CLearly you didn't go read it.
To summarize it (and because I can't remember it exactly) Asmoral was directed to attack his great love, Ianna (i think that's her name).
He refused, and the combined power of his will (holding him there) and the Magicians command (making him go) tore him apart, wiping out a 'burb of Bagdad.
Causes aside, do you think a Spirit would willingly do that? Just to kill as many as possible?
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