Conjuro is an outsider, a being from another plane, who works as a customs officer paid by Union and was revealed as a spy for the devils. He is the eldest of 1344 siblings. As a common noun, conjuro (“spell”) also names the formulas of finding and planar crossing.
The customs officer
His nature was disputed (“an ill outsider”, said some; “an outsider”, others corrected) and settled as outsider. He guards a crossing for Union’s pay, an employee rather than an ally. He carries “the chains and the book”, and off duty “he is playing the guitar”. He was asked to his face, at his own post: «¿Cuánto te pagan esos de Union?» (“How much do those Union people pay you?”).
He was later “shown to be a spy for the devils”; his access to the crossings made him valuable to them. The companies had let him in before they knew.
Family
“I am the eldest son,” he declares, first of 1344 siblings. His father is named Armagedón or Armadero; both forms are recorded. His mother is “a very wicked she-devil” in hell according to some, “a holistic woman” according to the son.
The spells
Three spells are recorded under the common sense of the word, all for finding or reaching someone far away or on another plane:
- the locating spell (“so they find us”), which leaves traces;
- Discern next of kin, which scans thoughts and locates relatives;
- Gate, which “creates an interdimensional connection between your plane of existence and a plane you specify, allowing travel between those two planes in either direction”; rare, the highest formula that can be cast.
Whether Conjuro casts them, or the name is chance, is not recorded.
Open questions
- Whether the name is a jest of the world or an archival slip.
- Where the customs post is, and whether it controls goods, people or planar crossings.
- What Union is, and what it pays.
- His appearance; what the chains and the book are.
- The voices call him both “a spy” (feminine) and “the eldest son”.