/fringe/ Demon Hunting Guide
Everything you may want to know about demons.
What is a demon?
A demon is a kind of entity that is derived from a void substance. In its purest form it's like a heavy black ink, the opposite of radiant light. They all prey upon vice to sustain their existence and grow in power. When awakened you can see the demonic essence as like a black blood running from the blotted out eyes of demonically possessed. One report from a witch informs me that many in the plane of waking can be seen with this… the demonic essence is everywhere and influencing people to various degrees. Demons often cling to people like unseen parasites slowly siphoning them of astral energy and directing them towards activities that will release even more of the energy they like to feed upon. You can kill them off or at least drive them away by completely avoiding unclean thoughts and actions of the sorts that feed them or by cycling through emotions as a sort of way to cleanse yourself of unwanted entities starving them of the energy they need.
I categorize them into three main tiers which could be visualized as a pyramid because the ones at the top are far outnumbered by the ones at the bottom.
Tier 1: Demonic overlords
These are demons which prey upon multiple vices and are so powerful they can manipulate reality itself in the same manner as a very powerful lucid human wizard. They can change the weather, summon things, do powerful dark magic, change around the environment, and other such things. When a demonic overlord and another entity of very high powered will go into combat against each other reality starts ripping apart around them with the parts closest to them being shaped most strongly as they wish to project it and the other parts at the fringe of their focused will chaotically shifting / changing around as they struggle. Demonic overlords are the most dangerous sort of demon and the most capable of possession. Some of them have names and you may hear them tell of their name but be wary that any entity in the astral planes can call itself whatever it wants, it's just a way to identify oneself, or to deceive others at times. Multiple demons could have the same name too so just because one demon tells you its name is x doesn't mean it's the same demon as another demon with the same name.
Tier 2: Demons
These are regular demons and quite numerous. They are fairly developed and refined to prey upon usually one specific vice. Since each tier blends into the other though there would of course exist gradations between this tier and the higher and lower one where more complex predatory behaviour may be observed with them preying on more than one vice. The tier 2 set has many specific names for the different sorts of demons depending upon the sorts of behaviours they exhibit and the vices they prey upon. Demon that preys upon lust is a succubus for example. The tier 2 demons are very restricted in their actions / behaviour sets and have a hard time deviating from their specialized predatory behaviours. This makes them easier to slay or subdue if you understand the behaviour and its limitations.
Tier 3: Minions/Imps
These are the most common, the bacteria of the demon world. They have no specializations and are very weak. They are like deranged animals which can only hope to kill you physically and feast upon you but which have no magical power and can hardly deceive you. This tier of demons tends to be small in size (not always though), easily destroyed, and easily created and replaced. Demons start off like this before they grow in power, evolve, and climb up the demonic hierarchy. These demons, if ever they are successful in feeding, prey upon the weakest, most frightened, and least knowledgeable astral entities as well as each other. They may also feed off and originate out of negative astral energy randomly dispersed into the environment by higher beings like humans.
Should demons be treated with respect or kindness?
No. Never. They see it only as an opportunity to exploit you. Any kind of compassion shown to a demon makes you vulnerable and they will immediately take advantage of it. Demons will take everything they can from you and give you nothing in return. Demons are all very hostile and depending upon the type of predatory behaviour they exhibit will immediately begin their attack. Tier 3 demons will mostly attack you like a crazed wild animal would trying to claw at you, eat you, hack and slash at you, tear you apart, etc. and going into a frenzy. Smelling blood or the putrid smells of sickness may make even more frenzied, some will exhibit mob behaviour, others hunt in packs, and others might try to creep up on you then pounce or holdback a bit when other more powerful or more insanely suicidal battle enraged demons are present and they instead try to scavenge around and prey upon the already wounded. The tier 2 demons are much more complex with a far greater capacity for deceptive behaviour and some magic and how they behave depends upon the type (I'll describe that in another part). Tier 3 demons have a very strong aura where you can feel the pull they have on reality that can be felt over a very large distance the more powerful the demonic overlord is. A demonic overlord will immediately do everything in its power to kill or subvert every entity in the premises often bringing in many other demons into the fight that it summons and may fight other demonic overlords too to try to make them subservient and grow their own power. Lesser demons will be heavily influenced by the demonic overlord in a form of demonic mindcontrol where the will of every lesser demon under its control is totally subservient to the higher up demon. If you feel the aura / presence of a demonic overlord and aren't already very capable of fighting tier 1 and tier 2 demons you should immediately flee and planeshift away to escape before being killed, made subservient to it, or demon possessed.
