Talk:The Cold Testament/@comment-25148755-20151224192716/@comment-10789912-20151224194622

"Elizabeth Ackerly" is an intentionally English name. I wanted people to merge the accents from New York and England, into her voice. If this didn't work fully, it's my bad.

Elizabeth is highly desensitized. Notice she even stated (through thoughts) that she didn't feel bad for the murder. In fact, her only regret was getting caught. When she first met "the angel", she confessed and cried. I'll leave it up to you to decide if she really gave into temptation, or if she was just a really good actor for what she assumed was her last chance.

The wife was killed by the NEKELMU which had possessed Elizabeth, and it is stated she had no control over her body at the time. The child, however, was a sort of "last witness". Notice Elizabeth rejected cutting him in half (which was the NEKELMU's intention), and instead decapitated him to give a faster death. She has at least some sort of boundaries.

The "act of kindness" at the end, was her send off. Food, money, and the jewelry. Maybe he'll be framed, maybe he'll be the next one to use the NEKELMU. Who knows? The story is finished. The rest is up for you to question.

The NEKELMU has a bit of a history, but not in real life. Instead, a collection of details. SAMAEL is the angel of death, per say, the reaper. A book filled with the souls so wicked neither heaven nor hell wanted them would only fall to him. It worked as a test, no? NEKELMU is actually a Sumerian word that translates to "Evil Eye(s)", and more literally- "Look at malevolently". It works to describe both how the book functions and works (Evil eye*S)) and how people should think of the book. Obvious lighter influence being the Necronomicon and the Book of the Dead, specifically the version that appears in the Evil Dead.

I'm happy you enjoyed the story to the extent you did, though. It was a fun idea, and a fun concept to play with.