Demons

Already many millennia before Satan and Gabriel originated, the demons already existed. Previously, there were only the ordinary mortals who populated this world. But a terrible fire threatened to burn down a whole village. The souls of the dead did not want to allow that and desperately tried to take in the fire to save the living. The fire solidifies in their souls. They seemed to burn and yet not to burn. The fire enveloped the soul and formed a new body. They were also flesh and blood, but the fire still blazed in them. In her blood, in her lungs, in every cell of her body. However, they lived again. They needed air to breathe, like any ordinary mortal, and could eat and drink if they wanted. The ordinary mortals were startled by what had happened. They referred to them as fire creatures born of the flames. The fear was too great in front of the stranger and so they drove the demons away. The demons then formed their own people and, believing that they were being led by fate, called themselves demons. Very soon they discovered their abilities and the thirst for power woke up. They started to fight each other. However, their number increased rapidly. At that time, it was still important to the demons to ensure their survival.

There are some demons that came later. Today nobody seems to be left behind. While the group of souls at that time emerged from the fire, there were isolated souls who took in hurricanes, tidal waves, or rock avalanches to protect ordinary mortals. These also became demons, but instead of the flames in their veins, it was air, water or earth. However, the numbers were so small that in time they lost their offspring and the demons that once emerged from the fire became genetically accepted. Also, the three elements had a decided disadvantage. The demons that came out of the fire could eat and drink or let it be. On the other hand, those with the element air tolerated no food at all. Neither liquid, nor in solid form. Water and earth looked similar. In the element of water they could only eat liquid food, whereas in the element earth it was only the solid food.

Even the demons could n‘t live without rules. It would only lead to constant deaths and other disasters. Thus, they also set up a small control system. Official demon battles - The demon battles are one against one. Weapons of any kind are prohibited. The fight continues until one of them gives up or loses consciousness. Nobody will be killed. If someone interferes in the fight, the one against whom the attack is aimed wins. Unofficial demon battles - There are no rules here and can go until the death. Blood oath - At the blood oath, a demon picks up his hand and lifts it. He/she has to keep the oath that he/she expresses or take his/her own life. If he/she doesn‘t do it himself, the other demons will do it. With such a break in the oath he/she no longer belongs to the people and only deserves death. Blood vow- The blood vow is the wedding with the demons. A pair that enters the blood vow is connected until death. Divorce doesn‘t exist. If you want to break up, you have to commit suicide or kill your partner. As a companion (partner) you have the right to kill anyone who comes too close to the partner, flirting, wants to claim him or even attacked/injured him/her. Taking a blood vow has many advantages, as most demons are reluctant to attack if you have a strong or respected companion. However, it also forbids anyone ever to kiss someone else or something like this. Then the partner would have the right to kill his companion or his/her lover.

In the meantime, there are only a few customs left in the demons. The reason is that the culture of the demons also changed a bit over time. However, the customs that are left are likely to remain the same over the next millennia. Admission to rank - Although demon children are the future of the race, they are not highly regarded in the demons' society. Demon children always get a teacher who isn‘t a parent. This is then responsible for the fact that his protégé is trained and survives. Most of them are trained until their 20th birthday, but at the age of 10 they have the opportunity to challenge other demons to official demon battles in order to rise in prestige and rank. Thus, they can already have a higher rank than 10 years, as an example, 1,000-year-old demon. Exclusion from Rank - Demons are very intent on staying purebred. For example, demons who have a child with non- demons are often excluded from the rank system or placed at the lowest end, meaning that one is practically still below the lowest level. Half-demons generally have no right to recognition of a rank. They are unworthy of it. Destiny - As in former times, the demons still believe in destiny. Not as much as they once did, but they believe they have to find their destiny. A demon who has found his/her destiny reaches the destiny of his/her life and will no longer turn away from this destiny. Even if it meant his/her death.

