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Councils

For the White Council, see The White Council.

For the Black Council, see The Outsiders

The Grey Council

In General

Formed by Ebenezar McCoy sometime during the events of Turn Coat as a counter to the Black Council, the Grey Council is a small group of wizards and other entities who are aware of the threat the Black Council represents and are united in opposing them. Known members and associates include Ebenezer McCoy (see The White Council), Donar Vadderung (see below under 'Monoc Securities'), and Harry Dresden himself (see Harry and Harry's Household).

Ambiguous Situation: Other than Harry, Ebenezar, and Vadderung, there are at least nine others, but nothing is known about their identities as of Peace Talks.
Big Damn Heroes: Show up at the end of Changes to beat some Red Court vampire asses.
Big Good: Though the White Council is supposed to be this role, the Grey Council is formed because the White Council's internal politics and corruption make it impossible for them to effectively counter the Circle's agents.
In the Hood: Most members of the Grey Council wear face-concealing hoods and cloaks of, appropriately, grey material.
Irony: Harry notes that if word of them spreads to the Black Council, members of them could out the Greys and claim them as the "dark wizard scapegoats" and the corruption in the White Council.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The whole reason for their existence; doing things that need to be done, which the White Council can't do for whatever reason.

Cults

Aristedes' cult

Aristedes

A Fagin-type sorcerer who appears in Ghost Story. His main brand of magic is kinetomancy, or the magic of energy and movement. Using it on himself, it grants him greater strength and speeds than someone of his size should have. He leads a group of homeless children through fear and power, promising them protection from the Formor.

Bald of Evil: He has no hair on the top of his head, but does have tattoos for some reason.
Big Bad Wannabe: That is not to stay he's not skilled, because he is, he's just not the big shot he acts like.
Compelling Voice: One method by which he controls his boys. The fact that Fitz is now fighting it means he will likely kill Fitz to keep the others in line.
The Fagin: He's even referred to as such by Fitz when talking with Harry.
Just Ignore It: What happens to him in the end. He's a small-timer, but he's smart enough to know when to fold 'em.
Lean and Mean: He is described as practically skeletal.
Lightning Bruiser: He is a tough fighter with his kinetomancy giving him stronger offense and defensive buffs. His only drawback is that his power is still at low- to mid-tier practitioner level. And once the defenses are broken through, he is still very much mortal human.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Aristedes correctly identifies Daniel and Butters as fake Wardens, but does so because they don't have swords. Technically, Luccio's Anti-Magic swords are not part of the Warden uniform, and at this point Luccio has not made any new ones for nearly a decade, but in the minds of most minor practicioners, the swords are intrinsic to the Wardens, and their absence a dead giveaway.

Tattooed Crook: With protective symbols from various traditions.
We Have Reserves: Harry tells Fitz that the whole gang will be killed because they have seen this man, who they thought was unstoppable, bleed and be injured by a normal man. His power to control them will severely diminish, so he will have to start fresh with new street kids.

Fitz

A street kid whom Dresden meets during the events of Ghost Story, and acts as something of a right-hand-man to Aristedes. He has some natural magical ability as he can hear dead people, or at least hear Harry.

Badass Normal: While he has the supernatural ability to hear ghosts, he lacks any other empowerment. Harry still considers him this.
Harry: When I faced my old master, I did it with newly made staff and blasting rod in hand, with the ancient forces of the universe at my call, and with words of power on my tongue.
Fitz had more courage than I had as a child.
He went to face his demons with no weapons at all.
Big Brother Instinct: He genuinely cares about the other kids to the point that Harry used the fact that Aristedes will now kill the other kids because they have seen him bleed and be hurt, thus breaking the illusion that he was some all powerful badass.

Deadpan Snarker: He can go toe-to-toe with Harry.
Grey-and-Gray Morality: His world view. He doesn't believe in good guys or bad guys.
I See Dead People: The audio-only variant. At first he was not amused at Harry playing Spirit Advisor. Eventually, though, he gets used to it enough to snark back and even seem a little amused by the situation.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Harry notes that Fitz is very similar to him, especially when he was that age.
Not Afraid of You Anymore: His final confrontation with Aristedes is a great part this.
The Power of Love: Harry notes that Aristedes's control over the street kids was nothing compared to the loyalty they had to Fitz. After all, Fitz cared for them and protected them whatever way he could. That holds much more power than mere magical coercion.
Smarter Than You Look: Harry realizes this when Fitz is the one to call Aristedes "Fagin".
True Companions: He and his crew are this. He loves them and protects them. They in turn are deeply loyal to him. It is enough to break Aristedes's hold on them.
Villain Ball: Averted, for the minor villain he is for a short time, when he has his comrades not carry the bags of weapons out of the car after the car crashed. He knew the cops would be more likely to look closer if they were carrying heavy loads and not just their cold bodies.

Zero

Fitz's best friend, and another member of Aristedes's cult.

Barefoot Poverty: Fitz mentions that Zero has no shoes and goes arounds in socks and moccasins, even in winter.
Friend-or-Idol Decision: He's forced to choose between Fitz, his friend, and Aristedes, whom he serves, after Aristedes reveals his true colors. He chooses Fitz.

Gregor's cult

For Charity Carpenter, see her entry under Ordinary People and Badass Normals.

Gregor

A charismatic warlock who ran a cult of runaways, including one Charity Carpenter. Enraged at the temerity of the Wardens for seeking to prohibit him from casting spells, he embarked on a dark path for power, eventually seeking out the patronage of the dragon Siriothrax. He went insane after Michael slew Siriothrax; his ultimate fate is unknown.

The Ghost: He never appears in person.

Manipulative Bastard: He manipulated his cult members into serving him, then ultimately sacrificed them.

Siriothrax

A dragon with a cult. He accepted human sacrifices from the cult in exchange for power, but ultimately perished when Michael Carpenter interrupted one of the sacrifices.

The Ghost: He's never actually shown in person.
Our Dragons Are Different: He was a semi-divine creature with truly vast amounts of power before Michael killed him.
Posthumous Character: Michael killed him years before the start of the story. It's how he met Charity.

Kravos' cult

Leonid Kravos, aka "The Nightmare"

Leonid Kravos

A small-time sorcerer who used his magic to make drugs. Harry and his crew defeated him shortly before the events of Grave Peril, and he was subsequently arrested. He committed suicide while in jail, and his ghost became known as the Nightmare as it pursued vengeance on his enemies.

Battle in the Center of the Mind: His Nightmare form invades Harry Dresden's mind for the final battle.

Brainwashed and Crazy: Cold Days reveals that Kravos was being manipulated by Nemesis.
Driven to Suicide: Kravos killed himself in prison before the events of Grave Peril. This is part of a Thanatos Gambit—his death created a Shade bent on taking revenge in his place.
The Dragon: The Nightmare is second in command to Bianca.
Evil Twin: The Nightmare turns into an evil Harry once it has consumed some of his magic.
Expy: Of Victor Sells. One's a sorcerer using his powers to make drugs, and the other has the help of a demon.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Literally, in this case. Kravos was a small time sorcerer running a Cult of Personality before being turned into the Nightmare.
The Heavy: Bianca is the Big Bad of Grave Peril, but the Nightmare does most of the work.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Harry realizes if the Nightmare is the spirit of some low-level demon, then the fact it went for Revenge by Proxy and knew it was the best way to hurt Michael means this is very far from some low-level grunt demon Kravos summoned. Demons of that level don't think in that way. A human, however, would.
Posthumous Character: Sort of. Kravos is dead before the Grave Peril case begins, but the Nightmare—his ghost—is very much active.
Resurrected Murderer: In life, Leonid Kravos was a drug dealer, cult leader and multiple murderer. He was arrested by Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter and sent to prison where he committed suicide. Kravos' evil spirit returned as "Nightmare" which started to target anyone involved in arresting him, eventualy culminating in him torturing Michael's pregnant wife.
The Reveal: The Nightmare is the shade of Leonid Kravos.
Revenge: The Nightmare targets people involved in the whole Kravos affair for this reason.
Revenge by Proxy: When Michael would be too powerful to try attacking, the Nightmare went after the heavily pregnant Charity.
Took a Level in Badass: Leonid Kravos was kind of a wimp. The Nightmare is...most definitely not one.
Ye Olde Butchered English: The Nightmare talks this way. It's because he's trying to imitate the way he thinks a demon would speak. Harry knows enough grammar of English from that time to notice a grammatical error a demon shouldn't have made.

Barbara, aka "Lydia"

A member of Kravos' cult.

Bungled Suicide or Interrupted Suicide: It's not clear which, but she definitely has razor scars on her arms that could only come from a suicide attempt.
Demonic Possession: She's possessed, and Dresden thinks a demon is to blame, but as it turns out, the monster possessing her is actually the ghost of Kravos.

The Oldest Profession: Has bartered sex for things before.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. She calls herself Lydia for most of the book, and later a reporter named Lydia Stern is introduced.
Seers: She claims to have Cassandra's Tears, a condition which lets her predict the future but prevents others from believing her. Whether this is true or not has not been determined, but it seems likely based on the predictions she has made.
The Woobie: She suffers a lot in Grave Peril. She's almost sacrificed by Bianca, then possessed by Kravos.

The Sleeper's Cult

In General

A group of fishermen and crabbers local to Unalaska, Alaska, who are infested and warped by a Great Old One named the Sleeper.

Apocalypse Cult: They want to wake the Sleeper and end the world.
Cthulhumanoid: To the extent that they can extend octopus-like tentacles from their heads (though they can also conceal said tentacles when trying to blend in with normal people).
Humanoid Abomination: Prolonged exposure to the Sleeper’s influence has twisted and mutated them to the point that they are no longer human. Discounting the fact that they can use potent dark magic and extend tentacles from their mouth when alert or in attack mode, their human disguises are flawed, as their skin is bulging out of place in some areas and there’s something wriggling within their eyes.
Religion of Evil: They run one in Alaska. Ramirez even notes that on their unholy ground they will have a significant boost of power. This boost puts them more on par with some sorcerers and warlocks.
Shout-Out: A very clear one to the cult of Cthulhu.
Was Once a Man: They were all regular humans before the Sleeper infested them. This allows Molly and Carlos free reign to kill them with magic or mundane means and no one from the White Council will mind.

