The Beast and the Key

Buffy

The General of the Knights of Byzantium fills Buffy and Dawn in about Glory and the Key in Spiral. He says of Glory, and her fellow hellgods:

“Along with the beast, they were a triumvirate of suffering and despair, ruling with equal vengeance. But the Beast’s power grew beyond even what they could conceive. As did her lust for pain and misery. They looked upon her, what she had become, and trembled…They feared she would attempt to cease their dimension for herself, and decided to strike first. A battle erupted. In the end they stood victorious over the Beast. She was cast out, banished to this lower plane of existence.”

On Glory in Ben’s body:

“Forced to live and eventually die, trapped within the body of mortal. A newborn male, created as her prison. That is the beast’s only weakness….Unfortunately, the identity of the human vessel has never been discovered. Her power is too great to be completely contained. She’s found a way to escape her mortal prison for brief periods before her energies are exhausted and she’s forced back into her living cell of meat and bone.”

On the Key:

“The Key is almost as old as the Beast itself. Where it came from, how it was created, the deepest of mysteries. All that is certain is that it’s power is absolute. Countless generations of my people have sacrificed their lives in search of it. To destroy it before it’s wrath could be unleashed…You were created to open the gates that separate dimensions. The Beast will use your power to return home and seize control of the Hell she was banished from…Once the Key is activated, it won’t just open the gates to the Beast’s dimension. It’s going to open *all* the gates. The walls separating realities will crumble, dimensions will bleed into each other. Order will be overthrown and the universe will tumble into chaos. All dark. Forever. That is what you were created for.”

   
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    Added: › 12th May 2005
    Updated: › 24th February, 2006
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