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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 7429437" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>They would tell you that they're the physical manifestation of a universe grown old, sick, and self-loathing, a cosmos burdened by its own failures and now crying out, begging to end its own pain, the source of which is of course mortal souls. Daemons are a paradox in that they're specifically created from mortal souls themselves, and yet they hunger moment by moment to glut themselves on mortal souls, extinguishing the light of life, grain of sand by minuscule grain of sand gnawed from a mountain stretching to the heavens.</p><p></p><p>PF's daemons are also almost pitiable wretches, adrift and alone in the cosmos. The duality of their natures and the question of 'what happens/what do we do when the stars wink out and all mortal life is extinguished?' haunts them because they don't have anyone to answer that for them. The only being who might have been able to do so, the Oinodaemon/The Bound Prince/The First Daemon... its servitors and the daemons' current rulers, the Four Horsemen, betrayed, killed, and ate them (and keep eating them every year because whatever they did might not have necessarily killed them and possibly just made things worse by fusing it with the plane of Abaddon such that the perpetual eclipse in the sky is the single, lidded eye of their dead/not dead mother/father).</p><p></p><p>Each daemon caste represents one way in which mortals die, and there are a lot of ways that mortals can die...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 7429437, member: 11697"] They would tell you that they're the physical manifestation of a universe grown old, sick, and self-loathing, a cosmos burdened by its own failures and now crying out, begging to end its own pain, the source of which is of course mortal souls. Daemons are a paradox in that they're specifically created from mortal souls themselves, and yet they hunger moment by moment to glut themselves on mortal souls, extinguishing the light of life, grain of sand by minuscule grain of sand gnawed from a mountain stretching to the heavens. PF's daemons are also almost pitiable wretches, adrift and alone in the cosmos. The duality of their natures and the question of 'what happens/what do we do when the stars wink out and all mortal life is extinguished?' haunts them because they don't have anyone to answer that for them. The only being who might have been able to do so, the Oinodaemon/The Bound Prince/The First Daemon... its servitors and the daemons' current rulers, the Four Horsemen, betrayed, killed, and ate them (and keep eating them every year because whatever they did might not have necessarily killed them and possibly just made things worse by fusing it with the plane of Abaddon such that the perpetual eclipse in the sky is the single, lidded eye of their dead/not dead mother/father). Each daemon caste represents one way in which mortals die, and there are a lot of ways that mortals can die... [/QUOTE]
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