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Unsolved Mysteries Version II
The Fish:
--- Quote from: derrick on April 13, 2011, 08:00:29 PM ---A former employee of SilverCo.
Here's a train of thought to consider:
Victor worked a well-paying job at SilverCo until he was fired for reasons unknown.
Victor then took a relatively late-life interest in magic.
His next 'business' venture was making Three-Eye potions/drugs by using kinky sex rituals/rites.
Silverlight is the porn studio that was trying to put Arturo Genosio's company out of business in BR.
Silverlight is family owned and operated by the White Court.
Jim heavily uses the word silver to 'tag' or describe the White Court and it's members--from clothing to how their eyes look when they're 'vamping out'.
How much do you believe in coincidence in arcane mystery novels? 8)
I think you're on to something, there. Could Sells have been working for someone in the White Court, and not necesarily just house raith?
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Thork:
--- Quote from: SAZ on April 15, 2011, 06:34:30 PM ---
Don’t know who he is, but as a character/plot device I think Victor Sells might be JB’s wink and a nod to Roger Zelazny. In RZ’s 6th book of the Amber series a fellow named Victor Melman was a low level wizard who was used as a puppet to try and kill off the book’s main character Merlin. Merlin was caught somewhat by surprise and ended up killing VM before he could get much useful information from him, thus leaving plot threads hanging and mysteries left unsolved for a while.
I see Victor Sells as a low level wizard who was a puppet, and who got killed by Harry before Harry could get much information from him. Had Harry known more about who trained VS earlier, it could have been helpful to Harry.
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The subltest possible wink/nod to Zelazny I've seen in the books so far is a character named "Sandra Marling" in Proven Guilty; there's a character named "Dra Marling" in Zelazny's Isle of the Dead. Could be coincidence, could be Butcher's subconscious, but mildly interesting either way.
derrick:
--- Quote from: The Fish on April 17, 2011, 08:04:46 PM ---I think you're on to something, there. Could Sells have been working for someone in the White Court, and not necesarily just house raith?
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Whoever Victor was working for, they knew about the heart-ripping curse used by the Red Court as well. I doubt that knowledge of powerful blood magic, even as weak as Victor's version was, would be given to a low-level operative to pass along to an even lower-level 'cut-off' sorcerer. It was likely a more direct passing of information. Mavra or a(nother) member of the Black Council would be a likely bet.
derrick:
--- Quote from: Thork on April 18, 2011, 01:37:25 PM ---The subltest possible wink/nod to Zelazny I've seen in the books so far is a character named "Sandra Marling" in Proven Guilty; there's a character named "Dra Marling" in Zelazny's Isle of the Dead. Could be coincidence, could be Butcher's subconscious, but mildly interesting either way.
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Sandra Marling is interesting in another way. She was the convention chairwoman who would have hired Madrigal Raith (aka Darby Crane) well in advance to be the guest of honor at SplatterCon(!!!), which provided a convenient decoy while Molly was...inadvertently summoning phobophages. Sandra also gave Molly the idea to use fear to beat addiction, which Molly promptly used to screw with her friend's heads.
Furthermore, Molly met Sandra while doing community service at a homeless shelter...like the one that Mavra used as a base in Blood Rites. That one's a little tenuous, though.
MacShidhe:
--- Quote from: derrick on April 19, 2011, 08:43:49 AM ---Furthermore, Molly met Sandra while doing community service at a homeless shelter...like the one that Mavra used as a base in Blood Rites. That one's a little tenuous, though.
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It's a good place for a Skavis WCV, tho
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