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True. The only outright malicious villain who has lasted longer than a single story arc in this series is Ragnarok/Voltaire.

Harry Houdini himself died 100 years ago this year, so even Arthur would never have met him in person. Going by character ages when EGS started, Mr. and Mrs. Dunkel were Generation X and were teenagers during the 1980s, while the current teen cast are younger-end Millennials. (Based on EGS beginning in January 2002, the main teen cast were born 1984-6.)

I’m thinking that she can eat and taste regular food, but it gives her no nourishment because she doesn’t actually need things like carbs and protein.

Technically that would apply to the kingdom of Russia. The USSR superseded it and asserted sovereignty over the region.

It looked like she was charging at the bag, so it’s quite plausible that she took an additional step forward after making contact with it.

Usually such payments are part of the terms of the treaty ending the conflict. Demanding payments mid-conflict via court action rather than direct threat of military action definitely seems new.

I did. I think that Ellen is trying to say that she does not consider Hope to be to blame for Pandora’s sins.

She was also emotionally “off balance” and thus not guarding against the swing-back. Her action is very much “I am so upset that I need to hit something right now”.

Hmm does she “help” you with rolling the dice?

I think that it has something to do with how dangerous Ragnarok was/is, and Pandora absolutely did not want her childlike future self going off half-cocked on a crusade against him which could get her “family” killed.

Yes.

New-body Magus would have a body created via Ragnarok’s power. I don’t think that he had any trace of Ragnarok before the whole scheme began.

This raises the question, does Ellen being linked to Ragnarok’s power mean that Voltaire can pull her strings?

Unfortunately, he is completely convinced that he cannot lose.

The thing is that he doesn’t just want to have more American military forces and bases on Greenland—he wants to own it. He wants to be known by history as the man who added a 51st (non-Democrat) state to the Union.

Two possibilities spring to mind: First, she could be appalled at Pandora’s own callousness at creating Ellen just to be a gimmick in her toying with Magus—a person who wasn’t meant even to be a toy, just an accessory to one. Second, she may have sensed the “dragon power” that is attached to Ellen. Now, whence came this power? Could it be that the “dragon scale” used in the Dewitchery Diamond was from Ragnarok? And if so, does that mean that Voltaire may have some previously-unrevealed influence over Ellen?

Yah, napping with a friendly kitty is much more pleasant than napping alone.

He is, however, correct that NATO would not assist him in making war upon one of its members (i.e. the Greenland Occupation Plan).

Trump is only the smartest person in the room because he deliberately surrounds himself with the dumbest people he can find.

TIL that kangaroos are considered herbivores rather than omnivores.

His emphasis on her rights does suggest that he is a magic-aware attorney.

A blue box? He already fancies himself to be The Master.

Sure, but not necessarily in the form factor of a TV remote control with each function assigned to a specific button. So far, Tedd’s non-Uryuom-tech transformation devices have been controlled using mental or verbal commands.

Considering that those things have been around for at least three thousand years prior to the USA being a thing, I suspect that it more or less falls under “when do newly constituted governments who are not the successors to existing in-the-know governments find out about this stuff”. So, probably soon after the Federal Government was consolidated enough to actually run much of anything. Possibly when Washington, John Adams, or Jefferson were President.

If he’s not too old, then the “Antebellum South” aesthetic may reflect his formative period immediately after his most recent reset.