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I have long thought much was overlooked here.
Harry has no bargain granting the Guard. Normally, you bargain with milk, bread, and honey for information. Toot, perhaps out of friendship, perhaps greed, told Harry pizza was even more valued.
Harry had no bargain. He began giving pizza, which is of ultimate value to the Little Folk, without strings. Their acceptance creates an obligation for them to provide something he values even as they value the pizza- so yes, I think the Guard are lifelong feal-bound servants. They value pizza over their lives- they'll go to war for it!- so pledging the lives of some of their own fits. Perhaps it's one per pizza he normally provides.
Wouldn't surprise me to find that each "clan" of the Little Folk supplies a member, and when one falls another grows much larger quickly.
I also think there's an implied joke with their being "dockworkers of the Nevernever" and their power when organized. This is Chicagah, an' 'Arry's Hoffa.
Kringle is St Nicholas (of course) so whilst he is Mab’s vassal he also does Uriel’s work, which is how on Christmas Eve he is able to get into the Carpenters without being bug zapped. Their lunch I suspect is a planning session taking place on St Nicholas Saints Day, 6th December.
We know on a related note from The Good Folk that Harry has taken back the Placard from McAnally, as the “Royal Guard” we’re able to break into his ale store.
I mean I dont think Ethniu was really the main player. As always, something else is going on behind the scenes, and when Dresden finds out what it is...its gonna be clobbering time.
Ultimately the direction I hope the story goes in is that Murphy becomes Harry's main vengeance/sorrow, and he stays up late drinking and smoking and hanging around Macs bar. He will start his "Winter Harem" with at least Molly and Lara as members. He puts both intellectus's on the end of his staff so that they can utter witty male/female banter in battle. Castle Dresden will have its walls lined by Harry's dead enemies heads on spikes. Also Dresden starts using Murphy's glock as his primary sidearm. Dresden will finally unleash the potential Mab saw in him from the beginning, to become a righteous killing machine laying waste to all the bad guys in the story.
Maybe everybody knows except Harry and Carlos. Wizards.
forumghost, Mira, true, but I didn't mean that having Harry got those powers were the main purpose of GS. I just want it to have been a small side effects. And "ghost powers" was a way of speaking, I meant something related with being a bodyless soul.
I don't know, I don't think he stated that he could. He may not have even tried, because of his shock at learning she was pregnant and his fear for her. The point is a possessed Justine wouldn't give a flip who the father was, as long as she got pregnant and she'd freely lie to Thomas about it.
Well in theory change happened between Changes and Cold Days, and what sort of ripped Thomas out of whampire life was Dresden's death.
In "Changes" he is theoretically on bad guy side still, he even is bit selfish and goes full to Dresden help after he realises he is threatened by curse as well.
My best guess is that Mab most definitely wants payback from Namshiel, but she's made an investment in Marcone. He's useful to Mab's plans. However, the thing about any investment; whether it's a financial or a business asset, is that eventually it get's used up, fully depreciated, depleted, scrapped or cashed out. If Marcone insists on holding onto his new partnership with Namshiel, Mab won't protect him from the consequences of his actions.
Plus, Marcone has made the same bet that he will remain in charge of all of his decisions; that Thorned Namshiel will remain the junior partner in their deal, that Nicodemus has claimed he has with Anduriel. If we see Marcone start to make questionable decisions, I mean decisions that run counter to the Marcone we know, it may be a sign that Marcone is losing his bet and it will be a time when Mab starts to think that Marcone's value to her has been seriously diminished, that maybe it's time to write him off.
The one who disturbs the peace in your neutral territory.
Yes, and it is one thing to declare the bar neutral territory, all are welcome to enter the bar, saints, sinners, wizards, quacks, fae, and even Outsiders. Of course they are supposed to play nice and abide by the rules of hospitality etc.. Not unlike Switzerland during WWI and WWII. As defined;
However when Mac smeared his blood on the Placard, it was an oath that the bad guys would have to go through him if they wanted in the bar. He became an interested combatant, whether he ever stuck a blow or not, he had taken a side.