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'' '''Warning''': Do not edit this page. It is generated automatically by software which extracts the contents of ATaxonomyOfMadness and reorganizes it. This is a product of the [[Wordman/CommissionEngine]] and is updated every solstice and equinox.''
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'' '''Warning''': Do not edit this page. It is generated automatically by software which extracts the contents of [[ATaxonomyOfMadness]] and reorganizes it. This is a product of the [[Wordman/CommissionEngine]] and is updated every solstice and equinox.''
  
=== Achololim ===
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=== Adrigor ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Marsilion<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]]<br>
'''Title''': Wisdom, He Who Awaits the Sign<br>
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'''Title''': He Who Hungers For The Meat Of The Fallen<br>
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
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'''Author''': [[EwindaleMoss]]
 
 
Like a gargoyle, the bat-headed, bat-winged Achololim perches atop the parapets of the Demon City.  Jet-black skin, threaded with scars white as bone, covers his muscular frame, and his barbed tail lashes the air.  Wherever he goes, even into Creation, the very stones beneath his feet whisper their own secret dooms.  Achololim awaits the coming of a nameless being whose destiny has been blazoned upon the twisted skies of Malfeas.  He knows nothing of the one he seeks, not even whether it is a demon, a mortal, or some other thing; but he continues to watch, and wait, for he knows that his time will come.
 
 
 
=== Alalgar ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Zinnridi<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, the Ever Open Door<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
  
Those who would travel fast and far have been known to call upon Alalgar.  He appears as a massive man swathed in violet draperies that swirl in an unseen windBut to part his draperies reveals no body beneath, only a cold and windy darknessThose who pass through that darkness find themselves elsewhere, for Alalgar is a bridge to other places, both in Malfeas and CreationHe ensnares those who offend him in cocoons of violet cloth, then casts them through his inner darkness to meet some bleak and lonely doom.
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Dotting the Fields of Rot and Sorrow are great cavernous tunnels leading deep beneath Valxregen.  However, those that enter as ever lost as the tunnels sprout teeth and close on them.  They have just been added to the feast of Adrigor.  Adrigor is the child Sil Urxan wishes he could beWhen Adrigor's great mouths open wide, all the fauna within Valxregen dive within to be added to He Who Hungers great gulletFrom there, new life is excreted out through Valxregen's soil and Adrigor frees his brotherIn Creation, Adrigor appears as beasts of great size and cavernous mouthMore than once he has been spotted shattering ships as a siaka of brass at the behest of an angry sorcerer.
  
=== Alioth ===
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=== [[TheHoverpope/Aiomina|Aiomina]] ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Marsilion<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]]<br>
'''Title''': Messenger, Nightís Embrace<br>
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'''Title''': The Thing That Cannot Stop Being<br>
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
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'''Author''': [[TheHoverpope]]
  
Alioth appears as a cloud of velvety blackness that drifts like fog upon the air.  His embrace grants the gift of solitude; those within know only darkness, cut off from all light and from all sound other than their own voice and the beating of their heart.  For over a thousand years, Alioth has been bound within the Tomb of Night under the city of Nexus, and he yearns to be free.
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An eternal wanderer, for whom all of the world is best forgotten.
  
=== Alveua ===
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=== Amalion ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
'''Title''': Expressive, Keeper of the Forge of Night<br>
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'''Title''': Fifth Soul, the Manse of Echoes Ascending<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Anetessa|Anetessa]] ===
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=== Anadbagara ===
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Amending, The Doctor Who May Not Heal<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
 
 
A great ape, a doctor whose healing is artistry.
 
 
 
=== [[Shataina/Anjelen | Anjelen]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
 
'''Title''': Wisdom and Indulgent, The Blood-Sacrament<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Shataina]]
 
 
 
Anjelen, a double-sexed being, is a dichotomy within itself: male, it is an ascetic priest; female, it is a veritable Maenad. It loves sacred things, but its definitions of sacred and profane shift with its sex, along with its beliefs and emotions. The wise sorcerer avoids it, for they say that even some bindings do not apply to all its forms.
 
 
 
=== Ataranta-Etana ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / Verthan<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, the Prophet in the Waste<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Kalisara]]
 
 
 
A woman of living copper, burnished to brilliance by sand and wind, Ataranta-Etana walks the wastes outside the city and speaks prophecies of the freeing of the Yozis. When Kimbery floods Cecelyne and all demonkind is reborn in Cytherea's womb, then, Ataranta-Etana has said, the old oaths will have no more force and Creation will be theirs once more. A motley cult of lesser demons follow her, and every Calibration they sacrifice a demon - or, if they have one, a human - in Kimbery's waters or Cytherea's flames.
 
 
 
=== Azimer ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Ligier<br>
 
'''Title''': Warden, the Hollow Knight<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
 
 
Ligier is great among the demons of Malfeas.  He guards many treasures that he holds dear; he has many goals that he would see fulfilled.  The Hollow Knight serves as his right hand in such things.  Azimer appears as a knight clad wholly in shining green steel.  No flesh shows through his visor, nor through any chink in his armor.  His keen senses and skill in battle are without peer, and there are few in Malfeas or Creation who would dare stand against him when he wields his brother Gervesin in battle.  Should his visor be pried up, the armor falls away in a heap, lifeless and empty.
 
  
=== Baashayel ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': the White Queen<br>
'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]] / Temozarael<br>
 
'''Title''': the Prince Of Spite, Expressive Soul of Temozarael<br>
 
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
  
Baashayel embodies Temozarael's rage and frustration. He is the active soul, carrying out his master's will in the world. He takes the form of a writhing column of blood in the rough shape of a man, clad in robes of the blackest, silkiest hair. No one who has struck him or one of his minions can escape his gaze, but his retribution to them will be proportionate to the slight he has suffered. A proportion of about a hundred to one, but it's a proportion. Every blow he strikes burns his foes with the fire of his wrath. He storms through the world, destroying without aim or forethought, every blow struck against his living prison a blow by proxy against the gods and their servants.
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=== [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]] ===
  
=== Badr Basim ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]]<br>
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'''Title''': Fetich Soul of Chorifa, The Sower of Seeds Innumerable<br>
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'''Author''': [[TheHoverpope]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Persine<br>
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A spirit of infinite, accidental fecundity, in whose passage the world is changed.
'''Title''': Messenger, the Unmarried Captain<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
Badr Basim is the champion of brave bachelors.  He will lead an unmarried man to any thing that he desires, but by Basim's magic, that thing will be lost to him if he ever finds love.  Badr Basim appears as a young, dark-skinned man with pairs of crows' wings at his wrist and the golden eyes of a bird.  Sometimes, he takes the form of a wheeling flock of seabirds fighting over the corpse of a drowned man.  He feeds off the thwarted desires of those he deals with.
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=== [[Thinker/Anhelios|Anhelios]] ===
  
=== Balseraph ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Herald of the Sea the Marched Against the Flame<br>
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'''Author''': [[Thinker]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Ghroth]] / Mageddon<br>
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The Red Star blazes in the night sky of Malfeas, a tiny dim light compared to Ligier, yet the brightest star in the hellish sky of the Yozi's prison-kingdom. The eighth soul of Kimbery, the red light guides the demon ships across the Primordialís lethal waves. Like most Third Circle Demons Anhelios can exist in Creation and Malfeas at the same time. In Creation Anhelios may take either the form of a blazing red star in the sky (unmistakably different than the Maiden of Battles) or a giant composed only of red light. If he is soummoned by a Sorcerer then they must specify at the moment of their binding what form he is to take and he cannot assume another for the duration of his service. To name neither form frees him from all obligations while in Creation and will almost certainly result in the Sorcerer being carried off to Malfeas to serve Anhelios as a plaything. In giant form Anhelios is a combat prodigy that can crush armies, slay a sorcerer's foes (often with a single mighty blow), or siege even First Age fortifications single handedly. In the form of a red star Anheliosís gaze covers all of Creation.  When in the form of a star Anhelios cannot be seen by ordinary mortals, but to others he is visible day or night.
'''Title''': Warden, the Metalsmith<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
  
Born of fire and love and despair, Balseraph is the Metalsmith, the forger of Ghroth.  He is a vast being, standing 12 feet tall, made of brimstone and magma, with hands as sharp as razors.  He has no face, but his voice wells up from within him as if by means of echoes.  In the days when the gods still knew their proper place, Balseraph was the Metalsmith of Yu-Shan, and it is said that his skill knew no equal, save from the component souls of Autochthon the Great Maker.  The Metalsmith can bleed forth metal of any kind, save that of Magical Materials, and can forge weapons with strange techniques and lores imbedded in them.  Once, Balseraph counted Autochthon as his most-loved mentor; now, the Metalsmith seeks only to see Autochton's blood course through the streets of Malfeas.
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=== Anthir Sonai ===
  
=== Berengiere ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Wesmakan]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Cascade of Pearls, Fetich soul<br>
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'''Author''': [[Lammoth]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Ligier<br>
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Amid a great lake there stands a temple made from red marble. Bitter water plays around the steps of the sanctuary and sometimes Adjoran settles beside the Altar to behold the youth who sleeps upon it. From this lake all streams of Wesmakan have their origin. Three hundred man sized crabs holding pearls the size of eggs climb the sixteen steps from the water to the altar to deposit their impeccable gifts at the feet of their master. They hunt lesser demons who come too close to the water and drag them down below the languid waves and dismember them with their obsidian claws. They descend to the crystalline clams that live at the bottom of the lake and insert the lumps of flesh into their opaque skin. As the flesh of beings that were born is a blasphemy in the eyes of Wesmakan and a reminder of his failure the clams coat the heretic flesh with thousand layers made from the waters of Wesmakan. This is how the pearls are created and their color is that of milk mixed with a drop of virgin blood.
'''Title''': Indulgent, the Weaver of Voices<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
  
=== The Book of Sweet Words ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, the First Chapter<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
This Chapter instructs the reader in the nature of demons and how they may be summoned and bound, and the many things which tempt, appease, and frighten them. In the Palace of the Crane, it appears as a man with a robe woven of sugar, with demon marionettes hanging upward from his gnarled hands.
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Over time huge heaps of pearls build up at the temple and the spider demons that inhibit the temple make beads out of them that adorn the walls with their patterns. When the Ebon Dragon flies, Weskaman becomes disturbed and the waves begin to rise. When the light of the green sun is hidden behind the shadows, the waters of Weskaman rise up from their basin to meet their brother and to plan their escape. All that remains is the temple amidst the gaping wound in Malfeas' flesh.
  
=== The Breath That Consumes ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Ur-Nammu<br>
 
'''Title''': Reflective<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
  
Forever in motion, this black wind consumes all that it touches. Rock crumbles to sand, plants turn to ash, and flesh dissolves into shadow. Only bone endures, transmuted by the wind into rough black stone.  When in Creation, it carves out a steadily widening circle of sand and ash during the night; within that circle, fire and water sputter into smoke and mist, while the sun seems curiously dim. Sun, fire and water wound the Breath outside of its circle; within, it fears only ice, red-hot metal and the Five Magical Materials.
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And in this twilight, Anthir Sonai awakes from his slumber. A younth made from mother of pearl with eyes of blood red pearls. Every one of his four hands posesses four fingers with four joints with nails made from meerschaum. His hair is spun silver and his flowing robes are adorned with glass shells. His face showing sorrow and grief when he raises his flute to his icy lips. The flute was made from Wesmakans rib and was given Anthir as a spiteful present from Cyntherea who is responsible for its creation. When the first mournful tunes reverberate through the temple, the pearls begin to glow in a soft light and to move in complex patterns that match Anthirs melody. Soon the whole city booms under the sound of the pearls hitting the floor of the temple in an ever increasing rhythm. And suddenly all pearls hit the ground at once and faster than a though they scatter in all directions and disappear in the sky.
  
=== Calymdos ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Persine<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive, the Lung-Eater<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Cynessitten|Cynessitten]] ===
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A dozen seconds of total silence later, pearls rain down all over Malfeas and a creature struck by them is no more. Those pearls that aren't caught by daring demons begin their dance again, approaching eath other with wide leaps and deafening thunder. High above the city they meet and all that remains after a low and threatening thunderstroke is a fine red powder that settles upon the buildings somewhere on the uppermost layer of the city. Regardless what stood there before, now there is another deep wound in the flesh of Malfeas, the red temple in the middle. When the Ebon Dragon and Wesmakan conclude their meeting, the Father of Creations waters rain down into the new basin and the rivers begin to flow anew. Anthir Sonai himself relishes this period of darkness and takes his time when he wanders the city from his old to his new temple. Sometimes he meets Erembour in the dark alleys and when his flute joins her horn it is a sad day for the denizens of the demon city indeed.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Growing, The Shapeless Expansion<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
A barely sentient demon, one that is the grass underfoot made malign.
 
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Dav|Dav]] ===
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Anthir is the fetich of Wesmakan and the personification of the wound his imprisonment and the betrayal of his wife dealt to him. He embodies the shedded blood and the wasted seed that is the core of Wesmakans being. Nevertheless there are the seeds of life inherent in Anthir, who await being put to use. The blood of the primordials can give birth to gods...
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Aiomina|Aiomina]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive, The Mind Without a Home<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
A disembodied soul, a pattern of thought that imprints itself on those uncautious enough to be near it.
 
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Derethan|Derethan]] ===
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He who summons Anthir can command him to coat his enemies with the red dust so they cease to be and to play his song to make a whole kingdom barren und sterile. Far more important than these destructive abilites are his other skills. Those sorcerers seeking to create behemoths or new races benefit from his blood and his counsel. Those who swallow a special prepared pearl can overcome the limits of their bodies and create themselves a new temple of flesh to inhabit, unblemished and glorious. His vast knowledge of life and procreation can benefit the summoner in countless other related tasks. It is almost forgotten by men, but Anthir is an expert in the arts of love, tending a bit to the wild an rough side. And children sired by him are marvellous to behold in their many forms. The only things that are constant are their blood pearl eyes.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
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=== Aramedisae ===
'''Title''': Corrupting, The Sprouting Blight<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
A creature of plague, for whom spreading disease is the sole purpose of living.
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Path Between the Forgotten and the Lost<br>
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'''Author''': [[Translucidity]]
  
=== The Diagrams of Effortless Geometry ===
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The ninth soul of the Ebon Dragon, Aramedisae is the shadowed corridor that leads to a boundless eternity, the paths that only the lost and the blind can navigate, and the edge of labyrinthine darkness within every mortal's soul.  Her darkened doorways touch upon Creation in a thousand places and nowhere, for those that walk within her halls travel within a shadow of themselves, never emerging unscathed, perhaps never emerging at all - but she holds a path to every place lost to other ways, and it is for this reason those who seek the forgotten brave Aramedisae.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
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=== Ashar'Lhan ===
'''Title''': Warden, the Sixth Chapter<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
This Chapter tells the secrets of the warlike magics of the Infernals, detailing many styles of combat in its pages.  In the Palace it is a shaven-headed man dressed in only a loincloth, covered with arcane tattoos.  He is armd with every weapon that can be imagined, flickering in and out of his nine hands.
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'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Tenth Soul of Adorjan<br>
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'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
  
=== Dilmun ===
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Ashar'Lhan was once known as Elib Dhaan, Maker of Rivers.  But when Adrian became Adorjan, Elib Dhaan was transfigured, and became Ashar'Lhan, which in Old Realm means "Teacher of Pleasure."  Ashar'Lhan is a giant, standing as tall as a mountain, and as strong.  He wields a mighty maul of stone and fiery steel, which does not break down or rend asunder castle walls; rather, to be pummelled by his maul is to be rendered ecstatic with pleasure, as the wind of Adorjan tears at your soul, filling you will forbidden insight.  The secrets of pleasure are Ashar'Lhan's to control, and many are the mad cultists who seek his touch.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Zinnridi<br>
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=== Atlas ===
'''Title''': Indulgent, the Intricate Paradise<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
Beyond every door awaits Dilmun, the place where all desires are satiated and all limits are removed.  The space inside Dilmun is bent strangely in time and space; up is where one feels it to be, and 'then' and 'now' can be the same if you wish it.  One can enter Dilmun by passing through a doorway without any knowledge of what lies beyond.  But those who try and remove the treasures of Dilmun to the world outside discover that they cannot, for these treasures are shattered by the touch of natural law.
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'''Lineage''': [[HeWhoFollowsInHisWake]]<br>
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'''Title''': 2nd soul of He Who Follows In His Wake, Bearer of the Burden of the Earth<br>
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'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
  
=== Djoria ===
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Before the gods rebelled, there was a mathematical certainty to all things, and to all things a mathematical certainty.  When but young things, Atlas taught the Five Maidens the gift of telling apart the constellations, and divining wisdom from them; in this, all mortal astrology comes from Atlas, Bearer of the Burden of the Earth.  Though sized as a human, Atlas is the strongest force on earth, Heaven, or Hell, for is the mathematical certainty that the world will not end, that Time must bulldoze its way to tomorrow.  Now locked away from the mathematical world he once helped forge, Atlas has grown cold and distant, and none may make him weep or laugh.  No weight is too great for him to lift, no stone too great for him to hurl.  When in Creation, Atlas can give great strength, and take it away as well.  For this reason, many conjured him in the dying days of the Solar Deliberative.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Talavos]] / He Who Exists For His Fate,<br>
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=== [[FrivYeti/Avadonis|Avadonis]] ===
'''Title''': Reflective, the Chevalier Of Nightmares<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Paranoia833]]
 
  
Astride her demonic mount, Djoria rides amidst the dreams of demons, lavishing fear and insecurity on all who dream of her. Despite her nature as a bringer of misery, Djoria truly loves all life, and longs for the day her duties will unnecessary. Because of this, she has great sympathy with the malfeans, and the cause of Oblivion. Recently, Djoria has taken to assuming form of a spectacularly beautiful Deathknight, with long white hair, a corpse-pale complexion and sad, violet eyes, clad in super heavy Soulsteel plate and riding a fire-breathing steed of black marble.
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Shadow That Casts Itself<br>
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'''Author''': [[FrivYeti]]
  
=== Drel-Ud ===
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A consuming shadow-beast, Avadonis brings death with his steps, and is a careless force for unmaking in the world.
  
