![]() They once served Asmodeus in Hell, defected to Lamashtu and the Outer Rifts, and now serve no-one but their own appetite.īarghests that devour a large number of slain mortals metamorphose into greater barghests, powerful monsters which often develop strange mutations on top of their already monstrous natures - envenomed fangs, toxic breath, vestigial limbs, leathery wings and the like are among the most common changes, and much stranger ones are well within the realm of possibility. Wolflike monsters with the faces and hands of goblinoids, barghests are otherworldly predators that stalk the mortal world to sate their hunger for mortal flesh. Our Demons Are Different: Demons are a specific type of fiend.Made of Evil: What makes it so difficult for them to change.This doesn't work very often though - daemons in particular have a tendency to just eat the soul anyway. Finally, it's possible for an exceptionally vile individual to bypass the normal processes that destroy the original mind and transform directly into a fiend of the appropriate alignment, through committing great atrocities or bargains with fiendish entities.For example, the souls of the worst killers and assassins spawn violent and murderous babau demons, while the souls of liars and traitors spawn the treacherous glabrezus. As a result, a single mortal is capable of spawning hundreds of lesser demons, with the nature of their sins determining the type of demon they become. Demons are not formed from individual souls, but by the sins of Chaotic Evil souls who arrive in the Outer Rifts.Neutral Evil souls damned to Abaddon who manage to avoid being eaten long enough will transform into daemons, the only trace of their origin being that they include themselves in their loathing for all mortal life.Some of these souls, usually asura rana worshippers or anti-theists, end up in the hands of the asuras and over time become asuras themselves. The most evil souls may get promoted into more powerful forms, but only after going through the mindless stage first, resulting in all memories of their former lives being destroyed. Lawful Evil souls in Hell are tortured over centuries into becoming mindless masses of cancerous flesh called lemures. ![]() Demon of Human Origin: Demons, devils and daemons are all formed from mortal souls.While some individual demon lords and archdevils have grudges against each other (the most famous being the demon lord Baphomet's hated of Asmodeus for imprisoning him), demons and devils as a whole are not at war and usually leave each other alone, working together when their interests align. Demons and devils don't like each other devils regard demons as impulsive marauders who wreck the universe and their carefully made order for fun, demons regard devils as manipulative cowards who have no joy in life apart from ruining the joy of others in the name of a cosmic order that doesn't exist ( and both are largely correct in what makes the other dislikable from a lawful or chaotic perspective). Demons are Chaotic Evil natives of the Outer Rifts, an endless maze of rifts and abysses surrounding the other Outer Planes, are born from vice and sin, have almost any shape imaginable, and live in a patchwork of petty domains, realms and empires ruled by demon lords. Demon/Devil Distinction: Devils are Lawful Evil, come from the nine layers of Hell, which is a distinct singular plane, are embodiments of control and dominance by any means, tend to be more or less humanoid, and live in an extremely rigid mix between a bureaucratic surveillance state, answering to a complex hierarchy under the nine archdevils, who is led by Asmodeus, the god of tyranny and contracts and the Devil. ![]()
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