The Devil's Right Hand (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Dante Valentine: Necromancer and bounty hunter
• Japhrimel: A fallen demon diminished in power for love of Dante, with whom he has shared his power and made her a'hedaira, formerly the Devil's Assassin and oldest child, resently resurrected
• Lucifer: The Prince of Hell
• Lucas Villalobos: Add a description of this character.
• Mckinley
• Santino
• Doreen
• Jace: Dante's ex-boyfriend, a mage, reecently deceased
• Danny Valentine: A necromance, a bounty-hunter and a part-demon hedaira
• Gabe: Dante's friend, a necromance and a police officer
• Vann
• Leonidas
• Emilio
• Magi
• Kel
• Toscano
• Eddie: Gabe's boyfriend, a dirtwitch
• Anubis: An Egyptian god

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• “Sword flickering, slicing through kevlar as my kia split the air, intestines falling in a shimmering wet slither, a human sound of pain.”

  Dante

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• New Prague
• Saint City
• Freetown
• Dmz Sarajevo
• Hellesvront
• Czechi
• Japhrimet
• Venizia

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• A'nankhimel: (demon term) 1. A Fallen demon. 2. A demon who has tied himself to a human mate. Note: As with all demon worlds, there are several layers of meaning to this term, depending on context and pronunciation. The meanings, from most common to least, are as follows: descent from greatest height, chained, shield, a guttering flame, a fallen statue.
• Androgyne: 1. A transsexual, cross-dressing, or androgynous human. 2.(demon term) A Greater Flight demon capable of reproduction.
• Animone: An accredited psion with the ability to telepathically connect with and heal animals, generally employed as veterinarians.
• Anubis et'her ka: Egyptianica term, sometimes used as an expletive; loosely translated, "Anubis protect me/us."
• Awakening, the: The exponential increase in psionic and sorcerous ability, academically defined as from just before the fall Republic of Gilead to the culmination of the Parapsychic and Paranormal Species Acts proposed and brokered by alternately vilified and worshipped Senator Adrien Ferrimen. Note: After the culmination of the Parapsychic Act, the Awakening was said to have finished and the proportion of psionics to normals in the human population stabilized, though fluctuations occur in seventy-year cycles to this day.
• Ceremonial: 1. An accredited psion whose talent lies in working with traditional sorcery, accumulating Power and "spending" it in controlled bursts. 2. Ceremonial magick, otherwise known as scorcery instead of the more organic witchery. 3.(slang) Any Greater Work of magick.
• Clormen-13: (Slang: Chill, ice, rock, smack, dust) Addictive alkaloid drug. Note: Chill is high-profit for the big pharmaceutical companies as well as the Mob, being instantly addictive. There is no cure for Chill addiction.
• Deadhead: 1. Necromance. 2. Normal human without psionic abilities.
• Demon: 1. Any sentient, alien intelligence, either corporeal or noncorporeal, that interacts with humans. 2. Denizens of Hell, of a type often mistaken for gods or Novo Christer evil spirits, actually a sentient non-human species with technology and psionic and magical ability much exceeding humanity's. 3.(slang) A particularly bad physiological addiction.
• Feeder: 1. A psion who has lost the ability to process ambient Power and depends on "jolts" of vital energy stolen from other human beings, psions, or normals. 2.(psion slang) A fair-weather friend.
• Flight: A class or social rank of demons. Note: There are, strictly speaking, three classes of demons: the Low, Lesser, Greater. Magi most often deal with the higher echelons of the Low Flight and the lower echelons of the Lesser Flight. Greater Flight demons are almost impossible to control and very dangerous.
• Hedaira: (demon term) 1. An endearment. 2. A human woman tied to a Fallen (A'nankhimel) demon. Note: There are several layers of meaning, depending on context and pronunciation. The meanings, from most common to least, are as follows: beloved, companion, vessel, starlight, sweet fruit, small precious trinket, an easily crushed bauble. The most uncommon an complex meaning can be roughly translated as "slave (thing of pleasure) who rules the master."
• Ka: 1.(archaic) Soul or mirrorspirit, separate from the ba and the physical soul in Egyptianica. 2. Fate, especially tragic fate that cannot be avoided, destiny. 3.A link between two souls, where each feeds the other's destiny. 4.(technical) Terminus stage for Feeder pathology, an externalized hungry consciousness capable of draining vital energy from a normal human in seconds and a psion in less than two minutes.
• Necromance: (slang: deadhead) An accredited psion with the ability to bring a soul back from Death to answer questions. Note: Can also in certain instances, heal mortal wounds and keep a soul from escaping into Death.
• Nichtvren: (slang: suckhead) Altered human dependent on human blood for nourishment. Note: Older Nichtvren may possibly live off strong emotions, especially those produced by psions. Since they are altered humans, Nichtvren occupy a space between humanity and "other species"; they are defined as members of a Paranormal Species and given citizen's rights under Adrien Ferrimen's groundbreaking legislation after the Awakening.

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• Anubis: Egyptian god

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Dead Man Rising, and followed by Saint City Sinners.

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1. Lilith Saintcrow (Author)

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• Dewey: 741

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Dark
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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