History Characters / TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities

A loa spirit. She is like Bob the Skull, but focuses on''faith''-based areas. She will broker her wisdom for a fair price and is generally good-aligned. That said, don't think her weak or insult her.

* HitAndRunTactics: Comments by Susan suggest that the organisation is one that very frequently moves around, to avoid it's own destruction and help where they can.

* FormerlyFat: She's described as rather plum in ''Literature/FoolMoon'', but by ''Literature/SummerKnight'' she has slimmed down due to the heavy exercise in her work with the Alphas, gaining a figure described as [[HeadTurningBeauty being out of a men's magazine]]. However, Harry notes she still was a BigBeautifulWoman even back then.

* ButtMonkey: Kirby did not fare well in Dresden Files. The first time he's actually named is in the short story "Something Borrowed" where he's laid up in the hospital offscreen with a cracked spine after a fight with a ghoul went wrong due to drunken shenanigans during Billy's bachelor party. His first named appearence is in "Day Off" where he and Andi need Harry's help getting rid of magical fleas. His last appearance was in Turn Coat when his throat gets ripped out by [[EldritchAbomination Shagnasty]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: Desired by both Kirby and Waldo Butters.

* BlackSheep: Of the Forest People.

* DistressedDamsel: Winds up captured by the fae and then the Fomor, necessitating rescue attempts. On the other hand, once she gets freed she's more than able to hold her own in a fight.

%%* DistressedDamsel: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Dresden says this of her, but Andi's only been captured once; it's Georgia that's been abducted twice.

* DistressedDamsel: Yes, but it takes the collective effort of over a dozen superhumans and their lackeys to put her in that position. Not to mention the direct intervention of ''[[TheDevil Lucifer]]''.

* DistressedDamsel: Punched down by a Red Court mercenary who breaks into the house.

** Their big problem is they don't actually know who, exactly, Genosa wants to marry next. They settle for just killing every beautiful woman he interacts with, one at a time. Unsurprisingly, their group falls apart before they reach their actual target.

* ThickerThanWater: When Harry points out Hades' morality compared to the myths talking about his siblings' negative actions (like Zeus' [[AnythingThatMoves serial infidelities]]), Hades politely but firmly asks him to stop. He admits that they're far from perfect, but they're still his family and he won't tolerate insults directed at them. Harry backpedals fast.

* GodzillaThreshold: If the Prison is breached, or the inmates escape their cages, then a colossal explosion is triggered to kill all the inmates, an explosion that would destroy most of North America. This is considered acceptable due to the great danger that the beings present to the world. To give some context to how dangerous the inmates are, Demonreach seems mildly confused about why they are bothering to imprison [[spoiler:a white court vampire]], Nagloshii are kept in minimum secrurity, a [[spoiler:Titan like Ethniu]] only rates a "standard binding", and there are over ''six thousand'' entities imprisoned there.

** Technically, Demonreach is its own place of power. The spirit's (considerable) power is only of use when the person it's being used against is actually ''on'' the island.

%%* TimeAbyss: According to WordOfGod, the limp of Demonreach happened around the last Ice Age and ''Cold Days'' hints that he is far, far older than that.%%Don't base examples on Word of God. *What* does Cold Days hint? How?

* NietzscheWannabe: A relatively mild example, all told, but his basic philosophy is still pretty nihilistic.

* {{Foil}}: To Harry. Both were raised by the same person, both have the same SignificantBirthDate, and both are incredibly powerful. However, Elaine tends to be more precise and comes off as WeakButSkilled. Harry is a magical brute who initially comes off as UnskilledButStrong. They also serve opposing Fae courts during the events of ''Literature/SummerKnight''.

* WeakButSkilled: Compared to Harry, though only relatively. She's ''easily'' strong enough to get into the White Council if she wanted to, with Harry stating when he hears she's bluffed the tests that she's almost as strong as he is, and makes up for it with grace. Specifically, her level of magical control is phenomenal for somebody her age - and being '''''almost''' as strong as '''Harry''''' means that she's still probably kicking around the top 100 practitioners in the world for raw power.

* FeelingTheirAge: Still tough in a fight but it's more of an effort these days.