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Sil Urxan<br>
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=== Benezet ===
'''Title''': The Thumb On The Soul's Scale, Indulgent Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
  
There is an old man in musty brown robes who walks the edges of The Fields of Rot And Sorrow, looting the corpses of the dead and dropping their belongings into the sack he keeps at his waist.  In his right hand is a scale that he clutches tightly to at all times.  As he walks, he eventually crosses paths with his sister, Melisandra.  At those times when her charms will not sway one to enter battle, Drel-Ud smiles a smile of razors as he opens the pouch at his side.  The scale in his right hand knows the cost of his victim's soul and how much coin it will take for them to enter the fray.  When their price is paid, they rush into battle to slaughter and be slaughtered... and Drel-Ud gives his sister a smile and begins to walk once more, collecting his fee from the dead.
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
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'''Title''': Seventeenth Soul, the Gardener of Identities<br>
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'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Durgenil ===
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=== The Broken-Winged Crane ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Adrigor<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
'''Title''': The Thief of Flesh, Messenger Soul<br>
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'''Title''': <br>
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
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'''Author''': [[FourWillowsWeeping]]
  
The Thief of Flesh is the prince of the twisted crows that dwell within The Fields borders.  He can see through the eyes of each of his subjects and may speak through their beaksThere is a friendship of sorts between himself and Sil Urxan for he is the one who suggested to his father Adrigor to give Sil Urxan the feet of a crow when Adrigor devoured Sil Urxan's feet to create DurgenilIn return, the crows of Durgenil favor the corpse bloom of Sil Urxan more than the taste of any of deadWhile this binds the two closer than Adrigor would like, it still breeds a hatred in Sil Urxan that one of a lower rank should be allowed to feast upon him.  He is called upon to act as a spy within Creation, fearing only the blind, who are granted his sight in their own dead eyes as he passes near.
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The Broken-Winged Crane projects warped versions of itself, the First-Circle progeny of its seven Chapters, into the world from its prison Beyond, deep in the centre of Oramus' Cage of His WingsThey can only be discovered by one willing to take the step into darkness, to forego the paths of virtue and goodness to ascend the double spiral of madness and powerThe Broken-Winged Crane has a dark palace in the centre of Szoreny, where a part of it holds court surrounded by its seven councillors.  Those who are brought to Malfeas by its power are brought here to debase themselves at the font of forbidden knowledgeHere, it appears as a white crane with a single broken wing, with which it paints bloody calligraphy on the palace floor.
  
=== Emicrade ===
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=== Clariandra ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]] / Temozarael<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
'''Title''': The Clock Without Numbers Or Hands, Warding Soul of Temozarael<br>
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'''Title''': the Empress Resplendent in the Panoply of Brass<br>
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
Atop Temozarael's citadel (which is really an extension of Temozarela's form) there is a great clock, with no numbers and no hands. The great clockwork mechanisms hidden behind its milky white face tick away, inscrutable in their purpose. Occasionally, the mechanism will erupt outwards and go hunting, a great clockwork beast carved of bone and black Malfean iron, crackling with acidic green light. Emicrade, the most inscrutable of all of Tharalstrazix's souls, lurks within his burrow atop his lord Temozarael, biding his measureless time until he can escape and bring all continuity into unison and destroy the blasphemy of separated time. Emicrade is a being of unmeasured time, whether the measurements are simply ignored, infinite, or unknown. His mind (if it can be called that) functions without solid time, and as such does not change. To Emicrade, all summonings are as one summoning, all wounds as one wound, all hunts as one hunt, all meals as one meal, all facts as one fact, all mysteries as one mystery. Emicrade lives his boredom as an eternity and an instant at once, and revels in the white-hot infinity collapsed into a second that is victory and slaughter. He appears as a great beast, something like a cat, or perhaps some terrible lizard, at times like a boar, or some great worm or slug, or all of these at once. His every whirring component is soaked in a lubricant that causes all who touch it to erupt in hideous tumors. Every cog and gear, every whirring wheel, is razor-sharp and fiercely strong. Eyes it has wherever the acidic lightning that is its life-energy shows through its mechanical shell. These gateways to madness are its only weak point. They can open and close in a heartbeat, so it is useless to strike at them. Great chunks of the living mechanism must be torn away to open holes large enough to score blows. The ticking of clocks and the ringing of bronze bells is agony to Emicrade, and he cannot enter a domicile at noon if the inhabitants know it is noon.
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This illustrious magnate, one of many who rule in the demon realm, sits enthroned in palaces and mansions throughout the endless layers of Malfeas, surrounded by wealth and grandeur beyond mortal imaginings.  Her skin is black as jet; her eyes, brass orbs, blaze with golden light. Garments woven from her brazen hair gleam upon her perfect body. Clariandra holds dominion over any lesser being who accepts any favor from her or her household, no matter how small; thus-indebted mortals and First or Second Circle demons are bound to her service, and must fulfill even the vilest and most self-destructive commands. Though she has the power to bring order to the demon city, such a project would hold but little interest for her; instead, she occupies herself with her own obscure pursuits, leaving the reins of power in the hands of the lesser demons.
  
=== Eshemanti ===
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=== Daendels ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Munaxes<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
'''Title''': the Hundred Eyed Shouter of Blasphemies - <i>[canonical; may not actually be a demon]</i> (added by [[Enchantress]])<br>
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'''Title''': Fetich Soul, the Unfettered Heart<br>
'''Author''': added by [[Enchantress]]
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'''Author''': White Wolf
 
 
=== Esprevere ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / Remondin<br>
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=== [[TheHoverpope/DikosMou|Dikos Mou]] ===
'''Title''': Expressive, the Vernal Aviatrix<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
  
Esprevere has a passion for life.  She is tall and slim, gleaming with oily scales of orange and yellow, and great dragonís wings unfold from her shoulders.  Wherever she passes, strange life burgeons: unearthly seedlings and shoots rise from the earth, while the existing greenery swells and blossoms with unknown flowers and fruit.  Pregnant mortals and animals that fall under her shadow give birth instantly, sometimes to perfectly formed children, at other times to bizarre prodigies and abominations.  Though Esprevere normally leaves such things to whim and chance, she can choose the form such new life takes, and sorcerers often call her for this purpose.
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'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Mine of All Things Buried<br>
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'''Author''': [[TheHoverpope]]
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Essanell|Essanell]] ===
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The essence of all things buried and lost in earth, master of the ability of the earth to conceal and reveal the things within it.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Ypsos|Ypsos]]<br>
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=== [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]] ===
'''Title''': Indulgent, The Blades of Battles Past<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
Greatest of the warriors of Chorifa's flesh, a creature made of and for combat.
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': The Rent in the World-Cloth<br>
=== Euskarra ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Thari]] / Gobasi<br>
 
'''Title''': Reflective, Never-Ceasing Speaker<br>
 
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
  
Euskarra appears as a six-armed man covered in small sheets of gold and silver, which he peels from himself constantly, eventually revealing himself as herself, and continuing to peel and shed until he is male again, ever going back and forth. He/she too speaks all the languages of the year, and constantly, but only the tongue of the current month of creationDuring Calibration, he/she falls silent, and her/his hands turn to works that cannot be explained when her/his speech begins again.
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The third soul of the Ebon Dragon appears, disarmingly, as a man clad in black robes.  This raiment goes beyond the pitch that even the greatest dyers in the world can manage, and in it one can see nothing but perhaps half-remembered snippets of their own nightmares.  Should his smoked spectacles be removed, though, one will see pits of darkness where he should have eyes.  Echthros is something of the abyss, and for this he consumes as he will, and as those who summon him would, and wipes that which he takes from the minds of allHe is rare among his bretheren for having ony six souls: perhaps Nothing casts no reflection, or perhaps the introspections that soul showed him were displeasing, and he ate her much as he has consumed so much before.
  
=== [[DemonsOfTheSecondCircle/Evangeline|Evangeline]] ===
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=== [[Ekrasios]] ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Munaxes<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
'''Title''': Messenger, The Whiplash Queen<br>
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'''Title''': the Sculptor in the Maze<br>
'''Author''': [[Shemjaza]]
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'''Author''': [[FourWillowsWeeping]]
  
There are many who speak out against their masters, and many who seek wisdom forbidden to them. But for these indiscretions against the ultimate hierarchy there is a price to be paid, that price is pain.
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In the bowels of the Demon City, there walks a man draped in banners of  white silk, which fly behind him as far as the eye can see.  At his feet rises a bronze cloud, into which the banners vanish.  Whatever creature touches the draperies of Ekrasios turns to glittering dust and joins the cloud that follows him. He is lost forever in contemplation; he knows all the memories of the creatures he transfigures.  A fragment of his pale robe, wielded by one with knowledge and power, turns flesh to precious metals dependent on the wielder's nature.  It can be a potent weapon.
  
Demons know that this pain is called Evangeline.
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=== Erembour ===
  
=== [[Florivet]] ===
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': That Which Calls to the Shadows<br>
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / [[Orabilis]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Reflecting, the Whim-of-the-Wind<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Freygda ===
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=== [[DemonsOfTheThirdCircle/Esclarmonde | Esclarmonde]] ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Aramedisae<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Uthlanga]]<br>
'''Title''': Wisdom, The Empty Eyes<br>
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'''Title''': Fetich Soul, the Ossuary of Freedom<br>
'''Author''': [[Kukla]])
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'''Author''': [[FourWillowsWeeping]]
  
Freygda appears as a human figure whose hands and feet are both swapped, left and right, and whose bald head is wholly circumnavigated by a row of empty eye sockets. She sees through other's eyes, and can know other's thoughts. Freygda's skin is full of pocks, and she bears a barbed spear suitable for fishing, with which she tears out the entrails of her foes. She wanders blind and alone through Aramedisae's hallways, for she knows them well and she guards them from those who are not meant to be within them.
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Somewhere within the swamp of Uthlanga, there is a yard filled with crystalline bones, the bones of choices. Esclarmonde takes these choices from those who summon his presence, in exchange for the inscrutable services that only he and his lesser souls can offer.
  
=== Gebre ===
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=== Euthychia ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / [[Orabilis]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
'''Title''': Messenger, the Pavane of Dying Stars<br>
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'''Title''': The Bull Slain on Stagnation's Altar<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Gervesin ===
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=== Fastred ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Ligier<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
'''Title''': Messenger, the Grieving Lord<br>
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'''Title''': The Just Betrayal<br>
'''Author''': White Wolf
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'''Author''': [[DariusSolluman]]
  
=== Gobasi ===
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At the bottom of a sea that dissolves any flesh to touch the waves, so far down that even the stabbing green light of the mad sun never illuminates it, is a small palace, built of basalt, salt and brass.  Relative to the extravagances so commonly seen, it is an often overlooked place, and those who visit it alone remain alone, no matter how many others are there.  Only those conspirators who whisper in the dark by purpose instead of chance will find one another in the walls of Fastred, and it is there that conspiracies are hatched: servants against masters, loves against hates, seas against flames.  Fastred's very nature is betrayal, and he knows the truth behind every rebellion and revolution, and holds those truths inside himself, releasing one only if two treacheries are returned in its place.  It was within Fastred that the Great Treason was first spoken by the Willful Children, and that the Great Maker first demonstrated Exaltation to the same.  He could have warned the Primordials, but none would pay his price, and so they were unawares when the Exalted struck them the hard blows.  He also sometimes walks as a courtier, dressed in fine blue silk, with a mask of bronze heated to deadly temperatures.  A thin trail of smoke and the smell of burning flesh follows in his wake, and around him come the silences of conspiracies and the raised voices of treason.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Thari]]<br>
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=== [[TedPro/Fendoril | Fendoril]] ===
'''Title''': Indulgent, the Unctuous Capnomancer<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Translucidity]]
 
  
All knowledge changes as it is recorded, oftentimes lessening its truths, occasionally becoming something new and profound; so too does the smoke from burning books reveal new insights to Gobasi.  Appearing as a suave sophisticate of the South, his finery reeks of smoke, and an indispersible haze chases him to wherever he may seat himself.  Ever-intoxicated by the fumes of lost knowledge that bubble through his hookah, he can be tricked into revealing immeasurably valuable lore in his efforts to prove his sagacity.
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': The Heart Of Ice And Shadow<br>
=== Gruidtsuru ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
 
'''Title''': Wisdom, The Aviary of Ink Wings<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Wordman]]
 
 
 
Many souls have been lost in fascination with the patterns produced by the writhing storm of jet-black ink and feathers that forms Gruidtsuru. It ''knows'' something, maybe everything, but for most of Creation its compelling, swirling blackness hold only madness and a concealed shrieking vortex leading to Malfeas. Its children are the only path it offers to its knowledge, cast out into Creation like birds thrown from their nest, and never welcome home without suitable offerings.
 
 
 
=== Gumela ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Jacint<br>
 
'''Title''': Wisdom, the Jeweled Auditor<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Hrulik ===
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Within every human is the capacity to die within, and Fendoril can then make that human's heart into ice. Fendoril loves to do so; he offers the cold comfort of mercilessness. The Heart of Ice and Spiders is without remorse.
  
