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Dresden's first use of the Sight was on a tree, and he can perfectly picture the gnome-like spirit within it to this day. His use of Sight on the Skinwalker in Turn Coat nearly drove him mad with fear and terror at the depth of the evil, cruelty and anathema he witnessed within the creature.
It is noteworthy he has never used True Sight on a true Denarian, although he has witnessed the conflict of the Fey Courts using this ability In Book One of the Dresden Files, the 'drug' being manufactured by the antagonist is actually an alchemical potion allowing normal mortals to use True Sight, an experience few are ready for.
Yet another power that all wizards have is the soulgaze , a meeting of the eyes that transforms into a highly personalized and revealing look at the other person's psyche and soul, and one of the reasons why people instinctively don't look deep into another's eyes. It is an immediate way to identify someone or something flawlessly. It is notably something he has never shared with Murphy, although he has with Susan. Dresden has no idea how people perceive him, although those who have Gazed him tend to have their opinion and respect for him taken up several notches after it happens, as they realize the true nature of who they are dealing with.
The crime lord Marcone, for instance, evidences a remarkable amount of respect for Dresden after sharing a soulgaze, and a young wizard who shared a soulgaze with him said that Dresden was gentle, kind, and alone. However, in the few instances when Dresden has Gazed an enemy during a confrontation, they generally have had a horrified reaction one even gasped that he "[didn't] believe in hell". On a more mundane level, wizards like Dresden are also capable of slowly 'healing perfectly' from injuries, leaving no scars or breaks.
For example, his broken bones will seal and leave no mark behind, and he is slowly regaining use of his flame-seared left hand, damaged so severely the normal doctors recommended it be amputated.
This characteristic is tied to the exceptionally long lifespan of wizards. It has limits Luckily for him, his back problem was fixed instantly when he became the Winter Knight. This is conditional; when he once considered defying Winter's Law, he momentarily lost control of his legs, giving him a moment to reconsider. Dresden's 'final' ability possessed by all wizards is that of the death curse. While it is typically targeted at the being that kills them, it may be employed upon anyone within line of sight such as when Dresden was readying to send the Death Curse at one of the Necromancers in Dead Beat when he anticipated Morgan's attack , and the wizard must have time to use it a few seconds.
Death curses can be incredibly powerful. Dresden believes that the force of his curse could wipe every living thing off the island of Demonreach , and others agree. His mother's Curse completely blocked the ability of the King of the White Court of Vampires to feed, though he was otherwise immune to magic.
Dresden himself has been the target of a Death Curse, although the lesser power of the caster left it open-ended and of vague purpose. Starting with his first exposure to the island of Demonreach , it also appears that Dresden is starting to develop foresight, a characteristic seemingly common to all wizards as they get older and are not warned about ahead of time to stop them from wondering if this or that event was foreseen.
Additionally, after bonding with the native spirit of Demonreach in Turn Coat, Dresden is able to link in with the spirit's intellectus ability concerning itself and all upon the island, enabling him perfect knowledge of Demonreach and its denizens, and natural harmony with the creatures dwelling there, giving Dresden a nigh-insurmountable tactical advantage while he is present. It seems that by the timing of Dresden's conception and birth, he and his ex-lover, Elaine have some form of power over Outsiders, such as He Who Walks Behind, resulting in his astonishing ability to overcome a major Outsider while still a teenager after his master had sent it after him, and actually surviving an Entropy Curse a lethally malevolent form of bad luck.
He and Elaine are known as 'Starborn' for this innate ability. Dresden has a fairly uncommon magical power he has developed with time and experience, the ability to Listen. This is more akin to a clairaudience effect of limited range then merely enhanced hearing, but the sensitivity of it has risen with time, to the point where Dresden can even filter out and discern different heartbeats around corners and in rooms close by.
Although it can be stopped by a Veil, it provides an excellent tactical edge against many opponents for him. Unlike some of the other magic users in the series, Dresden shouts foreign languages and faux Latin commands to perform spells. For example, Dresden lights candles in his apartment by muttering "Fliccum Biccus," an allusion to the "Flick your Bic" lighter advertising campaign. When Dresden utters this phrase and infuses the spell with a minor effort of his will, his candles light up or the fire in his fireplace comes to life.
