A note of them had been included in the information provided from Spock and he'd done a little investigating of his own. "I am less than hopeful the solution lays there," he said dismissively and then elaborated on his thoughts.
"If they were powerful enough to make an impact on a place like this, they are powerful enough to not fear retribution from those trapped here... rendering moot their need to be anonymous. If they are not capable of doing so on their own, which appears more likely, then remaining anonymous prevents anyone from assisting them, which seems as though they don't helping as a genuine motive."
Oddly, he was also thinking of North and Ombric when it came to likening the curses to spells gone awry. He had a rudimentary knowledge of magic -- enough to have been able to test the spells in the books from Ombric's library and know they were fakes when they did not work -- but he was not a magician on the level of either of them.
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"If they were powerful enough to make an impact on a place like this, they are powerful enough to not fear retribution from those trapped here... rendering moot their need to be anonymous. If they are not capable of doing so on their own, which appears more likely, then remaining anonymous prevents anyone from assisting them, which seems as though they don't helping as a genuine motive."
Oddly, he was also thinking of North and Ombric when it came to likening the curses to spells gone awry. He had a rudimentary knowledge of magic -- enough to have been able to test the spells in the books from Ombric's library and know they were fakes when they did not work -- but he was not a magician on the level of either of them.