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 The most common way for demons and their kind to sustain themselves in realspace is often to find locations in realspace where reality is thinnest for whatever reason and invade, corrupt, or conquer the local space and area and seed corruption or bind their souls to local hosts in manners such as possession or through soul-binding contacts for the good or ill of the host.  The most common way for demons and their kind to sustain themselves in realspace is often to find locations in realspace where reality is thinnest for whatever reason and invade, corrupt, or conquer the local space and area and seed corruption or bind their souls to local hosts in manners such as possession or through soul-binding contacts for the good or ill of the host. 
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 +===== How are Demons Made =====
 +Demons and infernal beings are varied in how they come to existence. 
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 +Some live and procreate much like any being, living their lives and forming partners and relationships and bringing new life into their world. using this method most demons are able to procreate with other demons even of other sub-species within reason and the offspring can be varied with variable conception rates depending on a number of factors. 
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 +Some demons are also //created//. Through the formation of soulstuffs by warlocks, cosmic chance in highly corrupt infernal areas when the conditions are right, and other means a demon can come into the world unnaturally. This is most common in areas of high corruption or infernal energies where soulstuff, physical matter, and magic will condense into a being of infernal energy. The intelligence, memory, and personality are dependent on the circumstances. Warlocks have also been known to create lesser demons using collected materials from dead or captured infernal beings in the attempt to garner power or create powerful servants.
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 +Some demons are formed by their planet or realm and crawl from pits or gouges in the world where infernal energies have condensed and can create newborn demons of various races. Such locations are often seats of power for powerful demonlords who use birthing pits to keep a steady population and cultures stem around these pits where families will wait at these locations and adopt the newborns crawling from them into their families when such locations often have a low natural procreation rate. 
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 +Finally some demons are made from //corruption//. When a mortal or a divine being has had their soul entirely corrupted by infernal energies and is not consumed by another demon they often become a pseudo demon themselves. Wings will blacken and feathers will change, horns or fur or scale might grow, the skin might change color. The end result is a demonic version of their original self depending on how powerful the corruption is. Such beings are often shunned or hunted in their own realms but are welcomed freely in infernal realms and some nations actively seek to locate such beings due to their trophy status and in the case that corrupted beings usually have the power of their old life and their demon hood making them powerful assets for any demonlord to own. Infernally corrupted individuals are also more resistant to divine corruption compared to normal demons and are considerable assets against the divine even if they are still affected by it. 
  
 ===== Infernal Realms ===== ===== Infernal Realms =====
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 When a world has fully succumbed to corruption and breeds infernal energies freely it is not uncommon for that world to simply be sucked into the abyssal realm of the invading host; Hence why no world of demons inside the Calliope Star Cluster never last more than a few millennia in realspace before they are simply sucked into an abyssal realm as a new territory for the invaders. When a world has fully succumbed to corruption and breeds infernal energies freely it is not uncommon for that world to simply be sucked into the abyssal realm of the invading host; Hence why no world of demons inside the Calliope Star Cluster never last more than a few millennia in realspace before they are simply sucked into an abyssal realm as a new territory for the invaders.
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 +As it stands the Infernal Realms are all a part of one large combined dimension that spans near the entirety of the Calliope Star Cluster while existing just beyond the surface of its reality. The exist //bellow// the star cluster for lack of a better term while divine realms exist //above// it with the mortal realm in between. 
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 +The [[entity:precursors]] had outposts and influence in both realms, and the [[universe:gates|]] also exist in both realms in the same locations as in the mortal realm. Hadal's Chasm is also just as turbulent to the infernal realms as the mortal realms and travelling through it or exploring it is extremely dangerous.
  
 ===== Demon Hierarchy and Governance ===== ===== Demon Hierarchy and Governance =====
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 Most often a //Demon King or Queen// will rule a large portion of an infernal realm and can hold sovereignty over several planets or even an entire large empire while //Demon Lords// such as Demon princes, dukes, archdukes, counts, viscounts, etc. may lead fiefs of their sovereigns territory on their behalf and manage their affairs.  Most often a //Demon King or Queen// will rule a large portion of an infernal realm and can hold sovereignty over several planets or even an entire large empire while //Demon Lords// such as Demon princes, dukes, archdukes, counts, viscounts, etc. may lead fiefs of their sovereigns territory on their behalf and manage their affairs. 
  
-This is not always the case, however. As nations and governments not unlike democracies, republics, or other types of governance may exist to varying degrees of power or success. The norm is, however, that infernal realms are competitive places and even the most peaceful and safe of them are built upon the bones of others.+This is not always the case, however. As nations and governments not unlike democracies, republics, or other types of governance may exist to varying degrees of power or success. The norm is, however, that infernal realms are competitive places and even the most peaceful and safe of them are built upon the bones of others. Some nations or realms of demons even are built upon the foundation of conquering others of their kind or converting mortal realms through corruption and integration.
  
