I think one thing the CR fandom isn’t talking enough about is that
Fjord, doesn’t know he’s a warlock? Or he’s pretending not to know he’s a warlock??? He’s just like “what the fuck is this magic where the fuck is it coming from???”
It’s not like warlocks are an unknown, but the M9 behaves like Fjord is an anomaly magic caster
It’s true that warlocks are not an unknown, which does make the M9′s reactions kind of strange … unless they assume that well obviously if he were a warlock he would know he was a warlock? I mean, it’s not like you can make a pact with a hideously powerful being without knowing you’ve done it, that would be ridiculous.
(somewhere on another continent, percy de rolo has a sudden urge to sigh and rub the bridge of his nose, and doesn’t know why.)