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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6179008" data-attributes="member: 6686357">I've settled on a name for these mercenary fiends: Deveels. It's a pun on devil (much as daemon is the origin of demon). The name and MO is a reference to a children's book series I haven't read (and currently forgot the name of). I'm thinking of these deveels as being the native inhabitants of Tartarus, which isn't so much a plane as a primordial deity that is so large that it effectively qualifies as a plane. Aeons ago a chunk of an exploded planet crashed into Tartarus, causing it to become pregnant and soon give birth to the first and most powerful of the deveels. Tartarus does not naturally attract the souls of the dead, so the deveels must steal souls in order to increase their numbers, leading them to offer their services as mercenaries to the fiendish races. They've industrialized the process of their creation, building vast factory forges within the bowels of Tartarus where the captured souls are rendered down for fuel that is channeled through the plane itself before being interred within one of countless artificially created husks that will become members of the lower castes.As of yet, my idea for the basic castes are: war hounds (animalistic creatures bred for fighting), foot soldiers (the basic soldier unit), shock troops (stronger soldiers that lead armies), commanders (the various officers that coordinate the armies), tanks (various creatures created as living siege engines), and aristocrats (the original race of deveels).The deveels are neutral evil because their behavior is midway between devil and demon without the weaknesses of either. While they engage in numerous machinations like the devils and rule through power like the demons, their ultimate motivation is purely selfish self-preservation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 6179008, member: 6686357"] I've settled on a name for these mercenary fiends: Deveels. It's a pun on devil (much as daemon is the origin of demon). The name and MO is a reference to a children's book series I haven't read (and currently forgot the name of). I'm thinking of these deveels as being the native inhabitants of Tartarus, which isn't so much a plane as a primordial deity that is so large that it effectively qualifies as a plane. Aeons ago a chunk of an exploded planet crashed into Tartarus, causing it to become pregnant and soon give birth to the first and most powerful of the deveels. Tartarus does not naturally attract the souls of the dead, so the deveels must steal souls in order to increase their numbers, leading them to offer their services as mercenaries to the fiendish races. They've industrialized the process of their creation, building vast factory forges within the bowels of Tartarus where the captured souls are rendered down for fuel that is channeled through the plane itself before being interred within one of countless artificially created husks that will become members of the lower castes. As of yet, my idea for the basic castes are: war hounds (animalistic creatures bred for fighting), foot soldiers (the basic soldier unit), shock troops (stronger soldiers that lead armies), commanders (the various officers that coordinate the armies), tanks (various creatures created as living siege engines), and aristocrats (the original race of deveels). The deveels are neutral evil because their behavior is midway between devil and demon without the weaknesses of either. While they engage in numerous machinations like the devils and rule through power like the demons, their ultimate motivation is purely selfish self-preservation. [/QUOTE]

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