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* CompellingVoice: When the Archivist asks a question, even other acolytes of the higher powers have no choice but to answer.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Jonathan's parents died under questionable circumstances, and he wasn't close with the grandmother who raised him. [[spoiler:Leaving him with no close ties to notice he's been claimed by Beholding, or to distract him from his obsessive need to sort through and devour stories.]]
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* OlderThanTheyLook: He is in his early thirties but comments that people are always surprised upon learning that fact due to his greying hair (Melanie King at one point even feels the need to ask Jonathan if he is aware of what a "meme" is).
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* ProperlyParanoid: Jonathan is right to be paranoid about being attached by whoever was behind Gertrude's death, although he doesn't express that paranoia in very productive ways.
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* MeaningfulName: Martin's surname, Blackwood, translates into "Schwarzwald" -- the location where Jonah Magnus first encountered the supernatural.
* SpidersAreScary: Averted by Martin, who is willing to walk into a creepy cobwebbed basement because he likes spiders. [[spoiler: And he is right to do so. Eldritch spiders horrors are relatively benign compared to some of the other monsters out there. Sure, they sometimes eat people, but they also bind, suppress, and devour other supernatural forces.]]
* SpidersAreScary: Averted by Martin, who is willing to walk into a creepy cobwebbed basement because he likes spiders. [[spoiler: And he is right to do so. Eldritch spiders horrors are relatively benign compared to some of the other monsters out there. Sure, they sometimes eat people, but they also bind, suppress, and devour other supernatural forces.]]
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* GlamourFailure: When looked at directly, Michael appears to be a normal human. However, when seen through warped glass, it appears to be very tall and thin, with a body that appears to have no structure, and hands as big as its torso with long, stiff fingers that end in points.
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* PestController: Jane (or the being using her body) commands masses of strange silver worms worms which infest more people and thus kill or enslave them.
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* Avatar: {{Avatar}}: [[spoiler: At the end of season 2 it's revealed that Michael is actually an aspect of an entity known as "The Distortion." It deals in fooling the senses, drawing you into mazes, and making you doubt your own sanity.]]
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* Avatar: [[spoiler: At the end of season 2 it's revealed that Michael is actually an aspect of an entity known as "The Distortion." It deals in fooling the senses, drawing you into mazes, and making you doubt your own sanity.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Michael's motivations and goals are inscrutable, to say the least, and while he does help Jonathan and the others at certain points, it doesn't do so for altruistic reasons.
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* RealityWarper: Michael is able to make a [[TheLonelyDoor door]] appear that leads to an EndlessCorridor.
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!!Michael Crew
A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman humanlike...]] ''[[WasOnceAMan thing]]'' with unsettling powers that dives straight into the UncannyValley. He's a heavy reader of various Leitner books, and it's implied that this has done bad things to him.
It's a blink or you'll miss it moment. But he's first mentioned in the episode 'Page Turner' as the childhood friend of the person who gave the statement.
A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman humanlike...]] ''[[WasOnceAMan thing]]'' with unsettling powers that dives straight into the UncannyValley. He's a heavy reader of various Leitner books, and it's implied that this has done bad things to him.
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A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman humanlike...]]
It's a blink or you'll miss it moment. But he's first mentioned in the episode 'Page Turner' as the childhood friend of the person who gave the statement.
*EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: At the end of season 2 it's revealed that Michael is actually an aspect of an entity known as "The Distortion." It deals in fooling the senses, drawing you into mazes, and making you doubt your own sanity.]]
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One of Jonathan's assistants. Unlike the others, Jonathan holds Martin in utter contempt.
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The head of the Magnus Institute and Jonathan's superior.
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Melanie King is an amateur ghost hunter who started to stray from the beaten path of haunted locations after witnessing a co-worker, Sarah Baldwin, remove peel back the skin of her arm and put staple it back on. She occasionally consults the Magnus Institute for information.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Big time. The first thing she does upon being interviewed is snobbishly chew out the very people trying to interview her, even though she went to them precisely because her coworkers wouldn't even listen to her. One of the things she criticizes is the Institute's policy of looking into stories that lack evidence. When she tells her story and Jonathan does his usual thing and say that the Institute will look into her story, rather than believing her outright, she gets pissed off and yells at him. [[{{Hypocrite}} Even though she arrived with no evidence]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Big time. The first thing she does upon being interviewed is snobbishly chew out the very people trying to interview her, even though she went to them precisely because her coworkers wouldn't even listen to her. One of the things she criticizes is the Institute's policy of looking into stories that lack evidence. When she tells her story and Jonathan does his usual thing and say that the Institute will look into her story, rather than believing her outright, she gets pissed off and yells at him. [[{{Hypocrite}} Even though she arrived with no real evidence]].
