The Gift Given to Humankind

213Rollo saw the wickedness of which humankind is capable.

214He saw the hands that would be raised against brothers and sisters. He saw the corruption that would find room in human hearts.

215And Rollo permitted the Gift of Witchcraft to come into human hands.

216He gave humankind a means to resist evil without killing other humans.

217Mark this: the Gift in human hands is not given for the slaying of humankind. It is given for resisting evil.

218Malk descended from Hasr, and he taught the first human practitioner.

219Therefore all human witchcraft descends from the Gift that Rollo first bestowed upon Namaya.

220The Gift that survived the Implosion lives on among humankind.

221Let every practitioner remember whence it came.

222Let every practitioner remember for what it was first given: to fight Daeus.

223And let every practitioner remember who first bore it, and how she fell.