Soul Eater Malleus Maleficarum

**Aragorn** · 12-20-2012

The Malleus Maleficarum, meaning "Hammer of the Witches" in Latin, was the title of a fifteenth century treatise on the prosecution of witches. The main purpose of the Malleus was to attempt to systematically refute arguments claiming that witchcraft does not exist, discredit those who expressed skepticism about its reality, and to educate magistrates on the procedures that could find them out and convict them. The treatise proved popular, and became the de facto handbook for the persecution and murder of women accused of witchcraft across Europe in in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Plot
Many, many years after the fall of the Kishin Asura, all was at peace... for a while anyway. Whatever madness possessed them to do it, none know, but one fateful day 13 years ago, a large group of Witches attacked the DWMA. The school survived, but the casualties were high. Thus, Lord Death issued a command to all senior Meisters, Weapons, and Death Scythes: the immediate, complete annihilation of all Witches. It was during the Witch Mass that Meister-Weapon pairs numbering in the thousands ambushed all the Witches attending their 'sacred' gathering, with the ones that escaped or didn't attend being easily mopped up at a later date by specially trained hunting squads. All in all, the operation was a huge success, with very few casualties on the DWMA's side. However, while the DWMA seemed to have eradicated every single one of them, legend has it that a group has survived, preparing to take vengeance...