Gods and Daemons

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### Gods and Daemons

* Gods
* Daemons

## Gods

The gods were dead just like everything else in the Dream Realm. They seem to have been alive in the time periods of many of the Nightmares, but based on the ruins encountered and explored, the gods are mostly described as destroyed. It is unknown what or who destroyed the gods and if they existed before or after the Nightmare Spell appeared.

The gods worshipped in different regions had different names, but they all described the same entities. The current consensus is that the "gods" of the Dream Realm were perhaps creatures of the Divine Rank. Their gender seems to be very mercurial, they can be referred to by both genders.

There were only six gods but their most common names don't do them justice.

 Heart God | God of Souls, emotion, memory, hunger, and growth.

### Nature

According to Noctis, Gods can be very cruel sometimes due to the fact that they are much more ancient and vast than kindness and compassion.

The gods never cared about whom or what the mortals worshiped.

## Daemons

Daemons were beings that were *partially divine* or even almost as *powerful as the gods* themselves. They are mysterious creatures described as having power almost equal to that of the gods but of a different nature. They seemed to have created themselves or at least appeared out of nowhere.

Almost nothing is known about them, except for the fact that there were seven of them, one more terrible than the other. They were terrifying creatures that came out of nowhere, wielding enough power to wage war against the heavens. The unknown is what the humans fear the most, and the gods are no exception.

* Demon of Fate
 Nether | * Last child of the -unknown-
* Ruler of the Underworld
* Prince of the Underworld
 Unnamed
 Ariel | * Graceless caitiff
* Demon of Dread
 Unnamed
 Unnamed

### Nature

Daemons are elusive and solitary creatures by nature. Each and every one of them is mysterious, distant, and terrifying until the Demon of Desire decides to come and live among the mortals, becoming known as Hope.

* The eldest, the mysterious Weaver, is shrouded in countless layers of lies.
* The youngest, Nether, secluded himself in the darkness of the Underworld.
* Demon of Oblivion, whose name is long forgotten.
* And the rest, each a personification of calamity and disaster.

### Territory

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## Lore

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It was revealed in the runes of Bone Weave that the seven daemons were children of the mysterious -unknown-. At some point, the children of the unknown rebelled against the gods, except for Weaver, who was the only one to refuse the call of war.

[...When children of the -unknown- rebelled against the gods, Weaver was the only one to refuse the call of war. Despised and hunted by both sides, they disappeared. No one knew where Weaver went and what they did… until it was too late.]

According to the runes of Shadow God's lineage *(Drop of Ichor)*, Unlike the *Unknown*, the *-unknown-* were a type of creatures, primordial beings that existed before time, space, and death, in a boundless dark void. The gods were different from them but also their kin. It was now clear what terrible enemy the gods had faced long before the daemons and their rebellion. The reason *Shadow God* had been compelled to create Death. The gods won but the primordial void had not been destroyed, only that it had been "bound".

[Before, there was only boundless, eternal void. From that dark abyss, the -unknown- were born. Just like chaos itself, they were endless and everlasting, vast and forever changing. But then came desire, and with it came direction. From it, the gods were born.

When gods appeared, the void was not eternal anymore.

When gods appeared, the darkness was not endless anymore.

When gods appeared, the chaos was not orderless anymore.

The gods appeared, and brought with them war. This drop of divine blood was spilled by Shadow on one of the battlefields of that war, before the void was bound.]

Legends says that a terrible creature was slain by the gods once, at the dawn of time, whose blood seeped into the earth, forming true darkness. The *dark creature* must have been a being of the Void, greater than an Unholy Titan.

According to the legends, after the gods sealed the primordial void, Weaver was the only one of those who had entered the eternal abyss and managed to return alive.

The gods had sealed the eternal void, from which they were born. The **unknown** were creatures of that void, while the **Unknown** was a specific being that had somehow given life to the seven daemons. The reflection of either was forever frozen in the depths of Weaver's eyes.

In the eye of the time storm, are the reflections of the gods and of the daemons that slayed them. It was unknown if all gods and daemons reflected in the waters inside the eye of the time storm.

## Relationship between Gods and Daemons

In the battles of ancient times, they fought side by side as allies. The gods had never shown any animosity toward daemons and their relationship was somewhat friendly.

While the gods were friendly to daemons and indifferent to mortals building temples to beasts, spirits, and rocks. They would not allow a daemon to be worshiped.

>
> **Sunny**: "*Wait! Don't go! Tell me… tell me why the Lord of Light did this! Why did the gods imprison you?! Why couldn't they just kill you?! Why?!*"
> **Hope**: "*...Because we are their Flaw.*"
> ― Conversation Hope was gone,
> Chapter 742 Hope

It was implied in the answer of Hope that the daemons were possibly the personifications of the Flaws that the gods had shed.

## Trivia

* Everything having to do with the Spell and the Dream Realm had a tendency to be tied to the number **seven** except the **gods**, of whom there had been only six.
* The Spell behaved strangely when speaking about **daemons**. It never mentions or uses the term as though the word itself was somehow **forbidden**. The closest the Spell had ever come close to mentioning the word daemon was calling the Prince of the Underworld a prideful **demon**.
* Noctis also mentioned that **desire** is a very powerful thing. It is what the gods were born from, in the endless, ever-changing void of chaos. But there is one force more terrifying than desire and that is **fate**. Even the gods were afraid of fate.
* There were all kinds of cults before like rulers that proclaimed themselves divine, people who built temples to beasts and spirits, and some even worshiped rocks or Corrupted abominations. However, people had never worshiped a daemon before Hope.
* The sybils served as a kind of oracle that received revelations from the gods. Those revelations stopped after the gods perished.
* Creating living things was an authority exclusive to the gods which made Nether's feat of making Stone warriors so remarkable.

## See Also

* Sorcery
* Hope's Shackles
* Divine Lineage
* Battlefield of the Gods
* Unknown (Disambiguation)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 372 Names of the Gods
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 650 Drastic Measures
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Chapter 691 Heresy
4. ↑ Chapter 451 Bone Weave
5. ↑ Chapter 551 Slave's Inheritance
6. ↑ Chapter 1257 In the Darkness
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 1312 Ancient Mural
8. ↑ Chapter 1326 Eye of the Storm
9. ↑ Chapter 1327 Frozen Reflections
10. ↑ Chapter 742 Hope
11. ↑ Chapter 446 Relentless Destroyer
12. ↑ Chapter 522 Invincible
13. ↑ Chapter 1021 The Fall of Falcon Scott (39)
14. ↑ Chapter 1307 Before the Nightmare Spell