Is it normal for it to take this long to announce a publication date? The book was supposedly finished July 22... It is now over 3 months later...

Paranet Papers offers the most conclusive canon story of the Red Courts origins and rise to power.

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There was a tribe conquered by the Inca who
worshipped gods that were very real—these
gods walked among the people of this tribe and
ruled them directly. They granted boons to the
faithful and they protected their people, but
they were cruel gods who demanded regular
sacrifice. Their people were little more than tools
and chattel to them, to use and discard at their
whim.
When the Inca conquered this tribe—whose
name has been lost to time—their gods allowed
it to happen. It’s likely they did this because
they knew that they would become a part of a
larger pantheon and thus gain more worshippers
and power. As their influence grew, so did their
potency, but it was not to last.
The Red Court soon infiltrated the Inca,
posed as their gods, and usurped the entire
pantheon just as they had the Maya. Already
very powerful and much more numerous than
these old gods—who numbered thirteen—they
were able to capture them and bind them. The
vampires drank of the blood of these gods and
kept them alive so that they might continue to
do so. The Red Court averted what could have
been a catastrophic event but, in so doing, engineered their rise to power. This event, it turned
out, was not much better for the people of South
America.
The spy told Lisa that this was how the
Lords of Outer Night gained a large portion of
their power, leeching it from the blood of gods.
I suspect the spy did not think that she would
believe its words, that those words would buy it
time, prolonging its existence a little bit longer.
So it played Scheherazade, feeding its captors
lies and half-truths and fanciful tales that
nobody would believe.

So the oirginal Lord of Outer Night were vampires/sorcerers who fed on Old Gods thereby gaining their power.

All 5 items, and the three nails (although, historically it should be four) were in contact with Jesus near the time of his death.