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= The Manifest Commandments of Infernal Stricture =

Hell is a prison. Make no mistake. It is a place of confinement and
torment, built by the gods out of the very souls of their vanquished
foes. For uncounted millenia, the Demon City has housed the insane,
chthonic souls of the Ones Who Came Before. It is not simply the
shame of surrender that has driven the Malfeans to madness. The true
cause of their many insanities comes from being denied the Games of
Divinity. The siren song of the Games calls to the Malfeans in their
prison, and they spiral into sheer insanity from their need to play.
If a heroin addict in detox can fall into screaming madness, then
imagine the unimaginably powerful Yozis and the depths of their
addiction to the Games, and one begins to have some dim comprehension
of the true weight of Hell's psychosis.

But madness has not blunted the Primordials' need for order and
stability. It is they who drew Creation out of the unformed chaos of
the Wyld, and it is they who created the Celestial Bureaucracy to
minister to each and every facet of the world, down to its leastmost
aspect. Even in the swirling chaos of the Demon City, there is order
and function. Each of the uncountable souls and fetiches of the
Demon Princes has a clearly defined place in the rigid hierarchy of
Hell. And despite all their many machinations, only one thought
occupies every demon, from the lowest of servitors to the Yozis
themselves: freedom. Freedom and vengeance.

This is where the Yozis differ from the Malfeans. The Neverborn
sleep in their tombs and dream of the day when everything shall be
perfectly silent. They care not for revenge, only the stillness of
Oblivion. The Yozis, on the other hand, ache to punish their upstart
children and the buzzing insects who threw them down. Their every
thought is bent upon escaping their prison and restoring the rightful
order of things. Creation shall be cleansed by Infernal fire,
scourged clean of the mortal filth that crawls upon its surface. The
gods shall be made to crawl, made to beg to serve their former
masters again. The Unconquered Sun shall be conquered at long last,
His light consumed by Ligier's emerald radience, and his Exalted
champions ground into the dust.

This, then, is a listing of the Manifest Commandments of Infernal
Stricture, the various laws that bind and define the inhabitants of
the Demon City. They are ironclad and unbreakable, for what
punishment could be worse than what the demons themselves already
suffer?

=== KNOW THY PLACE. RULE THOSE BELOW THEE. OBEY THOSE ABOVE THEE. ===
This is the first and most sacred dictum of the Manifest
Commandments. All things have a clearly and distinctly defined
place in the Grand Hierarchy. Perfection is stasis and order. By
overthrowing that perfected order, the gods are guilty of violating
the first and most sacred of laws.

=== FREE WILL IS A LIE. WE ARE WHAT WE MUST BE, NO MORE, NO LESS. ===
Freedom does not exist. Freedom is the Wyld, and there is no place
for the Wyld in Creation. It was the intention of the Primordials to
create a place of perfect stasis and order. In order to do this, it
was necessary that all things in Creation follow the Primordials'
plan to the very letter. By pretending to act upon their own
volition, the gods are guilty of breaking this law as well. Thus,
they have flawed Creation by permitting the Wyld entrance through the
borders of the world in the form of free will and self-determination.

=== SUFFER NOT THE EXISTENCE OF THOSE WHO WOULD VIOLATE THESE COMMANDMENTS. ===

The Wyld is Anathema. It is not to be tolerated. It must be kept
from Creation by any means necessary. All things are permitted so
that the Yozis may be freed from their prison. Ethics and morality
are paltry mortal concepts that do not apply to the Primordials.
Lies, deception, torture, and any number of acts that humans would
consider appalling and inhuman are a matter of course for the
inhabitants of the Demon City. Desperate times call for the most
extreme measures. As rebels and insurgents, the gods are guilty of
this infraction as well.

=== PRIVILEGE TO THOSE OF GREATEST STATION. SUBSERVIENCE FOR THOSE OF LESSER STATION. ===

Rank hath its privilege. That is what it means to be the First.
Those of highest station have the greatest responsibility. Thus,
they are accorded highest prestige and given the best privileges. To
the first-most go the Games of Divinity and the exquisite joys and
raptures that they entail. Those below the highest in station are
expected to obey. That is the way of things. When the Yozis are
freed from the Demon City, the upstart gods will be taught this
lesson with the most exquisite tortures, so that they will never
again forget their place.

=== MAR NOT WHAT HAS BEEN MADE PERFECT. CHANGE NOT WHAT IS UNCHANGEABLE. ===

That which is perfect cannot be broken. To change is to become less
than perfect. That the gods have done this enrages the Yozis to no
end. They have ruined the perfect Creation the Primordials
fashioned. And now, because the gods have lost themselves to the
Games of Divinity, Creation itself is at risk. Mortals have not the
capacity to tame the Wyld. Even the Exalted are swept up and
consumed by the chaos that emanates from the Elemental Poles. Thus,
they are not fit caretakers for Creation and must be swept away, so
that the true rulers of the universe may reassume their rightful
place and fix what their arrogant children have sundered.

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