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There are specific demons that we refer to as Greater Demons, and they have some aspects in common: human-scale intelligence, personalities, names, and an inability to be permanently destroyed by us with any weapon available. That is knon because of a long recorded history of Greater Demons who have been "Killed", only to return later, instact and unharmed.
|| LILITH ||
Unlike her dark consort, Sammael, Lilith is still alive and had been known to appear on Earth. Pray that you never meet her. Lilith is known by many names, even when considering only the Jewish tradition from which most of her folklore is sourced. This does not count the many other entities in other mythological traditions that are similar in form or function and may or may not be the same demn. Lilith's other name is Jewish folklore include: Satrina, Amizo, Izorpo, Kokos, Odam, Ira, Eilo, Patrota, Abeko, Kea, Kali, Batna, Talto and Partash.
Jewish tradition says that for her disobedience she was punished by being made unable to bear children. Many version of the tale pain an even more brutal picture in which Lilith actually is capable of birthing infants, but all of them die upon birth. As such she is associated with the harming and weakening of human babies, and much of our knowledge of Lilith come from Jewish mystical tradition designed to protect newborns from Lilith's influence, with amulets and incantations.
|| SAMMAEL ||
Apart from his foundational role in the Incursion, not much is known about Sammael. He is thought to have been the great Serpent by which humanity was tempted and feel from grace. But his physical shape is a mystery, for Sammael has not been on Earth in many hundreds of years.
Traditional tales state that for his crime of softening the veils between the human world and the Void, he was hunted and murdered by the archangel Michael, commander of the armies of Heaven. This sotry comes to us through mundane religious, but is offten repeated and is cleary believe by the demons of Pandemonium themselves. Since Sammael has not been seen in our world for so long time, not rituals survive to summon him.
|| ABBADON ||
The Demon of the Abyss. His are the empty places between the worlds. His is the wind and the howling darkness. He is a nine-goot-tall rooting human skeleton.
|| AZAZEL ||
Lieutenant of Hell and Forger of Weapons. Like most of the greatest of Greater Demons, he was an angel at one time. He is said to have taught humanity how to make weapons in the times before history, where previously weapons making had been knowledge held only by angels. This great trangression caused him to fall and become a demon. The irony of a being resnposible for giving humanity the knowledge necessary to fight against demons is not lost on the Nephilim; we assume that it is not lost on Azazel himself either. As the book of Enoch has it "And the whole eart had been corrupted by the works that we taught by Azazel. To him ascribe all sin"
|| HUNGER ||
The demon known as Hunger is an obese devil-like humanoid figure covered in hard, bony scales and a variety of choping fang-lined mouths all over his body. Hunger is made to devour everything he encounters, usually is a mess and grotesque a fashion as possible.
|| MARBAS ||
A blue demon, half again the size of a mad, covered in overlapping blue scales, with a long yellowish tail with a stringer on the end, lizard's featured, and a flat snakelike snout.
|| MR. DARK ||
A large creature of hard, stone like skin, apparently female (although what gender means in the realm of demons is unclear) She is horned, with twisted limbs and clawed hands. She can also be identified by her glowing yellow eyes and her triple row of mouths lined with greenish fangs. She is so Eidolon.
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Demons are not living beings in the sense that we usually understand. They are alien to our universe and are not sustained by the same kind of forces that sustain us. Demons do not have souls; instead, they are powered by a roiling emon energy, a vitalizing spark that maintains their form in our dimension. When demons die, this energy is separated from its physical body, and that body will be yanked quickly back into its home dimension. To Human eyes, this disappearance van make many formes, depending on the species of demons. Some explode in dust, some fade from view, some crumple into themselves. In all cases however, no renmant of the demon's physical self remains in our world.
|| BEHEMOTH ||
The Behemoth is a formless monstrosity of a demon. It is roughtly oblong and could be described as slugh like in its movements, but with less coherence of shape. It is large, much larger than a human, and slimy. Double rows of teeth line the lenght of its body. The Behemoth devours everything in tis path, including people.
|| DRAGON ||
Dragon demons are the closest thing in the modern world to the ancient myths of dragons. They are large, flying, fire-breathing lizards, and are quiet intelligent. They come in a variety of shapes and colors. They are formidable foes; luckily, Shaowhunters are likely to never encounter them, since they are almost extinct. They are not to be confused with Vetis demons, which are like dragons but are not Dragons.
|| DREVAK ||
Shadowhunters know well the appearance of Drevaks, weak demons in frequent use by Greater Demos or evil warlocks are spies or messengers. They are smooth, white, and larval, resembling a giant version of a mundane grub or maggot. They are blind and do their tracking by scent
Their shapelessness and lack of intelligence does not mean they are not dangerous; instead of teeth their mouths contain poisonous spine, which can be very dangerous if they break off and stick in the skin of a victim. Normal treatments for demons venom apply here.
|| DU'SIEN ||
The Du'sien is one of the lesser-known shape-shifting, or Eidolon, demon species. Its true appearance is abstract, like an irregular blob of greenish-gray jelly with a small glowing black core. They cannot mimic other creatures with the detail that many Eidolon can, and their command of human languages is wwak. They are thus oftem found disguised as "generic humans" members of a crows, rather than impersonating specific individuals.
|| EIDOLON ||
"Eidolon" is not the name for a specific species of demons. Rather, it is a comprehensive term for a variety of shape-shifting demons species. Shape-shifting demons come in many different original shapes, and many different sizes and strenghts. Since there are dozen of these especies, Shadowhunters typically use the term "Eidolon" to refer to shap-shifting demons in general. It is, in other words, usually more useful to not a demon's shape-shifting ability than the minor details of their original form.
