Demons

## Demons

* Diablo
* Lilith
* 72 Seals
* 4 Horsemen

## General Information

### Also known as:

* Sins of Humanity
* Fiends
* Infernal
* Hellion
* Devils
* Damned
* Asuras (Hindu Demons)

### Residence:

* Seven Underworlds
	+ Hell (Biblical Demons)
	+ Naraka (Asuras)
* Earth (by possession)

### Related Species:

* Humans
* Angels (Biblical Demons)
* Evil Spirits
* Demonic Dragons (Biblical Demons)
* Demonic Vampires (Biblical Demons)
* Nephalems (Biblical Demons, extinct)

## Affiliation

### Creator:

* Judges of The Abyss (with the reincarnation cycle)

**Biblical Demons**

* Heavenly Father (with the reincarnation cycle)
* Lilith (Mother of Demons)

### Leader:

**Biblical Demons**
* Lucifer (1st Demon King, former)
* Lilith (formerly)
* Diablo ✝(formerly)
* Victor Alucard (Currently; not a demon)

**Asuras**

* Yama

### Notable member(s):

**Biblical Demons**
* **Seven Sins**
	+ Sloth
	+ Envy ✝
	+ Wrath ✝
* **Four Horsemen**
	+ War
	+ Death ✝
	+ Famine ✝
	+ Pestilence ✝
* **72 Pillars**
	+ Bael ✝
	+ Agares
	+ Belial
	+ Phoenix
	+ Zagan
	+ Sitri ✝

**Asuras**

* Merlin

### Former member(s):

* Paimon (Recycled)
* Lucifer (Became an Elder God)
* Morgana (Turned into a Vampire)
* Diablo ✝(Turned into a Nephalem)

### Sup-Species:

* Biblical Demons
	+ Incubi (Extinct)
	+ Succubi
	+ Shedim
	+ Imps
	+ Hellhounds
* Asuras

### affiliation(s)

* Biblical Pantheon (Biblical Demons)
* Hindu Pantheon (Asuras)

### Allegiance:

**Biblical Demons**
* Lilith (Formerly)
* Diablo (Formerly)
* Victor Walker

**Asuras**

* Yama

### Enemies:

* Humans
	+ Inquisition (Biblical Demons)
* Angels (Biblical Demons)
* Vampires (Diablo's faction)
	+ Clan Alucard (Diablo's faction)
* Werewolves (Diablo's faction)

### Goal(s):

* Control and dominance of the Human Race (Diablo's faction; Public)
* Create a Pantheon (Diablo's faction)
* Kill the Heavenly Father and the Angels (Lilith's faction)
* Conquer Hell completely (Alucard's faction) (Achieved)

**Demons** are one of the top supernatural species that exists in the world. They reside in their domain known as Hell. Biblical Demons also have 72 Dukes of Hell and are divided into two factions between the two leaders—Lilith, the Mother of Demons, and Diablo, the Incarnation of Evil.

## Description

Demons are creatures who were rejected by God for being too corrupt. Once angels who were on God's side, but now cast out of paradise and abandoned in the confines of a world in decay. Punished by the creator himself to be the representation of all the 'evil' of humanity. Condemned to roam the seven hells for all eternity, demons are the result of a single action—Sin.

## Creation

Demons are created when people kill in anger, envy other people's goods, and steal those goods when people are too lazy to do something when people are very proud and believe they are always right, consequently harming another being when people have insatiable gluttony and do not share with their peers despite having better conditions when people accumulate enough goods without need, and when people have an uncontrollable lust, that can lead to the death of other beings. When a 'sin' is committed, by divine law, they will be condemned to hell. However, by God's will, their sins are still to be judged by the three Judges of the Abyss. These judges are gigantic beings whose only visible features are their golden eyes, golden hands, and a mouth that seems to contain an entire 'galaxy' inside it. Supernatural beings call these judges the eyes, hands, and mouth of God because, with one decree from these formless beings, they can be condemned to eternal happiness or eternal suffering.

If an individual's sins are declared to be too high to redeem, the mortal soul will be thrown into the confines of the 7 hells, its' soul will be recycled, taking only the good part, and all that is left will be an empty shell of pure evil. These are the beings known as demons. People of antiquity believe that there is no 'goodness' in demons. After all, that part was taken from them a long time ago. When angels fall they become demons.

## History

Lucifer is the first Demon King and Guard of hell, who was also responsible for keeping demons in hell. However, the man decided to simply take a vacation; he broke the key to the gate in two and gave it to his most faithful 'friends';

Lilith, the Mother of Demons, also known as Adam's first wife, rejected being 'chained' by god. She subsequently became the Queen of an entire faction. However, she is a special being, because despite being a demon of the highest rank, who can be considered an evil god, Lilith still retains her 'goodness' unlike other demons.

