Cuthbert Sinclair
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| Name | Cuthbert Sinclair Magnus |
| Actor | Kavan Smith |
| Dates | ???? - 2013 (killed by Dean Winchester) |
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| Occupation | Men of Letters (formerly) Master of Spells |
| Episode(s) | 9.16 Blade Runners 10.19 The Werther Project |
Things never change do they? I kept telling the boys over and over again, I would say, 'We can stop all this, we could rid the world of monsters once and for all, if we just put our minds to it.' But 'Oh no,' they said, 'no, no, no, it's not our place, we're here to study, we're here to catalog.'
– Magnus, 9.16 Blade Runners
History
Cuthbert Sinclair was a former member of the Men of Letters, he was named "Master of Spells" soon after his initiation, and went on to design most of the warding that was used in the Bunker, he as also a mentor to Henry Winchester. Eventually, his proposed projects for the Men of Letters in his last few years as a part of the organization were rejected by the leadership for being eccentric and irresponsible. This eventually lead to his complete separation from the Men of Letters in April 1956. After the separation Cuthbert took the name "Magnus" and began collecting supernatural paraphernalia, spells, as well keeping a "zoo" of monsters in a magically hidden fortress.
Episodes
9.16 Blade Runners
With the help of Crowley, Sam and Dean are able to locate Sinclair's fortress. Once there they reveal themselves as Henry Winchester's grandsons, and Men of Letters, Magnus then creates a entrance for them to enter and goes about testing them against two vampires from his zoo to see "what they are made of." Once the Winchesters kill the vampires, Magnus sits down with them to hear them out. They relay to him the threat of Abaddon and that they need the First Blade to take her down, upon seeing the Mark of Cain on Dean's arm, Magnus uses a spell to send Sam back to the outside, while he tries to sell Dean on becoming a part of his collection and living forever.
When Dean refuses, Magnus takes to using magic to get Dean to be compliant and places the First Blade in his hand to see what would happen. When Sam and Crowely find a spell that will gain them entrance to fortress, Magnus attempts to use Sam against Dean to make Dean see things his way. While Magnus is torturing Sam, Crowley is able to release Dean from his chains, allowing him to grab the First Blade and decapitates Magnus.
10.19 The Werther Project
While looking for information on a codex that could decode the Book of the Damned, Sam finds out that Magnus hid it in the Werther Box, a magical invention of his own creation that causes hallucinations that makes that attempts to open it, without doing the proper ritual, kill themselves. Sam listens to the tape of the meeting where Magnus was expelled in which he defends his actions in creating the Box because he feels the codex is too dangerous to allow the Grand Coven to recover. However, the other Men of Letters are not impressed as the Box caused two of their members to kill themselves with its alarm system. Magnus tells the other Men that they should be out fighting evil with the knowledge granted to them, not sitting around in the Men of Letters Bunker like librarians. Markham gives Magnus a chance at leniency if he tells them how to break the warding spell on the Box, but he refuses and is escorted out though he tells them that Martinez, a Man of Letters who had died trying to disarm the Box was on the right track though he doubts the Men of Letters have the courage to try. Rather than try, like Magnus expected, Markham orders the Werther Box guarded and not to be attempted to be opened again, left where it is in the house of the St. Louis chapter. However, when Abaddon destroys the Men of Letters, the Box is no longer guarded and when Suzie attempts to open it in the '70s, it causes her entire family to kill themselves.
In the present, Sam and Dean attempt to disarm the Box. Sam's attempt at using a spell fails and he, Suzie and Dean fall under the Box's influence. Suzie kills herself and Dean falls into a catatonic state where he imagines he is in Purgatory where Benny Lafitte encourages him to kill himself so he can stop Sam and Castiel from having to do it when he falls under the influence of the Mark of Cain fully. Sam is apparently saved from a hallucination of Suzie by Rowena, but it is just another of the Box's hallucinations. Sam eventually discovers that Magnus designed the Box so that only the blood of a Man of Letters or a Legacy could break the spell, but that it needs all of their blood. Sam attempts to sacrifice himself to stop Magnus' creation and save Dean, but Dean breaks free of the spell and stops Sam, adding his own blood to the mix. Sam and Dean's blood disarm the enchantment, allowing them to open the Box and get the codex. Dean later destroys the Werther Box just to be sure.
Trivia
- Kavan Smith previously played a victim of Doc Benton in 3.15 Time Is on My Side.
