Joining together, nine Babylonian necromantic sorcerers were appointed as secret protectors of the royal court and the city by the King. In the shadowy halls of Babylon's underground temples, they met under the veil of night, engaging in the most secretive of esoteric rights. In their ancient Akkadian tongues, they shared their dark secrets, communed with the dead, joined with sister witches for intense sexual magic rituals. The necromancers used their alchemic knowledge to forge the nine saturnine flutes of death. Forged with the lunar metal of silver and blessed upon bone altars by the heavenly powers of the Mesopotamian gods, the flutes were consecrated with the blood and gore of many of the king's prisoners and enemies. The nine chthonic magicians used their understanding of the esoteric powers of sound, notes, and chords to connect to demonic forces, using them for their will. Each flute represented Saturn's grand and deadly force wedded with the fluctuating powers of the Moon, accelerating the demonic magic both planets offered to the musical instruments. Along with their shared lunar and saturnine attributes, each of the nine flutes also represented one of the great heavenly influences, which included the six traditional planets. One flute represented Saturn and the Moon's powers in league with the Sun, another with the Moon, a third with Mercury, then Venus, on to Mars, and Jupiter. There was a flute to represent the saturnine aspects of the Northern Lunar Node, also known as the Dragon's Head, and another flute to represent the Southern, the Dragon's tail. The flute that represented Saturn in its most purest power, without the combined influence of another planet, was made to be the strongest flute of them all, the dark forces at their coldest and most brutal. In the subterranean halls of their precious city of Babili, known to the Greeks as Babylon, the sorcerers would experiment with the flutes, testing their dark magical abilities. The flutes served a va