Talk:The Outsider/@comment-16533050-20180409102238/@comment-16533050-20181231064542

I take it to mean more like, without a devil to prosecute, the Abbey has no reason to exist. If their sole means of enforcing their doctrine on the populace is: obey us or the boogeyman will get you, and the boogeyman is destroyed, the populace doesn't really need to follow the doctrines of the Abbey.