The rank system of the demons is divided into three levels - the top ranks, the middle ranks and the lowest ranks -. These three are divided again, but very different. There are also different rights and rules depending on the rank. Ranking is important in that, as high-ranking others may be under their protection. He then has to first challenge the "protector" before he takes hold of the "protégé". For demon families, it is generally true that you challenge the one with the highest rank, practically the "head of the family". This is how the demons protect each other. Among other things so that it does not constantly lead to deaths among them. However, this also means that often weaker demons are rejected from their families, because no one wants to take responsibility for them. Top ranks There are only 10 demons in the top ranks. All other demons belong to the middle or lowest layer. However, the upper layer is divided again into two halves. The top five practically rule over the demons. Commands from the top five demons should not be ignored. Their job, however, is above all to worry about their people surviving. They may only be challenged by others from the top ranks to an official demon fight, and their rank may only be challenged by them. These five supreme demons rarely change their position. On the other hand, the five of them can be challenged at any time by any arbitrary, no matter if middle or lowest layer. In these positions, there are often changes, as some demons hang between middle and top layer and fight again and again. Middle ranks The middle ranks are again subdivided into the upper middle class, the middle class and the lower middle class. The upper middle class includes the demons, which have the power to pick it up from the upper layer. Which does not mean that they will ever get there. Their reputation is almost as great as that of the upper class, and it is reluctant to have a demon of a lower rank deal with such a person. The middle class makes up the majority of the demons. Fights for rank and reputation are constantly taking place here, because everyone wants to be in a better position than this one. Only they have to train and gain experience. The lowest middle class tends to stay in the background. A few dare to challenge the Demons in higher ranks, but most of them settle for their position and are happy to be left alone. For all of the middle class, any demon can challenge them to official demon battles and dispute their rank.

Lowest ranks The lowest ranks are the eyesore of the people. A demon from the lowest ranks is not taken seriously and has absolutely nothing to say. For most demons, this layer is just air. But even these lowest ranks again differed in the outcast and the weak. Among the outcasts are the demons, who have been excluded from their family ties and are too weak to hold their own in the middle class. As they stand alone, without protection, they try to stay out of all struggles and quarrels. The feeble-minded, however, still belong to a family ties and thus probably have demons over them who can protect them. Therefore, they can often assert themselves against the demons from the middle ranks. The traitors, however, have no rights at all. You violated a principle or rule, such as: For example, the procreation of a half-demon or the blood-oath was broken and still not killed themself. Even if they have a lot of power, they are assigned to this layer and were excluded from the people. They can no longer dispute anyone's rank and have no right to official demon battles. So far, there was only one demon who escaped this assignment because he was far too powerful and respected to be included in this layer. His name was Dimicatio and he belonged to the top layer. He was in 6th place. When he got his son Dimidius, a half-demon, no one dared to step him down. However, this is the only known exception that has ever existed.

Baptism - The demons exist longer than Satan and Gabriel, as you can read in the story "The Prophecy of the Light". Before hell and the sky came into being, the demons had customs of which they came off with time. One of these customs was the baptism of the newborn. In the vastness of the desert, beyond any civilization, there was a spring, like an oasis of wonder running between stone and rock - the fateful spring. Nobody will ever know why this particular source was named or chosen by the demons as a spring of fate. But there was a piece of demonic belief hidden there. On the day a demon was born, he/she was taken to the spring of destiny and covered his/her head with the spring water. At the same time, for the first time, they pronounced the name of the newborn and blessed him/her that fate would be good to him/her. Only when this happened, the demons believed, would the destiny of the demon reveal itself. Otherwise, he/she would be damned to lead a life without purpose.

Death - Demons don‘t age and usually don‘t get sick. Still, they can die from their injuries, just like everyone else. Before the time of hell and heaven, demons were honorably buried by their family. Here, too, the spring of destiny played a decisive role. The body of the demon was laid in a kind of funeral pyre near the spring of destiny. The demon was then lit or the pyre. The destiny spring should thus show the soul of the demon the way into eternal rest and protect the soul from further damage by other powers. If one didn‘t do this, it was the belief of the demons, the soul would walk and suffer for all eternity.

Destiny - Everyone has probably heard or even used the word destiny before. For the demons it used to be one of the most important things in life. Every demon had one destiny, one fate. This belief is still partially present today. It begins with baptism and ends with death. But what is the fate for a demon? Absolutely every demon is bound to find its fate, whether it is the training of younger demons to become first in the ranking or to worry about the continued existence of the demons. Every demon will eventually find its destiny. Strangely enough, almost all male demons felt that the spring of destiny had made them first in the ranking. Which led to too many fights and arguments. In fact, only one could ever be the first in the rank system and this wasn‘t the destiny of everyone. Although many believed that. So many demons never found their true destiny.

