Twine Encyclopaedia: Demon (Herm)

Muttly demons live in Hades.

They are shapechanging creatures.

: 1. Birth and genetics
: 2. Shapechanging
: 3. Binding
: 4. Death
: 5. Eeeevil
: 6. Famous or significant demons

1. Birth and genetics

Demons don't breed; rather, they appear in scattered locations throughout hell and have to fend for themselves from the beginning.

When a demon first appears it is fully 'grown' (though not necessarily intellectually mature... ever). The default first shape is some variant within the bat-winged humanoid theme. It has come into being with a set of properties ('statistics', if you like) that are permanent and determine many of the characteristics of the demon, such as shapechanging skill.

Full article: Genetics (Demon)

2. Shapechanging

After generating, demons usually switch shape immediately and go through several iterations until they find one they like, subsequently making minor changes and occasionally taking a whole new shape when bored. Some demons never (or seldom) change shape, content with the default.

Everything about a demon's body, or shell, can be altered. Some never go beyond growing extra limbs, changing colour and all the usual fluff; the most capable shapechangers are much more ambitious, designing digestive systems, skeletal structures and the like just for fun. (see: Genie) Some learn to survive for a short time without a body; at this level they become very hard to kill.

The density of a demon is variable, as is anything else about their shells, such that even a demon with poorly-proportioned wings or poor aerodynamics may be able to fly simply by making itself almost as light as the atmosphere.

3. Binding

Some demons may form a mindbond to a hellhound. There are many more demons than hellhounds.

Full article: Mindbond (Demon)

4. Death

In most cases, a demon can be killed. This happens often. Given the argumentative and mistrustful nature of most demons, not many survive to die of old age.

See also: Stability

When one demon dies, another usually pops up at some point. This is not instantaneous cause-and-effect, but the general trend is to keep Hell's energy constant.

5. Eeeevil

As with angels, demons do not have a guaranteed evil or good alignment. There are plenty of arseholes, though.

6. Famous or significant demons

See also: angels, Himmelhunde, heaven, generic demons