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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: A good familiar, though he tempts those he serves toward theft.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Valefor
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> *A good familiar, though he tempts those he serves toward theft.*
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## The Spirit
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Valefor — spelled also Valefar or Malaphar — is the sixth spirit of the *Ars Goetia* and one of its dukes. The grimoire gives him a double character that is rare in the catalogue: he is said to be a good familiar to those who call upon him, a companionable and willing spirit, and yet he is also described as leading his companions toward thievery, so that his good service carries a hazard within it. This ambivalence made him a memorable figure, a spirit whose loyalty came shadowed by the tendency he encouraged.
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His form in the tradition is composite and leonine, joining the body of a lion to the head of an ass or a man, one of the many hybrid shapes by which the compilers distinguished the ranks of the invisible court.
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## Office
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The office of Valefor, as the *Goetia* frames it, is companionship: he attends upon the operator as a good familiar until, the text warns, those who keep his company are drawn into stealing. The grimoire offers him less as a teacher of a distinct art than as a presence — a familiar spirit whose fellowship is genuine but whose influence bends toward theft, so that the caution attends the gift.
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## Attributes
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| Attribute | Value |
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| Number | 6 |
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| Rank | Duke |
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| Legions | 10 |
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| Appearance | A lion with the head of an ass, or in some accounts the head of a man, or the form of a thief |
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## Related
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- [Marbas](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia/marbas)
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- [Amon](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia/amon)
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- [Ars Goetia](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia)
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