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“KITTSCHER: There’s a theory that all magic is essentially demonic, that every ritual both summons and binds a demon’s powers. Have you never wondered why magic takes such a toll? Our brushes with the uncanny are encounters with these parasitic forces. The demon is feeding even if its powers are contained. The bigger the magic, the more powerful the demon. And the nexuses are little more than doorways through which demons may, for a brief time, pass. NOWNES: What you suggest is perverse in every way. KITTSCHER: But you do not say I am wrong. —Kittscher’s Daemonologie, 1933”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent