If it was really in response to Simon, I think it would've happened a lot sooner. Instead it happens literally the week after Ortega tries to kill Harry. I kiiiiiiinda doubt that was a coincidence.

Of course that was his real primary motivation, but the point was Archangel was still a good enough excuse for him to act against Casaverde, as far as any accountability to the rest of the of the Senior Council is concerned. He could spin it that it took a while to ascertain Archangel was Ortega's op, and by the point he was sure who to retaliate against, the duel was already on the table so he wanted to see if Harry would take care of the problem for him, but Oretga's cheating forced Eb to revert to Plan A.

We don't know what the other hits were, but of the ones we have, none seem to have been ordered by the White Council.

I think we've got pretty good basis for linking New Madrid to retaliation for the attack on his wife. The others he told Harry about  were Krakatoa and the Tunguska Event. For reasons I've elaborated elsewhere I suspect Tunguska was about wiping out a concentration of high-value BCV targets who were trying to ride out the Stokerlypse somewhere remote - if I'm right about that, the Council would have been happy to see that happen, but we have no real idea whether it was ordered or at his own initiative.

Krakatoa is an odder one. There were geological warnings signs quite a ways ahead, so that target can't have been someone mobile who could just leave via the NN. It has to have been some sort of fixed stronghold that needed to be got rid of, but whose it might have been is a puzzle.

So don't look at it like a cop who's allowed to kill when necessary in defense of the law and his own life.
Look at it like a shady-as-hell Man in Black who might just shoot you while you're going about your day to day business because the Senior Council decided you were a problem.

Given how prone the Council can be to factionalism, I don't think that would make it better. Every member who knows there is a Blackstaff but not who it is would be paranoid they might get whacked over political differences dressed up as 'for the good of the Council' at any moment.

JB has said that Goodman Grey could devour Harry's essence like a naglooshi, but in so doing he would absorb so much of Harry that he would essentially rewrite himself into a copy of Harry.  You'd have a near-perfect physical, mental, and spiritual duplicate of Harry running around, but Harry would be dead or in a coma or something.

Yet the full-blood naagloshii don't seem to be subject to that risk. From what Morgan said, they just gain power from those they kill without it changing their fundamental nature (he initially thought Shagnasty was tracking him for a chance at eating him, rather than on contract to the Circle).

I wonder what that implies for the human skinwalkers who were taught the techniques of the originals? I'd guess they're probably at least as subject to being changed according to 'you are what you eat' as Grey himself would be, since as mortals their nature is more changeable than the real deal, but maybe Grey is uniquely vulnerable?

Besides, if the Darkhallow had put the Erlking in danger, wouldnt that have negated the Erlkings beef with Harry, or at least attracted the Hunt's attention enough for them to have joined Sue in some Zombie stomping?

Are we sure the Erlking realizing what was going on after the fact didn't cause him to take it down a notch?

I mean, he is a Fae - he can't just entirely write off a grudge. But he found an excuse to give Harry an abeyance on acting on it, and then eventually "hunted" him in such a way as to actually help him. That's a pretty big switch from threatening to destroy Harry on the spot when he was initially trapped

Initially, Harry gave the Erlking a pretty poor explanation by saying that he'd trapped him to stop humans from suffering and dying, rather than that he was trying to interrupt freaking necromancers from summoning the Erlking elsewhere to eat his hunters and maybe him as well. I'm pretty sure the Erlking either figured out the bigger picture or was told by Mab by the time he came back and told Harry he would spare him that night.

Hmm...according to legend, one of the dangers of taking a Fae lover was that they can be ferociously jealous, murderously jealous, even if they are routinely unfaithful themselves.  I wonder if Mab and Titania share that tendency...

Maybe if they genuinely cared about the mortal in question, but in the case of the Knight as the Queen's consort I don't think faithfulness is expected. Particularly in Winter's case, if Mab were going around killing the Knight's bedmates after the deed out of jealousy, she'd hardly have time for anything else under less rigidly self-controlled Knights than Harry.

I'd say if she has any problem with him starting an actual relationship with Karrin, it's more likely to be that their connection would help keep his humanity grounded, and get in the way of her agenda to mould him into a monster. Of course, it's not like Mab can just up and kill Karrin herself, or order Harry to with any expectation of obedience, but she may try to create more distrust as she did between Harry and Molly in SG.

but in a DF context Id speculate that it's not simply visual invisibility but rather a more powerful/absolute sort of Anti-detection.

Maybe it specifically makes him undetectable to Nemesis. That would be valuable indeed.

I must have missed the young goblin's example.  Was that from one of the comics?

It was from the video that Priscilla recorded at the Phoenix panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUtuL8JvnM

From that definition, some possible examples come to mind:
- Grave Peril: When Michael burned a Rampire who touched his paladin costume (note that he didn't have a Sword at the time)

Also, Michael's prayers broke a mental binding from freakin' MAB in SmF. That can't have been a small thing.