Ambduscia’s Auctions was the marrow of the economic backbone of trade. A key of exchange across level 0 and up from the sunken sub-spheres of inferno. It was established, and is to the day handled, by the family Ambduscia of position fifty three within the sixty nine. The house is defined by their deep-laid merchant philosophy, keen anticipation of market value, long, delicately inspecting fingertips, silver ponytails and by means of stock expensive and organized coincidence occupy position fifty three in the FTSE negative hundred.

House Ambduscia is associated with Berith of position three, level two of the Hierarchy.

Berith is as fundamental to damned civilisation as fire, brimstone and the splice and scatter of God and is under-placed on the hierarchical ladder. This is in line with the law of wage labour, where recognition is not based on work input but the mass x velocity by which one’s sparkly social skills meets their colleagues, patrons and superiors at impact. Berith is so perpetually over-worked its only displays of character are passive-aggression, evident hostility and a trendy mental breakdown every five decades. An exemplar of Lucifer’s tight-fisted nature on the topic of employment Berith is overworked, under-appreciated and an active member of SOESPOC (The Society of Emotion and Stress Provoked Over-Consumers).

Berith is not the deity of anything in particular but a portly, moustachioed coeval wraith or, in other words, a corpulent spirit that may be in multiple places at once. It acts in summation as Lord of the Treasury, Secretary of Abyss, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of Metaphysical Affairs, Attorney General and Referee of the House of Hell.

No transmogrification of IC i.e. no spell, ritual, conversion or political dealership, can go through without Berith signing off on it. From humble culinary charms through to necromancy and nebula construction all require the signature of Berith.

Ambduscia’s Auctions, like Placenta, exists in a dubious in-between undiscoverable by humans although readily available for creationists. Within this plane it houses centres in West Germany, Siberia, Copenhagen, Mississippi, Queensland and Zimbabwe. Its company logo is the silhouette of a unicorn skull and trumpets Omnis Enim Permutatio or All for Exchange. To this day the house has not fallen short of its promise having successfully auctioned, the sensation of constipation (the intangible), Thank You by Duran Duran on tape (the unpalatable) and Moses's left pinky toe (the Unwanted). Faith had always wanted to go but she couldn't find the damn place.