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The Broken-Winged Crane

This infamous book is one of the best-known weapons in the Yozis' arsenal. Even the most well-prepared and paranoid reader is unlikely to avoid falling prey to the insidious suggestions woven into the text. Performing the ritual prayers outlined in the Broken-Winged Crane will grant great power, but also works a subtle persuasion on the reader, twisting her perceptions into a shape useful to the Demon Princes. In short order, she will find herself filled with a perfectly rational desire to visit Malfeas and bargain with the Yozis for further power.

Of course, once she is actually in Malfeas, any negotiations which occur are likely to involve mind-shattering torture if she does not immediately agree to drop her defenses and allow the Demon Princes to stake claim to her soul. It is a credit to the fortitude of the Exalted that most such victims, even those far-gone to the unclean influence of the Broken-Winged Crane, have chosen to die rather than to surrender to the Yozis' demands.