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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3973492" data-attributes="member: 41584">This could even be a more insidious process.  The demon possessor can't just warp by main force the body of the host, it's got to manipulate the original owner of this body to commit acts that are more 'demonic.'  (i.e. chaotic and evil acts)The more the demon can twist the original owners soul into a reflection of it's own demonic soul, the more the demon can twist the host-body to reflect the body of the demon!  The demon has to use suggestion and manipulation to do this, it can't just 'take the wheel' and kill a bunch of people, although these sorts of tactics are great ways of 'breaking the spirit' of the host-body.  In a situation where the host may not even know that he is possessed, the demon might 'sleepwalk' his body out and kill his family, then allow him to wake up covered in his loved one's blood, convinced that *he* did this somehow, and using similar techniques, some subtle, some gross, to try and debase the original host, giving itself free reign to similarly twist the host-body to suit it's own needs.The demon might start out only able to manipulate the dreams of it's host, or perhaps cause mood swings like an Emotion spell.  As it's hold increases, it might be able to Suggest courses of action to it's host, and as time progresses, it will be able to affect other people with these abilities, all without the host's conscious awareness (if it's being sneaky.  Some might enjoy tormenting their host with the knowledge of the evil growing within them!), so that people that the host just dreamed about being unreliable start behaving unreliably!  (The demon causes the host to dream about his wife cheating on him, as part of the plan to get the host to murder her, to break his spirit, and during the next day, the demon has Suggested to the wife that she spend a little extra time talking to that burly woodsman that's been dropping off the firewood for the winter, while Suggesting to the woodsman that it's 'okay' to put his hand on her in an inappropriate-looking way while they haggle over the price for a rick of wood.)</blockquote>

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