Demons

**Demons** are an ancient race of fabled origins, known for their resilience and connection to Dark and/or Nether Magic. They, at their core, exist in a spectral form and create a physical "shell" for themselves to interact with the world. They are in essence immortal, because their spectral form is released as a free spirit upon the death of their mortal "shell". However, they are often unable to come back from death due to the difficulty of creating a new shell once the old one is destroyed. Most demons also opt for the creation of a physical shell which can't age, making demons largely unaffected to death by natural consequences. Some demons have been known to age up to many thousands of years due to this.

## Biology

### Demon Kings/Lords

Demon Kings/Lords are only born from other Demon Kings / Lords or very rarely produced by 2 Arch-Demons. They usually don't live long after birth, the parents will usually fight to the death then kill the Demon King/Lord infant to gain their status. The other way a Demon King / Lord is created is an Arch-Demon having authority over 50 souls or collecting 75 unique souls. If an Arch-Demon kills a Demon King/Lord that Arch-Demon is promoted to Demon King/Lord.

Demon Kings/Lords when they come into status grow a crown of horns on their head and usually become mesmerizingly beautiful.

### Arch-Demons

Arch-Demons are rarely born between 2 Purebloods and are usually killed by one of the parents to gain their status. Arch-Demons can naturally spawn from corrupted souls that have been sent to the Nether. Arch-Demons decide their natural forms upon promotion, deciding how their horns will grow or shrink, what shape they'd be in, or whether they'll have horns at all. They will also be able to choose between a humanoid form and a demonoid beast form. This form will turn into their natural base form.

### Demi-Arch-Demons

Demi-Arch-Demons come about when an Arch-Demon breeds with a Pureblood demon, and are often shunned from society due to the nature of inter-class breeding required for such a demon to be born. They usually inherit many characteristics of their Arch-Demon parent, inheriting with some exceptions their natural form. However, these demons cannot ascend to become Demon Kings or Lords.

### Pureblood Demons

Purebloods are common demons that are birthed from a set of Pureblood or higher demons. They will usually have horns.

### Demi-Demon / Half-Demons

Demi-Demons are created when a demon breeds with another species.

### Defective Half-Demons

Defective Half-Demons are a phenomenon caused by interspecies breeding. Defective Half-Demons are usually pale, weak, and don't survive their first year of living. They are completely sterile and cannot breed. Very few make it to adulthood, as most Demons aren't up to the task to provide the constant nurturing required to grow a Defective Half-Demon, but if raised in proper conditions, a Defective Demon can thrive.

### Diet

Demons feed on emotions such as sadness, anger and fear, but also love and happiness among others to nourish their spectral form. These emotions will release a sort of spectral energy. Demon skin is coated in a fine, nearly invisible dust that will attract this energy towards it. The energy then is absorbed through the skin and consumed to sustain the demon's spiritual form. This however, doesn't mean a demon doesn't need to eat. They require food to sustain their physical form as well. There are two kind of demons, the Traditional and the Conjured. Conjured Demons will 'hunt' for negative emotions by creating grief, desolation and performing other nefarious actions. This has earned them nicknames such as "Embodiments of Sin", "Bringers of Evil" and "Massive Assholes". On the other side Traditional Demons nourish themselves with as much positivity as possible, which pushed their live expectancy, but they don't get stronger only through those Emotions. In a pinch, a demon can use their physical nourishment (regular food) to sustain their spirit, or vice versa, though only in a pinch. Malfunctions in this process are the cause of the 'Defective Half-Demon' phenomenon. Usually, a hybrid won't inherit the genes to intake and process negative emotions, or they can only intake and process negative emotions and can't process physical food. The latter will lead to a death before they're even born. The prior however, can still survive by using physical food as spiritual nourishment. This means they require twice the food intake, and are usually too physically malnourished to survive very long.

## Hierarchy

Demons seem to follow a sort of hierarchy within the species.

* Primordial Demons
* Demon King / Lord
* Arch-Demon
* Pureblood Demon
* Demi-Demon / Half-Demon
* Defective Half-Demon / Demi-Demon

Primordial Demons are at the very top of the hierarchy, ruling over all demons in existance.

Demon Kings or Demon Lords. are the second highest, usually usually ruling over a group of demons.

Arch-Demons. are higher ranked Demons, normally physically and psychologicly stronger than normal demons.

Pureblood Demons have little to no genetic relation to other species, though are normally weaker than Arch-Demons in all aspects.

Demi-Demons, also known as Half-Demons are outcasts, but due to their genetic relations they could be more powerful than a Pureblood depending on the other species used to create them.

