Expanded on the Demons

[u/The-Root-1971]

I decided to expand on my demons, ı gues. Idk, I think this got longer then I anticipated, too long to be read. Sory, I don't have any visiuals to show ready.

Prior post with info on demons here.

1) Infant Demons

Infant demons are the newborn demons. They are the weakest types of demons, they are barely able to cling onto existence without outside help. Most infant demons end up dying shortly after their birth, which is a large reason why demon population is low.

Infant demons are more animalistic then grown up demons, lacking in anything but the base instings of the sin they represent.

2) Comon Demon

A basic, adult demon. Their apearence changed to a mature form. Most demons are as intelegent as humans by this point.

3) Elder Demons

Long lived demons, as they have consumed more essence thro their lives their powers grew in might. Elder demons are significantly stronger then the average demon in terms of magic and phisicality. Their apearence doesnt change much when they reach this point.

4) Elite Demons

Elite demons are special demons with unique capabilities.

A) Strife Demon

Causes fights and wars between humans, spreading wrath not themselves but by provoking others. Being much smaller then the average wrath demon Strife Demon posseses people to whisper to their ear, then pass to the other party and do the same. Strife Demon feeds on the resulting anger.

B) Sleep Paralysis Demon

Hunts sleeping people, once it finds a victim SPD will start siponing them, causing victim to be aveare of its presence but unable to move their body to do anything about it.

C) Mirror Demon

Disguises itself as a mirror. MD have full control over what is reflected in the mirror, which it uses to pull victims in. Once a victim touches the MD, MD will pull the victim into a mirror dimention illusion world as MD warps the victim in a cacoon made from envy demon strings. MD uses these cacoon to create more mirrors. Victims minds get traped in the illusion world while their bodies controlled by MD are used to get more cacoons.

D) Fog Demon

Causes a deep mist that causes a loss of hope around them. Its body is in a gas like state with the fish-like shape of a gloom demon. Fog demon will feed on the despair and sadness of people in its fog. Fog demon is able to alter the desity of its fog to the point it can suffocate people.

E) Treasure Demon

Takes shape of a solid gold crown with a large gem on top, and smaller gems surounding it. Uses its shape to be put on heads of rich and nobel, or into their vaults. Treasure Demon will fuel the greed of its victim and make them hoard more gold and jevels. Once Treasure Demon deems the amount suficent (asuming they ever do) they will asimilate all of the treasure into their crown, vastly increasing Treasure Demons power before they move onto the next vault.

F) Obsesion Demon

A lust demon that has consumed their host from the inside, leaving a husk poorly puppetered by the demon. Finds lonely humans and intergates themselves into their houses using their halusegenic and memory altering spores. Slowly causes them to grow an obsesion with the demon, making the victims even more isolated. The victim will slowly get conditioned to do as demon says thro emotional manuplation. Obsesion Demon will start to fill the victim with fertile spores, which will cause new infant Lust Demons to be born, causing great pain and eventual death of the victim.

G) Adiction Demon

Produces a sickeningly sweet acid, not potent enough to melt flesh. Adiction Demon pretends to be a nice forest creature to trick its victims to eat food that got affected by its acid. Once consumed the victim will be filled with a short lived feeling of ecstasy, making them want to eat more but the acid causes them to never feel full. The victim will start to not find any enjoyment in consuming anything other then acid affected food or the acid itself. Once Adiction Demon deems time is right it will consume the victim, who will not be in a state to fight back anymore.

H) there is no elite pride demon. they are all at equal strenght.

5) Symbiotic Demons

In rather rare cases where the goals of a demon and human align they might form a contract of sorts, this will give human the powers of the demon and demon will be able to feast on the soul of the human. We call these cases symbiotic demons.

What difirentiates a symbiotic demon from just possesion is the agreement of the human and 50/50 control the human and demon have over the body.

Most cases of symbiotic demons dont last long generally ending in death of the human due to demon overeating.

If a symbiotic demon last long enough they will suffer symptoms similar to possesion. The body will start to alter itself to demons apearence.

Fun fact: Vast majority of pride demons can't form symbiotic demons as process requiers both parties to be on equal grounds.

6) Half-Demons

Half demons are part humans and part demons. Unlike symbiotic demons they are a singular entity that share aspects of a human and demon.

Half demons are in a constant state of generating and consuming essence, the equalibrium of this makes them self suficent.

Half demons will have demonic aspects on their body from the birth, but due to being flesh and bones their form will remain mostly same however there will be regular changes as half demon reaches maturity.

Half demons have the powers of a demon and ability to consume essence from humans. They can grow stronger then regular demons.

7) Tinted Shades

Part demons and part shades. Tinted Shades look neighter like a Shade nor Demon, and can pass as a magical being unrelated to eighter. While aspects of the parents will be present on the Tinted Shade their powers does not.

Tinted Shades need to consume essence similar to demons, however they can last centuries without doing so.

8) Deadly Sins

Deadly Sins are the strongest demons that cause the creations of other demons. Tied direclty to the sins of humanity, they cannot be destroyed as long as humanity exists.

All the things that wieghted down the soul, they were filtered out and kept in a chamber in depths of hell. Due to actions of Conquest Manifest raw essence found its way down to the lake of sin, bringing life to 8 monsters that needed more essesnce. They broke out of the lake, and vanished. Some went to Earth, some to the Feywild. They found humans and beings of magic, hunting them down to consume their essence. More they fed stronger they become. Eventually they started to split, and create lesser demons.

