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groinkick:
One of the hints dropped in Storm Front was the most wizards who can cast a spell together is 13.  Harry mentions that they all must be like minded, and have the same goal for it to work at it would be like a cult or something.  This seems like a big hint about the Black Council and some sort of spell that will be cast somewhere down the line.

Victor Sells to me is weird.  On one hand Harry comments about how inexperienced Sells is while at the same time the examples of stuff he has done are really complicated.  The Three eye for example.  Harry needed Bob's help to put together some potions and here was Victor putting together a potion that Harry didn't think was possible.  How could someone like him do it?  Also the ritual magic he did was complex as Harry notes when he's sneaking into Sells's home.  He also appears to have a lot of horse power while still being inexperienced.  He sounds like a good candidate for someone like Cowl to recruit and use.  Was he a member of the Black Council or possibly a thrall?  Just odd that such an inexperienced person with no known mentor could pull off what he did. 

During their battle Victor used a demon, and Harry obtained the demon's Name.  Can't help but wonder if we will see Harry call upon it in the future.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: groinkick on December 31, 2018, 08:56:50 PM ---Victor Sells to me is weird.

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That is because he is supposed to for the reasons you list. In the next couple of books, it is heavily implied that he had someone show him how to do what he did. Harry assumed it was the same person who gave the wolf pelt belts to the feds. It is later implied that Sells was infected by nemesis. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

huangjimmy108:

--- Quote from: groinkick on December 31, 2018, 08:56:50 PM ---One of the hints dropped in Storm Front was the most wizards who can cast a spell together is 13.  Harry mentions that they all must be like minded, and have the same goal for it to work at it would be like a cult or something.  This seems like a big hint about the Black Council and some sort of spell that will be cast somewhere down the line.

Victor Sells to me is weird.  On one hand Harry comments about how inexperienced Sells is while at the same time the examples of stuff he has done are really complicated.  The Three eye for example.  Harry needed Bob's help to put together some potions and here was Victor putting together a potion that Harry didn't think was possible.  How could someone like him do it?  Also the ritual magic he did was complex as Harry notes when he's sneaking into Sells's home.  He also appears to have a lot of horse power while still being inexperienced.  He sounds like a good candidate for someone like Cowl to recruit and use.  Was he a member of the Black Council or possibly a thrall?  Just odd that such an inexperienced person with no known mentor could pull off what he did. 

During their battle Victor used a demon, and Harry obtained the demon's Name.  Can't help but wonder if we will see Harry call upon it in the future.

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The key here is "ritual magic"

During the 15 books in the series, we saw Harry do many things with magic. Most of them are not as impressive as what Sells do in book 1, but Harry do them on the fly and sometimes under pressure and on a moments notice. Sells wield his magic from his home with a complete ritual circle and a storm to power his spells. If this is D&D, Harry is casting magic on the field with no magic ingredients while sells is casting magic from a wizard's tower.

The thing is, it is likely that the ritual and potion recipe are supplied to Sells by the mastermind. Sells himself does not understand what he is doing. In other words, he is using someone else's tower. He is just someone given a big gun and and only knows how to aim and shoot.

kbrizzle:
Victor Sells is weird, no doubt.  There has been speculation in the forum that Lord Raith was his “sponsor”, arising from the fact that Sells was previously employed by Silver Capital or something, a naming convention used by the Raith family. This makes a certain amount of sense given Lord Raith’s actions in Blood Rites.

I’m not sure that Sells was Nfected, although it has been implied by both Lily & the Gatekeeper that Nemesis was involved here. Here are a couple of reasons why I think so:

* A Nfected Sells wouldn’t have been goofy enough to make noob mistakes like letting slip the name of the demon under his control in front of a White Council-level Wizard.
* It would also have known Harry’s status as a Starborn & not wanted him dead, or even if it wanted him dead, an Outsider would’ve been called to do it, not a mid-level demon
We have seen the corruptive influence of black magic upon the human soul, and the amount Sells had been doing for a few years would’ve been enough to deeply corrupt him. Especially if it were being guided/ directed by someone like Lord Raith or worse.

I don’t think Sells would’ve been a good candidate for Cowl & would have been rejected by the latter - Sells was too insane to be a good pupil in the long-term - while he possessed a good amount of low cunning, he is too absorbed in power for its own sake to be more than a magical thug. Harry’s appeal to the smarter bad guys is that he is a thug who has discipline enough to accomplish complex goals - he is not swayed by the obviously corruptive power offered to him by people like the Denarians etc.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on January 08, 2019, 11:50:51 PM ---
* A Nfected Sells wouldn’t have been goofy enough to make noob mistakes like letting slip the name of the demon under his control in front of a White Council-level Wizard.
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I'm not sure if this is the case. As we've seen with Cat Sith, and probably with Aurora and Maeve, Nemesis tries to leave the personality intact to a certain extent so that it can go undetected.

That said, I'm of the opinion that Sells was not infected, but manipulated.

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