Clint

Once a normal resident of Unalaska, Alaska, Clint was infested and warped by the Sleeper shortly before the beginning of the story "Cold Case".

Naïve Newcomer: His infestation is relatively new, and he doesn't yet know how things work in the mortal world (such as how, precisely, the Sleeper can be woken).
Feel No Pain: He walks on a broken leg with no issue.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Molly gets an 'angry sexual predator' vibe off of him, which foreshadows his corruption.

The Captain

The leader of the Sleeper's cult.

The Captain: Of a fishing boat.
Mind Rape: Does this to a bartender in order to find out who Molly and Ramirez are.
No Name Given: Only ever identified as 'the captain' or 'Captain Fisherman.'
Oh, Crap!: He gets this when he realizes the one he captured is Winter Lady Molly right before she unleashes icy death upon them.

Other Organizations

The Alphas

In General

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Downtime with Dresden and the Alphas

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Patrolling wolves

A pack of vigilante werewolves and allies of Harry's. The Alphas assemble in Fool Moon, where they are mostly college students under the mentorship of Tera West.

Canis Major: Most of the Alphas are described as something leftover from the ice-age and are all about the same size as Mouse.
Healing Factor: Although it takes a lot of energy, and leaves really ugly scars, they can use the wolf spell for healing some injuries.
Hit-and-Run Tactics: They specialize in them. When one hits the target and runs, the target generally focuses on that wolf, leaving the others an opening.
Internal Reveal: Harry finally gives them (some of them) a full layout of the supernatural in Turn Coat.
Noble Wolf: 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 Alphas on their turf.
Our Werewolves Are Different: In this universe werewolf (as a technical term) is just a human who can transform into a normal wolf at will. They undergo no mental changes (and thus must learn how to live like a wolf), have no linkage to the Moon, and gain no special invulnerabilities. They're essentially wizards who are a Master of One Magic... although it is possible for them to learn others.
Overshadowed by Awesome: While completely outclassed by the threats Dresden faces, the Alphas can kick serious ass when facing "normal" supernaturals; it's said that vampires avoid the U Chicago campus like the plague now.
Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Their clothing isn't included in their transformations. This doesn't bother them much, but they're shown to have much more modesty than Tera and they usually making a priority to get dressed.
Took a Level in Badass: They were weak newbie wolfs in Fool Moon just starting in their skill. Two years later in Summer Knight they become capable fighters. After Turn Coat and Kirby's death Will pushes them to be even stronger.
You Are Not Ready: Harry toed this line with them, trying to keep them in the dark about the worst of the things that go bump in the night. Will calls him out on this when keeping them in the dark didn't help save Kirby when the danger followed Harry to their door.

William "Billy" Borden

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The leader of the Alphas, as a human...

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...and as a wolf.

The Leader of the Alphas, and later the husband of Georgia.

Battle Couple: With Georgia.
The Big Guy: Of the Justice League Chicago.
Brief Accent Imitation: One of Will's character tics is imitating Georgia's voice. It has been thought by both Harry and Murphy that he probably does it without even realizing it.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Against Jenny Greenteeth in "Something Borrowed" and Madeline Raith in Turn Coat.
Genius Bruiser: Has an engineering degree from University of Chicago.
Gondor Calls for Aid: The group mostly split up after they all graduated college, but Billy has been trying to get back in touch with them since the fomor arrived.
Happily Married: With Georgia, as of the short story "Something Borrowed", set between Dead Beat and Proven Guilty.
Meaningful Rename: A re-nickname in this case. William Borden upgrades from "Billy" to "Will" as of Turn Coat, after he calls Harry out on trying keep him and the Alphas sheltered from the rest of the supernatural world despite the fact that they are now mature veterans of multiple battles rather than inexperienced college kids. The new, less childish nickname serves to indicate Harry's acceptance of Will as an adult and an ally.
True Love's Kiss: He uses this to wake Georgia from Jenny's sleeping curse. Had Will unknowingly wed Jenny and kissed her, the magic of his kiss would have been destroyed and rendered him unable to wake Georgia forever.

Georgia McAlister Borden

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Wife. Mother. Defender of Chicago.

Second-in-command of the Alphas, and later the wife of Billy.

Battle Couple: With Will.
Bride and Switch: Jenny Greenteeth switched places with Georgia in an act of revenge for the Alpha's slaying a ghoul assassin Maeve liked. Harry stopped Billy from kissing the fae and binding himself to her.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Against Jenny Greenteeth in "Something Borrowed" and Madeline Raith in Turn Coat.
Damsel in Distress: 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.
Happily Married: With Billy, as of the short story "Something Borrowed", set between Dead Beat and Proven Guilty.
Pregnant Badass: In "Aftermath". It's hinted to be the reason she's able to resist the Formor mind magic.
True Love's Kiss: Is saved from Jenny's sleeping curse with one.

Andi Macklin

A member of the Alphas. Dated Marcy in college and Kirby until he died, after which she began to date Butters.

Buxom Beauty Standard: The others often talk about her voluptuous figure, and she's even nicknamed "Furry Knockers".

Dungeon Masters Girlfriend: First to Kirby, then to Butters.
Formerly Fat: She's described as rather plump in Fool Moon, but by Summer Knight she has slimmed down due to the heavy exercise in her work with the Alphas, gaining a figure described as being out of a men's magazine. However, Harry notes she still was a Big Beautiful Woman even back then.
In-Series Nickname: Andi is called "Furry Knockers" by Butters over the radio. Murphy calls her "Fuzz".
May–December Romance: She's a few years out of college by the time she dates Butters (So mid-to-late twenties). Butters meanwhile is in his mid-forties by that point.
Ms. Fanservice: It's hard to convey in print format, but the reactions of other characters make it unambiguous.
Precocious Crush: Has one on Harry Dresden. Kirby was not amused
Progressively Prettier: As years passed she got more in shape. May also qualify as Fanservice Pack.
Shapeshifting Squick: She and Kirby come to Harry in the short story Day Off to ask for advice about magic fleas which made them more bestial. Harry, to his chagrin, correctly assumes the two attracted the fleas when they were experimenting with sex in their wolf forms.
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She's shown to be shy about having to strip out of her clothes to transform, awkwardly covering herself with her arms while she does it.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: After she got into shape, she wears provocative clothing and enjoys attention from opposite sex.
Marci: (after Andi shows off her body in front of Harry) She has been insufferable this year.

Kirby

A member of the Alphas who was killed fighting "Shagnasty", a powerful skinwalker.

Butt-Monkey: 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 and two broken legs 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 Shagnasty.
Character Death: Died during Harry and the Alphas' first encounter with Shagnasty.
Mauve Shirt: Though not a hugely prominent character, he appeared often enough to make his death in Turn Coat a Tear Jerker and to demonstrate Shagnasty's strength.
Shapeshifting Squick: He and Andi come to Harry in the short story Day Off to ask for advice about magic fleas which made them more bestial. Harry, to his chagrin, correctly assumes the two attracted the fleas when they were experimenting with sex in their wolf forms.

Marcy

A member of the Alphas who was disfigured during a battle with a Fomor lord.

An Arm and a Leg: While she doesn't quite lose the limb, her shoulder was half-melted during the Fomor fight in "Aftermath".
Mission Control: Works with Butters to radio information and instructions to a team infiltrating a svartalf facility during "Bombshells".
The Nose Knows: Has very powerful scent-tracking abilities in her wolf form that exceed even those of the other Alphas, such as Billy.

Tera West

The mentor of the Alphas.

Fiancée of one Harley MacFinn. She was a mentor to the Alphas and taught them the change-into-wolf spell. She enlists Harry's help in Fool Moon after the magic circle MacFinn stays in during his bouts of Involuntary Shapeshifting rampages was damaged.