What are the fallen & the corrupted?
The fallen are angels and ascendent beings who've been tainted by the demonic essence and have realigned themselves with demonic force. They are the most dangerous and extremely powerful beings in the astral planes, exceeding the capabilities of the demonic overlords, and very bad news for the angelic hierarchy. They are also extremely rare. Due to the very restrictive natures of demons and angels (they seem to have very limited free will both of them) they are rather predictable. A demon will always seek to act in accordance with the greatest evil it can manifest and an angel with the greatest good in serving creation. In the case of angels this can create situations where once in awhile an angel will sacrifice itself as it tries to act for the greater good.
Here is a conversation relating to angels;
Ancient – Be cautious around angels, they're not as benevolent as you might think.
The greater good rarely involves wizards or other powerful entities going about their own agenda's.
Wizard – So where does the greater good usually come from?
Also, do you think that angel or whatever it was, was a benevolent entity?
Ancient – In things being very neat, very orderly and very monotone.
It could be, I can't go on much.
Wizard – So the greater good is mundane?
Ancient – They see it simply as what benefits the most people.
It's often very mundane with the angels being the only beings of any real power left.
They're not nearly as chaotic or destructive as the demons however.
Wizard – Are there any entities that are basically inbetween them?
Also isn't chaos the wielding of both dark and light magic at once?
I guess it's wizards themselves that are inbetween.
Ancient – Everything exists between them.
One is chaos and destruction simply because that's what they are while the other is selfless, pure and very orderly about how they do things.
Wizard – What is the task of the ancients? You are an ancient right? What do you do besides hunt down wizards?
Ancient – We try to rarely fight with anything other than demons although conflicts do erupt. We hoard powerful magical artifacts and protect sentient life from the ravages of everyone else.
Where as the angels attempt to shape how that life evolves we do not.
The corrupted are non-angelic entities like humans and so on who have fallen to demon possession and become like the demons. Their vessels are taken over by demons and/or they become subservient to demons. For those who see the demonic essence runs heavily from their eyes constantly like a black blood. They may be kept imprisoned somewhere and used like batteries always made to suffer and be tortured like in a place which is like hell or they may be used as a remote proxy into our world to further the demonic agenda here in our world or also used as demonic soldiers in the astral wars. If you give yourself to the darkness you could become one of them. It is a terrible fate but at that point a person's mind is warped by the darkness so much he tends to revel in suffering and be like a madman.
How to protect or hide yourself from the demons?
There are many ways. Remember that all demons are astral predators. You (or your companions) attract them to you with vice. Do not give into vice, restrain yourself, and you will be invisible to the demons. You won't be safe if you merely avoid acting on your thoughts btw, merely having unclean thoughts lights them up to you and attracts them to you like a moth to a light or a predator after a scent. If you maintain absolutely purity of thought and stay the path of virtue then they may still happen upon you at random or because someone else attracted them near or because you're in a place which is being targeted at the time for demonic invasion but you reduce the chances of encounter. What sorts of demons you are most likely to encounter depends upon the sort of negative astral energy you are giving off / which sinful thoughts you and others are having. Some places where certain vices take place very often will be frequented by demons of specific sorts too looking to feed off of the astral energy given off. Brothels will be surrounded by succubus, places of despair by pathos, places of greed by goblins, etc.
Demons can be killed (banished), sometimes driven away by releases of certain energies or intense light they hate, and made subservient to you, drained of the energy that sustains them, and you can fuck up the demonic mind so it stops functioning as was its nature before the modifications. Most of this is done through magic which employs the use of etheric and astral energy. Killing them with any weapons including melee weapons, guns, explosives, strangulation, shoving them off of cliffs, random objects in the environment, etc. can all be used to slay them. Slaying them in this physical manner in reality only banishes them from the plane you are on though much like when you are slain in the astral planes and this sends you to another plane then. Presumably the demon is "sent back to hell" after you have killed it, hell being any plane overrun with demons where they take refuge in.
