Black Lamb's Blood

Black Lamb's Blood is a recent published work as of the events of Pact, coming out shortly after the death of Roselyn Thorburn.<ref name=":0">Your grandmother knew the author and was quite fond of her.  Had she been alive as the book was released, your grandmother would have paid for a copy to be delivered to her, and it would have a place on her bookshelf.  She would have no cause to warn you about anything inside.  It’s even one of the tamer books. - excerpt from Collateral 4.1</ref> The author of the book wrote it with the intention of rationalizing how Diabolists are a necessary evil, recounting certain points in their life where they have encountered demons and their thoughts on the role of the those who would utilize them.<ref name=":1">Interlude 4</ref>

A copy was given to Blake Thorburn by a driver of the Mann, Levinn, and Lewis Firm for him to read as payment for a ride to Toronto. While acknowledged as propaganda, Blake doesn't deny that the author makes a point. He later uses it as a vessel to bind Pauz.

Author

The text describes the author as the well-intentioned son of an Evangelist and demon-hunter who ultimately became a Diabolist.<ref name=":1" />

Although the book refers to the author as male,<ref>The morning before I left for that fight with the young devil, I was seventeen years old, doing the sort of thing seventeen year old boys are

particularly inclined to do when locked in the bathroom. [...] I remain a careful man, these days, but it is human nature to make mistakes in youth. [...] My hair was shaggy, my facial hair growing in, my thoughts clouded by drink and depression, and I knew a great deal I shouldn’t.  - excerpt from Interlude 4</ref> one of the Lawyers states that Rose Thorburn Senior "knew the author and was quite fond of her.”<ref name=":0" /> The author states that "I have changed details about myself, changed major personal details, taking extreme steps to protect myself in these regards while avoiding falsehood and forswearing myself",<ref name=":1" /> so many fans have speculated that there was a gender swap in either direction involved.

Given that it has been established that some books on Diabolism are written by demons themselves,<ref>Mann continued, “It’s a similar pattern to members of the Choir of Unrest, writing tomes themselves, under the guise of being diabolists.  A

hard thing to ignore, when new diabolists crop up every other month.  

Or when we’re being asked to distribute books.” - excerpt from Interlude 15</ref> some fans have speculated the author of Black Lamb's Blood was actually one such demon.

Trivia

• Chapters of this book are used as an interlude.

References

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