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Malleus is Latin for “hammer,” Maleficarum is Latin for “of witches.” Thus, the title tells you everything that is to come. Heinrich Kramer is attempting to forge a hammer made of paper and ink, and to bring it down upon the heads of those he believes to be practising witchcraft. Heinrich was a Dominican Inquisitor traipsing around Germany in the 1480s, hunting for witches.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

The Hammer of Witches, known as the Malleus Maleficarum in Latin, is perhaps the most important (and infamous) treatise on witchcraft in the history of the Catholic Church. Penned in 1486, the Malleus Maleficarum challenges those who would deny the existence of witchcraft and offers authorities, both civil and religious, the tools necessary to expose, condemn, and ultimately defeat it.

A century after his recovery of the alien Necroteuch, Gregor Eisenhorn is one of the Imperial Inquisition's most celebrated agents. But when a face from his past returns to haunt him, and he is implicated in a great tragedy that devastates the world of Thracian Primaris, Eisenhorn's universe crumbles around him. The daemon Cherubael is back, and seeks to bring the inquisitor to ruin - either by his death, or by turning him to the service of the Dark Gods.

He never believed in magic—until her touch shattered everything he thought he knew, leaving him cursed by the very woman he was beginning to trust. He’s now unraveling, caught between reality and something far darker. Determined to break the curse, he embarks on a perilous journey. But the deeper he goes, the more twisted the truth becomes—and the more he questions who he really is.

Ein Jahrhundert, nachdem er das Necroteuch zurückerlangt hat, ist Gregor Eisenhorn einer der gefeiertsten Agenten der Imperialen Inquisition. Doch als jemand aus seiner Vergangenheit wieder auftaucht und er in ein Desaster verwickelt wird, welches die Welt Thracian Primaris verwüstet, bricht Eisenhorns Universum zusammen. Der Dämon Cherubael ist zurück und will den Inquisitor zugrunde richten - indem er ihn tötet oder in den Dienst der Dunklen Götter stellt.