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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Which is why she'll need a little bit of magic.
It also makes Morgan le Fay useful to the senario. If Jadis can come up with the big magics, they'll see her as necessary. If King Arthur's sister, also a scary powerful wizardess, is proudly working for the Brits, Jadis is even more necessary.
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Bear with me a bit, because there's something that happens if Jadis isn't stopped. If she defeats the Soviets with winter magic, she'll want to start imposing winter in Europe in general. The interesting thing is that she'll get support from some Nazi factions for this. There was a lot of rhetoric about how "our ancestors grew amid snow and ice, and were made strong by the cold." Nazism was impractically romantic anyway, and while there will be plenty of Germans who will see that eternal winter is disastrous, what will actually matter is how it gets spun to Hitler, and what decision he takes. And if Jadis has had the sense to use magic to influence him ...
(I find it much more interesting to work out how the plot goes if the PCs (or other heroes) don't take action, rather than assuming that they will succeed at a point I design into the situation, with no idea of what would have happened after that.)
... then Germany becomes a state truly dedicated to making war - which is what Nazism was heading for anyway - with subject states to the south whose job is to supply food. When the freeze reaches the Mediterranean coast, North Africa should be becoming temperate. Jadis, of course,
doesn't care about Germans starving and freezing, so after a while, some Nazi factions will realise they have to stop her, no matter what.
Now, Morgana is unlikely to show her full hand until it's clear to the British they really need her, which makes it summer 1943, with Russia frozen out of the war, and Fortress Europa looking unconquerable with all of the army that would have been in (or lost in) Russia rested, refitted, and ready to repel invasion. Global cooling is getting worrying, although plenty of people are saying it's just natural variation, or a new Ice Age brought on by (variety of contradictory explanations).
Now Morgana turns up in Whitehall, totally convincing about what needs doing, and with a list of the people who are destined to do it.