Well what he wants is to expand his empire into Creation. He can't do that because there's the five day walk through a infinite silver spite desert to get into creation. 2nd and 3rd circle demons are going to vary in their goals, but traveling into creation is still going to be a pain in the ass and they have to weigh the risks in doing so.
I disagree honestly, not in the details I mean. A lot of 2CD's have empires and shit and suddenly popping out to go nuke an adventuring party on the behalf of some asshole in a tower is a huge pain for any head of state. But I guess in the overall gist? I mean the impression I always got from Hell was that- well I mean it's
hell. 1CD's don't want to be there, the demons that made them don't want to be there either. The Yozi are the bricks and mortar of the place and they
hate it and have something on the order of five thousand years worth of cabin fever layered on top. For lesser demons its partly just the environment. Like, I mean, you can have
quiet in Creation without instantly getting stripped to the skeleton and your bones being blasted to dust. Isidoros isn't going to randomly step on you. The continent sized shell you've lived on for the past three hundred years and all your shit's on isn't going to suddenly go flying into another one because Malfeas needed to itch his big brass balls. Metagaos isn't going to try and grow through your brain. You can have nice things without having to constantly defend it from other maurauding demons. Humans are everywhere, provide worship as easy as breathing (demons worshiping each other doesn't give the same benefits or power iirc), and for like 90% of them you can just trivially put your hand on their head and watch them windmill their arms at you.
From the perspective of a demon Creation is
nice. Sure there's the Wyld Hunt and angry gods but the Hunt can't be everywhere, the Dragonblooded don't idly annihilate an entire country because they got bored one morning, and gods are often wonderfully corrupt. And sure, yeah, you can be the big-dicked badass of Shell #342 aka "that bit by the coast of the seething hateful sea filled with chemical run off and tentacles" but that can't really hold a candle to a slice of real estate Creation-side.
Like, I mean most demons have the lifespan of a pyromaniac moth. For 1CD's just having a cult on the order of a village is an almost incalculable QoL improvement. For 2CD's and 3CD's though it is different yeah but I'd honestly say it kinda comes down on the other part of things. Sure they have nice things in Malfeas, but ultimately Malfeas doesn't
matter. Nothing that happens there really matters in and of itself. Demons scheme and plot and plan but at the end of the day all they're really fighting over is who gets the nice corner cellblock with the tiny slit-window. And demons are a lot of things but they really like mattering, I mean these are creatures that built the world and ruled it. Just having a taste of it again is
nice. So any 2CD or 3CD, even if they have big impressive plans, is passing up a huge opportunity to just go to Creation and hang out. You can get worshippers in Creation. You can get jade and slaves and neat shit that you couldn't get in the brass-basalt-oh-god-what-the-fuck landscape of Malfeas in a million years. You can make inroads to help make sure you get summoned again and again.
Honestly I'm taking a lot of words to restate what I said at the beginning mostly. Almost nobody really
wants to be in Hell, they're just stuck there and making the best of it. Like it's worth noting that Hell was made to hold the Yozi. Demons could have a much easier time escaping if the Yozi weren't so hateful and bitter and intent on ensuring that everyone was going to suffer with them like it or not. Which kinda knocks a few holes in the "they prefer it" angle tbh. Or, at least, highlights the "they're not really there because they enjoy it" aspect.
"If you had to go on a date with one of the Yozis, which one would you choose?"
isidoros 10/10 would bang
