Demon Races

The concept of race is much different with demons, as they do not reproduce through breeding, or even sex, though they are more than capable of deriving pleasure from sexual acts. A demon is defined as a being created by another, usually a god, which is not truly alive; a demon possesses its body like a puppet, rather than grows as a result of their body, like mortals. Because of this, demons are functionally immortal, unless their pure soul is destroyed. They create group identities around the way in which they were born, which is usually associated with a very negative emotion like pain or loneliness or confusion. Some demons are actually born of pleasure, though mostly from a sadistic pleasure.

Demon souls can be as synthetic as their bodies, but many demons are formed from the desecrated and twisted bodies and souls of dead mortals. Some of the cruelest, most malevolent souls sent to Hell are chosen to become new demons, and often have to endure centuries of torture and re-education. Some living beings are able to become demons directly, or pledge their soul to become one after death. Often, these deals end with the forces of Hell ignoring their end of the deal, and just doing whatever they want with the soul.

Homunculi are a type of demon created from a synthetic soul, and either a dead body or a synthetic body. Although demons can heal, their flesh is not living, they are sustained entirely by magic energy, and they must eat living flesh or souls to digest the spiritual energy.

Mortals can and have created many demons, but the majority of them operate in their own full scale societies in Hell or the various planets of Alta Helu.

The Old Gods - once subjugated by Krishna in his war to unify the heavens, they were given their place, or otherwise placed in the prison, Tartaros, the moon of a planet which would soon evolve intelligent lifeforms, The Praetor of Marikquescza. They came to worship the imprisonment and sought to add demonic entities to it, and were given sanction by Krishnaj. The angels were Azrael, Ares, Osiris, and other lesser gods like Lucifer. The imprisoned Old Gods were Bacchus, Oizys, Shibboleth, and Tiamat, along with other major demons who can't be killed permanently due to their emergent nature.

Krishnaj constructed the Alta Helu, a Heaven like contraption that would bring together the 7 worlds, and allows instantaneous travel between the 7 worlds prior to the condensation where they were brought physically together, and there are at least one portal to another of the 7 worlds on each of them. The 7 worlds are Mars, Hell, Ecumenopolis, Purgatory, all orbiting the central sun, The Lotus, the seat of Krishna. and there were squabbles like the dissent of Lucifer where he was cursed to be the Satan of Hell where he would act as the accuser of sins since he had sinned so much against the union of heaven, knowing he would condemn any other to make his transgression look lesser. They assigned him to the layer associated with treachery, cursed never to be destroyed. Krishnaj began to develop a love for the humans When Rama split from Krishna, He decided that most of the old gods still had to be destroyed, but he allowed them to stay in prison, and he kept the loyal ones as angels.

**God of Death**- *Azrael* (aka The Angel of Death, the Void, Abaddon, Hades)- Ruler of the Realm of Abaddon, the innermost circle of Hell, also worshipped as the God of the Underworld. Has power to destroy souls due to being the creature made from the void, teaches that emptiness is the nirvana that is the best way to serve and worship god, and the eventual fate of all things, but has no desire to hasten the process unnecessarily.

-Void Demon- the void actually doesn't exist, it's a void of void, which produces the first something, which is a pseudo-nothing.

-Death Sprite-

-Undead- Ironically, the undead are a rare minion of the god of death, animating corpses with his will, these undead have no souls of their own and will cease to move when his will is done, they are not zombies that will persist.

-Worshippers- few truly worship death, but there are some esoteric cults, though they have little influence or ambition, being extremely stoic by nature, and not often malevolent.

**God of Health**- *Osiris* (aka God of Pestilence, God of Disease, God of ) Has power over all living tissues, manipulation of body forms is his specialty, but he ends up using his talents mostly to create deliberately horrible monsters and spread diseases. Creates "Holy Cures," most of which are actually diseases and cures to various aspects of living, sometimes outright treating life as the disease. Class A "cures" include painful and unsightly chronic infections that sustain the subject indefinitely, though in suffering. Class B "cures" include plagues that wipe out entire civilizations, or maybe just half, aka culling cures. Class C is a zombie type plague Class D cures are consciousness-expanding infections that are otherwise unnoticeable. Class E cures are actual cures and Class F cures are major body modifications like limb grafting or brain swapping. Known as the "gross" god, although the depths of depravity that Bacchus delves into often dips into the realm of Osiris, which he accepts if he can spread more infections. Osiris desires to keep most of his populations healthy, at least in terms of breeding, and seeks to end all death by consuming and repurposing all living tissue before it has a chance to die, but he realizes that he can ultimately gain more total if he lets civilizations breed and die en masse. Over time, he'd have more flesh than if he just consumed an entire species. Civilization creates bodies on an industrial scale better than any flesh synthesizer.

-Sholgon- Massive formless horrors that breed diseases, they are known for creating zombies and spitting out freshly turned corpses, as well as feeding on countless live bodies. They're capable of synthesizing flesh they've eaten together to create Frankenstein demons in addition to

-Pleasure Mound- A creature similar to a sholgon, made for Bacchus, but also utilized for the collection of semen.

-Skythians- Demons created from squid-like races on the Sikrid homeworld.