Action Girl: She is more than capable of handling herself in a fight, both in human and wolf forms.
Actually Pretty Funny: She almost seems like she has No Sense of Humor, but she's visibly amused and almost laughs when Harry expresses how much she frustrates him.
Harry: Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
[There was a hissing sound from the back seat, and I flicked a scowl back over my shoulder. Tera was chewing on her meat. Her eyes were shining, her mouth was curved at the corners, and her breath was puffing out her nostrils in near-silent laughter]
Affectionate Nickname: Usually refers to Harry as "Wizard". At first it seems that it's because she doesn't like him and only sees him as a tool, but she keeps doing it with a friendlier tone after she warms up to him.
Amazonian Beauty: Her physique is described as being lean and solid with muscle, but still very beautiful.
Ambiguously Brown: Her skin color is described as "a uniform shade of brown". Given she's a timber wolf that can take human form it's ambiguous if her skin color is supposed to reflect her fur (which is not described as brown) or her taking the form of what a Native American woman would look like, since she lives in a native preserve.
Ambiguous Situation: We never get the details of how she met the Alphas other than it was via MacFinn's Northwest Passage Project. How she came to be involved be MacFinn is also never revealed.
Angst? What Angst?: Her feelings over MacFinn's death are never dwelled upon, other that she doesn't blame Harry about what he did.
Big Damn Heroes: She and the Alphas rescue Harry at the nick of time when he's captured by the Streetwolves.
Brutal Honesty: She doesn't mince her words for the sake of politeness, such as thinking Susan is stupid for asking obvious questions, like if Harry bullet wound hurt.
But Now I Must Go: At the end of Fool Moon she leaves town to go back to the mountains now that MacFinn is dead, telling Harry she will be with her family.
Canis Major: Her true form is a timber wolf the size of a human.
Dark and Troubled Past: When Harry inquiries on who she is, she simply says she's someone who has lost to many of her family in the past.
Death Glare: Gives these quite often to Harry, especially when he acts suspicious of her or is being aggressive towards MacFinn.
Defrosting Ice Queen: She's naturally distrusting and has a cold and non-nonsense demeanor, and acts with hostility to Harry at first, but as they go on adventures together she eventually warms up to him.
Does Not Understand Sarcasm: She's often confused or disdainful of Harry's sarcastic remarks. This is due to her being a wolf, and wolves don't have sarcasm.
Fragile Speedster: She has immense speed and agility in wolf form, but doesn't have the brute strength of the loup-garou, making their fight a David Versus Goliath scenario where she has to dodge his blows to stand a chance.
Graceful in Their Element: Harry realizes she's a wolfwere upon watching her move in her wolf form, noticing she's much faster and graceful than any of the other Shapeshifters.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Played With, she's not tiny (in fact Harry describes her as tall) but next to the huge MacFinn she "looks like a slip of a girl".
Humanity Ensues: By turning into a human, she feels things she never knew as a wolf.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: She expresses the view that humans are more brutal than animals as humans kill for fun or sport, while animals only kill to live, which is why she acts so distrustful when dealing with humans.
Interspecies Romance: She's a wolfwere and the fiancée to MacFinn, a human.
Leg Focus: Harry seems to be often staring at her legs, with his narration often noting on how they're "long" or "lean".
The Mentor: For the Alphas, she mentors them in Voluntary Shapeshifting. We don't learn the details of how the arrangement started other than it was via the Northwest Passage Project.
Ms. Fanservice: She's described as being incredibly attractive with Harry taking notice of her "long lean legs" quite often. And while she wears practical clothes whenever she can, she does end up naked quite often due to Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing. Her comic book illustrations need to make heavy use of Censor Shadow and Godiva Hair to keep her covered.
Naked First Impression: Her first meeting with Susan has Tera only barely draped in Harry's trenchcoat. Susan just chalks it up to Harry's weird world.
Noble Wolf: She has most of the qualities associated with wolfs, being very intelligent, dignified, proud, and loyal.
Noodle Incident: She and Listens-to-Wind have met each other at least once, and she asks him to pass on her regards to Harry in Summer Knight.
No One Gets Left Behind: 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's intervention makes her sacrifice unnecessary.
The Nose Knows: She's easily able to track down or notice people with her enhanced sense of smell, even in her human form.
No Social Skills: Learning about humanity is as hard for her as learning to be wolves is to the Alphas.
Nubile Savage: For a being that by all rights shouldn't really have a good conception of hygiene, she takes good care of herself. MacFinn's influence may have helped.
Our Souls Are Different: She doesn't have a soul to soulgaze, which shows Harry she's not a human.
Our Werewolves Are Different: She's a wolfwere, a wolf that can take human form in the same way as werewolves whenever she pleases.
Put on a Bus: She appeared in only in Fool Moon, and the book ended with her departing the city, mentioning she would now return to her family in her native lands. She got a brief mention in Summer Knight, but never showed up again, despite the fact the Alphas are recurring characters. Word of God is she may show up again.
Red Herring: 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 Fool Moon, but he turns out to be wrong, and she ends up being one of his biggest allies in the book.
Scarily Competent Tracker: She's shown to be an expert tracker, mostly due to her enhanced sense of smell and wolf instincts.
Sexy Mentor: Though she's spoken for, she serves as the first instructor for the Alphas once they learn to shapeshift.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She ends up naked often given all the shapeshifting she does and is quite unconcerned about it, even though she's fully aware of the effect her nudity can have on men. Although she's a bit disdainful once she does a naked dance to distract some cops. She also shows not to care for other's modesty, being nonplussed at Harry's discomfort when she informs him she undressed him so she could bandage his bullet wound while he was unconscious.
Show Some Leg: She does a Nude Nature Dance in the rain to distract some cops that are watching Harry's apartment, giving him the chance to get his tools.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Has a habit of suddenly sneaking up behind Harry, usually startling him.
The Stoic: She almost always holds herself with a relaxed composure, rarely showing much emotion and acting in a level-headed manner. Although she has her times of being Not So Stoic.
Supermodel Strut: Harry frequently mentions how she walks in a graceful and confident manner.
She moved with a feral sort of grace that made me all too aware of her legs, and her hips.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: She has peculiar amber eyes, denoting her status as a Shapeshifter.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: 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 "did what was necessary".
Voluntary Shapeshifting: She teaches the "Change-into-wolf" spell. For her, a better name is "Change-into-human" spell.
Weak, but Skilled: She doesn't have the raw power of the loup-garou, she's quick and skilled enough to fight him one-on-one by dodging his attacks.
We Need a Distraction: She serves as a distraction thrice.
- Once in the forest when she charges past the police so they pursue her while Harry and MacFinn escape
- Later when Harry needs to sneak into his apartment that is being under watch by the police she offers to be a distraction, but Harry pleads for her to not be violent. She acquiesces by dropping her coat, deciding to Show Some Leg to distract them instead.
- In the Final Battle of Fool Moon, she takes on MacFinn in his berserk loup-garou form, evading his attacks and distracting it while Dresden takes care of Denton's hexenwolves.

The Evil Eye Franchise

For Lord Raith, see his entry under The Vampire Courts.

For He Who Walks Behind, see his entry on the Outsiders page.

In General

A collection of individuals with grievances against porn director Arturo Genosa who resorted to using dark magic to settle their scores.

A Rare Sentence: Harry later mentions tangling with "a cult of porn star sorceresses", prompting a Double Take from Molly.
Asshole Victim: Considering their actions over the course of the book, it's safe to say their horrible deaths all were well-deserved.
Death by Woman Scorned: They don't manage to kill Genosa, but they kill a lot of his potential lovers.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: They target the most beautiful women around Genosa first, but Genosa works in the porn industry and has three failed marriages with beautiful women behind him. He's actually dating his plain-looking, reliable producer rather than any of the talent, someone they never even consider targeting.
Greed: One of the motivations for the ex-wives is that, if Genosa remarries, their generous alimony payments will be reduced or eliminated. They therefore try to kill his new love interest to prevent that. However, with his sinking business ventures, it's less motivation than simply killing Genosa's current girlfriend.
Reality Warper: Part of the entropy curse is basically changing just the laws of probability with how bad things play out. From when a strong serious mind is in control and a randomly fired bullet will strike the target dead, or a brainless beauty launches it and a woman dies from a car hitting her while water skiing, the primary caster's intent and mind will change the outcome.^note.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Predictably given Woman Scorned over the same man is part of their motives, they apparently dislike each other, and are more than happy to kill each other if given the opportunity; Trixie and Madge use Lucille as a sacrifice the moment she displeased Lord Raith, and Madge gladly helps Raith get rid of Trixie once she no longer has any use.
13 Is Unlucky: The curses they send must be launched at exactly thirteen minutes before, or after, either noon or midnight.
Villain Ball:
- 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. In addition, the deaths of these women will likely mean that the production will shut down and Genosa's business will fail, meaning they won't be able to get their generous alimony cheques any more.
- They also screw up when they target Inari Raith—that is, the daughter of the guy giving them access to this magic. Lord Raith is not amused.
Woman Scorned: Except for the backers, the Evil Eye Franchise consists of Genosa's three ex-wives who want revenge on him for dumping them.

Madge Shelly

Genosa's first ex-wife. A highly regarded porn actress under the name of Elizabeth Gunns, Madge became rich thanks to Genosa's alimony. The leader of the Evil Eye casters.

Chekhov's Gun: Her carrying plates and dishes prevents her from shaking hands with Harry. As she is the strongest of the wives magically, Harry just touching her would have told him she is a practitioner of power.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Killed by her bones exploding out from within .
Death by Irony: Killed by the same dark magic/Outsider forces she used to target Genosa.
Only Sane Man: Not by much, but she is the only one who shows some degree of competence and intelligence out of the three, being actually skilled in magic, careful to avoid hand contact with Harry so he wouldn't realize this, and the only wife to not commit any blatantly stupid mistake.

Lucille Delarossa

Genosa's second ex-wife and porn actress who also participated in the Evil Eye group. Her stage name was Raven Velvet.

Amazonian Beauty: Described as this, more or less word for word.
Blow Gun: Her weapon of choice when not using entropy magic. Both Harry and Murphy realize that his attacker probably didn't have much practical experience, since a blowgun is too impractical, too "Hollywood" of a weapon.
The Ghost: Is never actually seen in person during the Blood Rites case, though Dresden does see her picture and she does once shoot at Harry from a concealed position.
Human Sacrifice: She is sacrificed to use as the catalyst on one of the final attempt on the curse.
Large Ham: A non-vocal variant; it's mentioned she had a tendency to be over-the-top and theatrical (as demonstrated by her attempt to kill Harry with a blowgun, of all things), and was responsible for the ridiculously elaborate nature of all the death caused by the Enthropy Curse; as soon as she is killed, the next death inflicted becomes noticably more practical and subdued.
Small Role, Big Impact: It's her overdramatic death scenarios that convince Genosa that there's something behind the accidents killing his actresses, and gets him to hire Harry to check it out.
Villain Ball: According to the other two wives (though admittedly they might have been Unreliable Narrators), she was the one who came up with the idea of targeting Inari Raith, with complete disregard for the fact she was Lord Raith's daughter. As a result, she suffers the consequences for it.

Trixie Vixen

Genosa's third ex-wife. An unintelligent but beautiful actress, Trixie joined the Evil Eye group after Genosa divorced her.

Brainless Beauty: Incredibly gorgeous, but by far the dumbest of the three wives; to give an example, her attempt to frame Dresden fails because she didn't even bother to learn his name.
Bring My Brown Pants: When Harry gets the upper hand on her during the confrontation, she is mentioned to soil herself in fear.
Chekhov's Gun: Her inability to remember Harry's name comes back to bite her and help Harry when she cannot even recall his name properly to implicate him in the murder she commits.
Dirty Coward: Is quite willing to murder and belittle people, but the moment she faces retribution she begs and pleads while soiling herself.
Hate Sink: Obnoxious, egocentric, pretentious, shallow and hated or despised by practically every single character we get to see her interact with (heroes and villains), she comes out as being unlikable even before we learn she is part of a murder cult.
It's All About Me: The primary reason she is seen as obnoxious; Trixie is a prima donna convinced she is the center of the Universe.
The Load: Aside from her truly unpleasant personality, she causes several problems to the group; when confronting Harry, she gets relatively easily owned by him despite catching him unarmed while she is pointing a gun at him, her attempt to frame him to the police fails miserably because she didn't bother to learn his name and none of her coworkers liked her enough to correct her, and when they finally have Harry as their prisoner, she tries to kill him at the slightest provocation even though they need him for the Entropy Curse. Eventually, Lord Raith and Madge just end up getting rid of her.
Meaningful Rename: Unlike the other two ex-wives, who used "sexy" stage names but didn't change their real names, Trixie had her actual name changed to something suitable for porn work. Her original name was Tricia Scrump.
Smug Snake: Supremely confident to her ruin.
Spoiled Brat: A huge prima donna who threw fits whenever she didn't get her way.

