Could someone pleas stat Harpies?
They are monsters with female faces and bird bodies.Their screeches can drive one mad, thay attack in droves, they stink like rotting carrion and they haunt their enemies by shitting on their food thus preventing them to feed. In Greco-Roman mithology they are daughters to Neptune/Poseidon and Anphytritys. Zeus uses them to punish erring mortals. They can summon sea storms, strong winds and whirlwinds. Their power fades as they move away from the sea.

Here are some ideas:
Goddess of life: Ha-Keres from Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love, art and music and Ceres, Roman goddess of plenty and fertility
Goddess of death: Ka-Phersis from Kali, Hindu goddess of death and Persephone, Greek goddess of the Underworld
Goddess of time: Nu-Hannon from Nut, Egyptian goddess of sky and Rhiannon, the Great Goddess of Celtic mythology, who in her three aspects - the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone - represents the flowing of time.
Names of the peoples: Keresians, Phersisians, Hannians (very similar to humans, by the way...).

There was something similar in "the day of the Triffyds": a pandemy of blindness, caused by green meteors...

When I first read a Dresden book I didn't even know about the series. I was at Rome's station looking for something to read during a rather long journey and I casually chose White nights. Well, I must say, I got hooked at once. Wonderful reading and smashing characters. Never saw the tv series, though. Maybe I will, but I don't want to spoil my own Dresden image, I've been growing sooo fond of it...