When courting disaster, why not going for all kind of strange?
Evan sent out a not so secret invitation, in the form of a speech to be rewritten and transmitted through bards (recounting the deed of the ‘Speech of the Abyss’ or ‘Addressing the Abyssal Forces’), inviting many followers of Abyssal obedience to join the Six Kingdom under a new face of the Demonic.
Some glaring omissions, like that of Lamashtu, are easily understood.
“I have no qualm about proclaiming that Pazuzu is King of the Abyss, and that this does not stand on wanton glory, but on solid ground and the air above it. It will prove True by itself, and I have no fear of those who put their faith in other Abyssal lords.
Rather the contrary, I dare you to step out in the open and join the Six Rivers, bringing your abyssal wisdom and the domains and quirks of your patron with you. The wisdom of Demon Lords such as Abraxas, lord of the Final Incantation, whose tomes inspire strange horrors to the minds of wizards; Jubilex, faceless lord of Sloth and Oozes, whose shapeless bulk is filled with men-sized red eyes that care nothing for what they witness; Kabriri shroud-gnawer, lord of secrets kept by the dead in strange catacomb libraries; Haagenti the Whisper Within, who answers alchemists prayers and shifts the thousand chambers of changing Cerebullim; Nocticula, lord of assassins and lust, first succubus, who has three tails and rune covered wings; her brother, Socothbenoth, he which sates all hunger, breaker of taboos and inspirer of perversions; Zura vampire queen, cannibal most despotic that is both friend and enemy of Urguthoa; Orcus ram-headed, prince of Undeath, whose bleak realm of natural desolation rewards with hideous sights the countless thanatonic giants that dwell in it and revel in endless civil war; Areshkgal, faceless sphinx, whose serpent tail whispers obscure riddles to those who step through portals.
The rules are simple:
- We do not harm the people of the Six Rivers. Your fury shall fall on enemies of the Nation;
- We bring the strange beauty of Abyssal horrors and the weird notions that blow with a thousand hungry winds: we shall not be brush in our ways. We respect and even admire the beauty and light that we are so much removed from, and commune with and even help out the Chaotic gods of Good; the most weird compromise is not alien to us, interbreeding is our bread, and the light does not scare us. The schemes of the Abyss shall be alien even to us and filled with complexity, as the Abyss is complex, and not simplistic.
- We help each other against threats from outside the Realm, especially against devils and their minions”.
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