The Fellowship of St. Giles

In General

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Who holds the line against the Reds

A group of supernatural individuals and their allies who fight against the Red Court. Many of them are people who have been infected by the Red Court but resist their vampiric urges to drink someone dry and turn all the way.

Badass Crew: Members inevitably become this with their training and facing against foes much stronger than them.
Interspecies Romance: The birth of Maggie Dresden shows while these half-vampires aren't wholly human anymore, they remain at the very least fully functional like White Court vampires in terms of making children with humans. It isn't known if there is anything supernatural about said children.
Hit-and-Run Tactics: 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.
No Immortal Inertia: Which became a problem once the Red Court was destroyed.
La Résistance: Serve as this in South America since long before the war got wizards more involved, holding the line.
Older Than They Look: Several members.
Power Tattoo: Unlike typical versions, their tattoos are more restraining bolts meant to help the half-vampires hold back their urges and keep them from turning to full vampires.
Restraining Bolt: While the tattoos don't fully stop a wearer from fully acting on vampiric urges, they do help control and mitigate those urges to allow a person to last longer.
Vampire Refugee: Half-turned humans comprise a large percentage of the grou.
Token Heroic Orc: An organisation of them, vampiric individuals who help defend against those who would prey on others.

Susan Rodriguez

Nothing will stop her from finding that story.

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Or taking down those Reds.

A reporter for the Midwestern Arcane, a trashy tabloid that doesn't deserve a journalist as good as she is. She will put herself at an extraordinary amount of risk to get the scoop on some genuine weirdness, and constantly pesters Harry for leads. Harry's girlfriend until the Red Court got their hands on her, at which point she joins the Fellowship and wages war on the vampires who ruined her and many others lives.

Action Girl: In the later books. In Changes, she takes a steel table leg as an improvised club and helps Harry fight in the Erlking's dual. Even without powers, she handled herself decently against vampires.
Action Mom: She was pregnant while a member of the Fellowship. In Changes, she joins Harry in their quest to retake their daughter, no matter the price they may have to pay.
Green-Eyed Monster: Only on one occasion, where she is quite ticked off when Harry gets distracted by Tera's nude form. She has moved on though later on following Grave Peril's events and holds no begrudging in this regard.
Damsel in Distress: In the earlier books. Harry had to rescue her a few times early on. She gets better.
Determinator: Getting turned into a half-vampire has her early on resist 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.
The Driver: She spends most of Fool Moon having to drive Harry and/or Tera around.
Friend in the Press: Whilst she was a journalist Susan had this sort of relationship with Harry, her first meeting him being out of her desire to expose the supernatural. Her pestering him for leads and stories, led to them eventually getting together.
Hero of Another Story: Her various alluded to missions with the Fellowship of St Giles.
Heroic Willpower: Exemplifies this, with resisting her infection.
Heroic Sacrifice: Just about literally. She lets Harry sacrifice her on the altar that is being used to empower the bloodline curse, to target the Red Court. This is after her change into a full vampire, meaning what remains of her soul is powerful enough to allow Harry to kill her to save their baby girl.
Hypocrite: Keeps Maggie secret from Harry so that Harry's enemies won't gun for her... yet risks keeping in contact with her daughter herself. Somewhat justified, as she likely got attached to Magge as a baby and struggled to sever contact entirely. Fortunately she has enough sense to tell the truth when shit gets real.
Idiot Ball: Showing up at Bianca's party in Grave Peril with a fake invitation for the sake of a scoop despite Harry's warnings explaining why it was a bad idea. Then again, he himself realises he was at fault in how he gave very minimal information to her resulting in her really not having an idea of the actual scope of the danger there.
Intrepid Reporter: She pursues several investigating angles for the Midwestern Arcane. Determined to find out hidden truths wherever she can.
Latin Lover: She was a long-term girlfriend of Dresden and even had a child with him.
Missing Mom: She tried her best to avert this as she could before, giving Maggie up but attempting to visit her when she could with her adoptive family. But now with her death in Changes, she is this.
Marked Change: The Fellowship's normally invisible tattoos allow her to use the junior league version of the Red Court's abilities without letting her bloodthirst get out of control.
My Greatest Failure: How she views what happened with Maggie.
Pre-Climax Climax: She and Harry end up sleeping together just before the climactic battle in Fool Moon
Pregnant Badass: There's no indication that she stopped helping the Fellowship while she was pregnant.
Shoot the Dog: After she attacks Martin and starts to turn into a full vampire, Harry has to cut her throat to turn a bloodline curse intended for him on the Red Court.
Slashed Throat: Courtesy of Harry as part of the ritual to sacrifice her and destroy the entire Red Court.
Star-Crossed Lovers: With Harry. He's a White Council member, she's turning into a vampire, and their nations are at war.
Took a Level in Badass: While never one to shy away from most danger, after becoming a half-vampire and joining the Fellowship, she became a skilled fighter, weapon's expert, and terrorist to the Red Court. She has enough combat skill to hold her own using just a metal table leg as an improvised club.
Vampire Refugee: Fought her transformation and the vampire courts with everything she had, even when it meant her life.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Picks up Harry's gun and shoots a demon attacking Harry. After she becomes a vampire, it becomes even more pronounced.

Martin

Martin was one of the Fellowship of St. Giles most dedicated members, and worked with them for well over a century. He is absolutely fanatical about bringing down the Red Court. At any cost. We learn a lot about him in Changes, so if you haven't read it, this will be a spoiler-heavy entry.

Becoming the Mask: Originally, he was an infiltrator to bring down the Fellowship of St. Giles, but while working for them, grew to despise the Red King
The Chessmaster: Martin plays everyone for fools in his ploy to wipe out the Red Court having planned ahead over perhaps years for the perfect opportunity to strike.
Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: The man runs gambits in gambits. It's nicely foreshadowed in Death Masks where Martin turned out to be using Susan in order to kill Ortega.
Hypocrite: In Changes, Martin blames Harry for endangering Susan which led to her becoming a proto-vampire — all the while using Susan, Harry, and their little daughter in his gambit against the Red Court.
The Nondescript: He is boring and unremarkable in every aspect of his appearance and personality. After he emerges from a vicious battle completely unscathed Harry notes that this ability serves him like armor. No one sees him as a threat.
Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: A heroic, or at least Well-Intentioned Extremist version, he arranges for Susan to kill him to fully transform into a vampire. This made her the youngest Red Court vampire, allowing Harry to use her as the sacrifice for the bloodline curse in order to wipe out the entire Red Court (and cure the half-vampires who had yet to succumb to their blood lust, and possibly young Red Court vampires).
Survival Mantra: "Stay on mission". He regularly tells Susan this when he feels she is letting her emotions get the better of her.
The Unfettered: The Red Court is evil. The Red Court must be destroyed. What do you mean, further moral considerations?
- In Death Masks Harry realizes, and Martin doesn't disagree with the claim, if it serves destroying the Red Court Martin would have put a bullet in Harry rather than Ortega.
- In Changes he pushes Susan to the point she murders him to become a full vampire in the ritual room where the bloodline curse against Harry was about to be used just so Harry will kill her and annihilate the whole Court. All of it.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He'll do anything to destroy the Red Court. He'd interrupt a duel specifically to keep the hostilities between the White Council and Red Court active. He'd have shot Harry in the back to do so. He'd sell out Susan and Harry's daughter, Susan, the entire Fellowship of St. Giles, and himself.

Monoc Securities

For Sigrun Gard, see her entry under Chicago Mafia.

For Freydis Gard, see her entry under Vampire Courts.

For Karrin Murphy and Nathan Hendricks, see their entries under Chicago Police and Chicago Mafia, respectively.

In General

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A security organization with an absurd amount of stockpiled weaponry and many powerful fighters.

Badass Crew: No member of this institution is a weakling or a pushover in combat. From Gard with her battle axe, or her sister, to the Einherjar with their centuries of training, to the secretaries outside of Donar's office (who scare even Gard), to the top man himself.
Fantastic Racism: The Valkyries view all Forest People as monsters because Grendel was one of their kind ages ago.
Wall of Weapons: Although it's more like Multiple Floors of Weapons. Each floor from the lowest levels and up have pretty much every armament in human history, from ancient stone weapons used by the first humans, to the first guns, to fleets of modern tanks and who knows what else hidden in Monoc's main facility.

Donar Vadderung

Donar Vadderung/Odin/Kris Kringle

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"I've been in this game for a long, long time, boy. How do you know I haven't given you exactly what you need?"

CEO of Monoc Securities and Miss Gard's ultimate employer. He's a very tall, big, strong man, with one eye... Mentioned in several books before he makes a brief appearance in Changes. If the Stealth Pun company name didn't tip you off, he's Odin. And also Kris Kringle, AKA Santa Claus, a King of Winter.

