John Marcone
As an up and coming gangster, the man eventually called John Marcone was subject to an attempted hit from a rival gang. In the process an innocent girl was caught in the crossfire, putting her in a vegetative state. Determined to never let such a thing happen again, Marcone gained the resolve to bring all of Chicago's criminal element under his precise control, succeeding in his goal within several years.
Unlike most mortals Marcone was smart enough to recognize the existence of the supernatural, seeking to hire the professional wizard Harry Dresden during attempts on his life from sorcerers and werewolves became a possibility. Although Harry refused Marcone continued his research into the supernatural, hiring other magical resources. His continued involvement in the magical world eventually led to him gaining more power, becoming the first mortal to become a freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords. In the eyes of the supernatural he new rules Chicago as is Baron, coming down hard on any supernatural threat to his business and constantly seeking more power.
Warning: Radioactive level spoilers from the 2020 book Battle Ground
Combat Speed
Movement and Agility
Crime
For Sigrun Gard, his primary magical security consultant, see her thread here
Departments
Gives it to Harry
Weaponry
Strength
Weapons
For Namshiel's feats with other hosts and more information on the Denarians, check out their thread
Fallen
Magic
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While doing this, I was reminded that Nicodemus Archleone can fly faster than a train,and did do so during the final firefight of Death Masks. Something to keep in mind.
As an up and coming gangster, the man eventually called John Marcone was subject to an attempted hit from a rival gang. In the process an innocent girl was caught in the crossfire, putting her in a vegetative state. Determined to never let such a thing happen again, Marcone gained the resolve to bring all of Chicago's criminal element under his precise control, succeeding in his goal within several years.
Unlike most mortals Marcone was smart enough to recognize the existence of the supernatural, seeking to hire the professional wizard Harry Dresden during attempts on his life from sorcerers and werewolves became a possibility. Although Harry refused Marcone continued his research into the supernatural, hiring other magical resources. His continued involvement in the magical world eventually led to him gaining more power, becoming the first mortal to become a freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords. In the eyes of the supernatural he new rules Chicago as is Baron, coming down hard on any supernatural threat to his business and constantly seeking more power.
Warning: Radioactive level spoilers from the 2020 book Battle Ground
Physicals
Strength- Drags Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter out of a river
- Stabs the Sewer Sorcerer through the chest
- Guts Puck with a short blade
Combat Speed
- Reacts to a lycanthrope's attack and draws a knife faster than can be seen to counterattack
- Dodges Nicodemus' dive-bomb while he's flying faster than a train
- Tackles Molly Carpenter away from a golem's attack
- Dodges the slime golem's punch
- Draws a knife and throws it into Will Borden's arm before he or Karrin Murphy can react
Movement and Agility
- Leaps through a collapsing tunnel
- Avoids a hit from Ethniu before she catches him
- He makes Winter Knight Harry Dresden struggle to keep up with him when Harry is exhausted
- Gets tackled and briefly beaten on by two FBI Agents before quickly escaping
- Gets thrown to the ground by the Sewer Sorcerer
- His armor blocks the worst of a Fomor grenade, and he continues combat after taking lacerations from what does get through and getting his arm broken
- Gets up from being smacked with Hendricks' corpse by Ethniu, either playing dead or regaining consciousness soon after
Intelligence and Skill
Planning- Tricks Harry Dresden into Soulgazing him, seemingly learning more than Harry does and being unphased by the experience where others have been terrified
- Hired Sigrun Gard as his magical security consultant, a countermeasure against conflict with Harry
- Brings handcuffs on a mission to nonlethally restrain fanatics he, Harry and the Knights of the Cross defeat when they won't allow him to kill them
- Since Harry will move against Marcone's enemies with or without his involvement, he gives Harry information to better his chances in eliminating them
- Recommends to his employees to use wizards' disruption of technology as insurance when dealing with them
- Under the assumption that Harry is less likely to burn down buildings he has positive associations with, he instructs all of his employees to be polite and accommodating to him
- Has an execution done in a warehouse where there's already a bloodstain, reducing the evidence of a murder