The other half of the key was then given to Diablo, also nicknamed 'Satan' by mortals. Later, he became the Demon King Diablo, the leader for which Belial served. Diablo is hailed as the incarnation of evil, the bloody plague, the demon of Chaos. There are many titles that beings have given him. Diablo is the first demon born when God implemented the soul recycling system, humanity's first sin, and, consequently, by being the first and beginning of everything, he is the 'idealization' of what demons should be. From then on, the hierarchy of Hell was split between two factions, warring for dominance over the other.

### Factions

Hell is currently divided into three factions, the older ones are Lilith's and Diablo's factions and the new one is Alucard’s faction.

The public objective of Diablo's faction is the control and dominance of the Human race. Their true objective was to transform Diablo into a nephalem. Diablo wanted to create a pantheon of 'dark' Gods

The main objective of Lilith's faction is to exact vengeance against the Heavenly Father and the Angels. They also hold a great hatred against all Gods not just the Heavenly Father.

The main objective of Alucard's faction was to conquer Hell completely. Now, they are enforcing a new order to make the Demon race progress as one society.

## Abilities

### Demons' Standard Abilities

Demons possess supernatural longevity, and superior strength and speed compared to humans. However, the most common ability of demons is their ability to possess and consume souls. By possessing deceased souls, demons can manifest their selves in the mortal world through the use of these vessels. Alternatively, demons can also choose to consume these souls instead of using them as vessels, which can help nourish them. However, eating souls is generally discouraged in Hell, since souls are becoming scarce, and each available soul would much preferably be used to manifest their demonic kin on Earth.

* **Superhuman Strength:** Demons can increase the strength thresholds of their vessels. Any demon can kill a human with relative ease. They are far stronger in their real bodies.
* **Super Speed and Reflex:** Demons are faster than humans, witches, and hunters. Their speed can rival that of werewolves and vampires.
* **Enhanced Agility:** Demons also possess super-human agility, such that they can react quickly, jump great heights, and climb and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Similar to their strength, demons also augment their vessel's resistance to injuries; keeping the body together through sheer force of will.
* **Augmented Stamina:** Demons' stamina is greatly enhanced.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Demons have a keen sense of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. In addition, some demons have a high level of empathy sensing like succubi, the can sense lust. Demons can also sense corruption and sins in Humans.
* **Dependent Immortality:** If not killed, demons can live for as long as humanity exist. Even in their vessels, they are still immortals. Demons exist because of humans' sins
* **Regeneration:** Although demons can't heal their host, they can still heal themselves
* **Possession:** Demons can possess a human with a damned soul to leave hell, the stronger the demon the higher the vessel quality.
* **Soul consumption:** Demons consume the souls of the damned like food.
* **Flight:** Demons can use their wings to fly.
* **Natural Weaponry:** Demons have very sharp claws, strong wings, powerful bites, and prehensile Tails.
* **Miasma (Demonic Energy):** An acidic venom like substance generated by high-level demons, it's one of the signature abilities demons have. When an ordinary miasma enter a being body, it will weaken them and cause severe pain. There are an advanced type of miasma which kills and devours the infected being. Miasma can slow down the regeneration ability of other races like. It can also corrode the environment.
* **Resurrection:** Demons are supposed to exist for 'eternity' even if there physical body is destroyed their souls will go back to hell and resurrect again. Demons take about 1000 years average for their resurrection depending on their power. Monarchs of Hell can speed up the resurrection process by sacrificing thousands of innocent souls. If the demons' soul are destroyed, consumed or have their link between their soul and hell severed, they won't be able to resurrect again.
* **Evil Spirit Physiology:** Demons true form is that of evil spirits. Demons have all spirits' abilities aside from 'strong soul'.
* **Energy absorption:** Demons can consume negative energies to increase their power.
* **Demonic Scripture:** Highly knowledgeable demons have the ability to use demonic language to create words that contain powers.

