Well, Harry is an example where it breaks down then, because he didn't get one, right?

I thought the implication there is that some level of fencing instruction is part of the general Council apprentice curriculum, though I'm not sure I agree. Nobody seems to have been after Harry to teach Molly to fence, for one thing. And we don't know where or when Harry studied fencing to get to his stated description of OK at it but nowhere near good enough to challenge the serious swordsmen. There's never been a mention of whether Justin taught him that, Ebenezar did, or he decided some lessons after leaving Eb would be a useful skill.

In terms of a weapon though, I really can't see Dresden taking up Amoracchius at this point after all the buildup that it has to be meant for someone with the right biblical virtues, even without the WOJ that a sword for Harry isn't in the plan. The Warden of Demonreach has to walk in a lot of grey areas, whereas the Swords are for paladins, pure of heart.

If he's going to get any sort of special weapon, my money is on figuring out how the four of five artifacts from Hades' vault that he already has actually work. Many have speculated the 'knife' might be the head of the Spear of Destiny - if so, the foreshadowing of that being mounted on his staff is, uh, pretty strong. How cool would a showdown between Harry and Cristos be, with Cristos expecting the sword he kept as a former warden to undo Harry's staff, only for Harry to break his sword instead when they come to blows?

Maybe one is sick or has an unusual relative. 
Alternately, Harry can identify one of his companions as nemfected, with obvious implications. 

Like what the 'something significant about Justine's background that Thomas knows but Harry doesn't' actually is.

Though with divergent histories, it's possible for someone to be N-fected in one universe but not the other.

He told /An Agent/, but I dont know that the FBI as a whole was made aware of the fact in any official way (even an ignored one like with Butters and the CPD).

Yeah, Tilly got clued in, but he can't very well report everything he knows up the chain without getting fitted for a straightjacket.

On the other hand, Harry and the gang dropped some bodies at the scene, and as I recall Murphy mentioned killing another set to guard the stairwell after they split up. If the Eebs missed removing any of their dead, inhuman bodies left behind after massacring a bunch of federal agents would be orders of magnitude harder to make go away than one videotape of a loup garou.

Only instead of Intpol, the Librarians.  Favors exchanged between the council and the LoC could work this way.

Pretty sure the Librarians would be just about as averse to the White Council learning about their organization as just about any of the other supernatural nations. The WOJ about them was that they're obsessively secretive out of caution about the powers they're in opposition to. I wouldn't be surprised if they were behind a few of the assassination attempts against Harry that haven't been otherwise attributed (though Ace is also a candidate).

There is no blade that can pass through a coin, it would hit the coin, and deflect a little bit to pass through the skin next to the coin.

Well ... the faithsaber just possibly might. And we don't have a clue of the abilities of the knife (spearpoint?) from Hades' vault yet.

But from Harry's description of their auras, both of those are vastly more powerful than even Medea's bodkin.

Successful rulers and leaders often are not.  Sometimes you can't be both nice and successful in politics and war.  It's not hard to find examples in history of kings and rulers who were kind, decent...and ineffectual or worse.

In-universe, Nic even acknowledged at one point that Marcone would have been a successful ruler in times gone by.

Am I going to have to get this one? The title seemed silly enough to put me off.

He only had the earth-magic Cane sword of his own, unless you count the Swords in his keeping.

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...

This is always brought up, but how do we know the noose doesn't protect itself? A two millennia old piece of rope that didn't snap as harry pulled on it in earnest and was farther unaffected by the cold lake water? just like the shroud of Turin, that thing shoulda fallen to threads. It didn't though.

The noose itself is definitely unnaturally resistant to destruction. I'm pretty sure there's even a WOJ about it, but the implicit text evidence is enough.

What it doesn't do, though, is heal the wearer absolutely immediately. Nic's wounds close when he gets shot, but it takes a distinguishable amount of time. Sufficiently violent overkill might not hurt the noose itself, but the strike only has to decapitate him and knock the noose loose.

What's more, it can presumably protect him from huge Holy Swords attempting to decapitate him.  If anything could cut the Noose that would be it, and removing the Neck should be a reasonable way to remove a necklace. The Knights certainly seem to favor decapitation as a goto tactic (for good reason).

Given how skilled he is at swordplay, it's possible that none of the Knights have ever managed to fully behead him in combat and see if it sticks. Cutting less than all the way through or too slow to knock the noose free before he starts healing isn't sufficient, and he's world-class at denying opponents the window for a clean strike. Massive explosives or an anti-tank round, on the other hand, do their damage in a few thousandths of a second.