To be honest, it was probably a good idea to fear Faust's magic, if only because of the horrible amounts of cleanup involved should whatever he did not fall on Halloween. He probably wasn't going to use it to make sequels to Thriller, either.

"They do. Because they are ignorant." He smiled a little. "But do you think that all of their precious councilmen and women have spotless records? No, I think not. No one rises that far without a little blood on their hands. I hear Vrinak has more than most."