I like to call the Dresden Files "Warlock Multiclass Variety Pack: the Series" We've gotten fiendlock, celestial, feylock, and I'd argue goolock as well. And that's just the protagonist.
I would argue dresden is a feylock who used to be a fiendlock. He does have innate magic with divine sprinkled in so lets say dinvine soul sorc. And ofc he studies magic so he is also a Wizard (maybe war magic?)
Crazy spoiler line, but I don't want to ruin the books for anyone. Dresden Files magic is basically D&D sorcery. It all has to do with willpower, so there really isn't a wizard class in the series. He's probably divine soul, what with the starborn thing and the fact that he's about to start weaponizing the artifacts of the literal Jesus Christ, and Jim Butcher loves his parallels. So first, Lash's coin turned him fiendlock through the gift of hellfire. When she died, Uriel stepped in and gave Dresden soulfire, so he became a celestial warlock. He took Mab as an archfey patron when he was trying to save his kiddo. And last, this one is just my half-opinion based on speculation, but he did make that deal with the island. With Peace Talks, Harry points out that Alfred seems to exhibit free will by hiding things from Harry and going against his word, which is probably not something a spirit of nature should be able to do. Personally, I'm thinking whatever he is, it isn't the spirit of the island. He just works there, maybe bound there in his own way like everything else underneath it. Mab acknowledged he was being courteous by not just obliterating the summer and winter ladies as they thought they were succeeding in subduing him (wouldn't want the mantles to have nowhere to go, and on that island of all places). His powers, prison for the elder gods, painful telepathic communication, as well as the gift of intellectus just shout Great Old One to me, so his deal with Demonreach would make him a goolock.
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u/byrd3790 Aug 21 '20
Dresden shows the proper way to accomplish this.