knowledge · 15 entities
Records Deeds
Keeps the register of acts, names and books of the living.
Held by
- Disputed8
- Celestial4
- Fallen2
- Infernal1
Attributed across 6 cultures
Which spirits are credited with it?
Each card names the texts that make the attribution. Where several texts credit the same figure with the same office, that is worth more than any one of them saying so alone.
Azrael
Baalberith
Kiraman Katibin
Ma'at
Egyptian
Metatron
Mithra
Persian
Munkar and Nakir
Penemue
Satan
The accuser's office is fundamentally forensic.
Shamash
Mesopotamian
The Forty-Two Assessors
Egyptian
The Ten Kings
Chinese
Thoth
Egyptian
Yama
Vedic
Yanluo Wang
Chinese
The texts that attribute this power
Oldest first. An office claimed by one late grimoire and an office claimed across two thousand years are different kinds of claim.
The Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi of Babylon; tr. L. W. King · c. 1750 BCE · Akkadian
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian
Read The Egyptian Book of the Dead in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hunefer · Wikimedia file page
The Avesta
Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan
Read The Avesta in full ↗Cover: CC0 · Daderot · Wikimedia file page
Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Read Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon in full ↗Cover: Public domain · see en:Aleppo Codex; scanned by · Wikimedia file page
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)
Read 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page
Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
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The Scripture of the Ten Kings
Anonymous Chinese Buddhist · 9th-10th c. CE · Classical Chinese
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