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I think it's exactly the opposite -- those were about maintaining the "masquerade" for the muggles.
Sells was working in the "undeworld" -- not only hard-to-trace-mundanely (being magic), but also hiding (as a criminal). ThirdEye was seen as just another hallucinogen by the authorities, and the deaths were just mysterious deaths. No risk of exposure.
Kravos ("the Nightmare") was even-further from Muggle perception, using dreams & mind-magic.
The FBI agents were also hiding their Hexenwulf identities.
I don't think we actually know if it's a prerequisite, or only enforced after the fact. Nor do we know if Lily or Sarissa were virgins.
Is it celibacy, or virginity?
Sorry. He did the same thing in my thread, where he made random guesses out of far left field with 0 evidence, then admitted he makes baseless guesses, and claimed I was a troll for poking holes in his 'theories' when I said his posts sounded troll-like to me.
Getting the thread back on track instead of wild guessing that has 0 facts to back it up made by someone who seems hellbent on derailing every thread they post in:
It really boils down to the fact that somethings exists on the NeverNever side that Harry has been told will Kill Him Horribly.
We don't know much about Demonreach except that it's a prison for the worst of the worst. And that means the NeverNever side also has to be pretty darn dark and dangerous.
Yes, exactly like that -- and Roman Concrete and Stradavarian Violins.
I posited something similar several years ago, that The Warden is actually an automatic Senior Council post.
However to do that Kemmler would have had to be a Member of the Senior Council gone rogue as the WOJ of him being the Warden before the last came after I posited this.
No you've got it backwards. Christ was born in the later years of Augustus and crucified during reign of Tiberius. There are some debates amongst scholars and theologians as to the precise year of his birth and death, but not enough to change the Star Born timing problem here.
Here's wikipedia (yes, I know):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus
The Shroud, the Placard, the Spear, the Grail, the Sword and the Coins are not Outsider specific artifacts. They just happen to be effective against everything -- as Dresden notes about the Spear. He says, it was more real than everything else, it was not just a spear -- it was a spear against everything. Nicodemus intended to use the pseudo-Shroud to start a plague when we first met him. I think it more likely that they are all-purpose items.
As for JC being a Star Born -- I dunno, it doesn't seem like the timing works out, every 666 years or so from 4 BC means Star Born cycles at 662AD, 1328AD and 1994AD. Dresden (and Butcher) are GenX'ers to the core and so the timing is off by several decades, regardless of whether you use 7BC, 4BC or 1AD for the birth of JC.
As for JC being Nemfected, that seems unlikely. JC is a person of the Trinity, so the HS and the Father would also be Nemfected. Whether you personally believe in God, clearly that being is "real" for purposes of the Dresdenverse and according to the Nicene Creed -- the Father and the Son are of the same substance:
Personally, I do not believe that Angels are contained within the Placard, Shroud, Grail or Spear. There are Angels in the Swords, just as there are Demons in the Coins. I don't think an imprisoned (willing or otherwise) being is required to make a potent artifact. I'm fairly sure that no Demon resides in Marcone's butterfly knife, which he successfully used on Ethniue, it worked because Marcone has Infernal sponsorship. (Plot hole for BG: Why didn't Harry use Soul Fire on Ethniue?).
Gary is good, but I doubt he's that good.
Lara & Marcone, in particular, will have hired their own top-tier hackers, both for self-protection and to attack enemies.
Goodman Grey's shapeshifting will defeat all the CCTV monitoring, and he undoubtedly uses lots of cash (instead of cards) which reduces his "digital footprint" almost to nil.
All the big faerie powers -- including the svartalves -- have huge amounts of their power (usually the majority of it) in the Nevernever, which is utterly beyond Gary's reach.
Gary probably only learned about the Nevernever when Harry&Elaine founded the Paranet and the supernaturals began some online chatter on the topic. But the thing about the Paranet is that the mostly-low-level supernaturals just aren't as clued-in as the big players. Harry himself -- a mostly-trained WC wizard -- only learned of some fundamental things (like Summer&Winter's Lady/Queen/Mother "3 Queens" structure) on-screen, from Bob.