The Pact of the Nobeliares is the bargain that Los Condenados (“the Condemned”) struck with Belial to revive Mortan, binding their souls to ending the light of Pope Alexander VI.
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The invocation
After the cursed procession broke up, the revived Silas lay beheaded and Mortan, the axe warrior, had been killed by frost wraiths. A companion mingled Mortan’s body with Silas’s remains and invoked the wishes Silas had died with.
A rat-turned-bat familiar whispered the name; despite objections it was shouted three times. They found themselves in a five-pointed star; the glove of the companion of the faith turned red-hot and was seized (“this is mine”). Above Silas’s skull a bearded head took flesh and asked for the wish.
The terms
Belial’s condition: “Irán a acabar con la luz del Papa Alejandro VI… o darán el alma” (“You will go and end the light of Pope Alexander VI… or give your soul”); their souls cannot leave this plane until then.
Kira, the warrior companion, wished Mortan revived and the last battle’s harm undone. Belial’s sentence: five would bear arms around her, and hard would be the serpent’s sentence. Mortan rose, awaited in Hell; the glove stayed as a pledge. On Kira’s hand appeared a ring inscribed “¿Cuándo la serpiente terminará de comer? ¿Cuándo terminará de cerrar el círculo?” (“When will the serpent finish eating? When will it close the circle?”). Briefly they saw skulls, a river and a serpent carved on a monolith, where Hell records owed souls; thereafter they belonged to the circle of the serpent.
Aftermath
The Abbot excommunicated them as proto-assassins of the Pope. They named themselves nobeliares. The pact was paid in the arena of Ardis Vala, where Belial said “it is done”. Dieter, the red-cloaked emissary, was his vehicle; the cult’s first work was the Red Mass of Helix.