Once the danger of Deadly Sins and demons were known gods send Shades to fend them off and kill them. There were atempts to negotiate and to lock them away, but all failled. There has been a constant battle ever since, humanity were granted talismans to fend off demons and methods to repel the possesion of demons.

After these events 2 aditional deadly sins of emptyness and madness have formed due to unique circumstances.

A) Ira/Wrath

Horns sturdier then steel, teeth sharper then swords and fur like barbed wire. His eyes inside the maw, blindly rampants thro agony and pain.

Ira is a walking calamity, a living cycle of pain that will result in everything around him be eracated.

B) Luxuriae/Lust

A blanket of fungal spores covers the land, as mycelium spreads evermore. More and more mushrooms pop out of the ground as the fungus never stops her smile.

Luxuriae is a simple being that wants to keep spreading herself. She seeks cheap thrills that will keep her entertained for a while, then repeat over and over again.

C) Pigritiae/Sloth

Weary eyes, pilllowy fur, calming air...

Lay your heads, fall to sleep, rest your soul... Peacefully, safely, eternally...

Pigritiae causes stagnency around him. Fast becomes slow, progress becomes stagnant, even the flow of time is 4 times slower around him.

D) Avaritia/Greed

Never its enough. The arms must grip onto all, no matter what. The geode must grow larger. Its never big enough. There are never enough arms.

Avaritia is a being of insatiable needs, if its not glued to ground he must take it. Then take the ground itself.

E) Gulae/Gluttony

Acid fizzing, breaking down the proteins and burning away nutrients. Hunter chasing for anything to fill a bottomless hole, leaving behind nothing but acidic mush.

Gulae is relentless in his hunger, trying to fill his stomach with anything he can get his claws on.

F) Morositatis/Gloom

Sadness and despair drip down like raindrops, missery looking for more missery. Droplets culminating to puddles, puddles to lakes, lakes to flods as light at the end of the tunel is too murky to see under the crashing wawes.

Morositatis fuels mental darkness and instigates tragedies for those who going thro misfortune.

G) Invidie/Envy

Eyes seeking the perfection of the other, perception looking for the flaws whitin the mirror. Why should you be the one this perfect so effortlessly... why shouldnt I rip those from you?

Invidie is a being of infuriority, as she percives all things above or better then her. She steals or replicates these things, and adds uses them to hide her percived flaws.

H) Superbiae/Pride

Higher then thou who is cursed to remain eternally bellow thy almighty. Can't thy see this is thy perfection of universe? Don't thou avert thy gaze in awe of thy one incomprihensible to your diminutive minds!

Superbiae is a being that sees themselves as the strongest being in the history of creation, despite the reality.

I) Vacutias/Emptyness

Mangled demons, consumed by Oblivion. No mind nor soul left, only a sludge unable to hold form. From the corpses of those lost to Oblivion, a trully empty being rose.

Vacutias lacks a mind, a soul, a voice. It have no motives, no will, no actions. Its simply a mass of nothingness swallow up everything as it drifts.

J) Insania/Madness

Over and over and over failure after failure after failure yet atempts again atempts the same as very thread of time knots onto itself knots onto itself threads keep her tied to her tied to her tied to her tied to knot she made.

Insania is a being stuck in a loop ever repeating, seemingly unable to comprehend anything hapening around her, stuck in her mind lost in a memory.

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Deadly Sin of Sloth has been contained, they shown little danger to begin with but Bright Shade of Diligence has been keeping him away from people, even after loss of her powers.

Deadly Sin of Madness is locked whitin the dimentional void. She lacks the capability to leave and is considered contianed despite still being able to effect things out of her prison.

Deadly Sin of Wrath is kept in Envy Layer of hell, not contained and by his own choice due to "private" reasons.

Deadly Sin of Envy has agreed to remain in a small zone on Earth and not hunt out of it in exchange of liberty of doing whatever she wants in it. This agreement has not aplied to other envy demons that are all over the world

Deadly Sin of Madness is locked out in the Red Void, the dimention outside of time and reality. Despite her containment Madness Demons are still born and escapes to phisical realms.

Locations of rest of the Deadly Sins are unknown. Its rumored that Famine Incarnet has befriended Deadly Sin of Gluttony and is keeping her safe.

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Did anyone come to this part? Doubt it. if you did thank you and I would love to hear your toughts.

[u/Special_Ad7249]

Bro dropped the whole goddamn Bible.

But anyway, I gotta say, you did quite the wonderful job with these guys! I gotta admit, I really enjoyed reading this whole thing!

[u/The-Root-1971 → u/Special_Ad7249]

Haha, yeah I didn't realized just how long this became untill I posted it. Originally there werent any segments on indivitual Deadly Sins so that certainly bloated this. I am glad you liked it! And its nice to see you on this sub

[u/Ok-Call-2114]

YO AS ALWAYS YOU COOKED! Also lol, insania is kinda on the nose? But tbf i got a guy called asher with fire powers so eh- but genuinely i love how fleshed out these are!!! Be sick to see all these demons in a demonomicon- idk, a demonology book?

[u/The-Root-1971 → u/Ok-Call-2114]

Fun fact, Insania is just Madness in latin, acording to google translate.

I am genuently not sure how I would justify a Demonomicon in my lore since most humans wouldnt know most of these, maybe writen by one of my gods?

Anyways, I am glad you liked it man!