[Prompt] Tell me about the demons in your world!

The universe is chock full of Angellic-tier beings of varying tiers and degrees of power within each tier. No Anthelos (The second lowest but most active and populist of the tiers) up to this point (75,000+ years give or take) has been found to be malevolent but there are some very disagreeable ones.

However, that all changes in an event known as the Culmination of Abomination. The world within the universe the story focuses on - Soni - began in bloody conquest of the Anthelos because many of them found the mere existence of this world to be disagreeable. A few very powerful Anthelos died during this war (something that does not usually happen actually) and the cost of mortal souls both before and after the war was... numerous.

Basically that and a bunch of other stuff that happens afterward leads up to the culmination in which the Screarakk (they'll look like this) make their appearance in all their horror. They challenge the ruling Anthelos over Soni and go to war in their hordes against both Angels and Men. Mortals can be possessed and morphed into offshoots of Screarakk that will go forward and kill more mortals.

Normally Anthelos gain power by the mortals that worship them. While that can be true for the Screarakk - and they do have followers - they find it much easier to just devour souls and add it to the collective. If you are eaten by any of these beings, that's it. You will be consumed into the hivemind and join those who only know hate and desire only revenge against those that are responsible for why the Screarakk came to be in the first place.

To be frank though, the writing was on the wall for the last few hundred years heralding that something big and bad was coming. One of these events was the appearances of the Ky'Iixii as well as Drift Spirits (literally the dead from other worlds in spirit form who "Drifted" across the mortal plane)

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