Don't hold your breath

Until next spring?  That would be quite an impressive feat.

Why a broadsword and not a spear?

Specifically... Harry's just gotten a very, very powerful leaf-shaped blade that would look great attached to the end of his Wizard's staff...

Another benefit is the longevity and long-term activities they can do.  In other work of fiction (White Collar tv show) the topic of forgery and Fake Identities came up pretty often. The Holy Grail of Fake ID's came up once: an old-timer in the industry had a couple "perfect" ID's, because he'd literally been raising them like pets for years.  They didnt need to fake records, they had actually filed for various life events real-time for these fake "people".  They had bank accounts, tax history, the whole nine.  It occurs to me that this could be a common way to go about it for an organization of Wizards;  in RL you arent going to find people willing to devote the lifetime of effort it would take, but when the members of an organization live for multiple lifetimes, it becomes far more practical.

Awesome.  This has now entered my headcanon.  Of course that's how they do it.

Isn't there a WoJ out there about seeing something like Kaiju in one of the books?  Ferrovax in his full glory seems like a likely candidate.

Here's the quote: "But yeah – we’ve still got professional wrestling, and dragons, and kaiju and all kinds of cool stuff ahead of us."

So he even mentions dragons right before kaiju.  Perhaps we'll see Ferrovax facing a Cthulhuesque horror rising from the ocean?

Edit:  On the flip side... although we've now seen the Genoskwa take up a coin... I do think there are limits.  A coin-bearer has to have free will.  Mab couldn't take up a coin, I think.  So I'd be surprised if Ferrovax could.  Otherwise, why would all of the Denarians we've met be walking around in flimsy mortal humans?

The Fates are one incarnation of the Triple Goddess (like the Norns) -- the precursor to the Faerie Queens.

One version (from the Perseus legends, if I recall correctly) has them as three hags sharing a magical eye that they pass around between them.

Most particularly, when Harry "summons" Mother Winter, in Cold Days, two of the names he uses for her are Athropos (which I assume is an alternate spelling for Atropos, the eldest of the Fates and the one who cuts the threads of life) and Skuld (one of the Norns).

So... I'd guess that Rashid is saying he got the Eye from the Mothers when they assigned him his role as Gatekeeper.

Oh... yeah, BadHumours is right.  He was probably detecting Evil Bob's magic on Harry.


But I'd definitely say what Harry did to Kravos's ghost was necromancy.  It's pretty much *exactly* what Corpsetaker tried to do in Ghost Story, remember.

I do recall in Dead Beat that Grevane said he saw the True magic on Harry, at first I did not know what he was talking about as up to this point Harry has never encountered necromancy before, but perhaps his encounter with He Who Walks Behind, was a form of it. Or he could have been referring to his First Law infraction, or both, re-reading is always fun, you never know what you will catch again.

I assumed that had to do with the ending of Grave Peril -- when Harry, in spirit form, ate the ghost of Kravos and consumed his magic.  That seems like the closest thing to necromancy Harry did before Sue.