Amplifier Artifact: As revealed in the microfiction "Good People," his reindeer act as these in his Kringle form. Molly compares each of them to the power amplification of the Winter unicorn and muses that the thought of the sheer power he uses with them makes her uncomfortable.
Arch-Enemy: Apparently to Ferrovax.
Badass Santa: Well, come on. He's Santa and Odin.
Batman Gambit:
- Ebenezer suspects Odin ran a gambit on Harry in Changes as part of helping Mab get vengeance for the Red Court's crimes against her nation. His knowledge and actions put the gun in Harry's hand and told him where to shoot. And Harry followed through.
- Harry suspects that he and the Erlking pulled this during Cold Days, forcing Harry to defeat them in self-defense and allowing him to take command of the Wild Hunt to lead against the Outsiders on Demonreach. Harry notes that there are no way Harry should've been able to win this easily.
Big Damn Heroes: Makes an appearance with the rest of the Grey Council to back up Harry in the big ending battle of Changes.
Big Good: He's a member of the Grey Council, and one of the clearest defenders of humanity and Creation itself against the forces of the Outside.
Bystander Syndrome: In Cold Days of the Eldest Gruff, Erlking, and himself, he only stares blankly at Harry, giving no hint to Sarissa being taken away by The Red Cap.
The Cavalry:
- As part of the Grey Council, he helped ride in to save Harry and his team in Changes.
- In Cold Days, he co-leads another cavalry, which Harry must wrest control of if he wants to have them on his side.
Cool Old Guy:
- He's the only other person in the entire setting aside from Harry who uses the word "juju" to refer to magic. Naturally, he's a pretty cool guy.
- Infinite layers of this are added in Cold Days when it's revealed that on top of everything else, the old codger is Santa Claus. It makes perfect sense (as Odin as a gift-giver predates the Christian Santa), who saw that coming. This also takes into account Gods Need Prayer Badly. Human belief shapes some supernatural entities, including Odin. Belief in Odin waned, weakening his power, but Odin was one of many inspirations and influences on the composite character Santa. When people began to conflate Odin with Santa, Odin became Santa. He hints at this early in Cold Days, commenting that human belief has changed who he once was.
- The Kringle persona itself is pretty cool, if scary. How do you feel about Santa being someone who's equivalent of "drinking with the guys" is a rousing game of the Wild Hunt
Crazy-Prepared: When Harry first enters the World Tree, he passes through a collection of just about every weapon in history, but gathered in such numbers that they could "win a minor war in a century of your choice". Then he gets on the elevator, which rises up past at least seven more floors similarly outfitted, before he just stops counting. When he asks Gard about how ridiculously well-armed Vadderung is, her only response is that "one can only have as much preparation as one has foresight." It's also implied that his belief in foresight is what allowed him to find out where Maggie was going to be taken for the sacrifice.
Deadpan Snarker: When Harry asks him what would happen if he went back and time and tried to kill his grandfather, Vadderung's response?
"He beats you senseless, I expect."
Exact Words: Kringle explains that there is an important legal distinction between himself and Donar. They are two separate entities, with separate rules and responsibilities—the fact that they're both physically the same person is legally irrelevant. When Mab asks Kringle for aid, the Lord of Winter must oblige. Should she ask Donar for aid, he will tell her to get in line.
Foreshadowing: When Harry met Donar in Changes he noted, "[Donar] had a hearty laugh, like Santa Claus must have had when he was a young man and playing football."
Genius Bruiser: The man is one of the best information gatherers in the world, sharp as a blade, and the former chief Norse God. He is a dangerous and terrifying force in battle.
Good Counterpart:
- To Mab and her court. While he is aligned with Winter, Donar is one of the kindest and most good-natured and jovial beings in the entire court. He is more than willing to give a person help if they have proved their worth and take that as payment and nothing more.
- He is also more reserved and contained than the Elrking, who has been described as Jackie Chan meets Hannibal Lecter.
Good Is Not Nice: Downplayed. He can be pretty jolly, but his idea of a fun evening with the guys is participating in the Wild Hunt, doesn't get involved in Maeve's kidnapping in Cold Days, and he shows absolutely no compunction with humanity being described as a potential enemy in Battle Ground.
Good Is Not Soft: He's unambiguously on the side of good, but even Harry respects him enough to keep the sassing to a minimum. When he tells you to move out of his way, you move.
Honest Corporate Executive: Being both a generally heroic and good guy who is also the head of a private security company that employs valkyries and controls the World Tree. His appearance as Vadderung combines both elements of the corporate executive and roguish international criminal.
Hope Bringer: His role as Santa Claus. He represents the hope in the bleakest part of the year.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: While Mab is not tiny, standing over six feet, in his Kringle-mask, the man stands at around nine feet.
I Have Many Names: Vadderung, Odin, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus, and as Peace Talks reveals, Beowulf.
I Let You Win: In Cold Days when he and Erlking lead the Wild Hunt against Harry, Harry is able to shoot Erlking with an unenchanted gun and gets to fight Kringle in an old steel mill, defeating both of them. At the end of the book, Harry tells him he knows there is no way this could have happened unless the two of them wanted it to happen.
It Was a Gift: As a Fae, there is the danger of him applying a harsh or long measure of debt to any gift he brings a person, unless he uses his Kringle mask and claims it as a belated Christmas present.
Knowledge Broker: As Odin, he is this. If he doesn't know about it already, he will know it soon enough.
- He surprises Harry by knowing Harry had a daughter before Harry told him (and well before Ebenezer McCoy).
- He knew the relationship between Ebenezar and Harry.
- He will also take payments in the form of information such as Harry setting up the White Court to tail Odin personally to make them reveal how they worked their spy network. This is to pay Odin for showing up at a meeting at all.
- He tells Harry that Anduriel, who can look and listen through almost anyone's shadow, knows "very nearly as much as I do."
The Mentor: The fact that he tutored Merlin—the guy who built Demonreach—speaks volumes about his power and skill. Particularly since Odin's had over a millennium to practice and study magic since then.
Mysterious Backer: To Harry. He is always helping Harry in one form or another, but as Harry notes, doesn't always explain his reasons or the full consequences of Harry completing the mission.
Mythology Gag: Peace Talks shows him holding a cane whose shadow is surprisingly long — most likely because it's actually Gungnir.
Old Master: Odin is so old that he taught the original Merlin.
The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: He's a member of the Grey Council.
Physical God: Again, he is Odin. He is also the Winter King, and thus Mab's peer.
Right-Hand Hottie: Has two "raven-Haired" secretaries whose nails can scratch metal. Sigrun is terrified of them. Donnar refers to one as M.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: As Odin, King of the Norse Gods, and Kris Kringle, a Winter King, he is not one to shy away from battle.
Rules Lawyer: As expected for The Fair Folk. Due to the tangle of social niceties and obligations inherent to the fae, offering aid for free is generally frowned upon... but Kringle's not above giving Harry the occasional "belated Christmas gift."
Sacred Hospitality: As Odin, he takes this very seriously and borders on Secret Test of Character for the visitors. Accept his hospitality if offered and you will be rewarded. Refuse it and it is one of the things that will quickly make Odin angry with you.
Santa Claus: One of his masks, but in his view only a recent addition. When wearing the guise of Kringle, his build, appearance, and demeanor shift considerably, but his vast knowledge and skill are intact.
Secret-Keeper: On par with being a Knowledge Broker, he knows plenty of secrets.
Secret Secret-Keeper: He knew Harry had a daughter before Harry tried telling him, and before any of Harry's living family. He also knew Ebenezer was Harry's grandfather before Harry did.
Secret Test of Character: He enjoys these. And from his perspective, as he has had his eye on Dresden for a while, everything Harry has chosen to do could be considered this. When all things are considered Odin likes and respects Harry enough to give him crucial information on his daughter's whereabouts, the exact nature of the curse the Reds' plan to use her for, and a taste of the power Harry will be facing when he arrives. The price he charges Harry is nothing.
Stealth Pun:
- Monoc—>Mono-Ocular—>One-Eyed—>Odin One-Eye. And on top of that, their logo is a circle with a bar through it; Harry thinks it looks like an eye being cut out with a blade or the Greek character iota imposed on an omega. Thus, the blind eye that sees every last little detail.
- His last name relates the word "father". His first name is another name for Thor. Therefore, his name is "Thor's Father".
Time Master: Kringle is skilled with temporal magic, able to recognize and counter it when Harry, Karrin, and the rest of the Wild Hunt are caught in a time-shifting field that threatens to keep them from reaching their destination in time to help. The Erlking even notes this is his specialty. As Santa Claus, this is presumably how he is able to deliver gifts around the world in one night.
The Wild Hunt: Every Halloween, he co-leads this hunt with Erlking.
The World Tree: Now masquerading as a high-rise office building.

Hugin and Munin

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A pair of raven-haired secretaries working for Vadderung who look perfectly identical. Their names are left unsaid at first (although Vadderung calls one by the initial "M"), but Dresden works out who they are and asks about them by name to Vadderung in Cold Days.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: which can cut steel like fruit peel.
Bit Character: Only appear briefly in a couple of chapters (of course, knowing their role, it's entirely possible they've been involved in Harry's life much more than he realizes).
Clever Crows: Strongly implied to be the ravens Hugin and Munin of Norse mythology.
The Dreaded: Subtly, but Gard is afraid of them and warns Harry not to antagonize them.
Hate at First Sight: They despise Dresden about two seconds after meeting him. It might have something to do with Dresden seeing one of them peel up shards of a stainless-steel desk with her nails and immediately start joking about if she peels oranges or sharpens dull blades too.
Photographic Memory: Gard says they "never forget", which fits with the mythology that Hugin and Munin are Odin's information-gatherers. Their names also mean "Thought and Memory."
Super-Senses: Can see in the dark.
Speed Blitz: Does this when a Fomor mook tries to stab Harry in the back. One pins Harry to the ground while the other slaughters the mook.

The Einherjar

Some of the soldiers that Monoc Securities hires out. They have no magic powers while alive, but they reincarnate when they die in battle, and most of them have lived for centuries. As a result, they have far more fighting experience than most opponents are likely to be able to match.

Blood Knight: When Jotun turn up in Chicago, the likes of Harry and Ebenezar are scared. The Einherjar scream with joy, grab some explosives and charge.
Dying Moment of Awesome: How one becomes an Einherjar. Murphy and Hendricks ended up in Valhalla because of this.
In Love with Your Carnage: Murphy causes a few crushes among their number by being able to keep up with them as a vanilla mortal, even after she's battered around and only has about 50% mobility left.
In refenece to Murph pulling the pins out of two grenades and holding them at head height when she's pinned in a fight: Gods that's hot.
Really 700 Years Old: As a result of their power.
Resurrective Immortality: Their only power, but it's a doozy.

Skaldi Skjeldson

One of the Einherjar. He spars with Murphy and jokingly offers to train a reluctant Butters.

Boisterous Bruiser: One minute he's battling Murphy, and the next he's joking with Butters.
Old Master: He may not look his true age, but he qualifies. Murphy, for all her skills, never once beats him. He always pulls out another move or exploits a tiny opening to win.
Really 700 Years Old: Murphy comments he has been fighting for roughly 2,000 years and has massive levels of experience in combat.

Monster LLC

Goodman Grey

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A mysterious shapeshifting mercenary hired to assist Nicodemus in Skin Game.

Narrates the short story "Monsters".

