In it, the narrator, who identifies himself as the same Heikichi who was murdered, describes a long-running battle with mental disease, his diabolism, and his murderous urge to create the perfect woman called " Azoth ", which he will do by cutting his 2 daughters, 2 of his 3 stepdaughters and his 2 nieces up and taking a single astrologically significant and aligned piece of her body and combining it with the others ( the reason listed for excluding his remaining daughter, Kazue Kanemoto, is that she is not a virgin ); each one will be killed with an alchemically-significant metal and buried in a place which produces those metals.
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They are responsible for the creation of such magic'schools'such as Diabolism ( the use of symbols to create temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent magical effects such as spell wards ), Invocations ( spells performed by words and gestures on the part of a mage or shaman ), Rituals ( advanced and more powerful magics involving a protracted series of actions and / or sacrifices on the part of one or more mages and / or shamans ), Shifting ( the summoning of creatures from other locales, worlds, or dimensions for the purpose of doing the summoner's bidding ), and were the creators of the first Rune Artifacts ( specially designed, indestructible weapons and artifacts created by the mystical merging of a weapon with the life forces of sentient beings ).
