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Little Folk (also Wee Folk or Little Fair Folk) are faeries of generally small size.

Description[]

A fractious, fickle bunch of Wyldfae, unaligned with any court, they are just about everywhere and anywhere they can easily get to. They have a lust for pizza, with the exception of Lacuna, who seems to despise it. Specialized groups among them are the Brownies,[1], the Sprites,[2] the Cobbs,[3] the domovoi, and the polevoi.[4]

In ChangesHarry Dresden states that people greatly underestimate the Little Folk. Within their limits, they are "as good or better than anything else for getting information". There are a lot of them in Chicago willing to help Dresden out.[4]

In Turn Coat, Dresden has been paying (or bribing) some of them with pizza for years and in return they have given him their loyalty, if erratic. The ones who take his pizza regularly are the Za-Lord's Guard. No one in the supernatural community ever expects anything of them so they largely get ignored.[5]

Toot-Toot[]

Toot-Toot is a polevoi[4], introduced in Storm Front, when Harry Dresden evokes him during an espionage operation. Their relationship develops over the series to have Toot-toot become the leader of Harry's "Za-Lord's Guard".[6][7]

Za-Lord's Guard[]

The Za-Lord's Guard is a small group of minor Wee Folk, dedicated to the protection of Harry Dresden, whom they've deemed the "Pizza Lord", or "Za-Lord" for short. The first time Dresden learned of the name: "Za-Lord's Guard's" is in Small Favor, but the Guard actually began in Summer Knight.

Harry Dresden's Brownie housekeepers[]

In Summer Knight, Lily and Fix tell Harry Dresden that Lily has arranged for faeries to clean his apartment.[8]

In Blood Rites, brownies had cleaned Harry Dresden's apartment and it was sparkling with the scent of pine bough. Dresden can't tell anyone about it because they'll stop cleaning and clear out.[1]

"Captain Hook"[]

In Cold Days, another group of wee fae, in ember colored lights, led by Lacuna—"Captain Hook"— who are aligned with Ace who has a grudge against Harry Dresden. They attack Dresden with nails and nearly overtake him, and they battle with the Za-Lord's Guard.[9][10]

In the series[]

Storm Front[]

In Storm Front,

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Blood Rites[]

In Blood Rites,

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Summer Knight[]

In Summer Knight,

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"It's My Birthday, Too"[]

In "It's My Birthday, Too",

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White Night[]

In White Night, on the trail leading to the Deeps, on the Raith estate, Harry Dresden sees "elegant little crystal cages" used as lamps, each containing a tiny faerie, "pixies, surrounded by their own sphere of light trapped and miserable" hunched up in the cages. Lara Raith claims that they trespassed on her property and that would have killed them  rather than put them into service. That doesn't appease Dresden, though.[11] Later, Dresden pressures Lara to release all the Faeries, and the human thralls, by threatening to expose her culpability in the events that unfolded.[12]

Turn Coat[]

In Turn Coat,

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Changes[]

In Changes,

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Cold Days[]

In Cold Days,

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non-humans[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Blood Rites, ch. 05
  2. Turn Coat, ch. 38
  3. "It's My Birthday, Too"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Changes, ch. 33
  5. Turn Coat, ch. 21
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Storm Front, ch. 6
  7. Cold Days, ch. 9
  8. Summer Knight (novel), ch. 39
  9. Cold Days, ch. 12
  10. Cold Days, ch. 25–29
  11. White Night, ch. 36
  12. White Night, ch. 42
  13. Turn Coat, ch. 13
  14. Cold Days, ch. 29

See also[]

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