lestat @ : .The Sin Eater.
"Evil has many faces, child. Beauty is a trap, a weapon. It makes you lower your defenses. It attracts with beauty. Lucifer is beautiful, an angel. Were it ugly, evil would have no power. If you saw it in its natural state, you could not look at it. Evil is not to be born. The Sin Eater is evil, there is no doubt. He exists by taking the sins of the dead into himself. With each bite he takes off the body, another sin is erased. He will not, cannot stop, until he has eaten all the sins. He is evil, I tell you. You will not look at him, you will not speak to him. Should you see him, you will shun him."
"Evil has many faces, child. Beauty is a trap, a weapon. It makes you lower your defenses. It attracts with beauty. Lucifer is beautiful, an angel. Were it ugly, evil would have no power. If you saw it in its natural state, you could not look at it. Evil is not to be born. The Sin Eater is evil, there is no doubt. He exists by taking the sins of the dead into himself. With each bite he takes off the body, another sin is erased. He will not, cannot stop, until he has eaten all the sins. He is evil, I tell you. You will not look at him, you will not speak to him. Should you see him, you will shun him."