Setarcos was a Vizjerei, and to no one’s surprise today, he was involved in summoning demons just like everyone else.
But he had something that the others did not: a brilliant mind and the admiration of the young thinkers of the time.
When he was eventually tried for his connection to demons, he defended himself with a speech that would go down in history as The Apology of Setarcos.
In this defense, Setarcos argued that demons were like animals. Beasts that acted on instinct, without free will, and were therefore not evil, but rather prey to their own nature.
He argued that truly brilliant minds, capable of understanding this nature, could never be corrupted by demons in the same way that no one in their right mind could be corrupted by an animal.
He himself initially did not believe he possessed such ability; however, after visiting the supposed masters of the art of invocation, he only saw weak minds corrupted by temptation.
Finally, convinced of his ideas, he ventured to create his own invocations, and deprived of all temptation, he controlled every demon he summoned.
But when he tried to pass on his ideas to the younger generations, the wizard clans, envious of his success, decided to put an end to him.
In the end, Setarcos was condemned to death by hemlock, and legend says that he defended his ideas until the end.
