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  1. "Ignore the Reclamation as-written. Make the Infernals be the hands and eyes and ears of the Third Circles, doing their work in Creation, Malfeas and the other realms of existence - some anathemical to Creation, yes, but many more simply the personal power plays, goals, motivations and pet projects of the Unquestionable (and to a lesser extent the Citizens of Hell, when they can afford to hire the high-flying hatchetmen/consultants/"assistants" that the Infernals correspond to.
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  3. Shift the Yozi back in focus, portray them as the pantheons that their Third Circles are the gods of - a hero doesn't talk to The Greek Pantheon, she goes to Hephaestus and offers to obtain exotic components from the Underworld for him if the forge-god will craft her arcane and potent weapons, or is commanded by Zeus to kill the hero who stole his lightning bolts and return them to their rightful owner (and definitely not, say, keep one for herself or strike a deal with the thief and join forces with them), or is offered Ares' backing in return for stirring up a war between two rival Spartan factions, or requests Athena's advice on the city she rules in Creation, with the understanding that she'll owe the goddess of wisdom a debt for her aid. In this way, she aids or opposes the pantheon, which does as it will, in all its contradictory glory. She may even be hired by one god to oppose another, and this too is natural for the Yozis, for their vastness is such that their internal decisions and debates take the form of sweeping wars and aeons-long opposition between their souls in the realms they manifest as.
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  5. The Third Circles are Olympian gods; their footsteps shake the ground and their presence chills the blood and electrifies the air. Even for an experienced Adamant-tier Exalt, their patronage should be a thing to vie and compete for, and their orders should never be taken lightly. Much of the patronage of the Chosen of Hell - artifacts, funding, exotic components, patronage in the Althing or backing for their own designs and dealings - should come from Second and even First Circle citizens - the owners of budding sodalities looking to expand or the liege-lords of city sectors plagued by riots or rivals. They should never interact with the Yozis joutens in person, save perhaps when Adorjan's humanform jouten lingers around the Althing to observe her Scourges in the hopes of seeing Marus's successor among them, or Malfeas takes his Demon Emperor Shintai to bellow a command that all in attendance must destroy Greyfalls. And those should be rare in the extreme (and in the latter case, possibly counteracted soon afterwards by one of his calmer souls). Mostly, the Third Circles should be the limit of who you contact, the vast and Unquestionable gods of the Demon Prison.
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  7. And since they're more human (or rather, still alien but less malevolently inclined), and have their own goals and designs and objectives that don't involve destroying everything everywhere ever, that makes being a loyalist Infernal more like being a high-flying executive or consultant. Someone who takes what jobs she wishes; destroying the ruling regime of a city on one job and then plundering a Solar tomb on the next (for 15% of the cut), before destroying Sondok's cults in the South in favour of Alveua's. And perhaps then using the favours she's owed to have Alveua forge blades of black steel from the demon-blooded swordsmen that Sondok sends after her in revenge, and selling them in the markets of Makarios (for a bunch of enslaved raksha that she sells to Ligier for his Wyld forges to gain what she actually wanted, which was his help in setting up a Shogunate infrastructure for her island kingdom in the West... etc, etc, you get the idea). Then at the end of a long and productive day, she goes back to her 4-dot manse/townhouse in the Conventicle Malfeasant and spends the evening snorting infernal cocaine off the arms of her personal neomah attendants while an angyalka plays a cheesy porno soundtrack in the corner.
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  9. It's a hard life, being a rock star of Hell. But someone's got to do it. "
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