Possession-demons remain maddeningly elusive, particularly the one that seized control of someone dear to me. Every trail I have followed thus far has ended in ash and rumor. Intriguingly, no record of such entities exists before the so-called Binding a hundred millennia past; the first credible account appears only after several of the “new” post-Binding deities vanish from the chronicles. Coincidence, or consequence? The records list only two possession-demons by name, both of which gradually altered their hosts while granting them grotesquely amplified magical strength and skill in vile, corrupting dark magic.
Recent study of ancient high-aelv texts stolen from my homeland suggests a possible method to forcibly expel such an entity. Now I must simply find this one.
— from the research notes of Zyr’Magi Tes’Lothen, “Magi the Blade”, high-aelv scholar, mage, and swordsman
