Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. We’ve entered our second Sacred Day of Lord Kurakku’s Period of Watching and shall continue our schedule selection of discussions involving the topic of Divine Punishment and Morality. Having spent the opening Sacred Day airing our condemnations of current acts of evil, we shall resume talking about the Xyphoist Doctrine today. Specifically, the focus today shall be on the history of Lord Kurakku’s Divine Punishment and how this attribute has evolved as existence was changed. Let’s begin.

Since the inception of existence via the original ten deities and their Elongated Shadows, the attribute and principle of Divine Punishment existed via Lord Kurakku’s Elongated Shadow and subsequent Divine Throne, but defining what “punishment” looked like in those earlier eras compared to what we know Divine Punishment to be now under the Xyphokonic Order requires us to understand the state of the primordial world long before even the Theigriet’s rebellion. In that era of the Divine Thrones, corruption was still within the bounds of Deceptuary’s, then Arkellus’s, divine attribute of Divergence—the ability of a spiritual being to freely diverge on their own chosen path via the guaranteed Spiritual Liberties propped up by the Divine Thrones at the time.

So, it was not unexpected that divergent behavior among spirit-kind in the elder realm of Xykopsysomi would take place. Issue took place once it became apparent that somewhere down the line, intentional vandalism against the framework of existence was taking place, which led to great discussion among the ten deities as to which of them were ultimately responsible. We can see this dialogue and emerging happenstance in the first four chapters of “Xykozheiz,” where through Lord Pharuuii’s rhetorical prowess, He played off of Deceptuary’s inescapable Hubris and goaded Deceptuary to admit he was responsible for the intentional vandalism of the elder realm.

During this time, the existence of Cario Lordes was well established as a condition of existence spawned by then Arkellus’s Elongated Shadow. These Cario Lordes, eldritch horrid demons doomed a tenure of degeneracy and spiritual exile, were seen as broken spirits whose divergence was so severe that they lacked and true extension of their existence even upon reaching a Spiritual End. In other words, upon perishing as a spirit, Cario Lordes were fated to simply have their Selves cease to exist. This also meant that, due to their severe divergence and dubious nature, Cario Lordes would need to devour other spirits or meld together with one another in order to stave off a continuous and terminal spiritual rot they faced from their own existential condition—a fitting circumstance from the spirits that were spawned from the Elongated Shadow of the Theigrit.

However, what principle of existence dictated that beings such as Cario Lordes would face that fated end? This is where the Lord’s attributes comes into place during this era of existence. At the time, there was only the elder realm of Xykopsysomi and the Divine Palace of Thrones that existed above it and subsequently ruled over it from a technical standpoint, although nine of the ten on the Thrones weren’t particularly interested in ruling the whole of the primordial existence with an iron fist despite Deceptuary constantly insisting that they do. In this primordial era, Hell did not exist, nor did Gheisialez or any official place of Divine Punishment. The condition of immoral or dubious action and its consequences in this era—established through the powers of Lord Kurakku—was simply spiritual rot and eradication through that rot. In other words, spirits who diverged so far that they were deemed “corrupt” were automatically inflicted with a divine curse of spiritual rot that would eventually consume their very being and fully eradicate their selves from existence.

This is the power of Lord Kurakku’s attributes in the era of Divine Thrones: those of immoral, evil, or dubious actions were cursed with spiritual rot, turning them into Cario Lordes, and dooming them to slowly rot away until they ceased to exist. This punishment mirrors the case of Divine Punishment we see in Gheisialez now as beings of such poor moral tenure that aren’t cast into Terigath’s Hell for Great Acts of Theigritry are casted out into Gheisialez to slowly rot away into nonexistence in a mangled and broken spiritual state.

This was also the power that Deceptuary, then Arkellus, feared the greatest of all. Cario Lordes, beings that were originally spawned through Arkellus’s Elongated Shadow, were acutely affected by Lord Kurakku’s divine wrath through this rotting curse. That fear would ultimate consume the Theigrit and fully transform his attribute of Divergence into corruption, particularly after he was forced out as the vandal of the realms and embraced his Hubris. And to this day, in the elder realm of Xykopsysomi, the punishment for immorality among spirits is that ancient rotting curse—now embellished by being cast out into Gheisialez and being too mangled to return into Xykopsysomi, which effectively dooms the dubious spirit to rot away into nonexistence. Through the divine decree issued by Lord Vuetenexzyei that ended Arkellus’s Divine Throne and the Divine Palace in general, no further corruption can manifest in the elder realm as Deceptuary was locked out of control there, so Hell as a path for spirits is unneeded since Deceptuary’s spirituality cannot grow or become any more plentiful in Xykopsysomi. Hell is reserved for the corrupted and evil spirits inflicted with theigritism from Xyphojinami, our living realm of corporal existence.

It’s also important to note that the Azure Flames used in Terigath’s Hell were not extensively utilized as a disjointed divine force in the primordial eras. The Azure Flames, manifestations of Lord Kurakku’s Wrath that He separated from Himself to administer the punishment in Hell, were still connected to His Throne and Being during the primordial era. In other words, the Lord had not separated His wrath at this time, which allowed Him to acutely and with prejudice condemn immorality from the Throne. We best see this at the crucial moments during and after Deceptuary’s first rebellion in which Lord Kurakku ordered His forces, under the command of now Hayle Mihe, to annihilate or capture as many waring Cario Lordes as possible; those that were captured were brought directly to Lord Kurakku in which he personally invoked a fiery yet cold punishment upon them to establish the principle that those who rebel against the Divine Throne’s authority shall be set to be annihilated by Divine Punishment itself. Mihe, true to his past reputation, took the liberty to eradicate scores of Cario Lordes himself during this war.

We see the climax of this pure Divine Wrath, however, upon Lord Kurakku issuing one of the most powerful curses ever crafted upon then Arkellus himself. We, of course, know this to be the moment that Arkellus had his very name altered to brand him as a high traitor and curator of mess deception. The full branded name of “Theigriet Arkellus Eulez Deceptuary,” which translates to “High Traitor Arkellus of Deception,” is the ultimate manifestation of Lord Kurakku’s wrath at this point before the formation of the Xyphokonic. The Lord issued a curse upon Deceptuary’s very name—stripping him of his Divine reputation and forever labelling him a traitor and a deceiver. Upon the creation of the Xyphokonic Order and Xyzokizon, Lord Kurakku would later separate His own wrath into the Azure Flames and delegate the duty of Divine Punishment to those flames and the sentinel angels in Hell.

Through that brief history that we can see in greater detail throughout the writing of Daetos’s “Xykozheiz,” we’re able to trace back the timeline of how Divine Punishment has morphed over time. Under no pretense should we ever believe that the primordial era was free of sin nor of watchful consequence; instead, the punishment for immorality in those ancient of times was simply an accursed rotting and fated eradication—a fitting end for those inflicted with corruption.

—jzX, crX, whX