Did Magnus knowingly encourage Dick to take the potion, knowing it was a paralytic? Perhaps as a means either of asserting final control in his battle for Dick or else out of love?
I found this comment in Dick's last trip to be suggestive.
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“They taught me their secrets too,” said Roger. “How to make men dream and conjure visions, rather than pray. How to seek a paradise on earth that would last for a few hours only. How to make men die. It was only after young Bodrugan perished in de Meral’s care that I sickened of the game, taking no further part in it. But I had learned the secret well, and so made use of it, when the time came. I gave her something to ease pain and let her slip away. It was murder, Robbie, and a mortal sin. And no one knows of it but you.”
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Was Dick's unconscious revealing to him what Magnus actually did? Was this the link to Roger?