Yugoloths or Daemons

[LGodamus]

I use yugoloth since daemon and demon are pronounced exactly the same... it really makes no sense.....while were at it I hate the term demodand as well I use the planescape name Gereleth.

 

[Iron_Chef]

Change the name to Daemoloths and you are on to something. I say, petition WoTC to change the name officially to Daemoloth. It just sounds cooler.

 

[kenjib]

Yugoloth sounds like a breakfast cereal, or maybe a Saturday morning cartoon.

 

[Wayside]

I think I'd prefer Yugoloth. Daemon/Daimon just comes from Medieval Latin/Greek (respectively) for messenger; knowing the etymology sort of deflates the impact of the word, but maybe that's just me. Originally it would have been pronounced Day or Dai, dialect depending (as in 'what a nice *day*', and 'you kill someone, they *die*').

I suspect that they weren't just using the variant English spelling but harkening back to the older word when distinguishing between demons and daemons, but who knows. If they were, it sure wouldn't make much sense for daemons to be evil.

 

[Gothmog]

Cool- I'll second the Daemoloth- that sounds pretty cool. I voted Daemon, and Demodand in the other related thread, simply because I think the planescape names are really lame (Baatezu, Tanar'ri, etc). It sounds more like an infant with a speech impediment than a malevolent name. Of course, I really don't make the distinctions between demons, devils, daemons, and demodands in my game- they are all demons residing in Hell, and there is no end of turmoil, conflict, and political mechanations.

 

[Desdichado]

I think I'd prefer Yugoloth. Daemon/Daimon just comes from Medieval Latin/Greek (respectively) for messenger; knowing the etymology sort of deflates the impact of the word, but maybe that's just me. Originally it would have been pronounced Day or Dai, dialect depending (as in 'what a nice *day*', and 'you kill someone, they *die*').

I suspect that they weren't just using the variant English spelling but harkening back to the older word when distinguishing between demons and daemons, but who knows. If they were, it sure wouldn't make much sense for daemons to be evil.

You make it sound like daemon and demon haven't always been the same word. Are you trying to say also that demons don't make sense as evil? And it doesn't have anything to do with messenger as near as I can tell, the Latin word was from divine, or divinity, and the Greek root which led to that Latin word was to distribute or divide.

I think you're getting it confused with angel, which clearly does mean messenger.

 

[Olive]

yugoloths, but only because daemons is pronounced the same as demon. But Daemoloths is pretty cool too.

 

[Renaissance Man]

Count me in the yugoloth camp. In 1e, I always found the term daemon to be vaguely annoying, given its similarity to demon. "Yugoloth" struck me as inventive, and yet strangely menacing...

 

[s/LaSH]

'Daemoloth'... sounds good. Makes them distinct but brings them in line with 'de'vils and 'de'mons.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm all for Daemoloth, myself. I don't like Daemon because regardless of the vowel sound it's still too too close to "demon." Whereas, I tend to agree that the 'yugo' prefix sounds a wee bit wonky...like some Japanese card-playing superhero or something. Day-mo-loth. Yeah!

Daemoloth
Daemoloth
Daemoloth!
DAEMOLOTH!