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* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' had the protagonist meeting a rich and optimistic eternal student with this ability as one of the victim of [[Monster of the Week|magical monster incident of the tenday]]. Secret Investigations recruited him to help in the same case and then permanently. Later it turned out that obviously useful nose is not his only talent: he's surprisingly good with [[Secret_ArtSecret Art|Invisible Magic]], and his mother was a talented witch who taught him some amusing child games... such as magical legerdemain. One of the prequels revealed that he was an eternal student out of necessity as much as out of habit: Sniffers either distract themselves from sensory input all the time, or get distracted from most other mental activity, thus usually have problems with development, especially as this sense undermines the incentives to think by supplying ready answers about places, things and people. Thus when he was slow to start talking, his mother decided that best defense is good offense and taught him to learn constantly, as well as some disciplines that were hard to herself - without telling him that it's hard, that it's magic, or anything but fun games at all. As a little twist, this ability covers not only "smell" in the usual sense, but something close to [[Aura Vision]] - it can detect "smells" of dreams, curses and [[Layered_WorldLayered World|Dark Side]] just as well.