The aging of the demons is a very interesting topic, because you can‘t make a firm statement in this regard. The pregnancy is the same as for mortals/ordinaries. Nine months the child grow up in the body of the female demon before it sees the light of day. Demon babies get mischief and a small drop of blood. This drop of blood esures that in the case of a blooddemon, werewolf or ghoul, the child doesn‘t starve to death. Otherwise, all demons develop pretty much the same. They learn to crawl after just three or four days and already walk after one week. Their body develops faster and stronger, making them much stronger and faster than mortals. Their other senses are developing intensively such as hearing and seeing. Demons begin to speak at a age of one month. From that point on, they are also considered to be infants and no longer as babies. Then they won‘t receive any mother‘s milk anymore. Their body continues to evolve until they finally stop aging. This happens to most demons at the age of 20 to 25 years. However, some demons stop aging from the age of 16 to 19, and other in the age from 26 to 30 years. It is therefore impossible to determine a specific period of time when a demon will stop aging. Whether it depends on certain factors, so far couldn‘t be determined. Demons are generally immortal but can die in combat. You can not tell a dead demon how old he really was at the time of his death. In the case of the living, one can usually guess by their behavior in which time they belong and thus estimate how old they really are.

Demons usually don‘t eat or drink. But they can if they want. All food and drink is instantly destroyed in their body. The body doesn‘t need any of these nutrients and so the food in the body is simply burned. It is completely useless. There are only three exceptions that actually need to eat. For one, these are the blooddemons, who have to drink a little blood at certain intervals in order not to "starve to death." Second and third are the ghouls and werewolves who have to eat raw meat. These too "starve" otherwise. However, demons can still taste and enjoy, just like everyone else, when they eat food.

How do you recognize a demon? Demons actually look like any other, with a few exceptions. The most striking feature is the red eyes. In demons, even the pupil is red, making it look like they have no pupils. Which is not the case. Most demons are well trained and through the many battles they have often been scarred. Blooddemons are characterized by their pointed fangs, while ghouls have consistently sharp teeth. However, there are no other special features.

Demon blood is a little different than ordinary or mortal people. For one thing, the blood has a different temperature, as with mortals. On the other hand, it has fewer nutrients, which is crucial for blooddemons. A blooddemon would need to drink twice as much blood from a demon as a mortal. In addition, demon blood also has an effect on mortals. If a mortal takes only a drop of demon blood, he/she feels twice as intense as normal. This applies, for example, for pain, but also for caresses.

In general, one can‘t really name the personality of the demons 100%. First of all, you have to distinguish the male demons and the female demons. Male demons are always anxious to give you strength and menace. They don‘t want to come across witty or soulful. Besides, they are selfish and ruling. Not necessarily character traits that are appreciated, but for a demon this is quite natural. Demons that do not fit into this mode of behavior are considered unworthy of others. A joker or a soulful family man are anything but not welcome. However, there are exceptions. Mostly these demons are in the lower ranks. However, it also happens that a demon, for example, is emotional and in the top ranks. Then, however, none of the other demons openly dare to say anything against it. Female demons, on the other hand, are often sentimental and don‘t want such a cold, conceited demon. Unfortunately, they don‘t have much to say about it. But even here there are exceptions and some female demons are just as combative and seem threatening, like a male demon.

Demons grow up without knowing what love is. Female demons learn by themselves what love is. Her feelings guide her. Male demons, on the other hand, don‘t feel love as long as no one explains it to them and listen to their hearts and souls. Love is also something that demons consider as a disability. It draws too much attention. A loving demon is not a real demon in their eyes. But there are now and then exceptions that discover love for themselves. Often they are then in the lower ranks or are challenged by the other demons so often that they eventually land there. Only a few male demons who discovered love for themselves were able to maintain their rank.

Every demon has black magic. The magic arises from the power of darkness. This is practically the source of black magic. This magic is given from birth. They can use the magic to attack, for example by creating magic balls and firing them at their opponents. It can be imagined as energy balls, concentrated power that comes to you. This can cause bruising, but also major physical damage. It depends on the strength of the magic ball. Black magic can also be used materially. Thus, demons often create swords, daggers, whips and other weapons to prove themselves in combat. In the process, the bundled black magic materializes, making the weapon firmly and normal. They can then simply dissolve this magic once again.

These are already innate in every demon. Similar to black magic, they can also create fireballs and use them for attack. However, they have to be careful not to burn themselves. Actually, demons don‘t really burn. It only hurts when they burn, but they never really burn. Their skin may hurt when actually lit, but they can‘t burn and after a short cooling in the water, the whole incident is forgotten. In addition to the fireballs, some demons use the fire whip. However, this is not fixed properly. It is actually made of fire and is often used in conjunction with black magic to give the demon a fire-free grip. He/she would otherwise cause himself/herself pain. A very special ability of the demons, however, is the fire spitting. Unwanted, but you could compare it smoothly with a dragon. However, it is very unpleasant because a demon feels the burning sensation in the throat during the fire- spitting. If used too often one after another, many of demons were hoarse and coughed wildly. Not to be forgotten, however, is the possibility of a hand movement and a strong will to let objects or even people like out of nowhere in fire. Demons rarely use the firepower among themselves, as it has no great effect on them. However, these forces often give them a great advantage over others.

