlled. I suspect that Nemesis propped him up in order to threaten Dresden and/or Morgan. Both would be positioned to be major threats to any play that Nemesis made against Demonreach so would be good people to eliminate as early as possible.

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