Demon Summoning

The practice of Demon Summoning started in the year 4000BDI. It was discovered in a desperate attempt for survival. People can accomplish incredible things when their lives are on the line. Nobody knows who the first Demon Summoner was, but the second it was discovered it became an extremely widespread and common practice.

A Demon is summoned in order to be killed for resources. They’re most commonly harvested for blood, meat, fur, leather, and bone. Blood is the most common resource, as It’s used for drinking. Water is rare in Mirror Domain so Mortals had to make due. While it doesn’t taste good on its own, it hasn’t been shown to have any adverse side effects. It’s often mixed with other ingredients to mask its sharp and irony taste. This mixture is called Slurry.

That being said, besides fur or leather, Demon resources are usually reserved for low purity beings. The consumption of Demon products is viewed as “impure” and “unclean”, even if it’s for the sake of survival. Some Exotics are the exception to this rule, considering how rare they are, but Exotics are rarely killed to be eaten. It’s almost always a status thing.

Summoners in the past were all specially trained individuals. They’d go through years of training in order to protect themselves and others. Demons don’t want to be killed after all. A summoner used to know exactly how to kill a Demon, all of its weaknesses, how to combat Magical abilities, and how to track it down if it escaped. It made the process of summoning a Demon as safe as possible.

Unfortunately, Demon hunting became less regulated over time. In the past an untrained summoner would be jailed, if they even survived. Demon hunting was a very lucrative business, and summoners were very well respected. More and more people hopped on the summoning bandwagon, causing a massive Demon Infestation. That infestation only got worse once Demons themselves learned the art of summoning. An inexperienced or untrained summoner is far more likely to get killed by the Demon they’re trying to summon, causing Demons to escape. One or two rogue Demons isn’t that big of an issue, but hundreds of them are a problem.

Demons have a much better connection to their world than Mortals do. They’re better able to understand the intricate and confusing symbols used in Demon Summoning, and they use this to their advantage in order to get better results. A Mortal will more or less summon something random. Maybe they’ll be able to influence size or class. But Demons are able to pinpoint certain traits, sometimes allowing them to summon a specific individual if they know of one. Many Demons will intentionally summon something dangerous to Mortals in hopes of killing them off.

Modern Summoners aren’t treated with nearly as much respect as the Summoners of the past. Many are considered “part of the problem”, and Mortals will turn on their local summoner any time any Demon starts causing issues in the area. Unfortunately, this is only making the infestation problem worse. More often than not, someone who screws up a summoning won’t tell anyone about it, causing people to turn on trained Summoners instead. The Demon infestation problem isn’t going to get resolved any time soon.