Cowl's Identity [FPOTM2 11.2016]

[twelve]

My first contribution and it has to be a crazy theory. I have no idea who Cowl can be but for some crazy, strange reason I feel that Kumori is his Mom. And before you say she is dead, one of her actions that stands out very strongly in my mind is the bringing back to life of that dead goon of Marcone's. Necromancy. It's a thing. What's to say it wasn't used on her after she died?

[Conspiracy Theorist]

It’s the Nameless Son, he worked withe Kemmler, but wasn’t a Kemmlerite and knew what Bob was and what he contained when he saw him, and was kicked out of Arctis Tor after the attack by a rogue Denarian/The Circle. He was the inside man to Winter, perfect to set Lea up with the Athame.

“Unmet Character” gets my vote.

[Melriken]

In  Deadbeat Cowl tells Harry "Just as well, I have wanted to see for myself what has the Wardens so nervous about you." and is therefore a member of the Counsel, deals with the Wardens regularly (stationed in Edinburgh?) but is not himself a Warden.  However believes himself more than a match for someone who makes the Wardens nervous...

In chapter 31 we find out that the Council was attacked and the Sr Council is hold up... I believe members of that Sr Council can be eliminated from consideration as well as they would be missed while Cowl is active in Chicago.

From the Giant list doesn't that leave only...

 Simon Pietrovich
 Gregori Cristos
 Samuel Peabody
 Bluebeard
 Gomez (sleeping off a potion)
 Luciozzi (on sabbatical)
 Klaus Schneider
 Montjoy (research trip in the Yucatán)

These characters are not on the Council and would need to be further disguised to be considered:
 Justin DuMorne
 Heinrich Kemmler
 Etienne the Enchanter
 The Original Merlin


Okay that said, the only ones who truly deserve consideration are:
 Gregori Cristos
 Samuel Peabody
 Gomez (sleeping off a potion)
 Luciozzi (on sabbatical)
 Klaus Schneider
 Montjoy (research trip in the Yucatán)

From that list Gomez, Luciozzi, and Montjoy are effectively 'Other' or 'Unnamed character'...

Leaving Cristos or Peabody.

So it's Peabody? Disappointing, but there is it.  Wizard Peabody or an unmet character is Cowl.

Time Traveling or alternate universe Harry wouldn't even know to use the line about Wardens talking as a distraction though someone like Goodman Grey might be able to put something like that together as a red herring.

[Ed0517]

Peabody was shot by Morgan.

[Melriken]

Peabody was shot by Morgan.

Sorry, I haven't gotten my hands on the latest short in the Animal Rescue book so the last time I had seen Cowl was I believe White Night which is before Peabody got shot...

I found out yesterday that Cowl shows up in the short I haven't read so you're right, Cowl can't be Peabody... which just pushes Cowl into one of the characters we know nothing about (like bluebeard or one of the wizards not present when Eb is promoted to Sr Council or an unnamed character that we literally know nothing about). or Cristos... who I really hope it isn't...

EDIT: Having now read Fugitive I think it even more apparent that Cowl is a Dresden level Human Wizard, someone strong enough to be a warden but not a warden, not a (deserving) member of the Senior Council.  Cristos, Peabody (dead), Gomez, Luciozzi, Montjoy... unknown characters like those...

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Unmet character until named as Nameless in The Law.

Seriously Harry knows every practitioner and everyone in the (ill)legal business in Chicago but doesn’t even know of Mr Winter Winter? Unless of course that’s what Talvi Inverno wanted….