Red King



The Red King, the king of the Red Court vampires, who despite being considerably shorter than Harry, is no pushover. With the power of a lesser diminished god, he has the ability to overpower even one of the more powerful members (Harry Dresden) of the White Council with pure will.

Only by becoming the Winter Court’s knight and asking for power which Mab the Winter Queen herself lends, provides Harry the amount of strength needed to overpower the King on his home turf (the temple of Chichen Itza).

He was five-two maybe five-three, well-muscled, but certainly not imposing. His hair was black and long, hanging to the top of his shoulder blades. He wore a dressy kind of skirt-kilt thing, naked from the waist up and the kneecap down.

When Arianna kidnapped Harry's daughter with the intention of sacrificing her in a Bloodline Curse, the Red King was determined to try to remove Harry from the equation (since he believed that Harry was the target). Too this end he sent the Eebs to give Harry three potential offers to both get him off the case and to undo Arianna. When Harry (having made a deal with Queen Mab to gain the powers to face the Red King) arrived, the Red King decided to improvise; because Harry's claim was as legitimate as Arianna's he was obligated to allow Harry to try to collect it as he was Arianna. Since letting Arianna collect her claim first would make him guilty of interfering in the collection of a blood debt (since killing Maggie would kill Harry as well) he was able to force a compromise; Harry's claim would be adressed first, the duel would occur as soon as possible, and the ritual sacrifice would be delayed until after the duel to ensure a fair fight. He even stacked the deck in Harry's favor by arranging for the battle to be fought purely with magic (which ultimately contributed to Harry's victory over Arianna.)

Unfortunately the Red King made the mistake of trying to doublecross Harry; Martin's gambit to have Susan become the youngest Red Court Vampire distracted the Red King and Lords of the Outer Night enough for Harry and Lea to launch an assault on the lords, breaking Harry's prison and allowing Harry to attack the Red King. Despite the Red King's efforts Harry was ultimately able to best him in a short fight, blinding him and destroying his right forearm. The Red King, completely forgetting his original plan, summoned his forces to kill Harry and his family. Harry then killed Susan, and as a result the curse he had built up to use on Ebenezar McCoy's and Harry Dresden's family tree was turned upon its maker (the Red King). The curse tore out his heart along with every other vampire's in the Red Court (and destroyed the vampire part of the semivamps around the world) at the end of the battle at Chichen Itza.