The Crucianomicon (The Book of The Tormented) is a master list of known Earthbounds demons on Earth, belonging to the Cryptic Faction of Fallen in Demon: The Fallen.
The Crucianomicon has identified 11 Earthbound demons by location or reliquary. Each entry has pages and pages of speculation about the history and activities of the entity in question, along with lists of thralls, potential agents and suspected goals. About six have been identified by Celestial Name as well, which has usually led to identification by House, position, rank and history in the Age of Wrath. No True Names of Earthbound demons have been recorded in the Crucianomicon.
Alongside the Scelestinomicon, it is not recorded in a book or text document. 14 fallen - two from each House - have dedicated themselves to memorizing every word of every page of one of the texts, verbatim. Collectively called "the Library" or "the Librarians," these 14 demons are essentially the heart of the Cryptic faction. Their names, locations and identi- ties are carefully concealed.
Their identities are known only to seven demons (again, one from each House) called "the Quæsitori" (singular is "Quæsitor", not to be confused with the Vampire: The Masquerade equivalent). As the public faces of the Library, they each know the names of four Librarians two who've memorized the Crucianomicon and two who know the Scelestinomicon. When an approved request for information about one of the fallen or Earthbound is presented to a Quæsitor, she invokes the two Librarians and copies down exactly what they tell her. If there's a discrepancy, she goes to another Quæsitor for a third comparison. Minor errors are simply pointed out to the forgetful Librarian. Big problems could lead to more severe measures, such as replacing a Librarian, but everyone hopes it won't come to that since the old Librarian could never be released with such precious knowledge.
Naturally, the Quæsitori are very tough, fanatically defended and very busy. Getting one of them to ask a question for you is fairly easy if you're a Cryptic, though they always insist on knowing why you want to know, and your answer about why then goes into your Scelestinomicon entry. If you're outside the faction, you're going to need to either befriend a Cryptic or pay up- preferably with information, and it better be juicy. (The faction won't pay out for information the Librarians already have, unless it was something doubtful that's been confirmed. If they don't like you, they may just listen to the information offered and say they already knew it, even if they didn't.)
References[]
- DTF: Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 114
- DTF: Demon Storytellers Companion, p. 26-27