Vestry's botched summoning
The botched summoning attributed to Vestry is a rogue demon incident at the Pandaemonium in which a conjuration aimed at the Lighthouse went catastrophically wrong when the summoned entity - a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon - turned upon its caller instead of executing the task to which it had been bound. The classification of the event as a "rogue demon incident" marks the creature as having escaped its summoner's control and become a threat in its own right, rather than a directed weapon wielded against the Lighthouse.
The event is recorded in a single, compact entry and carries no surviving detail in the available records regarding Vestry's fate, the demon's eventual destruction or dispersal, or any institutional aftermath at the Pandaemonium. It stands as a discrete incident of conjurational failure: the intention to strike, the summoning performed, the demon's refusal to obey, and the violence redirected onto the conjurer. No further episodes involving Vestry or this particular demon are attested in the records.
The Event
When & Where
The incident is recorded at the Pandaemonium and appears in the fifth chapter of Pretenders to the Throne Of God - ch 5. The Pandaemonium serves as the site of the conjuration; the Lighthouse is identified as the entity the summoned demon was bound to strike, though the record does not specify whether the Lighthouse was physically present at the Pandaemonium or was the conjuration's remote target - ch 5.
Who Was Involved
Vestry is named as the conjurer who performed the summoning. The summoned entity is described as a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon, bound by the conjuration to act against the Lighthouse - ch 5. No other individuals are identified in the surviving record as present at, directing, or intervening in the incident - ch 5.
What Happened
Vestry performed a conjuration at the Pandaemonium, summoning a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon and binding it to a task: to strike the Lighthouse - ch 5. The binding failed. Rather than carrying out the directed violence against the Lighthouse, the demon turned upon Vestry, its caller, and went free of the summoner's control - ch 5. The result was a rogue demon loose at the Pandaemonium, a threat in its own right rather than a weapon aimed at an external target - ch 5.
The record does not describe the duration of the confrontation, the manner in which the demon was ultimately neutralised or dispersed, or what became of Vestry after the creature turned on him - ch 5.
Causes & Consequences
The stated intention behind the conjuration was to direct the demon against the Lighthouse; the event's cause is therefore a deliberate act of hostile summoning at the Pandaemonium - ch 5. The consequence recorded is the failure of the binding and the redirection of the demon's violence onto the conjurer himself, reclassifying the incident from a directed attack into a rogue demon threat - ch 5.
No institutional aftermath at the Pandaemonium is recorded. No disciplinary, legal, or administrative response to the incident survives in the available material, nor is any change to conjurational practice at the Pandaemonium noted as a result - ch 5.
History
Pretenders to the Throne Of God
In Pretenders to the Throne Of God, the event recorded as Vestry's botched summoning is a rogue demon incident at the Pandaemonium in which a conjuration intended to strike the Lighthouse failed catastrophically: the summoned entity - a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon - turned upon its caller rather than executing the task it had been bound to perform - ch 5. The notes classify the occurrence as a "rogue demon incident," underscoring that the creature went free of its summoner's control and became a threat in its own right rather than a directed weapon - ch 5. No further detail survives in this book's records as to the conjurer's fate, the demon's eventual destruction or dispersal, or any institutional aftermath at the Pandaemonium; the entry stands as a single, compact record of the event's location, the creature's physical description, its intended target, and the manner of its failure - ch 5.
Relationships
- Vestry - the conjurer and sole named agent of the incident. The record identifies Vestry as the one who performed the summoning and the one upon whom the demon turned, but supplies no further detail about who Vestry was, what prompted the conjuration, or what happened to him afterward - ch 5.
Notable Quotes
No verbatim dialogue survives in the record of this event.
Tags
- demon-summoning · #botched · #rogue-demon