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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mikaze" data-source="post: 4766606" data-attributes="member: 82965">Nice. Random jam: The more powerful demons of the infinite layers of the abyss are themselves multilayered beings, recursive incarnations of the same damned soul. While usually only the outermost incarnation ever visits the Prime Material plane, sometimes a "truer" incarnation of that fiend makes it over to the mortal world. This gives them more strength in the prime material than if just their "lowest" self made it over. If such a fiend is "slain", its weak link with the mortal world is severed, and all of its "selves" from the most powerful one that made it over to the weakest lose cohesiveness. It appears to die, but then "another" of itself tears free from its form. But the link to the Prime has already been cut. It can't sustain itself. It dies as well, possibly seemingly from other means. And then "another" tears free, and so on until all of the fiend has been banished back to the Abyss. Same thing happens when you kill the original fiend on the Abyss, except with each portion being drawn screaming into the stuff of the Abyss itself, there to remain until the plane itself sees fit to reincarnate them. And as it dies, and it keeps going down the "line" of selves, it seems that it either becomes more and more monstrous and otherworldly(for demons that were made from obyriths, spontaneously by the Abyss,etc.), or closer and closer to the original mortal soul that became the demon, possibly screaming futilely for help to any present. Not sure if I like it as is. Metaphysics need working out.</blockquote>

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