He often uses "Fuego! He explained that most magic users use some language they're not familiar with for their incantations, to provide a bit of magical insulation to the user's mind from the forces they are channeling and to avoid accidentally casting a spell by uttering a common phrase in a language they're used to. Elaine uses Egyptian. We learn that ghosts can 'vanish', like a short-range teleport, they hurt one another with strong memories, can consume other ghosts for their memories, are destroyed if caught outside a sanctum by the morning light, and can wield magic once again by calling up memories of having used magic before.
However, casting magic is fueled by the essence of the spirit itself, much like soulfire, and can consume them entirely if not watched for. Ghosts can manifest physically by use of extreme willpower, as well. Ghost Story also introduces us to the mechanics of mental assault and defense in the Dresden Files, the uses of advanced illusions via Molly Carpenter 's burgeoning ability, and the rather spookily powerful abilities of ectomancers, the people who can speak with and control ghosts a very separate line of study from necromancy.
Dresden's mental ability is noted as being incredibly obdurate on defense, and blundering tough on offense. Molly Carpenter is noted as being swarmingly effective on offense and elusive and hard to find on defense. Losing all of his equipment at the end of Changes, Dresden is forced to learn to fight without using foci or charms; this means his barriers are now only forward facing and his attacks are less focused. In return, the boost from his new station gives him access to much more mental power to cast from, and he can perform ice spells with ease, including freezing a virtual iceberg to save him and his friends from drowning in the cold waters.
He is immune to cold, won't slip on icy surfaces, can manifest icy claws from his hands, and when fully drawing on the Knight's power, displays the strength to jump fifty feet through the air and bench-press almost nine hundred pounds, coupled with incredible endurance and the ability to ignore pain and heal more quickly then a normal man. The power of the Winter Knight is also incredibly savage, even predatory, and Dresden has to constantly be on guard against its influences and comes to know how his brother Thomas sees the world.
Finally, the mantle has raised his threshold to pain; he has several wounds stitched up without any anesthesia, remarking that he was aware of the sensation and it was not pleasant, but it did not hurt. This last is almost as much curse as boon, as he can become critically injured and not even realize it is happening.
This latest set of abilities does come at a cost. As a thrall of Winter, he is now bound by the codes of Queen Mab's Winter Court; any attempt to violate them deactivates his Winter Knight abilities, including his "healed" spinal injury.
Also, any contact with iron or steel weakens him greatly, as he discovers after being shot with a nail gun and stabbed with fish hooks. He also temporarily becomes a member of the Wild Hunt. This effect cloaks him in shadowy power, turns mundane weapons into powerful magical killing tools, lets a motorcycle ride across Lake Michigan, and hides the identity of those under its influence behind masks of ancient hunters, even supplying mounts for those without them Karrin's motorcycle becomes a huge shadowy cat.
By defeating the leaders of the Hunt, he takes command of the entire pack to lead the defense against an Outsider assault on Demonreach Island. In Skin Game , Dresden's magical abilities are not on as much display. It's alluded that he has managed to find out much more about the powers the Warden of Demonreach possesses, but they are not described.
The force energy that used to be stored in his rings he has instead moved into his staff, as he has not had time to make rings, and he has a new trick for getting around things immune to magic: condensing a steel hard ball of ice into existence and propelling it with force magic like a cannonball, to great effect.
He is also shown redirecting a blast of Hellfire with a cyclone of air. In addition, Dresden discovers that his Mantle of the Winter Knight has allowed him to push and train his body to its peak ability, and now has strength, speed, agility, and endurance as good as the world's top athletes, even without the aid of magic. It is also revealed that Dresden's spinal injury has been healing, and he can move freely even if stripped of his Winter powers.
Artist's depiction of Dresden's energy-storing ring. As of " Jury Duty ", Harry Dresden holds the following titles and positions which carry with them certain special abilities:.
Grey Council member : Dresden is a member of the Grey Council, an underground covert group within the White Council which serves to investigate and combat the hypothetical Black Council ; thought to be a group of practicioners of Black Magic trying to destroy the White Counsil from without and from within.
Dresden, Ebenezar McCoy, and Donar Vadderung are the only confirmed members, but there are at least ten more. The Winter Knight's Mantle pushes Dresden to give into his primal thoughts and urges such as teritoriality, posession, lust, and violence. The more Dresden gives into the nature of Winter, the more he can access the mantle's powers and abilities. In Cold Days Dresden displays the ability to do reps on a weight lifting machine of kilograms pounds , lift the rear end of a hearse off of the ground, freeze an opponent and shatter them, cover his fists with ice when throwing a punch, and maintain sure footing on any icy surface.
