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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 801279" data-attributes="member: 1106">D&Disms aside, I now associate the word "daemon" with the concept of a little demon-like critter inside a machine that makes it work...ala UNIX, or Discworld.  They're not necessarily envisioned as evil (although you probably wouldn't want turn your back on one), just overworked. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Guardian Daemon in D&D reflects this....it's been assigned a task, and that's it's thing.  Demons and devils are not known to be willing workers, and would be too dodgy to leave unsupervised.This begs the idea of a world full of daemon-tech, with things like cameras with daemons inside painting as fast as they can (just like Discworld).  I think there was an old Dungeon mag adventure which involved the idea of elementals being bound to barges to act as propulsion mechanisms - this could be expanded to ideas like fire elementals bound in furnaces, air elementals bound to sails, and earth elementals bound to mining equipment.</blockquote>