* LittleMissBadass: When seen in ''Literature/DeathMasks'', aged about 7, she kills vampires wielding ''[[ArtifactOfDeath mordite]]'' effortlessly. Five years later, in ''Literature/SmallFavor'' with barely any magic available, she holds off a gang of Denarians, including vaporizing one of them.

* NeutralNoLonger: This is what the Wardens and Senior Council fear her becoming. Even if she was just as weak as either the Winter Lady or Summer Lady, with her knowledge and abilities, she could cause massive levels of devastation [[note]]for example knowing the programming codes to the nuclear defenses of every nation with nuclear arsenals allows her access and the launch codes as well.[[/note]]. For this reason and because Ivy is more the Archive than any previous incarnation as she has no base personality to hold onto, the Archive deciding to become personally involved and focusing her hatred and power on one target is not welcomed. To an extent when she was able to overpower the Archive persona just long enough to give Harry info.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: She is ranked by the Wardens as being on par with the Winter Lady and Summer Lady. Harry guesses she is actually stronger. And since knowledge is power in the Dresden-verse, every day more information is written or typed, which increases her power.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: One of the most helpful of the venatori at the house, and upset when they lose McGurkin and [[WeHardlyKnewYe Asaro]].

* TooDumbToLive: Anyone with some common sense would know trying to magically restrain ''an out of control werewolf'' with incomplete knowledge and lack of experience is an extremely stupid and potentially fatal move. She didn't.

* CoolOldGuy: His second appearance reveals that he's somewhere in the region of 140 years old, at least. It also reveals much more of AffablyEvil side. He's friendly, funny (enough that one of his stories, complete with OrphanedPunchline, cracks up ''Charity Carpenter'' of all people), and a PunchClockVillain at worst. His evil (such as it is) is NothingPersonal, with his expressing a great deal of disapproval for sadism and unnecessary collateral damage on the grounds that they're 'unprofessional'.

* OrphanedPunchline: In ''Literature/SkinGame'', where Harry only arrives to hear the last part of his stories and everyone else cracking up. They appear to be rather raunchy too.

* ZergRush: In addition to pure numbers the minions in this case have supernatural strength, speed, and toughness, and in ''Literature/SkinGame'' are capable of wielding Uzi's pretty efficiently. It's also revealed he has an entire clan of demons under his control.

* {{Expy}}: Though it's not initially obvious, he's actually surprisingly similar to ComicBook/ProfessorX, particularly during ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Generally speaking, both are courageous, empathetic (though in Mort's case, primarily to the dead), and in a specialised field, wield significant skill and raw power - enough to take down more nominally powerful opponents. Both function as therapists - in Xavier's case, to mutants having trouble with their powers, in Mort's, to the dead, trying to figure out why they're stuck and how to send them on. Oh, and both end up bald, signifying a jump in their abilities. Specific to ''Days of Future Past'', when Mort first appears, he's something of a wreck who really does ''not'' want to get involved and ignores the CallToAdventure, like DOFP!Xavier. Yet under the initial depression (plus cowardliness in Mort's case) and implied alcoholism, there's a significant amount of courage, empathy, and strength. And both become stronger once they are persuaded to stop self-medicating with booze (among other things), and stop being afraid to properly open up and use their powers again.

** Though Mort does have a very good reason for self-preservation: He's the only thing preventing hundreds of ghosts from bugging out and going on a killing spree in the mortal world

-->But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with.

* PowerIncontinence: Does not have full control over them.

!!Azorthagal

* WickedCultured: He speaks with an Oxford accent and has wire frame glasses.

* HappilyMarried: Apparently, with Persephone. In this version, she came willingly to the underworld and the whole myth about the abduction stemmed from her mother, Demeter, going through a very bad case of empty nest syndrome. Implies to be Mab and Mother Winter, respectively.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: It's implied that Mab recruited him into her plot with Marcone against Nicodemus by dint of an old friendship. Because of the nature of supernaturals, she may have been Hecate (an ally who allowed Hades a brief time free of his mother in law) or even Persephone herself (Hades's wife).
* PhysicalGod: The first [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek God]] to show up in person.

