From experience, I've learned that it's very hard to make newcomers to the magical world understand just how dangerous imbued items are. They can grasp that imbued items are powerful, but they think that they're powerful in the way that a gun or computer is powerful - a tool that just needs you to press the right buttons. The truth is that wielding an imbued item is more like riding a large and not entirely domesticated animal. It might decide to do as it's told, and then again it might not, and if it comes down on the side of "not," there's a good chance it'll decide that it should be the one calling the shots. Fastforward a few months and you're living out of a warehouse in Deptford, kidnapping people off the street to turn into mind-controlled slaves and believing the whole thing's your idea.
Day Four: Psychological transformations follow physiological ones. I have begun craving acts that I have never even considered before. Shame stops me from describing them in detail. I've decided to welcome these changes. Per instructions. Wherever this journey takes me I will gladly go! I have finally found real magic!
Day Five: I've barely slept tonight yet I do not feel weary. I needed time to prepare my home for the Master. The work would be quicker if I did not feel compelled to make frequent breaks to "attend" to the Artefact...
— William Loving III, The Invitation
