Considering the destruction of the entire Court, our sources for the events following the Edinburgh conference are notoriously one-sided. The most well-known, of course, are the memoirs of Harry Dresden, which considering his role in the conflict can hardly be considered objective (Not to mention his characterization of all the Vampire Courts as "monsters" and his often tedious and hypocritical moralizing). Several accounts have surfaced by those claiming to have been mortal mercenaries serving the Red Court, but the truth of these accounts is extremely difficult to verify, and the most reliable of them offer little information of value anyway.

However, some facts are generally agreed upon. The killing of an entire Vampire Court, including those not present at Chichen Itza points to the use of extremely powerful magic, the exact nature of which is unknown. There are two major schools of thought: the first accepts Dresden's claim that it was a blood ritual by the Red Court that was turned back on them. More critical thinkers (myself included) find it far more likely that Dresden (who after all provided the casus belli for the war, though not the underlying supernatural power imbalances that caused it) and other rogue pro-war elements of the White Council discovered a meeting of the leadership of the Red Court and attacked it with some sort of magical "super weapon". Some critics wonder why the White Council would have held back such magic during the preceding, extremely-destructive war, but one assumes that the Senior Council foresaw the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Red Court, and preferred a truce with an enemy they knew. Perhaps, also, the magic required resources of the Winter Court, which Dresden had access to after he accepted the position of Winter Knight, which he had refused up until that point.