Affably Evil: Subverted. Grey is a self-described "professional monster" and mercenary but is polite, courteous and fairly friendly. By 'Peace Talks', Harry has learned that he isn't actually evil at all, despite being a Humanoid Abomination. "Professional monster" is more of a literal description: he's a monster, or at least the son of one, and indeed professional.
Ambiguously Evil: Much like Kincaid, Grey toes the line of ruthless pragmatism. Unlike Kincaid, it turns out that money is no object, and he only works for good causes.
Anti-Hero: He's a ruthless, cold-blooded mercenary who only works for good causes at a rate of one dollar per case.
Bullying a Dragon: Because Grey is a naagloshii, even though he rejects his father's evil ways he refuses to chance this by entering into the Carpenter's yard with its angelic protections. Uriel doesn't say what might have happened if Grey had, but he's thankful that nothing had to happen. Understandable, as naagloshii are basically fallen angels of Native American mythology, so Grey hits pretty close to the description of The Antichrist in Christianity.
Combat Pragmatist: He has disguised himself as a weak mortal some ghouls were targetting in order to get a drop on them when they attacked Harry first thinking him to be the greater threat. Later, when fighting a monster in Hades' vault, he went straight for the beast's eyes.
Comically Small Bribe: Harry hires him for one dollar, and it later turns out that this is his standard fee. Naagloshii are too self-sufficient to worry about living expenses, and he works for the job satisfaction.
Consummate Professional: Played With. It doesn't matter what the job is or if a better offer comes along. Once he's hired, he will see the job through to the end, no matter what. It's not actually about the money for him, and he wants to work for good causes, which is why Harry, rather than Nicodemus, ended up as his employer.
Creepy Good: Naagloshii are strong contenders for the scariest entities in the franchise (particularly thanks to Shagnasty the Skinwalker's terrifying debut), and Grey compounds this with his ruthless, callous mercenary persona. He's still a reliable (and extremely affordable) force for good, though.
Deadpan Snarker: Enough to keep up with Harry in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
Dead Person Impersonation: After his target in Skin Game dies because Harry and he fail to protect him, Grey assumes his identity for the remainder of the day so as not to alert anyone of something being amiss. However, this has its risks, according to Word of God. Apparently, if he "takes in" too much of someone else, he runs the risk of overwriting his entire personality with that of the person he takes in, since he is not a true immortal like his full-skinwalker parent.
Doppelgänger: Name dropped by Harry, and his part in the plan involves turning into someone who can access the vault, though Harry's not sure what kind of doppelganger he is. Probably a good thing he learns after the job's done, all things considered.
Exact Words: He is a "professional monster," which seems to imply he is a horrible creature who will work for anyone... but rather, he is a Humanoid Abomination (i.e., a "monster") who has a strict code of who he works with and will not go back on a contract (i.e., a professional). In effect, rather than being a "professional monster," he is instead a "professional monster."
Half-Human Hybrid: Maybe. He mentions that his father was "a piece of work," which, in conjunction with describing Harry's mom in the same way, implies that he was a skinwalker too. But details are scarce, and even less is known of his mother.
Healing Factor: Not one of the strongest in the series, given that physical injuries still "rattle" him, but his body can restore itself from gory injuries in minutes and hours rather than days and weeks.
Humanoid Abomination: He's a half-Skinwalker that prefers human form, so it comes with the package.
I Gave My Word: Like most supernatural entities, he takes contracts incredibly seriously. The fact that he offers his services so freely despite this is an important insight into his character.
Meaningful Name: It's a statement of intent. He's a Native American demon trying not to be totally evil, which is why he hires himself out for good causes for a very small fee.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When he transforms into Harvey, he acts like Harvey, getting nervous and twitchy even when everyone else in the room is fully aware he's not the real thing. He mentions that "going this deep's not for amateurs."
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He's a naagloshii cultural rebel.
Only in It for the Money: Subverted. At first glance, he's only interested in getting paid and isn't particular about whom he gets paid by...then we learn that his fee is one dollar, and he only works for good causes.
Pay Evil unto Evil: Grey is a self-described "professional monster." But he has a genuine moral code, so kills criminals and monsters who are far eviler. It later turns out that he deliberately enforced this by only hiring himself out to good causes for a Comically Small Bribe.
Pop-Cultured Badass: One of the few non-normals able to match Harry reference for reference. Which is foreshadowing that he's not actually evil. Butcher's Author Appeal usually makes the complete villains mystified by the banter.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: He claims that Justine is obviously a Femme Fatale when Harry assigns him to keep an eye on her. Normally he would be wrong, since Justine isn't even close to this. But when she's possessed by Nemesis, that changes quickly...
Snark-to-Snark Combat: Grey and Harry spend the entirety of Skin Game making quips and friendly snarky backchat to each other. Grey is one of the few characters who can keep up with Harry in their back and forth.
They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Grey is described by Harry as being very bland looking and seemingly normal in his default disguise form but Grey in truth is a very powerful shapeshifter with a very intelligent mind.
True Sight: He has some measure of this power as he is able to take note of the positions of two Guardian Angels positioned around the Carpenter House.
Voluntary Shapeshifting:
- To an extremely impressive degree — Harry notes that he's able to pull additional mass from ectoplasm, and even uses it to take on the Genoskwa in a fight and score a quick tactical advantage that lets others finish it off. This comes with his being at the very least part-naagloshii.
- Given a proper genetic sample of the target, he has the focus and talent to make changes as minute and detailed as a person's iris, to fool a biometric security system. Harry is understandably creeped out by this.
We Help the Helpless: By 'Peace Talks', Harry has learned that this is the true nature of his mercenary operation, and he was never going to work with the Denarians.
You Are Who You Eat: A danger he faces. If he consumes too much of a person, he runs the risk of becoming the person entirely, memories and all. He could potentially change so deeply that he chances losing/forgetting the Goodman Grey personality.

Viti

Grey's secretary and assistant. Little is known about her.

The Cracker: One of her jobs is breaking into and dealing with electronic security systems.
Deadly Graduation: Grey mentions that she killed over a hundred of her classmates during her graduation.
The Paranoiac: She sees just about everyone as potential targets, including children that she is helping to save from a gang.

Ordo Lebes/The Paranet

For Helen Beckitt, see her entry under Chicago Mafia.

For Priscilla, see "her" entry under the Vampire Courts.

In General

The Ordo Lebes was a Chicago-area group of women with minor magical talents who aren't quite strong enough to join the White Council. Unfortunately, when the Skavis started killing off minor practitioners, the group made a convenient target. After that problem was dealt with, Elaine Mallory rebuilt the group and expanded it into a worldwide network of minor practitioners. This new network was called the Paranet.

Elaine Lilian Mallory

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A powerful witch with a very dark past.

Harry's fellow adoptee under Justin DuMorne, and his fellow apprentice and first love who was (supposedly) enthralled by their mentor Justin. Ran away and was thought dead by Harry, but was discovered to be living with the Summer Court. After that fell apart, she started a magical investigation service in Los Angeles, and was eventually hired by the Ordo Lebes to investigate the mysterious deaths of several of its members. After the leader of Ordo Lebes died, Elaine rebuilt the group and expanded it into the Paranet, a worldwide organization of minor talents and practitioners.

Action Girl: As a White Court despair vampire finds out to its chagrin. *BZAAAP*
Amicable Exes: Gets along fine with Harry, they have a somewhat friendly working relationship. There's even a little bit of Ship Tease between the two, but they both seem to accept that how their history went down pretty much makes a relationship in the present impossible.
Bluffing the Authorities: Elaine is presenting herself as a low-level sorcerer and deliberately failing the White Council's aptitude tests. She may be open to joining them one day, but her experiences with DuMorne has left her with issues with trusting authority figures.
Blow You Away: Is capable of whipping up a baby twister to toss around dozens of ghouls.
Broken Bird: Coming from an orphanage, her already-abusive father figure brainwashed her and tried killing her adopted-brother/lover, and her lover killed Justin. After getting out on her own, she tries acting like Harry, helping people, but still loses some close friends.
- She also mentions how she suffered from multiple phobias through the years (claustrophobia, agoraphobia, xenophobia, autophobia and vertigo). Some of which she still endures. Harry guesses those are side effects of the mental magic Justin used on her.
Chain Pain: Her magical focus is a heavy chain threaded with copper and inscribed with magical runes. She uses it like a whip, and has the added benefit of being easily concealable, in contrast to Harry's staff.
The Chosen One: Like Harry, Elaine is a "starborn", someone born under a confluence of events that is supposed to give her influence over Outsiders. It's why Justin chose to adopt her and Harry.
First Love: She and Harry.
Foil: To Harry. Both were raised by the same person, both have the same Significant Birth Date, and both are incredibly powerful. However, Elaine tends to be more precise and comes off as Weak, but Skilled, but has far more raw power than most realise. Harry is a magical brute who initially comes off as Unskilled, but Strong, but has far more subtlety than most expect. They also serve opposing Fae courts during the events of Summer Knight.
Healing Hands: She's developed a version of Reiki which combined with her magical talents can heal minor injuries, scrapes, bruises and headaches. It can't deal with serious trauma or infections.
Hero of Another Story: She eventually sets up a similar P.I. service in Southern California and becomes a key fighter against the Formor. She also shares Harry's Starborn status, making her an effective weapon against the Outsiders.
Hyper-Awareness: Has a series of bracelets that allow her this ability.
Mind Control: Her betrayal of Harry was due to Justin mucking around with her brain, although it isn't until Ghost Story that her story is confirmed via flashback.
New Old Flame: While mentioned in the first book, her appearance was a surprise. Mostly because Harry and the readers thought she was dead.
Person of Mass Destruction: She rarely whips out the heavyweight magic, but as the Skavis heir finds out the hard way, Harry really isn't kidding when he says that she's nearly as strong as he is - and more precise with it. And that incident is while she's shaking off the after-effects of a serious psychic attack and blood loss that promptly hospitalises her.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She was thought to be dead by Harry till Summer Knight.
Shock and Awe: Electricity appears to be her forte, as she can blow apart ghouls' skulls with lightning bolts, has an electrically-charged chain as one of her foci, and uses lightning to inflict some impressive property damage. She also appears to be able to draw upon electricity as a power source; her chain is charged by thunderstorms or wall sockets, and she can draw the ambient electricity from her environment to power her spells.
Significant Birth Date: Like Harry, she was born on Halloween, making her a Starborn. As was mentioned above, this is one of the reasons Justin adopted her.
Weak, but Skilled: Technically, but only 'weak' when compared to Harry - and he casts considerable doubt on any serious power gap. 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, with Harry being utterly gobsmacked that she can casually whip up a shield that's specifically permeable to the living - 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.
Willfully Weak: She deliberately failed the White Council's aptitude tests so she could avoid their attention.
Working with the Ex: While there's still some trust issues to work through they get along fine.
You Didn't Ask: Uses this to save Harry's life while she's working for Aurora. Elaine magically binds Harry and leaves him to drown per Aurora's instructions, but doesn't bother to mention that the binding spell she used has a critical weakness she and Harry discovered as students together, allowing Harry to break free.

