Niall Brigant is a fairy prince, and the great-grandfather to Sookie and Jason Stackhouse in "The Southern Vampire Mysteries". Like other supernaturals fairies have interests in a variety of human businesses, including a drug company whose products have uses for the fairies. He tells Sookie that his son, Fintan, and Sookie's grandmother, Adele, had two children: Corbett (her father) and Linda (her aunt and Hadley's mother). Adele's husband could not give her children. Niall is a fairy prince who has powerful enemies and wants to keep his new relationship with his great-granddaughter secret in order to protect her.