It matters not where in the world it happened, but only that it did happen. There are two types of people who have been responsible for the great horrors throughout recorded history: those who intend to cause harm to others, and those who are fools in positions that a fool should not be able to attain. Unfortunately when one finds a person who is both of these types, one should prepare for the worst. This story starts with the actions of such a person, but one who had intended much less harm to others than would come to pass due to his foolishness.
Many candles were present in the room, some serving merely as light sources but others arranged in various patterns and symbols. Standing in the middle of a chalk circle was a young lizard, a mad gleam in his eyes that foreshadowed ominously what he was attempting to do and what would happen. He continued to read from the book he held in his hands, and to those unfamiliar with such books it would have sounded like complete nonsense.
The cover of the book was completely black save for a single symbol upon both the front and the back of the book. These symbols were actually a warning, and they had once held such power that even those unfamiliar with the symbols themselves would have been able to tell how dangerous the book was. The person who owned the book knew very well what the symbol meant, but the young lizard in question had stolen the book foolishly assuming it was similar to those which he had used in the past.
So what exactly was the young lizard doing? He was summoning what he THOUGHT were spirits who would do his bidding, which was to scare the living daylights out of a group of summoners that had rebuffed his attempts to join them. He thought this was because they didn't believe he was good enough to associate with them; in reality, it was because the other summoners thought he was a fool who didn't understand how dangerous summoning ANYTHING was... and they were right.
"Come thou spirits who dwell in the deepest darkness, hearken to my call. I command thee to appear before me, I hold thee now in thrall! Return to the world of the living this day... hear my command which thou must obey!" This is not a translation of what the lizard was saying, but rather what he read straight from the book. If a more experienced summoner had been present right then and there, they would have fled the room as if being chased by an angry mob intent on burning them at the stake (something which was a big problem for summoners several hundred years before.) Of course anybody with half a brain should realize something is amiss when the words in a book change from being in an ancient language to being in modern-day English.
Unfortunately for the world and for the young lizard, the latter of the two was focused upon what orders he would give the spirits he had just summoned upon their appearance into the world of the living. He never would end up giving those orders... a massive sphere of dark energy started to manifest in the center of the room and shattered almost immediately, and the spirit released from it quickly raised one of its talons over the young lizard. The last things that went through the young lizard's head before he was crushed into a gory mess by the spirit were a warning that he had forgotten and a saying he now understood too late; that spirits of immense hatred could manipulate a summoning ritual being performed by a summoner foolish enough to not know the power he was invoking, and that the path of fools leads only to destruction...