** Hades was also extremely impartial when it came to the judgement of the dead. The few Greeks who offered him worship and sacrifice in the hopes of getting a more lenient deal couldn't stop him from being impartial and fair.

* ThickerThanWater: When Harry points out Hades' morality compared to the myths talking about his siblings' negative actions (like Zeus' [[AnythingThatMoves serial infidelities]]), Hades politely but firmly asks him to stop. He admits that they're far from perfect, but they're still his family and he won't tolerate insults directed at them.

* BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler: His main role in ''Battle Ground'' and the main reason he was TheGhost in the whole book? Holding the Nevernever shut around Chicago so the Fomor couldn't bring in reinforcements, and using his immense power to stabilize reality itself so it would not shatter during The Accord's fight against Ethinu and The Fomor, something that Bob outright states ''could'' happen due to the power being thrown around in the battle. Basically, Ferrovax's role was to be the linchpin that held reality togather during the battle and its strongly implied the casualties would have been ''much'' higher if Ferrovax did not act as he did while the others defeated The Titan.]]

* GreenRooming: [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail He's carefully introduced]] in book 3 and stated by WordOfGod to have a role to play eventually, but has only been briefly mentioned once as of book 15. He pops up as a member of the Accords in attendance to the peace talks in ''Peace Talks''.
* JerkassToOne: He doesn't like Harry very much. In book 3, he almost flattens Harry for relatively little reason before Michael threatens to stop him. Despite Michael being much harsher to him, Ferrovax is significantly more respectful to the Knight of the Cross.

* NighInvulnerability: It shrugs off everything you can throw at it, and only a no-holds-barred throwdown with "Injun Joe" Listens-To-Wind manages to really hurt it, and those hurts aren't lasting by any means. Or even really serious, it ran away before they got to that point. Morgan mentions that he managed to kill a skinwalker by ''tricking it onto a [[NukeEm nuclear test site in New Mexico]]'' and jumping into the Nevernever at the last second to escape the subsequent blast.
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: It gives Harry some PronounTrouble in figuring out how to refer to it. It's genderless, according to Bob. Semi-divine demonic entities ''can'' procreate, but they have no need to.

* ShapeShifterShowdown: With Listens-To-Winds, who manages to beat it into fleeing. Harry asked Joseph why he didn't chase down such a monster, and Joseph answers that it would hurt people along the way to slow him down, so letting it go was the lesser evil.

** He jumped right to attacking the Alphas, but their SuperSenses could detect him right through his veil. He manages to do serious damage when fighting one solo, but increased numbers forced him to flee.

* TheCameo: A possible one, as in [[spoiler: ''Peace Talks'' an Indian looking woman is nentioned at the meeting]].

* VillainRespect: He's grudgingly impressed by Mouse having chosen a different path from the rest of their littermates, and more so by Mouse's willingness to -- if it comes to an all-out fight -- go for a [[TakingYouWithMe suicidal attack]] to end things in his favour.

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', other powerful entities.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* NobleWolf: They defend their local neighborhood, and eventually much of Chicago after Harry's death as of ''Ghost Story''. As Murphy revealed in ''Aftermath'' their neighbourhood found a 40% drop in mortal crime rate after they began patrolling it. Most of the supernatural community knows better than to mess with The Aplhas on their turf.

* TerseTalker: It isn't used to verbal communication, so it usually speaks in short, emphatic sentences when it does have to rely on vocabulary. This changed briefly in ''Peace Talks'', though whether this was because it was getting a new inmate, or if Harry [[IKnowYourTrueName accidentally giving it a Name]] changed things in uncertain...

* {{Determinator}}: Getting turned into a half-vampire has her early on resit feeding on Dresden or Justine, with no help from any restraining bolt. Following that she managess to find the Fellowship of Saint Giles all by herself - and push herself through a serious badass upgrade, determined right up to do what's right all the way to the end.

* HeroicWillpower: Exemplifies this, with resiting her infection.

** When a White Court noble is trying to kill Irwin by forcing his daughter to give Irwin DeathBySex, River throws the man's town car into the fourth floor of the dormitory where Irwin is trapped. He then soundly defeats all of the ghouls the noble had on payroll without any serious effort.

