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The Doom of All Things and the End of Time

Plot

The first book of The Scourges Pentadecaphron this book chronicles the rise and fall of Lady Absinthia (AKA: Nallah Simuth), the first of The Twelve Scourges of Battal. The first part deals with the initial meeting of Nallah and Petago Kerrik (AKA: Char Reyarteb) and their torrid romance/mutual descent into depravity and darkness. Almost immediately the book takes a turn towards the dark and perverted as there is implications of and then outright explication of the necrophilistic tendancies of Lady Absinthia. As the book progresses the writer becomes more perverted and dark culminating in the creation of the Wand of Unlight.

The creation of the Wand of Unlight takes up the next major section of the text as Lady Absinthia tries multiple times to create the wand with no success. Each of these attempts invariably involves ritual sacrifice of people/creatures and then usually acts of fornication with them either before/during/after they are dead. Disturbing detail is paid to these attempts even going so far as to explictly write/draw out the magical components/actions/runes for each of the attempts. Finally Lady Absinthia gives up on her attempts to forge the actual Wand and forges an illusary Wand, or more specifically forges it out of the imaginations of the 100 random people she happened to run across.

Finally the last section details the horrible actions preformed with the Wand and her command of the followers of Char. It also looks in to the twisted relationship between Absinthia and Char. While the book makes it explicit that they loved each other, the portrayal of love in this book is warped and perverted from most normal definitions (involving fetishes that were specifically invented to categorize the actions in this book). Finally the book ends with the death of Harbinger Portent and Lady Absinthia at the hands of Char. As she slips into death there is long discussion of the meaningless of life and the glory of death and nothingness, however there is a premonition of her rebirth in the Great Elemenstation War.

Reactions

While the book is considered a canonical look at Lady Absinthia there was wide cryout from fans as to the depths of perversion the author took her. Most fans were expecting a hot goth chick but rather got a hot super-goth chick who was into S&M and a necrophiliac. The ultradark tone of the book took many fans a back and drove many to the brink of insanity with its descriptions of pervesions not meant for the mortal sphere. This book did however do well with Langoites who claim that the book was infact written by James Langomedes.

Fan reaction aside, to the rest of the world the work was considered a blight on humanity. Major religous activist groups, parent groups and other organizations have called for the banning and destruction of the work and in fact Congress has banned them from schools and public libraries. While Realmworlds Publishing has pulled production of the work, they still went on to publish the rest of the Pentadecaphron.