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Sil Urxan<br>
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=== Geneth ===
'''Title''': The Severing Sickness, Warden Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
  
The flesh consumed by Sil Urxan speaks of many persons involved with the slaughter that is Valxregen.  The one most find themselves familiar with is Hrulik, The Severing Sickness.  He rides a horse of bone and flame as he stalks the battlefield, a long, golden blade brandished high.  Hrulik is clad in leper's rags and from beneath them weeps streams of infection and pus.  He is the dishonor that claims those who live through the battle, the one who comes for those who were too weak to find a glorious death.  His blade severs their will to live from their soul and leaves them a fragile husk, gagging evermore on their own cowardice.
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Eye of the Flames<br>
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
=== Inchoal ===
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The eye that is Geneth burns forever within the second sphere of She Who Lives In Her Name.  As it burns, it turns in an endless wheeling dance, gazing out across Malfeas' countless layers.  Where flames can be found in the path of its gaze, a blazing eye looks out of the fire; where demons in the path of its gaze hold a searing passion in their hearts, whether it be hate or fear or love, Geneth looks out from behind their eyes.  When Geneth turns its gaze upon an individual, it learns everything about them in an instant; when Geneth turns its gaze upon a city or a kingdom, it can burn out the eyes of every living being there, blinding them forever.
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Aramedisae<br>
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=== Gergesenes ===
'''Title''': Warden, The Deformed Child<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Translucidity]]
 
  
To look upon Inchoal is to see one's own firstborn staring back, their eyes full of hurt.  It is to see them a twisted mockery of the human form, a vision so painful to regard that it sears itself into onlooker's minds for a year and a day.  Perverting any true image of that child they might behold, the torment of such a sight pulls tears of blood from their eyes, and filled with loathing, they are driven only by a burning need to destroy the abomination they have spawned.  Such is the power of this madness that even the childless are not spared it, though at least they endanger nothing more than their sanity and Inchoal himself.
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'''Lineage''': [[Qaf]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': the Incandescent Pilgrim<br>
=== Issa the Vain ===
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Ashar'Lhan<br>
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Barefoot as a mendicant, wearing the crown of an Emperor, Gergesenes treads the paths of Malfeas as a cyclopean figure forged of white-hot iron.  He travels in perpetual pilgrimage to those places in the Demon Realm that have been hallowed by the Yozis.  In four of his seven hands he holds relics once borne by the Yozis themselves.  When all seven hands are laden thus, his apotheosis will be complete; even Sacheverell, He Who Knows the Shape of Things to Come, cannot fathom what power or understanding he shall gain thereby.  Where Gergesenes prays in Creation, a shrine to the Demon Princes arises from the smoldering earth; when he enters an earthly temple, it is consecrated to the Yozis, and lesser demons slip through the cracks in their prison to worship at its altar.
'''Title''': Indulgent soul of Ashar'Lhan<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
  
Issa is beautiful, for she is the first beautiful woman.  She is the joy of physicality, the joy of carnality, and the pleasure of beautiful things.  Perfect in body and visage, Issa is a thoughtless thing, indulging in her own desires as she wills.  Still she is an artist, and many would slay their heart's love for the ownership of her works.  Many lust for her in the Demon Realm, but she will have no lover, save that of a Solar she served in the Old Realm.  Endlessly she waits for his rebirth, for she lusts for him, and will make him her slave, lest she herself wither away from despair.
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=== Gnimersalt ===
  
=== Iyutah ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
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'''Title''': 11th Soul, The Mouthless Eater of All<br>
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'''Author''': White Wolf
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Madelrada<br>
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=== Hamza-Hathmet ===
'''Title''': Messenger, the Vitriolic Dragon<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
  
=== Janequin ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Laerad]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Shining Mountains<br>
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'''Author''': [[FourWillowsWeeping]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / Remondin<br>
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Between the roots of Laerad coils Hamza-Hathmet, whose back is as broad as a lake, whose scales are great hills, whose mouth is a rocky crag! The great serpent guards the roots of the Universal Tree, slowly shifting his coils. Beneath and between his scales are gaps riddled with caves; these delve deep into his porphyry flesh. Digging in the caves of the Shining Mountains can reveal the great demon's veins that run with peacock-blue blood. This blood clots into masses of copper and emeralds. But do so with care! Adorjan rests inside Hamza-Hathmet when the sand of Cecelyne chafes her breezes, and he drives her to cool the itching pains inside his body.
'''Title''': Indulgent, Fortune's Fool<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
  
=== Jiagen ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / [[Orabilis]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Wisdom, The Girl Chained in Ignorance<br>
 
'''Author''': [[DariusSolluman]]
 
  
Jiagen appears as a young girl of the Blessed Isle, no older than seven or eight, dressed in a silk kimono of bright reds and greens.  All around her, her shadow writhes and flows around her, occusionally snapping at the unwary.  Jiagen is the Wisdom Soul of the End of All Wisdom, and to her is entrusted knowing everything that has never been learned. Once she was summoned by the wise, to learn quickly what no one else had ever thought to ask- now, she is a shell of her former self, and wanders the desert of Cecelyne, remembering only that she must remember what she has forgotten- for someone knows how the Yozis may escape, for she knows not how to break her own chains.
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It is almost impossible to emerge from the demon-mountains in the same place as one began. Though their pace seems languid, a moment within is like ten moments without, and cometimes collapses and avid diggers change the pattern of tunnels. When he wishes, Hamza-Hathmet may appear as a tall, white-skinned man; sand falls from his hands and from his mouth when he speaks. He cannot abide the sound of a virgin singing, or the taste of a maiden's monthly bleeding.
  
=== Jolenta ===
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=== He Who Exists For His Fate, ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / [[Ekrasios]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Talavos]]<br>
'''Title''': Wisdom, the Creeping Oracle<br>
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'''Title''': Fetich Soul of Talavos<br>
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
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'''Author''': [[Paranoia833]]
  
Three serpents writhe inside Jolenta's clockwork bowel; she is an orrery, a nest of silver and brass hoops and gears, supporting revolving orbs of precious unearthly stone.  She imprisons her three favorite children: the underworld serpents Furious Leaf, Coiling Brilliance, and Silent Fangs.  In her motions, she blocks their every attempt to escape; studying her spinning orbs reveals the motions of the Malfean heavens.
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Of the creatures who sleep in Malfeas, most merely dream of the violent cacophony of color, emotion and sensation that is Talavos. These are not real dreams, for they do not come from within the mind, but from the outside influence of the Vengeful Dream, those few sleepers who are deemed worthy of true dreams are visited by He Who Exists For His Fate, who appears to sleepers as a great black hole that eclipses Talavosí kaleidoscope of colour, drawing the light into himself. He Who Exists For His Fate draws out the long forgotten memories of his subjects, and creates from them the dreams of those who came before the gods. He Who Exists is wild and unpredictable in temperament, much like his greater soul. He is also one of the precious few beings in Malfeas who seeks to awaken Sacheverell, by covertly poisoning his dreams, that they might cause a great fit sufficient to awaken He Who Knows the Shape of Things to Come.
  
=== Jugurtha ===
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=== Helisquinde ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Ur-Nammu<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
'''Title''': Expressive, the Coils of Night<br>
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'''Title''': the Light That Casts the Shadows<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
The demon prince Jugurtha presides over a palace of torment on Kimberyís bleak and empty shoreHis massive black-skinned torso rests on a gargantuan serpentine body whose scales gleam like ripples on starlit waterDarkness roils about him and bends to his will, gaining substance with which to suffocate, crush and consumeFor all his might and malice, he rarely kills, for he finds his greatest joys in breaking his prey in body, mind and soulAnd when he utterly extinguishes the last spark of a mortalís will, he replaces it with a wisp of his own shadow, making that mortalís will his own.
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Even the brightness of the Green Metal Sun is as a candle-flame before the blaze of Helisquinde.  She drifts through the streets of the Demon City like a hurricane of white brilliance; those caught in her glare burn away, leaving only their shadows behindWhatsoever endures her radiance casts a second shadow forever afterOne so marked attracts the creatures of the night, and if it has a soul, an inexorable darkness sprouts and burgeons thereinOn such occasions as Helisquinde desires a mortal shape, she shrouds her radiance behind a veil of cold mist, so that she is merely as bright as a winterís day.  In this semblance, her exquisite beauty inspires an unnatural, poisonous envyShe is both passionate and calculating, compassionate and cruel; when she tests the strong with her beauty and her fire, she dreams of their success but relishes their failure.
  
=== Julex Il ===
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=== [[Lucy4Luvzu/Hepyrtace|Hepyrtace]] ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Tulchinary<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
'''Title''': The River That Muffles Song, Expressive Soul<br>
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'''Title''': the Forsaken Star<br>
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
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'''Author''': [[Lucy4Luvzu]]
  
Julex Il, the youngest of Tulchinary's tributary daughters, coils around the great feasting hall Wulgwyst and calls to speak with him, for she is sick with longing for his touch.  Yet, he cannot leave until all his guests are dead or sated for his position is as host and undoer and he cannot betray this.  So Julex Il coils round, listening for the whispers of her beloved Wulgwyst, sending out her children to drag the noisiest guests from the feast hall and drown them in her waters, for she cannot abide the sound of music or of laughter or the thought that Wulgwyst will never uproot himself and cross to her banks to be embraced.  Of the three daughters of Tulchinary, she is the most commonly summoned.  Often called upon by those who seek an end to joy and mirth, either out of spite or hatred, Julex Il fulfills her tasks with glee, coming as a tornado with a dozen lashing arms with which to gather up the offenders and silence them beneath her surface.
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=== Ipithymia ===
  
=== Kambos ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': 13th Soul, the Street of Golden Lanterns<br>
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Xipantek,<br>
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'''Author''': White Wolf
'''Title''': the Flesh Eating Mask, Messenger Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Telgar]]
 
 
 
Rarely seen in his true form, a stylized human face painted onto a simple noh mask, Kambos exists as a flesh-eater. He consumes the bodies of humans and demons alike, processing them into his own form, a congealed mass of brownish ooze that he can form into any shape that suits him. Most often the ooze appears in the rougly humanoid form of a hooded and cloaked savant. The flesh-ooze of Kambos quickly disintegrates, forcing the flesh eater to devour victims at a rapacious rate.
 
 
 
=== [[Mockery/Kassat|Kassat]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, the Vigilant Collector<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
 
 
 
Kassat wears robes (and is composed of) of shimmering glass, prismatic and bright. Underneath these, she holds treasures the like of which the world may never know. The folds of her garb part from time to time, and what it reveals is never human beneath, but a collection of oddities and wonders the likes of which even the Wyld might find far-fetched and amazing. Sometimes, little trinkets fall free from her body, and she does not notice this unless called to her attention. What falls may be as unimportant as a sphere that emits a gentle glow, and does not move from where it is placed, even if that place should be in midair, or a first-age weapon of unfathomable potential. Kassat deals only in unique items: that which she has already will not interest her, unless its possession makes her own more valuable.
 
 
 
=== Khsiret ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Geneth<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, Bearer of the Fiery Chalice<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
 
 
In his home, Khsiret is the inspiration for the Lightning Spider magic: a many-legged, lacy shape of shadow, in whose centre burns a many-coloured flame.  In the winding halls of his Manse, he weaves deep magics.  Summoned into the world, he appears as a shadow puppet of dark wood, carrying a chalice filled with flames.  One who drinks from the chalice is filled with energy, and if he can contain it, it will bring him great might.
 
  
=== Kimbery's Dawn ===
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=== Jacint ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / The Tide That Knows No Life<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]]<br>
'''Title''': Progenitive<br>
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'''Title''': the Prince Upon the Tower<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Kubriya ===
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=== Jarlastran ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]] / Temozarael<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]]<br>
'''Title''': The Lord Of Flesh, Messenger Soul of Temozarael<br>
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'''Title''': the Mourner of Days Not Yet Dawned<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
  
When Creation was young, the Primordials exercised their creativity and populated it with life to amuse themselves. Kubriya was considered a bit obsessed even by his compatriots. He loved nothing more than to shape, and reshape, and at last render shapeless, that which lives and bears flesh. His hordes of creations were traumatic to look upon, and deadly to fight, in the Primordial War. Since his exile to Malfeas, he has turned his creative fury to breeding warriors to win his lord's freedom. These mad half-alive creatures are like something out of a nightmare, but there is a certain purity and power in their patchwork forms. Kubriya's creations represent the epitome of natural selection and purity of form and mind, if they can truly be said to have minds. They live for their lord's pleasure, and cannot be readily commanded by any but him, being devoid of ears. This, along with inhuman toughness, allows them to survive as they roam the desert of Cecelyne, unharmed by the heat of Ligier, the dryness of Cecelyne, or the scouring ravages of Adorjan. They are most at home in the desert, and will gladly wander there for days on end. Kubriya himself has little interest in shaping his own form, being both somewhat lazy and titanically arrogant. His form doesn't need much work in any case. When summoned, he assumes the form of a brawny, hairy man with huge, bloodstained wings, curved ebon claws, and blank white eyes, yet a strangely elegant face. His voice can sway the weak-minded, and he is skilled beyond mortal comprehension in the arts of surgery. Blood is his preferred beverage, and he finds its taste sweet beyond measure. He will erupt into berserk rage if he is to see anything he perceives as beautiful damaged in any way. The defilement of beauty is one of the greatest sins in his mind.
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Jarlastran, like his brother Temozarael, takes the shape of a building, a great six-legged cathedral that roams Malfeas, sending forth Jarlastran's minions to do his will. Jarlastran makes a habit of collecting the slain bodies of demons, assuming something hasn't eaten them first. He stores them in his vast mausoleum-stomach, where the necrotic Essence produced by their decay is leeched to power the war machines that Jarlastran has stitched to his body. Jarlastran is a gloomy sort, inasmuch as anything is known about him. He wanders Malfeas without cause or purpose, and can often be seen weeping rivers of sewage from his cathedral form. He is antisocial in the extreme, and even his own children are mostly in the dark. Before the war, and the death of the One Crowned With Seven Rings In Quietude, Jarlastran was a neverending carnival that could appear anywhere and anywhen. His imprisonment has flipped him like a coin, revealing the ugly, dirty, and sad life of the carnival when the shows end, and he now wanders Malfeas in an orgiastic frenzy of depression and hatred. When summoned, nothing gives him so much pleasure as to destroy and burn the Creation that rose against him, which he does with skill and initiative. Jarlastran hates sunlight, whether the green of Ligier or the yellow of the Unconquered Sun, above all else and cloaks himself in a black fog wherever he goes, spewed from the smokestacks at the tops of his seven towers.
  
=== Liellus ===
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=== Ketu-Mula ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Geneth<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Sadagares]]<br>
'''Title''': Defining, the Indexer of Archives<br>
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'''Title''': the Blazing Chain<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
Resembling a bleached, too-tall corpse in gray and gold, bearing a massive codex bound in human skin, Liellus travels through all the layers of Malfeas to visit the glass libraries laid down by OrabilisIn each library, he traces his circuit among the shelves and stacksHe does not read the books nor study the lore that Orabilis has set down for the edification of the demon scholarsInstead, he records the title of each and every scholarly work in his codex, preparing a comprehensive index of the lore of the demon realm.
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The demon Ketu-Mula appears in many places in many forms, all of them forged of black Malfean iron spattered with brilliant jewels.  Each of his shapes is a thing that binds: a ring, a collar, a badge or a crown.  Whosoever dons the thing that is Ketu-Mula gains great power, but in doing so is shackled to a path ordained by the YozisWhen summoned, he instead wears his mortal shape: a middle-aged man, wiry and lean, with iron-dark hair and eyes like sharpened steelShafts of light flash from the folds of his cloak, for his heart is a well of squirming starsHis calligraphy is breathtaking in its elegance, and if he should write an edict in his own hand and affix it with his seal, those who open and read it are compelled to obedience.  Ketu-Mula is a shrewd and honest counselor, but he resents being summoned; when he returns to Malfeas, as a parting gift, he always presents a cruel and painful truth to his summoner.
  
=== Loreli ===
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=== Langlaua ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Fastred<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]]<br>
'''Title''': Wisdom, the Puppet with Cut Strings<br>
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'''Title''': That Which Preserves<br>
'''Author''': DariusSolluman
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
There is a place in which all the demons live.  Fools call it Hell and Exalts call it Malfeas and the wise speak of it not at allWithin it, there is a place where all the demons live.  The Demons call it Loreli, and behold it in wonder- a table of oak and brass and bone, as wide as a city block and held in a dome of salt and ash that is said to be the memory of the Pleasure Dome where once the True Rulers took their leisureInside is a sight to drive any mortal to madness: it is Malfeas, laid out in perfect detail.  Every demon of Malfeas can be seen, save those that cannot, and Loreli at all times knows where anyone of Malfeas is, should anyone but askLooking at Loreli, it seems as though the model grows larger, or you grow smaller, as though you are falling to the great table to those who you look uponLoreli watches himself, as is only just, a small child with red skin and blue eyes and golden hair, dressed in cloth of silver and tied to the table with strings of brass.  Though you may try, you will not cut these strings - Loreli fled once, and Kimbery punished the wayward soul well.
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Langlaua pours out of the desert as a hot, dry wind, and the air quivers in her wakeShe has also been known to appear as a swarm of golden dragonflies, a towering female shape formed of black sand borne upon a whirlwind, or a white-haired woman with eyes carved of amberHer kiss grants the blessing of long life, while those she embraces wither into immortal husks of leather and boneShe may preserve anything beyond its normal span, even such fleeting traits as power, fame and desireWhen the Yozis punish a demon with incarceration, it is Langlaua that lays her touch upon the prisoner to ensure the permanence of its captivity.
  
