Demons

The **Demons** *(鬼, Oni)* are ancient supernatural, immortal entities born from the Demon God Indra, who gave them the power to manipulate both Magic and Chi alike, as well as granting them demonic powers capable of destroying humanity and bringing ruin to Planet Eos.

## 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

Demons are a mostly carnivorous, vampire-like species whose primary diet are humans, consuming their flesh and drinking their the blood. Sunlight is deadly to them and will burn them to ash, so they strictly operate at night. Demons have an abnormally powerful physical constitution and regenerative ability which makes them immune to normal weaponry and grants them the ability to regenerate from any wound with ease, even re-growing their heads. Only the Sacred Treasures, special weapons made from special ore with sunlight absorption properties, can inflict life-threatening wounds. Of course, even with a Sacred Treasure, the only method guaranteed to kill a demon is by chopping its head off or crushing it with brute force. The demons are also known to hate Lotus flowers, which are toxic to them and whose smell is repudiated by them. Most demons possess a murderous instinct to kill and devour mortals, and have lost most of their memories from their mortal life. While they do still retain their original personality, most times it becomes a darker version of what it used to be. However, there have been a few demons who have completely retained their mortal emotions and memories, such as Kyaro, ??? and ???. All demons do regain their memories moments before they die, which possibly means that demons also have their lives flash before their eyes before they turn into complete ash.

The demon species is also known to mutate and grow stronger over time as they consume more mortals, allowing them to grow into more monstrous forms and improve their physical and regenerative abilities among other attributes. However, there have been times where demons reached entirely new height by committing cannibalism and devouring other demons. Different blood types in both mortals and other demons have different levels of nutrition for them: the rarer the blood type, the greater the nutrition. The rarest blood type is known as **Rh Negative**; eating a single mortal or demon with this blood type provides a demon with roughly the same nutrition as eating one hundred. Indra's blood is known to have special properties that can strengthen a demon, proportional to the amount of blood infused. The blood, however, is dangerously toxic in higher concentrations and can force a mutation in the recipient's body far beyond what they can withstand, causing death. However, if they do endure the process which is more excruciating the higher the dose is, their strength will grow tremendously. Conversely, Indra is also able to nullify a demon's immortality and regenerative ability, being able to devour and kill them if he so wishes. There are many different organizations within Eos, some are adversary to the demons as they are trained to destroy them, others are adversary to the mortals as they are trained to fight against the Sacred Treasures to effectively kill humans, while other are combined of both Demons and Mortals with a common goal to live amongst one another but will kill members of the other organizations if it ever came down to it. For this reason, the demons who work with the humans tend to live in secrecy with the population at large being ignorant to their existence. Even more, some of the other demons blend into human society as a way to hide from persecutors and also to have a much easier access to prey. They can also be born by normal means, however Demon God Indra is the only demon capable of this feature.

### *𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲*

Demons come in a variety of forms. Most are humanoid in appearance, only with slight alterations to their physiology, including but not limited to: paler skin, fangs, pointed nails, catlike eyes with unusually-colored sclera, dark markings that come in various patterns across their bodies, and/or a change in hair color. The changes differ from demon to demon, as some demons can still retain their normal appearance while others gain distorted features like multiple heads, mouths, or limbs. There are also cases where demons possess bizzare monstrous physiologies more akin to beasts than mortals.

## 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

### *𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬*

Due to their predatory nature, demons possess sharper sensory abilities. Most notably, demons can discern normal blood from Rh Negative blood. A low level demon is even able to track the smell of something as small as saliva back to its source. Demons are also able to distinguish things Mortals hardly understand, such as blood type, sickness, and genes.

### *𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐚*

Demons have a naturally menacing presence and aura that evokes fear, with stronger demons having a more intense aura. The aura of Lower demons can make the air feel heavy and thick with a mere gaze, while Higher demons possess auras that can induce fear and physical pain into their opponents or even make them lose the will to fight.

### *𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧*

Demons have incredible regenerative abilities far superior than any living being or mortal due to the properties of Indra's demonic blood, able to heal any sort of physical injury in mere seconds, including deep cuts, organs, chunks of flesh, entire limbs or even their head and entire body. Stronger demons can heal more serious injuries faster and more precisely than weaker demons. For example, the average demon will take a dozen seconds to regrow an entire arm, while the likes of the higher demons can repair it in the same second it was sliced off, faster than most others can react to, making it seem like it happened instantaneously. The fastest and most impressive regeneration feats belong to the Demon God, Indra, who can heal any injury so swiftly that it makes it seem like the attack simply phased through him or that he never got injured in the first place.