D&D General Who gives demons/devils their (true) name?

[QuentinGeorge]

Um, who said demons are the remnants of dead humanoids? I’ve not heard the theory and think it makes absolutely no sense in a world that also has ghosts and undead.

Devils and Demons appear to be spirit beings born from Infernal stuff of Hell.

Anyway as to Names, the Alchemist have shown that the gross matter of Things and their quintessential energy is Things is of equivalent nature and able to be harnessed in potions or through the raw manipulation of magic.

What the alchemist and the wizards fail to tell us though is that in the flow nature from Matter to Energy and back again, there is an imperceptible vibration, a tone unheard by mortal ears but which forms the underlying Song of Creation

and each Form within the Song, each being, each intention, each thought, each of these has its own vibrant tone, its own True Name that can be drawn, altered and released as a new song

I think, at least in 3.X, the tana'ri are "ascended" human souls, so to speak, tortured and molded by already existing demons. The obyrith are the original demons, who created tana'ari from dead mortals in the Abyss - this is meant to explain why the tana'ri are more humanoid than the obyrith.

 

[Zsong]

God.

Next question!

I think he delegated that responsibility to Adam