1) He's at least a bit high on power right now, and so we need to be at our best when suggesting moves that aren't enticing. Purging Red Court is unlikely to need an excellency to be agreed to. Talking to LoC and other mortals, especially WC? That we need the boost for.
2) We can help him, assuming he can't scry for them using Sandra as a focus. It's also his job if he wants it to be his job, and something that shows others, mortals most of all, that he's a caring overlord. It's good for his political image.
I can remove this part, but I think it needs to be mentioned.
3) I consider Molly to be an ally of WC in the ear against Red Court. As an ally, it's very much our business to try and foster cooperation and expand alliances. Harrowmont knows WC, yes. Does he like it? Probably not that much.
I am not staying our of global politics on this one.
1) There is no current evidence of that, and we're currently in the same room.
We should be able to tell if that was true.
2)No we cant.
We are still trying to keep the exact dimensions of our Crown capabilities under wraps, and the more we flash it around, the more we risk information on its abilities getting around.
3) Yes?
We can be allies and mean people well, and still think some things are bad for them. Or realize that there are boundaries that we shouldnt cross, well meaning or not. These are not children. They have agency.
Harrowmont is a relatively young man, but he cast his first spell before Molly was born.
Like I said, in his canon writeup Harrowmont stumbled into the New England magical community as a teenager. He developed personal contacts, he studied, he was deep enough that he was actually sponsored to take the official White Council exams for recognition as a wizard. He had (most of) the knowledge, he just didnt have the mojo.
Seriously, look at his personal magical library that we saw.
That is something that took both money and access to put together.
There's good odds he's on first name terms with more wizards and sorcerers than Molly.
Oh yeah that's a really good point
@Yog.
Maybe we should let Harrowmont know? We don't need to give him details but since it's his job to guard a Gate to the Outside now that's something he may need to know. We just cleared Vegas of Outsiders don't want to invite them back in.
That's a fair point, yes. When I get home, I'll shuffle things to either remove it, or shuffle it to the next month. I assume we'll be dealing with the council spies next, I think.
No. Dont tell him.
We dont know much of anything about Harrowmont's boss and his relationship or feelings towards the White Council, and he has a magical line straight to Harrowmont's noggin. See Ferrovax's general reaction to wizards for a reminder that people who dont want Creation to fall might still be interested in fucking you up for a grudge.
Anything you are sharing with Harrowmont has to be stuff you are comfortable sharing with the Sin-Eater.
Everything.
And Charon just demonstrated how pre-existing promises can fuck a spirit up.
I was implying its not really hardened because its very vulnerable.
You mean the station with popout railgun turrets and deployable combat drones? No it aint. Not since Molly finished upgrades.
It wont stop the real heavies like Denarian sorcerers, skinwalkers, archmages and the like, but the regular and elite minions that do things like snatching people or diversionary attacks get shredded.
And thats before we build Porter his
power armor train.
I would if we take the davy crocett charm. We would win, the consequences are a different thing.
Nope. I dont think so.
In Cold Days, Alfred Demonreach simultaneously took on Winter Lady Maeve and her entourage of most powerful retainers + Summer Lady Lily and
her entourage of most powerful retainers. While fending off an attempted invasion by He Who Walks Before and hundreds of Outsiders.
And Mab makes it clear that Alfred was holding back against the Fae Ladies, and thanks him for his forbearance.
Alfred considers naagloshii to be minimum security prisoners.
Mab is polite to Alfred. If we are dumb enough to fight a bonded Warden there, where Demonreach can give full backing, we are gonna die ignominously, nukes or nah..
We're buff. We're never gonna be buff enough to frontal assault Demonreach this side of Essence 5.
I mean the last guy's cooling body is literally at our feet right now after we fought him at the heart of his power. The comparison has already been tested.
The scenarios are not comparable.
The Sin-Eater was at a minimum refusing to support the Dragon; at worst, it was actively opposing him. Samuel fought us with his own juice plus whatever the Outsiders buffed him with. I mean, if he'd had the Sin-Eater's mojo on his side, he wouldnt have needed a chaos spell ritual.
An engagement in Las Vegas where the Sin-Eater puts his whole magical weight behind whoever his Emissary is has the potential to go very differently.
So no, hard disagree.
Remember. This is a Dresdenverse setting where we know that both He Who Walks Behind and He Who Walks Before are inside the walls of Creation. The minimum survivability requirements for the Sin-Eater's Emissary at full-power is likely to require being able to see off one of those guys if necessary, at least when they have homeground advantage inside Vegas.
Thats a...daunting amount of power for a single mortal to hold.
