The "Chicago Alliance Headquarters", sometimes called the "Castle" is the location of the Brighter Future Society, and is also the home of the Chicago Alliance. It first appeared in Ghost Story.
Description
The building of the "Chicago Alliance Headquarters" is located on the property where Harry's old boarding house used to be. The name on the plaque on the front of the building is the Brighter Future Society which was organized and funded by Baron John Marcone. It cost a fortune to build.[1]
The "Chicago Alliance Headquarters" building is about four stories high and looks like a small castle. It was made of stone and covered more of the property than the old boarding house did. The narrow windows were about nine inches wide—and deep—with bars on the inside and outside. There was blocky crenellation along the roof's edge. Gargoyles were perched along each row starting on the second floor and each row above to the top, making it a fortress.[2]
Function
It has a threshold because people live there. Paranetters stay there when they need a safe place to sleep. Also, visiting Paranetters and Venatori stay there when meeting with the Alliance. It functions as a supernatural flophouse, armory, jail and day care. It's a place to keep children safe from the Fomor while Paranetter parents are at work. In Butters' words: "People need this place."[2]
In the series
Ghost Story
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In Ghost Story, Waldo Butters takes Harry Dresden's shade there. Dresden watches Karrin Murphy and Skaldi Skjeldson practice fighting. Afterward, Dresden's ghost and Murphy discuss his's murder, rescuing Mortimer Lindquist from the Grey Ghost, Fitz and Aristedes.[2]
Cold Days
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In Cold Days, Thomas Raith told Dresden that his sister Lara had partnered with the Brighter Future Society and Johnny Marcone, that it was her idea and that Marcone imported the castle. It's better for both of them to team up against the Fomor. The Fomor have not gotten a solid foothold in Chicago between Marcone's goons, Lara's resources and Murphy's people.[3]
After Ace badly injures Dresden with a bat, and Hook shoots him with nails, Murphy suggests bringing him to the Castle since a lot of his blood was left behind. Thomas notes there was no way he'd let Marcone's people get his brother's blood either.[4]
References
- ↑ Ghost Story, ch. 16 and 18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ghost Story, ch. 18
- ↑ Cold Days, ch. 19
- ↑ Cold Days, ch. 26