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Who recruited and trained Victor Sells?
Griffyn612:
Who recruited and trained Victor Sells? I've previously assumed Mavra, but after reading a couple things, I've changed my mind.
FM - Pg 341 - Harry
--- Quote ---I never had found out who exactly was behind the warlock who showed up the previous spring. Black wizards don’t just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic, and clichéd villain dialogue. Who had been his teacher?
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Training Mortals with Potential
BR - Pg 333 - Lord Raith
--- Quote ---“Wizard, I believe you have met my assistants.” Two women rose from the shadows within the circle and faced me. The first was Madge, Arturo’s first wife, the disciplined businesswoman.
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BR - Pg 335 - Harry
--- Quote ---I shot a hard glance at Madge. She had power.
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SF - Pg 279 - Harry
--- Quote ---I might be giving Victor Shadowman too much credit. He was as powerful as a full-blown wizard, but he didn’t have the education.
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Training in Summoning Demons
BR - Pg 346 - Harry
--- Quote ---I’d torn apart He Who Walks Behind, but even so he’d left me with some unnerving scars. And the ritual Madge was using was calling that thing back.
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SF - Pg 293 - Harry
--- Quote ---I had seen only one person call a demon before—and I had killed my old master shortly after. The thing crouched in front of Victor, its lightning blue eyes whirling with shades of scarlet hate, staring up at the black-clad wizard, trembling with the need to tear into him, to rend and destroy the mortal being who had dared summon it forth.
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Training in Ritual Magic
BR - Pg - 334 - Harry & Madge
--- Quote ---“So you sacrificed her for the curse this morning,” I spat.
“No, he didn’t,” Madge said in a quiet, rather chillingly conversational tone. “I did."
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SF - Pg 260 - Harry
--- Quote ---Victor was still out there, out at his lake house, he still had a hank of my hair, and he was still planning on ripping my heart out as soon as he possibly could, when the storm gave him the strength he needed.
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Point of Contact
BR - Pg 289 - Harry
--- Quote ---"Trace the money trail back and I’d bet you dollars to doughnuts that you’ll find that it’s Raith and that he owns Silverlight."
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SF - Pg 40 - Monica Sells
--- Quote ---“Where did he work?” I asked her...
“SilverCo,” she told me. “They’re a trading company. They locate good markets for products and then advise companies where they can best spend their money.”
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BR - Pg 346 - Harry & Monica
--- Quote ---“Okay,” I said, noting that down, too. “Friends, then?”
She fretted her lip, a gesture that seemed familiar to her. “Not really. He was friends with his boss, and some people at work, but after he was fired…”
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Resources
SF - Pg 236 - Monica Sells
--- Quote ---“It was when Billy was about four that Victor found the magic. I don’t know where. But he started getting obsessed with it. He brought home books and books. Strange things."
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SF - Pg 39 - Monica Sells
--- Quote ---“Yes. He had been buying books on it in the religion section at the bookstore."
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BR - Pg 174 - Harry & Thomas
--- Quote ---“What about your dad? He know any magic?”
“Like maybe entropy curses?” Thomas shrugged. “I hear stories about things he’s done in the past. Some of them must be close to true. Plus he’s got a huge library he keeps locked up most of the time."
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BR - Pg 14 - Harry
--- Quote ---Thomas was a vampire of the White Court. They didn’t drink blood. They fed on emotions, on feelings, drawing the life energy from their prey through them. The way I understood it, it was usually during sex, and rumor had it that their kind could seduce a saint.
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SF - Pg 237 - Harry & Monica
--- Quote ---“That’s when he realized that he could touch other people’s emotions, too,” I said. “Use them to help power his magic.”
She nodded, and curled tighter in on herself. “It was only me, at first. He’d frighten me. And afterward I would be so exhausted. Then he found out that for what he was doing, lust worked better."
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Motivation for Training
BR - Pg 327 - Lord Raith
--- Quote ---“No, boy. You aren’t the only one who worked out what your mother did to me. And how."
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BR - Pg 335 - Lord Raith
--- Quote ---"I finally will escape her ridiculous little binding, remove a troublesome thorn in my side... slay the wizard that has a full quarter of the Red Court quaking in their fleshmasks, restore a rebellious employee to acceptable controls, and now, in addition to all of that, I have acquired someone with influence among the local authorities.”
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SF - Pg 74 - Morgan
--- Quote ---“Someone killed two people with sorcery last night, Dresden. I think it was you. And when I find how you did it and can trace it back to you, don’t think you’re going to live long enough to cast the same spell at me.”
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airyie:
Wow. That theory. It is pretty well put together. In fact, It might just have merit.
derrick:
Good post. You dug up more evidence than I did. ;D
What I'm curious about is how Papa Raith got ahold of the blood curse that the Red Court set up in Changes (or how The RC got it from Papa Raith.)
zandamascus:
ya, vadderung highly implied that the spell sells used was the same one that the reds were going to use. i think technically you could argue that he never actually said it and could have been misleading harry but i HIGHLY doubt that, because he did specifically say he was on harry's side.
granted that doesn't rule out papa wraith. the bloodline curse is probably several hundred years old atleast. there's no reason wraith couldn't have gotten it from the reds, or another source
Locnil:
Given that the Whites and Reds apparently had a good relation, it;s just possible they passed it on to each other. Besides. Arianna and Raith are the two who we know for sure are almost certainly Black Council.
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