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!!Melanie King
Melanie King is an amateur ghost hunter who started to stray from the beaten path of haunted locations after witnessing a co-worker, Sarah Baldwin, remove the skin of her arm and put it back on. She occasionally consults the Magnus Institute for information.
* {{Jerkass}}: Big time. The first thing she does upon being interviewed is snobbishly chew out the very people trying to interview her, even though she went to them precisely because her coworkers wouldn't even listen to her. One of the things she criticizes is the Institute's policy of looking into stories that lack evidence. When she tells her story and Jonathan does his usual thing and say that the Institute will look into her story, rather than believing her outright, she gets pissed off and yells at him. [[{{Hypocrite}} Even though she arrived with no evidence]].
Melanie King is an amateur ghost hunter who started to stray from the beaten path of haunted locations after witnessing a co-worker, Sarah Baldwin, remove the skin of her arm and put it back on. She occasionally consults the Magnus Institute for information.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: To an extent that might unsettle even [[PodCast/TheBlackTapes Richard Strand]] - no matter how overt the circumstances of a statement are, he often discounts any possible paranormal influence.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: To an extent that might unsettle even [[PodCast/TheBlackTapes Richard Strand]] - no matter how overt the circumstances of a statement are, he often discounts any possible paranormal influence. [[spoiler:Of course, this is partially because he's afraid that something is watching him and he fears that it will get angry if he doesn't play up the "skeptic" angle. He admits in Episode 39 that he actually believes all the stories he's recorded are real.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Invoked almost word for word in Episode 78, in which [[spoiler:he destroys the table binding the Not-Them, thinking it was their source of power.]]
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Gerard Kaey is a man with a long dark leather coat and has dyed black hair. He seems to either be immune to pain, fire or is not affected by it. His ancestors come from the Swartzwald in Germany, where there were rumours that his great, great grandfather, Wilhelm von Closen, cavorted with witches (MAG 23).
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Gerard Kaey is a man with a long dark leather coat and has dyed black hair. He seems to either be immune to pain, fire or is not affected by it. His ancestors come from the Swartzwald in Germany, where there were rumours that his great, great grandfather, Wilhelm von Closen, cavorted with witches (MAG 23).
witches. Currently, he appears to be hunting down Jurgen Leitner books, and destroying them.
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* WildCard: He appears to be collecting - and possibly burning - various Leitner books, thought the purpose of this is unknown. Two Counting the episode ''Lost in the Crowd'' three out of the three four times that we've seen him, he's been doing something more-or-less heroic. First, keeping a book from an unsettling MagicalLibrary out of the hands of something claiming to be his mother or [[DemonicPossession possessing her corpse.]] Second, saving a woman from being trapped in an empty hospital. Thirdly, he prevented a woman from being subsumed into a crowd of faceless people. On the other hand, the fact that he's keeping books from a deeply unsettling MagicalLibrary raises... ''questions''.
''questions''.
!!Michael Crew
A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman humanlike...]] ''[[WasOnceAMan thing]]'' with unsettling powers that dives straight into the UncannyValley. He's a heavy reader of various Leitner books, and it's implied that this has done bad things to him.
!!Michael Crew
A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman humanlike...]] ''[[WasOnceAMan thing]]'' with unsettling powers that dives straight into the UncannyValley. He's a heavy reader of various Leitner books, and it's implied that this has done bad things to him.
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!!The Magnus Institute
A mysterious institution dedicated to researching the paranormal and cataloging paranormal artifacts. Officially, they're even more boring, staid, and unremarkable than any organization with that stated purpose should be.
''Officially''. There are occasionally hints that it's more than it appears, but exactly ''what'' is uncertain. Their most common activity, as shown in the podcast, appears to be taking statements of observers of paranormal occurrences and then investigating.
* ArtifactCollectionAgency: It's downplayed considering that their most prominent activity appears to be taking statements and investigating them, but it's mentioned several times that they have an artifact storage room.
* EldritchLocation: The building is built atop a network of catacombs. [[GeniusLoci Disturbingly organic catacombs.]]
* MysteriousBenefactor: Has one in the form of the Lucas Family, who are, [[AmbiguouslyEvil well... not exactly trustworthy.]] [[AmbiguouslyHuman And honestly kind of unsettling.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's implied that their status as staid, bland academics may be a facade. While they're apparently a laughingstock among paranormal investigators, Gertrude Robinson (the previous archivist) and the Institute itself seem to have done ''something'' to earn the ire of various supernatural entities.
