Demoniad (Part 2)

Continuing from Part 1

The Abyss

At their purest, demons exist in non-space, in non-time. They have no memories and no conception of a future. They have no bodies and no ability to perceive.  For them, there is only the present and, insatiable desire. In the void, their hunger has no object, interaction is impossible. This existence is horrible.

Bosch

The realities that we know are islands in this nothingness, mere specks.

The Warp

As prophets and philosophers have previously propounded, the physical reality we experience is a symbolic representation of underlying ideas. Magicians and sages see through the illusion of matter and play directly on the rules of force and form, like the strings of an instrument.

The pressure of Chaos on our realities is intense. We are entirely surrounded by forces that grind away at the foundations of structure and pull at every loose thread in the weave of constancy. Under this constant onslaught, reality, as we know it, has been profoundly damaged.

More Bosch

The frayed edges of reality and the twisted wounds in its planes form a corrupt semi-reality known to some as the Warp. If reality is a cloth, than the Warp is a tangled mass of unraveled threads jumbled together. It is a place of sorts, but the rules are all broken, cause and effect are out of sync and everything is in constant flux. 

The broken strands and loose ends, allow the non-creatures of the Abyss to slip in and manifest. Most of the demons in our reality have crossed from the Abyss, over the bridge of the Warp. 

Despite the rending churn, powerful entities have arisen inside the Warp, wicked fusions of Chaos and the corporeal.

The Ruinous Powers

The Warp introduces demons to perception and gives them things to want. Finally, their hungers can be fed! Existence is a frenzy of consumption. Oh, how they feast! Mostly on each other.

As the eat, they grow. Bigger, more complex, more real. Other hungers are found, other emotions. 

The greatest of these have learned to love power. Fueled by the emotional run-off and metabolized souls of the planar realities, the Warp has coalesced gods of its own: colossi of Rage, Gluttony, Hedonism and Ambition. 

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