Meanwhile...
Ophion's daughter, Kria, read through one of her books on demons:
"There are many kinds of extraplanar creatures in the multiverse. In the lower planes, as in the upper ones, there are three main divisions between lawful, neutral, and chaotic beings. All three are brought together in hell proper, although three divisions constantly struggle with each other and themselves for primacy. So far, none of the three have been able to gain an advantage over the other two, and scholars believe it will be like this for quite some time."
This was not the typical codex she normally read; it was "borrowed" from the stock in the magic shop. Her father would be very angry to learn that she was reading through a tome intended for mages who specialize in studying and controlling demons, not the general public.
After reading some highly technical notes about the "scientific" magic about how demons operate, Kria found another passage written in draconic that she could read.
The following passage was false, and red letters saying "not true" were over the following page, and several passages were underlined in
"To superstitious minds, such as those in the field of divine magic, demonology is a dark art, but to those of sufficient intellect and will, it is a most useful tool for ones ends..."
The rest of the passage went on to describe the position of the author of the book in regards to cosmology:
"In the beginning was nothing but a single consciousness. This primordial awareness had no content, as there was nothing in existence of which to be aware. It existed in a timeless, thoughtless state. This consciousness split itself in two. The reasons given are various - desire for companionship, curiosity about itself, or just plain boredom.
The two minds, one male and one female, interacted creating a pantheon of deities known as aeons, who inhabited a divine realm of light known as the "Pleroma".
The most distant aeon from the Source, named Sophia, fell into error. Some myths say that she tried to emanate a universe without her male counterpart, others say that she tried to take on the mind of the Source in its entirety. Whatever the reason, she fell out of communion with the rest of the aeons and became trapped in the primordial material universe.
From the matter that solidified out of her divine power, she created an overseer to guide and direct the evolution of the material universe, known as the Demiurge or Yaltabaoth. The world of matter and its laws is governed by this Demiurge who mistakenly believes himself to be the absolute God.
Living creatures are spirits, sparks of divine light from the Pleroma, who are trapped in the material universe and who must endeavor to free themselves and their kin from the shackles of matter. Some versions of the creation myth say the Demiurge originally created soulless creatures out of matter, and that Sophia took pity on them and breathed sparks from the Pleroma into them, only to have the sparks become trapped in the material bodies. The Demiurge, and his created servants the Archons, manipulate sentient beings into violence and misery to feed themselves and further their egotistical projects."
Every major religion, Dracon or otherwise, rejected these teachings on the grounds of its contradictory nature, needlessly complicated system, and the fact that if the material world were indeed a "mistake" or a "prison", one ought to kill oneself to be free of it. Puzzled by this, Kria nevertheless was comforted by the idea that nothing in this precluded contact with demons as a legitimate means of gaining magical powers...