=== [[Lucien]] ===
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=== Lethe ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / [[Orabilis]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
'''Title''': Expressing, the Guardian of Sleep<br>
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'''Title''': The River of Forgetfulness<br>
'''Author''': White Wolf
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'''Author''': [[CarpeMortem]]
  
=== Makarios ===
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Coiled about the heart of the Ebon Dragon the 932 currents of the river of forgetfulness flow in silence. Its waters forever calling to the souls of the dead, pulling them into its depths so that its icy waters may cleanse them of their memories, freeing them of their fetters and impurity so that they may once again join the wheel of reincarnation. When summoned into creation, the river Lethe takes the guise of a tall willowy woman, her eyes sewn shut, and her flesh like that of a mortal who has drowned. When enfleshed, the merest sound of her voice will strip soul from body, and memory from soul, readying those who listen to her silent speach to join again with the worlds cycle.
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
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=== Ligier ===
'''Title''': Warden, the Sigil's Dreamer<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
  
=== The Manual of Efficacious Surgery ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
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'''Title''': Fetich Soul, the Green Metal Sun ([[Raindoll/LigerStats|custom stats]], [[Ligier|other custom stats]])<br>
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'''Author''': [[Raindoll/LigerStats|custom stats]], [[Ligier|other custom stats]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
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=== Madelrada ===
'''Title''': Expressive, the Second Chapter<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
This Chapter tells of the atrocities that Infernals have subjected themselves to in their quest for power - the golden needles of the anima transformation, the clockwork heart of immortality, and so forth.  In the Palace, it is a maiden with steel fingernails that drip with blood, and who always has insects crawling up her back.  She holds all the Infernals' knowledge of internal magic.
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': Eigth Soul, That Which Wears Down the Mountains<br>
=== Mara ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, the Shadow Lover<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== [[Lucy4Luvzu/Mastihos|Mastihos]] ===
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=== Mageddon ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / [[Lucy4Luvzu/Hepyrtace|Hepyrtace]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Ghroth]]<br>
'''Title''': Indulgent, The Unrelenting Crimson Mask<br>
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'''Title''': 1st soul of Ghroth, The Fire In the Sky<br>
'''Author''': [[Lucy4Luvzu]]
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'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
 
=== Melisandra ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Sil Urxan<br>
 
'''Title''': The Alabaster Throat With Silver Tongues, Messenger Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
 
 
The most lovely of those of Sil Urxan, Melisandra is a beautiful porcelain doll draped in dresses of purest white, beaming upon you with her soft eyes.  Her ebony hair perches atop her head softly, admiring you from above.  She speaks to you in comforting tones as you walk through the charnel house around you and reminds you of its necessity if you are to lay claim to her.  Only those watching her speak from afar see her true self as each one of her four faces spins to speak to another possible suitor.  Her eyes glow the colors of the four elemental poles as her pale faces speak the language of whomever they seek.  Sorcerers summon her to translate unknown texts and teach them languages lost to Creation.  These translations are never perfect, always purposefully corrupting a crucial phrase that will enrage those being poken to or leaving out a critical passage in an engineering diagram.
 
 
 
=== [[Mockery/Mellamy|Mellamy]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Indulgent, Confessor Wreathed in Grey<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
 
  
All men and women have secrets. Desires wear away self-control, and one's holding back slowly gives way, and a dam-burst of vice is the result. Mellamy will listen to you. Mellamy will absolve your sins. She smiles, takes your hand, and for one last night, those whom she blesses indulge themselves with her as they see fit, be it in gambling, drink, drugs, sex, or violence, until they pass out from exhaustion. When the sun rises again on them, their sins seem distant and far away, and the concept of indulging again, just a little, is foreign to them, though new vices will always spring up to take their place. Mellamy appears as a lovely, tempting young woman with ruddy hair and grey eyes, dressed in argent sheets and veils that never truly reveal, but hint at what must lay beneath. She may take other forms, though this is her favoriteNo matter what shape she wears, she may be picked out by her necklace of clam-shells.
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Of all Ghroth's souls, none were as feared as Mageddon, destroyer of cities, the Fire In the Sky.  For Mageddon is the breath of Ghroth, and is his herald, favored above all others in the Harbinger's eyes, save Ur.  A mighty stone as vast as a city, Mageddon has no set form or feature, being merely a great stone of starmetal and Malfean iron.  Before the reign of the gods, when Ghroth grew wrathful at a city of men or Dragon Kings, he would breathe forth his breath, and Mageddon would issue out, hurtling towards the mortal realm.  Mageddon would crush all those he landed upon, crushing them beneath his vast iron bulk. After his work is done, Mageddon sinks into the ground, and is reborn inside his master's cavernous mouth.  Now bound away from the mortals he loved to destroy, Mageddon has grown wrathful, and seeks endlessly to liberate himself from bondageHis cult is vast, as many would seek out the Fire In the Sky.
  
=== The Memory of Transformation ===
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=== Marsilion ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
'''Title''': Defining, the Seventh Chapter<br>
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'''Title''': the Eidolon of Shadow ([[Quendalon]])<br>
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
 
 
This Book tells of the death of Adri&aacute;n's fetich soul and her subsequent change into Adorjan, and other sufferings of the Primordials as they fought the Exalted for dominion.  To read it is to understand the pain of having one's soul die, and yet to survive.  It is the knowledge in this book alone that triggers the change, for the worthy, into Exalts of the Yozis.  All the others but prepare the reader for the darkness to come.  The Memory of Transformation appears as a figure robed in burgundy silk; only its six hands can be seen inside, spindly and pale as marble.  They each hold aloft a broken crystal sphere.
 
 
 
=== Merach ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Sadagares]] / Ketu-Mula<br>
 
'''Title''': Reflective, Thief of a Thousand Destinies<br>
 
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
The demon Merach holds a talent unique among the Malfean incubi.  In the throes of passion, he may draw forth a loverís destiny in the shape of a starSome destinies he confers upon other lovers; some he keeps in crystal phials, to give to other demons or to store on the high shelves of his drifting copper palace; the rest he swallows, so that their purpose and meaning are forever lost. His mortal forms are many and varied, of every possible permutation of race and gender, and in each he is infinitely desirableThose well versed in the lore of Malfeas can recognize him by the ever-shifting mark on his forehead which he conceals beneath his hairIt is said that he once loved a maiden of the Lunar Exalted, whose destiny he stole at the Yozisí behest, and that though she will not have him, he pines for her still.
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In every shadowed hall and darkened cellar of the Demon City, Marsilion waitsHe exists to know and to share the solitude of the shadows, and his patience is boundlessThe demons of Malfeas bring light with them whenever they tread the dark places lest they fall victim to his powerMarsilion has no body of his own; he manifests by possessing a mortal host, which hardens into a slowly moving statue of black stone, and he will do the same to any summoner who fails to provide a suitable vessel.  In his presence, dead flesh turns to stone and shed blood becomes a fine black dust that sifts away on the wind.  His touch petrifies flesh and bone, turning victims into living statues, immobile but aware, forever trapped in a prison of obsidian or basalt.  He may offer a summoner knowledge of anything that occurs in darkness.
  
=== The Mirror of Her Mind ===
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=== Munaxes ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
'''Title''': Reflective, the Fifth Chapter<br>
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'''Title''': Fourth Soul, the Ravine of Whispers<br>
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
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'''Author''': White Wolf
  
This Book of the Broken-Winged Crane is said to be the journal of the first person to plumb its depths - or perhaps the last. It takes that person's form: a young lady, armoured in feather-mail and armed with a bow like a branch of the cosmic tree.  She teaches the consequences of the Long Step into darkness.
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=== Mursilis ===
  
=== [[StalkerofShadows/Mokol|Mokol]] ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': 20th Soul, the Skittering Jungle<br>
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Persine<br>
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'''Author''': White Wolf
'''Title''': Embracer of the Forgotten Deeps<br>
 
'''Author''': StalkerofShadows
 
  
Many great works have been sacrificed to Persine over the Ages.  Many more have been sacrificed unknowningly, lost at sea.  Persine cannot watch over all of these treasures in either Malfeas or Creation.  Thus it created Mokol to catalog and guard its treasures.  Mokol haunts the lightless depths of Kimberry, passing back and forth in a route to eternally defend the lost from those that would find them.  Mokol is an incredibly jealous soul, that which he touches he considers his forever, and those that would seek them are unworthy to even behold what is his.  He knows the moment one touches any of the treasures which he guards, and may bring himself to any such location.  Although ever vigilant, Mokol is not without reason.  If faced with overwhelming odds he will flee to another sunken location, and plot his revenge.  He appears as a great siaka with a number of surprisingly gentle tentacles growing from his body.  Mokol seeks to caress the precious treasures he guards, for their touch comforts him.  Sorcerers may summon Mokol to guard any undersea location.  However, Mokol greatly resents imprisonment as he cannot exist simutaneously in Malfeas and Creation as those above him in station.
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=== [[Orabilis]] ===
  
=== Mumadomna ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': the End of All Wisdom<br>
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Clariandra<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, the Brazen Patriarch<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
 
 
From a high minaret that looks out over the black infinities of the Demon City, the Brazen Patriarch calls the demons to prayer.  Mumadomna is a massive, imposing near-human presence, clad in rich vestments of many colors, crowned with a tall mitre of blue glass and bearing a staff of ivory and gold.  In Creation, he travels astride a water buffalo made of green sand.  His voice is sonorous and deep with the power of the Yozis.  He keeps his many faces within a compartment inside his chest so that he may switch them about at his whim; each compels those who listen to his sermon to succumb to a different sin.
 
 
 
=== [[TheMyriadOfShades/Nedian | Nedian]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, The Unknown Dark<br>
 
'''Author''': [[TheMyriadOfShades]]
 
 
 
Nedian's true shape is that of Erembour's true shadow-- when he is off on his own, either by some private whim or by sorcerous command, Erembour is left to effortlessly craft a more mundane shadow for herself. If Nedian were to be destroyed, Erembour would temporarily be without a real shadow and would lose her command over the creatures of the night (and, in Malfeas, the monsters that lurk in the Ebon Dragon's Shadow) until she regenerated him. This takes a lunar month in Creation, a week in Malfeas, and a single night if she can summon Aluveia to her side and set her to the task of remaking Nedian. Nedian can take the shape of any of the creatures of the night, but is more often a formless, shifting shadow. He has no human shape, as his was the love of the dark beyond human settlements, from whence spring the things that haunt men in the darkness. The creatures of the underways beneath the world do homage to him, for his darkness is that of things beyond the influence of both men and gods.
 
 
 
=== Netraphim ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]] / Temozarael<br>
 
'''Title''': The Flaw In The Armour Of Contempt, Indulgent Soul of Temozarael<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
 
 
 
Seeds of doubt lurk in all minds, for a mind without possibility for change is not a mind. Netraphim is the flaw in the armour of contempt, the lurking doubt at the back of Temozarael's mind. If Temozarael is purity of desire and purpose, Netraphim is weakness, loss of conviction, and the death of faith. Her aspect is that of a cloaked woman, with skin the color of snow at night and an inhuman strength. Her voice can undermine the most strongly held convictions and shatter the faith of gods in themselves, causing them to dissolve back into ambient Essence.
 
 
 
=== [[GoldenCat/Niremar|Niremar]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Xipantek,<br>
 
'''Title''': Tamer of Burning Mares, Warden Soul of the Shadow Feeder, <br>
 
'''Author''': [[GoldenCat]] and [[Greymane]]
 
 
 
Niremar fears no darkness save his own. He is fear made flesh, the red-eyed terror who lurks under the beds and in the closets of children and haunts the woods as brave men pass through them at night. Niremar even stalks himself. Niremar shatters every mirror or pane of glass, dirtying clear still pond. His mere presence blackens polished steel and causes silver and gold to tarnish. Niremar appears tall, made of shadows, clad in an armor of iron that ends in arrows of burning-hot flame, his great night mane framed by iron horns. Niremar is shadow and fear, and the burning mares of Malfeas that embody every fear of Creation answer to him and only to him.
 
 
 
=== [[Thinker/Nypion|Nypion]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / [[Thinker/Anhelios|Anhelios]]<br>
 
'''Title''': The Reflective Soul of Anhelios, The Sorcerer's Arm<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Thinker]]
 
 
 
Embodying the Demon Starís relationship with the sailors upon the Malfean Ocean, Nypion lends his strength to those who bind him or earn his favor. In his natural state Nypion appears as a hollow demon, nearly nine feet tall and with huge bulging muscles, oddly counter pointing his hollow center. Nypion roams both above and below the waters of Kimbery and knows of all things that move upon the lightless sea and within it. Mortals of the west that truly worship the Yozis and work for their return can sometimes receive Nypionís favor: when called by the proper rituals Nypion can slip into Creation and join himself to a worshiper, lending him his terrible Demonic power for a single worthy task.  Far more often Nypion is summoned and bound by a Celestial Exalted Sorcerer who desires his strength in combat, and forces the same union upon him.  Nypion is not fond of these forced unions, though he is less tenacious in his grudges than some demons, and will generally not actively seek the sorcerer's destruction unless an oportunity presents itself.  If a sorcerer attempts to bind Nypion and fails he will invariably try to possess the sorcerer and Hollow out his Soul, using his body as a vessel to spread the aims of Kimbery in Creation before throwing him off a cliff into the ocean.
 
 
 
=== Octavian ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Munaxes<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, the Living Tower<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== [[Dimitryi/Oshymitus | Oshymitus]] ===
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=== Persine ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / [[Dimitryi/Xerysis | Xerysis]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
'''Title''': Warden, the Eyes of Everywhere and Nowhere<br>
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'''Title''': Seeker of Treasure Among Waves<br>
'''Author''': [[Dimitryi]]
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'''Author''': [[FourWillowsWeeping]]
  
In the void between Oramus' wings, Oshymitus is a thin web of capillaries and blood vessels covered with eyes, forming a vast constellation in the emptinessWhen summoned into Creation, Oshymitus coils up into itself, forming a ball of pulsating veins and shifting eyes roughly six feet in diameter, which bobs in the air when materializedOshymitus is always watching, extending his capillary-eyes far away and through tiny cracks to view activities unseen.  This demon is typically summoned to protect the paranoid, as a spy and interrogator bound to root out conspiracies and uncover hidden dangers.
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Floating in the waters of Kimbery is Persine, who is sometimes a great turtle, sometimes an isle of twisted amber, sometimes a ship of golden coralPersine is the caretaker of all that is precious, and knows the location of every rare and beautiful thingRiding Persine's back, one can reach the shores of any worldly ocean, provided that the rider pays Persine's price: a masterpiece never to be recreated, cast into deepest waters.
  
=== [[Mockery/Oskilla|Oskilla]] ===
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=== The Punisher Of Sin ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
'''Title''': Expressive, the Eggshell Sentry<br>
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'''Title''': <br>
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
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'''Author''': [[FrivYeti]]
  
To summon Oskilla, one must take the live egg of a bird. Any species of bird works, though certain First Age texts suggest the egg of a dove. The egg must be near hatching, though uncracked, and is placed within the summoning circle as the ritual begins. This egg and the new life it contains are annihilated in the summoning, and become the host for the massive, quasi-reptilian monstrosity that emerges, both strong of arm and quick of wit, and is oftened summoned for the visions he may induce.
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=== Quendalon ===
  
=== The Outstretched Fist ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Seventh Soul of Adjoran<br>
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'''Author''': [[Arbane]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / The Punisher Of Sin<br>
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=== The Ravager Of Dreams ===
'''Title''': Defining Soul of the Punisher of Sin<br>
 
'''Author''': FrivYeti
 
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Phormetis|Phormetis]] ===
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
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'''Title''': <br>
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'''Author''': [[FrivYeti]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
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=== Remondin ===
'''Title''': Absorbing, The Permanence of Change<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
An oracle and scholar who holds in his hand the wisdom of the demon city.
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': the Misconstrued Counselor<br>
=== Prex Il ===
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Tulchinary<br>
 
'''Title''': The River That Erodes Peace, Indulgent Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
 
 
Of Tulchinary's three tributary daughters, Prex Il is the most ambitious.  Coursing through The Fields from the delta where her father ends and she begins, Prex Il is ever-seeking to widen her banks.  Unlike most of The Fields inhabitants, she courses through Malfeas, seeking out those demons lower than herself or those unknowing her true nature.  Her tumultuous bloody waters roil and bubble, lashing against the shore, calling to those near her of their neighbors treacheries.  As those at her banks wade across her expanse to face those on the other side, Prex Il pulls them under and consumes them, leaving only a husk behind.  These husks rise from her depths and dig along her borders to expand her reach ever further.
 