-Zombies- the reanimated corpses of mortal races, done through the spreading of class C holy diseases.

-Worshippers- he shaped the life of his home planet to his liking, creating intelligent races and castes specifically to worship him and do his bidding unburdened by his cures, as they were made "perfect" by him. The Hullocs are an insectoid race that dominates others like the Sikrid. The Sikrid are to the Hullocs what an ape/dog combination would be to us humans. Imagine a loyal but intelligent pet that was closely genetically related to you, but also did literal slave work as well.

**God of War- Ares**

Eretrians- A prime race created for Krishna to be his angelic soldiers

War Beasts-

**God of Praxis**- *Shibboleth* (aka Isis)- The embodiment

-Tilhiks- Shibbolethian demons, aka Lizard Boys, they have a mental ability to control the shibbolethian fluid to make structures, vehicles, and weapons. They also utilize sun stones which they are taught to recharge with human sacrifice. They have a cultural hatred of humans because sacrificing a Tilhik is essentially worthless, so they live an existential crisis about why their fuel, humans, are so much more important to the gods than they are. On their world, humans are captured and released, where they are hunted, and sometimes allowed to make contact with burgeoning human civilizations to increase their numbers. They rarely raid well defended human areas, and prefer to catch people traveling and hunt them down without huge conflict, but when the Tilhiks decide that a stronghold is going down, the primitive humans can do nothing and hold out for a few hours max. They have rudimentary walls to keep out small bands of Tilhiks and to signify a breeding ground, although it also makes an easy target if the hunting is scarce. Some people adapt to live in sparse populations to avoid being noticed, although the Tilhiks are actively looking for these people, and they often have little to no defense.

-Worshippers- anyone using rituals does send power to Shibboleth, but some peoples have managed to contact her directly, and those tend to be esoteric cults obsessed with certain bizarre rituals and traditions that happen to pique the interest of the goddess.

**God of Chaos**- Tiamat- An ever-changing god whose embodiment shifts from avatar to avatar.

Chaos demons could literally be anything, and he borrows others frequently, but Anthropophagi are a staple of the chaos gods because of how absurd a creature they are.

-Worshippers- lost souls, the damned, and the lunatics

**God of Pleasure**- Bacchus Sometimes confused as a god of pain, as most of his dark pleasures come with a sadistic twist. He is the patron of fulfilling any desire, including the darkest possible, fueling addictions and the most heinous hedonistic acts like rape, torture, and murder. He has few limits, and short of ending his supply of fun permanently, he is happy to see entire galaxies burn just for a chuckle. He OR she is an androgynous being appearing angelic, wings and all, and is almost always hosting some sort of party or orgy. Bloodshed in battle is an occasional pastime of Bacchus, but he truly prefers things to be in a party setting at his villa at the top of the world where he hosts an orgy that he claims has never ended for thousands of years. He is inextricably associated with sex, from an innocent virgin exploring their body to full on gore rape, and encourages his worshippers to check out of life and go on complete hedonistic binges as often and long as possible. He is fueled by the feeling of pleasure, and ignorant to pain, in fact that is one reason he is so sadistic, is because he wishes he could feel pain, but never has. He is constantly feeling the orgasms and drugs and elation of every being simultaneously.

-Incubus- Hoofed demons with a crown of horns, highly enjoy drinking, partying, sex, and casual violence.

-Succubus- Seductresses chosen for their nymphomania and dark desires. They can steal the soul energy and biomass from sperm.

-Bacchanal Vampire- creatures obsessed with eating the flesh of humans especially in a sexual context, they serve as footsoldiers and police of Bacchus' pleasure empire. They are of course paid with victims of the enterprise as well as patrons.

-Worshippers- hedonists, the rich and powerful

**God of Pain**- Oizys -She is brought into existence by suffering and is the embodiment of fear, anxiety, and physical pain, all rolled into one. She seeks to destroy all life to end her suffering. Her demons inflict pain in order to eat basically, but they do they least actual toruring of all demons, usually simply executing their victims, achieving just as much pain as they have to. Some of the demons are actually designed as pain scapegoats to relieve Oizys.

-Vessel of Pain- a mortal soul burdened with a fraction of Oizys' suffering, their body taking on the corruption and pain over short periods. Oizys collects victims to both put out of their misery and to convert into pain vessels.

-Pain demon- a demon who not only went through endless torture, but is designed or outfitted to be in constant physical pain. Devices or surgeries achieve painful body configurations for these masochistic demons who actually turn pain into a pleasurable feeling, which helps relieve Oizys.

-Scorions- The henchmen and executioners, they have no mercy or ambition other than butchering and eating.

-Dimurans- An intelligent and somewhat noble race of stoic demons created by resisting great torture. Oizys is not happy with the torture going on in Hell, though she tolerates it because most suffering occurs from living beings, and Hell's tortures reveal good servants. Dimurans develop a sense of superiority over creatures that feel pain, disgusted by their contribution to their goddess's suffering, which they forgive her for because she IS suffering. She is created as suffering BECAUSE of their suffering, so Dimurans seek to eliminate her for her own sake, and carry on campaigns of genocide against all mortal life.

-Many humans turn to worshipping her, and tend to commit suicide in her name, but the true threat is those who kill in her name.

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