In earlier times, there were four different types of demons. Demons with fire forces, water forces, wind forces and earth forces. However, there were more "firedemons" at this time than others. Also, their genes were more dominant and soon there were no other species. However, it still happens that from time to time a demon is born, who suddenly has no firepower, but other forces. Deep in the genes of some demons hidden, the three other species still exist. However, no one knows exactly who carries such genes.

The Airsabers are the most feared among the demons. This special ability is not to be underestimated. An airsaber is a demon who can cut the air. He/she drives his/her hand through the air and like a very powerful sword blow he/she cuts through everything that gets in his/her way. Even whole trees with just a single hand movement. However, he/she can‘t affect this ability on objects or people who stand directly in front of him/her. The movement of the hand through the air doesn‘t release enough pressure to sever a person right in front of him/her Therefore, melee combat is their biggest weakness. Only you have to get close enough to a Airsaber first. This can be quite problematic under certain circumstances. Besides, they still have their normal abilities to defend themselves with. Airsabers don‘t have to eat any food.

Blooddemons are demons that become stronger when they drink blood. However, this only applies for about half an hour before they need to take blood again. In addition, being a blooddemon also has a lot of disadvantages. Blooddemons must regularly take blood to survive. If you don‘t do this, you will die after about 2 weeks. It is similar to a mortal who starves after 2 weeks. However, the blood demon‘s body begins to burn internally without renewed blood supply. He/she is already lost after a week without blood, because the internal organs are too badly damaged, but dies only after 2 weeks. Also, certain blood has other advantages and disadvantages for the blooddemon. Thus, a blood emon becomes extremely much stronger (for half an hour) when it takes werewolf blood. The downside is that he/she is in pain afterwards if he/she doesn‘t eat raw meat. In addition to these disadvantages already listed, there is still the problem of drinking too much. If a blooddemon ingests more than 3 liters of blood within half an hour, it turns into a bloodshedder. A bloodshadder has fur, which looks like it was dripping with blood. He/she has completely blood red eyes, no dots know more and the independent thinking of the blooddemon is suspended. The only thing that cares about a bloodshedder is blood. For this he/she kills and takes no consideration, not even on his own friends or family. There are only three ways to stop a bloodshedder. 1. Kill him/her. 2. Imprison him/her and starve him/her for six days, then he/she turns back. 3. He/she drinks 30 liters of blood within 2 hours. Then he faints, turns back and sleeps about 12 hours. After that he still has about 6 more hours of severe headache. As a bloodshedder the blood demon is three times as strong as usual and for other demons a real threat.

The giants among the demons are probably one of the most feared demons ever. Demons with this special ability can grow up to a size of 20 meters and also shrink back to normal size. As a giant, they are incredibly much stronger than other demons and can do damage on a larger area. They also take attacks was lower. However, their size doesn‘t just bring benefits. As giants, they are slower and through their big hands they can also escape something. Another advantage is her voice. Demons have the ability to scream or scream incredibly loud. As a giant, this is unbearable even to the hearing of a demon. So you can hear him a lot further. Giants don‘t need food.

The term firedemon can lead to confusion, as it is of course in all demons are firedemons. However, one also designates a demon with a special ability as a firedemon. Unlike other fire-type demons, a firedemon can set itself alight without even feeling pain. Even if other demons ignited him/her, it would not hurt him/her in the least. He/she is absolutely fire resistant in every way. From inside and outside. It is completely futile to want to slow he/she down with fire. Other demons would throw themselves down to stifle the fire and avoid the pain. This demon, however, just keeps going. However, it is a very questionable ability because demons can‘t burn and thus doesn‘t give it any real advantage over other demons. A firedemon can‘t self-ignite when he/she is standing in water or is wet. They don‘t need any food.

Shapeshifters are demons that can turn into an animal. These can be quite normal animals, such as wild tigers, dangerous crocodiles, watchful eagles and cute rabbits or even mystical creatures like fire-breathing dragons, the flying pegasus or the shy unicorn. Any shapeshifter can only turn into an animal and unfortunately he/she can‘t choose. It is determined from birth. So, as a cute little rabbit, you have a skill that is totally useless in combat, unless you want to run away. On the other hand, as a dragon you have a really big chance to win the fight. So, if you meet a bear in the forest, it might well be a demon. Who can say that? Also shapeshifters aren‘t dependent on food.