A related conversation mentioning banishment (when he says "you and your kind" he refers to wizards fyi);
Ancient – You and your kind are volatile and power hungry, when you believe that doing torturous acts to each other will give you more power your uninvited guests become a blessing.
Wizard hasn't heeded my warning about returning to life.
Wizard – Well your warning sure is hard to get.
Ancient – What's difficult about it? If you continue down this path you'll kill yourself. If you don't manage to do it I or another like me will do you in.
Wizard – Btw, I think one of my demons died or left, then a succubus demon came but I've been working on killing that one because I have no need of it.
Ancient – I've been watching wizard.
Wizard – What happened to them?
Ancient – It got lost.
Wizard – Hmmm I wonder if it latched onto this other guy. I noticed someone snarl at me unexpectedly. Maybe not. Probably not.
Ancient – Wizard has confused banishing something with killing it.
Wizard – How do you know the difference?
Ancient – One is simply pushing it away along a different dimension, the other end's it's existance.
Wizard – Wouldn't the former be the same as the later?
Ancient – You can crush things out of existance.
Wizard – When it leaves one dimension it "ceases to exist" in the dimension it
was pushed out of?
Ancient – It does but it can return and often times will.
You can break, shatter and destroy anything. Life is no different.
When wizard dies he'll never reach the other plane.
The different types of (Tier 2) Demons:
Most are based off of a specific sin / vice and others I'm not so sure but they do find a way to disturb people and cause problems. The names given are descriptive and you can call the different types of demons whatever you want but I just try to give them a name that most fits what I observe.
• Succubus – female demon of lust, tries to seduce men, lives off of the sexual energy they give off of. Also tears you apart when having sex with you and is very sadistic; you will regret ever falling for one of these.
• Incubus – same as above but male and seduces women.
• Abominations & grotesques – hideous demons which create a sense of disgust, prey upon gluttony and vanity and fear of diseases and such. They are extremely nightmarish freaks of the demon world.
• Pathos / Shades – preys upon despair and pity. They suck the joy out of life and make you horribly depressed. They appear as a black shroud like a fog and tend to linger nearby their target without ever getting close trying to drive the target to suicide and hopelessness. Likes to linger around places full of depressed people, astral battlefields (especially in the aftermath of the main fighting when everyone is weary and mourning the dead). Similar to the popular depiction of "Death" or what are called "Death Eaters" in J.K. Rowling's books.
• Stalkers – a sort of demon which usually takes a familiar form based on what it reads in the minds of its target but looks deranged and clearly isn't the person it looks like and which feeds upon madness and paranoia. They will follow you around everywhere unrelentingly and are very hard to run away from (sometimes you can lose them though). They never attack until you panic and just can't take their presence anymore. If you hit them, throw chairs at them, break things on them, etc. they will be unphased by such attacks and still stare you down and give you the creepiest vibes imaginable. They will sneak behind you, sneak around you so that for example you might open a door and they're right fucking there infront of you, stand in your way and laugh evily, taunt you, brush up against you when you aren't looking, and continuously provoke you until you snap.
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How to summon a demon?
