Back to Valac the Demon, Part I. Before I return to Valac, it’s important to understand something about how demons work. Present circumstance forbids me from explaining precisely why demons do what they do—Estelle shakes her head and mouths, No! Not now. Not yet.—but for the meantime, suffice it to say that it’s a given…
Month: August 2010
Valac the Demon, Part I
Valac is an ancient demon, and just as the word упир has changed over the centuries of human history, so has his name. He answers to Volac, Valax and Valu, the latter pronounced with a nice French-sounding u at the end. Sometimes he can be even summoned as Moloch whenever Moloch himself is out of…
UPYR! Part III & Conclusion
Back to UPYR! Part II. …her life had seemed to fall apart. yes yes yes. End of sentence. Before we return to our history of the servant woman Aleksandra, there are two things that you must know about demons: one, demons love to pose as gods, and two, if they can sniff it out, they…
UPYR! Part II
Back to UPYR! Part I Where were we? Oh, yes. On the morning following the Baptism of Kiev, Aleksandra was summoned to assist in attending to one of the visiting boyars, Gleb of Smolensk, and his wife Helena. Gleb was immediately taken with Aleksandra’s understated beauty, and the objects of his fascination never escaped an encounter…
UPYR! Part I
As a matter of fact, almost every monster ever counted and named by a human is merely an angel or a demon in disguise. The others are merely misunderstood living, biological creatures that have been maligned over the years. Since I’ve assumed the shape and station of a human teenage girl, I just couldn’t help…
Nadiel the Archangel
I would like to thank Estelle for the introduction and high praise. She does have better authorities at her disposal, when it comes all matters concerning angelology and demonology, but she knows as well as I do that the Authority has more pressing matters to attend to. Nonetheless, she’s left all the rest for me…
Introductions
I like writing about monsters. The history of storytelling, from time immemorial, features a literal pantheon of monsters. Most of the stories that we, as a human culture, have carried forward through the millennia involve the defeat of one monster or another, even though occasionally we are entranced by a story in which the monsters…