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<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">Winner:</span></span> Bathe first, questions later.
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Notice:</span></span> D&D night went two hours over, so tonight will cover lore on the difference between Demons and Devils, and their manifestations.
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Malleus Tenebrarum</span></span>
<span class="mu-i">A Guide for the Identification of Maleficent Beasts
Written For the Highest Lord and Common Citizen Alike
By the LORD's Moste Humble Daughter Galatea
Sister of the Convent of Sainted Amalia Rosenritter</span>
INQUISITOR or LEYMAN, of the NOBILITY or the COMMONS, PRINCE or PAUPER, WYFS and WEIRS all: I present to you IN FAITH this tome of MOSTE IMPORTANT GUIDANCE that shall teach you the NATURE of the ENEMY. <span class="mu-s">KNOW</span> good brothers and sisters that AGENTS OF THE DARK walk in the shadows of our cities, UNKNOWABLE to ye FAIRE GUARDSMAN for their HEINOUS and DUPLICITOUS nature. It is therefore the GRIM RESPONSIBILITY of EVERY CITIZEN of ALL STATURES to keep themselves in a state of CONSTANT VIGILANCE against the LIGHTLESS FOE.
Now many of ye have heard the names of THE GREAT ENEMY'S most ill reputed slaves: DEMON and DEVIL. But in ignorance ye may ask: WHAT is the NATURE of these BEASTS MOSTE FOUL?
IN THIS TOME, your moste humble Sister Galatea seeks to ENLIGHTEN you with the KNOWLEDGE of such beasts, in hopes that you shall use THE LORD'S WISDOM as a stout and heavy shield against the LIGHTLESS DARK. Its chapters shall be laid out THUS:
I. An INTRODUCTION to the ENEMY
II. The CATALOGUE of DEMONS
III. The INDEX of DEVILS MOSTE FOUL
IV. On Apostasies and CULTS OBSCURA
V. SYMBOLS of the GREAT DEPRAVITIES
VI. Of WITCHES Greater, and Lesser
VII. The LORD'S Moste Holy PROMISE
TO BEGIN THIS TOME the first thing all goodly wyfs and weirs should know about the ENEMY OF ALL MANKIND is the name by which we call them, and the name by which they call themselves.
To GOODLY FOLK who praise the glories of the LORD and hold true to His Moste Holy teachings, the ENEMY is known as the LIGHTLESS for they have refused to walk in the LIGHT of the LORD. These APOSTATES are all of them SLAVES to the demon who crawled from THE PIT OF MAVROS and stained ALL CREATION with his presence. It is THE DARK ONE'S effigy that all good boys and girls STOMP UPON during the REVELRIES OF SUMMERLIGHT, an act we all performed as a child.
To FOUL APOSTATES it is known as THE NAMELESS LORD, a BLASPHEMY of BLASPHEMIES for its false equivalence with THE MOSTE HOLY LORD OF LIGHT. They raise him as ANTITHESIS to the LORD, as though they were EQUALS when in fact a SINGLE RAY OF FAITH is enough to BANISH the DARK ONE from the faithful hearts of GOODLY FOLK.
You will KNOW these APOSTATES by the marks they wear. FOUR CIRCLES FORM THE BLACK PRIMROSE and speak of the GREAT DEPRAVITIES. It is the SACRED DUTY of every goodly wyf and weir to deface this UNHOLY FLOWER with the gouging of the knife. THOSE WHO WEAR IT can be save, unless the SCLERA OF THEIR EYES has rotted into darkest black.
