Errenor wrote:
Ilkash wrote:
I use daemons heavily in my campaigns that deal with evil outsiders just because they're so much spookier and more existentially threatening than anything else the Lower Planes have to offer.
But how are they worse than demons? Those are bad enough, I suppose.
Demons embody mortal sins. They want to create a horrible future for the Material Plane; a universe ruled by demons where the strong do as they please and the weak suffer as they must. Think of Alex Delarge from A Clockwork Orange, or of a hedonistic serial killer or degenerate Emperor that only thinks about satisfying their depraved urges. Demons want mortals to keep existing so they can, as Lovecraft put it, "teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom." This kind of behavior, not coincidentally, creates more demons when these corrupted mortals eventually die.
Daemons embody death and oblivion. They are omnicidal nihilistic soul devourers, and they want to annihilate all life -- mortal and immortal -- in the entire multiverse (including, in the end, themselves). They are (or were) Neutral Evil not because they consider neutrality to be a good thing on its own, but because they will adopt lawful or chaotic attitudes as needed in order to expedite their true goal, which is the End of All Things. There is no reasoning with daemons. Demons and Devils might kill you. Daemons will kill you, and then they'll eat your soul and make you cease to exist entirely.
Also, canonically, Daemons created the first Demon by feeding an abyssal larva to a qlippoth, and then the Abyss noticed and instantly created the rest of the Demon race.
