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The Laurent said:
Hrm, some sort of First Age fortress that was considered a 'perfect defense'/unbeatable fortress, but fell apart because in truth it was only 'unbeatable' as long as you assumed vast, infinite Solaroid resources and leadership?

And it's continued to have a legacy as a 'seemingly great' fortress that nonetheless sorta dooms everyone who tries to rely on it/is so expensive to maintain that it bankrupts (magically AND otherwise) anyone who owns it?
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I second that request! (If it's possible).
 
Hey @EarthScorpion if you're still doing demons how about a symbiotic demon which feeds off of its host's pain and injury.

That is to say it heals them, keeps them from feeling pain, and incentivizes them to get into situations where they get hurt so it can gorge itself on more suffering. Useful for enterprising yozi-cultists who want to fight good.
 
MJ12 Commando said:
Hey @EarthScorpion if you're still doing demons how about a symbiotic demon which feeds off of its host's pain and injury.

That is to say it heals them, keeps them from feeling pain, and incentivizes them to get into situations where they get hurt so it can gorge itself on more suffering. Useful for enterprising yozi-cultists who want to fight good.
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Have Panikeszik, the Tremulous Scarabs.

Panikeszik, the Tremulous Scarabs
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Living Tower

A scarab the size of a man's eye, a panikeszik shakes and vibrates constantly so its iridescent shell flickers through all the colours of the rainbow save blue. It shakes and vibrates because it lives in mortal terror; that is its life, for fear is its bread and water. Octavian bred its kind from the rendered down remnants of those few demons who had survived the silent wind, and paid Alevua with three fine manses for her aid in unravelling the secrets of the passion morays to aid him in his design. He bred these things to strip fear from the demon hordes he conscripts, and in that, they succeed wonderfully. A demon-harpist or an aalu with one of these resting in their gut throws themselves at one of the behemoth-champions of the Heavenly Inferno without a second thought, and will continue a frontal assault even if the arrow-wind whistles through.

One of the tremulous scarabs seeks safety above all things, and it is through the designs of the Quarter Prince that a panikeszik sees the flesh of a demon - or mortal or beast or even teind-slave ghost, for they are not picky - as the safest place they can hide. The creature burrows into the gut, sealing the entry wound behind it with its dung (which is a waxy substance comprised of digested terror which leaves the host adverse to acknowledging the injury), and from there in it makes its home.

It vomits up its stomach, clamping onto a major vein - or whatever passes for such among its host species. From there, it draws all the fear out of the blood of its bearer, leaving them incapable of feeling more than a brief flicker of the emotion before the creature draws it into its body, and feels it instead. They live lives filled with unending, ceaseless terror, even as their hosts lack a meaningful sense of the emotion. In this, it is doing exactly what Octavian designed it to do.

The panikeszik are limited in number and do not survive well in the wild in Malfeas, which pleases Octavian. It is not due to some paucity of food; no, they grow fat on the terrors of serfs. It is simply that fear is what keeps the least in Malfeas alive. A demon infested with a panikeszik will - if the tremulous scarab does not die from gluttony first - even leave its host fearless in the face of the silent wind, and Adorjan's gales will flense scarab and host alike. However, although Octavian is the most prominent user of them, several other lords keep breeding pens of them for use for motivating demonic hordes for frontal assaults.

Summoning: (Obscurity 4/5) Invented within the last three hundred years, word of these demons has not spread far outside Malfeas and only so far within it. If the hordes of Octavian sometimes throw themselves at a foe with no sense of fear... well, clearly they just fear him more than they do the firing line of vitriolwands. Their self-limiting nature and the low survival rate of 'escapees' further keeps them unknown. A panikeszik can escape into Creation when a man is so overcome with fear that his heart bursts; the demon makes this literal as it bursts out of the chest covered in gore, spreading iridescent wings wide.
 
EarthScorpion said:
Have Panikeszik, the Tremulous Scarabs.

