By all evidence, all of them die against outsiders. Conscription is also, essentially a form of slavery, at least in these circumstances, so no, this is meat to the grinder. Human sacrifice on an industrial scale.
I dont think there is any such evidence in the books. We dont even know how troops recruited from Winter's mortal tributaries are deployed, or what MOS they get to fill; Winter presumably doesnt recruit Miksani avian shapeshifters to dig trenches. There is too little supporting information for any such declaration to be credible.
And no, conscription is not slavery; thats like calling taxation theft.
I don't see how this is worse than what Winter does. In setting it probably even served the same goal - to keep the world going.
You dont see a difference between recruiting soldiers from a society, and taking those people for human sacrifice?
Thats certainly a take.
Im going to disagree, and leave it at that.
It didnt. We know it did no such thing in this setting.
We've seen human sacrifice in the Dresdenverse in both Blood Rites and Changes. In Blood Rites its used to feed an Outsider, while in Changes the hundreds of sacrifices were used to prime the bloodline curse.
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I dont think getting him involved will make this worse.
A deity which was killed or imprisoned by the Red Court should not have the ability or the volition to strike at its jailers.
Else it wont still be under their control.
Such a vulnerability would have been catnip to the Blackstaff and all the Council's ritual magic specialists.
Im having trouble grokking how its even possible for such an entity to have any role to play here just because Molly rolls a diplomacy check.
Unless the goal is to simply fake out the Reds.
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Small question.
During this whole fight, the issue is not that the Mordite would actually kill Molly, but that it hitting her would cause damage all around, including on the relatively squishy wizards.
So I assume they have taken the time this duel lasts now to get some distance?
I assume exploding mordite is going to scour the clearing.
If they try to leave the clearing into the South American jungle they get jumped by Reds and whatever the Reds brought with them. That puts hard limits on distance.
Nobody besides Molly(and her clones) knows she is immune to mordite anyway, so noone can make plans based on that.