* TheMentor: In "Heorot" it is revealed he is helping a young aspiring brewer Roger Braddock in the craft of making ale.

!!"Talvi Inverno" (no real name, but Dresden calls him "nameless son")

* LongGame: The Archive plays this as part of being a HeroOfAnotherStory. When an Old One is consigned to her custody, the Archive waits patiently for a thousand years or so, to ensure she is the last human alive who is aware of the name of an Old One and then deletes the name from the database. Then, bye-bye Old One.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Subtle, but in the flashback where she was linked to the shoggoth she showed apprehension at the prospect and pleaded for it to too.

* CreepyChild: It is subtle, but there's a distinction between the very-human Ivy and the ''much'' more creepy Archive. Specifically, whenever she's referred to in the narration as "the Archive" she's generally in her inhuman-database mode.

[[folder:"Mac" [=McAnally=]]]
!!Mac

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[[caption-width-right:200:The longest sentence he's spoken in months.]]

->''"Hngh."''

Owner and bartender of [=McAnally=]'s Pub. There have been hints that there's more going on than meets the eye with him.

* TheBartender: His job. Mac even fills the role of giver of advice or confidant without actually saying a word or violating his neutrality. When he does speak [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Harry pays particular attention]].
* {{Beergasm}}: Mac's microbrewed ale is good enough to win prizes and impress maenads, as in the worshipers of Dionysus, the Greek god of winemaking and wine and ritual madness.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Mac may prefer to avoid conflict within his bar, but one should remember his bar wasn't always TheNeutralZone, and he has kept his establishment running through Chicago's mob wars. Push him enough, he will pull out knives, baseball bats, pistols and even shotguns will pop up from behind the bar.
* TheConfidant: Despite his usual silence and neutrality. He's often used by Harry as a sounding board or someone he can just talk at to sort his thoughts.
* TruceZone[=/=]BadGuyBar[=/=]GoodGuyBar: [=McAnally=]'s. As accorded neutral ground, any supernatural who's signed onto the Unseelie Accords is expected to behave him, her, or itself. Granted, that doesn't mean things are any less tense, but it at least gives those same supernatural types somewhere they can hang out without having to worry too much about their personal safety.
* HealingFactor: As seen in ''Cold Days'' he can heal from a bullet wound, once it is removed, in seconds. He doesn't demonstrate this in the maenad incident, which Harry and Murphy speculate is because he has control over it when awake, so he doesn't heal ''too'' quickly in front of others.
* HiddenDepths:
** We don't know much about Mac's past, but his position as the unofficial Bartender to the Weird in Chicago and his bar's status as Accorded Neutral Ground indicate that there's some interesting stuff going on in there.
** This is somewhat explored in ''Cold Days'': He claims to be "out" (whatever that means), and has some sort of connection to the Outsiders. Not only this, but it's pretty heavily implied that he is some sort of supernatural being, as when he isn't consciously suppressing his HealingFactor he heals in moments from a bullet wound, where the bullet had just been forcibly ripped out of him ''literally'' by hand.
** In ''Battle Ground'' Dresden finally decides [[spoiler:to finally look at Mac through his Sight]], but Mac stops him, stating that Dresden would "hurt himself" - and the only other entity to have ever done this was the Angel of Death. This causes Harry to figure that Mac [[spoiler:is an ex-angel. If so, it's quite likely that he gave away his Grace at some point and transubstatiated to human(ish) form, much the same way Uriel did towards the end of ''Skin Game''.]]
* TheMentor: In "Heorot" it is revealed he is helping a young aspiring brewer Roger Braddock in the craft of making ale.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** He's usually very quiet, speaking in grunts or monosyllabic answers. So when he uses more than one worded-sentences, like in "Heorot", or in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' where he gives a small monologue, Harry is completely floored.
** Walking into Mac's and smelling burned food is so out of the ordinary that Harry immediately whips out his shield bracelet and blasting rod, before he even notices what's going on.
* TheQuietOne: To the point where one-word replies from him are the equivalent to screaming rants from other people, and [[OhCrap when he starts to speak in complete sentences]]...
-->'''Harry:''' I looked at him, shocked. He'd used... grammar.
* TerseTalker: Rare is the day that he will speak a complete sentence.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with its thirteen carved columns in an asymmetrical pattern, thirteen tables scattered around, and thirteen ceiling fans in various locations. The randomness and number act as a magical break wall to the emotionally-induced magical outputs by patrons. The lights and fans rarely stop working.
* TheWatcher: Referred to as this by an ''Outsider'' no less.

