GABRIEL KRAFFT AUDIO MEMOIR #4

Transcript:
Krafft: Gabriel Krafft, audio memoir, part four. Once Von List forced my cooperation, my first assignment for Die Wahrheit was to decipher a document seized at the infamous Hotel Royal in Paris.
Krafft: Well, “infamous” to someone like me, who spent a career studying groups that dabbled in, for want of a better term, “the occult.”
Krafft: I dislike that word. Practitioners of what some condemn as “witchcraft” are usually ordinary folk. They just approach the Divine in a different way than their neighbors at the cathedral.
Krafft: The Société Occulte on the other hand, had no such problem with the word. Their wealth and power protected them from your average pitchfork mob.
Krafft: And they sought to use dark magic as a means of extending their influence.
Krafft: I knew at once the documents were pages from the Société’s fabled Tome of Rituals.
Krafft: It was a so-called “spellbook” compiled over centuries. Only their inner circle had ever seen it.
Krafft: But something terrible happened back in the ‘20s -- some crisis that compelled the Société to take the book apart and hide the pages in sacred places around the world.
Krafft: Because I recognized the pages, I was rewarded with the task of tracking more down and reconstituting the book.
Krafft: As he often reminded me, Von List had my beloved Sasha under arrest. Succeeding at my task was my only chance to keep us both alive.