Anna Ash

The founder of the Ordo Lebes.

Death by Despair: As a result of the Skavis.
Driven to Suicide: After the Skavis blasts her with his depression magic, Anna hangs herself.
Magical Native American: Downplayed. Anna was part Cherokee, but past her initial description, it's never really brought up, and she has no stereotypical Native American magical abilities/gear.
True Companions: She still accepts and consoles Helen when learning the latter is both a felon of the mortal world and once a user of black magic to kill people.

Abby (and Toto)

Abby is another member of the Ordo Lebes, and one of the few to survive the Skavis' attack on the group. Her minor talent is precognition. She also suffers from epilepsy (or is assumed to do so thanks to her talent), and she has a Yorkshire terrier, Toto, who may help her manage that condition.

Big Beautiful Woman: Abby is described as pretty and plump.
Canine Companion: Abby is virtually never seen without Toto. The doctors prescribed him because they think she has epilepsy and he is an alert dog.
The Ditz: Averted. Abby seems scatterbrained, but Dresden works out that this is just her trying to keep track of the present as well as the futures that she sees.
Evil-Detecting Dog: Well, a ghost-detecting dog, anyways. Toto can sense Dresden's presence after he dies and returns to haunt Chicago.
Seers: Abby's power. Harry notes one way to bother her is if you readjust what she has foreseen, such as when she meets Harry and Karrin, Abby identifies as her police rank and last name, Murphy could have changed things slightly by saying instead, "I am Ms. Murphy."
True Companions: She still accepts and consoles Helen when learning is both a felon of the mortal world and once a user of black magic to kill people.
Uncertain Doom: The last time she's seen in Ghost Story, she's badly wounded from a gut shot. Word of Jim is that both she and Toto survived.
You Are in Command Now: Takes over the Ordo Lebes after Anna Ash's death.

Olivia

A member of the Paranet who goes missing during the White Night case.

Dainty Little Ballet Dancers: Is explicitly mentioned to be wearing a "dancer's leotard" in all her appearances.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Dresden and the Ordo Lebes find footage of Thomas taking Olivia away with him and conclude that he's the murderer and has killed her. Turns out he was bringing her to safety, along with as many other Ordo Lebes members as he could find. She turns up later alive and well.

Gary

A member of the extended Paranet organization. Provides a mixture of useful information and conspiracy garbage to the rest of the Paranet.

Awesomeness by Analysis: When he's useful, it's because of this. In Cold Days he notes that boat rentals are up about 400% since the last year, realizes this could be relevant, and passes this information on; it turns out to be a key clue in Dresden's investigation.
Basement-Dweller: Butters says that he lives in his mother's basement.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's an oddball who is not always correct, but he does get some things correct.
Conspiracy Theorist: Sums him up. As an example, he mapped out a huge group of subjects that he thinks are behind the Billy Goat Curse on the Chicago Cubs.
Hero Stole My Bike: Averted, he lets them take his bicycle.
Knowledge Broker: He gets Harry and co. a lot of information, like a Denarian attack on a hidden nuclear power plant, via email (to Butters, given that Harry can't use a computer).
Playful Hacker: He can hack into almost anything.
Spammer: Butters treats him like this at first, but Gary is able to get around Butters' various attempts at spam-filtering and banning him. Butters eventually stops once Gary proves his utility.
The Ghost: He never appeared in person till Battle Ground (2020)

Other victims of the White Court "culling"

Victims of the White Court "culling"

Members of the Ordo Lebes that were killed by White Court vampires in an effort to extinguish the next generation of wizards and witches. These include:

Pauline Moskowitz. Killed by the Skavis.
Maria Casselli. Killed by the Skavis.
Janine. Driven to suicide by Vitto Malvora in an attempt to frame the Skavis.

Death by Despair: How they all died, as a result of how vampires of House Skavis feed on their victims by inducing supernatural despair.
The Ghost: Paula and Maria are never shown in person.
Goodbye, Cruel World!: Janine leaves a suicide note.
Never Suicide: All three victims were killed, but their deaths were made to look like suicides to the mortal authorities.
Posthumous Character: Janine is only depicted after her death.

Victims of the Fomor

Members of the Paranet that were killed after the Fomor began trying to take over Chicago. These include:

Nathan Simpson. Killed by a ghoul.
Sunbeam Monroe. Abducted after getting on an El train and never heard from again.

The Ghost: Neither are shown in person.
Never Found the Body: Monroe was accompanied to an El train, and someone was waiting to pick her up at the other end, but she mysteriously vanished en route.

The Streetwolves

In General

A gang which channelled spirits of rage when they fought.

The Berserker: Their power was to channel spirits to make them this.
Healing Factor: When channelling spirits, they can heal from a great deal.
Klingon Promotion: The only way to lead the gang was to beat its current leader in a fight.
Unwitting Pawn: Of both the FBI hexenwolves, who tricked Dresden into thinking the gang was responsible for the Lobo Killings, and Marcone, who used the gang to get to Dresden.

Parker

The leader of the Streetwolves goes to war.

The Leader of the Streetwolves, though he began to lose his grip on them as he aged. Nonetheless, he was still able to hold his own against the other members of his gang.

Feeling Their Age: Still tough in a fight but it's more of an effort these days. Dresden needles at him for this.
Old Soldier: Despite his age he can still hold his own against younger streetwolves.

Lana

One of Parker's rage-possessed minions.

One of the Streetwolves under Parker's command.

The Starscream: She seems to be building up to this as she tells other members of the Streetwolves that Parker is weak. However, the FBI agents kill both her and Parker before anything can come of this.

"Flatnose"

"I say we off this skinny son of a bitch right now."

Another of the Streetwolves who served Parker.

The Starscream: Challenges Parker for leadership of the Streetwolves. It doesn't end well for him.

Stygian Sisterhood

In General

A group of women who worship an ancient demon-god and want to bring it back into power. They oppose the Venatori, who are pushing to destroy all memory and utterance of the demon-god.

Batman Gambit: As just knowing the name of their demon-god is enough to give it a foothold, they planned on leaving a book of dark rituals where Harry could find it. This is because the White Council's policies with such tomes is to publish them en masse to defuse their power, which normally works just fine.^note. Here, it would have the opposite effect.
Deal with the Devil: As part of their pact with the Old One, they tear out parts of their psyche and gain demonic bits instead.
The Force Is Strong with This One: A variation. Knowledge of the Oblivion War (the war against Old Ones), the aforementioned push, leaves a mental mark on a mortal. The Sisterhood can use mind magic enough to spot when a person has such a mark.
Humanoid Abomination: As stated, their human psyche is ripped out in parts and the essence of their god is put in but nothing happens to the body proper. Because of this, they are still 100% genetically human, with the same flawed body, and susceptible to being eaten on by a White Court vampire.

Talvi Inverno, Esq.

"Talvi Inverno"

"Talvi Inverno" (no real name, but Dresden calls him "Nameless Son")

The nameless tenth son of Loviatarm, a Finnish goddess. The nameless son became a demigod of strife and diversion, and after being cast out by his mother (and helping Kemmler start multiple World Wars), he eventually sought sanctuary in Mab's court. He took the alias of "Talvi Inverno," which is just two foreign words that mean "Winter."

Amoral Attorney: His current job, and typically for someone who thrives in Winter, he's very good at it. Dresden eventually gets around him in The Law by making it a contest of professional legal skill between him and the one lawyer who'd ever beaten him.
Never Given a Name: He has no real name, which means spells requiring a True Name don't work on him.

Lapland

Ms. Lapland

The odd, aggressive "secretary" working at "Talvi's" legal practice.

Laser-Guided Karma: Bob theorizes that Lapland was a hag who tried to capture Talvi with a lust spell but was caught when Talvi turned it back around on her, thus trapping her as his servant.
Woman Scorned: She's supposed to be Talvi's obedient servant, but Tripp is so obnoxious that she breaks the rules and tries to have him assassinated.

The Thule Society

For Kemmler and Grevane, see their entries under The Kemmlerites

Alexander Page

A necromancer who finds himself pursued by Luccio after murdering his girlfriend and her family, then using their bodies in a necromantic ritual.

Necromancer: A very skilled one who is able to control more than 40 zombies at once.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Calls Luccio a 'bitch' as he tries to kill her.
Taking You with Me: After Luccio mortally wounds him, he wounds her back and tries to kill her so he at least won't go to Hell alone.

The Venatori

For Thomas and Lara Raith, see The Vampire Courts.

In General

The Venatori is organized into two sects or orders. The first and most well-known are the Venatori Umbrorum, or "Shadows of Hunters". They were allies of the White Council in the war against the Red Court, and focused most of their attention on destroying the Court's mortal resources, supply lines and finances. The second sect is completely secret. They use the first group as feelers, information gatherers and observers to develop leads on those who know of the Oblivion War and those who worship the Old Ones, whom the Venatori are sworn to destroy.

