 He was also the second-foremost proponent of 'ice magick', second only to the creator of ice magick, Helmut Barthel.In the early 1990s, Tegtmeier was involved with a schism from the Illuminates of Thanateros, an event known as 'the ice magick wars'.Tegtmeier has been uninvolved with the IOT since then, and has distanced himself from Chaos Magic as represented by Carroll.