Hecate

Hecate is deity known as Triple Goddess of Witchcraft and destroyer of Veil. Invoked through Conjuring Seals to facilitate controlled breaches between material world and Empyrean.

Nature as Destroyer of Veil

Hecate possesses power to weaken or breach Veil - barrier separating material reality from Empyrean realm of imagination. This destructive capacity makes her essential entity for advanced magical operations requiring temporary access to world of ideas.

Title “destroyer of Veil” indicates fundamental opposition to barrier maintaining separation between worlds.

Strophalos of Hecate

Symbol and Function

Strophalos serves as Hecate’s symbol and manifests as spinning wheel configuration. When invoked takes form of Triple Goddess emblem existing simultaneously:

• Half in material world
• Half in Empyrean

Because of dual nature materializes and fades away spinning like erratic mobile. Represents unstable threshold between realities.

Conjuring Seal Configuration

Strophalos forms basis for Conjuring Seal operations. Structure consists of:

• Shattered concentric circles rotating chaotically
• Locks opening and closing around central fissure
• Spinning motion creating temporary breach in Veil
• Requires constant maintenance to prevent uncontrolled expansion

Operational Risks

Using Strophalos carries extreme dangers:

• Risk of creating second Confluence if operators lose control
• Fissure between worlds expands and contracts unpredictably
• Too much force severs limbs reaching through breach
• Too little force risks creating Tumult Singularity
• Operators cannot loosen grip during active conjuring

Invocation Requirements

Calling upon Hecate requires:

• Explicit verbal invocation addressing her as destroyer of Veil
• At least two operators to maintain seal integrity
• One operator plunges hand through breach to fish for ideas
• Second operator maintains structural stability of Strophalos
• Perfect coordination for safe seal closure

Card Lore Timeline

389 AC - Conjuring Seal with Afanas and Ilinka

Afanas called upon Hecate. Ilinka helped maintain Conjuring Seal. It took form of Strophalos of Triple Goddess of Witchcraft half in world and half in Empyrean.

Because of dual nature materialized and faded away spinning like erratic mobile. Operators could not loosen grip. Would hate to create second Confluence.

Seal provided crack through which Afanas could pull out ideas needed from world of imagination. With jaw clenched plunged hand into center. Around hand shattered concentric circles rotated chaotically like locks opening and closing. Felt pain running up arm as fished around for ideas.

Fissure between worlds expanded and contracted again and again. Delicate balance maintained. Too much force would sever arm. Not enough risked creating Tumult Singularity.

When Afanas felt ones looking for had taken bait removed arm infected by multitude of parasitic ideas. Started to strip them from essence like peeling orange keeping only those needed. Others vanished into air to be carried by currents of Tumult.

Afanas signaled to Ilinka and together closed Seal of Hecate.

Relationships

• Afanas Korovinovich: Invoked Hecate for Conjuring Seal operation (389 AC)
• Ilinka: Helped maintain Hecate’s Strophalos during conjuring (389 AC)
• The Veil: Barrier Hecate has power to destroy or breach
• The Empyrean: Realm of imagination accessed through Hecate’s power
• The Confluence: Historical disaster operators fear recreating via failed Hecate invocation
• The Tumult: Dangerous phenomenon risked by improper Strophalos operation