Badass Bookworm: The open group was able to gain enough intelligence and wreak havoc on the Red Court's mortal side that the White Council was able to recover quickly from the massive loses in Dead Beat.
The Force Is Strong with This One: A variation. Knowledge of the Oblivion War (the war against Old Ones), the aforementioned push, leaves a mental mark on a mortal. The Venatori can use mind magic enough to spot when a person has such a mark.
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Any mortal marked by the knowledge of the War might be given a choice to join up. Or they could just be killed for the sake of reality.
Loophole Abuse: Any mortal who gains knowledge of the War is marked and could be a tether to an Old One. A being of spirit, like Bob, doesn't have that problem.
The Man Behind the Man:
- The secret sect runs and uses the openly known group for gathering information.
- The Archive is the true leader of the group, with the final job of purging the knowledge forever. No one knows she holds this position.
Pragmatic Hero: None of the secret group can allow for the worshipers of the Old Ones to live their encounters. They will take measures to eliminate any who know about the war too.
Pragmatic Villainy: Lara Raith fights for the Venatori because if the Old Ones came back, she and her kind couldn't feed on humans anymore.
Secret War: Secret beyond Secret. Fewer than 200 known members fight this war against the Old Ones. If knowledge gets out, then all the demon-gods gain a boost of strength.
Unperson: The secret group's purpose is to make sure ancient demon-gods become this. The musing point is they don't know how many they have succeeded at banishing because even knowing that number is enough to give the things they banished a tiny foothold.
Well-Intentioned Extremist:
- They will kill any who have knowledge of the Old Ones or the War. If a non-involved mortal learns they might have a chance to be pressed into service of the Venatori.
- They once tried to banish the Fae from reality, not knowing Winter's role in also keeping the Outsiders (who worked for the Old Ones) back. They were kind enough to not kill the Venatori in turn, instead gaining a strong foothold thanks to the G-Men: The Brothers Grimm and Gutenbergs.
With Us or Against Us: If a mortal is offered a choice to join them and the mortal refuses, this comes into effect. Shortly thereafter, Killed to Uphold the Masquerade is likely to follow.

The Archive, aka "Ivy"

Ivy, the Archive

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"If you like, I could draw you a cost-benefit analysis of your training versus your earnings in your first year at the temple, before Nicodemus came. I could use charts to make it easier for you to understand. And color them in with crayons. I enjoy crayons."

The Archive is the repository of all human knowledge. Anything that has been written down, anywhere, she knows. She also happens to be a young girl. When we first see her, she's seven — and unconcernedly tells Harry that if she has to, she'll kill him. We've seen her blasting vampires into oblivion and (at twelve) keeping almost 10 Denarians entertained without much effort. But she's still a kid, and will render official documents in crayon and Squee over a cat.

Accidental Hero: Possibly. The Goodbye short story involved her confronting Kincaid before he set out to Chicago. She let Kincaid do the deed, but coerced him into promising to shoot Harry in the chest rather than in the head. Whether purposeful or sentimental, Ivy gave Mab, Daemonreach, and Bonnie enough leeway to resurrect Harry rather than letting Kincaid permakill him.
Blessed with Suck: The Archive is passed from mother to daughter, normally when the daughter is in her 30s, has her own child, and the mother passes away, meaning that the inheritor was able to live a life and gain emotional maturity before having to bear the responsibility. The current Archive (Ivy) had none of those opportunities because her grandmother was unexpectedly killed and her mother, just a teenager, committed suicide out of spite, meaning that Ivy's never had the chance to simply be a child.
Break the Cutie:
- Small Favor. The Denarian plot was to make her so broken she would accept a Fallen and become their weapon.
- Word of God says learning of Harry's death would be enough to break her. Ironically, she knew of when Dresden called the hit on himself immediately, and became quite upset with Kincaid. The implication was that it did a number on Ivy for a time, and she quite possibly still hasn't forgiven Harry.
Creepy Child: It’s 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.
Cute Bruiser: A young girl who likes cute and fuzzy animals and crayons who can also take on a dozen supernatural heavyweights without much effort (with her power limited to boot - Harry explicitly states that if she hadn't been limited, she would have eaten them alive).
Cuteness Proximity:
- She can be distracted by things that are cute and fuzzy like Mister ("KITTY!"), otters, and Mouse.
- The fact that she's a young girl means that Harry and Kincaid are extremely protective of her as a person and not just as the repository of all human knowledge.
Damsel in Distress: 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 Lucifer.
Emotionless Girl: Ivy's apparent lack of emotion is a defense mechanism of the Archive; the girl, on the other hand, is very attached to the few people who treat her like an actual human being.
Heroic Willpower: When Harry threatens to sell his soul Ivy manages to overpower the Archive persona just enough to give Harry a small scrap of information that may or may not help him (fortunately it does).
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Her bodyguard is the big and scary Kincaid. But he's nowhere near as dangerous as Ivy.
I Have Your Wife: As she has been the Archive since birth, she was never close to anyone, save Kincaid and eventually Harry. Threatening them is an effective strategy, but beware Bullying the Dragon because this Dragon is Power with a capital "P".

Knowledge Broker: Averted. The Archive will not be bought or give information out to those who come calling. She has greater needs than that. Even Harry is treated like this and it strains her to just give him a suggestion of some help. That is only because he implies he will use a certain book with certain names in it, which could have disastrous results for Harry.
Little Miss Badass: When seen in Death Masks, aged about 7, she kills vampires wielding mordite effortlessly. Five years later, in Small Favor with barely any magic available, she holds off a gang of Denarians, including vaporizing one of them, and Dresden is absolutely certain that without the restrictions she would have crushed them.
Little Miss Snarker: She tries and mostly succeeds in her taunts against a Denarian, mainly by offering to show the Denarian a cost-worth graph of her previous education as a prostitute to her life before becoming a Denarian. She'll do it in crayons too.
Long Game: The Archive plays this as part of being a Hero of Another Story. When an Old One is consigned to her custody, the Archive waits patiently for a thousand years or so, to ensure she&s the last human alive who’s aware of the name of an Old One and then deletes the name from the database. Then, bye-bye Old One.
Morality Pet: For Kincaid.
Neutral No Longer: 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 (and Harry is of the opinion that this is a considerable underestimate), with her knowledge and abilities, she could cause massive levels of devastation ^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.
The Omniscient: She automatically knows anything that's written down, physically or (per Word of God) electronically. So while she's not quite omniscient, she's surprisingly close. She also has perfect recall for all that knowledge and even powerful bindings that she cannot break free from didn't prevent Harry's note from getting to her.
One-Man Army: Ten fallen angels, versus one little girl. It took the Fallen some seriously dirty tactics to bring her down.
Only Friend: Harry was the only person to treat her as a real child and not a Physical God to be feared. She is thankful to him for that.
Person of Mass Destruction: She is ranked by the Wardens as being on par with the Winter Lady and Summer Lady. Harry suspects she is actually considerably stronger. And since knowledge is power in the Dresden-verse, every day more information is written or typed, which increases her power.
Pintsized Powerhouse: Even while stuck in a circle (thus crippling her significantly) she still managed to literally dust several Denarians. At once. By herself.
Raised as a Host: Her lineage has been specifically tasked with producing women who can host The Archive, but they typically wait until the woman is old enough to have enough life experience to keep her own personality. Ivy had to become The Archive after her mother committed suicide when she was a baby specifically to avoid carrying the Archive, as her own mother had died unexpectedly in an accident. For further context, Ivy's mother was young - 17 - and in love, and bitter about how she'd lost her chance to have a normal life, while Ivy would have one. The horrific nature of this - that Ivy would have not only grown up with the Archive practically from birth, but have grown up knowing exactly what her mother thought of her - is discussed.
Spanner in the Works: Her overpowering the Archive persona to give Harry information was one of the things that contributed to Harry finding out about Chichen Itza in time to stop the sacrifice.
We Used to Be Friends: It's subtle, but Ivy hasn't forgiven Harry for his attenpted suicide at the hands of Kincaid. She largely ignores him during Marcone's peace summit, despite having been her only friend beside Kincaid and not seeing one another in several years.

Wyatt Earp

The Deputy in charge of keeping the peace in Dodge City. Earp is a skilled gunman and a knowledgeable Venator, which serves him well when several necromancers set up shop in his town.

The Bet:
- All but outright stated to have lost the necklace proving that he's a Venator to his friend Doc Holliday (also a Venator) in a card game.
- Moments after they meet, he challenges Luccio to go out to have a shooting competition after her business is done. They never get around to it, but Luccio ends up paying him anyways, conceding that he most definitely would have won.
The Cavalry: Rescues Luccio from the psychotic Page at the last minute.
Guest Fighter: He crosses paths with a young Warden Luccio as she's chasing down a Warlock in the American West. They team up briefly as they catch up to a whole coven's worth of necromancers, including a young Grevane and Kemmler himself. Their teamup lasts approximately 18 hours before her duty to find a fleeing Kemmler drags her away.
Historical Domain Character: Earp was a real person, and is famous for his exploits in the Wild West.
Improbable Aiming Skills: He can pull of several headshots at a move in seconds. Not impossible, but the mark of a very skilled gunman.
The Not-Love Interest: When they meet, he and Luccio are clearly quite interested in one another, but they don't even spend a full day together, and their respective interests take cause them to depart amiably in different directions. (Luccio's duty as a Warden taking to hunt down Warlocks further into the West, and Earp staying to enforce the law and his involvement in local "politics.")
Weird West: In what would be an otherwise mundane Western setting, he and Doc Holliday are actually members of a secret society, and necromancers stir up the local dead as a weapon against him.

Catherine Taylor

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Leader of the besieged Venatori.

The leader of a group of Venatori holed up in a farmhouse in Montezuma, Iowa. When the farmhouse is attacked, she works with a Warden group to defend the house.

Apocalyptic Gag Order: Helps to hide the Shoggoth, which is an existential threat to the world. She even tries to stop Dresden and the other Wardens from learning about it.
Badass Bookworm: She and her group are decent, well-armed fighters and provide the wardens vital aid.
Barrier Maiden: The spell keeping the Shoggoth dormant is linked to her.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Subtle, but in the flashback where she was linked to the shoggoth she showed apprehension at the prospect.
No One Gets Left Behind: When Dresden proposes they all just run for it, she says that McGuckin is too injured to be moved and her team won't abandon him.
Security Cling: After telling Dresden about the Shoggoth and how it's bound to her, she lets him hold her.
Skewed Priorities: Prioritizes her orders to keep the secret of what the farmhouse is hiding over the fact that Dresden might be able to use that knowledge to save all their lives and stop the vampires from seizing the Shoggoth.

Anna Ischenko