Panikeszik, the Tremulous Scarabs
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Living Tower

A scarab the size of a man's eye, a panikeszik shakes and vibrates constantly so its iridescent shell flickers through all the colours of the rainbow save blue. It shakes and vibrates because it lives in mortal terror; that is its life, for fear is its bread and water. Octavian bred its kind from the rendered down remnants of those few demons who had survived the silent wind, and paid Alevua with three fine manses for her aid in unravelling the secrets of the passion morays to aid him in his design. He bred these things to strip fear from the demon hordes he conscripts, and in that, they succeed wonderfully. A demon-harpist or an aalu with one of these resting in their gut throws themselves at one of the behemoth-champions of the Heavenly Inferno without a second thought, and will continue a frontal assault even if the arrow-wind whistles through.

One of the tremulous scarabs seeks safety above all things, and it is through the designs of the Quarter Prince that a panikeszik sees the flesh of a demon - or mortal or beast or even teind-slave ghost, for they are not picky - as the safest place they can hide. The creature burrows into the gut, sealing the entry wound behind it with its dung (which is a waxy substance comprised of digested terror which leaves the host adverse to acknowledging the injury), and from there in it makes its home.

It vomits up its stomach, clamping onto a major vein - or whatever passes for such among its host species. From there, it draws all the fear out of the blood of its bearer, leaving them incapable of feeling more than a brief flicker of the emotion before the creature draws it into its body, and feels it instead. They live lives filled with unending, ceaseless terror, even as their hosts lack a meaningful sense of the emotion. In this, it is doing exactly what Octavian designed it to do.

The panikeszik are limited in number and do not survive well in the wild in Malfeas, which pleases Octavian. It is not due to some paucity of food; no, they grow fat on the terrors of serfs. It is simply that fear is what keeps the least in Malfeas alive. A demon infested with a panikeszik will - if the tremulous scarab does not die from gluttony first - even leave its host fearless in the face of the silent wind, and Adorjan's gales will flense scarab and host alike. However, although Octavian is the most prominent user of them, several other lords keep breeding pens of them for use for motivating demonic hordes for frontal assaults.

Summoning: (Obscurity 4/5) Invented within the last three hundred years, word of these demons has not spread far outside Malfeas and only so far within it. If the hordes of Octavian sometimes throw themselves at a foe with no sense of fear... well, clearly they just fear him more than they do the firing line of vitriolwands. Their self-limiting nature and the low survival rate of 'escapees' further keeps them unknown. A panikeszik can escape into Creation when a man is so overcome with fear that his heart bursts; the demon makes this literal as it bursts out of the chest covered in gore, spreading iridescent wings wide.
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So basically, these are the equivalent of those mushrooms that remove all sense of fear?

A pity that they don't give boosts in strength and vitality too.
 
Two demesne ideas:

A Hegra-aspected typhoon that roams the waters of the Southwest.

A demesne that shifts Terrestrial elements along with the seasons, aspects itself to Solar on solstices and equinoxes, Lunar on blue moons, Necrotic on eclipses, and a different Maiden each day of Calibration.
 
linkhyrule5 said:
Aren't eclipses usually considered auspicious in Creation? Sun and Moon and Stars all visible at the same time in the sky, after all.
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They are extremely auspicious indeed, and also extremely rare. The Eclipse that heralded the return of the Solars was the first in over fifteen hundred years.

Salty said:
Considering Calibration is, IIRC, one long eclipse?
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This, however, is not at all true. The only significant celestial oddity of Calibration is that there is no Moon at night.
 
Aleph said:
Just checked with ES, and I'm fine to post these. So:








There is rumour of an E5 Charm called Titanic Soul Invincible which would elevate an Infernal's souls to the level of the Unquestionable themselves; no doubt sparking furious debates among the souls of the Yozis and a tribunal in the court of Cecelyne or at the Infernal Althing to determine the status of such devas among the peers of Hell. As of yet, however, no Infernal has delved this far into Pantheonic Heresy.

(Keris currently has two Pantheon Souls; one Adorjani and one Kimberian. As of yet, she has not awakened them to sapience, nor started crafting her own devas. It is, however, only a matter of time...)
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So a question about Titanic spawn uncountable. Does the Infernal who created a demon automatically know how to summon it?
 
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