The Faceless Man, Mark 2 uses a number of shell companies and front organizations to maintain anonymity. At one point he used his powers to influence Simone Fitzwilliam and her " sisters" as well as Peter. He is also extremely adept with Seducere and other high order spells. The Faceless Man mastered many of the medical skills inherited from Woodville-Gentle, and also seems capable of inventing new magical devices such as the Dog Battery.
He is 'possibly one of the most dangerous men in Britain' according to Nightingale. He also tasked the Pale Lady with multiple assassinations via castration, and set George Trenchard's bones on fire while he was alive. During the investigation into the Pale Lady, Peter and Nightingale discover that he had been trying to revive The Strip Club of Doctor Moreau for the purposes of sexual exploitation of chimerae. While his approach to organized criminal activities seems to be more strategic than his predecessor, he has retained the notoriety as a cruel and vengeful practicioner. He was a member of the Little Crocodiles dining club and seems to have known Jason Dunlop personally, as he calls him Jeffers. The Faceless Man, Mark 2 received his magical education from Geoffrey Wheatcroft during the 1980s while he was a student at Oxford University. He died sometime in 2012/2013, likely from another Hyperthaumaturgical degradation-related stroke. In the 2000s, Varvara Sidorovna found him in a disabled care home on the request of the Faceless Man, Mark 2. The Faceless Man, Mark 2 settled him in Shakespeare Tower of the Barbican Estate with Varvara and other medical nurses. He suffered a Hyperthaumaturgical degradation-related stroke during the duel and subsequently became hemiplegic. Woodville-Gentle became inactive in 1979 after a duel with Helena Linden-Limmer.
At this time Woodville-Gentle was allied with the corrupt Metropolitan Police Vice Squad especially, Jerry Johnson. Her medical magic was also malappropriated into cruel and unusual punishments such as the suspended-animation of Larry the Lark. Unbeknownst to her, he utilized her magical spells to create Chimerae for the purposes of sex trafficking and prostitution in his club dubbed the Strip Club of Doctor Moreau by Peter Grant. He encountered Helena Linden-Limmer in the 1960s and traded his business skills for her medical magical skills. Woodville-Gentle began using his magical skills to advance his criminal enterprises in London during the 1970s, earning him notoriety as a cruel and vengeful crime boss. He was trained by a Folly-trained practitioner Geoffrey Wheatcroft, without Nightingale's knowledge and outside the formal structure of the Folly. Lewis provides a clear image of humanity as a faceless unrealized being that can only gain true identity in light of knowing and loving its creator.The Faceless Man, Mark 2 Albert Woodville-Gentle (AKA the Faceless Man, Mark 1) began training in Newtonian magic in his early 20s during his time at Oxford University. Orual realizes the mystery of God is vastly better than the rationality of man. Lewis deconstructs Orual’s viewpoint by revealing that she is guilty of exactly what she accused the gods of doing. The illusion of her own moral superiority crumbles away as she sees how her love is vile and selfish defacing the people that become the objects of her love. Orual opens the story accusing the gods of stealing her beloved sister Psyche but, through an encounter with the madness of the divine, sees herself as the true destroyer of her sister’s face. The character of Orual in Till We Have Faces represents Greek anthropocentrism. The Greek myths of Hesiod-Homer and platonic philosophy hold to a view of man being morally superior to the gods. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces directly subverts the Greek anthropocentric view of both God and man.
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