Heirs of Kemmler

The heirs of Kemmler are the apprentices of the necromancer Heinrich Kemmler that vie for power, the Heirs are introduced in Dead Beat as the main antagonists.

The Heirs are Cowl, Capiorcorpus (corpsetaker), and Grevane.

In the climax of Dead beat harry takes on each of the heirs first Capiorcorpus who can jump bodies, in the fight with Anastasia Luccio, Corpsetaker allowed the warden to run her though then jumped bodies with Anastasia in an attempt to trick the other Wardens, Harry guessed this had happend and shot corpsetaker point blank with his revolver. In Ghost Story corpsetaker returns as a spirit and attempts to posess a new corporeal form.

Next harry fought Grevane, who was shot by Carlos Ramirez Grevane has not returned.

Harry then took on Cowl, Dresden takes on Cowl but he overpowers Harry and Kumori holds Dresden at knife point but does not kill him fearing his death curse. Harry talks to Evil bob reminding him that he gave him a name, and giveing him permission to leave his skull, Bob then possesses Sue the T-rex and eats Kumori, and harry smashes Cowl with his staff interumpting the Darkhallow Harry assumes that cowl is dead but later becomes convinced that he survived.