 
 
=== Ratex Il ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Tulchinary<br>
 
'''Title''': The River That Forbids Children, Defining Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
 
 
Once Tulchinary was the river that quenched thirst of the victorious.  Now, it's daughter Ratex Il, has grown to despise those that once drank from her father's waters.  Ratex Il watches the battles that rage across The Fields of Rot and Sorrow with sadistic glee, waiting for the victors to come and wash themselves in her bloody waters.  As they touch her surface, she begins to siphon their strength, their will, and all the children they may have ever had.  Those Ratex Il touches are evermore sterile and no amount of sorcery can return their ability to parent a child.  This is the vengeance of Ratex Il; impotence, just as her grandsire was rendered impotent by his imprisonment in Malfeas.
 
 
 
=== [[Mockery/Roiye|Roiye]] ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
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This puissant entity advises the rulers of the Demon City, whispering to them her endless knowledge of possible futures.  She most often takes the form of a child with sweet, guileless eyes, scarlet-lacquered nails and a forked tongue; she has other shapes, but her nails and tongue mark her in every form.  Sorcerers call upon Remondin to learn of perils that may yet come to pass, for she knows the stars of Creation as well as those of Malfeas, and her keen strategic mind may unravel even the most complex and subtle of dilemmas.  Yet her subtlety makes her counsel perilous, for her malice may lead those who rely on her wisdom into far greater troubles.  She may also call forth the shades of othersí possible future selves, either to converse or to do battle on her behalf, and meeting such shades can be disquieting indeed.
'''Title''': Warden, Mote in the Eye of the Sun<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
 
  
Roiye is perhaps one of the most dangerous demon of his kind to the mighty. It is given to him that the more powerful and divine a heavenly creature is, the less visible he becomes in its eyes. He exists more thoroughly outside the watch of Fate than most other demons, such that those creatures who are bound to heaven and its service find it more difficult to percieve him, and his actions are completely unpredictable by astrology.  He can also extend his touch to others, shielding them from the watch of Heaven for a time.
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=== Sagarduia ===
  
=== Ronwe ===
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'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': Seventh Soul, the River of Crystal Fire<br>
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Erembour<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, The Unlit Pedagogue<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Wordman]]
 
 
 
Darkness compels not because it is dangerous, but because it holds secrets -- forbidden knowledge, hidden feelings and concealed lusts. Ronwe embodies these secrets and lives to teach any willing to shun the light for them. Known for skilled instruction in the art of love, Ronwe's presence fills those nearby with a lust they long to hide until it may be slaked in the comfort of darkness. Calling Ronwe from full shadow, craftier summoners know that much more than carnal knowledge may be gleaned from the darkness. In the light, Ronwe conceals its true face with the appearance of the physical type the viewer most desires, but in darkness it is comfortably shapeless, forming whatever limb or orifice is needed for the lesson at hand.
 
 
 
=== Scevola, ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Uthlanga]] / [[DemonsOfTheThirdCircle/Esclarmonde | Esclarmonde]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive Soul, the Cartographer of the Cage<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
As Makarios travels west of the Between-Worlds Tower, the Lake of Coins rotates around it in reflection of his movement, winding or unwinding the landscape in anticipation of his return. So it is with all the souls of the Yozis; their movements reshape their prison in direct or indirect ways. There are places in the demon realm that even disappear when their Second Circle wardens are summoned and bound. The naked youth, Scevola, understands the changes of the cage, and by gazing upon the landscape through the vision of a blue-eyed mortal, he can determine the whereabouts of any demon who is currently present in Malfeas.
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=== Sazakya ===
 
 
In fear that Scevola will create a map which lays out these movements for Unquestionable and commoner alike to see, as is his ultimate dream, his progenitor has encased his hands in molten-glass gloves which prevent him from lifting a pen or handling parchments. These are also Scevla's weapons, and if need be the glass will extend to protect vulnerable parts of the youth's body.
 
 
 
=== The Scroll of Bright Secrets ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
 
'''Title''': Indulgent, the Fourth Chapter<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
 
 
This book is full of the joys of corruption; inside it catalogues the victories of the Yozis over the past millennia and longer, and tells of their exultations. In the palace it appears as a delicate, naken maiden, pouring wine out of a human heart.
 
  
=== [[DemonsOfTheSecondCircle/Sedurian |The Sedurian]] ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': The Storm Of Wrathful Winds, 17th Soul Of The Silent Wind<br>
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Jacint<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive, Who Twists the World out of Shape<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
An inteligent, erudite lizard-demon with a knack for Manse construction and warping space, as well as combining the two.
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The ethereal demon known as Sazakya appears to unwary demons as a fierce typhoon made from abstract storm clouds with strange, many faced shapes in them. Lightning cracks inside it, and sometimes Csyvel can be seen flying his ivory dragon, herding thunders that echo in her mother¥s tongue. In her wake, all things that belong to the earth are destroyed, and buildings are torn to pieces. She remembers only the meaning of The Ominous Chant Of Destruction, and her passing makes the earth barren and bleached,  for some ancient events made her forgot the Truthful Dance Of Renovation. Sazakya is the Storm Of Wrathful Winds, driven mad by the song of the Lightning Locusts and one of the fiercest and most destructive souls of The Silent Wind. Since she came into existance, has deeply hated The Earth Season of Creation. If she even remembers how this war began is unknown.
 
 
=== Sekai ===
 
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Ur-Nammu<br>
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=== [[Kimbery/SevenSeasOfKimbery | The Seven Seas of Kimbery]] ===
'''Title''': Warden, the Shadow-Rider<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
  
Sekai towers over most men, with broad shoulders and a powerful build.  Her skin and hair are both a dull gray, and her eyes gleam like ivory.  Darkness swirls about her, clinging to her as gleaming black armor, congealing into hammers and blades at her design.  She rides her own twisted shadow like a horse, and it comprises the greater part of her strength; it may split into many or merge into one, or take tangible form and act on her behalf.
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
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'''Title''': <br>
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'''Author''': [[Sindaen]]
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Shabbuth|Shabbuth-Which-Cannot-Walk]] ===
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=== Sil Urxan ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]]<br>
'''Title''': Longing, Which Cannot Walk<br>
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'''Title''': He Who Eats With Crows<br>
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
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'''Author''': [[EwindaleMoss]]
  
A great tree cursed by his own immobility.
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At the edge of The Fields Of Rot And Sorrow, you may always find Sil Urxan.  How you will find him is another matter.  Often times, you will only see a cluster of corpses being beset by crows, their eyes plucked from their inevitably broken skulls.  Each of these is Sil Urxan, for he is that which is reaped from fields sown with blood.  Other times, you will find a young soldier, bow slung over his back, slicing meat from the bones of the dead, feasting on it just as the crows do.  His teeth are rounded points, his eyes coagulating blood.  His feet are talons, a gift from his brother Adrigor after his own were devoured and processed into crows.  The arrows in his quiver are fletched with the feathers of crows and know where their prey's heart truly lies, always seeking the swiftest death possible.  Sil Urxan is not discourteous though, he will always offer for you to eat with him should you find him.  From the flesh of the dead, one can find the truth of the conflict, where the war began, who financed it, and what priceless treasure or limitless power was its goal.  In return, those that know from whence the conflict came will find their penetrating words of truth about its origins raising up an even greater war than came before.  And it is their name that shall be known to another when next Sil Urxan feeds.
  
=== Shedu ===
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=== Suntarankal ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Ghroth]] / Mageddon<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]]<br>
'''Title''': Expressive, the Poetry of Desolation<br>
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'''Title''': 15th Soul, the Crucible of Brass and Iron<br>
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
 
 
Even demons have their poets, and among the demons of the 2nd circle, no greater poet is there than Shedu, the Poetry of Desolation.  In the time before Ghroth's chaining, Shedu was the Bringer of Tears and Sorrow, for her stanzas could reduce even the hardest-hearted of gods and Primordials to tears.  Now, she spreads misery with her verses, seeking only to add her sorrow to the joy of others.  Unlike all other demons, her binding was different, for she is not bound in Hell, but rather bound to witness endless catastrophy in Creation, a vagabond without power over where she wanders.  For this reason, she hates Creation more than Ghroth himself, for her own home is now her cell of confinement.  No sorcerer can summon her, but tragedy that leaves nations desolate can bring her forth.
 
 
 
=== [[FrivYeti/Shikara|Shikara]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / The Punisher Of Sin<br>
 
'''Title''': the River of Sorrow, Indulgent Soul of the Punisher of Sin<br>
 
'''Author''': FrivYeti
 
 
 
=== [[TheHoverpope/Shoggeleth|Shoggoleth]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/DikosMou|Dikos Mou]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Defining, The Knife That Wittles Away<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
 
 
A demon who bargains with anyone willing; she has great gifts and greater costs.
 
 
 
=== Sigereth ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Madelrada<br>
 
'''Title''': Indulgent, the Player of Games<br>
 
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== Skrissim ===
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=== Temozarael ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Adrigor<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]]<br>
'''Title''': The Little Butcher<br>
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'''Title''': The Unrepentant In A Clockwork Cradle<br>
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
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'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
  
Ever underfoot, picking at the carrion within the fields and carrying it back to their grandfather's mouths are the rats of Skrissim. Skrissim himself moves slowly and thoughtfully from one corpse to the next, sickly yellow eyes peering out from beneath his rat skull headress and tattered fur robes.  No one knows what blackness lurks beneath the rat skin Skrissim wears and the wise choose not to speculate. Instead, they watch Skrissim's twisted claws as he carves apart the corpses that meet with his approval.  He apportions out enough for his subjects, then eats his own fill.  His is a disquieting mirth as he disassembles flesh. Those who would call upon Skrissim have desires to learn anatomy and physiology for few know the methods of surgery and locations of organs better than The Little Butcher. However, those that would learn his technique also find themselves gaining a deep and abiding hunger for the flesh of their patients.
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Deep in the wilds of Cecelyne, there rises a great pillar of stone in the featureless desert, one of few breaks in the infinite sands. On this craggy mesa's sandstone sides, the color of dried blood, there is a door, of black Malfean iron. Any who would enter this door must do so with rage in their hearts. Any who wish to do Temozarael harm more than they wish to live need not even touch the gates, for they will open themselves for such dark purity. Within, in a great blasphemous mechanism of clockwork and hydraulics, boilers and cauldrons of infernal Essence, sits Temozarael, on a throne of cold iron, carved with a never-ending litany of hatred and rage. Great tubes and capillaries lead from the machine, which is Temozarael, to the throne, which is Temozarael, and the man on the throne, who is Temozarael. His face, if it can be called that, is still blasted and scarred into twisted grotesquerie by the fury of the Unconquered Sun's chosen. He could heal these wounds in an instant, but he lets them remain as a testament. To what, nobody is quite sure but him. His hands are not even hands, and the horrors that they caress upon living flesh cannot be detailed by anyone, for there are not words to describe them. Pus and blood fall from his iron-booted feet, and his robe contains the ceaseless fires of his hatred, stoked by his infernal furnaces. One can call Temozarael forth to turn his destructive gaze upon the world, and sear it with the infernal Essence-fires ignited by his rage at his unjust exile. Nothing can stand against this fury, not even the gods themselves. The only problem is getting him to stop. His great monstrous distillaries can also synthesize poisons so potent that only the greatest of the Exalts and gods can withstand them.
  
=== Sondok ===
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=== The Tide That Knows No Life ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Ligier<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
'''Title''': Warden, She-Who-Stands-In-Doorways<br>
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'''Title''': <br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
=== [[Mockery/Sossurl|Sossurl]] ===
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=== Tulchinary ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]]<br>
'''Title''': Defining, the Mason of Creation<br>
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'''Title''': The Rivers That Overflow With The Blood of Heroes, Fetich Soul of Valxregen<br>
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
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'''Author''': [[EwindaleMoss]]
  
Sossurl appears as a massive man, broad of shoulder and stocky of build, a trowel in one hand and and a block of basalt in the other. He may lay mortar with the trowel indefinitely, and whenever he sets the stone down, a new one forms in his hand. Where he lays down a wall, a divide springs up among men, and their purposes will come to oppose one anotherHe works with joy, and watches the strife it causes impassivelyFor now, he waits with the patience of the stone he holds to break free, and to begin his work by walling apart the five poles from each other.
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Running through the great expanse of The Fields of Rot and Sorrow are three rivers that become one, each one filled with the blood of heroes long since dead.  This is the lifeblood of Valxregen and its most treasured prize. As it roiled in suffering within Malfeas, Valxregen wept forth the unending rivers of blood that are now known as Tulchinary. Once, Tulchinary was a river of mead and laughter that was drank from by those that ate in the great feasting hall at the center of ValxregenNow, the blood that is Tulchinary seeks to ensnare those that touch it and pull them beneath its rust-red wavesTulchinary cannot stand the touch of virgin blood or the taste of an infant and will part rather than allow these things to sully itself.
  
=== Stanewald ===
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=== Ululaya ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / Munaxes<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]]<br>
'''Title''': Reflective, She Who Surmounted the Omphalos<br>
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'''Title''': Third Soul, the Blood-Red Moon<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
  
Alluded to in the <i>Scripture of the Maiden and the Road.</i>
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=== Ur ===
  
=== Talios, Lord Of Air And Darkness ===
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'''Lineage''': [[Ghroth]]<br>
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'''Title''': fetich soul of Ghroth, the Many-Taloned Hunter<br>
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'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Ur-Nammu<br>
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Foremost amongst the souls of Ghroth is Ur, the Many-Taloned Hunter.  For in days gone by, Ur was the hunter of the demon host, ranging about the ebon sky seeking out worthy foes to pursue.  With mighty heaves, Ur would hurl down great stones of starmetal on those he deigned to hunt, crushing them.  Thus was starmetal once known as urstone.  Many were the gods that fell to Ur's hunts, and thus was he hated more than most.  When he was imprisoned, Ur fractured, and is no longer one entity.  So forecfully did he throw himself against the closing ribs of Malfeas that he was shattered into a dozen pieces, each fragment aware of and in communion with the others.  Now, Ur is the Many-Taloned Hunter, as he is shattered and no longer one.  He sits in a great cathedral buried under the skin of Ghroth, raging against what Fate has done to him.
'''Title''': Wisdom Soul of the Coils of Night<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Falcon]]
 
  
Building his shape out of transient shadows and the last breaths of mortals, Talios was always a greater power in Creation than in the stark green glare of Malfeas. When in the lands of mortals, everything spoken at night is carried to his ears by enslaved air spirits and he is constantly surrounded by a sussuration of nocturnal secrets. He is known to favour the number nine, although no one knows why, and he has not been sighted in Malfeas for centuries.
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=== Ur-Nammu ===
  
=== Tar Lashan ===
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': Midnightís Horror<br>
'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]] / Sil Urxan<br>
 
'''Title''': The Blazing Web, Expressive Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': EwindaleMoss
 
 
 
Tar Lashan is the quietude that her siblings lack.  Appearing as a great violet spider with the upper torso of a woman badly beaten with crimson hair, she wields a blazing staff in each of her hands.  She will smile broadly as you observe her work, for the loneliness of her position has driven her mad.  She was to be the most vivacious of those that Sil Urxan observes but that will never be.  Her lust for power and hunt for riches is never ending as she weaves her webs to ensnare her foes.  She is the general, the vizier, the council of advisors planning for war.  As her plans come to fruition and those that would move against her fall into her web, she lights it aflame.  At once, she is revealed and her plans are rent into the same ash as her foes.  As the flames fail, she is in darkness once more, until her next quarry is burned alive before her.  Those that would summon Tar Lashan seek to know how to undo their foes and she will grant them their vengeance, but one of their deepest desires shall never come to pass in return.
 
 
 
=== Tatjana ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / [[Ekrasios]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive, the Sobbing Dancer<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
 
 
Tatjana feels all joy and sorrow, so she dances through the world, celebrating and grieving.  When she is torn from her exultant dirge, she can grant a moment of this perception to one who knows how to demand it, or free him forever from the pangs of pleasure and pain.
 
 
 
=== [[TheHoverpope/Tenesene|Tenesene]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Ypsos|Ypsos]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Reflective, The Track Unmarked<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
 
 
A being who solves small problems by making many far greater.
 
