Demon

**Demons** are evil-spirited immortals bound to the Twisted Nether. Most feed on life and magic and derive their taste from destroying things that are good. Their arch enemies are angels. They were personifications of ferocity, vile perversion, and elemental devastation, existing to further the tendency of all things to slide into entropy and ruin.

For a creature to become a demon, it must be infused with fel or astromium energy. A creature's wishes are irrelevant to the process, as evidenced by the existence of non-sentient demons. Willingly or unintentionally, a creature can turn into a demon. Such a transformation alters the affected creature on a fundamental level, often leaving little or nothing of that creature's original personality. Not all demons are evil either; Many are neutral, such as observers who serve all who allow them to observe the mysteries of the universe and feed on all manner of magic, or demons who serve the Illidari and the Dark Harvest.

## Features

Demons transcend all realities, destroying their possible worlds. Their souls are bound to the Twisting Nether, and so when demons are killed, their souls are sent back to the Twisting Nether, where they wait for a while to be reborn in new bodies with all their powers. Therefore, demons can only be destroyed in the Twisting Nether, in places where it flows into the world of mortals, or in places completely saturated with fel.

Most demons' hunger for life and magic can never be satisfied for long. Their innate cruelty renders moot any temporary satisfaction they might know. As a result, destruction tends to follow these demons, whether they are part of the Legion or not. If a demon cannot sustain a source of magic, it becomes weak and disappears.
Most demons only wear loincloths due to superhuman physical characteristics and build. Some demons wear nothing but heavy armor.

Usually demons have one or more demonic physical characteristics.

* Fel demons have wings, but normal demons do not.
* A few demon hunters are known to develop scales.
* Eredar displays a variety of skin tones, including but not limited to blue, brown, orange, red, and green.
* Astromium orcs display skin tones as purple.

### Alternation

Some demons who are not born as demons can be transformed into their original form by being freed from their demonic form.

Demons can also be magically altered, for example Lothraxion, a member of the Great Army of Light under High Exarch Turalyon and Lady Alleria, is a nathrezim infused with Light.

Hawth Bowserth was permanently transformed into a demon due to the combination of effects of the Zero Point and Valery's curse. However, he has not lost his mind despite the transformation and his alignment is chaotic good like Illidan.

### Demonic death

Demons killed outside the Twisting Nether return to the Nether, where their souls drift until they are reborn. However, demons killed in the Twisting Nether or in fel-saturated areas die permanently.

Astromium orcs do not die permanently in the Twisted Nether, they die permanently when exposed to high arcane currents.

Hawth never dies from an external source. Supernova explosions or solar flares cause all demons to die permanently due to evaporation except Hawth.