Demons can come in various shapes and sizes with different origins. However there are categories to look out for when you want to measure a demon‘s strength before fighting one.
Wild types
Wild types are more animal-like and are the most common. Walks on all legs, flies with wings if they have any, slithers like a serpent—-If it’s similar to a beast, it’s a wild type. Another characteristic is how they don’t exactly think. They trust their instincts but they can’t solve a puzzle (I left a Rubik’s cube before and saw a wild type eating it.) They can’t talk either. They snarl, growl, roar, hiss at their potential meal. Yep, they find anybody as a meal. So be careful because they will mangle their victim to shreds before eating them. For these types, eating a scared being is perfect to gain more years to live. The wild types can change into the intelligent type if they survive long enough.
Intelligent types
Intelligent types are the tricky ones and not as common as the Wild types. They are smart (I saw one playing with a Rubik’s cube) and can talk. They make contracts with living creatures by using their desires as bait, luring their victims in. You believe it’s okay since it’s only a day’s worth of your life they want, however demons have no concept of time. They will ensnarl their victims into slavery and make them into pets to torment. Why are they making deals? Because deals are what helps them stay alive. Like the wild types, they need to lure living beings and feast for their life span. But unlike the wild types, they will keep their victims alive for years until they die miserably. The intelligent type can change into an Overlord if they survive for a long time (more than three centuries).
Overlords
Get away from them unless you are a professional and knowledgeable Demon hunter. These guys are dangerous: they are one of the strongest and smartest demons. So much so that weaker demons would either skulk around them in fear or follow them to do their bidding or be eaten. They are also rare to see because they are usually in the demon realm and don’t cross over to our realms. They don’t need to feed on living beings as they can just eat the weaker demons around them. Doesn’t mean they won’t feed on living beings either would they have the chance.
Are there more than one?
If there are more than one demon within the area and they are not fighting, it means they are depending on each other to survive. These demons are weak alone and are more willing to work together. It can be a group of Wild types or a group of Intelligent types. Doesn’t mean you should underestimate them since there’s more in numbers. Usually in a group of 5-8 if they are super weak, 2-3 if they can hold on their own.
What’s that odd smell and mist that’s coming out of the recently killed dead demons?
It’s called hellmist. Don’t go near that stuff unless you are blessed by an Ancient or have no dark desires. It smells like rotten swamp water from a frog for months without the tank being cleaned and is under the summer sun.
Do all demons come from the demon realm?
No. Not all demons came from the demon realm sadly. Living beings of this realm can turn into demons. The requirements are simple: the being must have dark desires and a demon’s blood or hellmist poured on them. Luckily, I recently found a cure, but it’s risky and depends on the being’s will to move on. Create this magic circle that can fit a being fully on a cooling night. No rain or sunlight, it might evaporate the hellmist. Place the crow’s eye and blackthorn on opposite sides of the spell circle and pour hellmist on the being. Make sure they can hear their loved ones for it can help ease the being. Make sure the being is taken care of since they’ll have fevers and feel weak afterwards.