Defective Half-Demons are more common than Demi-Demons. Although some interspecies children become Demi-Demons, most are born defective.

Demons are most often arranged into clans and tribes under one Demon King / Lord in their native dimensions.

### Culture

There is no one demon culture due to demons being more or less scattered across the land, but there are some legends passed around a few groups. In some of these legends, demonkind originated from "The 5 original Arch demons", who lead the demon race in their homeworld. None of this has much evidence to back it up, so it doesn't have much historical merit. But it's a fact that Lukas Lordinger was the first Arch-Demon that came to Rathnir. Demons tend to accept certain cultures, but don't follow many religions. The reason for this is that they tend to only follow religions which include the hierarchy of the Demonic Race. Demons get normally conjured in an age between 1000 and 5000 years, As the older one is, higher their ranking. Some Annomalies can get conjured with higher ages.

### History

As known World of Jagdas got destroyed, most of the Demon race led by five unbelievably strong Demons decided to go there an live on the bigger green areas surrounded by dry dirt and ruins of the former Civilations. Once they met to make a unitary calendar and decided it should start at the discovery of the world they now lay on. The different tribes lived peacefully and never fought eachother.

In the year 589 after the discovery, one Tribe found a Sword that gave incredible Powers to the user and it's Followers. Most tribes got raided and destroyed, but the last 99 tribes decided to unify, develop new weaponry and fight against the thread. And so they did. The two sides met at a very hilly Landscape, on one side the physically stronger Demons, on the other those with better Armour, Weapons and some mysterious other War Mashineries. In this one battle, over 3 million Demons lost their lives and with them most of the Arch Demons and about 70 of the Demon Kings and Lords, but the victory came into their Hands as one brave Demon killed the Enemy Demon Lord and brought the Sword away. From this Moment on they kept it in one of the many Vaults in the new established Capital of Demoniun. It stayed there for more than 3000 years. The Demon race decided to start a senate, made up of the 5 original tribe leaders (the five original Demons), 20 Demon Lords and Kings and 100 Arch Demons.

But suddenly, in the year 3975 after the discovery, one of the major Towns asked for military aid out of nowhere. Since the five original Demons wanted to know what's going on they went there by themselves and an army of roughly 100 000 Demon Warriors. As they arrived, they found nothing more than ruins, but no bodies. four of the Five original Demons decided to return back to the Capital, but the only known of then called Isdrimil was curious, why this happened and decided to take 20 000 men and went on exploration. When he returned, only 90 Warriors were still alive and even Isdrimil itself got heavily wounded. On his journey, they got attacked by a more civilized human Army which completely destroyed the demonic Exploration Troop. As the next step the Demon Folk started to militarize heavily, research better weapons quicker and prepare for a giant war. As the Demon Army arrived at one of the demonic towns it just got attacked by those humans which decided to put up their camps inside the Palisade and fortified themselves. The Battle will be way bloodier than the war before since in the battlefield there were about 50 million Demons and on the other side about 10 million Humans. But what they didn't know, the Humans had prepared Demons to fight for them, which got conjured from a parallel world. Those Demons are known as the Conjured ones, which live from the negative Emotions and since this is a battlefield, it'll be filled with negative Emotions. Because of this advantage, the Demons lost About 40 Million Warriors and Soldiers lost their lives in this one battle. But on the side of the Humans, the Conjured Demons quickly realised their more dominant powers over the humanic ones and started questioning why they fight their own race. One year after the war broke out over 150 million souls left their bodies when one very young Demon decided to take control of the conjured ones and lead them to freedom of their human opressors. Over time more and more Demons joined his Rebellion and he Ranked up and became an Arch Demon, which finally after half a year and 50 million more deaths gave him the necessary powers to rot out all the humans that lived in the human capital. The human King knew something was going on and decided to use a magical weapon which they've prepared for several months to destroy all of Jagdas and so get rid of the demon race, but the one Arch Demon quickly killed the king, but just a second too late. He used all his powers to save as many demonic towns as possible, in which he nearly failed: the wave of destruction stopped near the capital. The surviving conjured ones decided to live in peace with the traditionals, except one, the one who saved most of the demons got granted great powers by the five original Demons and decided to go on a journey to the known world of Rathnir ( Lukas Lordinger). After him more and more demons decided to go to other worlds and explore.

In the year 3999, the magical sword which was kept in one of the vaults went missing which brought a lot of chaos to the capital. The original five Demons believe it went to find a new victim to control in Rathnir.