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The Bible but DnD
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Cute. I'm genuinely unfamiliar with the story of Solomon and the demon. I'd be interested to hear the story behind that.
Soloman is friends with some guy who had half his pay stolen by a demon and it keeps sucking his thumb. So Soloman is given a ring with a pentagram on it by Michael that can command demons. He commands thumb sucking demon to get Beelzebub and Solomon enslaves him. Now Solomon controls all demons and uses them to build a temple.
Got that from the wiki page for Testament of Solomon, there's more to it if you're interested.
So he's a warlock, that found the fine print in the contract that fucks over the demon?
Nice
Just to be clear, that's not in the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Solomon
It's not canon, if that helps.
Ah, that’s why I didn’t recognize it. Apocrypha?
I do believe that is the term, yes. I think it was written in the Middle Ages.
Also recommend the book series Bartimaeus, which makes reference to this story. (it's a Harry potter style series about demons and demon summoners).
I’ll check that out, it sounds rad.