[[folder:Alfred Demonreach, aka Eternal Silence]]
!!Demonreach
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The spirit of an unmapped island on Lake Michigan, and the source of a massive ley line of dark magical energy. The island itself was used by the Denarians as a base in ''Small Favor'', and Harry sought out the island's spirit and claimed it as a sanctum in ''Turn Coat''. It later appeared as the Eternal Silence statue in Graceland during ''Ghost Story''. The spirit is malicious and dangerous in the extreme to anyone who isn't Harry, but can show discretion in dealing with threats.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Demonreach is unbelievably powerful, to such a degree that when Mab appears to be threatening Harry, Harry orders him to "Take her down below and keep here there" should she follow through. Mab's surprise makes it clear that Demonreach could follow through on the request. Equally, it is just as capable of shrugging off a sustained attack from both the Summer and Winter Lady and their respective inner circles.
* BenevolentAI: In the most literal sense. It's an intelligent GeniusLoci created by Merlin to protect the world from countless nameless horrors, and the way it describes how its systems work sounds broadly similar to that of computer mainframes.
* BigGood: The place is the GeniusLoci [[SealedEvilInACan containing enough]] {{Ancient Evil}}s to be compared to that of Tartarus from Myth/ClassicalMythology.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The true form of the broken lighthouse (which repelled the Naagloshii like it was nothing) is a compendium of the most complex runes in existence whose very nature seems to defy '''all''' the laws of magic, physics and Nevernever in existence. The basics are later revealed to be relatively simple, but the truth is still pretty mindboggling and a supreme case of WrongContextMagic: its creator, Merlin, built it in multiple places in time, simultaneously. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
* CapitalLettersAreMagic: It speaks in these.
* TheComicallySerious: It doesn't get sarcasm, so usually functions as this in interactions with Harry, and later, Bob (which draws a hilariously childish complaint of, "ONCE, LESSER SPIRITS KNEW TO RESPECT THEIR ELDERS.").
* CreepyGood: To put it bluntly, even if Demonreach is ultimately on the side of the heroes, it's still absolutely ''terrifying'' and virtually everyone but Harry is intensely scared of both the place and GeniusLoci itself.
* CripplingOverspecialization:
** Demonreach is a sentient prison with the sole purpose of containing very dangerous supernatural nasties. It understands matters only in relation to its to purpose. When faced with something new, Demonreach can only care if it helps or hinders its purpose. It cannot conceive of a matter in which he fails in his duty, since doing that would mean its likely destruction.
** When it manifests as Eternal Silence in ''Ghost Story'' (its only appearance off the island, explained by Bob as it having bullied Mab into helping), Demonreach's spoken vocabulary is so very limited that after a few sentences it has to resort to either mind-wracking blasts of mental communication or nodding.
* DarkIsNotEvil:
** Demonreach as a whole is dark and dangerous, but the entity is certainly not ''evil''. Just surly and antisocial to the extreme. Notably, it finds the presence of the skinwalker and the Black Council agents to be an affront. The spirit of Demonreach acts as a prison, keeping an unspecified, but ''very large'' number of very dangerous beings. To put in perspective how dangerous these things are, there are half a dozen naagloshii (nearly indestructible very powerful demigods that exist to spread pain and suffering. It takes a nuke to be sure of killing one, and the likes of a member of the Senior Council to fight one on even footing) imprisoned among them, and they're held within the minimum security wing. Its every effort is dedicated to keeping those things in their cage. The reason it is so antisocial is that it's trying to drive away unwanted visitors.
** In ''Skin Game'', Murphy points out that it drove an entire village crazy, horribly enough for the city to wipe the island from the history books, and in the same book, Michael notes that despite all the horrors he's seen as a knight, and what he experienced on the island in ''Small Favor'' (being riddled with bullets, crippling him and leading to a grinding, painful, and humiliating few months of physical therapy), it's ''the island itself'' that he has nightmares about, just down to its sheer psychic presence. However, as Harry counters to Murphy, it could have done much, much worse.
* DeathGlare: Despite that its eyes are almost never really seen, this is still its default expression.
