Yes, Mavra was walking around veiled taking pictures to blackmail Dresden later. But the corpse chained to Kincaid was NOT Mavra. Its the Wizards Sight Cheddar. Those chains were significant. And Mavra is one of the oldest, evilest members of the Black Court. Remember what looking at Shagnasty was like for him? Mavra would be much worse then a corpse.

 

I remember this being speculated on over on his forums, but I don't recall seeing anything specific from JB himself about it.

/rant on

I'm rather hesitant to give much credence to a lot of the speculation about characters like Kincaid as it always seems like the people defending them are secretly in love with the character or something and immediately jump over onto ff.net and write stories with Harry/Marcone/Thomas threesomes or some other bullshit >.>

I don't know how many times I've seen people shouting about how Marcone should get a sword of the cross 'because he doesn't kill kids so he's not that bad' ... I mean seriously, try taking that guy home to meet the parents and giving them that line.

/rant off

 

Kincaid's Wiki entry mentions the chained body, but the direct quote from Blood Rites bears no mention.. maybe it came up in a later book?

 

You know I honestly don't remember... Mostly towards the bs that plagues JB's forums. The discussion about Kincaid that was mentioned reminded me of some of those comments/discussions over there and I went off on a tangent.

~Ahem~

Back OT.

That sounds just like Kincaid IMO, I don't remember any mention of anything actually being chained to him, literally or figuratively (could anyone provide a quote as to where this is mentioned?). The specter in the background is most likely Mavra.

Hmm, would she be? I mean that is literally what she is,

If this is 'her' (I use that term loosely), then she is being described as Death personified, which from what little we have seen of her really fits.

 

Mini-necro of the thread but eh, better it's more than a sentence that means practically nothing.

So, I know people have said it before, but after re-reading Small Favour over the past few days, I think i'm starting to side with the fact it was Fix.

In Small Favours, Fix openly admits he'd do it if he could, kill Harry I mean if he turned Winter.

"Point another weapon at me," I said quietly, "and you'd damned well better pull the trigger. Do you understand me?"

~Skip a little~

"...If you'd taken service with Mab, I wouldn't stand a chance in a fair fight against you, we both know it. I did what I had to in order to warn you and still protect myself."

~Skip a little more~

"We're playing for opposite teams," I said. "Nothing personal, but we'll do what we have to do."

- So yeah, they both openly admit they'd fight if they have to, only Fix takes the sneakier option because of Harry's strength. I've not re-read Changes recently but from memory there's no mention of Fix at all in the book and as Toot says, all of Faerie saw Harry & Mab getting it on so if Fix or Lily were around in the Nevernever at the time, then they know about it.

So Fix, despite his friendship with Harry after gradually becoming more & more like a Sidhe, takes Harry out before Harry gets the chance to kill him, like the majority of Winters Knights do to their Summer counterparts.

Apologies if it's already been discussed in greater detail, I didn't think to re-read through the thread before I posted this though I suppose it would've been a good idea.

Edited because i need a new keyboard & my spacebar sucks.