"oh yes. yes, of course there's no magic more powerful than the magic of willing sacrifice. naturally, that's why the most important skill a magician can learn is how to alter what people are willing to sacrifice."
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“mind control? oh, no, nothing so savage as that. it doesn’t work anyway. control the mind and the heart rebels. magicians learn how to seduce the heart instead. seduce the heart and they’ll sacrifice anything for you and it will feel like heroism.”

