1)Maeve's personal assassin, the Tigress, was a ghoul; the Alphas killed her in Summer Knight.
There's a big ghoul clan, the LaChaises, that are signatories to the Unseelie Accords. Tessa managed to find and hire a set of gun wielding, martial arts employing ghouls in Skin Game.
There doesnt seem to be a supernatural societywide prejudice against ghouls generally, any more than there is a prejudice against most anthropophagic supernaturals. Dresden has a prejudice, but thats a Dresden prejudice.
Just like Ebenezar has a prejudice against White Court vampires.
2)That said,
@BronzeTongue is right. We have no particular reason to seek out ghouls as a race at the moment. We treat them as individuals and discrete groups as they come up. If it happens in the future that plot events bring us into having to deal with a group of them peacefully as a corporate entity, thats a different matter.
3)That said, the RPG is very clear that ghouls have it pretty bad.
They are probably scions from human interbreeding with uberghouls, and outside the clans, maybe one in ten make it to adulthood.
Very high mortality rates in a species that has inhuman strength, inhuman speed and supernatural recovery speeds.
Principal causes of death are predation by other supernaturals, homicide by animals who really hate them, falling sick and dying(unknown if particular disease or just general sickness), getting runover by cars.
And suicide.
The Erl King, King of Summer, is known for leading the Wild Hunt and murdering anyone they catch.And his goblins will happily torture any unfortunate who stumbles into their territory to a very painful death. Trolls still lurk under bridges and eat any unfortunates, including children. All seven known varieties of vampires predate on humans.
Dresden Files is a death world, and a lot of supernatural species prey on humans in one way or the other.
Its not a power thing; naagloshii, vampires and ghouls all prey on humans or human bodies, and occupy varying tier levels.
As long as you're willing and capable of observing the niceties of formal discourse, people will politely ignore everything else.
Or at least pretend to.
Also worth remembering:
A ghoul who haunts morgues, graveyards and butcher yards >>> a ghoul who kills people for meat. Certainly hurts fewer people than a whole lot of vampires.
That said, if we were recruiting ghouls for some reason, fixing the anthropophagy would be a priority.
Just like it would be a priority if we were recruiting vampires.
1)I assume neither of her allies would let her enter until after the grenades explode.
2)Deliberately rode it down to make sure that Pistol Gunman took at least two hundred pounds of weight on him, counting the sofa and Molly's weight combined, and hoping it deals enough bashing damage to put him out. Just bouncing off it means he only has to deal with the sofa weight, which might not be enough to do more than knock him over
3)Left the wannabe biker alone because Gard was right behind us.
All the contextual cues suggest dude is either new or even more incompetent than the norm, and having him fumble a shotgun because we tripped him could be unintentionally dangerous.
I see where you are coming from.
Thing is, I assumed they were close together because this is a tattoo parlor. Commercial store in a commercial property.
Frontage in a commercial property is limited and expensive, which even in Englewood comes to a fair amount monthly, which puts hard limits on how wide the entire store would be, and thus how wide the front of the store can be.
Textev mostly.
The Korean warlock in Proven Guilty fucked over his victims badly.
Molly fucked up Rosie and Nathan even when she wanted to help.
Conversely, Turn Coat showed a White Court victim who had an otherwise normal, high functioning life. Denarians who give up the coin go about their lives with no lasting mental issues. Lea had been offering/threatening to enthrall Harry since at least Book 3, and the one time she turns them into animals, they revert unharmed.
And of course, there's Mab taking away Dresden's memory of fire magic for most of Small Favor and Harry still functioning at approximately his customary high levels.
This is inaccurate.
Only Renfields die, and thats because they are made that way. Madelaine Raith enthralled a lawyer and the woman was wholly fine, and while Dresden didnt think he could undo it, he didnt expect it to get worse. Just put her to sleep and hoped she'd forget his visit.
Well, Renfields and some Nemesis victims. Cat Sith didnt get better from Nemesis hollowing him out.
Turn Coat. Evelyn Derek, attorney at law of Smith, Cohen and Mackleroy.
Got enthralled by Madelaine Raith, White Court vampire to hire a PI to follow Dresden around. Dresden couldnt undo it, but other than the particular matter she was ordered not to talk about, she was fine.
The evidence we have, scanty as it is, suggests that if they arent actively trying to break your brain, nonhuman magics dont deal permanent damage. Which makes a Watsonian sense if you consider they predate on humans, and unintentionally destroying victims they arent feeding on is wasteful.
