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I think the biggest mix ups folks are making is this. "Any number of Crypteks can be upgraded" means when I 1st spend the points to buy a cryptek how does he come? Obviously he comes with nothing but a staff of light and no title. He is just a simple, vanilla cryptek. So when the rule is referring to any number of "Cryptek", they are referencing the plain cryptek I just described. Permission is granted to any number of vanilla Cryptek in my royal court to be upgraded to a single harbinger type. Not that all 5 cryptek can be a despairtek, but that all 5 vanilla cryptek have a choice to become it's own unique harbinger for this particular court if you wanted, since there are 5 Harbinger types. I don't think this is an accident or coincidence in any way whatsoever. Once you are upgraded with a unique piece of wargear of any kind ( yes staves are included) from that harbinger entry you've selected, you now are classified as a "harbinger", in essence changing the definition of the model for purposes of the following rules.

The other mix up, is that statement " Whilst you can have any number of Harbingers of a specific type". This piece is slightly ambiguous. But if I fall back on the information I just read, I can put it I to context. I know that I can have more than 1 RC. If 5th edition rules were similar to today's Battleforged design, then technically I can have any number of Harbingers as long as I have enough points to buy Overlord with compulsory troops, to provided RC's from multiple detachments. That statement is just a reminder of this fact, so you don't limit yourself in case you have multiple RCs.

The only way to have ever purchased a cryptek or its harbinger incarnation is if you have a Royal court. Did GW ever conceive another way to have crypteks in your army, before Exterminus? No. There was no such thing as a cryptek or harbinger without a court, for purposes of adding one to your army list( excluding ICs). So you can't just make up rules about a creature that did not exist during 5th edition.

So, this doesn't seem to be going anywhere at this point.

Moving on.