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* Sabbath's last name is only given as Dei in the publisher's summary for [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]''; it is never actually used in that audio or any other story in which he appears. | * Sabbath's last name is only given as Dei in the publisher's summary for [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]''; it is never actually used in that audio or any other story in which he appears. | ||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'' jokingly alludes to Sabbath's apparent similarities with the character Sunday from G. K. Chesterton's 1904 novel ''The Man Who Was Thursday''. | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'' jokingly alludes to Sabbath's apparent similarities with the character Sunday from G. K. Chesterton's 1904 novel ''The Man Who Was Thursday''. | ||
* In the script to [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'', [[Lawrence Miles]] describes the character as{{Quote|To imagine Sabbath, imagine an eighteenth century Bond-figure who's been trained in ritualism in a time when there's a distinct occult streak running through the entire British establishment and the Service is largely run by Freemasons or Jacobites. Now imagine that he's a lot less smug and a lot less interested in copping off with people than Sean Connery would be, an agent who's dedicated to his job but still has a very definite kind of charm and a fierce (but understated) intelligence. At this point he's still a young operative, in his early-to-mid-twenties, but he's got an obvious talent for what he does and a genuine curiosity about the bizarre events now taking place. The idea is that although Sabbath's the opposition in this story, he's not actually the villain. If we don't find ourselves liking him then something's wrong.|Lawrence Miles's character notes|Sabbath Dei (audio story)}} | * The [[Mad Norwegian Press]] website described him as "more along the lines of No. 6 ({{w|The Prisoner}}) than [[James Bond]]."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040506084350/http://www.madnorwegian.com:80/fp/faq_fp.php Faction FAQ]</ref> In the script to [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'', [[Lawrence Miles]] describes the character as{{Quote|To imagine Sabbath, imagine an eighteenth century Bond-figure who's been trained in ritualism in a time when there's a distinct occult streak running through the entire British establishment and the Service is largely run by Freemasons or Jacobites. Now imagine that he's a lot less smug and a lot less interested in copping off with people than Sean Connery would be, an agent who's dedicated to his job but still has a very definite kind of charm and a fierce (but understated) intelligence. At this point he's still a young operative, in his early-to-mid-twenties, but he's got an obvious talent for what he does and a genuine curiosity about the bizarre events now taking place. The idea is that although Sabbath's the opposition in this story, he's not actually the villain. If we don't find ourselves liking him then something's wrong.|Lawrence Miles's character notes|Sabbath Dei (audio story)}} | ||
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