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How about a thread for all our favorite fiends? Any and all types welcome, but rakshasas most of all.
No celestials allowed.
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I love succubi
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>>97585914
I wish there was more emphasis on the different styles of demons. The Obyrith and Obyrith Lords would make for perfect Mythos monster stand-ins.
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>>97585929
No you don't, you just love to mindlessly spam your shitty commissions.
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Dropped my pictures, whoops.
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>>97585914
I have a soft spot for gelugons. No particular reason for it, I just think they're neat.
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Oops, forgot pic
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Demons are best used as foils for the player characters. To highlight their faults and flaws, to taunt them with their imperfections, their failures, their sins. Demons are the darkness within every soul which cannot be illuminated nor expunged. It is an intrinsic, fundamental part of being alive. You could no more live without sin than you could be perfect...
Nothing is so pure.
Perfection is impossible.
All that struggling and suffering and striving... vanity. You want something impossible. It is that profound truth which you so desire to escape which torments thee, mortal.
Release this pain. Let go of thy foolish fantasies. They bring thee no comfort. They mock the weakness of thy nature. Thou art only as thou wast made - the fault is in thy Creator, not in thee. Come, mortal. A new life awaits thee: one of joy and pleasure and peace. Without this needless strife and anguish of judgements cast upon thee by cruel, arrogant hypocrisy. The light has blinded thee to the truths of the world: there are shadows all about thee. Thou cast darkness by thy mere existence and it is no shame. It is simply the way of things. Embrace reality. Accept existence as it is. Join us and finally live. Be alive with us now and forever.
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Depending on what you're reading there's some variance there. They're supposed to have some physical abnormality they can't simply shapeshift away, and sometimes it's said they all have reversed palms, but in some instances the reversed palms are only given as a common example of the kind of abnormality they might exhibit, not necessarily the only kind.
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Sure, I mean, vampires are sometimes not described as being destroyed by submersion within running water or vulnerable to silver or loathing garlic or whatever. But you still know immediately and effortlessly that those things are talking about vampires. Those specific details just aren't in every single story about them. That doesn't mean they aren't characteristic parts of the vampire mythos.
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I don't have a specific type of fiend I like to use more than others, but I will always make sure My demons are absolutely reprehensible monsters doing really evil fucked up things just for fun. Among notable demons My players have met (some of this information is unknown to them):
>A necromancer daughter of the Lord of Undeath. In addition to innate necromantic abilities, which already desecrate the sanctity of life and death, she is a necrophiliac.
>A soldier-esque demon with his own small army holed up in an abandoned castle in the middle of the forest. If adventurers or travelers happen across the castle to bother him, he will more often than not end up cooking them alive and eating them mid-roast. To him, the pain and stress flavours the meat.
>He's also a raging seething incel who believes the necromancer demon owes him sex from a deal they made 14 years ago. He has occasionally asked adventurers to find her for him.
>An arms-dealing demon who actively enables and encourages piracy in the regions where it's prevalent. He is effectively a mobile storefront that can get you just about anything you need at any time, for a cost in gold and some time off your lifespan. He may also trade in souls, if you ask for exceptionally powerful equipment.
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>A mafia boss who has effectively enslaved one of the PCs, by kidnapping and impregnating the woman that PC had a crush on. If that PC disobeys him, a demon child will form in the woman's womb, killing her and condemning her to Hell while possibly forcing the PC to deal with the child.
>Even more, he first kidnapped the PC as a child to enlist him in his organization, but as the boy got older and started to fancy women, the demon saw a way to keep him confined.
I really like demons being pure, unapologetically and absolutely irredeemably evil.
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i have a big monster manual I've been compiling different monsters both orginal and classic for years and I find demons tend to be the easiest to make original creations, that and combining different elements of beasts to make a new chimera type thing, another one I made the other day I called a Scroke, its a scroll that takes the shape of a snake (still looking like a paper scroll) in order to defend a wizards study when hes away, not a very dangerous creature but I thought it was a fun idea
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>>97585914
What are some good examples of elemental demons/fiends, like picture related?
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>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/13iqrjb/art_comm_layla_the_succu bus_human_form/
https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/bBQnk2q_LZAnrc1x8KFrbA/
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>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySuccubi/comments/1o0zlzn/layla_the_s uccubus_demon_form_by_kartstudio/
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