Old World Order: Outsiders and The Circle
Outsiders & Old Ones
We know little of the Outsiders and the Old Ones.
What is known is that the Outsiders are minions of the Old Ones. Both come from outside our universal reality, from beyond the limits of Creation, from beyond the Outer Gates.
Outsiders are creatures of utter chaos and nihilism. They are dedicated to the ending of all thought and order. Their only goal is the return of the universe to the void.
The fact that the Red Court has been able to summon the lesser servitors of the Outsiders in the course of the Vampire War is a cause for great concern among the White Council.
The Circle
There is a secretive group stirring up supernatural trouble. Always working behind the scenes, this group is providing resources and power to (seemingly) set the supernatural nations at each others’ throats.
Someone gave Victor “Shadowman” Sells training beyond that of a normal sorcerer. Someone arranged for the FBI Hexenwolves to get their magic belts and warned them about the White Council. Someone delivered a mysterious athame to Bianca St. Claire to be used as a gift to a powerful sidhe. Someone drove the Summer Lady Aurora mad. Someone provided the entropy curse ritual to the Evil Eye Franchise. Someone felt the need to interfere in the Chicago Darkhallow. Someone sent the Scarecrow to kill Lucius Glau. Someone used Hellfire against Mab’s stronghold of Arctis Tor. Someone had an interest in the “culling program” of the Skavis. Someone silenced Queen Mab of the Winter Court.
Harry Dresden thinks that all of these someones may be working together. And that they may have a spy in the White Council—possibly even on the Senior Council itself.
They have many names, granted by those who have seen their shadowy hand in action; they are commonly called either the Black Council or the Black Hats. But there is some evidence that they call themselves the Circle.
They are known to react badly to incompetence and murderously to deception. They’re hard.
What their ultimate goal is, no one knows.
HARRY: With regard to the Circle (or whoever they are), whatever it is, it ain’t good.
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I didn’t get the sense that Mab was silenced so much as messed with her voice to make it impossible for others to hear without damage to themselves.
I thought that the White Court provided the Porn Trio with the curse.
@Josh Jasper
Given Word of Jim, that’s most likely.
However, per Harry’s casefiles as filtered through Billy into game-text, they’re misreading it. (Remember, it takes roughly a book for Harry to figure out what’s been really going on; the spoiler ch3 of CHANGES up now illustrates that wrt to duel with Ortega.)
@Tommy
Lord Raith PROBABLY did (and likely did)… but where did he get it in the first place?
I personally think Lord Raith just had the ritual. He could of gotten it from the same place he got his nigh-immunity to magic. He’s already got untold wealth and is the head of a Vampire Court so 1 little ritual like that is not out of his scope. That is unless The Hand of God says, “Yes the conspiracy goes that far….”
@Lanodantheon, me, I’m paying attention to the whole description of “cold, alien, nothingness” when outsider magic gets mentioned… and I seem to recall similar descriptions getting used w/r/t to Lord Raith’s unassailability spell, the one that kept him from getting harmed by death curses and other remote-death spells.
Doesn’t this contradict the Laws of Magic entry on the outsiders?
“To say that they hate the world would be to assume that we can even understand them. It is more accurate to say that they are antithetical to the world. They do not want to destroy the universe any more than a ball you drop wants to fall—it is simply the outcome. “