Baron "Bluebeard" and his bodyservant Eustache Blanchet were glaring now at François Prelati, a disgraced cleric, excommunicated by the Church for obscene occult practices and a predilection for pedophilia. Eustache Blanchet had recommended this vile cleric of damnation to Baron de Rais for his notorious knowledge of the occult and demonology.
It was François Prelati, an Italian immigrant to France and experienced necromancer and demonologist, who had come to dwell with Baron de Rais at the baron's behest, bringing with him an entire library of forbidden occult manuscripts and demonomicons. Initially de Rais' instructor in the Dark Arts of Black Magic, the two evil Luciferians soon discovered a shared predilection for pedophilia, sodomy of young boys, and bloodshed.
"Bluebeard" had already been kidnapping, sodomizing, torturing, and murdering peasant children that came onto his estate begging for food for a few years before Eustache Blanchet introduced him to the fallen prelate François. But it was François who informed the baron about the demon Barron, suggesting that the demon was fond of child sacrifices, and would answer their summons and do their bidding, provided sufficient numbers of young lives were taken in his unholy name...