Demon Dust Plot

The Demon Dust Plot of 1740 was officially a failed assassination attempt against the young Millisymph Rei (King) Geraldo VII led by a group of provincial Daeists led by Roberto de Puerta Rota. However, the motive is debated.
== Events ==
A small group infiltrated a demon dust factory in Fulmando on 35 Scotís/Heris 1740. While Millisymph remained neutral during the Trynser-Zazimar War, it used the dust for cannons as a deterrent to avoid being caught in the middle of battle as had happened to it before. Production of the dust was under the authority of Grandmaster Alchemist Karian the Glum, guildmaster of Los alquimistas del ratón morado,
The group appeared to be fanatics, with at least one member holding a torch to the dust and threatening to blow everyone up in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. Most of the workers and one of the three guards fled. The two remaining were Ozsym Underhill, a Guardiáns de la puerta (Gate Guardian) of the Goddess Samorojia, and a former slave named Juan de Fulmando. They both defended the dust. Ozsym was fatally wounded in the attack, and Juan recited an alchemical demon dust incantation that frightened the group who were captured and soon executed. However, some believe Balin Gore was leader of the group and escaped.
Ozsym's dying wish was for his offspring Fuylu and Heva to become Juan's wards, and for the sword he bore to also go to Juan. The broadsword had very recently been granted to Ozsym by a priestess of Samorojia who had told him, "The sword will be yours until it cannot be." The transfer of the weapon to Juan was accepted by the priestess on condition that Juan fulfill his pact to provide for Ozsym's offspring until they were on their own. Juan named the broadsword La espada de Ozsym (Sword of Ozsym).
== Motive and Theories ==
The motives behind the plot are debated. Officially, it was declared an attempt to gain demon dust to be used in an explosive or firearm assassination plot against the then recently-elevated Geraldo VII and, by extension, the nation of Millisymph for regarding Daeus as one of the gods instead of the only god. The plot may have involved killing the young Geraldo VII in order to have him replaced with the next in line, Geraldo's younger brother Príncipe Jaxemo, who was believed a stronger supporter of "true" Daieism but was not implicated in the scandal.
Some, however, suspect members of the Sleyden family were behind it in an attempt to break the Mordh'Dhagai family monopoly over demon dust production in the Empire of Trynser. This plot would have involved smuggling the demon dust into the empire, causing a terrible explosion or a number of explosions, and blaming it on loose security by the Mordh'Dhagais--or even framing the family as the culprit.
Others believe it was actually part of an other worldly plot to use the demon dust to take over a world where its existence was unknown. This theory was largely based on Ozsym being a Guardián de la puerta (guardian of "gates" including openings to other worlds) and his sword being granted to him by a priestess of the Goddess of Gates.
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