The Lunar Enchiridion

= The Lunar Enchiridion =
The Lunar Enchiridion is an extensive visual book that details every strange occurrence due to lunar manifestations studied by the Dalmer. It details creatures, demons and other phenomenons and how to defeat them. The enchiridion also their habits, biology, history, cultural impact and the lore surrounding these entities be they physical or immaterial.
For the less explored entities, the enchiridion also details legends and stories from reel and literature, historical and forgotten entities. The Enchiridion also creates and maintains articles on Demonologists, Ghost Explorers, and many other professions related to the Lunar entities.
=== Writers===
Aichpi'el, He'aype, Estee, they wrote the Lunar Enchiridion. What these writer gods do is basically write in the book, which is the equivalent of a Wish tech book that bring what is written into existence.
Demons that curse families
* One daughter was passionate about reading and captured a writer to forcefully write books of demonic lore, while she thought he was writing stories of her favorite characters. The book was for summoning demons.
* One daughter is beautiful beyond measure and is cursed to haunt a bathroom, enticing people inside the bathroom before drowning them in the tub and eating them since there is no food in the bathroom.
* One daughter saw what happened to her elder sisters and brother and became a religious zealot, seeing everything around her as heretical. She has a daughter through mysterious means, whom she abused and pressured into following her zealous ways. Her daughter’s constant misery and bullying cause her to accept the demon’s patronage. She develops telekinetic powers and kills dozens of people, including her mother, to please her patron. The daughter becomes a warlock.
* One son burned down his family house and mated with a vagrant, receiving demonic influence and magic, his role is to destroy civilizations. He walks naked and draped in red, his role is to topple great things (trees, monuments, mountains, buildings) in order to cause as much death in the process. This is the condition for him to please the demon.
Demonic jesters
* Demonic transformation: Skin of Cloyne, the skin of a demon resembling a clown costume and makeup permanently bonds to the skin. Even the nose becomes part of the organism, and the victim craves cannibalism. Doesn’t rest until 5 children are eaten, or it is decapitated.
* Clown cults: when a clown dies, a party occurs at the burial with other clowns. The ritual traps the clowns soul in an egg, with the deceased’s face on it. 6 years later, the clown returns from the grave to appease its demon masters with the death of 5 children, or its killers. Should the egg be crushed, the clown explodes in a shower of egg yolk.
* Alien organisms who resemble clowns. They arrive in ships resembling carnival tents, cocoon their victims in cotton candy, use a killer cream pie weapon, and use feral balloon animals as attack animals. Their weak spot is their bulbous noses which is fatal for them if popped. The Dalmer systematically burn down circuses, earning the hatred of the other races, they created several heroic gimmicks this way (Robin).
* Cicada Clown: Asteroid born clown that returns to the surface to feed every 27 years. It feeds on terrorized children. Like other demonic entities, it must feed on five children who’ve had traumatic experiences in order to please its demon patron. Knightly formations of these children regroup every time it reappears.
Other Demons
* Neon Demon: Created from the issues with body image and modeling.
* Beyond the black rainbow: A demon possesses a scientist to recreate a telekinetic human that it could inhabit in the future.
* Annihilation: A demon mutates an area of the world like cancer. It creates this zone in order to facilitate a gate.
* Possession: Exploring the common issue of demons possessing people to impregnate others and create doppelgangers that will be their future vessels. This practice was later normalized to avoid unsanitary birthing conditions in the Dalmer empire, but it is far from widely accepted in the Empire.
* Stalker: Another example of a demon creating a zone that facilitates the creation of a gate. People who bring tourists are rewarded by the demon with gifts to their children.
* Supernatural Dictator: A far extending empire whose roots are in the boot peninsula, led by a supernatural demon ruler
Werewolves
* The Pack: Every 15 years a pack of werewolves return to a town to feast on locals.
* Dog Soldiers: A team of soldiers is sent to capture and study a werewolf.
* Reverend Lowe, the cycle of the werewolf: the priest is a werewolf due to special flowers. Citizens create a militia. The congregation of the priest all became werewolves (including bodies in coffins) after failed peace negotiations with the justice group. Curfews are set for security. The werewolves start weeding out handicapped people in the population calling it “god's work”. They are killed by silver bolts made by a local weaponsmith.
* Dresden files: lupine theriomorph: Werewolves are caused by a magical curse, Hexenwolves are caused by an amulet, Garous get their power from a nature oriented demon patron, Lycanthropes are natural born werewolves
Creatures
* The burrowers: This species of gigantic poisonous blind carnivorous toad subsists on buffalo. When settlers deplete the buffalo, the species begins to survive on sapient meat, first hunting nearby populations and later the settlers. The Burrowers first lace their victims by cutting them and drugging them with a toxin. The victim is then buried alive and eaten only after decomposition has begun. One method of defeating the burrowers is drugging someone already infected with Burrower toxin. When the Burrowers go to eat the twice drugged victim they themselves fall asleep and are vulnerable, especially to the rays of the sun, which is deadly to them.
* Mimic: A disease that kills hundreds of children that is spread by cockroaches. A breed of insect with an enzyme that causes the metabolism to accelerate, in time the organism starves faster than it can feed itself. This accelerated organism causes them to grow at the speed of its nourishment. Also, every generation has a different size depending on this.
* Pumpkinhead: A witch is cursed to aid those seeking vengeance. When asked for her service, she asks the seeker to uncover the body of the previous vengeful person and bring it back. When it is done, the witch mixes blood of the seeker on the corpse, creating the tool of its vengeance, who shares its thoughts and kills those, and those affiliated to those who wronged it. The only defeat of the undead creature beyond its undead nature is to kill the seeker who began the ritual.
* The Descent: A race of echo locating creatures that feed on cave explorers.
Egyptian Myths
* Seven year famine: a river stops flowing, and food becomes scarce. When the kingdom investigates the source of the dried up river they discover a primordial city. It is found a demon is holding back the flood. He becomes the god of the people, letting the nile flood in case of excess, and drying it in case of avarice from the people.
* Isis and the Seven Scorpions: Seven scorpions guard a traveling pregnant woman through marshlands. The scorpions, ask a rich woman for shelter, who refuses, they ask a poor woman, who accepts. The scorpions leave the woman with the poor woman and loaded their leader with all seven of their poisons to bite the son of the rich woman. The pregnant woman would not abide the death of the child, and saved the boy, the rich woman gave her possessions to the poor girl in thanks.
* Ammit: chimera of lion, hippopotamus and crocodile. A Heart eater, it ensures balance of the scales in the hall of truth, when the heart was weighed against the feather of Ma’at (ostrich). If found lacking, the person would be eaten. Demon of restlessness.
* Anubis: weighs the hearts of those worthy of the afterlife.
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