The Scelestinomicon (The Book of The Rebels) is a master list of known Fallen on Earth, belonging to the Cryptic Faction of demons in Demon: The Fallen.
The Scelestinomicon is something of a yearbook cum phone directory cum intelligence dossier. Simply put, every Cryptic is encouraged to report everything they know about every fallen angel to the central Scelestinomicon committee. Mortal names, House information, original role in the Holy Host, subsequent rank in the Infernal Host, activities during the war, these sorts of data are pretty common for many Elohim. The Cryptics have that much dirt on a good 70% of the angels who fell from Heaven. More recent and useful data such as names and locations of current human hosts, faction identification and current plans-is less common. Perhaps only 15% of the fallen on Earth have data like that in the book. Many who are so registered are themselves Cryptics. Information on True Names is terribly rare. Only two percent of the Unholy Host have their True Names listed in the Scelestinomicon, and all of those are listed because their superiors are Cryptics who decided to reveal them.
Alongside the Crucianomicon, 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. 14
- DTF: Demon Storytellers Companion, p. 26