Additionally Dresden, when fully giving into the mantle's nature, can grow claws of ice on his fingertips, and can leap distances over thirty feet. This position was claimed by Dresden when he used the Sanctum invocation to claim the island and bind himself to it. This position grants Dresden Intellectus of the island, meaning that Dresden simply knows all information about the island by simply thinking about it.
Additionally, since Demonreach is a super-natural prison Dresden can, at-will, release any of the monsters, Naagloshii , Dark-Gods, and nightmares imprisoned on the island. Dresden can also command the Genius loci , that is the spirit of the island, whom Dresden has named Alfred Demonreach, to follow his orders when he is on the island. The island is imbued with numerous defenses which Dresden can activate at will.
None of these abilities can be used when Dresden is not physically on the island. Alfred Demonreach , the physical manifestation of the spirit of the island, has indicated there have been other Wardens of the island before Dresden took up the job. I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.
He is Dresden's internal self that sometimes leans a little to the dark side of choices. He shows up occasionally in dreams, or when Dresden is unconscious or with Lasciel 's Shadow.
His commentary isn't always dark, though, and is strongly rooted in Dresden's instincts and urges; telling Dresden to get laid, or pointing out what Dresden should do on the few instances he appears. Being Dresden's unconscious self, he knows things Dresden is not aware of, such as the identity of the Parasite, and Dresden's real thoughts and worries, such as telling Karrin Murphy about the White Council. He looks like a handsomer, better-groomed version of Dresden, wearing a black leather duster instead of a canvas one.
His pants, shirt and boots are all-black and tailor-made, and, once Dresden accepts the Mantle of the winter Knight, he wears a single lapel pin in the shape of an intricate snowflake. His hair is neatly cut and his bad-guy goatee is well-trimmed. He has more confidence, raw knowledge and strength, lacking the self-doubt and heroic conflict that Dresden endures. The Double says he's partly Dresden's intuition. They learn that her parents are trying to frame them for her kidnapping, rather than to admit she had run away, but Dresden cannot leave her alone in the city at night.
He's proven right, when the bridge troll Gogoth tries to claim her. Dresden defeats it, only to have Karrin Murphy find them at the end of the bridge. Mainly on Faith's testimony, she lets Dresden and Christian go free of the kidnapping charge. In "Welcome to the Jungle", in the investigation of Maurice Sandbourne 's murder, Dresden chases down and destroys a hecatean hag bent to a rite of ascention. In Storm Front , Dresden comes up against a two-bit sorcerer mixing sex, drugs, magic and murder, the Shadowman.
Also introduced, among others, are the White Council , the Warden Morgan , Lieutenant Karrin Murphy of the Chicago Police Department's Special Investigations division, who hires Dresden on a "per case" basis as a consultant, and Susan Rodriguez , a reporter for the Midwestern Arcane , a newspaper that reports on the supernatural occurances in the area. By the end of the book the Doom of Damocles is lifted from him in a Council meeting due to "valorous action above and beyond the call of duty", although he himself cannot attend due to still being hospitalized.
In Fool Moon , Dresden faces off against several different kinds of werewolves , and gains a new ally in Billy and his gang of werewolves, known as the Alphas. Dresden also concludes at the end of the novel that someone is trying to kill him, having put together certain facts from the novels.
Dresden's other side appears in a dream. He counsels Dresden to tell Murphy everything: the White Council , Nevernever , all of it, she may get eaten by a monster if he doesn't tell her and Murphy's a big girl; and Dresden should ask Murphy out. Not trusting Susan Rodriguez might have something to do with Elaine Mallory. It isn't over as long as he holds himself responsible for Justin DuMorne 's death and Elaine's fall. And, that Dresden knows she's still alive.
Until he faces reality, he won't be able to heal. He rapidly determines the presence of two murderers with different modi operandi, [Footnote 4] a goblin and a ghoul. Bob 's help being insufficient, he is forced to summon a nature spirit for information, who redirects him to another spirit more knowledgeable than itself.
He leads the fight against Ambre and Griswald, winning it. Dresden gets her back, but only by killing his host while a representative of the White Council, thereby starting a Wizards vs.