- Keeps the Fomor Lord Mag's attention on him so that Gard and Hendricks can circle around and shoot him in the back
- Sets up the defenses of his panic room to wear down a practitioner's magic defenses so that he can punch through can kill them at the end. He did this to kill Harry Dresden if necessary
- Likely has defenses designed to detect magic built into his vaults
- Schemes with Mab and Hades to get revenge on Nicodemus while strengthening his own position in the supernatural community
- Knows that telling Harry the truth about his involvement in a case will only make him more suspicious, so he keeps his mouth shut and lets Harry figure it out on his own
- Manages to formulate a plan with Harry to defeat Nicodemus without giving it away by talking
- Lures a golem back to him and Harry by putting his driver's license on its target shrine
- Recognizes the disruption of technology as a sign of a wizard's (namely Harry Dresden's) presence
- Saw through Lara Raith's ploy, recognizing that she rules the White Court with her father as a puppet ruler
- Recognizes Molly creating a veil while it surprises his men
- Recognizes the ammunition of a police issue sidearm
- Notices an enemy approaching before either Gard or Hendricks
- Figures out that a White Court agent was sent to steal information from the Fomor and covered it up by freeing his prisoners and begging him for shelter for them
- Disguises the brothel he owns as a health club
- Isn't distracted by the supernatural beauty of the Raith sisters, who stun both Harry and Hendricks during a pitched battle
- He's well-versed in legal rhetoric and has memorized the Unseelie Accords, the laws that govern interactions between supernatural nations
- Sneaks up on the Sewer Sorcerer to backstab him
- Pickpocketed Thorned Namshiel's Coin off of Michael Carpenter while he was receiving first aid
- Snipes the Alphas as they move across his lawn
- While bound and hanging upside down from a rope, he frees his arm and throws a knife to sever one of the ropes holding him up
- Nails a Denarian guard dog-monster with his rifle as it rushes him
- Tears up Nicodemus with a Kalashnikov without harming the Shroud of Turin he's wearing as a shall
- Throws two knives at Nicodemus, one to distract him and another to cut the Shroud off of his shoulders
- Shoots Puck while he's grappling Harry without hitting Harry
- Shoots multiple Fomor grenades out of the air with a shotgun
- Hits Ethniu at a distance with a flintlock pistol
- He remains calm is a chaotic combat situation and has absolute authority over his troops
- He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps WoJ
Personal Gear
Weapons- Typically carries multiple knives hidden on his person, at least one of which was missed by an FBI search
- Has a large-scoped hunting rifle that can shoot either live rounds or tranquilizer darts
- Has grenades powerful enough to blow apart a slime golem from the inside
- Carries a combat knife, an illegal pistol and a similarly illegal assault shotgun to when defending a safehouse of his
- He has an 18th Century flintlock pistol that shoots rounds which killed famous people, each of which is inscribed with a powerful rune by Sigrun Gard. These can punch through the (weakened) magical defenses of a Fomor Lord
- Has a combination of scaled modern composite armor and old fashioned mail
- He later seems to upgrade to a custom-fit full vest of composite scale
Criminal Empire
Power and InfluenceCrime
- He rose to power amid the chaos of the fall of the Vargassi crime family and is a stabilizing influence on Chicago's criminal element
- Has more than enough power to destroy a small gang like the Streetwolves, having operatives all over the country and embedded from local to national government
- If he doesn't control an area of crime in Chicago he's paid rent for operating in the city
- His organization is one of the largest criminal empires on the planet
- Controls who lives and who gets assassinated in prison, even against out-of-state gangs
- Marcone's influence is on a national scale and has pushed the FBI to avoid certain investigations
- He controls more police and generally wields more power in Chicago than the local government
- Has enough influence to force Harry Dresden onto the jury of a specific case
- Controls multiple attorneys in Chicago
- Sets up a meeting with a life-sentencer for Harry
- Has influence with the mayor of Chicago and could get a police lieutenant out of departmental trouble
- He influences politicians and higher ups in law enforcement to hamstring police action against him
- Controls city councilmen and political activists in Chicago
- He's the first mortal to become a freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords (essentially the supernatural United Nations)
