Hitler and Stalin had modern technology, communication and organisation at their side. Unlike Rome however they lost and we do not have to listen to their mythology.

They were innovators and though their crimes were not new they were on a scale unheard of before their time.

Rome was similar. Everything they did was known before the romans came but they killed and enslaved on a scale and efficiency never heard of before. They were innovators too.

But I think I wandered away from my original argument here. They were all horrible people who did far more even than most people in their situation and even in their time would have done. The difference that was important for my argument is that some of them had build a mythology around them.

And that mythology still has power today over peoples mind.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/stalinist-nostalgia-in-vladimir-putins-russia.html

I thought there was a mention of camoflaging the holy swords in a bucket of mundane ones. Might have been props from his dad's stage magic rather than actual weapons though...

Isn't that mostly due to Stuart Lake's heavily fictionalised "biography" of Earp?

In reality, he was an occasional law enforcer and gambler who was accused of murder after the O.K. Corral shootout and got off because he hired a famous defence attorney. Doesn't really scream "zombie killer" material to me.

Let's look at a similar situation.

Harry walks in and uses his little candle lighting spell to light a bunch of candles.

Then, one gets knocked over.

The place burns down and kill some mortals.

Harry is TECHNICALLY guilty of murder, but there would be no council, or cosmic consequences.

Jim had his Reddit podcast Q&A around the time he wrote Fist Full of Warlocks and said this:

Which is only a year or 3 after the events of Fist Full of Warlocks.  Could be related to your question.

Possible, if it can do so for someone other than it's (presumably0 bonded wielder). And No, Maeve doomed herself by being a spoiled prat, but since the Staff needs informed consent from it's wielder I have to think it would have needed the same willing participation that Mab did.  In fact, Mab's ability to cure Nemfection might be directly related to the mechanism of the blackstaff.  Assuming of course that both the underlying theories are correct (that the Blackstaff is a Winter Artifact and that Black Magic Taint = Nemfection
The theory is that the supernatural element of Black Magic taint (the bit that the blackstaff protects Eb from, independent of the moral and psychological fallout) is in fact an expression of Nemfection.  There are various threads that pull together to make this theory hold some water, but the core idea is that since Magic is the very fundamental force of Creation and since Mortals are directly empowered like no other to affect the fabric of reality (via Soul and Free Will), so when then choose to twist that Power of Life and Creation is one of several specific Extreme ways, it creates a sort of 'crack' in reality that allows a bit of Nemesis Inside.  Do it often enough and the accumulated Taint/Nemfection would build up and eventually start influencing you more directly.  Since Fae have no Soul, they both do not have the same effect on reality with their magic (just like how they cannot actually Summon Outsiders) but similarly they dont have the same Cosmically protected Choice; so their Nemfections require outside vectors, but also can happen much more swiftly.

Aminar, here is the posting from Jim ...

http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,34801.msg1663694.html#msg1663694

Ivy's existence is the Oblivion War..  Her purpose is to erase the Old gods from reality.