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4th law warlock, how to build?

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exploding_brain:
Thinking about building a warlock villain, an enchanter who's breaking the 4th law all over the place. (He's got some supernatural allies, which is why the Wardens haven't taken care of him yet.)

Not too hard to model his thaumaturgical style, but I'm not seeing an obvious way to do enchantments in combat.  I'm not even sure enchantment in combat is possible within the bounds of purely mortal spellcasting.  We don't have many examples of it in the books, (click to show/hide)mostly limited to Molly's bad choices in Proven Guilty, and I'm not sure if those would be thaumaturgy or evocation.  Maybe it's the domain of Sponsored Magic only.

Do mortal spellcasters who fight by frying your brain just not exist, for the most part, in the Dresdenverse?

John Galt:
uhhh.... that's exactly how corpsetaker fought...

KOFFEYKID:
Corpsetaker fought using Psychomancy with the speed and method's of evocation, through kemmlerian necromancy. Overall, a very strong offense.

Tsunami:
Well, you'd need to attack the Mental stress track to fry someones brain.
I would simply do that as a Spirit Attack, doing mental damage instead of physical... anything else is flavor and description.

SavageMage:
To build on this discussion, How would you defend against it? Would stunts that add to the mental stress track affect come into play (like resilient self image) or would you need to fashion a mental ward via evocation?

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