I think the trailer is confusing and possibly misleading, we have to read to connect the dots.  It shows a lot of action, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.  Harry rallies or tries to, the supernatural types at Mac's place.. Is this the group that doesn't take him seriously and as a result a lot of people die or get hurt?  At another point he is rallying a lot of what looks like a lot of vanilla human types, now what chance do they have?  That might lead to his flash backs of a blood soaked pavement because they did listen.  Between the two trailers Harry seems captured at one point, he is singing the "Spidy" song, another he is flat on the ground with Marcone shaking him because he is the only one who can save them.  The Ethniu is holding up a spear, we know from the cover of the book, Harry at some point has put the knife on end of his staff.. Question if it is that powerful, if Ethniu has managed to get it away from him, how can she be defeated?  Murphy, though she helps when Harry battles the giant squid, she tosses a rope, and shines a flare, but she is hardly mobile yet in the trailer she is able to sit a motorcycle?  And shoulder a bazooka or rocket launcher with an injured shoulder?  Where is Vadderung in all of this?  From Christmas Eve we know that he survives, Harry survives, Michael, Molly, and Mab all survive.. So while the trailer makes it look dire for Harry, he manages somehow to come back and win, but at a great price seemingly.

Spidey bit happened in Peace Talks- it's when he's in the privy shaft

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Closest fit I've seen anyone drag up.

They White Council stole the Black Staff in the first place. If mortal laws apply, they have no right to it, unlike the superweapons and diamonds, the owner (Hades) permitted their removal, Harry is the legal owner. If anyone wants to dispute Hades right dispose of them to Harry, they would have to serve proceedings on Hades in his domain. Very much service out of jurisdiction. Eb would be subject to US law and The White Council subject to Scottish Law, all Mother Winter needs is a lawyer. Perhaps the creation of a new Mantle, The Winter Lawyer? But where would you find a feral lawyer to take up the Mantle? Pretty much anywhere.

Lot of assumptions here.

We know that she lost her walking stick, and per WoJ that was related to the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

1) Doesn't mean the Council took it themselves
2) Right of conquest can come into play there
3) This is potentially Norwegian law circa 1000 AD in play, and/or Saxon law- it was taken from Norwegians by Saxons prior to the conquering of the latter kingdom by the Normans. Good luck finding a mortal lawyer for that, or even a court system.
4) The fact Mother Winter "lost" her walking stick doesn't mean it was stolen. Lost <=> stolen.

None of that made Harry particularly dangerous though. I only think it was a bit of misstep as the line led the reader in one direction when the narrative was going in another. It feels like a leftover from a draft where Harry did something a little more flashy than not drown and play back up to the ladies.

I think it's from being half a book. He's worried about being a wizard helpless in the dark with monsters, then realizes he's also a thing that goes bump in the night. He can see the creature, and is fighting with his near superhuman strength and pain immunity at that point.

His gift is chronomancy.

Now, how can one use chronomancy acceptably given the laws?

I suppose passive observation would be allowed, be very useful for a Warden to be able to perceive the near-immediate future and the past as it happened.

Does that change any of the scenes with Chandler?

I rather think Morgan was underestimated.

Morgan was seen as a shotgun, or attack dog- dangerous at KABOOM magic, but not a free-thinking individual. People forgot he had his own mind.

Morgan might be the White Council's public executioner- Eb, of course, being their assassin- but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a moral code.

I rather think this, combined with Turn Coat, points to someone trying to setup Morgan to execute Harry without understanding that Morgan's rigidity wasn't mental, it was moral- he would literally be damned before betraying his principles and loyalties. Morgan was the one ultimately responsible for the Doom being revoked. At the end, he concluded Harry was no warlock but was stupidly reckless at times (which Harry would probably concede)- which means instead of it being a settled question in his mind (as we were given the impression) it was a question he was still personally considering. Morgan let them down by not being what is called in DnD a "murder hobo."

