Kathy Bates is a national treasure and doesn’t deserve that comparison.

That guy had at least three magic systems going at once. It was a lot.

There was sympathy, which was kind of like voodoo dolls and also sometimes casting from hit points? Sygildry or something which was programming with magic runes. And Naming, which I believe was like grokking something so well you could just command it to do whatever.

“this asshole”

Yes! You get what I’m looking for exactly.