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* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Two mystery plotlines concern Snake's and Mac Cécht's past deeds.
* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Two mystery plotlines concern Snake's and Mac Cécht's past deeds.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Merlin Ambrosius is an old cranky oddball, but his advice is sometimes indispensable.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Merlin Ambrosius is an old cranky oddball, but his advice is sometimes indispensable.
* [[Expy]]: Tarquin Snake is a cold, calculating, sarcastic and enigmatic chemistry teacher. He has black hair and eyes, dark clothes, morbid interests, very little tact, and a history of being the right-hand man of a genocidal overlord - although later {{Spoiler|he is revealed to be a double agent on the side of good (in a rather astonishing meta coincidence)}}. His first appearance has him bursting into the classroom "like a gust of wind", letting the students know he will not play nice, and holding a dramatic pause as the class falls silent, before beginning the lesson. His first name is Latin and his surname sounds like... well, like that of [[Harry Potter|Severus Snape]].
* [[Expy]]: Tarquin Snake is a cold, calculating, sarcastic and enigmatic chemistry teacher. He has black hair and eyes, dark clothes, morbid interests, very little tact, and a history of being the right-hand man of a genocidal overlord - although later {{Spoiler|he is revealed to be a [[Double Agent]] on the side of good (in a rather astonishing meta coincidence)}}. His first appearance has him bursting into the classroom "like a gust of wind", letting the students know he will not play nice, and holding a dramatic pause as the class falls silent, before beginning the lesson. His first name is Latin and his surname sounds like... well, like that of [[Harry Potter|Severus Snape]] (yes, in Russian too).
*[[Foreshadowing]]: Some plot points are anticipated by earlier episodes in the story.
*[[Foreshadowing]]: Some plot points are anticipated by earlier episodes in the story.
**In Berwyn's first scene he is watching a group of students play Transformations - a poetic game which often involves imagining yourself as the forms you invoke in your lines. He ends up {{Spoiler|mastering Tuatha Dé Danann poetry indirectly, through his transformation ability}}.
**In Berwyn's first scene he is watching a group of students play Transformations - a poetic game which often involves imagining yourself as the forms you invoke in your lines. He ends up {{Spoiler|mastering Tuatha Dé Danann poetry indirectly, through his transformation ability}}.
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