Because even with warning they lost 50 people in canon, plus Morgan.
There is no indication they have taken a level up in their ability to respond to this threat, while we do know that Peabody in this AU has gone completely to the Nephandi.
They didn't have advanced warning. 2 hours is barely enough time to plan a picnic much less an arrest and a trial.
Ebenezar did no such thing in canon, even after his grandson Harry gave him proof. You have not demonstrated any justification for why he would do it here.
You happen to have a misapprehension about how things work in this universe.
Peabody canonically almost killed Dresden, a man thats bigger than him, stronger than him, and more magically powerful than him. In hand to hand.
Thats just not true. Nemesis canonically managed to evade the notice of the Queen of Air and Darkness herself. Dresden fought Vito Malvora multiple times and never noticed his Outsider infestation until he actively used their magic. Outsiders are well capable of lying dogo until you actually channel their power.
You're correct I don't have any ability to say that Ebenezer would just kill him. I do know that if Ebenezer finds wrong doing on his part his trial is going to be him in Chains like Dresden after he got his charge for being a warlock in front of the council rather than kind of a hodgepodge put together in 2 hours.
Dresden despite his large size is not actually that good in a fist fight for some reason I can't imagine why that is. He can take a beating like nobody's goddamn business but he's not actually that good at fighting hand to hand. Peabody yet again he counter spells really well he does not use his magic to attempt to kill Dresden despite having Outsiders in his pocket now that could be a saying of it would take more concentration or he would have to stop sprinting away from people who could kill him to do that but it doesn't change the fact that Dresden literally wasn't trying to kill him with magic and was very specifically trying to stop him managed to get in a scuff with him and hold him long enough for Morgan to come out and shoot him in the head close is only important in horseshoes.
Nemesis doesn't confirm anything he's very specifically a character not an investment not power he is a character that very realistically Alters the fundamental nature of any being he molds with. Unless you were saying Peabody is hosting an outsider infection then he's hilariously stupid there's no way the white Council doesn't have wards and general protections against Outsiders he would have been caught ages ago. Having a Eater of the Weak on his side does not make him somehow greater than he was without giving any signs of having infernal investment.
Because once we put the information out there, its a matter of time before it gets back to him or his backers.
There's just too many methods of divination in the Dresdenverse for shared secrets to remain completely secure.
Then why hasn't Peabody been caught. If there are too many divination methods for shared secrets to remain completely secure why hasn't he been caught. He's been in a high risk environment for years now with people that have tons of ability to find him out and he can't have always been using the ink otherwise he would have been found out immediately so why hasn't he been found out there are plenty of beings with some kind of intellectus that would love for him to be found out if another reason to get back out the fucking Reds or the archive to tell on him or any other being with intellectus that has a grudge against the Reds or The Outsiders so why hasn't he been caught yet oh because divination doesn't work that way it's not enough to know what you're looking for you have to have some connection some inkling of where it's coming from and how otherwise the difficulty of performing it is impossible.
Ebenezer with prep time is perfectly capable of catching Peabody and putting him in Chains and bringing him without a focus or searched and seized all of his possessions before bringing him for his trial but he has to be aware of what is going on.
I agree. So if cornered Peabody probably won't even try. Old Wizards are known for being able to plan around enemies stronger than themselves as long as they have the time to do so. Do you know what he carries on his person in Quest? What if he has access to something more dangerous than a Mistfiend this time around to whip out and and make a break for it in case he gets outed?
Peabody isn't stupid and probably has something way older speaking into his ear and supplying him. Again Sandra was given a city-wide bad luck spell to aid in her mission. If the White Council's hitman, allowed to kill without magic repercussion, pulls him to the side or ask to speak with him alone it's safe to assume that his guard will be up and he'll prepare himself to bail if needed.
He may not have what he needs to manage that against the Blackstaff on short notice or perhaps he does and escapes to set off his thralls/contingencies. He doesn't need to fight him after all, only delay and such tactics have proven effective on McCoy in canon.
