1
DF Spoilers / Re: Warden of Demonreach: Dragoncon lore-dump or retcon??!?
« on: Yesterday at 08:52:34 PM »Actually it isn't evidence all that Harry was under qualified ... however the very fact that Harry was able to pull it off says he has the skills and talent to do the job ...It's really quite necessary to ask, from whose point of view?
Demonreach has its own standards. Obviously, Harry fulfilled them.
I might speculate: others know there's an Apocalypse coming, so it seems likely Demonreach knows, too. Did the entity accept Harry's effort at a lower bar, because it was so critical to get even a mediocre Warden over none at all? I'll assert it's a reasonable question, to which we have no answer (and very little evidence).
And, of course, the White Council has its standards. Demonreach (and its Warden) are no part of the White Council; Warden of the Well isn't a Senior Council title, nor yet an unofficial role within the WC (the way "the Blackstaff" is an unofficial role). The Council isn't even always aware of the Warden. And yet, they have Opinions!
From the WC perspective, then, Harry's the plumber in the nuke-plant. Not everyone shares that opinion... Ebenezer thought it was a good idea; Rashid is... mmm... cautiously optimistic? Others find it an act of hopeless incompetence: becoming Warden unwittingly, what more proof of incompetence do you need? And a few, I suspect, still harbor a suspicion that they are seeing Warlock Dresden(tm) making (yet another) power-play.
... So it's better to leave no one in charge?I think, from the WC perspective, this is the case.
Because a Warden can release the entities in the island, and there are a lot of horrible (and horrifically powerful) entities down there, gathered over the course of millenia. I think a bad-guy Warden is just about the worst scenario they can envision, far worse than none at all.
I think they see the Warden's job as being bad enough that nobody "should" want it; that the only reason anybody would want it, is to do Evil Villain Shenanigans.