Warlock

### Summary

Half-human children of daemon known for their immortality and powerful magical capabilities.

**Warlocks**, also known as **Kin of Eisheth**, are a race of semi-immortal demonic hybrids born between a daimon and a human. They are known powerful magic-users and practitioners of witchcraft.

## Summary

Warlocks have existed ever since humans were created and began to populate the Earth, though their population only truly grew and became a species with culture and traditions of their own during the Incursion, when countless legions of devils and daemon came into the mortal world under the command of Lilith and the Lucifer Clan.

The first warlock to be recorded in history was dated back since the early days of human civilization. Said warlock is Eisheth, an offspring between a human man and a succubus rumored to be Lilith herself, who used her witchcraft to ensnare an ancient Sumerian ruler and took over his kingdom.

Because of their natural power to perform and practice witchcraft without the needs for sacrificial price, many warlocks were bred for the sole purpose of being trained and employed among the Underworld's armies during the Great War, despite the demons' distaste toward any human or any being with human ancestry, as the warlocks' witchery power was deemed to valuable to be set aside.

According to historians, during this period, there were nearly a million warlocks bred and employed within the Underworld's armies at all time, working as field agents and supporters for the demonic armies in their war against the forces of the heavenly host and the Grigori.

When the Great War ended in a standstill between the Three Factions, the warlocks were the first to be hunted down and killed by exorcists and templars under the crimes of practicing witchcraft, not to mentioned by assassins sent out by the 72 Pillars of the devil nobility as they were now deemed too much of a liability to the Netherworld now that the Great War have ended.

In the span of a century, from the overwhelming number of 3-millions, the warlock army were hunted down to the verge of extinction, as only 2007 warlocks were able to escape the purge and survived, allying themselves with the Grigori and the Fallen Angel faction afterward.

Only by the beginning of the Renaissance period did they begin to see hope again, mainly due to the Devil Civil War happening in the Netherworld and the internal power struggles within the Vatican's politics. Slowly but steadily, they were able to re-enter the supernatural world, though their number might never be as large and numerous as they once were.

## Appearance

For the most part, warlocks appear as entirely human, if not for the universal trait among them that is their warlock marks - parts of their body that are strange or unique that identify them as unearthly. Those from the same demonic bloodline may have similar demonic features on their bodies.

## Characteristics

Warlocks are ageless beings. At one point in their lives, they stop aging, though which point exactly will depend on their daimon parent. At one point, however, after an unspecified but long duration of time, warlocks, like most non-celestial immortals, can "fade" and "petrify", which is often when they grow bored ur unsurprised by life and stop looking forward to their years ahead, when the weight of their semi-immortality settles on them, they may begin to lose their minds, and/or stop feeling and living, in all other essences of the word except literally.

Because of this, in addition to their past of being bred solely for the purpose of fighting, led them to be independent and mostly keep to themselves, hence they do not have an established community or organized society. However, most warlocks are usually acquainted with each other and often communicate with others through Communication Circles or telephones. They are also governed by an unofficial group called the Spiral Council who reside in the Spiral Labyrinth. High Warlocks are also seemingly appointed in every major city and/or locality around the world in order to protect younger and/or less experienced warlocks from harm.

Additionally, they are unable to reproduce among themselves and their pregnancy always results in stillbirth as they are crossbreeds and are thus sterile. Because of this and their immortality, few warlocks opt to marry, let alone adopt a child to pass their surname down to. However, exceptions from these limitations are the very rare offspring of daemon and partially celestials, whose divinity manage to resist the demonic energy as a festus, resulting in a living child who is a dominantly celestial with traces of warlock abilities - "white witches".

Most warlocks aren't afraid of researching, performing, and/or practicing forbidden and Dark Magic, especially witchcraft, and it is because of their willingness to use magic when asked by mortals, usually for a price, even anti-demonic factions such as the shadowhunters work with warlocks, as partners or as hired specialists, to allow them to make use of some of the demonic magic that their own powers and nature exclude them from.

Nearly all of them are, to some extent, practitioners of magic. Some inherit more magical aptitude than others, and those who cultivate that aptitude may become quite powerful. The most gifted may find themselves able to study infernal magic and become scholars in the secretive Spiral Labyrinth, the central home of warlock magical research and knowledge. They have invented quite a lot of new magic, which is dutifully recorded and kept in the Labyrinth.

## Weaknesses

* **Physical Damage**: Like most supernatural creatures, warlocks can still be killed through mundane means if they have either received serious or immense physical damage or received fatal wounds that aren't healed in time.
* **Demonic Illnesses**: Being half-daemon, warlocks are susceptible to several rare illnesses and diseases reserved only those of demonic origins like devils or other true daemon, such as the Devil Fever or the Elfegort Sleeping Disease.
* **Holy Attribute**: The holy attribute is the bane of all demonic creatures, hybrids such as warlocks included. Religious symbols, scriptures, and prayers are extremely effective when defending oneself against warlocks' witchery, and items imbued with the holy attribute such as holy water or consecrated oil are considered the most effective weapons to use when fighting against them.
	+ **Prayers**: Warlocks consider hearing prayers for long periods of time to be torturous for them, as by every five minutes, their blood will become a degree hotter until they become boiling, slowly cooking them alive.
	+ **Religious Scriptures**: Warlocks' magic can be forcefully disrupted by reciting texts from the Bible, the Tanakh, the Quran, or any religious scriptures within the Abrahamic faiths. Scriptures from other faiths have also shown to have some effects, though none of them are as effective as the ones found within the Abrahamic religions.
	+ **Hallowed Ground**: Warlocks are incapable of entering hallowed grounds, such as churches, synagogues, mosques or other religious places without being invited inside. If a warlock ingests dirt taken from these places, they will be weakened and all their previous enchantments will automatically collapse.
	+ **Holy Weapons**: Warlocks can be wounded by weapons bearing the holy attribute, like holy swords or Sacred Gears with divine properties, such as Blade Blacksmith or Twilight Healing (Asia's the single exception).
	+ **Heavenly Weapons**: Warlocks can be killed with weapons of a heavenly or divine nature.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, warlocks included.
* **Primordial Regalia**: Weapons and artifacts that belong to the primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely destroy every and any being in existence save for other primordial entities, erasing their existence completely so that they can never be reborn or resurrected without God's involvement.

## Trivia

* Their hair stops growing when they stop aging.
* To magically sensitive beings, they smell like burnt matches.
* Their blood has strange effects on vampires, though what it does vary from one vampire to another.
* They are immune to the magically-binding effect of the fruits native to Faerieland.
* They prefer to use simple one-syllable last names, which possibly reflecting their mood during the choosing, such as Bane, Loss, Stain...
* It is more common for them to have a father than a mother as their demonic parent.
* Most of them often pass away before reaching the "1000-years-old" mark.
* Due to similarities between them, unless one's a celestial being, it's extremely difficult to differentiate a warlock from a disguised cambion, and vice versa.