To summon a demon simply have non-virtuous thoughts of the sort the demon is attracted to and increase the intensity of these thoughts. This will draw them to you. Likewise if you actually do those things it'll bring them to you as well. If you do this in the astral planes you see them. If you do this in the waking they prefer to stay invisible to you (unless you are awakened enough to detect them) and passively feed off of you as you are unaware of them. You can then try to trick the demon in various ways to reveal itself or to make it your captive. It is very hard to trick a demon, demons usually trick wizards. You can offer yourself up as a vessel for a demon and they will gladly take over or share your body with you (and try to wrestle away as much control over your body vessel as they can). Demons are impulsive and unrestrained unless very powerful, they immediately exploit whatever they can, and they will try to give you nothing in return. Don't bother promising anything to a demon as they never keep up promises and will just take what they can without giving back. The only way to get anything worthwhile out of a demon is to trap them then torture them to death cutting off their energy supply forcing them to take much more desperate actions to try to free themselves such as actually doing magical favours for you with what energy they do have in limited supply. At first they'll try to nudge / urge you to towards thoughts and actions which will empower them. Failing that they become more desperate and may plead with you; show it no mercy at all. They may then act upon others they can influence to get you to engage in situations which will release them attracting certain scenarios to you. For example a succubus after failing to try to get you to have sexual thoughts and masturbate or look at porn will eventually step up its game some more in a last ditch effort to save itself by attracting women to you. Even then do not give in if you want to this battle with the demon with yourself gaining more than it takes in the end! Ignore their advances and let the demon try even harder to do anything it can to save itself. The succubus will try to attract more women to you and make them fall in love with you more intensely maybe even try to rape you or seduce you. Don't give in no matter what, you don't have to reject these women, but you must not engage in any kind of sexual release until the succubus is destroyed! If your will slips you will regret it and the demon will be empowered and you will lose out in the end then. Once finally the succubus is defeated and gone you may reap the benefits of your success and feel pride in your accomplishment and strength of will.
Reasons why someone might summon a demon:
• As the ultimate test of willpower, courage, and virtue.
• To study and become acquainted with demons before banishing them again.
• To try to learn esoteric knowledge from them (very difficult to do as they are liers and usually too deranged or too focused on preying upon you to talk about esoteric things, only way to learn anything from them might be to discern from the lies what must be truth, one really should just deal with other entities when wanting to learn esoteric things)
• To give up oneself as a vessel for demonic control because of a wilfull choice to align themselves with and probably be sacrificed to the darkness.
• To try to get demons to destroy your enemies.
• Out of a masochistic self-destructive desire to bring harm upon oneself spiritually, mentally, and possibly physically.
Reasons why you should not summon a demon:
Although I have already covered reasons why one might summon a demon there are several very important considerations why not to do so.
1. All demons are astral parasites. None of their power comes from within, they rely upon entities like you to survive and grow in power. They can not produce astral energy themselves. This means the true power is within you and other beings and that you only need to learn to harness your own power to your own benefit. Relying upon a demon to do things for you makes you spiritually weak / handicapped and keeps you from ascending higher and learning to do these things for yourself.
That said demons can draw upon multiple sources of energy besides you allowing them to have the power of multiple entities all drawn into themselves. It's not just you specifically they'll prey upon, they will also prey upon anyone else they can. This however brings up a second point.
2. You too can engage in energy vampirism and steal / siphon off astral energy from other people. So you don't need a powerful demon to gain that power for yourself too. You can also do something demons won't; you can get people to give off their energy freely to you in a manner which isn't just completely parasitic but is positive in orientation. You can make use of energies the demons can not directly make use of. So once again you shouldn't rely upon a demon here.
Another consideration is simply the very high risks to your soul and your mind. Do you really want to take them?
3. You could end up demonically possessed, deranged, warped, corrupted, etc. by the demonic influence.
4. You could lose your struggle with them and be drained of a lot of astral energy making it harder to go back to the astral planes for awhile and leaving you in a state of emotional deadness. They will screw you over completely if they can and give you nothing.
5. You lose your time engaging in unnecessary fights with demons that wouldn't have been an issue had you not summoned them. You probably already have enough battles with them as is just encountering them at random in the astral planes and elsewhere without bringing them here intentionally.
You may also want to be considerate of others,
6. They could just ignore you completely after the summoning and move onto another target nearby. If you intended them to attack a certain enemy of yours they may just as well end up attacking a friend. Demons can create a lot of chaos and will not obey you unless absolutely forced to do so and will create trouble for others too.
7. Worst case scenario: Our whole plane could fall to demonic control and turn into a Hell especially if a very powerful demon is brought over which can then bring over other demons and begin the demonic invasion of our world.
This is version 1 of Fringe Wizard's Guide to Demons & Demon Hunting. Everything here is based off of years of personal experience, observation, and sometimes the shared experiences and writings of others which correlate with my own. More updates will come in the future!
