DEMON DEMONS

History
The history of the Demonkin's appearance in Aabahran is quite commonly known.
The ancient texts of history tell us:
 
"In the Fourth Age of Aabahran, the demon Shadowspawn came from the Chaos Rift
and tore Aabahran and its populace asunder with the screams and torments of
the Chaos Demons. These vile creatures were unlike any Aabahran had seen. They
did not speak a language any knew, and their names were so vile and repulsive
to speak that they were connoted nicknames to describe their pleasures."
 
Yet even before their appearance in Aabahran, Demons had existed within their
own realms. For Eons they gazed upon Aabahran with an envious eye, trying and
for the most part failing, in opening the gateway between the planes. It was
not until the rise of the first Demon Lord, Shadowspawn, that the rift was
first opened. Using the energy of the alignment of the moons, the Demons tore
open a portal into Aabahran. This action, and what occurred afterward would be
known as the Cataclysm and the Bloodletting.
 
Although the armies of Chaos were defeated, the damage was done - interplanar
travel became a possibility. From that day forth, Aabahran was plagued by such
horrors as Malignant, Aberant, Lunicant, Miscreant, Malevolant, and many more.
Also of import are the many pacts with which Demons have been bound to along
the years. One such pact was between the Demon Lord Malchaeius and the God of
Death, Chayesh. In return for his minions bringing much death into the world,
Chayesh gave the God of Chaos his choice in souls to use as he saw fit.
 
Malchaeius sustained a similar pact with the new Goddess of Death, Anume, whom
he adopted as protege for a time. Residing in the Heart of Chaos, a pocket
dimension between his realm and this one he felt more comfortable in,
Malchaeius manipulated Aabahran's populace into providing ever new hosts and
created new demonspawn using the granted tortured souls and vellum. This Heart
of Chaos is a place very few mortals have seen and lived to speak about. This
low rate of survivability is true for most demonic planes; these dimensions of
existence belong to demons alone.
 
After Malchaeius shifted his focus to another plane of existence, perhaps
judging it to be riper for the taking, other demons appeared in Aabahran,
vying for dominance. Who eventually comes out on top is yet to be seen.
 
Usual Height
Demons come in varying shapes and sizes. The smaller demonic imps are
comparable to the faeries, while Balors can tower over city skylines. Those
demons born from the shells of mortals, however, tend to be comparable in size
to minotaurs and ogres.
 
Hometown
While Demons do not have a specific hometown, there do exist several planes
in the multiverse that they call home. These planes exist outside of that
in which Aabahran exists. This is the very core of the multiverse. The gods
Malchaeius, Caimor and Chayesh emerged from a plane of existence outside of
Aabahran's own. 
 
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