Göetic Summoning

"Beast of the timeless void! I call upon you to offer a trade! Creature of the endless chaos! I call upon you to parlay! Ancient demon and denizen of a vaster world! I summon you and release you!"

The first incantation performed by any prospective göetic is a summoning, performed with the aid of a göetic text. Reaching out into the borderworld to call forth a demon, the göetic seeks to make a deal with whatever answers their call. While summoning incantations are often aimed at a specific kind of demon, they are unreliable at best and usually the göetic must deal with whatever comes through.

The deal on offer is simple. The demon possesses the göetic, allowing it to escape the borderworld and remain tethered to the prime material through the göetic summoning it. In exchange, the demon offers power. Teaching magical mysteries unknown to any practitioner of providential sorcery. The demon promises to make the göetic into a god amongst men, untouchable and almighty. Of course, it has demands in exchange.

Demons and their demands

The first condition all demons impose upon their hosts is that the process of their successful summoning be recorded and bound to a tome. Most demons wish to escape the borderworld, and find the göetics their only way out. Thus, they ensure that a path remains open in the future. Their other demands vary. A few might be content conversing with their host and experiencing the world through their host. Some have a preference for being physically manifested into the material plane, and many demand that their hosts perform foul deeds in exchange for their powers. Many believe that the demons can compel the göetic they possess, but it is equally possible that the evil done by these mages is their own in full.

Demons come in infinite varieties, and it is uncertain how much power the summoning göetic truly has over what they summon. However, rituals tend to still be aimed at specific demons. Among göetics and the inquisitors that hunt them, the most well known demons are ones such as the Scaled Hound, a beast that offers mastery of fire and the minds of others, but bids its summoner to dominate and torment others around them. A demon even avoided by many göetics is the March of Crows, for the legends say that the March of Crows quickly takes over body and soul and leaves but a husk of the summoner.

Cultural Reception

Most people believe that the göetics are subject to the whims of their demon masters, and are thus the enemies of mankind. Göetic tomes, when found, are usually burned. The knowledge of how to summon demons and treat with them is forbidden, yet it persists.