### Succubi's Exclusive Abilities

* **Dream Manipulation & Essence Extraction:** Succubi can manipulate others' dreams, high-level ones can turn dreams into reality. They can also extract other's essence and consume it or use it to create a life.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** Succubi can put their opponents under illusion and manipulate this illusions as they wish. They can cause targets to see, hear, touch, smell or taste things differently from what they truly are. Demons like Morgana can even deceive higher-level demons like the Ars Goetia.
* **Unnatural Beauty:** The succubus will be beyond the beauty of a normal human woman and is completely irresistible.
* **Charm:** Like Vampires, Succubi can enchant any creature weaker than them to do their bidding.
* **Sexual Inducement:** Succubi can elicit sexual arousal within weak-willed beings to make them instantly crave sexual interaction, most likely through touch.
* **Lust Empowerment:** Sex for Succubi is like blood for Vampires, it can make them stronger and heal faster.
* **Life Absorption:** Succubi can suck the life out of any being via sex.
* **Bodily Fluid Manipulation:** Succubi can control their bodily fluids and manipulate them.

## Weakness

* **Vessel Destruction:** Destroying a Demon's vessel will banish them from earth.
* **Exorcism:** Exorcism has the same effect as *Vessel Destruction.*
* **Faith Energy:** Hunter's faith energy can harm and possibly kill Demons.
* **Holy Energy:** Holy energy is fatal to Demons.
	+ **Angels:** Angels and Demons are mortal enemies.
* **Divine Energy:** Like holy energy, it's fatal to Demons. Any being (Gods) or object (Divine weapons) that has a divine power can kill a demon.
	+ **Gods:** Nearly all gods can defeat, curse or even kill demons with ease. Example to that's Aphrodite who cursed Belial without difficulty.
* **True Name:** Demons' true names can be used to restrict them.
* **Dependent Immortality:** Unlike Gods and Vampires, Demons' immortality depends on the sins of humanity. So, if humans stop sinning or go extinct, then Demons would die out.
* **Night Kings:** Night Kings have the power to permanently kill Demons by destroying their souls or swallowing them.
* **Blunt Force:** Victor was able to kill several demons, destroy Belial's castle and injure him by throwing a bomb at his castle.
* **Environment:** Demon's need to be in corrupted environment to unleash their full power. If demons went to a non-corrupted area (Earth for example), they would be weakened significantly.
* **Incomplete Soul:** Demons are beings created from the evil part of deceased mortals' souls which means there souls are not complete. So, demons can't accumulate concepts and achieve godhood. There are exceptions to this rule like Lilith.  Although Demons are naturally born with flawed soul, they can build the missing part and complete their soul but the process is very hard and not every demon can do it.
* **Heart Extraction or Destruction:** Destroying a demon's heart or manually removing it will result in instant death.

## Restrictions

Demons have a divine rule that prohibits them to intervene on Earth. Additionally, there is a 'door' that prevents the passage of demons, and at that door, there was a guard—Lucifer, the first Demon King and Guard of Hell.

With the key to hell's gate broken, the gate itself became unstable, and 'gaps' began to appear in the gate. Through these breaches, the Dukes and Kings could send minions into the human world. At the time, the strongest demons were excited when they saw the breach in the gate. They thought they could finally get out of this boredom that is hell and wanted to go to the human world. Unfortunately, they couldn't, only low-level demons could go through the gate. Moreover, there were two options for high-level demons. They can either seal their power and enter the human world with the power of a low-level demon or possess a human's body.

Sealing off their power was a big 'no' for the demons, considering they didn't know when their friends would turn their blades on them. Thus, it became a general agreement that demons would possess the bodies of humans who had just died, and, by using the human's soul as a key, they could enter that human's body.

## Known Biblical Demons

### Demon Kings/Queen

* Lucifer (1st King, Formerly)
* Diablo ✝(Formerly)
* Lilith (Formerly)

*\*/Note: Victor is not a demon just like the Heavenly Father is not an angel. So, don't add his name here. His name is already in the infobox and that's enough.*

### Elders of Hell

The **Elders of Hell** also known as **Keepers of Hell** and **Guardians of Hell** are two ancient demons created by Yggdrasil to protect Hell and ensure that the dimension exist forever. They swore allegiance to the new King of Hell who bestowed the title of Elders upon them. He also gave them an additional which is recording and preserving the history of Hell.

* Albu
* Zahal

### Generals

The **Generals** are the leaders of Victor's army. They are stronger than the previous **Ars Goetia** and the **Seven Deadly Sins**.

1. Vine
2. Vepar
3. Helena Gremory
4. Lily Bael

### Commanders

The **Commanders** are the second-in-command in the **Generals** armies.

* Aline Valefar (Ruler of Hell; Abaddon's Head of Technological Development; Vepar's subordinate)

### Seven Deadly Sins

The **Seven Deadly Sins** also known as **Seven Princes of Hell,** **Seven Sins**, **Capital Vices**, **Cardinal Sins**, and **Distorted Sins** are one of the most powerful demons in hell. Even Lucifer the demon king who unified hell under his command is one of them. They are considered to be the most authorized demons in hell. This order was destroyed by Victor.

