So I've been flicking through the Dresden Files RPG books over the past few days, paying more attention to the blacked out text (hooray for PDFs!) and the 'side notes'.

In the second book, Our World, which is a repository of playsheets for canon characters, on page 209, Harry says

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No... well, kind of... I guess when your half-brother is a White Court vampire and your mother is an honest-to-goodness faerie, things are bound to get complicated. My life is really messed up. Thanks for pointing that out so graphically Billy!"

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Taken with Kincaid's statement (can't remember which book, but it is referenced on page 161 of Our World) that he (Kincaid) is as human as Dresden...

I'd wondered about Kincaid's statement for a while, and unless there's been errata (and I couldn't find any), does this mean what I think it does?

 

I'd assumed that too, so I checked on the Butcher Boards , and found this thread, and no mention of an errata on those boards or anywhere else I could find. GODmother seems likely, but it was Kincaid's statement that made me think it could be more. On the other hand, it is Harry writing it. And the canon!verse time period it was written in (pre-GS, at the latest), we haven't seen anything that would say Maggi wasn't human.

So naturally, I came here. I would've thought someone else had picked up on this, or heard something about it.

 

Doesn't that make him a Changeling, I just reread Summer Knight and apparantly puberty would give him some indications about his Faerie nature, his mother also wouldn't be under White Council jurisdiction i'm sure.

 

Have to agree with the others on Harry being human.

Now, it could be possible that his mother was a changeling. There were plenty of mentions about her having ties to the Faeries, we don't know know who her mother was. Plus, Ebenezar did mention having to make some deals with the Faeries in his time, and we know they have an interest in getting Wizard-babies...

 

And that's the thing - he is (as far as we know). But there's the Kincaid thing, which, admittedly, could just be a headgame.

So just a typo then, people reckon?

 

It's also possible Kincaid started as human and became something else, hence his comment is still true, from a certain point of view.

We simply don't know enough to make any reasonable conclusions. It's almost certain Dresden is human (for now anyway), but we don't know anything about his ancestry or what Kincaid actually meant.

 

A popular theory is that Harry is distantly descended from Odin, with the Blackstaff journals effectively being a family grimmoire.

 

I always saw the Blackstaff Journals as a family-grimoire type thing, but with Myrddin Emrys as the progenitor, not Odin.

It fits, especially with the whole "Custodian of the Sword(s)" thing Dresden has/had going.

 

There's a chance that Merlin was a scion of Odin. No proof for that of course, but it's frequently bandied about.

 

Huh, first I've ever heard of that. Is there a basis for that in real myth or just Dresden-verse speculation?

 

Speculation mostly, but if the Blackstaff journals are passed along hereditary lines then it's not a long leap to assume that the progenitor of the line is Odin, being that he trained the first person to keep those journals.

 

Kincaid is the scion of Drakul, and was his right hand man for hundreds of years. He did not pick human.

 

Actually, I don't think scions get to Choose the way changelings do.

 

Yeah they do.

 

Is this correct?

I thought it was Dracula who was the scion of Drakul. Dracula had went off to mess around with the Black Court as a form of "teen rebellion". I think Eb said that.

Kincaid served/worked for Drakul as an assassin.

DF wiki

 

Ah, my mistake. Still, he worked for Drakul when Ebenezar still had hair and had been for a very long time.