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see what doing so feels like and learn to enjoy it, but also to
inure himself to the further horrors he’ll have to inflict on
the world in the years to come.
The period of early instruction lasts for anywhere from
a few days to a week or two, depending on how inhumane
and immoral the Green Sun Prince was as a mortal. It rarely
goes on much longer, though, lest Sidereal meddlers or other
self-appointed defenders of Creation come calling. Once the
Infernal has fallen as far as he can into the depths of depravity
in the time allowed (or once it has become obvious that he
just doesn’t get it), the coadjutor leads him on his first trip
down into Malfeas. It directs him to the nearest location
where Cecelyne or the Demon City itself brushes against
Creation and compels him to cross over. This compulsion
is a subtle one that can be resisted, but continued resistance
is never advised. If a new Infernal Exalt dilly-dallies for too
long in Creation, his Yozi overlord is likely to send a demon
bounty-hunter into the world by commanding the nearest
local cultists or akuma sorcerers to summon one. If an experienced
Green Sun Prince happens to be in the area (which
is statistically unlikely but not impossible), that Exalt might
be dispatched instead to bring the rogue home.
Whichever way it happens, the new Infernal
is brought to heel and must face
his masters in Hell. He makes the
long, five-day trek across the desert Cecelyne to the Demon
City. When he gets there, or when he gets to the threshold,
he is met by a humaniform jouten (i.e., a physical body) of
the Yozi who owns his Exaltation. This incarnation ushers
the Exalt into the presence of the Yozi’s fetich soul for a period
of intense, private, three-way communion. When that
period is over, the Exalt’s body is shared around among the
other Third Circle souls of his master, followed by the jouten
of the architect of the Reclamation who designed his Urge
(if that Yozi is different from who claims the Exalt’s caste).
Any humanity to which the Exalt might have been clinging
is more than likely stripped away during this time. It is in
this period that the Yozis make plain their expectations and
reveal the overarching structure of the Reclamation. They
reveal what the Exalt will have to do, what he will have to
give up and what he will have to take from those around him
in order to accomplish his part in the mission. When those
expectations are made clear, the Yozis lavish on the Green
Sun Prince whatever weapons, armor and other artifacts they
feel he will need to carry them out.
Once the Yozis have finished their communion, they call
all of their Green Sun Princes together from Hell, Creation
and Yu-Shan and hold a special conclave at
which to debut the newcomer. A herald of
the Yozi who owns the fresh Infernal’s
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