Kelley Armstrong has a lawyer character, Lucas Cortez, who does both human and supernatural law. He's a sorcerer by birth and heir to the strongest Cabal in the the U.S., but he sees the Cabals as evil and represents supes who have legal issues. His wife is a witch.I read the first story of that. Although I think he just deals with Cabal law, right?
I think it would depend on how your society was set up. If the laws were respected, or if might made right. In Armstrong's world, the supernatural society generally functions similarly to the human society. In a less structured environment, well, a bigger gun is a good argument also. ;)In this case I'm thinking it's somewhere in the middle.
I could be getting mixed up, but I believe the lawyer in the Southern vampire books is a demon.
NOOOOOOOO! SPOILER ALERT Aludra .... I watch True Blood show but never read the books. Noooooo!!!!!
I just kind of glanced though and then looked away when I realized what I was reading, maybe I can forget it. :'(
Ditto this about the show.
Moses, the tv show is so very far from the books they are like different worlds with people who coincidentally have the same names. I think both are wonderful, but different. (Godric as Eric's maker made my head explode, but then so did Jason joining the Fellowship of the Sun.)
Star, I knew Mr. Cattaliades wasn't human, but wasn't sure exactly what flavor he was. Rechan didn't specify her proposed character's species.
As far as the character, without having to go look it up, I think Sookie refers to him as demon. And I'm just being lazy in not wanting to reach over and pull out my Kindle to search.
I think the reason why a major supernatural power would need a lawyer is pretty much the same as why a major mundane CEO would need a lawyer; specialised technical knowledge of different complexities in different expert fields.The issue I'm struggling with is not whether that knowledge would be easily expected for any entity out there.
I don't see any inherent reason why Dark Lord Random Example who is a thousand years old and has spent most of that time studying dark magic is necessarily going to have the time or the temperament to be a legal whiz.
i think your main hang up is that fact that your comparing everything to DF. no i love DF but its not the end all be all of urban fantasy. if you want a lawyer character to work with supernatural entities then you need to create a world in which such an idea is possible.DF is just easiest to use as examples here because everyone here is familiar with it. I could be using parallels to the Anita Blake universe.
the best way that i can think of it working out is that the character works for a law firm that is more like the united nations of the supernatural for whatever city or country it takes place in. the firm is made up of being from every major power out there, but they swear loyalty to the firm and its ideals of neutrality, magically swearing it by their true name so it can't be broken or something like that. the possibilities are nearly endless for what could transpireIn all honesty, a law firm is not what I'm looking for. The whole point is that this character is just a lone scholar who ends up getting dragged into big messes and has to try and use his knowledge to just get out alive, as opposed to kicking ass. And that whole part of being alone and often representing those outside of the powers is what has things so dangerous. This character typically keeps his head down, tries to appear out of notice and then he gets dragged into the middle of things.
psst, I'd lock that soon if I were you. Can't sell things that have already been posted on the web.Can't I just go back and delete it in a few days?
Can't I just go back and delete it in a few days?
i think your main hang up is that fact that your comparing everything to DF. no i love DF but its not the end all be all of urban fantasy. if you want a lawyer character to work with supernatural entities then you need to create a world in which such an idea is possible.
My question is, earlier you said the lawyer character would be a side-kick type character, but whose perspectiven will the story be told from? Omniscient narrator, first person (main character badass) or first person side-kick, or Second-person. :P j/k I know you can't tell a story from second person perspective. And third person is pretty much the same as a narrator.First person.
something to consider, is magic and the supernatural maine stream in your world, do people know it excites, or is it hidden from mortal eyes. your character would be greatly influenced by that.
Of course we know it excites, that's why we read Dresden Files. :P