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Comfortable in his position of power as head of Brakebills University, Dean Henry Fogg is challenged when his students return from Fillory with an experience he has no expertise in. To help them save the existence of magic and kill The Beast, he must call on a former love interest – taking his students by complete surprise. With a great deal of knowledge and abilities, Dean Fogg does everything he can to provide his students with the tools they need to succeed in this crucial quest. Now that Magic is back, but in the control of the Library, Dean Fogg must do what he can to keep them safe from the Library as well as the Monster hunting them.

History[]

Early Life[]

Henry Fogg has always been self-sufficient - so much so that he effectively taught himself to perform magic at the age of four.[1] In his later years, he attended Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, where he joined his fellow Knowledge students in their dormitory above the Brakebills Library. Upon completing his studies at Brakebills, Fogg studied abroad in Mexico and France, where he earned a Doctorate's in Spellcasting and a degree in Psychology, respectively.

Dean of Brakebills[]

Working with Jane Chatwin[]

During her crusade to stop her brother, Jane Chatwin and Henry worked to train Quentin Coldwater and his friends in order to prepare them for combatting The Beast. During this time, Jane made several alterations to reality by using Horomancy to reset the timeline when the students failed - often resulting in their deaths.

During the 23rd of these alternate timelines, Fogg oversaw the Entrance Exam of Julia Wicker to Brakebills, who he was proud to discover was also a Knowledge student.

Fogg himself remembers all of these timelines, as he is powerful enough to perceive them, but not powerful enough to change them. He remembers all 39 (including the current timeline, being timeline 40). That being said, this is most likely attributable to the fact that he is a Master Magician in his own right.

Personality[]

Henry Fogg is an efficient man who knows how to intervene in the direst situations, although some of his opponents describe him as cowardly or selfish. Dean Fogg is a man who takes into account the preservation of his students, although he doesn't think twice to punish them severely when they commit serious errors.

Magic and Abilities[]

Magic[]

  • Master Magician: Henry Fogg is a master magician, who excels as a Knowledge disciple. Fogg has the knowledge and skill of a formidable magician, accumulating over the years to grant him the power of a Master Magician and earning him the right to serve as the school's Dean of Brakebills. He taught himself magic at the age of 4. He retains great insight into the magical mishaps of his students and is often sought out for help by many skilled magicians. Professor Mischa Mayakovsky, however, looks down upon Fogg, due to his reputation for being cowardly and selfish. However, Dean Fogg was notably able to spar one on one with The Beast, albeit only briefly. As a tribute to his power, he was shown as being unaffected by the Beast's paralyzing spell over an entire class during its appearance and can retain his memories from previous timelines, with only The Beast itself being able to do the same.
  • Wellspring Magic Manipulation: Fogg is able to shape and manipulate the energy of the Wellspring to cast spells by writing specific formations with his hands, forming phosphorescent constructs of energy.
    • Temporal Awareness: Fogg can perceive alterations to the timeline, as he was capable of discerning the differences between the alternate timelines created by Jane Chatwin.
    • Battle Magic: Fogg was able to fire a blast of magical energy at The Beast during the Attack on Brakebills University. He later incapacitated several Librarians during the Attack on the Library of the Neitherlands, though he was ultimately apprehended.
    • Invisibility: To attract the attention of the Order of the Library of the Neitherlands, Fogg used a prohibited spell to render himself invisible during a class.

Abilities[]

  • Gifted Intellect: To be added
    • Master Engineer: Fogg is an extremely skilled engineer, capable of building the Voltaic Transfer, a device that transfers magical energy from one subject to another. Fogg later constructed a perpetual magical battery that powered the spell used to contain the memories of 7 Magicians.
    • Tactician: To be added
  • Combatant: Fogg is a skilled combatant, capable of defeating several Librarians during the Attack on the Library of the Neitherlands. When The Beast attacked several students at Brakebills University, Fogg was able to use a powerful blast of Battle Magic to briefly incapacitating the mutant Magician.

Equipment[]

"I heard you have an experimental potion that not only wipes your memory but creates a whole new persona."
Alice Quinn[src]
  • Memory-Erasing Potion: To be added
  • Perpetual Battery: To be added
  • Magical Suit: To be added

Trivia[]

  • Fogg may have started as a Hedge Witch, as he said that he taught himself magic when he was only four years old.
  • According to Todd, he and Bob Ross had a dark artistic rivalry.[2]

Appearances[]

Appearances of Henry Fogg

In chronological order:

References[]

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