I was thinking a different range of fairytale, and just a small country help with learned magic and additional powers none too different from Renard's Sligt of Hand...and he isn't infallible, since he did get defeated by a talking cat, and even lost most of the land god strength behind most of his abilities. At the most, he's no different from a sorcerer. The original fairytale did indeed have a shapeshifting ogre, and I kind of spliced it with japanese oni, yokai, and kami mythology here or there.

I could change is, just give me a little while.