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Belial666:
Assembly-line thaumaturgy is the only way a guy like Binder could reliably have access to many dozens of his guys in a half-hour notice and necromancers like Grevare and Corpsetaker could have even larger numbers of fairly powerful undead made in a day. In addition, remember the multi-ward in a certain house in Ghost Story? It was made up of hundreds of lesser wards adding up to much bigger total power.
So assembly-line thaumaturgy is certainly possible. It is just that most wizards who have a good theoretical basis on thaumaurgy are older than modern industrialization and so hidebound as to never adopt new ideas. Besides, really powerful wizards either don't need assembly-line thaumaturgy or already use it. The Merlin can stop an army of vampires and Outsiders with one spell. The Blackstaff has repatedly brought about disasters more powerful than nuclear weapons. Ancient Mai has been creating stone guardians for the White Council's strongholds all over the world and Luccio (before her depowering) had created hundreds of enchanted swords.
Sanctaphrax:
You don't actually need assembly-line thaumaturgy to model Binder's tricks. You could do that in a number of other ways.
And Grevane never had all that many zombies, IIRC.
Mr. Death:
Didn't he have a whole bunch when he attacked Harry's apartment? And during the final fight, where a whole horde of the things was attacking the Wardens?
Sanctaphrax:
I thought he only had a dozen or so. But it's been a while since I read the book.
Belial666:
About a hundred when he attacked Harry's apartment, which he didn't have when he went for Butters in the morgue. After that he fought with Corpsetaker and her ghost-thingies and after that he was winning against Morgan, old Luccio and several other wardens with yet another horde until Harry and his T-Rex intervened.
That's a lot of zombies - but then Grevare might have been an idiot but his necromancy was probably very close to Elena's level of power.
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