The Binding of Xet records a disputed account in which an imp of infernal origin entered voluntary service to Brenner De Moy without coercion, suggesting the possibility of choice within infernal hierarchies.
Archival Record
During a failed infernal incursion in the Third Age, Brenner De Moy reportedly encountered an imp later identified as Xet. Rather than destroy the creature or impose command through binding rites, Brenner offered autonomy.
According to the surviving account, Xet chose loyalty voluntarily.
No evidence of magical coercion is recorded, and the narrative’s persistence owes largely to its anomaly: infernal service described as consent rather than compulsion.
Infernal observers are said to have noted the incident as an irregularity, though the extent of that attention is unverified.
Structural Impact
Political:
No direct political consequence is recorded.
Magical:
The account, if accurate, demonstrates that infernal beings may be capable of meaningful choice rather than purely compelled alignment.
Cultural:
Wider cultural impact is uncertain. The event appears largely unrecorded outside fragmentary or disputed sources.