I was very confused when Listen to Winds said Harry was breaking one of the Laws of Magic by losing his temper when he nearly ran over a kid. I mean I love the team up and the concept but I feel like the writer is asleep at the wheel.

That's not really what happened though.

Some kid runs in front of Dresden's car chasing a friend while wearing a wolf mask. Dresden jumped out and was about to rough up the kid a bit for playing such stupid games and LtW stopped him. He then said that Harry's TEMPER and anger issue is what worries him about the situation and that he should report that to the Council since a Warden should be more in control of themselves because their job is upholding the Laws.

So he didn't really accuse him of breaking a Law just that he showed a worrying lack of control in the situation.

Well, the BAT is supposed to have Kaiju's and Aircraft Carriers, so that sounds like the Government gets involved at some point.

Yes, Cowl as trying to up his power, with rituals that take whole cities as a sacrifice. You think you can do that unnoticed and then go to work the next day meeting the most powerful and knowledgeable Wizards in the world?

Dresden who is a supernatural thug and is crapy with his supernatural sense can detect small black magic rituals days after they have been done. To claim that you can hide Dark Hallow equivalents from SC, Wardens, and who knows how many other Wizards, not to mention the multitude of ancient and powerful Wards around Edinburgh is absurd.

And the knife was explained. To do magic you have to believe in it, brainwashing Luccio to attack an SC with magic would have necessitated such strong mind manipulation that it would leave traces (and probably break her psyche too) defeating the point of framing her and Morgan in the first place.

The reasons I usually give are the following:

As you mentioned he is a character introduced in a "by the way" style, the same as another traitor of the Council, Peabody.

Cowl uses pseudo-Slavic for his spells ("dorosh" is a Russian surname but no actual word in Russian, similar like Dresden pseudo-Latin) which suggest that he is from somewhere with Slavic ethnicities, like Russia, where Archangel, Simons stronghold is. Similar to Dresden who doesn't use proper Latin for his spells but bastardises it because he uses the real thing. Where he NOT from Russia (or around) he could use proper Russian for his spells.

Both Cowl and Dresden use hands crossed at their wrists as defence position against magical attack. Which is not a common or standard position since for example, Peabody uses the "Doctor Strange" hand position to deflect attacks. If Cowl where Simon (who taught DuMorne) it would explain why he and Dresden ended up with the same magical gestures. From one master to the next student. The same way the Council first suspected Harry of leaking the information about Archangels Wards because he was DuMorne's student.

Cowl hands are covered in scars, probably battle scars, since Wardens and the Archangel Brute Squad where the only groups of Wizard to regularly see combat before the War, this suggests that Cowl belonged to one of those groups.

As Senior Council responsible for the "Brute Squad" he would obviously be consulted by the Wardens, and maybe be there go to guy on the Senior Council which would be a handy way to learn about Dresden and be interested "what makes the Warden so nervous about you [Dresden]".

Petrovich was supposed to be the Council's expert on vampires, and every time we've seen Cowl he's associating with vampires (Dead Beat the deal with the Red Court to destroy Edinburgh defences, White Night the putsch in the White Court).

On the other hand, it has been what 8-10 years in-story since Luccio got body swap? (there was some odd time passage between Ghost Story-Cold Days)

She said she would be able to adjust her skills to her new body after some time. So I'm still hoping for a Warden Sword for Harry at some point.

Any thought on Luccio's sword? There are two quotes regarding it:


And later during the fight:


None of this quotes make it explicit if this is already the Enchantment Cutting Sword she will be making for all the Wardens later. The way it is used here, it could be a simple focus she uses to fight.

Anyway, it would suggest that either Luccio was an outliner as a Warden using a sword, which later gave here the idea to make the enchanted swords which all Wardens would carry.

Or there is a tradition of Warden using sword regardless if they are enchanted or not, which begs the question why didn't the new Baby Wardens and Harry got normal swords.

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.

Thank you!

No problem, it was a fun thought experiment. Read up on the Spider-Man stories that touch on the mystical aspects of his powers too. Just google "Spiderman Spider Totem" or "Ezekiel Spiderman". They are basically your already prepared storyline, and can give you ideas how to make his life miserable

Also, remember to make the fact that it is an IoP come into play. Like it might get stolen, or the chain it is on may break during a fight etc. There is a reason for the +2 bonus when making your powers an IoP, this is it.