 
 
=== [[FrivYeti/Terebius|Terebius]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[SheWhoLivesInHerName]] / The Ravager Of Dreams<br>
 
'''Title''': The Stone Of Dark Truths, Expressive Soul of the Ravager Of Dreams<br>
 
'''Author''': FrivYeti
 
 
 
=== [[TheHoverpope/Terianessi|Terianessi]] ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Consuming, The Desirous Urge Freed<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
 
 
An embodiment of desire who compulsively seduces.
 
 
 
=== Thancharat ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]] / [[Orabilis]]<br>
 
'''Title''': Warden, The Crawling Rune<br>
 
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
  
Thancharat most commonly manifests in the form of writing: a scrivenerís entry in a ledger, a sorcerous circle of runes, or a shining glyph that hangs quivering upon the airThese runes burn straight through the mind to impose thoughts, erase them, or simply shatter a hapless readerís sanity, leaving only a gibbering husk that jabbers endlessly in unknown tonguesIts mortal form is that of an elderly man or woman whose body is made of innumerable tiny runes, whose face bears a web of wrinkles that compose a cryptic sign of terrible potency.
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Horror is a crushing weight upon the heart, a darkness choking the soul.  Ur-Nammu is that weight, that darkness.  He manifests as a howling cyclone in which nebulous half-human shapes stagger with a ghastly, shuffling gait.  A suffocating black wind blows outward from his towering form, feeding the weakness in all things; cracks spread, wounds grow gangrenous, the old wither, and the weak-minded gibber and die of absolute terrorThose who enter the whirlwind are utterly broken in some manner.  Some are deformed in body, others broken of mind; still others seem whole, but their souls are twisted toward wickedness and depravity.  Ur-Nammuís mortal shape is a well-groomed man with thorns growing from his fingernails, his lips and the corners of his spiteful eyesIt is in this form that he is truly dangerous; with honeyed voice and engrossing tales, he weaves webs of madness that can drown entire cities in suicide and bloodshed.  He also knows all the secret fears of anyone who speaks or sings in his presence.  He eagerly serves any master who turns him loose upon the mortals of Creation, but he inevitably turns on his summoner; such is his nature.
  
=== Theda ===
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=== Verthan ===
  
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Fastred<br>
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'''Lineage''': [[Cecelyne]]<br>
'''Title''': Indulgent, That Which Came Before<br>
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'''Title''': the Lightning Across the Void<br>
'''Author''': DariusSolluman
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'''Author''': [[Kalisara]]
  
There was a place and a time.  Before that, there was Theda.  Theda can not be found now, for it is gone before it has arrived.  Theda can only be found while on a journey elsewhere - he knows everything that can happen on the ending of a journey.  Long ages ago, when the Willful Children still served as they should, it is said that Theda was the lover of the Maidens, and some still question its motivations and desires. When Theda is found, it is what would be most appropriate before the travel's end - a palace, an inn, a farmer's hut or a circus.  Only its personal appearance remains constant: a tree, with rubies and emeralds for cherries and leaves, molted gold for bark and living brass for flesh, bleeding amber for sap.
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Verthan takes shape as a mighty stallion, black as the stones of the Underworld and with mane and tail of shining gold. Upon his back a summoner may ride to any place that exists in or out of Creation(1), and though the journey seem hours or days to the desperately clinging rider, only an instant will have passed. A lock of hair from Verthan's mane can be made into a talisman of great potency, but even summoned and bound, he will not allow one to be cut. Those who steal one by stealth or guile he will attempt to trample or hurl from his back; and anyone who falls is never seen again, for the Void claims them.
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/TheThing|The Thing in Horror of Itself]] ===
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(1) The likely consequences of riding a Third Circle demon into Yu-Shan are left as an exercise for the would-be summoner.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Anapyxi|Anapyxi]]<br>
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=== Wulgwyst ===
'''Title''': Cleansing, The Thing in Horror of Itself<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
A monster in unimaginable pain who seeks to kill everything thanks to his compassion.
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'''Lineage''': [[TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Courteous Transgressor<br>
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'''Author''': [[EwindaleMoss]]
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Tolens|Tolens]] ===
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At the center of Valxregen, there is a great feasting hall where the conquering heroes would drink and be merry.  Even now, as the mad sun of Malfeas beats down upon it, the cacophony still rages.  However, within, there is no brotherhood among the feasters.  Each day, as the feast begins, a smiling face sprouts between two warriors and whispers in their ears.  These whispers turn into chartreuse worms that squirm into the brain of their victims until they fly into a fit of rage at the slanders the mysterious face speaks.  In turn, either champion strikes the other, and a brawl has begun.  It is a fight that never ceases as Wulgwyst pushes new faces from its feasting hall self to torment the celebrants anew, a smile never leaving its face.  When summoned to Creation, Wulgwyst takes the form of a small slave boy, often clad only in rags with a permanent smile upon his lips and unseeing white eyes.  None that hear his words can bear to strike him, even as he shatters their possessions, insults their parentage, and blasphemes their gods.  Those driven mad by Wulgwyst eventually lose all sense and become mass-murderers, seeking an outlet for their impotent rage.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/DikosMou|Dikos Mou]]<br>
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=== [[Dimitryi/Xerysis | Xerysis]] ===
'''Title''': Reflective, The Bargain that is Not Equal<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
A suffering creature remade by its master to be a mine for exotic materials.
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'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Fear That Shatters Nations<br>
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'''Author''': [[Dimitryi]]
  
=== The Tome of Bound Tongues ===
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Legends speak of a chill, scouring wind that scatters armies and breaks nations as it passes.  This wind is Xerysis, the evoker of self-preserving fear in mortals, the fear that drives soldiers from their ranks, men from their friends, and nations from their allies.  In ages past, entire armies were routed by Xerysis, who struck fear deep into the private hearts of each soldier.  When it chooses, the cold wind coalesces into the form of a hairless, alabaster-skinned man, wearing a sharp-angled toga spun from mirrored glass.  Any who look into the reflection in Xerysis' toga see only themselves, and not the reflections of any allies nearby.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Oramus]] / The Broken-Winged Crane<br>
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=== Xipantek, ===
'''Title''': Wisdom, the Third Chapter<br>
 
'''Author''': FourWillowsWeeping
 
  
This book tells of things better forgotten - the world before the Primordial War.  It tells of the nature of demons and the deep workings of their minds; even the agatae are conprehensible to one that has mastered this book.  In the Palace, it appears as a man in ancient armor, orbited by a constellation of eyes.  He has a great many legs, but it is difficult to tell the precise number.
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'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]]<br>
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'''Title''': the Shadow Feeder<br>
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'''Author''': [[Telgar]]
  
=== [[TheHoverpope/Tototh|Tototh]] ===
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The quintessential boogeyman, Xipantek is a living shadow that walked the dark corners of Creation before the Primordials were imprisoned. Any being standing in shadow is potential prey to Xipantek, who sucks the victim into the shadow and there feasts on their flesh. Once he has finished his meal, the Shadow Feeder expells the bloody remains from another shadow and returns to his prowling. In Malfeas, the favorite prey of Xipantek is blood apes and other low-ranking, unintelligent demons. He hungers for the sweet flesh of mortals and takes every chance to journey to Creation.
  
'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]] / [[TheHoverpope/Aiomina|Aiomina]]<br>
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=== [[TheHoverpope/Ypsos|Ypsos]] ===
'''Title''': Understanding, The Savant Who Has Felt Your Pain Or Will<br>
 
'''Author''': TheHoverpope
 
  
An abomination whose entire existence is to experience every suffering.
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'''Lineage''': [[Chorifa]]<br>
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'''Title''': The Mountain Without Peak<br>
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'''Author''': [[TheHoverpope]]
  
=== [[Mockery/Trespan|Trespan]] ===
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The power of the earth intruding into the world, the Mountain is the destructive facet of Chorifa.
  
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / [[Mockery/Echthros|Echthros]]<br>
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=== Zinnridi ===
'''Title''': Wisdom, the Mourning Sage<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Mockery]]
 
  
It is said that when Trespan first came into being, birthed from the wisdom of Echthros, he looked to his father and spoke The Truth. His words were not recorded, or perhaps they were, but the Rip in the World-Cloth has long since consumed them. He was cursed then and there to suffer, to know exactly what he looked at, to see nothing but the truth, the most awful truth there was. Since then, he has cycled between preternatural calm and insanity, regenerating his eyes only to tear them out when his too-keen vision divulges too much.
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'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]]<br>
 
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'''Title''': The Unfettered<br>
=== Txil Mahautztli ===
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'''Author''': [[Quendalon]]
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Tharalstrazix]] / Jarlastran<br>
 
'''Title''': One Revealing Amidst Black Towers, Messenger Soul of Jarlastran<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Han'ya]]
 
 
 
Taking the form of an immense orb comprised of small hexagonal tiles of white jade, Txil Mahuatztli is the only means by which Jarlastran speaks with his subsidiary souls and with others. The death of One Crowned With Seven Rings In Quietude, Jarlastran's voice and expository ability, rendered Jarlastran unable to directly communicate with any but Txil Mahuatztli, his introspective subsidiary consciousness. The great soul rests in a cathedral constructed in the center of Jarlastran's six towers. He speaks to his subsidiary souls not with words, but by emitting light in sequence, pattern, and rhythm from the tiny jade hexagons that form his shell. These messages are an intricate code known only to his attendants, who relay their lord's will to all who would know it.
 
 
 
=== Unknown ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Ligier<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive, Unknown Title<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 
 
 
=== Ur-Namuur ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Malfeas]] / Clariandra<br>
 
'''Title''': Wisdom, The Mask Who Stalks the Dance of Time<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
 
 
All things once obeyed Clariandra, for she was regent and queen of all things that crawled or swam or flew.  Even time itself was hers to beckon or dismiss, and Ur-Namuur, the Mask Who Stalks the Dance of Time, was her herald in these things.  Once, Ur-Namuur could travel the weft and warp of time, stepping between the moments like a spider in his web, but after the dawn of the First Age, such gifts were lost to him.  Entrapped in Malfeas, Ur-Namuur cannot walk Creation, nor may he be summoned, for should he walk the world once more, time would be his to conquer.  In visage, Ur-Namuur is a titanic clockwork man, with a timepiece in his chest; like all the clocks of the Hell-realm, Ur-Namuur cannot tell proper time, and thus is lost in the eternity of imprisonment.
 
 
 
=== Uruk the Mighty ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Ashar'Lhan<br>
 
'''Title''': Expressive Soul of Ashar'Lhan<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
 
 
Uruk the Mighty takes the visage of a warrior with thews of steel and burning brass, with a helmed face that bespeaks much suffering.  Uruk is the inversion of his master Ashar'Lhan, and is the embodiment of pain.  His skin bleeds for a million wounds, and to see his unhelmed face is to see a patchwork quilt of flayed flesh and sewed-on muscle.  Uruk is revered by torturers and inquisitors, for many have need of his arts.
 
  
=== Vokmar ===
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Ever moving, ever shifting, the demon Zinnridi takes many forms, though it inevitably returns to its formless state as a flowing quicksilver massNothing can bar its passage, nor in fact can any passage be barred in its presenceWhere the Unfettered goes, neither lock nor door nor bars can restrain movement; even the tiniest aperture twists wide to admit those who seek entrance or egressIts touch breaks all bonds, including the intangible fetters of oaths, loyalty, love and hate.
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Kimbery]] / Fastred<br>
 
'''Title''': Warden, She Who Strives<br>
 
'''Author''': DariusSolluman
 
 
 
Vokmar is a weapon.  What weapon is drawn from the weilder- a sword in one hand, a quill in anotherVokmar grants victory to any that use her, save in their moment of greatest need - and at that moment, she twists, breaks, and fails, leaving those who strive to strive without her assistance.  She sometimes appears as a woman over twelve feet tall, composed of blue fire and red water in equal proportion.
 
 
 
=== Yir the Golden ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Ashar'Lhan<br>
 
'''Title''': Warden soul of Ashar'Lhan<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Nero's Boot]]
 
 
 
Yir the Golden strides the field of battle like a prince among the earth, a giant ten feet tall, made of solid brass and clayFor Yir is the joy of battle, the glee of frenzy, and the love of carnage, all things that Ashar'Lhan longs for but cannot consumateYir wields the Harmony of Ecstacy, a daiklave of Malfean iron that slays all mortals it touches and causes Exalted to bleed from their eyes.  Yir is mad with pain, for it is said that when Adorjan was Adrian, Yir was known as Yulnah the Free, the embodiment of bodiless mentality.  Forced into solid shape with the rise of Adorjan, Yir the Golden suffers; and as he suffers, so suffers Creation.
 
 
 
=== Yura ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[EbonDragon]] / Xipantek,<br>
 
'''Title''': of the Demon Hair, Indulgent Soul<br>
 
'''Author''': [[Telgar]]
 
 
 
A beautiful young woman, short and dark-haired, Yura spends most of her time manipulating weaker demons as puppets in her deranged shadow-plays. Wrapping her invisible hair-threads around them, Yura manipulates her puppets in a very real way, jerking their thoughts and bodies to dance.
 
 
 
=== Zsofika ===
 
 
 
'''Lineage''': [[Adorjan]] / Jacint<br>
 
'''Title''': Messenger, the Kite Flute<br>
 
'''Author''': White Wolf
 

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Adrigor

Lineage: TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow
Title: He Who Hungers For The Meat Of The Fallen
Author: EwindaleMoss

Dotting the Fields of Rot and Sorrow are great cavernous tunnels leading deep beneath Valxregen. However, those that enter as ever lost as the tunnels sprout teeth and close on them. They have just been added to the feast of Adrigor. Adrigor is the child Sil Urxan wishes he could be. When Adrigor's great mouths open wide, all the fauna within Valxregen dive within to be added to He Who Hungers great gullet. From there, new life is excreted out through Valxregen's soil and Adrigor frees his brother. In Creation, Adrigor appears as beasts of great size and cavernous mouth. More than once he has been spotted shattering ships as a siaka of brass at the behest of an angry sorcerer.

Aiomina

Lineage: Chorifa
Title: The Thing That Cannot Stop Being
Author: TheHoverpope

An eternal wanderer, for whom all of the world is best forgotten.

Amalion

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: Fifth Soul, the Manse of Echoes Ascending
Author: White Wolf

Anadbagara

Lineage: Tharalstrazix
Title: the White Queen
Author: Han'ya

Anapyxi

Lineage: Chorifa
Title: Fetich Soul of Chorifa, The Sower of Seeds Innumerable
Author: TheHoverpope

A spirit of infinite, accidental fecundity, in whose passage the world is changed.

Anhelios

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: the Herald of the Sea the Marched Against the Flame
Author: Thinker

The Red Star blazes in the night sky of Malfeas, a tiny dim light compared to Ligier, yet the brightest star in the hellish sky of the Yozi's prison-kingdom. The eighth soul of Kimbery, the red light guides the demon ships across the Primordialís lethal waves. Like most Third Circle Demons Anhelios can exist in Creation and Malfeas at the same time. In Creation Anhelios may take either the form of a blazing red star in the sky (unmistakably different than the Maiden of Battles) or a giant composed only of red light. If he is soummoned by a Sorcerer then they must specify at the moment of their binding what form he is to take and he cannot assume another for the duration of his service. To name neither form frees him from all obligations while in Creation and will almost certainly result in the Sorcerer being carried off to Malfeas to serve Anhelios as a plaything. In giant form Anhelios is a combat prodigy that can crush armies, slay a sorcerer's foes (often with a single mighty blow), or siege even First Age fortifications single handedly. In the form of a red star Anheliosís gaze covers all of Creation. When in the form of a star Anhelios cannot be seen by ordinary mortals, but to others he is visible day or night.

Anthir Sonai

Lineage: Wesmakan
Title: The Cascade of Pearls, Fetich soul
Author: Lammoth

Amid a great lake there stands a temple made from red marble. Bitter water plays around the steps of the sanctuary and sometimes Adjoran settles beside the Altar to behold the youth who sleeps upon it. From this lake all streams of Wesmakan have their origin. Three hundred man sized crabs holding pearls the size of eggs climb the sixteen steps from the water to the altar to deposit their impeccable gifts at the feet of their master. They hunt lesser demons who come too close to the water and drag them down below the languid waves and dismember them with their obsidian claws. They descend to the crystalline clams that live at the bottom of the lake and insert the lumps of flesh into their opaque skin. As the flesh of beings that were born is a blasphemy in the eyes of Wesmakan and a reminder of his failure the clams coat the heretic flesh with thousand layers made from the waters of Wesmakan. This is how the pearls are created and their color is that of milk mixed with a drop of virgin blood.


