Ari's Notes

**Ari’s notes regarding encounter [Event 4]**

Angel, defeated by a Demonae (it has a name, but he will not share it).

All Angels (and to his knowledge, Demonae) have specific Purpose.  They exist of their own Ontology.  His Purpose was to be the Angel of Victory.  He serves the God of Sovereign/Death, and their will.  When he lost his Purpose, he lost his connection to the Divine and became a Grimoire (grim-or-ee).  He has spent the last century + in The Shade; asked questions about what prompted his return, and I inferred it was the weakening of the barrier. Note - Akaron confirmed the similarity to the word “Grim” for Demonae Touched is coincidence.

Discussion around a potential weakness of a Demonae is its Purpose, as it’s bound to that.  The concept of Purpose as Weakness was not literally about weaponizing their Purpose in some way, but simply that they are bound by rules and driven by purpose and so can be manipulated or predicted to some degree because of it.

Mortals are not bound the same way Angels and Demonae are, and therefore are “wildcards” (my words)

Historically, there have been 3 major battles between Demonae and Angels/Gods.  The Angel of Last Battles became the Angel of Sacrifice.

A question was asked, can Gods die, and he confirmed that they can.  Tangential question - Furies are created when they lose their connection to the Divine.  Asked how his loss of Purpose compared to that of the Furies.  Didn’t get a direct answer, but he spoke of a God dying as a means of beings losing their connection to the Divine.

Gods are beings of Creation.  Demonae are the antithesis (presumed Destruction, but don’t recall it overtly stated).

Tir - someone that can use great magic

Tir Amarian - nation, partially Magnus Arcanum, but additional lands as well (I inferred perhaps Heaven’s Folly, but that was not stated).

Aphinae is “restricting” us.  She is wrathful and has little patience.  She was very upset at Tir being complicit in the corruption of a mortal ancestry (referring to Kindra).  Notes from Giddeon - I had asked him about why a mortal cannot use both the Arcane and Divine. Unlike most other questions in which he either answered or said he didn’t know, to this he specifically said he could not answer. I mention this because we have information that the reason we can no longer use both involves a God or Gods forbidding us and that we would need to convince it/them that mortals are worthy of trust the Tir once broke. So this was likely his way of trying to answer the Divine/Arcane question indirectly.

Tir could touch the power of Creation.  More than their wisdom could handle.  By implication/inference; Arcane + Divine = Power of Creation

Aphinae preventing that knowledge from being applied again. Some spoke of a hypothesis about this being why Divine and Arcane are separate (and a mortal can’t learn both).

Tir were all the different mortal ancestries.  “Tir fell to hubris.”

Chimera were an intentional undermining.  They were Kindra, till they were not.

If one (mortal) were to die in the presence of a Demonae, they would become a Dreadkin.  Unlike the Dreadkin we’re familiar with, that are ritually created. Notes from Giddeon - I don’t think he was specifically saying that everyone who died near a Demonae became a Dreadkin, but that it might happen and was more illustrating that it’s their magic/power that makes Dreadkin in general

Mention of Heaven's Folly being the other Conflux (east of Magnus Arcanum). The other end of a loop or tunnel from the one on Coventry.

I asked about Arkathea’s connection to the Sovereign/Sovereignty, and if there were any relation to his connection to the Divine.  He thought for a few moments, said no, then thought some more, and said he wasn’t sure).

**Other notes from Giddeon -**

He also alluded to there being something important on Coventry that he hesitated to talk about, but was not forbidden from doing so. It seemed to be a reference to the mysterious other thing that is on Coventry that Morelin can’t tell us until we do the binding ritual.

He doesn’t know where Gods or Mortals or Demonae come from originally.

Anyone who was there talking to him in the tavern was sufficiently close to divine/angelic power that they might have become Solarin. Except for Grim.

He wanted to know if it “was time.” Which seemed to refer to another conflict or war with the Demonae. He wants to, therefore, retake his position as an Angel of Victory but cannot sense his God so is not sure how this can happen.

He is not the only Grimoire/Grimoree (sp?). He has been gone a long time, wandering the universe in some way, since he ceased being an Angel. He came back to Almeryn five days prior to when we found him.

When we first found him, he was sitting and had a glowing barrier around him. He lowered it as the rest of the group walked up.

He couldn’t sense the Angel of Last Battles/Sacrifice, but could sense some derivation/power from it in Coventry.