Dex

> I know she's not real. She's like some weird magic, semi-autonomous puppet thing... but I like her.
>
> Dex talking about his fairy doll

**Dexter** (usually shortened to Dex) is a regular customer at the Salty Crackers Comics comic book shop. He comes in every month for comics.

## History

Dex startled Elliot in his first appearance. His voice seems to be unusual, as his speech bubbles are irregularly shaped and their outlines and text are grey. He was present during the fire summon attack and recorded the fight on his cellphone equipped with a high definition video camera. The next day, he returned to the scene of the fight and remarked to Justin that "a great battle took place" there. He was at the shop again the next day.

The day after that, he showed up at the ASMA Dojo and summoned a fire summon. under the influence of a pendant, which depicted an urn, that gave him access to large amounts of magical power and made him obedient to the one who made it (later revealed to be Voltaire) He made a shield of heat that burned anyone who came too close. He summoned multiple fire summons to hold Greg and Grace and a large dragon-like summon to kill Elliot. When Greg, who had defeated the fire summons, confronted him Dex said "To save the world I bring an apocalypse". Then Dex summoned more fire summons to keep Greg and Grace busy. When Grace was fighting her way towards Dex and Noah was flying towards the dojo with the dragon in pursuit, Voltaire ordered Dex to make the dragon fire at Noah and the dojo, which Dex only reluctantly did as he realized that it would kill him. Before the fireball reached its targets Dex was knocked out with a sleeper hold by Grace and the dragon, the fireball and the fire summons were unsummoned.

Dex awoke with no memory of their encounter whatsoever, claiming that the last thing he remembered was combing his beard at home. After the removal of his pendant, his voice appears to be more normal based on the regularly shaped appearance of his speech bubbles, though they are still grey. He showed Grace and Noah his fairy summon. Greg offered to hang out with Dex and they learned that they are both fans of Lucky Bunny Bounty Show.

In January the next year, during a card game tournament, Dex visited the comic book shop and told Grace that Greg had a new girlfriend. Seeing Dex caused Grace to remember her dreams about magic marks.

## Abilities

### Magic

Dex has been marked by an immortal. Adrian Raven concluded the culprit of both the marking and pedant to be Pandora Raven, based partly on the pithos inscription on the pendant. There are reasons to suspect this inscription to be misleading, considering the risk posed to Noah, who is likely to qualify for Pandora's maternal defence. Note that it's also possible he was marked by Pandora but someone else planted the pedant and controlled him. Voltaire claims at least some of the credit, although he doesn't exactly have a great track record of telling the truth.

The mark allows him to summon various things, like the fire monsters or semi-autonomous fairy (it's actually the same spell). The fairy works similarly to Susan's magical copy of Nanase's fairy doll. According to Noah, innate talents are rare, so the mark probably represent something he has yearned for - he can summon because he is lonely.

By himself, Dex can only summon the fairy, but with additional power given by the pendant (which bears the image of a *pithos*, suggesting (or perhaps blaming) Pandora as its source) he can summon monsters like the fire monsters or the Taurcanis Draco. Also, he becomes disoriented, more open to suggestions from whoever is able to get through that disorientation, and suffers memory loss of the periods in which the pendant fills him with power.

This use of the pendant is actually a loophole exploited by its planter: Immortals are supposed to only empower and guide mortals, but that's technically exactly what she was doing to Dex.

#### Empowered Spells

##### Personal Spells

* Flying

* Heat Barrier

##### Summons

* Fire Summons

* Taurcanis Draco

## Relationships

### Greg

Probably to his own surprise, after the incident with the fire summons he found that he has a lot in common with Greg -- including liking the Lucky Bunny Bounty Show. It's possible Greg is his first friend.

Later he mentioned game nights with Greg, which might include some other people Greg introduced him to ... or not.

### Justin

Dex has also mentioned that he likes Justin and the comic shop.

## References

1. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-08-12
2. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2016-09-16 (also commentary)
3. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-09-17
4. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-10-15
5. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-01-14
6. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-03-18
7. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-04-08
8. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-23
9. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-30
10. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2016-09-16
11. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-04-11
12. ↑ 12,0 12,1 EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-03
13. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-04-15
14. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-17
15. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-18
16. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-19
17. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-26
18. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-27
19. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-01
20. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-13
21. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-08-08
22. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-08-11
23. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-08-12
24. ↑ 24,0 24,1 24,2 EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-29
25. ↑ Discussed here: Vorlage:910-link-new
26. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2016-09-16
27. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-02
28. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-05-25
29. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-13
30. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-08-08
31. ↑ EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-01