Over time huge heaps of pearls build up at the temple and the spider demons that inhibit the temple make beads out of them that adorn the walls with their patterns. When the Ebon Dragon flies, Weskaman becomes disturbed and the waves begin to rise. When the light of the green sun is hidden behind the shadows, the waters of Weskaman rise up from their basin to meet their brother and to plan their escape. All that remains is the temple amidst the gaping wound in Malfeas' flesh.


And in this twilight, Anthir Sonai awakes from his slumber. A younth made from mother of pearl with eyes of blood red pearls. Every one of his four hands posesses four fingers with four joints with nails made from meerschaum. His hair is spun silver and his flowing robes are adorned with glass shells. His face showing sorrow and grief when he raises his flute to his icy lips. The flute was made from Wesmakans rib and was given Anthir as a spiteful present from Cyntherea who is responsible for its creation. When the first mournful tunes reverberate through the temple, the pearls begin to glow in a soft light and to move in complex patterns that match Anthirs melody. Soon the whole city booms under the sound of the pearls hitting the floor of the temple in an ever increasing rhythm. And suddenly all pearls hit the ground at once and faster than a though they scatter in all directions and disappear in the sky.


A dozen seconds of total silence later, pearls rain down all over Malfeas and a creature struck by them is no more. Those pearls that aren't caught by daring demons begin their dance again, approaching eath other with wide leaps and deafening thunder. High above the city they meet and all that remains after a low and threatening thunderstroke is a fine red powder that settles upon the buildings somewhere on the uppermost layer of the city. Regardless what stood there before, now there is another deep wound in the flesh of Malfeas, the red temple in the middle. When the Ebon Dragon and Wesmakan conclude their meeting, the Father of Creations waters rain down into the new basin and the rivers begin to flow anew. Anthir Sonai himself relishes this period of darkness and takes his time when he wanders the city from his old to his new temple. Sometimes he meets Erembour in the dark alleys and when his flute joins her horn it is a sad day for the denizens of the demon city indeed.


Anthir is the fetich of Wesmakan and the personification of the wound his imprisonment and the betrayal of his wife dealt to him. He embodies the shedded blood and the wasted seed that is the core of Wesmakans being. Nevertheless there are the seeds of life inherent in Anthir, who await being put to use. The blood of the primordials can give birth to gods...


He who summons Anthir can command him to coat his enemies with the red dust so they cease to be and to play his song to make a whole kingdom barren und sterile. Far more important than these destructive abilites are his other skills. Those sorcerers seeking to create behemoths or new races benefit from his blood and his counsel. Those who swallow a special prepared pearl can overcome the limits of their bodies and create themselves a new temple of flesh to inhabit, unblemished and glorious. His vast knowledge of life and procreation can benefit the summoner in countless other related tasks. It is almost forgotten by men, but Anthir is an expert in the arts of love, tending a bit to the wild an rough side. And children sired by him are marvellous to behold in their many forms. The only things that are constant are their blood pearl eyes.

Aramedisae

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The Path Between the Forgotten and the Lost
Author: Translucidity

The ninth soul of the Ebon Dragon, Aramedisae is the shadowed corridor that leads to a boundless eternity, the paths that only the lost and the blind can navigate, and the edge of labyrinthine darkness within every mortal's soul. Her darkened doorways touch upon Creation in a thousand places and nowhere, for those that walk within her halls travel within a shadow of themselves, never emerging unscathed, perhaps never emerging at all - but she holds a path to every place lost to other ways, and it is for this reason those who seek the forgotten brave Aramedisae.

Ashar'Lhan

Lineage: Adorjan
Title: the Tenth Soul of Adorjan
Author: Nero's Boot

Ashar'Lhan was once known as Elib Dhaan, Maker of Rivers. But when Adrian became Adorjan, Elib Dhaan was transfigured, and became Ashar'Lhan, which in Old Realm means "Teacher of Pleasure." Ashar'Lhan is a giant, standing as tall as a mountain, and as strong. He wields a mighty maul of stone and fiery steel, which does not break down or rend asunder castle walls; rather, to be pummelled by his maul is to be rendered ecstatic with pleasure, as the wind of Adorjan tears at your soul, filling you will forbidden insight. The secrets of pleasure are Ashar'Lhan's to control, and many are the mad cultists who seek his touch.

Atlas

Lineage: HeWhoFollowsInHisWake
Title: 2nd soul of He Who Follows In His Wake, Bearer of the Burden of the Earth
Author: Nero's Boot

Before the gods rebelled, there was a mathematical certainty to all things, and to all things a mathematical certainty. When but young things, Atlas taught the Five Maidens the gift of telling apart the constellations, and divining wisdom from them; in this, all mortal astrology comes from Atlas, Bearer of the Burden of the Earth. Though sized as a human, Atlas is the strongest force on earth, Heaven, or Hell, for is the mathematical certainty that the world will not end, that Time must bulldoze its way to tomorrow. Now locked away from the mathematical world he once helped forge, Atlas has grown cold and distant, and none may make him weep or laugh. No weight is too great for him to lift, no stone too great for him to hurl. When in Creation, Atlas can give great strength, and take it away as well. For this reason, many conjured him in the dying days of the Solar Deliberative.

Avadonis

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The Shadow That Casts Itself
Author: FrivYeti

A consuming shadow-beast, Avadonis brings death with his steps, and is a careless force for unmaking in the world.

Benezet

Lineage: Oramus
Title: Seventeenth Soul, the Gardener of Identities
Author: White Wolf

The Broken-Winged Crane

Lineage: Oramus
Title:
Author: FourWillowsWeeping

The Broken-Winged Crane projects warped versions of itself, the First-Circle progeny of its seven Chapters, into the world from its prison Beyond, deep in the centre of Oramus' Cage of His Wings. They can only be discovered by one willing to take the step into darkness, to forego the paths of virtue and goodness to ascend the double spiral of madness and power. The Broken-Winged Crane has a dark palace in the centre of Szoreny, where a part of it holds court surrounded by its seven councillors. Those who are brought to Malfeas by its power are brought here to debase themselves at the font of forbidden knowledge. Here, it appears as a white crane with a single broken wing, with which it paints bloody calligraphy on the palace floor.

Clariandra

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: the Empress Resplendent in the Panoply of Brass
Author: Quendalon

This illustrious magnate, one of many who rule in the demon realm, sits enthroned in palaces and mansions throughout the endless layers of Malfeas, surrounded by wealth and grandeur beyond mortal imaginings. Her skin is black as jet; her eyes, brass orbs, blaze with golden light. Garments woven from her brazen hair gleam upon her perfect body. Clariandra holds dominion over any lesser being who accepts any favor from her or her household, no matter how small; thus-indebted mortals and First or Second Circle demons are bound to her service, and must fulfill even the vilest and most self-destructive commands. Though she has the power to bring order to the demon city, such a project would hold but little interest for her; instead, she occupies herself with her own obscure pursuits, leaving the reins of power in the hands of the lesser demons.

Daendels

Lineage: Oramus
Title: Fetich Soul, the Unfettered Heart
Author: White Wolf

Dikos Mou

Lineage: Chorifa
Title: The Mine of All Things Buried
Author: TheHoverpope

The essence of all things buried and lost in earth, master of the ability of the earth to conceal and reveal the things within it.

Echthros

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The Rent in the World-Cloth
Author: Mockery

The third soul of the Ebon Dragon appears, disarmingly, as a man clad in black robes. This raiment goes beyond the pitch that even the greatest dyers in the world can manage, and in it one can see nothing but perhaps half-remembered snippets of their own nightmares. Should his smoked spectacles be removed, though, one will see pits of darkness where he should have eyes. Echthros is something of the abyss, and for this he consumes as he will, and as those who summon him would, and wipes that which he takes from the minds of all. He is rare among his bretheren for having ony six souls: perhaps Nothing casts no reflection, or perhaps the introspections that soul showed him were displeasing, and he ate her much as he has consumed so much before.

Ekrasios

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: the Sculptor in the Maze
Author: FourWillowsWeeping

In the bowels of the Demon City, there walks a man draped in banners of white silk, which fly behind him as far as the eye can see. At his feet rises a bronze cloud, into which the banners vanish. Whatever creature touches the draperies of Ekrasios turns to glittering dust and joins the cloud that follows him. He is lost forever in contemplation; he knows all the memories of the creatures he transfigures. A fragment of his pale robe, wielded by one with knowledge and power, turns flesh to precious metals dependent on the wielder's nature. It can be a potent weapon.

Erembour

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: That Which Calls to the Shadows
Author: White Wolf

Esclarmonde

Lineage: Uthlanga
Title: Fetich Soul, the Ossuary of Freedom
Author: FourWillowsWeeping

Somewhere within the swamp of Uthlanga, there is a yard filled with crystalline bones, the bones of choices. Esclarmonde takes these choices from those who summon his presence, in exchange for the inscrutable services that only he and his lesser souls can offer.

Euthychia

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The Bull Slain on Stagnation's Altar
Author: White Wolf

Fastred

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: The Just Betrayal
Author: DariusSolluman

At the bottom of a sea that dissolves any flesh to touch the waves, so far down that even the stabbing green light of the mad sun never illuminates it, is a small palace, built of basalt, salt and brass. Relative to the extravagances so commonly seen, it is an often overlooked place, and those who visit it alone remain alone, no matter how many others are there. Only those conspirators who whisper in the dark by purpose instead of chance will find one another in the walls of Fastred, and it is there that conspiracies are hatched: servants against masters, loves against hates, seas against flames. Fastred's very nature is betrayal, and he knows the truth behind every rebellion and revolution, and holds those truths inside himself, releasing one only if two treacheries are returned in its place. It was within Fastred that the Great Treason was first spoken by the Willful Children, and that the Great Maker first demonstrated Exaltation to the same. He could have warned the Primordials, but none would pay his price, and so they were unawares when the Exalted struck them the hard blows. He also sometimes walks as a courtier, dressed in fine blue silk, with a mask of bronze heated to deadly temperatures. A thin trail of smoke and the smell of burning flesh follows in his wake, and around him come the silences of conspiracies and the raised voices of treason.

Fendoril

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The Heart Of Ice And Shadow
Author: White Wolf

Within every human is the capacity to die within, and Fendoril can then make that human's heart into ice. Fendoril loves to do so; he offers the cold comfort of mercilessness. The Heart of Ice and Spiders is without remorse.

Geneth

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title: the Eye of the Flames
Author: Quendalon

The eye that is Geneth burns forever within the second sphere of She Who Lives In Her Name. As it burns, it turns in an endless wheeling dance, gazing out across Malfeas' countless layers. Where flames can be found in the path of its gaze, a blazing eye looks out of the fire; where demons in the path of its gaze hold a searing passion in their hearts, whether it be hate or fear or love, Geneth looks out from behind their eyes. When Geneth turns its gaze upon an individual, it learns everything about them in an instant; when Geneth turns its gaze upon a city or a kingdom, it can burn out the eyes of every living being there, blinding them forever.

Gergesenes

Lineage: Qaf
Title: the Incandescent Pilgrim
Author: Quendalon

Barefoot as a mendicant, wearing the crown of an Emperor, Gergesenes treads the paths of Malfeas as a cyclopean figure forged of white-hot iron. He travels in perpetual pilgrimage to those places in the Demon Realm that have been hallowed by the Yozis. In four of his seven hands he holds relics once borne by the Yozis themselves. When all seven hands are laden thus, his apotheosis will be complete; even Sacheverell, He Who Knows the Shape of Things to Come, cannot fathom what power or understanding he shall gain thereby. Where Gergesenes prays in Creation, a shrine to the Demon Princes arises from the smoldering earth; when he enters an earthly temple, it is consecrated to the Yozis, and lesser demons slip through the cracks in their prison to worship at its altar.

Gnimersalt

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: 11th Soul, The Mouthless Eater of All
Author: White Wolf

Hamza-Hathmet

Lineage: Laerad
Title: the Shining Mountains
Author: FourWillowsWeeping

Between the roots of Laerad coils Hamza-Hathmet, whose back is as broad as a lake, whose scales are great hills, whose mouth is a rocky crag! The great serpent guards the roots of the Universal Tree, slowly shifting his coils. Beneath and between his scales are gaps riddled with caves; these delve deep into his porphyry flesh. Digging in the caves of the Shining Mountains can reveal the great demon's veins that run with peacock-blue blood. This blood clots into masses of copper and emeralds. But do so with care! Adorjan rests inside Hamza-Hathmet when the sand of Cecelyne chafes her breezes, and he drives her to cool the itching pains inside his body.


It is almost impossible to emerge from the demon-mountains in the same place as one began. Though their pace seems languid, a moment within is like ten moments without, and cometimes collapses and avid diggers change the pattern of tunnels. When he wishes, Hamza-Hathmet may appear as a tall, white-skinned man; sand falls from his hands and from his mouth when he speaks. He cannot abide the sound of a virgin singing, or the taste of a maiden's monthly bleeding.

He Who Exists For His Fate,

Lineage: Talavos
Title: Fetich Soul of Talavos
Author: Paranoia833

Of the creatures who sleep in Malfeas, most merely dream of the violent cacophony of color, emotion and sensation that is Talavos. These are not real dreams, for they do not come from within the mind, but from the outside influence of the Vengeful Dream, those few sleepers who are deemed worthy of true dreams are visited by He Who Exists For His Fate, who appears to sleepers as a great black hole that eclipses Talavosí kaleidoscope of colour, drawing the light into himself. He Who Exists For His Fate draws out the long forgotten memories of his subjects, and creates from them the dreams of those who came before the gods. He Who Exists is wild and unpredictable in temperament, much like his greater soul. He is also one of the precious few beings in Malfeas who seeks to awaken Sacheverell, by covertly poisoning his dreams, that they might cause a great fit sufficient to awaken He Who Knows the Shape of Things to Come.

Helisquinde

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: the Light That Casts the Shadows
Author: Quendalon

Even the brightness of the Green Metal Sun is as a candle-flame before the blaze of Helisquinde. She drifts through the streets of the Demon City like a hurricane of white brilliance; those caught in her glare burn away, leaving only their shadows behind. Whatsoever endures her radiance casts a second shadow forever after. One so marked attracts the creatures of the night, and if it has a soul, an inexorable darkness sprouts and burgeons therein. On such occasions as Helisquinde desires a mortal shape, she shrouds her radiance behind a veil of cold mist, so that she is merely as bright as a winterís day. In this semblance, her exquisite beauty inspires an unnatural, poisonous envy. She is both passionate and calculating, compassionate and cruel; when she tests the strong with her beauty and her fire, she dreams of their success but relishes their failure.

Hepyrtace

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title: the Forsaken Star
Author: Lucy4Luvzu

Ipithymia

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: 13th Soul, the Street of Golden Lanterns
Author: White Wolf

Jacint

Lineage: Adorjan
Title: the Prince Upon the Tower
Author: White Wolf

Jarlastran

Lineage: Tharalstrazix
Title: the Mourner of Days Not Yet Dawned
Author: Han'ya

Jarlastran, like his brother Temozarael, takes the shape of a building, a great six-legged cathedral that roams Malfeas, sending forth Jarlastran's minions to do his will. Jarlastran makes a habit of collecting the slain bodies of demons, assuming something hasn't eaten them first. He stores them in his vast mausoleum-stomach, where the necrotic Essence produced by their decay is leeched to power the war machines that Jarlastran has stitched to his body. Jarlastran is a gloomy sort, inasmuch as anything is known about him. He wanders Malfeas without cause or purpose, and can often be seen weeping rivers of sewage from his cathedral form. He is antisocial in the extreme, and even his own children are mostly in the dark. Before the war, and the death of the One Crowned With Seven Rings In Quietude, Jarlastran was a neverending carnival that could appear anywhere and anywhen. His imprisonment has flipped him like a coin, revealing the ugly, dirty, and sad life of the carnival when the shows end, and he now wanders Malfeas in an orgiastic frenzy of depression and hatred. When summoned, nothing gives him so much pleasure as to destroy and burn the Creation that rose against him, which he does with skill and initiative. Jarlastran hates sunlight, whether the green of Ligier or the yellow of the Unconquered Sun, above all else and cloaks himself in a black fog wherever he goes, spewed from the smokestacks at the tops of his seven towers.

