Daemon

Denizens of the bleak and terrible realm of The Abyss, daemons are shaped by and devoted to the destruction of life in all its forms. They seek the death of every mortal being by the most painful and horrible means possible, all in service to the apocalyptic entities known as the The Mazzaroth. Through the use of their destructive powers they seek to drag all of existence down into a pit of hopelessness and despair and commit all souls to oblivion.

While those who summon daemons to the material plane usually seek to use the creature's powers for their own ends, daemons always look for ways to spread fear, doubt, and despair wherever they go. Often, daemons disguise their plots as the workings of other fiends (especially demons), knowing that such confusion compounds mortals fear.

While all fiends seek to tempt mortals into lives of evil to increase their own numbers and power on their native realms, daemons are further driven by a supernatural hunger for mortal souls and use a variety of methods-- not the least of which is the cacodaemon's soul gems-- to entrap them. In The Abyss and in other forbidding places across the multiverse, souls are simultaneously a delicacy, a trade good, and a source of magical power, and the daemons are among the greatest gluttons, merchants, and abusers of this spiritual "resource".