Freeholding Lord

A Freeholding Lord is someone who signs onto the Unseelie Accords as an individual. First mentioned in White Night.

Descripton
A person may sign onto the Unseelie Accords as an individual which means that they entitled to rights and obligations under the Unseelie Accords. Three signatures from current members of the Accords willing to vouch are needed.

Rights include right to challenge, say if someone is killed from another group, or tries a take-over. But it also comes with obligations. Most people who consider it, decide that they are unwilling to be host to a group of Black Court vampires, for example. Or they may be unwilling to mediate in disputes between the major powers. Nor do they want to make themselves targets for challenges.

There are only about twenty Freeholding Lords. Some of them are: The Archive, CEO of Monoc Securities, 2 dragons, Drakul (the original), a semi-immortal shapeshifter guru in Ukraine.

History in Series
To get Marcone to help extract him and Carlos Ramirez from the duel in the Deeps, Harry Dresden agrees to be a signatory for Marcone to become a Freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords. If a superatural power tries to move in on him, he’ll have an opportunity to fight it and win. Marcone wil have the strong motivation to oppose any incursion and the means to do so, which is to Harry’s advantage when, not if, encroaching powers overwhelm him in numbers.

Marcone’s Contract Signatories are: Harry Dresden,  Lara Raith, Donar Vadderung (CEO of Monoc Securities).

 Johnny Marcone is first plain human to get contract as a Freeholding Lord. References 