Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

Seven sons were born to the evil spirit Tau and the stolen beauty Kerana, and each carried his share of the family curse: the first a lizard-lord of caves, the golden fourth an eternal child, the fifth a tireless devourer. But the curse, like a storm, saved its worst for last. The seventh son of the seven — the final vessel of the whole accumulated malediction — was the Luison: and the old Guaraní tellings describe what the sentence of being last did to him. He is the least animal and least human of the brothers at once — a gaunt, dog-like horror with long filthy hair, a face like grief made flesh, and a smell that arrives before he does, the smell of his estate. For the Luison's inheritance was the one domain left after his brothers had taken caves, forests, hills, and fields: he received death . He is the lord of the cemeteries and the night, the keeper of the dead, dwelling among graves, feeding — the tellings do not flinch — on the flesh of corpses; and in the oldest layer of...