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Seals and things within them

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It's gotta be actual demons, right? There's a ton of satanic imagery, and seals have been tied to cardinal sins before already.

Now, you can find seal designs in Enoch's study... and it basically confirms it, right?

Vitality, which is in the clinic, just name-drops Asmodeus, demon of lust, and my man definitely wasn't able to keep it in the pants with Kelly.

Throne mentions Morning Star. Pride. Wayne, did it hurt when you fell from the sky because I'm extremely suspicious of you now.

Alternatively, the Morning Star is literal, so Venus and instead of Lucifer it's Astarte/Astaroth? Snake of Athena bothers me, because I don't understand how it fits exactly.

Bounty, on the Farms, mentions Crown of Flies. Definitely Beelzebub, Gluttony/Envy.

Dominion in the Library, Order/Justice, Wrath but in a weird way. Seems to be Satan but like "the Satan", Samael from Book of Job, the Accuser. That do be what happened to us and Tabitha in there, there was a lot of being accused. The only thing designs say is "Element - Fire", and that tracks as far as symbology goes.

Prosperity in the mines - my jerk reaction is greed, which would probably be Mammon or Belphegor. We don't see anything written on the design though.

Now, Spirit in the Tetanus lake is a tricky one. We see information on the design fully: gateways, doorways, Coins for Charon, Janus and Hera, Old and New at the crossroads. The stuff about gateways and Charon would fit Abbadon of Sloth who is associated with the realm of the dead, and he is also a bottomless pit/lord of Abyss, which just might be what Tetanus lake is when you dig all the trash out.

One problem: there's absolutely no connection with two-headedness, and the Seal literally has 2 heads, old and young, besides mentioning Janus. Now, the only demon directly associated with Janus and being two-headed is Bifrons, literally Two-Faced. Wikipedia claims without a citation that his depiction in Dictionnaire Infernal is similar to the painting Hobgoblins of De Goya, which depicts creatures in clergy robes in a critique of the Spanish Church. We know that the Spirit seal was supposed to be under the church originally, and those hobgoblins look suspiciously similar to Hopkinsville Goblins. I know this is really stretching it, but it fits really nicely and you can mention De Goya when complimenting Reese's paintings with Booksmart.

What do you think?

Posted Feb 15, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC

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