* EldritchLocation: The island itself sits on a nexus of several dark magic ley lines, and the prison of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s certainly doesn't help. Normal people can't stand to be on the island for more than a few hours at a time, at most; even Michael, one of the bravest human beings in existence, claims he's not sure he could go back after he nearly died there. Harry didn't really notice, since he has training to resist influences like that and became immune after claiming the island as his sanctum.
* FateWorseThanDeath: ''Peace Talks'' reveals that each of its cells constitutes a PhysicalHell, confronting its prisoner with all of the suffering and pain they've inflicted on others. This perpetual torment is stated to have three purposes - Revenge against the villainous entities in question, keeping the prisoners sufficiently distracted so they can't consider escaping, and potentially forcing the entities to confront their wrongdoings and genuinely desire to atone.
* FluffyTheTerrible: While "Demonreach" is an appropriate and fine name for the island, when Harry jokingly calls the spirit of the island "Alfred," it inquires if this will be the spirit's new designation. When he tries to brush it off, it somewhat insistently notes that while it is part of the island, it itself is also distinct in a way. Harry accepts this and gives the spirit the name of Alfred.
* GeniusLoci: An artificial one created by Merlin in the instant span of eons (time travel was involved). It also transfers an ''intellectus'' based on this knowledge to whomever claims it as a sanctum, allowing its Warden perfect knowledge of everything on the island.
* GeometricMagic: Its very essence, which in its most simplistic form (that of the broken lighthouse) is still so extraordinary as to leave ''[[MagicalLibrary Bob]]'' stumped.
* GodzillaThreshold: If the Prison is breached, or the inmates escape their cages, then a colossal explosion is triggered to kill all the inmates, an explosion that would destroy most of North America. This is considered acceptable due to the great danger that the beings present to the world. To give some context to how dangerous the inmates are, Demonreach seems mildly confused about why they are bothering to imprison [[spoiler:a white court vampire]], Nagloshii are kept in minimum secrurity, a [[spoiler:Titan like Ethniu]] only rates a "standard binding", and there are over ''six thousand'' entities imprisoned there.
* HumanoidAbomination: The island tends to manifest into a human form for people to converse with.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Harry names the island Demonreach, for which it seems grateful. As of ''Skin Game'', it has a first name as well -- Alfred. It started as a joke, but the entity took it seriously. This is because while the spirit is connected to the island, it is still distinct from the island and doesn't understand sarcasm.
* InTheHood: Its manifestation always appears wearing a large hood and cloak.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: While a formidable prison holding multiple {{physical god}}s, it does not and ''cannot'' fully contain them. Their dark auras combine to create and act as the source for one of the greatest leylines in the Chicago area.
* {{Magitek}}: Or at least according to Bob in an allegory to explain how absurdly advanced and complex Demonreach's outer runes are compared to modern (i.e., from humans to fae since the golden age of Greece) magic is.
* NoodleIncident: It bears a grudge against Rashid, though it's unknown why exactly.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:''Demonreach'' showing genuine apprehension and concern over Harry needing to take some of the Relics of the Cruxifiction to Chicago in ''Peace Talks'' to prepare against Ethniu's coming attack seriously unnerves Harry]].
* PaintingTheMedium: As a representation of its sheer arcane power, it only speaks in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
* PhysicalGod: Either is this or something even ''greater'' since it is a prison maintaining from fallen demi-gods to... somethings worse whose mere existence creates one of the largest ley lines in the planet.
