Something enormous, malformed, something silent and merciless and deadly. It had to crouch to keep from brushing the ceiling with the horns curling away from its head, and batlike wings spread from its shoulders to fall around it and behind it, to drag along the floor, and I thought I saw some kind of hideous double image lurking behind it like the corpsespecter of Death himself.While the description is pretty generic winged demon, it reminds me of a balrog even though a balrog is a generic winged demon made of smoke and fire.
In many ways he is like a wizard. How effective he is depends on how prepared he is, what knowledge he has. He could conceivably kill a Lord of the Outer Night with the right information and weapons.
I didn't get the impression they were immortal.
Anyway, Kincaid as Dracula's younger brother would be interesting. But I would think he would have more vamp tendencies.
But they don't seem to be in the same category as things like the Ladies that would eventually reform regardless of physical destruction (with the exception of during/in conjunctions).
Well actually, we don't know that Drakul wasn't vampiric.
Very true.
Although I am not sure I agree with you on the bit about Kemmler. I don't see Kemmler disrupting Ley Lines.
Much of it was in his knowledge, and his connections. He even had a small army of minions. That's really what made him bad, from what I can tell.
But still human it seems, and therefore vulnerable.
Kemmler would have succeeded, had his rite/spell been successful.
So therefore we know that Kincaid has never actually fully dueled Ebenezar despite knowing he was the Blackstaff, and whatever went down between them.
Yeah, a wizard wearing high-end defensive gear like Eb's would probably be protected from a sniper. Harry's duster fell apart (due to Lea's enchantment wearing off) just before he was shot in Changes, so he wasn't protected then. And doesn't Eb's even protect areas that aren't directly covered?Harry was shot in the upper back by a .50cal in the short story The Warrior. His duster stopped it because it hit the mantel where he had two layers to protect him.
Now those bullets can be pretty huge... but IIRC Harry's duster has stopped assault rifle bullets, so Eb's equivalent stopping even .50 caliber doesn't seem implausible.