Diablerie

Diablerie (also known as Atroxus, Usurpation, or is a universal demonic ability/ritual that entails a demon consuming another demons soul entirely and taming it's power. It is heavily frowned upon, stained with dark magic, and intimidating to many demons. Diablerie is essentially consuming another demon's soul to gain it's powers and abilities. Similar magic only exists in the mortal world through Devil Magic or Dread Magic.

## Origins

Little is known about the origin of diablerie, similarily to the origins of Clan Magicks, only vague theories and unreliable archaeology reveal information. Malthusian Scholar Trementus, Court Sorcerer of Octavius in Julia, was the first to create an official faction policy on Diablerie when he announced it was banned (though he called it Atroxus, not Diablerie). Scriptural Demonic Historians have had trouble learning of it's origins due to a lack of written history though besides Trementus's declaration there are Asmodai Cursors dating back to the Basilian Conclave describing the Asmodai science of studying diablerie through doing it. Mystical Demonic Historians have many theories as they tend to, some say Diablerie was a gift to demonkind from the Dread God Aralu, known as the Consumer, who was known to bestow soul eating abilities to Devils. They believe this mainly due to references to Aralu in ancient Basilian to Early Varasian Asmodai conclave records but some say this is unlikely as the Asmodai were known in the Pre-Diabol days to contact evil spirits of any kind from Devils to Great Fiends to Dread Gods in an attempt to learn more of their unholy existence. Some Primevals, such as Kemuel and Nahaliel, diablerized their ancient.

## Reputation

Within the Tower, Diablerie is entirely banned and incredibly taboo and that has been Tower tradition since the Julian Era. In the Diabol, diablerie is encouraged as a way to seize power from those too weak to hold it. The Unbound has no official policy on Diablerie though the Marbatians were opposed to it, since the Disputation in the 500s and the creation of the Unbound Command diablerie is not exactly enforced against and it is common knowledge that Antoinetta diablerized her sire and the Tower General Gerhard. Demons who have done diablerie are known as Diablerists and are often recognizable with basic magic sense due to an intense dark aura around them, though some demons can keep that hidden. Diablerists are respected within the Diabol but controversial and outcast in the Tower and Forum.

## Spirit Sickness

Demons who diablerize an essence too powerful for them through luck or any other means are known to suffer from "Spirit Sickness" which is a horrible affliction to demons who suffer from it. It tends to come in three stages:

Stage 1 - General Physical Illness, Mild to Moderate Hallucinations.

Stage 2 - Physical Weakness, Moderate to Severe Hallucinations, Dimension Mixing and Violent Ghosts, Insanity, and in some cases Permanent Frenzy.

Stage 3 - Madness, Paralysis, victims describe being trapped in their own minds, alternate dimensions, frenzy if capable of moving, and eventually death as the demonic soul overpowers the soul of the Diablerist and the essences collapse in on themselves.

## Revenants

There have been records in Malthusian and Asmodai archives of "Revenants". These creatures are described as twisted Essences of multiple demons possessing a distorted body. It is assumed Revenants are created when a Multi Diablerist loses their internal battle against more than 1 powerful essence. Revenants tend to act as violent, quick, powerful creates of dark energy that are able to bend dimensional rules and often feed on other demons; not content ith human souls.

## Infamous Diablerists

Savaric - The 4th Generation Quasimodo Dread Sorcerer known as the Founder of the Children of the Apocalypse, known for their mastery of Venenofigura and Dread Magic, was also a noted diablerist. Savaric was said to have diablerized a Childe of the Blackblood Primeval Ramiah called Marcellus, a 5th Generation Malthusian Sorcerer, his own sire, and a childe of Basilius.

Antoinetta - The prime Commander of the Unbound since the 400s, the Marchrosian Warrior/Philosopher/Terrorist known as Antoinetta famously publically diablerized her own sire as a show of opposition to Tower Tradition, it is also said she diablerized her superior, the first prime Commander of the Unbound, the Valefari Felix. These diableries have made her incredibly powerful and granted her greater Marchrosian abilities and even some skill at Pugnafigura, the Valefari clan magick. However, her brutality and diablerie was a stain on her and it lead the Marbatians to leave the Unbound after the Disputation of 657 AU and has landed her on the Soul Hunt list of the Tower as of the 693 Fremont Convention.

Hadrianus - The famed Diabol founder and Valdevichi clan leader was publically known to have diablerized the Valdevichi founder, Valdevich.

Giovanni Christomore - The founder of the Christomore clan was in life a bored rich necromancer who used his families merchant wealth to fund experiments into the death magics. He learned of the Haden Clan and had his family members all serve as ghouls to learn of their ways and eventually in 613 AU Giovanni lead his family in diablerizing nearly all the hadens at their castle and using an unknown blood magic ritual to create his bloodline.

Malthus - If mystical demonic history is to believed, some myths tell of the founder of the Malthusians, Malthus, creating blood magic through consuming an Asmodai Primeval's soul and using magic to steal energy from all the Asmodai.