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CHArTER TWELVE: BANEFUL MAGICK
Intellectual evolution has left the majority of the human race
without intelligence, at least on an individual, creative level. They
accept that they do not have all of the answers just yet, while at the
same time insisting that only those things that they have experienced
firsthand are real and can effect them. And they have experienced
little. The reality of Baneful Magick and its ability to destroy life is
undisputed by the dead, who perhaps have experienced more than they
ever cared to.
While causing a person pain, sorrow, or physical displacement
may often be as simple as any other basic ritual, if not more so due to
the Black Magician's inherent sense of elite superiority and spiritual
malice, successfully enacting a ritual that will cause the victim to
actually, uncircumstantially, and unfailingly die may not come with
such ease. One way in which this difficulty occurs is that the ritually
amplified will of the Sorcerer must be of such a force as to overwhelm
the natural will of the victim to survive. Although the victim may
have no conscious awareness of the curse, the more subtle senses that
all people and most animals possess tells him that something is very
wrong. Internally, he will either fight the curse, often to his final
breath, or he will succumb to it immediately. The curse being
successful, the former sort of victim will usually develop cancer or
some other malady, sometimes displaying an irritating happiness and
positivity soon after the curse is placed, scurrying to create success for
himself as he knows his time may very well be short. The latter type of
victim, the pre-defeated, are the more common type, the very actions
which bring the wrath of the Powers of Darkness upon him
demonstrating his own desire for misery. His end will usually come
swiftly, by an accident through his own negligence, or usually of a
grave misfortune that has all of the appearance of a self-produced
demise.
It is also true that, much like the average western-world serial
killer in his first murders, the Black Magician will experience a battle of
the selves at the throwing of his first curse. Whether for plain expedience
or for some other, more Ascendant reason, he feels the tugging necessity
to take a person's life through Black Magick, yet in doing so he attacks
the deepest values of his upbringing and society. In taking human life,
he is in affect taking his own, killing that which he once was, hoping for
the rebirth of his True Soul in perfect glory. If there is any doubt as to
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