Devils

Devils are angels that rebelled against the Deus in their desire to reshape the world to their ideals. A devil is not so much evil but rather possesses certain virtues in such extreme excess that they become perverse and blasphemous. The implementation of a devils ideals would lead to what any sane person would surely label a dystopia, however some deranged infidels develop cults where they laud a devil as a spiritual and moral teacher, working to make their vision a reality. 

Some example devils:

 

Devil: Legion

Description: A being with wings composed of innumerable arms, with a multi-faced head wreathed by a yet more heads fused together to form a halo. It walks the earth with many feet.

Excesses: Equality, Harmony

Tenets: Everyone has equal ownership of everything, including the bodies and souls of others.

Vision: To eliminate the concept of self, and fuse everyone into a hivemind.

Cults: Cults are run as democracies, with cultists voting on decisions, and electing members to fuse their minds and bodies into the amalgamation that acts as their high priest through orgiastic rituals. High priests are considered to have a number of votes equal to the number of cultists who have assimilated with them. Cultists will always obey the result of a vote even if it will result in the cultists death. for this reason, cultists will always attempt to outnumber their victims in terms of votes, as if the victims were to outnumber the cultists, they would be entitled to call for a vote on whether all the cultists present should kill themselves, surrender or reveal secrets about the cult. Subsequent votes always take precedence over prior votes.

 

Devil: Beelzebub

Description: A flock of cherub faced insects with downy white feathered wings that buzz and drone profane hymns. The choir swarms about a central humanoid figure that looks to be a statue of a saint carved from golden honeycomb and is held aloft by silks grasped in the six infant hands the insects have upon their chubby legs.

Excesses: Peacefulness, Compassion

Tenets: All life is sacred, all life should be nurtured and protected.

Vision: To eliminate death, and grant immortality to every living thing.

Cult: Cultists carry brooms to sweep the paths before them so as not to accidentally kill insects by stepping on them. The bodies of cultists are infested with parasites and diseases which require living hosts, they will deliberately infect others to nurture and protect this life. Even the life of cells is sacred, so the cultist induces cancers in living things.

 

Devil: Lucifer

Description: An entity malleable of form, ever shifting to reflect the desires and aesthetic preferences of its spectators. It typically appears as a horrifyingly beautiful mass of flowing flesh, hair, eyes, feathers, gold, ivory and jewels, erupting with bursts of radiant light. Before its revolt against the Deus it served as the sun, a role now taken by the angel that serves as Shapash’s loom.

Excesses: Beauty, Improvement

Tenets: Beauty is to be refined by correcting and eliminating imperfections.

Vision: To endlessly reshape the world by constantly removing that which is least beautiful.

Cult: Cultists frequently engage in plastic surgery to reshape themselves into something more beautiful. They will reshape people, places and things they find unsightly. Should they feel that the improvements are insufficient they will destroy the object of their contempt.

 

Devil: Alecto

Description: An entity resembling a woman with skin resembling cracked porcelain, marred by cuts that bleed salty tears and impaled with jagged wrought iron implements of torture, its head is covered by a helmet resembling the face of an iron maiden and scarlet blood flows freely from the eye holes.

Excesses: Justice, Remorse

Tenets: Every act of evil no matter how minor must be punished harshly, the act of punishing another is an act of evil itself, one should punish themselves to spare others.

Vision: To see every wrong doer mutilated and tormented for their ill deeds.

Cult: Cultists will go to any lengths to inflict torment on those they perceive to have committed some wrongdoing and will not hesitate to harm innocents if they believe it will lead to or constitute the punishment of a sinner. After every successful punishment cultists will mutilate and torture themselves as an act of penance. They believe defying the Deus is a necessary evil, and willingly accept eternal damnation as a final act of flagellation. Cults typically arise from overzealous penitents sworn to the Deus.

 

Devil: Allocer

Description: An entity appearing as a feminine humanoid its naked skin appears to be made from jade. What appear to be seven goat like horns protrude from its brow though they writhe like tentacles. It wears a cloak of golden chainmail that is heavily damaged. In place of arms it has wings covered in feathers that resemble those of a peacocks tail.

Excesses: Freedom, Individuality

Tenets: All are free to act as they wish in the moment unbound by laws, obligations or morality, even to impede upon the freedoms of others.

Vision: To abolish all laws, cultural taboos and personal inhibitions. To strip the super ego from all people.

Cult: Cults tend to be highly dysfunctional, with members only ever cooperating to achieve the mutual desires of individual members. Although all members are bound by a mutual desire to rid the world of its inhibitions. Cultists act with extreme hedonism and are encouraged to disregard the consequences of their actions.

 

Devil: Zepar

Description: A lithe androgynous humanoid with a smoothly contoured face devoid of orifices. It has a cylindrical hole where its naval would be that pierces through its torso. its arms reach from behind its back through its belly. Its lower half is similarly smooth and without openings. Its feet have winged heels that carry it through the air.

Excesses: Mercy, Empathy

Tenets: Life is filled with suffering, therefore, to create life is immoral and to end life is a kindness.

Vision: The extinction of all life, leaving behind an empty, silent and gentle world.

Cult: cultists will remove their sexual organs which are tools and symbols of fertility, men are castrated, women have mastectomies, circumcisions and hysterectomies. Cultists take it upon themselves to bring comfort to others before granting them a peaceful death in an act of involuntary euthanasia. They will go to great lengths to avoid eliciting discomfort in others but will always work towards their extermination.

 

Devil: Orobas

Description: A muscular humanoid figure lacking a head and covered entirely in sapphire coloured eyes. It walks on all fours like an ape and has a pair of eye covered wings upon its hips and its shoulders. A pair of red lips upon its sternum sing loudly about secrets it has uncovered.

Excesses: Vigilance, Honesty

Tenets: Secrets are to be uncovered and shared, untruths are to be denounced.

Vision: To make known every secret in intimate detail and to rid the world of every untruth not just lies but also fiction and myth.

Cult: Cultists wear transparent gossamer clothes, and wield weapons and armour made from tempered glass and resin, they conceal nothing and force others to do the same. They tear down buildings and remake them from glass and burn any clothing which people may use to conceal their bodies. Cultists seek out secrets and untruths which they announce with town criers and notices gratified on walls. They cut out the tongues from those who speak untrue words and sever the hands of those who write falsehoods. they carve unholy symbols representing deeds they deem significant on the bodies of those who enact them leaving permanent scars of blasphemous nature.