!!Jonathan Sims
The new archivist for the Magnus Archives, after Gertrude Robinson's untimely death.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: To an extent that might unsettle even [[PodCast/TheBlackTapes Richard Strand]] - no matter how overt the circumstances of a
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Characters who do not work at the Magnus Institute, but play a prominent role nonetheless:
!!Breekon And Hope
A mysterious delivery company that appears to specialize in supernatural artifacts. [[spoiler: Oddly enough, some of their deliveries appear to be to the Magnus Institute...]]
!!Juergen Leitner
A rich Scandinavian eccentric who would pay exorbitant sums for various books. [[MagicalLibrary Unfortunately, the books in question were...]] [[BodyHorror Rather]] [[MindRape unsettling.]]
!!Gerard Kaey
Gerard Kaey is a man with a long dark leather coat and has dyed black hair. He seems to either be immune to pain, fire or is not affected by it. His ancestors come from the Swartzwald in Germany, where there were rumours that his great, great grandfather, Wilhelm von Closen, cavorted with witches (MAG 23).
Really, he's a bit of an enigma.
* FeelNoPain: Fire appears to have little effect on him.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Depicted in one episode as wearing a black trenchcoat.
* WildCard: He appears to be collecting - and possibly burning - various Leitner books, thought the purpose of this is unknown. Two out of the three times that we've seen him, he's been doing something more-or-less heroic. First, keeping a book from an unsettling MagicalLibrary out of the hands of something claiming to be his mother or [[DemonicPossession possessing her corpse.]] Second, saving a woman from being trapped in an empty hospital. On the other hand, the fact that he's keeping books from a deeply unsettling MagicalLibrary raises... ''questions''.
!!Jane Prentiss
A woman seemingly turned into a hive of wormlike... ''things''.
* TheWormThatWalks
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[[folder: Magnus Institute]]
!!The Magnus Institute
A mysterious institution dedicated to researching the paranormal and cataloging paranormal artifacts. Officially, they're even more boring, staid, and unremarkable than any organization with that stated purpose should be.
''Officially''. There are occasionally hints that it's more than it appears, but exactly ''what'' is uncertain. Their most common activity, as shown in the podcast, appears to be taking statements of observers of paranormal occurrences and then investigating.
* ArtifactCollectionAgency: It's downplayed considering that their most prominent activity appears to be taking statements and investigating them, but it's mentioned several times that they have an artifact storage room.
* EldritchLocation: The building is built atop a network of catacombs. [[GeniusLoci Disturbingly organic catacombs.]]
* MysteriousBenefactor: Has one in the form of the Lucas Family, who are, [[AmbiguouslyEvil well... not exactly trustworthy.]] [[AmbiguouslyHuman And honestly kind of unsettling.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's implied that their status as staid, bland academics may be a facade. While they're apparently a laughingstock among paranormal investigators, Gertrude Robinson (the previous archivist) and the Institute itself seem to have done ''something'' to earn the ire of various supernatural entities.
!!Jonathan Sims
The new archivist for the Magnus Archives, after Gertrude Robinson's untimely death.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: To an extent that might unsettle even [[PodCast/TheBlackTapes Richard Strand]] - no matter how overt the circumstances of a
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[[folder: Recurring characters]]
Characters who do not work at the Magnus Institute, but play a prominent role nonetheless:
!!Breekon And Hope
A mysterious delivery company that appears to specialize in supernatural artifacts. [[spoiler: Oddly enough, some of their deliveries appear to be to the Magnus Institute...]]
!!Juergen Leitner
A rich Scandinavian eccentric who would pay exorbitant sums for various books. [[MagicalLibrary Unfortunately, the books in question were...]] [[BodyHorror Rather]] [[MindRape unsettling.]]
!!Gerard Kaey
Gerard Kaey is a man with a long dark leather coat and has dyed black hair. He seems to either be immune to pain, fire or is not affected by it. His ancestors come from the Swartzwald in Germany, where there were rumours that his great, great grandfather, Wilhelm von Closen, cavorted with witches (MAG 23).
Really, he's a bit of an enigma.
* FeelNoPain: Fire appears to have little effect on him.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Depicted in one episode as wearing a black trenchcoat.
* WildCard: He appears to be collecting - and possibly burning - various Leitner books, thought the purpose of this is unknown. Two out of the three times that we've seen him, he's been doing something more-or-less heroic. First, keeping a book from an unsettling MagicalLibrary out of the hands of something claiming to be his mother or [[DemonicPossession possessing her corpse.]] Second, saving a woman from being trapped in an empty hospital. On the other hand, the fact that he's keeping books from a deeply unsettling MagicalLibrary raises... ''questions''.
!!Jane Prentiss
A woman seemingly turned into a hive of wormlike... ''things''.
* TheWormThatWalks
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