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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7901625" data-attributes="member: 20323">Yeah, I think there's a way to do it, looking back to the very first appearance of demons in D&D's 1976 Eldritch Wizardry...I think this meshes sweetly with the "up-jumped familiar" idea presented by [USER=4937]@Celebrim[/USER]. The fiendish familiar's twisted loyalty to its master is such that the hezrou seeks to carry its former master into the Abyss. The servant becomes the master, and the master the servant. Maybe it's not a hatred thing, but driven by loyalty to extreme fault, loyalty to the point of madness and obsession; the hezrou believes its former master has the potential to rise from lowly manes to a more powerful demonic form. Its experience as a fiendish familiar shapes the demon's mind. It counts itself a "king of infinite space" now that it has assumed a hezrou form, been given command of a squadron of demons to wage war, and able to make deals from a position of power (instead of a subservient familiar) with mortals. The hezrou does not even realize it continues to slip into its servile nature.And to dovetail this back into something [USER=72555]@NotAYakk[/USER] mentioned about the hezrou's presence corrupting drinking fluids (including potions), this might be a byproduct of the demon's hatred for the mage that it once was familiar to. Mucking with wizard's potions seems like a suitably petty and subconscious vengeance.</blockquote>