Dæmons

Attributes of the Dæmonic

As related by the revivified shade of Kaiser Aiomide:

• The dæmon reproduces asexually, it carries its demonic spawn within itself as though they were hibernating parasites throughout the long aeons of its dreadful existence;
• Only in the final death of a dæmon do the larvae awake. Their 'metabolysm', for want of a better word, is triggered by the loss of controlled blood flow from the mother-host and their ravenous hunger is awoken by the stench of decay and putrefaction. The first meal of the Balgurd sporn is the mother-creature that had borne them thus far, but it is not their last. Unless tended by their demon kin, the dæmon spawn will turn on each other, each member of the litter falling upon and devouring the other until only the strongest remains, then it will turn its attention outwards, towards whatever other forms of flesh, living or dead, it can seek to devour;
• Killing a dæmon would result in triggering the release of larval 'nymph' daemons carried in the creature's womb-cyst;
• To combat one in the mortal realm, you have to subdue it without killing it;
• To defeat a dæmon you contain it and kill it within a contained area, you can starve the larval daemons.