Sigil of Valac
At a glance
- Entry
- 62 of 72
- Rank
- President
- Legions
- 38 in the text
- Also written
- Volac, Valak, Valu, Ualac
Description in the text
Valac is credited with revealing hidden treasure and locating serpents. His entry says he can bring serpents to the summoner without the use of force.
Read entry 62 on page 42 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
A winged child riding a two-headed dragon.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Hidden treasure
- Serpents
Reading this entry
The sixty-second entry heads itself Volac, Valak, Valu, or Ualac; the classified list also supplies Valac. The source presents a child with angel wings riding a two-headed dragon. The president’s offices are finding hidden treasure and identifying where serpents may be seen. The passage goes on to say he can bring serpents forward without force. None of these details requires treating the childlike form as harmless or assigning it a modern symbolic meaning.
Valac commands 38 legions and has a seal. The stable number helps identify the entry despite its many spellings in later editions and seal plates. The description offers no human transformation or additional teaching office. Later portraits sometimes give Valac a different mount or broad powers over animals, details absent from this numbered text.
Read entry 62 on page 42 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 62
What the numbered text says
The heading supplies Volac, Valak, Valu, and Ualac as name forms; the local index uses Valac. The image is a winged child riding a two-headed dragon, a striking visual description beside a very narrow office. The text assigns answers about hidden treasure and the whereabouts of serpents, then says the serpents can be brought without the summoner’s physical force. It does not claim command over all dragons or a general power over children. Separating the pictured mount from the two named tasks prevents the image from inflating the account.
The 1916 heading prints Volac, Valak, Valu, and Ualac. This index uses those printed variants and the Valac form found in the classified list.
About the printed seal
Seal 62 is printed on the fifth frontispiece. The two heads belong to the dragon in the written appearance; the sign’s branches have no source-provided anatomical reading. Its plate attribution also helps prevent name variants from being mistaken for several separately numbered seals.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 72: Andromalius. Andromalius also finds concealed treasure, but his final entry focuses on thieves, stolen goods, and wrongdoing. Valac instead joins treasure to serpent locations. Their shared treasure tag masks very different narrative roles.