So, on a lighter note: I own a book for a DF tabletop RPG the Fate Accelerated one, in particular one of the potential character mantles was "Kringle's Seneschal", a mortal who's been empowered by Kris Kringle to help promote mortal belief in Santa Claus.
It would be interesting. Of course in mythology Odin's agenda revolved around Ragnarok, i. Norse apocalypse myth. And what do we know is coming to Dresdenverse? An apocalypse. I don't know exactly how it's going to play out but I'm expecting Odin in all his guises to be a major factor in it. As far as the Council goes I've always had a little bit of a sour perspective on them but I think it's just because the assumptions of the Council went kind of unquestioned:.
Why does an organization with its roots in post-Roman Europe get to dictate the terms under which seemingly every other magic-user in the world gets to operate? How'd this come to be the case? Were there objectors who formed their own institutions, and what happened to those institutions? So I guess I never really saw it as a problem that the Council as an institution is back to its old bullshit, I'm not predisposed to liking a gerontocracy run by a British dude who was born when absolutism was still in vogue.
We do know there are conflicts within the organization born out of IRL geographical issues, but the books only mentions them in passing, it's rarely focused on. What seemed like it was gonna be is the generational conflict between younger wizards many of whom look up to Dresden as a sort of rebel and anti-authority figure and the old guard, but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere.
Black magic is a thing that changes the people who use it. It's not "these magics are Bad", it's "these magics will literally make you Bad so don't use them". Also, the White Council is apparently more progressive than RL society in terms of representation. Its head is referred to as "The Merlin. There's fertile ground for a story there and the series isn't really touching on it, which is fine - it's just the kind of thing I'd be digging my teeth into, especially knowing there are a huge number of other 'magic user' organization in the historical literary canon to draw on.
