Demons

The inhabitants of The Underworld and Hell in Ebony are called demons. They are created when a person dies and their soul is neither light enough to get into The Heavens or dark enough to get into Hell. There are 2 main species of demons. Underworld and Hell demons. There aren't many differences between the 2 with the only noticeable one being their culture and where they land on the Lighting Scale.

Shiroma Overview
Underworld demons, also known as shiroma, are very common and are overall neutral, neutral-dark or neutral-light leaning in the Lighting Scale and are a lot more complex than Hell demons.

Kuroima Overview
Hell demons, also known as kuroima, are the baddest of the bad. They are dark or black on the Lighting Scale and are the souls of, but not limited to, mass murderers, pedofiles, school shooters and cult leaders.

Weaknesses

 * Most food in the overworld is poison to any demon.
 * The safe meal for Shiroma is bread and alcohol.
 * The safe meal for Kuroima is meat and any alcohol over 75%.
 * They melt in water.
 * Shiroma can get hurt if they touch religious symbols that aren't from Lunism.

Abilities

 * Stronger shiroma have a monster form but all shiroma have an animal form.
 * To stay in their monster form, they need to keep their concentration.
 * Kuroima don't have any extra forms for safety.
 * The ability to disguise oneself or cures someone is extremely hard to learn and rare to automatically know.
 * If someone has both they are automatically treated as a diplomat.
 * Staffs are registered to one demon and no one else can use that staff.
 * Demons always have a power that is related to how they died.
 * It's not the same for everyone who died of the same thing. Powers are seen in the death type chart in the "Biology" section.
 * The shared abilities among all demons are heightened strength, durability and senses, pyrokinesis, night vision, telekinesis, telepathy and they can walk on walls and ceilings.
 * When they are on a ceiling, their head can turn backwards

Overall

 * When they get mad their eyes turn red and/or black and get cracks on their body.
 * When teenage demons first sprout their wings, they experience a moment of brief insanity.
 * About an hour before this happens they have a burst of energy and a loss of appetite.
 * When their wings sprout, they get a severe jolt of pain up their spine.
 * When a demon gets pregnant they can sense it the next day.
 * Pregnancy lasts for a month.
 * They can have fur, horns, tails, wings or fangs.
 * When a demon dies, they have to relive their original death.
 * Their bodies disappear and they enter purgatory.
 * They eventually are revived once they relive their original death.
 * If a demon stays in the overworld for too long, they can start to develop health problems.
 * If they have pre-existing health problems, they will get worse.
 * Exorcisms can bring a demon's powers to the surface if done correctly.
 * If it's not done correctly, they get sent to purgatory or go on a rampage.
 * If a demon starts to get a power blockage, they need to constantly use their powers or else they will lose their powers and when the block is unblocked, they will go on a rampage.
 * Demons are too dense to swim.
 * Demons can produce a lava like saviva that they can use to clean themselves.

Skin Color

 * A demon's skin color is based on how they died.
 * Horn color is based on how they killed themselves if they did.
 * The colors and reasonings for horn color are the same as if they didn't kill themself.
 * If someone killed themself in a way that took a while, their skin color will be what they died of instead of their natural skin color.
 * This can also happen if a person was murdered.

Going Rouge

 * When a demon goes rogue they become a social outcasts.
 * Rogue demons have an uncontrollable temper and set things on fire often.
 * They can eat all types of meat.
 * They often hate the thing that made them go rogue.
 * If they are in any position of power, they are dismissed.
 * It takes a while for a demon with a high power to go rogue but they can feel themself going rogue.
 * They can also control themselves easily.
 * All rogues are seen as a threat and are locked up.
 * Hayl, the god of death and the ruler of the underworld, can sense someone going rogue.
 * Killing a rogue doesn't do anything.

Reverse Exorcisms
Demons can turn living humans and mutants into demons by doing a ritual called a "Reverse Exorcism".


 * This has to be at 3 AM and on a full moon.
 * It takes 1 week for the person to fully turn into a demon.
 * They are still very weak for up to a year.
 * They are very unstable emotionally and power wise until they are fully transformed.
 * They can have things in/on their bread and can eat plain pasta.
 * They can drink any alcoholic drink.
 * They share a power level with the demon that created them.

Step 1) The demon should create a simple ritual circle with their own blood.

Step 2) The human should then kneel in the middle and surround the circle with fire.

Step 3) To start the ritual, the demon has to slit the person's throat while whispering a chant.

Step 4) The demon should take the knife that they slit the human's throat with and stab them in the middle of the forehead with the blade of the knife facing the ground. The human should become unconscious once the knife enters their head.

Step 5) Another spell is then recited and as it is finished, the knife is taken out.