Editing Basil Winters (section)

==Chronology==
Born into a family of practitioners that had degenerated into thievery, his first major act of magic was infiltrating the realm of the ascendent Turtle Queen and binding her, this he accomplished with the help of his mother.<ref>But Basil Winters, even in his teenage years, has worked with thieves and he knows how to get into places, and he knows how to stay undetected.  Avoiding security cameras is the least of it.  He walks up to the Turtle Queen, with forty minutes remaining on the clock, and uses his practice.<br><br>He and his mother earn the attention of better practitioners, with the start of an apprenticeship with Raymond Sunshine and invitations to a party with the Raymond’s colleagues, the Mussers.  The Winters family is elevated.<br><br>The Turtle Queen is bound. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref>

He attended the [[Blue Heron Institute]] during its second year.<ref>He’d attended not as part of the first wave, but the wave immediately after.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> He was a good student but failed to make many actual friends and associates.<ref>Basil was a good student, but he’d been bad at the other half of things; part of the reasoning for attending a school like this was to make vital connections.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref>

His prior binding of the Turtle Queen was part of what netted him a prestigious apprenticeship with [[Rad Ray Sunshine]] but his ulterior motives were eventually revealed and he was kicked out. 

Many years later he was a part of Musser's plan to take as many [[Lord]]ships as possible after the Carmine Exile ascended. After [[Milly Legendre]] was [[Gainsay|gainsaid]] he tried to claim the Lordship of Nipigon in her place. During the ritual he was injured on the wrist by some [[Goblin|goblins]] and the wound festered, leaving him weak. Near the end of the ritual, an [[Crooked Rook|unknown oni]] approached him, too weak to fight he agreed to a contest involving guessing the contents of different boxes. One box contained an Other, one a trap, and one a poultice that will heal his wound. The first box he opened contained a Dog Meat, the second one contained [[Bridge]] the body snatcher hidden under the poultice. Bridge managed to take over his body and is now [[Lord]] of Nipigon.

He was released from Bridge's control after Bridge took over [[Milly Legendre]]<ref>The Turtle Queen caught the practitioner Basil Winters as he was freed from the body snatcher’s grasp.<br><br>Bridge, now possessing Millicent Legendre, picked up a dropped bracelet.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> and imprisoned on one of [[Odis Saulsbury|Odis's]] buses.<ref>-  [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref>
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