Which points to whoever the enemy is in the White Council, they don't have a lot of experience with/exposure to the Wardens, or they'd not have under-rated Morgan that way. That's the clear takeaway to me. That, or their exposure to the Wardens predates Morgan being a prominent personality. What I can't decide is if this makes Langtry more or less likely to be Black Council. I lean toward less, and that Langtry is the pillar on Harry's "side" on a larger scale than Harry is aware of- with Harry and Langtry both finding this out with corresponding angst later. Phrased differently: Langtry is the "real" problem for the Black Council, and Harry keeps coming out of his self-imposed hermitage (in WC terms) to interfere and generally be in the way.

Regarding Morgan himself: I rather think he was more clever than people realized, but that he was on a mushroom diet. I can see his report on the Naagloshii being "Encountered Naagloshii. Will not be a further problem for the Council" with no words about how, what, why, or that he actually killed the thing.

Posted in the wrong thread! Reposting:

I have a half-baked theory that’s tangentially involved here.

What is the purpose of the Winter and Summer ladies?

When they are first introduced, we as readers are influenced by Harry’s ignorance into thinking that the courts are balanced. They’re not. Mab has far more temporal power, but Titania acts as a kill-switch against her personally. This, in short, is enough to show that the queens aren’t mirrors.

What do we know about the Ladies? Very little.

1)   Maeve has her own coterie of supporters
2)   Per Molly, Maeve hadn’t done her job for at least a century
3)   Per Molly, we learn that at least one aspect of those duties is collecting the “tribute”- the children- of Winter fae to draft as soldiers in the war on a periodic basis
4)   Per Molly, we learn that the vamping of the Winter Lady- her seductiveness- is involuntary, and that she also must remain virgin
5)   We know that the Ladies move together- if one moves, the other follows
6)   We know that many Fae only reproduce with mortals, per WoJ
7)   We know that the war against Outside causes unfathomable casualties and Winter needs a massive army to fight it.
   A necessary corollary to #7 is that there’s a need for a large population of prime-age Winter beings to be breeding constantly.

So, WAG: The duties of the Winter Lady include the following:
1)   Induce changelings to Choose Fae, making them draft-eligible. Her seductiveness would be an aid in this regard, arousing their Winter instincts.
2)   A “rotation” to maintain Winter’s numbers- the Winter Lady is also responsible for making sure/escorting Fae “off the front lines” to breed.
3)   Corollary to #1: If the Winter Lady exists to tempt Fae toward Choosing, the Summer Lady must exist to guarantee their free will- the balance.

Three significant members of Maeve’s coterie are the Redcap, Jenny Greenteeth, and the Rawbones. We’re told the Rawbones need to keep absorbing dead matter to stay alive- and dead Nevernever creatures turn to goo, so as soon as he went on the front he’d be on a countdown to extinction. If, as I suspect, Lily is Greenteeth’s daughter, then two of the changelings Reuel was protecting were children of Maeve’s close supporters. If in turn they would go back to the frontlines as soon as they had a replacement- say, for instance, there always must be a Redcap- then he’s off the lines knocking up ladies until he has a Sidhe heir, at which point it’s back to fighting until dead.

What I like about this is it gives “within-Sidhe” rules for Maeve to be mucking about. To put an example name on it, the Redcap needs an heir. Until that’s accomplished, Maeve is to take him around to sexy parties.  If she induces said heirs to not Choose Fae, well, she’s still on item #1 of her in-order checklist, now isn’t she? Especially if she’s using her supporters to torment the Changelings, not doing it herself (mantle may not allow it). For their parents, since the front is probably a death sentence aside from “breeding rotation”, the incentive to support Maeve is obvious- especially if, like the Redcap, they suffer from compulsions they can’t satisfy on the front.

So Maeve can ignore her duties simply by not being diligent about a checklist. Put differently, if she is compelled by duty to put on her shoes, then go outside, and she gives one of her supporters a cookie to throw her shoes outside where she can’t get to them without going outside without shoes, then she never has to go outside, item #2 on the checklist.

Maybe it’s not even an heir- maybe she’s supposed to use the Redcap to breed units of vicious fighters, but the effect would be the same- until the numbers come in, she just has to keep throwing wild parties.