Talk:Ridley Duchannes/@comment-70.72.32.99-20150816083043/@comment-25059925-20150903021802

In magical terms, a "glamour" is usually a type of illusion that makes a person, object, or location look like something else, or making it invisible. For example, in the TV show Charmed, it meant being able to change your appearance into another person, or change specific facial/physical features, and in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, it was used to hide things from mundane humans either by making themselves or an object appear to be invisible, or to make one of their institutes look like a dump to discourage mundanes from snooping around.

However, I've also heard the term used to describe the mind control/compulsion that most vampires possess, so Ridley's form of glamouring could really go either way. (I haven't actually read any of the books after Beautiful Redemption, so I can't speak with certainty, but that is my educated guess.)