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Fomor, Svartalves, and Forest people
« on: June 26, 2018, 07:54:31 pm »
Fomor
Signatories to the Unseelie Accords, the Fomor are first introduced in the short story "Even Hand" with the appearance of Mag, a cantrev lord who assaults Marcone's office. They also appear in "Aftermath" kidnapping many low-level practitioners in Chicago and many major cities less than 24 hours after the end of Changes. The Fomor (according to Gard) are water-dwellers, cousins to the Jotun, seers, sorcerers and shapechangers. They are described as humanoid, tall (around seven feet) and froglike with pale skin and bulging eyes. The Formor capable of using magic have less of a "murphyonic field" than Dresden and are not impeded by running water as mortal wizards are. They have specialized weapons that shoot out acid-filled spines adapted and used in different ways similar to grenades, guns and mines (enchanted seashells serving as firebombs, for instance). When Marci is hit with a spike in "Aftermath" it dissolves a large hole into her shoulder. They are also supernaturally strong, resilient, and can both communicate and echolocate much as dolphins and bats do.

In Ghost Story, it is revealed that the Fomor are now making a play to be major magical powers, kidnapping mortals to transform into minions and aiming to take over the abandoned territories of the Red Court, or those powers leaving old territories to claim Red Court lands. Their minions are called "Turtlenecks" because of their standard apparel, and Harry is told that they are old, old enemies of the Fey, a mixture of ancient gods, fallen fey, and rival spirits.

Svartalves
Svartalves (sg. Svartalf) are a powerful group of relatively small-sized Elves, characterized at high skills in craftmanship, a strong appreciation of beauty, a prickly susceptibility, a long memory, and a sense of honor so strong that it may be unbreakable. In Bombshells, they host a party where a neutrality treaty with the Fomor was to be signed. On a mission to rescue Thomas Raith, Molly Carpenter foils the Fomor's treachery, preventing the treaty from being signed and earning a favor from the Svartalves in the process.

The Forest People
The group of people to which "Bigfoot" Strength of a River in His Shoulders, or River for short, belongs to. They shy away from human civilization and are huge and hairy in appearance. They have large reservoirs of power to draw upon, a side-effect of which may be the growth of excess body hair. They are as magically gifted as most wizards of the Council, and extremely smart. However, they tend to be very careful to remain ignored by humans, and probably other creatures as well.

In Skin Game, Harry encounters a creature called the Genoskwa, who he initially misidentifies as one of the Forest People. Genoskwa is infuriated by this, and attacks Harry, saying it is nothing like the "whimpering" Forest People and has nothing but contempt for River Shoulders. Like the Forest People, it has superhuman strength, speed, agility, and endurance, but it also possesses the ability to neutralize direct magical attacks, which Harry theorizes may be a novel application of earth magic.

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