Once upon a time there was a very mighty Sorcerer who saved the World from Dominion by Demons.
This wasn’t he.
Once there was another Sorcerer, son of the Horned God, who taught a King civilization, rules,and laws.
This wasn’t he, either.
About six or seven times in this particular world, there were Mages so powerful that they thought their control of Magic would give them total control over the World. But this never lasted more than, oh, a few thousand years, or any Democracy anyone invented.
Once there was a mighty Sorceror who lost most of her books in a flood. While she was very powerful, she realized what was truly important in life: books. Writing them. Reading them. So that’s what she did with the rest of her long, extended life.
…just kidding. She was very, very powerful, and they thought she might destroy them; also, they needed SOMEONE to blame.
So they attacked her and destroyed her.
This worked very well for them, except for the “destroyed her” part.
This worked very poorly for her, even though she won.
Here is her story, or whatever of it we could get out of her when she wasn’t reading somethin
*** The third spell (not that everything within is a ‘spell) inside the Necronomicon is a powerful but simple configuration of words, gestures, actions, reasonable sacrifices, and proper speech, which binds a powerful creature to you to do your will for a while.
Many teachers remove this from any copies their students might find (and if your student doesn’t find your copy, or at least your version, of the Necronomicon, are they really meant to be your student?
There is, after all, a lot of work put into the student by the time they’re thirteenish and ready to start sneaking into your forbidden books. And for some reason, everyone thinks the really terrible spells are at the bottom.
They ARE, but that doesn’t mean that the ones up top aren’t terrible compare to, say, spells NOT in the Necronomicon.
(Also, sometimes mages have a sense of humor. All you really need to do to summon Azathoth is certain strange and bizarre things which are a lot of work but not beyond student means. Of course, the student would have to ignore the note to come back to the page later. But that’s what students do.
Alice once had an enterprising students who said he’d read ahead and new something terrible would happen in chapter three if he were suitably rewarded.
Most people would consider the number of limbs he was permitted to retain to be very kind, so presumably he was shown favor.
Or maybe she was just amused by the number of students who died in esoteric-but-possible ways before reading Chapter III.
She was fascinated by the students who figured that Chaptire III seemed to have perfectly good, if rather disgusting, magickal theory, and who assumed there was some kind of trick.
(“Elder Gods will eat you” ought to count as a trick, but it doesn’t, like “sauerkraut” is sour.
She was annoyed by the one student she had who read voraciously, started in on the Lovecraft, looked like she couldn’t figure out anything wrong with, and when into Chapter IV, “Paleontology of Extinct Dragons”.
But you can’t have everything. Even, and especially, if you’re Dark Lord.
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