As ghouls demons are called, which have completely sharp teeth. Apart from their special teeth, ghouls are as strong as a blooddemon who has drink blood. However, ghouls don‘t drink any blood, at least not to feed themselves or get stronger. However, like the werewolves, they depend on raw meat and should eat every day. A rabbit is enough for that. Ghouls are usually very threatening with their sharp teeth and must hide their teeth below the mortals in order not to be recognized. In addition, any demon could immediately recognize "This is a ghoul". Female ghouls are called ghula.

Actually, the name already says, what causes this special ability. If a person sleeps, the dreamwalker can sit down next to him/her, put his/her hand on his/her forehead and immerse himself/herself in the dreams of the sleeping one. Sounds a bit dangerous, but the dreamwalker can completely influence your dreams. He/she determines where you are, what you do and what happens to you. The bad part is that not only could you have bad dreams, but all that happened in the dream really happened to the body of the dreaming. If the dreamer dies, he/she will die. The only way to escape from such a dream is when someone else surprises/chases away/kills the dreamwalker. So bothering him/her in his/her plans. Dreamwalkers don‘t have to eat.

The word werewolf already says a lot about this special ability of demons. In fact, they turn into a werewolf, but not only at full moon. You can control it at will. The advantage of turning into a werewolf is obvious. The demon becomes faster, stronger and also has much more pronounced senses, like seeing and smelling. A werewolf is usually stronger than a blooddemon. Blooddemons have a hard time against werewolves unless they have had werewolfblood. That should be a fairly balanced fight. But even a werewolf has its disadvantages. To one they can‘t speak in this form. Maybe not really necessary and a growl and howl might be enough, but sometimes it bothers you. The much bigger drawback, however, is that werewolves as well as blooddemons need to eat. You must eat raw meat at least once a day. A rabbit is enough for that. So no ordinary people have to be killed and no larger forest animals. Werewolves usually go hunting at night, in the early morning or in the evening. During the day, they just have other things to do.

A demon who has a special ability to transform himself into a gargoyle has a decided advantage that almost no other demon has. You can fly. At most, a shapeshifter with a corresponding species would also have this privilege. But what is a gargoyle? Gargoyles are bat-like creatures. Surely everyone has heard of these "spooky" statuary on some old buildings. These are gargoyles. Gargoyles have more power, but not the power of a werewolf, more like a blooddemon. They can fly, use their claws purposefully and strike powerfully. Her/his specialty is the air raid. You can often hear other demons say that a gargoyle with broken wings is a helpless gargoyle. Which of course is not true, he/she could still use his general demon skills. Gargoyles also don‘t have to eat any food.

In rare cases, demons get unique abilities. This was foretelling that a demon would have a special ability that no demon had ever had before. For example, a demon could be born that has a special ability to produce earthquakes. Maybe you would call him/her earthdemon then. This ability would be unique, as no demon has previously possessed such ability. The big drawback to the unique abilities, however, is that most demons take a long time to realize what kind of special ability they have. If you have one of the usual special skills, you can just give it a try. However, the unique skills are usually discovered by accident. As a rule, demons with a unique ability don‘t have to eat. But as the saying goes, exceptions confirm the rule.

The term golem is earned by the demons, who can turn into stone creatures. Your body is practically turned to stone. This also has advantages and disadvantages, as well as each of the special skills. Like the werewolf and the blooddemon, the ability increases the demon. His/her strength increases, but he/she slows down a little in his/her movements and gets lost in the water. Despite these limitations, he/she also has a strong defense, because he/she feels little pain through the rock. It would take a lot of power to damage or even crush the stones. So a golem is also good to compare with a tank. Slow but stable and powerful. Werewolves or blooddemons would probably bite their teeth off them. Golems don‘t have to eat any food.

In addition to the general abilities of the demons, each demon has a special ability. There are abilities that are quite common in demons and have unique abilities that no demon has ever had before. Once a demon is born, it already has this special ability. Often, however, they only discover in the course of their lives what special ability they have. The blood demons, werewolves and ghouls know it very early, because they already get the first teeth on the third day of life. On the other hand, most other demons discover their abilities between the ages of 4 and 10. Some exceptions earlier, others later. Especially demons with unique abilities often take a long time to figure out what skill they have.