Rakshasa

Rakshasa, also called Rakshasa Raja, is an evil spirit or demon of some kind in India. First mentioned in White Night. And mentioned again in Turn Coat and Ghost Story.

Description
Rakshasa have been mentioned several times but have never made an actual appearance in the series. Nothing has been said about what they are, what they do or what they look like—yet.

About / Details

 * Gregori Cristos distinguished himself in battle against one.

In the Series: Events
In White Night, Harry explains to Carlos Ramirez that they won't be getting much help from the White Council in their fight with the White Court regarding dead practitioners because most of the Wardens are in India battling "some big daddy Rakshasa and his forces of "old bad guys" who had been attacking monasteries friendly to the White Council while they had been preoccupied by The War with the Red Court. Harry Dresden, Carlos Ramirez, and Captain Luccio and her trainees are the only Wardens in North America.

In Turn Coat, when Ebenezar McCoy told Harry that Gregori Cristos got Aleron LaFortier's on the Senior Council instead of Klaus the Toymaker, he mentioned that LaFortier earned a name in the nasty battle against the Rakshasa that the White Council took on recently.

In Ghost Story, after taking Harry to Office in Between to see Captain Jack, Ron Carmichael's ghost left explaining that he had to "get back to that Rakshasa thing."

Hindu Mythology

 * "A Rakshasa is said to be a mythological humanoid being or unrighteous spirit in Hinduism. As mythology made its way into other religions, the rakshasa was later incorporated into Buddhism. Rakshasas are also called man-eaters. — It is said that Rakhasas were created from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep at the end of the Satya Yuga. As soon as they were created they were so filled with blood lust that they started eating Brahma himself. Brahma shouted "Rakshama" (Sanskrit for "Protect Me!") and to save Brahma, Vishnu expelled all Rakshasas (named so because of Brahma's cry for help) to Earth." ~Wikipedia

External References

 * Rakshasa - Wikipedia
 * rakshasa (Hindu mythology) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
 * Rakshasas - Vampires
 * Rakshasa - Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India
 * Rakshasas, Monsters
 * Book of the Strange: Rakshasa
 * Rakshasas or Rakshaks? : Devdutt Pattanaik
 * Mystical Mythology from around the world
 * Rakshasa - princeton.edu