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On the seventh day of Christmas my DM gave to me "7 demons laughing"
Demons, the chaotic fiends of the Abyss.
Demons are chaotic evil or neutral evil creatures.
They mostly live in the infinite layers of the Abyss.
In 4th edition lore the Abyss was created when a shard of evil was taken and planted
in the elemental chaos causing it to shift and change.
Like a evil wound it festered into the Abyss.
The Demons sprung from this evil as well, or were elemental creatures changed by the
evil of the Abyss.
Many of the demon lords are thought to be powerful primordials that were living in the
elemental chaos, changed by the Abyss and the Shard of evil.
No one knows exactly how or why the first demons took form.
Sages believe that the fusion of the shard of evil and the physical instability inherent
in the Elemental Chaos were the catalyst that spawned demonkind.
There are some demons that are older than this story and created the shard of evil.
These creatures are known as Obyriths.
They are a vile race that one presided over the remains of a dying universe.
They created the shard of evil to push through a fissure between realities, to enter into
the world of Dungeons and Dragons.
Using the shard they hoped to corrupt everything but only ended up creating the Abyss.
Demons and devils hate one another.
Devils were originally assigned the task of pushing back the demon threat, but became
corrupted by the demons and changed into Devils.
Despite this change the two still don't get along and demons and devils destroyed
one another on the battlefield.
This is known as the Blood War and it is ever raging, although settled down a bit in 4th
edition thanks to Asmodeus becoming a deity.
Demons want to spread chaos and destruction.
They love the prime material plane because it's a new place to spread chaos and destruction.
Demons are creatures of rage and raw physicality.
The anatomy of demons mocks that of other forms of life.
They might look like a giant insect, or a terrible beast.
They might have the head of one animal but the body of a man.
Demons rarely sleep unless compelled to do so by magic, poison, or other external influences.
They breathe and eat but don't appear to need to do so.
Demons have such strong lungs it is unknown if they breathe or merely hold their breath
for an indefinite amount of time.
In Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss they actually dissect a Demon to figure out how
it works.
Demons when they die on any other plane than the Abyss turn into a bubbling pile of black
goo as their bodies return to the Abyss to form a new demon.
If a demon is killed while within the Abyss it is permanently destroyed, both its body
and its essence.
So it's very difficult to capture a demon and examine its body.
Through some crazy magic a character was able to hold a demon Dretch's body on the Prime
Material plane to dissect it.
They discovered that the dretch has muscles and tendons, bone and claws much like other
creatures.
But no digestive track.
Demons will eat and eat but where the food goes is unknown.
Some think it must be magically taken to the Abyss.
Their abdomens appear to be filled with swirling, noxious black liquid.
Some demons, not all, do have sexual organs and it is possible that they can create half
demon children with creatures of Faerun.
Although this seems more common with devils, hence the tiefling race, than demons; it has
occurred in the past.
Demons like devils can also have a true name.
If you learn that true name you have power over that demon and can summon and control
them from across the planes.
Fifth edition DnD has some spells to summon demons, found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
They require blood from a humanoid killed within the past 24 hours as a component.
The demon will fight for you but at the end of it's turns it makes a charisma saving
throw to break away from your control.
Knowing the true name of the demon the creature's check is made with disadvantage.
I think it fits a demons chaotic nature to be difficult to control like this.
We already spoke about two demon lords Juiblex and Yeenoghu but there are plenty within the
Abyss each controlling a specific layer.
There is said to be 666 yet possibly infinite layers of the Abyss so the number of Demon
Lords might be much larger than what is known.
Some of the more popular ones are Baphomet, Graz'zt, Orcus, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy.
Probably the most well known thanks to the adventure Out of the Abyss (he's on the
cover) is Demogorgon.
Also known as the Prince of Demons, Demogorgon is eighteen feet high with snake like tails
for arms and the body of a great ape.
Two baboon heads sit atop his lumbering shoulders.
His lower torso is some type of great reptile with a scaly skin.
Each of Demogorgon's heads has its own personality and they do not get along.
The two war with one another adding to the chaos and insanity that is Demogorgon.
He is in eternal conflict and war with Ocrus and Graz'zt.
Their armies have clashed throughout the Abyss since the beginning.
According to 4th edition lore Demogorgon was a primordial that felt the pull of the Shard
of Evil; and upon coming to the Abyss was changed into the monstrosity we know today.
If you want to know more about the demon lords check out my video on Demons of the Abyss,
I'll leave a link in the doobly do.
There are loads of cults that worship demon lords.
Entire adventurers can be built around a cult of Orcus, some wacky warlock trying to raise
an army of the dead to reign destruction down upon the material plane.
That's it for today, thanks for watching everyone.
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