In addition to the danger posed by their nearly perfect ability to comouflage themselves, Eidolon also have a marked advantage over other demon species: When shifted into the form of a human, they are somewhat protected from the destructive light of the sun. A shifted Eidolon demon still cannot stand in direct sunlight but can endure the diffused light coming through heavy clouds, fod, rain, and so on, with only minor discomfort.
|| FACEMELTER ||
Self-explanatory
|| HELLHOUND ||
A demonic corruption of the dog, just as many demons are corruption of the forms of men and women. Typically hellhounds appear as vicious canines much larger than any mundane dog, with red eyes, coarse black wire like fur, and a murderous temperament. They have a similiar intelligence to mundane dogs and are used by demons for similiar purposes - tracking and hunting. Like with dogs, Hellhounds jaws are their most dangerous weapons, but unlike with dogs, their tails end in asset of spiked nail-like protrusions, similar to a mace.
|| HYDRA ||
Amedium-size multi-headed demon, vicious but not intelligent. Known for its multiples head, at least three but often many more. The Hydra can be distinguished from other multi headed demons by its animalistic intelligence level, the presence of head on stalk, and its blindness - the Hydra cannot see normally and relies on sound, scent, and its sheer numver of large mouths to catch its prey.
|| IBLIS ||
The Iblis demon is corporeal but not of solid form. Insteada it has the appearance of a figure about the size and shape of a human but made of a roiling, fast-moving black smoke. In the part of its vapor that represents its head, it looks out onto our world through yellow burning eyes.
|| IMP ||
The common Imp is a smal humanoid with the characteristics of a typical Western devil - horns, forked tail, et cetera. They are no very dangerous individually but can become a problem when encountered in swarms of more than two hundred, as is occasionally reported.
|| DJINN||
Djinn are mentioned here because they are often incorrectly believed to be demons. They are not; they are fearies.
|| KAPPA ||
A reptilian water demon covered in a protective carapce and with a protruding beak, but otherwise the size and rought shape of a human ten-year-old child. Fond of leaping from the water to drag unwitting mundanes to their deaths.
|| KURI ||
These are spider demons, larger and shiny black, with either pincer-tipped arms, and fangs extending from their eyes sockets.
|| MOLOCH ||
Somewhat confusingly, the name "Moloch" refers both to a Greater Demon known as once of the most fearsome demon warriors, a being of smoke and oil, and also to a species of lesser demons that are minions and food soldiers of that Greater Demon Moloch. Individuals of the species are man-size, dark and made of thick roiling oil, with arms byt only a formless liquid appensage instead of legs. Their primary weapon is the flames that stream from their empty eyes sockets, and they are usually seen in larger numbers rather than in isolation.
|| ONI ||
Human size demons with green skin, wide mouths, and horns upon their heads.
|| REHAB ||
These are large bipedal demons, somewhat lizard like in appearance and movement. They are blind, with a line of teeth where their eyes should be, and regular mouth, this one fanged and tusked, in a more usual place on their faces. They have a narrow, whip like tail edged with razor-sharp bone. Their talons and teeth are, of course, sharp and dangerous, but their most threating weapon is the bulb-shaped stinger on he end of their long, forked tongue.
|| RAUM ||
The Raum is an intimidating anddangerous demon, not capable of speech, but somewhat clever as an opponent nonetheless. Raums are about the size of a man but possess white, scaled skin, bulding black eyes without pupils, a perfectly circular mouth, and tentacles for arms. These tentacles are the Raum's most dangerous weapon; they are tipped with red ers, each of which contains a circles of tiny needles like teeth.
|| REVENER ||
The Revener is a classic monstrosity: a long, squamous black body with a long domed skull like an alligator's. Unlike on an alligator, its eyes are in an insectile cluster on the top of its head. It has a vicious, barbed whip tail anda thick, flat snout. Reveners possess shapr fanged teeth, which envenomate their prey with a deadly toxin. In time the poison will burn away all of the life of the victim, leaving only ask behind. The toxin is particulary terrible even among demons venons, and there we are talking about a category that includes the poison of the Facemelter demon.
|| SHAX ||
These demons are known for their keen sense of smell and are sometimes summoned by warlocks to use in tracking a missing person. They must be carefully controled, however; they are brood parasites and reproduce by wounding a victim and then laying their eggs in the still-living victim's skin.
|| VERMITHRALL ||
Most Shadowhunters will incorrectly tell you that the Vermithrall is a monstrous lumbering mass made up of thousands of writing worms. In fact the Vermithrall are the individual worms themselves. They do, however, collect into colonies in the shake of a humanoid and attack as a unified single entity. Worse, worms separed from the main body will endeavor to rejoin it, making it very hard to permanently kill a Vermithrall.
|| VETIS ||
They are not to be confused with Dragon demon, which they somewhat resemble but are unrelated to. They are gray and scaly, with overlong serpentine arms and an elongated but humanoid body. Like Dragons, they are known for hoarding valuables; unlike Dragons, they do not have any understanding of what is valuable and what is dross, and their lairs are more closely reminiscent of large rats nests than treasures chambers.
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