Ketu-Mula

Lineage: Sadagares
Title: the Blazing Chain
Author: Quendalon

The demon Ketu-Mula appears in many places in many forms, all of them forged of black Malfean iron spattered with brilliant jewels. Each of his shapes is a thing that binds: a ring, a collar, a badge or a crown. Whosoever dons the thing that is Ketu-Mula gains great power, but in doing so is shackled to a path ordained by the Yozis. When summoned, he instead wears his mortal shape: a middle-aged man, wiry and lean, with iron-dark hair and eyes like sharpened steel. Shafts of light flash from the folds of his cloak, for his heart is a well of squirming stars. His calligraphy is breathtaking in its elegance, and if he should write an edict in his own hand and affix it with his seal, those who open and read it are compelled to obedience. Ketu-Mula is a shrewd and honest counselor, but he resents being summoned; when he returns to Malfeas, as a parting gift, he always presents a cruel and painful truth to his summoner.

Langlaua

Lineage: Cecelyne
Title: That Which Preserves
Author: Quendalon

Langlaua pours out of the desert as a hot, dry wind, and the air quivers in her wake. She has also been known to appear as a swarm of golden dragonflies, a towering female shape formed of black sand borne upon a whirlwind, or a white-haired woman with eyes carved of amber. Her kiss grants the blessing of long life, while those she embraces wither into immortal husks of leather and bone. She may preserve anything beyond its normal span, even such fleeting traits as power, fame and desire. When the Yozis punish a demon with incarceration, it is Langlaua that lays her touch upon the prisoner to ensure the permanence of its captivity.

Lethe

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: The River of Forgetfulness
Author: CarpeMortem

Coiled about the heart of the Ebon Dragon the 932 currents of the river of forgetfulness flow in silence. Its waters forever calling to the souls of the dead, pulling them into its depths so that its icy waters may cleanse them of their memories, freeing them of their fetters and impurity so that they may once again join the wheel of reincarnation. When summoned into creation, the river Lethe takes the guise of a tall willowy woman, her eyes sewn shut, and her flesh like that of a mortal who has drowned. When enfleshed, the merest sound of her voice will strip soul from body, and memory from soul, readying those who listen to her silent speach to join again with the worlds cycle.

Ligier

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: Fetich Soul, the Green Metal Sun (custom stats, other custom stats)
Author: custom stats, other custom stats

Madelrada

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: Eigth Soul, That Which Wears Down the Mountains
Author: White Wolf

Mageddon

Lineage: Ghroth
Title: 1st soul of Ghroth, The Fire In the Sky
Author: Nero's Boot

Of all Ghroth's souls, none were as feared as Mageddon, destroyer of cities, the Fire In the Sky. For Mageddon is the breath of Ghroth, and is his herald, favored above all others in the Harbinger's eyes, save Ur. A mighty stone as vast as a city, Mageddon has no set form or feature, being merely a great stone of starmetal and Malfean iron. Before the reign of the gods, when Ghroth grew wrathful at a city of men or Dragon Kings, he would breathe forth his breath, and Mageddon would issue out, hurtling towards the mortal realm. Mageddon would crush all those he landed upon, crushing them beneath his vast iron bulk. After his work is done, Mageddon sinks into the ground, and is reborn inside his master's cavernous mouth. Now bound away from the mortals he loved to destroy, Mageddon has grown wrathful, and seeks endlessly to liberate himself from bondage. His cult is vast, as many would seek out the Fire In the Sky.

Marsilion

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: the Eidolon of Shadow (Quendalon)
Author: Quendalon

In every shadowed hall and darkened cellar of the Demon City, Marsilion waits. He exists to know and to share the solitude of the shadows, and his patience is boundless. The demons of Malfeas bring light with them whenever they tread the dark places lest they fall victim to his power. Marsilion has no body of his own; he manifests by possessing a mortal host, which hardens into a slowly moving statue of black stone, and he will do the same to any summoner who fails to provide a suitable vessel. In his presence, dead flesh turns to stone and shed blood becomes a fine black dust that sifts away on the wind. His touch petrifies flesh and bone, turning victims into living statues, immobile but aware, forever trapped in a prison of obsidian or basalt. He may offer a summoner knowledge of anything that occurs in darkness.

Munaxes

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title: Fourth Soul, the Ravine of Whispers
Author: White Wolf

Mursilis

Lineage: Oramus
Title: 20th Soul, the Skittering Jungle
Author: White Wolf

Orabilis

Lineage: Cecelyne
Title: the End of All Wisdom
Author: White Wolf

Persine

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: Seeker of Treasure Among Waves
Author: FourWillowsWeeping

Floating in the waters of Kimbery is Persine, who is sometimes a great turtle, sometimes an isle of twisted amber, sometimes a ship of golden coral. Persine is the caretaker of all that is precious, and knows the location of every rare and beautiful thing. Riding Persine's back, one can reach the shores of any worldly ocean, provided that the rider pays Persine's price: a masterpiece never to be recreated, cast into deepest waters.

The Punisher Of Sin

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title:
Author: FrivYeti

Quendalon

Lineage: Adorjan
Title: the Seventh Soul of Adjoran
Author: Arbane

The Ravager Of Dreams

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title:
Author: FrivYeti

Remondin

Lineage: Oramus
Title: the Misconstrued Counselor
Author: Quendalon

This puissant entity advises the rulers of the Demon City, whispering to them her endless knowledge of possible futures. She most often takes the form of a child with sweet, guileless eyes, scarlet-lacquered nails and a forked tongue; she has other shapes, but her nails and tongue mark her in every form. Sorcerers call upon Remondin to learn of perils that may yet come to pass, for she knows the stars of Creation as well as those of Malfeas, and her keen strategic mind may unravel even the most complex and subtle of dilemmas. Yet her subtlety makes her counsel perilous, for her malice may lead those who rely on her wisdom into far greater troubles. She may also call forth the shades of othersí possible future selves, either to converse or to do battle on her behalf, and meeting such shades can be disquieting indeed.

Sagarduia

Lineage: SheWhoLivesInHerName
Title: Seventh Soul, the River of Crystal Fire
Author: White Wolf

Sazakya

Lineage: Adorjan
Title: The Storm Of Wrathful Winds, 17th Soul Of The Silent Wind
Author: White Wolf

The ethereal demon known as Sazakya appears to unwary demons as a fierce typhoon made from abstract storm clouds with strange, many faced shapes in them. Lightning cracks inside it, and sometimes Csyvel can be seen flying his ivory dragon, herding thunders that echo in her mother¥s tongue. In her wake, all things that belong to the earth are destroyed, and buildings are torn to pieces. She remembers only the meaning of The Ominous Chant Of Destruction, and her passing makes the earth barren and bleached, for some ancient events made her forgot the Truthful Dance Of Renovation. Sazakya is the Storm Of Wrathful Winds, driven mad by the song of the Lightning Locusts and one of the fiercest and most destructive souls of The Silent Wind. Since she came into existance, has deeply hated The Earth Season of Creation. If she even remembers how this war began is unknown.

The Seven Seas of Kimbery

Lineage: Kimbery
Title:
Author: Sindaen

Sil Urxan

Lineage: TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow
Title: He Who Eats With Crows
Author: EwindaleMoss

At the edge of The Fields Of Rot And Sorrow, you may always find Sil Urxan. How you will find him is another matter. Often times, you will only see a cluster of corpses being beset by crows, their eyes plucked from their inevitably broken skulls. Each of these is Sil Urxan, for he is that which is reaped from fields sown with blood. Other times, you will find a young soldier, bow slung over his back, slicing meat from the bones of the dead, feasting on it just as the crows do. His teeth are rounded points, his eyes coagulating blood. His feet are talons, a gift from his brother Adrigor after his own were devoured and processed into crows. The arrows in his quiver are fletched with the feathers of crows and know where their prey's heart truly lies, always seeking the swiftest death possible. Sil Urxan is not discourteous though, he will always offer for you to eat with him should you find him. From the flesh of the dead, one can find the truth of the conflict, where the war began, who financed it, and what priceless treasure or limitless power was its goal. In return, those that know from whence the conflict came will find their penetrating words of truth about its origins raising up an even greater war than came before. And it is their name that shall be known to another when next Sil Urxan feeds.

Suntarankal

Lineage: Malfeas
Title: 15th Soul, the Crucible of Brass and Iron
Author: White Wolf

Temozarael

Lineage: Tharalstrazix
Title: The Unrepentant In A Clockwork Cradle
Author: Han'ya

Deep in the wilds of Cecelyne, there rises a great pillar of stone in the featureless desert, one of few breaks in the infinite sands. On this craggy mesa's sandstone sides, the color of dried blood, there is a door, of black Malfean iron. Any who would enter this door must do so with rage in their hearts. Any who wish to do Temozarael harm more than they wish to live need not even touch the gates, for they will open themselves for such dark purity. Within, in a great blasphemous mechanism of clockwork and hydraulics, boilers and cauldrons of infernal Essence, sits Temozarael, on a throne of cold iron, carved with a never-ending litany of hatred and rage. Great tubes and capillaries lead from the machine, which is Temozarael, to the throne, which is Temozarael, and the man on the throne, who is Temozarael. His face, if it can be called that, is still blasted and scarred into twisted grotesquerie by the fury of the Unconquered Sun's chosen. He could heal these wounds in an instant, but he lets them remain as a testament. To what, nobody is quite sure but him. His hands are not even hands, and the horrors that they caress upon living flesh cannot be detailed by anyone, for there are not words to describe them. Pus and blood fall from his iron-booted feet, and his robe contains the ceaseless fires of his hatred, stoked by his infernal furnaces. One can call Temozarael forth to turn his destructive gaze upon the world, and sear it with the infernal Essence-fires ignited by his rage at his unjust exile. Nothing can stand against this fury, not even the gods themselves. The only problem is getting him to stop. His great monstrous distillaries can also synthesize poisons so potent that only the greatest of the Exalts and gods can withstand them.

The Tide That Knows No Life

Lineage: Kimbery
Title:
Author: White Wolf

Tulchinary

Lineage: TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow
Title: The Rivers That Overflow With The Blood of Heroes, Fetich Soul of Valxregen
Author: EwindaleMoss

Running through the great expanse of The Fields of Rot and Sorrow are three rivers that become one, each one filled with the blood of heroes long since dead. This is the lifeblood of Valxregen and its most treasured prize. As it roiled in suffering within Malfeas, Valxregen wept forth the unending rivers of blood that are now known as Tulchinary. Once, Tulchinary was a river of mead and laughter that was drank from by those that ate in the great feasting hall at the center of Valxregen. Now, the blood that is Tulchinary seeks to ensnare those that touch it and pull them beneath its rust-red waves. Tulchinary cannot stand the touch of virgin blood or the taste of an infant and will part rather than allow these things to sully itself.

Ululaya

Lineage: Kimbery
Title: Third Soul, the Blood-Red Moon
Author: White Wolf

Ur

Lineage: Ghroth
Title: fetich soul of Ghroth, the Many-Taloned Hunter
Author: Nero's Boot

Foremost amongst the souls of Ghroth is Ur, the Many-Taloned Hunter. For in days gone by, Ur was the hunter of the demon host, ranging about the ebon sky seeking out worthy foes to pursue. With mighty heaves, Ur would hurl down great stones of starmetal on those he deigned to hunt, crushing them. Thus was starmetal once known as urstone. Many were the gods that fell to Ur's hunts, and thus was he hated more than most. When he was imprisoned, Ur fractured, and is no longer one entity. So forecfully did he throw himself against the closing ribs of Malfeas that he was shattered into a dozen pieces, each fragment aware of and in communion with the others. Now, Ur is the Many-Taloned Hunter, as he is shattered and no longer one. He sits in a great cathedral buried under the skin of Ghroth, raging against what Fate has done to him.

Ur-Nammu

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: Midnightís Horror
Author: Quendalon

Horror is a crushing weight upon the heart, a darkness choking the soul. Ur-Nammu is that weight, that darkness. He manifests as a howling cyclone in which nebulous half-human shapes stagger with a ghastly, shuffling gait. A suffocating black wind blows outward from his towering form, feeding the weakness in all things; cracks spread, wounds grow gangrenous, the old wither, and the weak-minded gibber and die of absolute terror. Those who enter the whirlwind are utterly broken in some manner. Some are deformed in body, others broken of mind; still others seem whole, but their souls are twisted toward wickedness and depravity. Ur-Nammuís mortal shape is a well-groomed man with thorns growing from his fingernails, his lips and the corners of his spiteful eyes. It is in this form that he is truly dangerous; with honeyed voice and engrossing tales, he weaves webs of madness that can drown entire cities in suicide and bloodshed. He also knows all the secret fears of anyone who speaks or sings in his presence. He eagerly serves any master who turns him loose upon the mortals of Creation, but he inevitably turns on his summoner; such is his nature.

Verthan

Lineage: Cecelyne
Title: the Lightning Across the Void
Author: Kalisara

Verthan takes shape as a mighty stallion, black as the stones of the Underworld and with mane and tail of shining gold. Upon his back a summoner may ride to any place that exists in or out of Creation(1), and though the journey seem hours or days to the desperately clinging rider, only an instant will have passed. A lock of hair from Verthan's mane can be made into a talisman of great potency, but even summoned and bound, he will not allow one to be cut. Those who steal one by stealth or guile he will attempt to trample or hurl from his back; and anyone who falls is never seen again, for the Void claims them.

(1) The likely consequences of riding a Third Circle demon into Yu-Shan are left as an exercise for the would-be summoner.

Wulgwyst

Lineage: TheFieldsOfRotAndSorrow
Title: The Courteous Transgressor
Author: EwindaleMoss

At the center of Valxregen, there is a great feasting hall where the conquering heroes would drink and be merry. Even now, as the mad sun of Malfeas beats down upon it, the cacophony still rages. However, within, there is no brotherhood among the feasters. Each day, as the feast begins, a smiling face sprouts between two warriors and whispers in their ears. These whispers turn into chartreuse worms that squirm into the brain of their victims until they fly into a fit of rage at the slanders the mysterious face speaks. In turn, either champion strikes the other, and a brawl has begun. It is a fight that never ceases as Wulgwyst pushes new faces from its feasting hall self to torment the celebrants anew, a smile never leaving its face. When summoned to Creation, Wulgwyst takes the form of a small slave boy, often clad only in rags with a permanent smile upon his lips and unseeing white eyes. None that hear his words can bear to strike him, even as he shatters their possessions, insults their parentage, and blasphemes their gods. Those driven mad by Wulgwyst eventually lose all sense and become mass-murderers, seeking an outlet for their impotent rage.

Xerysis

Lineage: Oramus
Title: the Fear That Shatters Nations
Author: Dimitryi

Legends speak of a chill, scouring wind that scatters armies and breaks nations as it passes. This wind is Xerysis, the evoker of self-preserving fear in mortals, the fear that drives soldiers from their ranks, men from their friends, and nations from their allies. In ages past, entire armies were routed by Xerysis, who struck fear deep into the private hearts of each soldier. When it chooses, the cold wind coalesces into the form of a hairless, alabaster-skinned man, wearing a sharp-angled toga spun from mirrored glass. Any who look into the reflection in Xerysis' toga see only themselves, and not the reflections of any allies nearby.

Xipantek,

Lineage: EbonDragon
Title: the Shadow Feeder
Author: Telgar

The quintessential boogeyman, Xipantek is a living shadow that walked the dark corners of Creation before the Primordials were imprisoned. Any being standing in shadow is potential prey to Xipantek, who sucks the victim into the shadow and there feasts on their flesh. Once he has finished his meal, the Shadow Feeder expells the bloody remains from another shadow and returns to his prowling. In Malfeas, the favorite prey of Xipantek is blood apes and other low-ranking, unintelligent demons. He hungers for the sweet flesh of mortals and takes every chance to journey to Creation.

Ypsos

Lineage: Chorifa
Title: The Mountain Without Peak
Author: TheHoverpope

The power of the earth intruding into the world, the Mountain is the destructive facet of Chorifa.

Zinnridi

Lineage: Adorjan
Title: The Unfettered
Author: Quendalon

Ever moving, ever shifting, the demon Zinnridi takes many forms, though it inevitably returns to its formless state as a flowing quicksilver mass. Nothing can bar its passage, nor in fact can any passage be barred in its presence. Where the Unfettered goes, neither lock nor door nor bars can restrain movement; even the tiniest aperture twists wide to admit those who seek entrance or egress. Its touch breaks all bonds, including the intangible fetters of oaths, loyalty, love and hate.