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'''Kuryalka,''' credited with inventing the trading scheme known as the Kuyalka Ploy. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | '''Kuryalka,''' credited with inventing the trading scheme known as the Kuyalka Ploy. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | ||
== Saint of Ambition, the first Saint of Hell == | == Saint of Ambition, the first Saint of [[Seven Cities of Hell|Hell]] == | ||
Kuryalka teaches the virtue of ambition, that if you are willing to risk everything you can gain everything. That the greatest ambitions are those that are so audacious, no one else has even imagined them yet. In this manner one avoids competition. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | Kuryalka teaches the virtue of ambition, that if you are willing to risk everything you can gain everything. That the greatest ambitions are those that are so audacious, no one else has even imagined them yet. In this manner one avoids competition. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | ||
{{Quote|text=The world is yours, if only you tell a lie big enough.|sign=Kyruyalka|source={{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}}}} | {{Quote|text=The world is yours, if only you tell a lie big enough.|sign=Kyruyalka|source={{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}}}} | ||
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Days before that moment, supreme in the fullness of her soulpower, Kuyralka did not withdraw her souls and escape into the [[timescape]]; she went to the [[Archdevil]] [[Sutekh]], Lord of Naraka, and offered him her vast soulweath in exchange for immortality and a place in the [[Court of Blood]]. No mortal had ever dared or even conceived of such a thing! No mortal, he said, had ever embodied such naked ambition. He accepted her offer, making her the first Saint of [[Seven Cities of Hell|Hell]]. Sutekh took Kuyralka’s souls and founded the [[Seven Cities of Hell#Exchange|Exchange]], making the trade in souls an official government department in hell, and building an entire bureaucracy around it. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | Days before that moment, supreme in the fullness of her soulpower, Kuyralka did not withdraw her souls and escape into the [[timescape]]; she went to the [[Archdevil]] [[Sutekh]], Lord of Naraka, and offered him her vast soulweath in exchange for immortality and a place in the [[Court of Blood]]. No mortal had ever dared or even conceived of such a thing! No mortal, he said, had ever embodied such naked ambition. He accepted her offer, making her the first Saint of [[Seven Cities of Hell|Hell]]. Sutekh took Kuyralka’s souls and founded the [[Seven Cities of Hell#Exchange|Exchange]], making the trade in souls an official government department in hell, and building an entire bureaucracy around it. {{Cite web/ds december 2024|308}} | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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