White Council

[laughs] It would kinda just cancel each other out, but technically you could both, both get a point for that.

[laughs] Who's waiting for Harry in his apartment when he shows back up after the, the White Council meeting, when Harry gets back to his apartment? Who's there?

Susan? Lily.

Elaine.

Then his other goal here is clear his name.

He's been accused as the suspect by the White Council of Wizards.

And then there are some other subplots that he kinda gets involved in, you know, there's some kind of romantic subplots and that sort of thing, but I would say that's not really, like, the main focus of this story.

So I'd probably just put down solve the grisly murder of two victims in Chicago and clear his name because he's been accused of involvement.

So the next question here is, what is the inciting incident that kicks off your story's plot? In the case of Storm Front, I would say the inciting incident here is Harry discovers a brutal murder that seems to involve dark magic and is asked by the police to help solve the crime.

Uh, what conflict does the character face as he pursues his goals? Well, we have a few different things here.

The first one is that the White Council of Wizards thinks that Harry is involved in the crime.

What else do we have here? Mafioso figures want to keep Harry out of the case.

Yeah.

The White Council knows where the Black Library actual entrance is, and so does Ethriel Stern, but no one ever talks about that.

What is the Black Library, Alexis? Okay, so the Black

Library, because this is all important.

But the primary thing is that they have all of the lore for demons and how to defeat chaos there.

At some point, we will have to cover it as a special episode on the show because there's a lot of interesting stuff about the Black Library.

We could talk about the one sentence of the White Council.

If we do an episode of the Black Library, you're going to have to lose your mind again because yet again, we'll have to go talk about the war.

That lack of concern with Morgan's sort of lawful good duty-bound nature.

If he's the one manning the phones... representing the interests of the White Council, an organization that prides itself on having all of the information.

And a member of the White Council calls up saying, I've got extremely important information.

I need to give it to the senior council.

Morgan can always get the information from him and just say, they don't need to know about that, Dresden.

But I think that's.

This is sort of an interesting moment here because they have a chance under those conditions, assuming the world doesn't end, right? Maybe Aurora fails for some other reason.

But if Harry decides to run away with her and they're basically going to be on the run for their whole life because Harry's hiding from the Red Court and he doesn't have the White Council to protect him anymore.

Okay, so we have this defensive stasis bubble established, but she also goes on the geopolitical offensive.

In the year 2463, she calls the very first white council.

A pivotal moment.

This is a gathering of the wisest leaders left in Middle Earth, people like Elrond, Gandalf, and Saruman.

This is where we see the vulnerability of immortal institutions.

Yeah, how does that even happen?

The White Council is supposed to be the central nervous system of the resistance against Sauron.

But Sauron acts as a neurotoxin.

And then he has to get everyone else on board.

Yeah, he takes on this monumental task of persuading the White Council and essentially forcing Saruman's hand to launch a preemptive strike on Dol Guldur.

Which is a huge move.

And that strike actually succeeds in displacing the Necromancer, right?

If Saruman is issuing an urgent summons via an intermediary like Radagast, Gandalf must logically deduce that Saruman has uncovered intelligence so vital, so immediately threatening, that it naturally supersedes even the transportation of the ring.

Because to ignore it would be a huge risk.

To ignore a direct summons from the head of the White Council in the face of an existential war would be an extreme dereliction of duty.

Okay, I see.

So every phase is named after something in Lord of the Rings.

And the final phase is the White Council, which documents with comments and separate documents everything that just happened over that loop and what the changes were that were made.

And And what I found was that about 80% of my tokens were being burned in those loops and on testing and validation to get the work done.

And in the end, I spent a lot of money.