* **Pride:** Lucifer (Formerly, no longer a demon), Pride ✝(Currently)
* **Sloth:** Sloth
* **Lust:** Lust ✝
* **Envy:** Envy ✝
* **Gluttony:** Gluttony ✝
* **Greed:** Greed ✝
* **Wrath:** Wrath ✝ (currently the strongest among the deadly sins)

### The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse

The **Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse** also known as **Heralds of the End**, **Children of Sin**, **The Four Knights of the Apocalypse**, **Representatives of Calamity** and **Heralds of Armageddon** are four demons of the highest order. They are above **Ars Goetia.** They are said to be the bringer of the apocalypse. This order was destroyed by Victor.

* **Pale Rider:** Death ✝
* **Red Rider:** War (Strongest and de facto leader)
* **Black Rider:** Famine ✝
* **White Rider:** Pestilence ✝

### 72 Dukes of Hell

Also known as the **72 pillars**, **Solomon's 72 keys**, the **Lemegeton** and the **Ars Goetia** are the elites demons in hell, everyone of them has an entire army of demons under his/her command. They are above all demons but under the **Seven Sins** and the **Four Horsemen**. Later Victor destroyed the system of nobility in Hell. So, the Ars Goetia system isn't valid anymore.

* King Baal ✝(1st key of Solomon, Diablo's right hand)
* Duke Agares (2nd key of Solomon)
* Prince Vassago † (3rd key of Solomon)
* Marquess Samigina † (4th key of Solomon)
* President Marbas † (5th key of Solomon)
* Duke Valefar † (6th key of Solomon)
* Marquess Amon  (7th key of Solomon)
* King Paimon ✝ (9th key of Solomon)
* Prince Sitri  ✝ (12th key of Solomon)
* Marquess Naberius  (24th key of Solomon)
* Duke Astaroth  (29th key of Solomon)
* Marquess Phoenix (37th key of Solomon)
* President Malphas ✝ (39th key of Solomon)
* Count Raum  ✝ (40th key of Solomon)
* Duke Focalor  ✝ (41st key of Solomon)
* Duke Vepar (42nd key of Solomon) (Formerly)
* Marquess Sabnock  ✝ (43rd key of Solomon)
* Marquess Shax  ✝ (44th key of Solomon)
* King Vine (45th key of Solomon) (Formerly)
* Count Bifrons  ✝ (46th key of Solomon)
* Duke Vual  ✝ (47th key of Solomon)
* President Haagenti  ✝ (48th key of Solomon)
* Duke Crocell  ✝ (49th key of Solomon)
* Knight Furcas  ✝ (50th key of Solomon)
* King Balam  ✝ (51st key of Solomon)
* Duke Alloces  ✝ (52nd key of Solomon)
* President Caim  ✝ (53rd key of Solomon)
* Count Murmur  ✝ (54th key of Solomon)
* Prince Orobas  ✝ (55th key of Solomon)
* Duke Gremory ✝ (56th key of Solomon)
* President Ose ✝ (57th key of Solomon)
* President Amy ✝ (58th key of Solomon)
* Marquis Orias ✝ (59th key of Solomon)
* Duke Vapula ✝ (60th key of Solomon)
* King Zagan (61st key of Solomon)
* King Belial (68th key of Solomon)
* Duke Dantalion  ✝ (71st key of Solomon)

## Known Asuras

### Kings

* Old Yama ✝ (Formerly)
* Yama

## Trivia

* Dantalion, one of the Dukes of Hell, persecuted the entire Incubus race and extinguished them from the 7 hells.
* Lilith is a demon and a goddess at the same time.
* There are two different narrations about The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse in the bible:
	+ The Book of Revelations in the New Testament lists the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as conquest, war, famine and death
	+ The Old Testament’s Book of Ezekiel however lists them as sword, famine, wild beasts and pestilence (plague in some translations).
* In the Bible, The Four Horsemen are not demons neither evil beings. They are more like God's judgment.
* Demons are considered undead race.
* Victor is the only demon king to rule biblical hell whilst not being undead nor an actual demon. He is also the first ever demon king to show/feel love.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 247
2. ↑ Chapter 251
3. ↑ Chapter 312
4. ↑ Chapter 562
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 637
6. ↑ Chapter 714
7. ↑ Chapter 332
8. ↑ Chapter 534
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 250
10. ↑ Chapter 575
11. ↑ Chapter 433
12. ↑ Chapter 665
13. ↑ Chapter 415