Both theories lean toward what happens when there’s the creation of a spellbound cult around the charismatic figure. The charismatic figure is best understood by observing not the figure, but the audience. Often when the charismatic figure speaks, nonsensical blather comes out; you have to have been there. The dark narcissist is drunk not on wine, as the light narcissist is, but on conspiracies. “Is Ahab, Ahab?” he asks in chapter 132.