Moriarty "God" manipulation

Moriarty’s God Manipulation Type: Direct Manipulation and a little bit of Indirect Setting: Durham(read chapter beforehand) By: Indra 11/17/23 - knows a town is being terrorised by a Noble - naturally, the noble must be a sinful person - The commoners hate the nobles Manipulation: 1. A crime is set up where a noble died in an "accident" and his evil deeds were revealed. This makes everyone feel that corrupt nobles don't get to die peacefully, essentially get punished by god 2. Moriarty starts off with making himself seem prestigious and then a sense of familiarity. He shares his decisions that only commoners would make and acts like his life is similar to theirs. This builds a sense of trust, as even though he's a prestigious noble, he is similar to them. With this comes a sense of uniqueness and contradiction to the rest of the other nobles. He says "while many nobles act like their gods, I would rather not be like that" . This builds even more trust as they also believe this. God is important for later 3. he gets a ride to the university from one of the commoners(this commoner hates nobles and is pointed out that it's a feat to get a ride from him) before and then he gets called a "Professor" from one of his students, the commoner naturally is startled because of his age. Moriarty then says out loud what the commoner is thinking, using the same word "excessive", which …