“I have determined that I shall never again attempt to create another being for such is the roll of The Creator. I shall henceforth limit my concerns to that task which I am capable. I shall simply nudge that which He has made in the direction which He would have them go.”

      Azerbaijan speaking to his servitors of the Birth of the 7 Witches of the Coven of Light

     It was never the desire of Azerbaijan that the 181 women of the great Library of Knowledge should depart from their purpose yet it was, as things often turn out, their end. For over 300 years the women held to their charge ensuring the hope of a return to the lofty level of scientific capacity which mankind once enjoyed. They labored together in symbiotic connection speaking and listening, sharing and understanding the unending volumes of knowledge implanted within their collective psyches. There was not enough time to catalog nor to order the data which Azerbaijan had stolen from the repositories upon Earth prior to their departure. Once they had arrived he had nearly lost all of it when he fell into the rest which was required after that great transit. So it became necessary to quickly find a storage facility capable of holding this valuable cargo so that nothing might be lost. After some time and consideration it was determined that only within the minds of a number of females might they save the information for future generations.

      He knew that there would need to be alterations made to the women and in that he felt compelled to inform them of the irreversible path upon which they which would accept the change now set foot upon. Calculations and models suggested that 181 individuals would be capable of providing the necessary storage and fault tolerance for all of the data long enough to convert it into a proper medium to facilitate long term storage. This task would take a long time in order to complete. Far longer than any of the women would be able to live. So their lives were extended at the cost of some other elements of their humanity. None of the women could ever reproduce for the process left them sterile. The sacrifice was great, but the times being what they were produced a number of heroines which stood to the fore in order that all which followed might have a hope to return to greatness and, should any dare, a day which would see them triumph over the soul-less ones.

       Sadly as time progressed and the project to move the knowledge into its final vessel came to a close the women left in the service of “The Coven”, as they had come to call it, discovered that without the demands of the knowledge that they once carried and the constant communication between one another ordering and sorting the myriad messages and texts they were completely and utterly empty. Empty, devoid of any part of that once demanding vocation. To many it was as if the voices of thousands of persons had suddenly been silenced. Some went insane and did unspeakable and horriffic acts, for their powers of telekinesis and telepathy were phenomenal. Yet others, when they saw what was done by their sisters could not bear the stresses and destroyed their sisters and themselves. Yet others held that though their task was complete and that this test was sore upon them the day would again come that they might assist humanity. Yet was there one group of these mistresses of the mind that determined that they would take the reigns from Mindanto and forge mankind in a direction which they felt should be his end. For they were the most powerful of these women and they did see themselves as beyond humanity and above any judicial sanctions which men might place upon them.

      So the Sisters of Malice moved out into the recesses of the world and, using the forces of the Aegris Well did mask their covens from even Azerbaijan. Although he would have longed to put and end to this sad end, yet he could not for there remained a force of women which yet succumbed not to insanity and sought to serve still if they might. And these Were to become known as The Sisters of Light. It was they which he imbued with the power to overcome the other more powerful women of the Sisters of Malice. However not in one or just a few did this power lie for it had been determined that they were not yet capable of maintaining a connection to humanity if that power which they used was believed to be unstoppable. So he fashioned them that in grups of 7 they could never be overwhelmed by any mental force save that of his own or they which were of the Collossi. An now, though they might be destroyed yet have some of these dark creatures found those means by which they might imbue their forces into objects of great value and strength unto that day when a hapless mind comes in contact with them and once more they live .