Can someone explain the cover of The Infernal to me? I must be dense...
The book seems to have three topics: infernal auras and vis, demons, and diabolists. The upper portion looks like "demons" or "auras", but both lower portions look like "diabolists" and neither screams "auras" or "demons" to me.
Yair
I'm curious where a picture is to look at. At the front page of Atlas, it says 'Image Not Available Yet'. Where's this cover your looking at? I'd love to see it.
Yeah, that happened to me too. I'm the first and second posts in the comments... 
Just hit the "refresh" button, that should sort it out.
Also, see atlas-games.com/images/product/0282.jpg
Yair
I think I know what the top and left sections are, but the one on the right stumps me.
I can't get it to open in safari, reload or not. I could get it open in explorer. With the small image, I can't tell what the guy's holding because it's microscopic. With the image enlarged, I can't tell what he's holding because the resolution has gone bad. My guess is that the allegedly holy man is holding some evidence of his having been tempted by evil. The top image, then, is of demons and auras; the left is of people bargaining for power; the right is of people tempted by the infernal. (Though the woman in the image on the left is an excellent argument for letting yourself get tempted.) Just a guess.
I continue to drool in anticipation of hard copy. Until then, it'll just be what Vincent Vega found in the briefcase. What Abdul Alhazred saw in the desert. &c.
Oh, that's me.
The ocver is a portrait of the three authors. I'm the one in the yellowish bit, obviously.
So, let me get this straight: the hot girl on the left would be... Mark?
now they will unleash Erik on me... 
:mrgreen: 
I thought we agreed that I got the hot girl?
And Timothy, if you're the guy in the yellow panel, what exactly are you doing with your hands?
With my hands? Um? Some sort of artistic whimsy, I imagine...
It looks like I'm polishing the pillar with a shammy, doesn't it?
I presume it's a letter...possibly from a playterster. Saying "Dude, do you know Mark's number? He's far hotter than previously suspected!"
This book hasn't even been published yet and I can just feel it's corrupting influence. Oh boy, we got a hot one here. Errrrrr?
I've heard it called a lot of things, but "polishing the pillar" is a new one to me. Is that Australian slang?
Just speachless. I love this board.
Can Eric/Erik or anyone else tell us what the pictures are now?
My guess is the top section is someone using the Goetic Arts to summon a demon. The bottom left is a Hermetic maga using Cthonic Magic to power a spell. And I'm still at a loss as to what the bottom right is supposed to be.
That's Erik/Erik
The top has some fellow speaking with an ugly demon. The demon is wearing a snake Boa for the occasion.
The Bottom left has a woman who looks very annoyed and is apparently screaming, she has a pointy stick in her left hand (A Buffy fan perhaps?). She's not especially attractive.
The bottom right shows in the foreground a man in monk's robes looking devestated and lost, as if he just found out that his life was a meaningless lie and also that his normal coffee has been replaced with Foldger's crystals.
The book is in my car at the moment but that's how I remember it. Really your guesses from the small picture are probably as good as anything that I'd speculate from the actual article.
I haven't seen the cover yet, except online where it's difficult to make out. However, I suspect the monk on the right is looking at (perhaps metaphorical) blood on his hands. Timothy is incredibly witty in this thread, though, and because of him I now choose to think that he has just finished polishing the pillar with a towel and is troubled by the smell of grease on his hands.
The artist's guidelines I submitted suggested that it show three types of infernalist, in counterpoint to the cover of The Divine. The top one is probably engaged in Summoning, one of the Ars Goetia, and it looks like he's summoned Baal-Peor, a demon of filth and excrement. The left character is surely representing Debauchery, and the figure in the right foreground is probably regretting some form of evil Incantation.