* PlaceOfPower: On top of being quite powerful in its own right, the place is covered in a current of dark magic, described as the body heat of all the creatures it keeps down there, making the island seem spooky and unnerving. Once Harry claims Demonreach as a sanctum, his power is supported and boosted by the island's own, actual power. This, coupled with Soulfire, is the only way he is able to survive the brawl with the skinwalker.
** Technically, Demonreach is its own place of power. The spirit's (considerable) power is only of use when the person it's being used against is actually ''on'' the island.
* TheQuietOne: Not really big on speaking unless needed. It will, instead, emote intentions at first, signifying it doesn't want a person on the island. When it speaks, it speaks with curt simple language because Harry's head is just too puny to fully comprehend everything. When it speaks with a single full and grammatically correct sentence, Harry knows it is worried. However, Demonreach should '''not''' be mistaken as either simple or stupid - when it comes to explaining the island's defenses, it has to significantly dumb things down for ''Bob'', the super-intelligent perverted spirit of knowledge, to understand. And even ''that'' is well beyond human comprehension, so Bob has to dumb it down further (ultimately, to throwing a rock - which he complains about to Demonreach).
* RegeneratingMana: Among other neat perks, Demonreach will supplement Harry's magic on the island. So the moment he casts a spell, he gets that energy recovered (excepting Soulfire).
* SealedEvilInACan: Demonreach ''is'' the can. The original Merlin constructed a massive multidimensional, transtemporal prison on the island for over six thousand evil spirits, dark gods, and demonic entities. The spirit acts as a sentient prison, keeping them in place. It is such a strong prison, Mab is likely unable to escape. However, Harry can release any or all of the prisoners if he so desires. Not that he ever ''would'' so desire, but just the fact that he technically could do it has the potential to really complicate his life if it gets out.
-->'''Harry:''' I'd just been handed what amounted to a great big ugly weapon of mass destruction and potential havoc. To the various powers of the supernatural world, it wouldn't matter that I would never use it. All that would matter was that I ''had'' it to use. Really, Officer, I know that's a rocket launcher in my trunk, but I'm only holding it so that someone ''bad'' won't use it. Really. Honest. [...] And hey, the very best part? ''I didn't actually have a real, usable superweapon''. I just had the key to a great big box full of pain and trouble for a whole lot of people.
* ShoutOut:
** It being an incredibly powerful spirit of nature (as in, it's almost certainly above {{Physical God}}hood) that speaks in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS but also being a major example of DarkIsNotEvil is likely an allusion to the incarnation of TheGrimReaper seen in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''.
** As of ''Skin Game'', the spirit's new nickname is Alfred, named so after the butler of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fame.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Harry's failure to account for the island's reaction to his death was the biggest reason his ThanatosGambit against Mab failed. She wouldn't have been able to maintain his body without its help.
* StoneWall: Demonreach is this, as he was designed primarily to endure oncoming assaults. It is implied he could be a MightyGlacier, but refrained from killing Maeve and Lily right away, theorized by Harry because it might destroy the island.
* TerseTalker: It isn't used to verbal communication, so it usually speaks in short, emphatic sentences when it does have to rely on vocabulary. This changed briefly in ''Peace Talks'', though whether this was because it was getting a new inmate, or if Harry [[IKnowYourTrueName accidentally giving it a Name]] changed things in uncertain...
%%* TimeAbyss: According to WordOfGod, the limp of Demonreach happened around the last Ice Age and ''Cold Days'' hints that he is far, far older than that.%%Don't base examples on Word of God. *What* does Cold Days hint? How?
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: If the prison's security is ever in danger of failing, the island will detonate in a massive explosion that would take out most of North America to keep its inmates from escaping. The scary thing... for some of those entities, that might ''still'' have not been enough.
* WalkingSpoiler: '''No one''' was expecting the huge twist involving Demonreach in ''Cold Days''.
* TheWorfEffect: The fact that half a dozen naagloshii are in '''minimum security''' says a lot about just how powerful it is.