Vampires war. It is also revealed that Dresden has a faerie Godmother, the Leanansidhe , who helped him escape DuMorne in exchange for his loyalty. Summer Knight begins with Harry Dresden living rough, spending all his time trying to find a cure for Susan Rodriguez.
He is quickly ensnared into averting a war between the Faerie Courts , Summer and Winter , as not doing so would send the world into one of two climates. Dresden also learns that the current Queen of the Winter Court, Mab, has bought his debt from his Godmother.
They haggle a deal whereby Dresden will do three favors for Mab, which he chooses, and he'll be free from Fae influence. The events of Summer Knight make one favour, so Dresden owes Mab two more. It is mentioned that Elaine survived the fire with which Dresden took down Justin DuMorne, and hid in the Summer Court, building up a debt to the current Summer Lady, Aurora, to protect her from those who would want to find and use her.
In Death Masks , Harry Dresden meets the other two Knights of the Cross , and has to find the Shroud of Turin before Nicodemus Archleone , the head of the Order of the Blackened Denarius Denarians being Fallen Angels who inhabit the 30 pieces of silver used to pay off Judas Iscariot for his betrayal of Christ uses it to set off an apocalyptic plague.
He also has to contend with a duel with Paolo Ortega , a Duke of the Red Court , and meets Susan again for the first time since her half-transformation in Grave Peril. At the end of the novel, Dresden picks up the coin of the Fallen Angel Lasciel to protect Michael's youngest son. Harry Dresden meets Thomas Raith again, Jared Kincaid , a mercenary, and The Archive whom Dresden names Ivy , a seven-year-old child who is the living repository for all human knowledge.
In "Publicity and Advertising", he and Bob argue on how better to write an announcement on the Yellow Pages. In Blood Rites , Dresden picks up a stowaway from a job, a Temple Dog , whom he eventually names Mouse and decides to keep. Dresden also has to contend with a ritual curse being sent to kill the women around Arturo Genosa , a pornographic movie director.
He also finds out that Thomas Raith is his half-brother, on his mother's side. Eventually, he's pulled into a power struggle in the White Court. Dresden decides to stamp on the Black Court subversion that is happening also. While taking out Mavra , he severely burns his hand after she exploits a gap in his defensive capabilities. Dresden learns that Ebenezar McCoy is the White Council 's Blackstaff , the wet-works man who can break the Laws of Magic at will, if he thinks that the Council is being manipulated by them.
Dresden also learns that Kincaid is a Scion , or part demon. While trying to deal with the group of "Kemmlerites", the Red Court launch their first major offensive on the Council , killing most of the Wardens in the process. Captain Luccio therefore makes Dresden a Warden - the White Council needs every available wizard, and Dresden becoming a Warden raises morale among the younger members of the Council.
Dresden also becomes aware of Lasciel 's presence in his head, and has to walk a fine line between using her gifts such as Hellfire , which supercharges his spells, and her photographic memory and resisting her, or else he will fall under her power.
His double is part of a three-way internal dialogue with Lasciel's shadow right after Dresden was tortured by Quintus Cassius. The discussion centers around how much use to make of her ability to enhance Dresden's abilities, how much to trust her, and around the contents of the Word of Kemmler. The youngsters is sick and tired, his life force being drained away with black magic ; Harry Dresden scares the culprit out of this action.
When the team arrives to the besieged house hosting the Venatori , he quickly organizes the defense, but is noticed by the Red Court leader , who rapidly invites him to a parley, whose terms Dresden refuses. After Carlos Ramirez reports of the existance of a shoggoth in the house, Dresden quickly surmises the direness of the situation and the intentions of the Red Court. Later, the house they're in being destroyed by a cadre of White Court soldiers, he releases the Shoggoth, killing Bravosa and scattering his forces.
He and Thomas Raith then draw the Shoggoth to an abandoned quarry , and destroy it. They discover that Jenny Greenteeth has cast a sleeping spell on her in order to take her place at the wedding and get some serious supernatural influence on Billy. Proven Guilty sees Dresden investigate black magic in Chicago, at the behest of the Gatekeeper. He also finds himself up against faerie constructs based around horror films, and leads a charge on the Winter Fae capital, Arctis Tor , in order to retrieve Molly Carpenter , Michael's oldest daughter, who is later revealed to be the warlock behind the black magic.
At Molly's trial, Dresden "becomes a politician", in his own words, cutting off the Merlin 's choices until the Merlin is forced to allow Dresden to take Molly under the Doom of Damocles.
