Its been a few days, since anyone replied here, but about 2 weeks ago I was also wondering about The Lady of The Lake, How Wolfhound stats her seems reasonable, but I also think that she might have power from another few sources, I think Avalon Magic is amazing, I said her Demesne, is actually Avalon, and she has a few old things about her.
She has a lot more going for her than most fae. I mean sure Spenser, and Grimm helped the Fae, but nothing close to the scale of Arthur.
I don't know if I would give her a court or call it specifically the Circle of Avalon, a court of human and fae alike. Working together for God, and all kind. ;p (Take that with a grain of salt)
I made an emmisary, hoping eventually to gain some either sponsored magic, or Glamours, from Avalon's Fae Queen or Ruler the Lady of the Lake. You might check him out and drop some comments if you think of anything worthwhile.
Great to see someone else with a similar opinion.
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,30813.0.html
The most recent Simon R Green nightside paperback - A Hard Day's Knight - deals with the Lady of the Lake. No, it's not Dresden but Jim lists that author as one he reads.
What follows is an interesting idea for the Lady of the Lake - using spoiler tags that only apply to A Hard Day's Knight (and a bit to his Drinking the Midnight Wine book) and has no impact one anything that directly relates to Dresden:
Relatively early in that novel we learn that the Lady of the Lake is Gaia, with Gaia being the personification of the "world spirit". Using earlier books as a guide, I'd say she ranks around the same level as the Mothers but she rarely uses any of her powers in ways that mortals can perceive. In theory she could do virtually anything and everything related to the world (storms, natural disasters, plop down volcanoes at will, wipe out humanity at a glance) but she is in a complex relationship with the other World Spirits, the Sun spirit, various "small g" god, and she's aware of the "big G" God and might have an understanding with him. Note that Simon R Green takes Big G further than Jim takes the White God in that in Green's world He is the Creator and creation happened with the Word (and the ultimate weapon is "The Speaking Gun" which unspeaks the part of the Word you point it at - "uncreating" it).
But while she's in all of these complex relationships (and quietly sending money and textbooks to various eco-terrorist groups) Gaia sometimes does take direct actions - or directly lends a part of her power to others via an item of power. Excalibur is a Sword but it also the "will of Gaia". It doesn't so much have all sorts of powers but effectively allows the bearer to tap into her godlike powers while making him a great swordsman. One of its usages in the book was to repel an army of attacking Elves. Another involved its temporary wielder (not Arthur) going one on one with a 1500 year old sorcerer who was the Antichrist (and had his father's eyes).
Could Gaia exist in the DV? Probably. It's not like she'd usually do more to (or for) mortals than the other Great Powers - and having her as the Lady of the Lake removes the Sword from Fairy influence.
Richard
Maeve is the lady of winter a millennia old elemental force, a focus of a large chunk of the raw power of a season her full power is incredible we just haven't seen it used properly. The loup garou is unstoppable you could nuke it and it would come out unscathed it was created by a divinely powerful curse. Not to mention Harry Dresden who is the focus of the DV world, he is fawned over by creature of 'godlike' power from across the spectrum from Heaven to Hell to elsewhere and beyond and he seems to has access to as much power as the plot demands. Are you really saying these three characters don't count out as plot devices (narrative tools)?
Yes. I am 100% saying that.
Especially if you look at stats given in the book OW.
Novel spoilers ahead!
Harry died to a sniper. BOOM! Headshot. Chestshot, whatever...
Maeve = Aurora in terms of power : Who died to box cutters.... and Harry held her down with his minute physical force
The Loup Garou died to a low level Harry Dresden and a few manuevers.
Look at his suggested refresh in OW by the time Fool Moon is over.
Now, look at Mab, Erlking, Titania, etc. They don't get stats. They aren't klilled even by book 13 (novels).
That is where the Lady of the Lake should be.