- Under the Accords Marcone, and by extension his organization, is considered his own supernatural nation-state
- He's established himself as a neutral party among the Accorded Nations, being trusted enough to store their wealth in his vaults
- Somehow got both Sidhe Courts to owe him favors
- Rallies the Accorded Nations to defend Chicago against Ethniu and the Fomor
- He's the chairman on the board of directors of an elite art trading group
- Maintained control of his organization through years of both mundane and supernatural threats
- Controls corporate executives
- Creates a Banner of his Will, leading and rallying a militia of hundreds of Chicago citizens to join in against the Fomor invasion of the city
- Tracked down a girl who was officially declared dead and put in a hospital with false records via a dummy corporation
- Has access to police records, allowing him to read Harry's werewolf report to Special Investigations
- Knew who the Catholic Church was sending to recover the Shroud of Turin and found out he was replaced by a supernatural entity
- Can access information from Monoc Securities, notifying him that he's up against necromancers
- Keeps tabs on Harry Dresden's associates in order to avoid provoking him
- Pays a team of master theives to steal the Shroud of Turin from the Vatican
- Bought his helicopter as Coast Guard surplus
- Under Marcone's influence the criminal economy in Chicago has doubled in size
- He owns a dummy corporation with no clear connection to him to rennovate buildings and businesses
- He's the CEO of a company with several subsidiaries, which he uses to buy buildings
- Owns a large variety of businesses for use in money laundering
- Pays a weregild to the Fomor of a quarter million dollars' worth of solid gold bars
- Can buy and sell congressmen
- Hires Monoc Securities' entire army of Einherjaren for one night
For Sigrun Gard, his primary magical security consultant, see her thread here
Departments
- He values loyalty of employees over money, and encourages it by giving legal support to a pimp who didn't rat him out
- His hitters are professionals, carrying out ambushes quietly (for gunfire) and efficiently
- Rents out Einherjaren from Monoc Securities for heavy combat
- Harry describes his troubleshooters as an army, and he keeps a squad of Einherjaren on duty at all timesHas a small army of lawyers that have kept him out of prison for years on end
- Has cleaners to dispose of bodies and remove bullets from murder scenes
- Has a personal doctor that he can call on demand
- His troubleshooters sabotage the Streetwolves' vehicles so he can talk privately with their leader
- Sends out men with dogs to detect the approach of a loup-garou
- Sends Hendricks and several hitters against a Denarian disguised as a priest
- Their heavy weaponry and discipline let Marcone's troubleshooters work alongside hired einherjar to tear through a horde of ice age ghouls
- Has Hendricks tail Harry to the entrance of Undertown
- Sets his troubleshooters in the building across the street from a safehouse that will soon be attacked, gunning down the attackers when they're routed
- Embeds a troubleshooter in an apartment complex to feed him information about unauthorized drug deals going on there
- His troubleshooters ambush and efficiently wipe out groups of Huntsmen
- Marcone's forces are noted to do better than White Court mercenaries when funneling the Fomor's advance troops between them
- Keeps a hitman in Pontiac Prison for when a convict needs to disappear
- Has a ring of trees on his property to muffle noisy, gunshot-producing business
- Rebuilt and reopened the Velvet Room, formerly a Red Court run brothel, disguised as a health club
- Owned an entire apartment building solely as a panic room location
- Owns an entire subdivision where his backup safe house is located
- His current panic room has magical defenses comparable to Harry Dresden's apartment and has access to hidden cameras all over his headquarters
- His panic room has landmines set in the walls that can be activated without electricity, which also set off sprinklers in order to ground out magic should an attacking practitioner survive
- Has a building to store off-the-books medical supplies
- Constantly moves his headquarters between buildings he renovates, which is how he gets much of his wealth. He owns more of Chicago than any single person
- He installs cheap, easily replaceable doors at "dramatic" entrance points at his buildings, a result of Harry Dresden blowing his doors in one time too many
- Owns a restaurant that he can order to stay open late for him
- He's purchased and refurbished dozens of buildings
- His vaults are the second most secure facility in Chicago
- He began rebuilding within a week of the Battle of Chicago
Gives it to Harry
- He built a legitimate castle over the location of Harry Dresden's burned down apartment
