Demons! Let's See Them!

@Oriflamme Oriflamme
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:13:40 +0000

@Oriflamme wrote:

Demon in my story is an umbrella term for the living creatures corrupted/created by the blood of an ancient dead eldritch god. Although the demon currently looks like humans with pointy ears and horns, it wasn’t always the case.

Intelligent demons have limited shapeshifting ability(It takes years to completely change shape) and thus in the past, usually took the form of powerful monsters. They were already in the process of shifting to a more humanoid shapes, when the introduction of firearms made those with beast form completely useless on the battlefield. This change also forced them to rely more and more on regular humans or half demons because they were so few in number with disastrous consequences for the nobility. The humans living in their territory, the half-demons, and the lower ranked demon overthrew the demon king and replaced him with a democratic republic.

During the revolution, the everbleeding corpse of the dead god was seized and the blood harvested became a key resource in the industrial revolution rivalling fossil fuels. It can be melded to metal to create a living machine colloquially called demon engine. The Abyss is home to a small native population of demons, but also accepted large portions of the old demon nobility fleeing the revolution

Nives, a character part of the love pentagon, is half demon. Demons sometimes appear as minor characters, and demon engine made for war appears as a background detail.

A huge part of this will probably never be explained in my story since a lot of it is not plot relevant.