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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 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 (10[1])figure to modern magic in the 1816 (-5[1])book The History and Practice of English Magic. This figure, called the “nameless slave” in an ancient prophecy, had the Christian name John Uskglass. For 10 points, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell argued about what legendary magician symbolized by a black bird? ■END■ (0[3])

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