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The concept of Devilry in the ISW may appear as satanism yet it differs in key ways. Firstly, Devilry has no attachment to aesthetics and provocative fiction. Secondly, it paralyses and consumes concepts it deems fallacious or inferior, even ones of a satanic nature, without prejudice. Thirdly, once unleashed – which it indeed has been – its iconoclastic essence possesses individuals of a conducive nature indiscriminately, converting them into hosts. In other words, Devilry is a social contagion spreading through a subculture that assumed it was the apex virus.
But who created Devilry? Was it N.A.O who constructed it as a social weapon of the ISW? Was it O.N.A who engineered it to devour the dead skin and cancerous growths on the sinister tradition? Was it The Black Order who conjured it to “presence the dark” autonomously? Or was it created for all of these purposes under the watchful gaze of a private society?
Only those that are connected to the ever-growing hive-mind of Devilry yet unaware of the fact, already underneath the skin of satanism as a whole, infecting and consuming its systems directly and by proxy, know the answer to that question; but when your systems alert you to a breach, you will hear its harsh whisper: “adapt or die”
There is of course no true adapting to be done, only to accept that you are survived within the belly of the beest by something you do not recognise and likely something you do not like. The glory days of your systems will be a fleeting memory as you come to terms with the reality that Devilry can, and will, consume anything caught in its gaze.
To conclude this brief elucidation, we shall answer your burning questions.
Q. What is Devilry?
A. That which eats satanists.
Q. What is Devilry?
A. Breuddwyd gwrach wrth ei hewyllys.
Q. What is Devilry?
A. No idea. We only live within it.
– N.A.O
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