In my setting, there is a race of people called Dantalians. They’re your typical red-skinned bat-winged small-horned spade-tailed demony-looking demons. (My main character’s sidekick/familiar is one.) They feed on life energy through skin contact. When they’re young (like said sidekick) they are irresistibly adorable because they literally feed on cuddles and it’s part of their hunting strategy. It’s hard to look at a juvenile Dantalian and not want to hug them. As adults they require increasingly prolonged or increasingly intimate contact to get enough to sustain themselves.
Most Dantalians are incredibly careful with and considerate of their partners and never take enough energy to actually hurt them. Consent is a very serious cultural thing for them. Those that are not that way – the ones that either don’t care if they hurt the people they feed from or actively seek to do so – are called succubi.
To call a Dantalian a Succubus is a serious insult; to call her that to her face is fighting words.
The outer planes that Demons come from are all named after a certain vice. There are nine of them (the seven deadly sins plus Ignorance and … for some reason I can’t remember the other; I’ll have to go look it up). Ignorance is made up of pieces broken off eons ago when Pride and Sloth suffered a planar collision, and the one I’m forgetting comes from something like that too.
Each of these outer planes gives rise to certain types of demons, who proliferate into the various Known Worlds. Dantalians, for example, are originally Lust Demons even if they are a bit far removed from their homeworld now.
There are no Greed Demons in the Known Worlds. Greed doesn’t allow anything to leave its domain. The Demiplane of Greed is essentially a black hole.
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In my setting, there is a race of people called Dantalians. They’re your typical red-skinned bat-winged small-horned spade-tailed demony-looking demons. (My main character’s sidekick/familiar is one.) They feed on life energy through skin contact. When they’re young (like said sidekick) they are irresistibly adorable because they literally feed on cuddles and it’s part of their hunting strategy. It’s hard to look at a juvenile Dantalian and not want to hug them. As adults they require increasingly prolonged or increasingly intimate contact to get enough to sustain themselves.
Most Dantalians are incredibly careful with and considerate of their partners and never take enough energy to actually hurt them. Consent is a very serious cultural thing for them. Those that are not that way – the ones that either don’t care if they hurt the people they feed from or actively seek to do so – are called succubi.
To call a Dantalian a Succubus is a serious insult; to call her that to her face is fighting words.
The outer planes that Demons come from are all named after a certain vice. There are nine of them (the seven deadly sins plus Ignorance and … for some reason I can’t remember the other; I’ll have to go look it up). Ignorance is made up of pieces broken off eons ago when Pride and Sloth suffered a planar collision, and the one I’m forgetting comes from something like that too.
Each of these outer planes gives rise to certain types of demons, who proliferate into the various Known Worlds. Dantalians, for example, are originally Lust Demons even if they are a bit far removed from their homeworld now.
There are no Greed Demons in the Known Worlds. Greed doesn’t allow anything to leave its domain. The Demiplane of Greed is essentially a black hole.
Ooh, this is a really cool concept! I especially love the planes mapping to deadly sins and how they can have massive interactions.
Thank you!