- Marcone had it disassembled and transported from Scotland to be rebuilt in Chicago
- It has a tower in each corner
- Its constructed to withstand sieges and invasions, with staircases to each floor staggered around different sides of the structure to prevent invaders from having easy access to upper floors
- The castle has a threshold from the people living there, as well as an armory, jail and daycare
- Its magical defenses are comparable to the White Council headquarters in Edinburgh, and Ebenezer McCoy believes it was constructed by either Tylwyth Teg or the Tuatha Dé Danann
- It's magical defenses are nearly as potent as those of Demonreach and are similar to the work of the original Merlin
Weaponry
- Arms Hendricks with a custom twelve gauge riot gun
- His troubleshooters bring MAC-10 machine guns and shotguns into a battle
- He and Hendricks use automatic shotguns to shred through dozens of octokongs
- Armed dozens of allied ghouls with blades, guns and a mix of mail and Kevlar armor
- His troubleshooters have weapons that can punch through Fomor armor
- Has his own helicopter
- Mounts night-vision scopes from before WWII onto his weapons, allowing their use during magical disruption of technology
- Has wards around his property that severely damage Bob the Skull when he tries to scout it out
- Uses some sort of "magic emp" to scramble Harry Dresden's tracking spell
- Sets a Circle around his desk that he can activate with a button, shielding him from magic being thrown at him
- Employs mortals with minor magical talents
- Has wards set in his vault to react to the aura of a magical practitioner, setting off landmines in the walls
- Gets the Summer Sidhe to provide lighting for the peace talks he hosts, using flames that ward off dark magic
Nathaniel "Cujo" Hendricks
Marcone's loyal bodyguard. Nicknamed Cujo by Harry Dresden for his massive frame. He served Marcone well for years before his nature a very strong but still entirely human mortal caught up with him, giving his life to save Marcone during the Battle of ChicagoStrength
- He's as big as an NFL player and could likely crush Harry Dresden's skull
- Outwrestles and kills a lycanthrope
- Easily knocks around ice age ghouls if they don't get the chance to properly defend against him
- Tackles Ethniu when she's off balance
- Dodges a tire iron thrown by a lycanthrope
- Has a gun out the instant he thinks Harry is trying to pull his own
- Outdraws Karrin Murphy
- Even with broken bones he intercepts Ethniu trying to skewer Marcone
- His vest allows him to survive multiple gunshots
- Survives a Fomor grenade turning his armor to Swiss cheese, although he's no longer in fighting condition
- Even with snapped bones he moves to protect Marcone from Ethniu, and his sheer mass is enough to divert the spear she impales him with away from Marcone
Weapons
- Carries a gun at all times
- Uses a custom twelve gauge riot gun with enough firepower to overwhelm supernatural endurance
- Has a Desert Eagle
- Brings an absolutely massive machine gun into serious battle
- Has a police-issue riot gun
- Dual wields firearms and a broadsword
- Wears a bulletproof vest
- He starts wearing a Kevlar vest over modified motorcycle armor
- After his previous armor proves ineffective he upgrades to a mix of Kevlar and samurai armor
Thorned Namshiel
During his rescue from Nicodemus after being abducted, Marcone managed to steal the Coin of Thorned Namshiel, archmage of the Knights of the Blackened Denarius. He spent an unknown number of years as a secret rogue Denarian, only revealing himself to Harry Dresden during their final confrontation with the Titan Ethniu.For Namshiel's feats with other hosts and more information on the Denarians, check out their thread
Fallen
- Namshiel's infernal power lets Marcone punch through Ethniu's titanic bronze armor and heals his broken neck. He looks much more human than Namshiel's previous host, with smaller thorns piercing out of his skin.
- He's on a first name basis with Ethniu
Magic
- Weaves two defensive spells at once, one in each hand
- Sets specific locations to teleport between, a kind of spell even the White Council considers theoretical and dangerous
- His shields can only withstand single hits from Ethniu before breaking, but he creates new ones faster than she can attack
- Surrounds Ethniu's face with smoke that she can't tear off
- Uses a telekinetic blast to launch himself fifty feet into Lake Michigan in order to escape Ethniu on the shore
- Creates a dome of concrete to protect himself and Harry against the flood created by Demonreach, claiming he broke it down and reshaped it at a molecular level
- Casually makes a top notch veil
John Marcone
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While doing this, I was reminded that Nicodemus Archleone can fly faster than a train,and did do so during the final firefight of Death Masks. Something to keep in mind.