[[folder:The British Prisoner]]
!!The British Prisoner

A British-accented prisoner at Demonreach.

* TheAloner: Unlike the other prisoners, he's not asking Harry to commit evil deeds or pledge his soul to them, just mentioning that he's in stasis. When Harry asked him about it, he simply told Harry to "piss off."
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Unlike the other prisoners, he's lucid and not chanting for blood or attempting to trick Harry into setting them free. In fact, he states quite sadly that he has to be there. He also insists he's "in stasis" rather than imprisoned. So it's unclear why, exactly, he's in Demonreach to begin with.
* CrystalPrison: Is held inside one.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's quite sarcastic for someone trapped in crystal, including telling Harry to "piss off".
* EvilBrit: The Dresden Files normally plays this straight, but this guy averts it. He's actually one of the ''least'' evil of the beings held in Demonreach, and may not even be an inmate per se.
* InsistentTerminology: He specifically tells Harry that he's "in stasis", rather than being imprisoned.
* RiddleForTheAges: So far. Harry was briefly in contact with him in ''Skin Game'', setting up a plot element for down the road, but he hasn't been seen again, and yet was the inspiration for how to save Thomas's life until appropriate aid can be given to him. With [=WoJ=] ruling out several folks including the original Merlin (also pointing out that the Prisoner uses modern English), we little we know of the British Prisoner, and what we do know is mostly about who he isn't.

[[folder: Mouse's "Shadow"]]
!!Mouse's "Shadow"

The largest male member of Mouse's litter of Foo Dog pups. He was abducted by villains (implied to be Cowl and Kumori) with the rest of the litter, but while Dresden was able to save most of the pups, this one (as well as the largest female member of the litter) had already been secured by the villains and were eventually corrupted. Mouse refers to him as his "Shadow" when they clash.

* BoringButPractical: Martial arts and strategy may not sound muc, but combining it wity their abilities and team work allowed them to work around Harry's abilities and overwhelm him.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Nope. They peg Harry for exactly what he is. Harry, expecting the usual arrogance of ghouls, is mollified.

%%* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. Dresden says this of her, but Andi's only been captured once; it's Georgia that's been abducted twice.

* FormerlyFat: She's described as rather plum in ''Literature/FoolMoon'', but by ''Literature/SummerKnight'' she has slimmed down due to the heavy exercise in her work with the Alphas, gaining a figure described as [[HeadTurningBeauty being out of a men's magazine]].
** However, Harry notes she still was a BigBeautifulWoman even back then.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: She's show to be shy about having to strip out of her clothes to transform, [[HandOrObjectUnderwear awkwardly covering herself with her arms]] while she does it.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: She almost seems like she has NoSenseOfHumor, but she's visibly amused and almost laughs when Harry expresses how much she frustrates him

* AffectionateNickname: Usually refers to Harry as "Wizard".

* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of ''Literature/FoolMoon'' she leaves town to go back to the mountains now that [=MacFinn=] is death, telling Harry she will be with her family.

* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Because wolves don't have it.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: She expresses the view that humans are more brutal than animals as humans kill for fun or sport, while animals only kill to live.

* TheMentor: For the Alphas, she mentors them in shapeshifting.
* MsFanservice: She's described as being [[HeadTurningBeauty incredibly attractive]] with Harry taking notice of her "[[LegFocus long lean legs]]" quite often. And while she wears practical clothes whenever she can, she does end up naked quite often due to ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing. Her comic book illustrations needing to make heavy use of CensorShadow and GodivaHair to keep her covered.

* NobleWolf: She has most of the qualities associated with wolfs, being very intelligent, dignified, proud and loyal.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: While fighting off the hexenwolves She refuses to abandon the Alphas even if it's to help her lover, and tries to stay behind to secure Harry and their's escape, but Harry intervention makes her sacrifice unnecessary.

* PutOnABus: She appeared in only [[Literature/FoolMoon one book]], and [[Literature/SummerKnight got mentioned in another]]. That's all... so far. WordOfGod is she ''may'' show up again.
* RedHerring: Her paranoid personality, not being forthcoming about information and the fact that Harry can't soul gaze with her makes her one of Harry's primary suspects for the events of ''Literature/FoolMoon'', but he turns out to be wrong.

* TheStoic: She almost always holds herself with a relaxed composure, rarely showing much emotion. Although she has her times of being NotSoStoic.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She's extremely protective of [=MacFinn=], to the point of attacking Harry when she thinks he may have killed him. {{Downplayed}} when Harry ''does'' end up killing him in the end, she manages to forgive him telling him he "[[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what was necessary]]".

* LaResistence: Serve as this in South America since long before the war got wizards more involved, holding the line.