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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months - What our you expecting from it?
« on: April 28, 2025, 02:47:42 PM »No hint of that so far, however we haven't heard a word from the other branches of the White Court since "White Night," so it is possible that the Raith family will find itself on the outside looking in ...That seems unlikely, to me.
Skavis & Malvora both got decapitated in the Raith Deeps -- not only the individuals who were their leaders, but the very-strongest of their Whamp's. The Raith leadership (and strongest members) are intact. I don't doubt that the Raiths took steps at that point to "raid" the resources of their rivals, stripping them also of mundane resources/power.
This may be why Lara is making her power-play right now: Thomas remarks (in Cold Days) that Lara is "getting scary" in how far she's extending control (where previously the Whamp's had limited themselves to the local Chicago scene, maybe some State elections, but now Lara's moving outside that scope (n.b. she had a USN Destroyer group in position in the Gulf, with military choppers standing by to violate Mexican airspace)). But for the first time, the White Court resources are largely united, instead of the semi-détente as Skavis & Malvora maneuvered to take the White Throne; such that most of the effort of most of the Whamp's was focused internally).
But I'm sure Lara is too canny to just be ignoring Skavis & Malvora. She knows the strongest of them will be emerging as new leadership, a new generation of challengers. She knows that if she just ignores this, they will move against her... & she'd be ignorant of it. So she'll be keeping more than a "weather eye open" to the internal politics, still.