Let's say Peabody is carrying and to be frank he had them in a bottle so he could be carrying them all the time. Does he release them in a situation where it's him and the black staff essentially Dresden times 10 but he can incinerate people if he views it as necessary. He could be carrying something that might allow him to escape or even kill Ebenezer would that save his life which from Canon seems to be his primary concern.
Releasing the I forget they're weird name it's not Wraith but it's something like that with the mordite casing in the council chamber is a great distraction move it immediately opens up for him to contact his thoughts via verbal confirmation and throw themselves against the council while they're dealing with them but in a room alone with the black staff does he do that because there's no greater distraction the council is outside the room it comes down to if he's feeling lucky because this is not insignificant chance Ebenezer could just literally Fireball all of his little Cloud demons and him at the same time because Fire is deeply indiscriminate like that.
Hell considering how frantically he's running does he even consider possibly killing the black staff in visual range of his death curse.
Sandra wasn't given a city-wide luck spell we dragged our ass and she sacrificed multiple people to do that. She wasn't given that spell she just ritually cast that shit. She had a fallen lore that she used and was about as effective as it could have been on someone with a perfect offense. In most circumstances I'm sure it would have been great but just the small area paired with the person she was using it on was not a great combo.
Sandra in that Arc was a average wizard with a investment that allowed her to use specfic Angelic lores at pretty intense cost to herself which powerful cool didn't particularly help her.
This argument may not be too relevant either depending on what his plans actually are. This maybe something that can't be solved solely by killing one dude. It may very well require our interference to safely disarm every bomb. We have Sanctuary for example which means even the death of Wizards maybe permitted if necessary.
Okay what is with this infantilization of the white Council with Masters capable of unraveling magic both Mind and otherwise there. What are we offering we aren't even a master of one discipline of magic yet we have no ability to affect the raw substance of magic either we can counter magic a spell if it comes at us maybe. If they need our help to disarm bombs their shit out of fucking luck.
Some people have made comments about my lines about the exalted and their power but this is such a supreme arrogance we are so much more powerful we are so much more insightful we are so much better at Magic we are so much more than the multi-century old Wizards with more than a fucking day of prep time and it blows my fucking mind.
People don't want to poke the solar exaltation because they don't want the setting to bend around the exalted but then insist that every problem must be solved by Molly's hand if we cannot trust them with sorting out their own traitors when given the information and how and why those traitors are operating and what they're doing. Then what was the point of trying to get on the even terms with the white Council they obviously can't be trusted to be a sovereign entity if they're so blatantly incompetent that with an overwhelming numbers and information Advantage they cannot deal with one person with infernal Investments without taking massive losses obviously they need new management.
Though I do not believe that to be the case I don't believe Arthur Langtry, Ancient Mai, Ebenezer McCoy, Joseph Listens-to-Wind the most powerful wizards of the Modern Age one of which we see on screen the fighting a Lesser God and injuring it and then luring it into a nuclear site and getting it nuked. I just don't see how with advanced warning they can fail or fuck up getting Peabody. They have the skill the magic and the might to get it done they just need the information to know who and why and how. If we give it to Ebenezer he can give it to the rest of them and they can isolate and then capture but we have to give them the opportunity to manage themselves.
If they are warned of contingencies and his backing I fail to see how he could affect the situation as he did in Canon. He only got off as well as he didn't Canon because of how fast it had to go down if a proper investigation goes down they're going to gather evidence of every piece of paper that flowed through his hands agents that went missing on Mission documents that he had access to and a variety more they're going to find the agent that he's using to hypnotize people Ebenezer is going to know of his Outsider influence because of us. The white Council has the ability to purge mind magic it's not easy it's not good but it works and once they know it's there they can do it immediately. Then they slap a warrant down put them in Chains Pat them down take his shit and drag him to a trial. If you can't trust old Wizards to keep secrets and hoard knowledge like it means the world who can you trust who can you trust to do so other than maybe gods of Secrets.
