"Stick 'em with the pointy end" ... Peace Talks Spoilers

[Korwin]

Any good theories about why Thomas attempted the assanination?
Not buying the, someone threatened his girlfriend theory of Harry.

Waiting for an big revelation on that point in the next book (or in an later one)...

[Arjan]

Any good theories about why Thomas attempted the assanination?
Not buying the, someone threatened his girlfriend theory of Harry.

Waiting for an big revelation on that point in the next book (or in an later one)...

His demon got out of control after all the warnings Harry and Justine gave him. He ran away from Justine and then the demon made him run to the nearest food source it knew.

Maybe someone helped it to get out of control. The skinwalker is an option.

[Conspiracy Theorist]

I like that he was whammied with Eb or Evanna the suspects, Eb to deal with ‘that’ once and for all and to convince Harry to see things his way on Maggie. Eb is quite speciest towards the Swartalves, and perhaps didn’t think he could get so close

Evanna would have to be Nemfected to act like this, but Nemesis has a history of infecting second in commands, they did it with the Winter Court Perhaps Thomas told her no more screwing around as he is about to become a father, prompting her to use Thomas as the instrument to take out Etri in a fit of pique.

[Gigglestomp]

Technically he's not in solitary he can talk to other inmates in the same protocol contemplation. (The brit)

[vultur]

Any good theories about why Thomas attempted the assanination?

I was figuring Oblivion War stuff.

[Arcanist37]

I was figuring Oblivion War stuff.

In the past, Jim has been pretty clear about not including the Oblivion War in the main story.

[vultur]

In the past, Jim has been pretty clear about not including the Oblivion War in the main story.

Hmm, ok.

There are a ton of call-backs to the short stories in PT though (River Shoulders, the state Carlos is in, grendelkin are referenced) so it sounded plausible.

Do you have a reference for that? The intro to Backup in Side Jobs talks about it, but the way that's worded isn't IMO incompatible with this.

We - the readers - know why Carlos is so messed up in PT, but Harry doesn't. The same could hold true for this. Maybe all Harry will learn is that Lara ordered him to do it, but the implication will be clear to us that it's an Oblivion thing.

[Walter the skull]

I don't think Jim said that the Oblivion war wouldn't be in the main series, just that Harry would never find out about it.  Any time we see Ivy, we're seeing the Oblivion war.  Hell, I wonder if some of the outsiders are losers of the Oblivion war.

[Bad Alias]

Do you have a reference for that?

You can try searching here: https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/. I'd suggest "oblivion war" as a search term.

Angels have free will. That's how they fall.