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Dark Legacies: The Energumen
Of all the dark and sundry tools employed by the Revenant Sisterhood, none is as controversial as the energumens. These wretched souls are the formerly possessed, purified by the Matriarch and subsequently bound into service for life. Relocated to a secret asylum below Cathedral, they are exposed for months on end to tortured hosts still plagued by the spirit of a demon, and subjected to devastating psychological conditioning that attunes their mind to the presence of demonkind within mortal bodies. Like crystal that resonates when a specific note is intoned, an energumen’s very soul vibrates in the presence of the possessed.
Energumens emerge from these dank quarters nearly mad, unnaturally sensitive to the world around them. The manner in which they are treated varies, but most are leashed like animals, leveraged for their aggression and unique talents with no regard to their safety or the ongoing degradation of their sanity. As an energumen’s reception increases, he is able to sense the possessed from miles away, and becomes almost impossible to control in their presence. Plagued with severe headaches, bouts of dementia, and frenzied rage, he is sated only when the possessing demon is excised or the host is killed. Such behavior can pit energumens against their handlers at critical moments, when the latter wishes to suppress or contain a possessing demon that has been tracked down while the former is desperate to destroy it.
Another entry from the Dark Legacies Campaign Guide, hope you enjoy it. This scene, necessarily dark, was hard as 😣 to photograph. More photos, including original artwork by John Gravato, available on my IG feed.
Dark Legacies: The Energumen
Of all the dark and sundry tools employed by the Revenant Sisterhood, none is as controversial as the energumens. These wretched souls are the formerly possessed, purified by the Matriarch and subsequently bound into service for life. Relocated to a secret asylum below Cathedral, they are exposed for months on end to tortured hosts still plagued by the spirit of a demon, and subjected to devastating psychological conditioning that attunes their mind to the presence of demonkind within mortal bodies. Like crystal that resonates when a specific note is intoned, an energumen’s very soul vibrates in the presence of the possessed.
Energumens emerge from these dank quarters nearly mad, unnaturally sensitive to the world around them. The manner in which they are treated varies, but most are leashed like animals, leveraged for their aggression and unique talents with no regard to their safety or the ongoing degradation of their sanity. As an energumen’s reception increases, he is able to sense the possessed from miles away, and becomes almost impossible to control in their presence. Plagued with severe headaches, bouts of dementia, and frenzied rage, he is sated only when the possessing demon is excised or the host is killed. Such behavior can pit energumens against their handlers at critical moments, when the latter wishes to suppress or contain a possessing demon that has been tracked down while the former is desperate to destroy it.
Another entry from the Dark Legacies Campaign Guide, hope you enjoy it. This scene, necessarily dark, was hard as 😣 to photograph. More photos, including original artwork by John Gravato, available on my IG feed.