In "AAAA Wizardry", Harry Dresden lectures a class of warden trainees about the importance of the five As in their future life: "ascertain", "analysis", "assemble", "act", "arrogance".
In an attempt of helping the Yardly family dealing with a boogeyman , Dresden realizes that the creature was just benefiting from a preexisting situation. In White night , female practitioners start disappearing. It looks like the White Court may be taking a more active role in the war between vampires and wizards and it looks like Thomas Raith is connected.
To make things worse, Thomas isn't answering Dresden's calls. Several rival interests among the White vampires are interwoven into a thicker, yet well-coordinated plot full of surprises and tag-team dueling action.
In "Down Town", Karrin Murphy calls Dresden to a murder scene, showing him a pocket watch that was found on the victim 's body. Dresden collects a piece of residue from the scene and promises to look into the matter. A visit to Thomas Raith at the Coiffure Cup and an inspection by Bob on the murder scene, yield nothing. Thomas is enjoying a game of " Evernight " at the Woodfield Mall , when Dresden reaches him, but a Black Court vampire gets in the way.
In "Heorot", Dresden and Ms. In Small Favor , Dresden loses his ability to charge his spells with Hellfire [] and has to make do without it for his favor to Queen Mab and the recent resurgence of the Denarians.
He gains the ability to use Soulfire , the divine equivalent of Hellfire, fueled by his own soul. While they increasingly violently clash with each other and with the Chicago Police Department , Dresden figures out that a fae is sowing discord in Chicago for his own amusement. He has to improvise a non-magical white lie to cover what happened to the car, as Mike Atagi wouldn't accept the magical truth.
Mike Atagi offers him only two choices among "cheap, fast and good". In "Day Off", Dresden tries to enjoy a well earned day off.
A group of non-talented youngsters, his apprentice , and two of the Alphas interfere, and the day off turns out as busy as his regular days. In Backup , Thomas Raith chases a Stygian who is bent on tricking Harry Dresden to discover and release a book that would wreck the century old Oblivion War. After a meeting with Gwynn ap Nudd , he refuses to do it, having discovered the true meaning of the course. After examining the crime scene, and making friends with Mary and Max Martineaux and with Deputy Gentle , he is stopped by Agents Biggs and Lytle and warned not to interfere with their activities.
He enters Taylor's pub for a beer where he is hit on by a ghoul in disguise who lures him on the street and engages him in a fight, interrupted by Listens-to-Wind , who leads him to the Wolf people's grove ; a palaver with the Wolf people's alpha results in a fight with them , which is stopped with the intervention of agent Lytle and his men.
Agents Lytle and Biggs are there and they have almost a fight with Dresden, interrupted by Deputy Gentle who calls jurisdiction on the two agents.
In Turn Coat , Donald Morgan arrives on Dresden's door, injured and on the run; he's accused of the murder of a Senior Council member, though it's a setup. Dresden assists the White Court , which has also been set up by the Black Council , in proving Morgan's innocence. During his investigation, he claims a Sanctum invocation , has to fight a Skinwalker and is finally able to pinpoint a traitor in the White Council.
Meanwhile, Dresden's brother is kidnapped and darkened by the Skinwalker. Dresden throws down a challenge of violence to the remaining Senior Council members. In "Journal", Donald Morgan discloses that his antagonistic relationship with Harry Dresden was in an attempt to establish whether Dresden was tainted by the Adversary.
He manages, at the cost of an university building's destruction. In Changes , Dresden is informed by Susan that they have a daughter, Margaret Angelica , who has been kidnapped. The novel ends with Dresden drowning, having been shot by an unknown assailant.
As he drowns, he hears two voices; one male Quintus Cassius and one female. In Ghost Story , Dresden is sent back to Chicago as a ghost to solve his own murder. Mortimer Lindquist is kidnapped by a cult worshiping Corpsetaker 's ghost and Dresden rallies his friends to take her down. In the end, he learns that he had arranged his own murder, to renege on his Winter Knight deal with Mab , then had Molly Carpenter erase his memory of the arrangement.
Uriel gives Dresden a second chance since his suicide was influenced by a Fallen Angel. When Dresden chooses to "move on", however, it turns out that Queen Mab and Demonreach have kept his body alive all the time. The Queen then takes the resuscitated Knight to her domain.
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