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William Lanchester served as this figure’s longtime seneschal, but disapproved of this figure forcibly reanimating Henry Barbatus and brutally interrogating him. Lord Portishead wrote A Child’s History of this figure, much of whose powers came from his alliances with the trees and the stones. This figure invented a script known as the King’s Letters to write a book whose text was (15[1])miraculously found tattooed on Vinculus’s body. The law court Les Cinques Dragownes was established by this figure in his kingdom in the north of (*) England. A later writer stressed the importance of this figure to modern magic in the 1816 book The History and Practice (-5[1])of English Magic. This figure, (-5[1])called the “nameless (-5[1])slave” (-5[1])in an ancient prophecy, had the Christian name John Uskglass. For 10 points, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell argued about what legendary magician (-5[1])symbolized by a black bird? ■END■ (0[4])

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