Demon Varieties

Demons are a collective race of beings usually motivated by power and/or destruction. The armies of Hell are as varied as evil itself, as is their methods.

Abasy
Abasy are one-eyed and one-legged demons who inhabit graveyards. They can inflict diseases, but are appeased by the taste of blood.

Ala
Alas are demons that control the weather and occasionally eat children. They are exceptionally powerful during an eclipse. Their base form is of a black gas, but they can shapeshift into forms such as a raven, a dragon, or a serpentine monster.

Alal
Alals are demons that come up from Hell in human disguise to temp people to sin. In their true form, they have the head of an animal and avian claws. They were originally servants of the deity Alat.

Alastor
Alastors are a common variety of demon between Devils and Imps in the demonic hierarchy. Some can be as varied as Devils are, but are usually less powerful and take the form of a horned humanoid.

Amalanhig (Demon Zombies)
Amalanhig are necromantic demons that posses corpses. They move rigidly, so the best way to escape is by not moving straight.

Batibat
Batibats are demons that invade peoples dreams and torment them there. They can often be found near their victims possessing and inanimate object, historically preferring old and rotting wood.

Bès
Bès are nature demons that inhabit the jungles of Malaysia and Southern Thailand. They are defeated through the use of a wooden carving of them called a Sepili.

Boogeyman
Boogeymen are demons that target children who have important destinies in an attempt to either frighten them into cowardice or kill them.

Broxa
Broxas are demonic avians that cause famines by drinking from the udders of goats and cows.

Bukavac
Bukavacs are water-dwelling, six-legged demons that leave their lakes at night to hunt. They are most common in Syrmia and surrounding regions.

Cacodemon
Cacodemons are a sub-class of Alistors that strictly possess people. They are also known for making loud noises.

Cambion
Cambions are the hybrid children of a human and a demon, usually conceived unwillingly via a devil or incubus. Unlike their demonic parents, they are not born naturally evil.

Chort
Chorts are a race of demons descended from the god Chernobog.

Dakini
Dakini are aggressive female demons that eat the flesh and soul of a person. They are loyal to the goddess Kali.

Devil (Fallen Angel)
The Fallen Angels are among the first demons to exist, only predated by the old ones of darkness and fire that predate the angels themselves. In form and abilities, they are varied.

Fiery Serpent
Fiery Serpents are fire elementals from the pits of Hell. They are able to shapeshift, often taking the form of a persons deceased loved ones before attacking.

Hellhound
Hellhounds are demonic canines descended from the ancient wind monster Typhon and his monsterous bride Echidna. They have since been employed as guards and attack dogs.

Imp
Imps are the lesser of all demons who crawl straight from the pits of hell.

Incubus & Succubus
Incubuses (Male) and Succubuses (Female) are a class of demon that embody the cardinal sin of lust. They rape people in their sleep, with Succubuses stealing a persons soul and Incubuses fathering Cambions.

Kishi
Kishi are two-headed demons who sway people with their human head to eat them with their hyena head.

Lilin
Lilins are shadow demons that attack people at night.

Lubber Fiend
Lubber Fiends dwell in the kitchens of abbeys and attempt to sway monks into gluttony and sloth.

Malebranch
The Malebranches are the feared torturers of Hell that torment souls damned there.

Mandragora
Mandragoras are familiar demons given to dark mages. They take the form of a small, hairless man.

Mare
Mares are a type of imp that sit invisibly upon a sleeping person to keep them from moving when they awake, and then give them persistent sleep paralysis hallucinations.

Mazzikin
Mazzikins are demons that are naturally invisible. They enjoy creating anything from annoyances to great dangers.

Noonday Demon
Noonday Demons stalk invisibly and intensify the feelings of listlessness and acedia.

Nuckelavee
Nuckelavee are powerful demons on horseback that spread destruction wherever they go.

Oni
Oni are a class of ogre-like demons spend their lives in physical form in the mortal world, where the take the roles of warlords and bandits.

Piru
Pirus are demons that inhabit forests. They enjoy battles of wits.

Psoglav
Psoglavs are a race humanoids with the heads of dog with iron teeth and the hooves of horses. They live in caves in Bosnia and Montenegro and have the blood of demons.

Rokita
Rokitas are demons that inhabit ways into hell, particularly those in moist places such as swamps or dense forests.

Se'irim
Se'irims are a sub-class of Alastors with goat-like features. They enjoy wild dancing in abandoned places.

Shinigami
Shinigami are Japanese demons that tempt people to suicide.

Sûlak (Lurker of the Bathroom)
Sûlaks are plague demons that lurk in bathrooms or other unclean places to inflict people with diseases or give them a stroke.

Tartaruchus
The Tartaruchi are the internal security force of Hell, which defends it from any incursions. They can remove peoples souls with their hooked weapons.

Thinan-malkia
The Thinan-malkia are demons who capture their victims by entangling their feet in a net.

Wuzhiqi
Wuzhiqi are aquatic demon said to look like monkeys. They mainly drown people to steal their souls, but also cause floods and enjoy tormenting fishermen.

Zār
Zārs are a subtype of possessor demon that specifically targets women.