 ===== Travel between Realities ===== ===== Travel between Realities =====
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 <note>The rules of the [[guide:setting_travel_guide|]] still apply to any method of travel in the setting including magical ones. Non-precursor gates, FTL from inside one system to another, transporting from one planet directly onto another such as with some form of a portal for means of invasion, etc. Are not viable means of transportation.</note>  <note>The rules of the [[guide:setting_travel_guide|]] still apply to any method of travel in the setting including magical ones. Non-precursor gates, FTL from inside one system to another, transporting from one planet directly onto another such as with some form of a portal for means of invasion, etc. Are not viable means of transportation.</note> 
  
-==== Posession ====+==== Posession and Contracts ====
 It is not uncommon for individual demons to cross the barrier between realities to possess or inhabit a body of an already living being. This can be consensual or not but is always a requirement on the part of the one being possessed to be a factor in the possession as a demon can not simply blunt-force their way across the divide and inhabit a person's body and/or soul.  It is not uncommon for individual demons to cross the barrier between realities to possess or inhabit a body of an already living being. This can be consensual or not but is always a requirement on the part of the one being possessed to be a factor in the possession as a demon can not simply blunt-force their way across the divide and inhabit a person's body and/or soul. 
  
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 If freely possessed by trickery or deceit it is not uncommon for the host's body and/or soul to be corrupted and eaten/absorbed by the possessing demon. If freely possessed by trickery or deceit it is not uncommon for the host's body and/or soul to be corrupted and eaten/absorbed by the possessing demon.
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 +While a mortal may only contract to one infernal or divine being; A demon or divine being can contract to as many mortals as they can make contracts with and spreads their power our equally to them with diminishing returns. When providing power, magic, etc. to a mortal the demon gives at the moment the contract is formed but takes more over the long term allowing them to empower themselves over time with multiple contracts weakening the demon in the short term but often acting as a long-term investment especially if they actively corrupt and absorb their host's souls or reap them entirely upon death. 
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 +It is a common tactic years before an incursion for demons to possess or make contracts with the populace of their target world prior to the invasion to see corruption and pre-empt pawns, followers, and sources of power. 
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 +There are also entire sects and cabals of warlocks, mages, and others who seek contact with demons and empower their orders with them.
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 +=== Post Contract ===
 +When the mortal end of the pact dies, the demon is not immediately forced out of the place in which they've come to, should they be a non-native of that place.  The energy of hte pact lingers, letting them remain in a place for some time.  The length of which varies, as it is highly dependant on the strength and depth of the pact.  A pact that was purely an exchange of a soul for a brief moment of power or such, would have the demon leave very quickly, but a pact that was deeply built, long lasting, and mutually welcomed by both sides could last for decades.
  
 ===== Divine Entities ===== ===== Divine Entities =====
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 They exist in separate realities, are powered by unique power exclusive to their realities, may freely inhabit the bodies and souls of mortals in return for power, and make contracts with mortals.  They exist in separate realities, are powered by unique power exclusive to their realities, may freely inhabit the bodies and souls of mortals in return for power, and make contracts with mortals. 
  
-This is where the simularities end. +This is where the similarities end. 
  
 Diving beings are anathema to infernal beings and vice versa due to their species' innate corruptions being poisonous to the opposite species. Corruption is as damaging to angelic or divine beings as holy corruption is to infernal beings. And the two races seldom ever have positive interactions with each other; Other than in rare cases where either race's zealotry has not poisoned their psyche to seek violence first.  Diving beings are anathema to infernal beings and vice versa due to their species' innate corruptions being poisonous to the opposite species. Corruption is as damaging to angelic or divine beings as holy corruption is to infernal beings. And the two races seldom ever have positive interactions with each other; Other than in rare cases where either race's zealotry has not poisoned their psyche to seek violence first. 
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 Relatively weak and reliant on their magics; The mere presence of one of these beings is often enough to influence others around them and they can freely tailor their form to subtly alter themselves to meet the preferred appearance of a potential victim to better let their guard down. Relatively weak and reliant on their magics; The mere presence of one of these beings is often enough to influence others around them and they can freely tailor their form to subtly alter themselves to meet the preferred appearance of a potential victim to better let their guard down.
  
 +==== Shadow Demons ====
 +[[species:isferatos]]
 ===== OOC ===== ===== OOC =====
  
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   * This template's format is based on the Wikipedia article for [[wp>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human]].   * This template's format is based on the Wikipedia article for [[wp>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human]].
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 +species.species_name : Demon
 +species.species_description : Broad Overview of Demons
 +species.origin_shard : 
 +species.species_art  : 
 +species.species_type : Magical
 +species.player_use   : Yes
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