![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A few months later, the Helvault burst to pieces during a great battle, and Avacyn returned. Avacyn disappeared into the Helvault, a prison for demons, to trap a great foe within. The priests of the church perform ritual blessings on the faithful and their homes to ward off evil, and the church’s soldiers and inquisitors have long hunted vampires and werewolves that prey on the people in their charge.īut that was before Avacyn went missing – then went mad. Led by the glorious archangel Avacyn, the hosts of angels is few in number but has long stood with the people of Innistrad to face the horrors of the night.Įxcept in rare cases where the angels directly involve themselves in combat with monsters, their power is mediated through the Church of Avacyn, which serves as both spiritual and temporal authority in the four provinces of Innistrad. Humanity is not without protectors in this nightmare land, and the foremost of those have always been the angels. And even among the common folk – on Innistrad as on every plane – some simply give in to selfish desires and violent rage, killing with knife and garrote rather than sorcery. Crazed scientists toy with forces of life and death in their effort to create artificial life or harness the energy that remains in the spirits of the dead. Obsessive scholars pry into secrets best left hidden. Depraved necromancers raise the dead to do their bidding. Sinister cultists give themselves over to demons and other dark forces. These are the humans that have been consumed by Innistrad’s darkness. Still, the most dreadful creatures of Innistrad lurk within human towns and cities, pursuing their twisted schemes and unholy desires in the heart of civilization. Demons are the unholy inversion of humanity’s spiritual longings – the shadow side of the angels’ brightness. ![]() Zombies and geists – the restless spirits of the dead – paint the eventual future of all people in the starkest terms, underlining the grim truths of human mortality. Vampires are the bodily manifestation of carnal desire, hedonistic cravings, and bloodlust. Werewolves are a living embodiment of the secret rage and violence that hide in the human heart. The specific horrors that the people of Innistrad fear most are all reflections of humanity’s darker nature. And at the same time, humanity’s age-old enemies grow ever more dangerous. Even the traditional allies of humanity – from angels and gryffs to herons and hounds – are unreliable at best, as the madness that grips the angels seems to seep into every living thing. Almost without exception, anything that is not human, whether it’s a rat or an angel, is a potential enemy. The people of Innistrad are surrounded by monsters. Only their grim determination – and their staunch faith in the protection of their patron archangel, Avacyn – has allowed humans to survive in this nightmarish realm. Humanity is beset on all sides: vampires thirst for human blood, werewolves live for the thrill of the hunt, the restless spirits of the dead haunt the living, and no corpse is safe from reanimation at the hands of cruel necromancers or cunning scientists. On the plane of Innistrad, horrors stalk the shadows and scratch at doors in the night. ![]()
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