Beluaterra/Fifth Invasion/Daimons

Types of Daimons

(This is mostly conjecture and a bit of roleplaying flavour. All the terms are invented, in-game they just show up as "Daimons", but different Daimon units can be quite different)

Netherworld

• Warlords - Leaders of the daimons. They are capable of flying at an incredible speed, travelling over a great distance in a single day. Warlords are powerful, both physically and mentally. Physically, they are over three meters in height and have extremely muscular bodies. Menthally, they are very unique. Unlike any being in Beluaterra, their presence causes havoc and insanity around other beings. A mere glance of these fearsome creatures can cause fear among weaker beings. In some cases, an eye contact with them even caused a heart attack. They are few in number and barely show themselves even on the battlefield. Known daimons in this class: Overlord, Nightfalls and Midnights.

• Wonderers - Priests of the daimons. They look just like the warlords except they can change their shapes as they desire. They prefer to walk and can adapt to variety of different environments. Can learn any language within a week of time. They can sap life energy from weaker beings to replenish their own strength. The wonderers gather information needed for the warlords and offer deals of submission to other sentient beings.

• Gorgons - Cavalry of the daimons from their original homeland, Netherworld. These frightful daimons are never alone. They generally move as a large horde and destroy everything that gets in their way. The Gorgons are usually around a meter in height but when they get excited, they can grow up to two meters. As they grow, their skins become harder and thicker, solid enough to ignore arrows. When humans clashed with Gorgons in Ketampkin, they realized only cavalry units can generate enough power to pierce the thick skins of a Gorgon or scrolls of daimon banishing. Like any other daimon, Gorgons cannot survive the devastating power of the scrolls. Now most of the stampedes are in Ketampkin.

• Flametongues - Archers of the daimons from their original homeland, Netherworld. Ten of these creatures can turn a village into ashes within hours. Usually between 1.5 m to 2 m tall, and with their long claws, they can cut through even a thick plate mail. The most frightening thing about these daimons is their ability to breath a ball of fire from a range to incinerate their enemies from afar. These fire balls can be deadly even from twenty meters away. First sighted when Nightfalls first appeared in the South.

• Gargolyes - The bringers of doom and the ultimate predators of men. These creatures are at the peak of the hierarchy of the daimons. Claws of these creatures can cut through steel like butter. When gargolyes descend, they can generate same force as cavalries and break any line of defense. Only the most powerful of the warlords can command these arrogant creatures as they will not follow anyone weaker than them. Only Overlord has been sighted commanding gargolyes.

• PureBorns - Beings of the pure daimonic essence. These beings are highly revered by other daimons as these beings have achieved the purity through the flames of the Netherworld. Sadly, the land of men is not suitable for these great beings as it is too cold for them. Pureborns are extinguished rather quickly in Beluaterra, especially during night times.

Blightborn

• Teeth weavers - Archers of the daimons from the blighted land. They are weaker cousins of Flametongues as they lack the claws to fight in a close range. They spit teeth which can pierce a iron clad shield with ease. They are about half a meter smaller compared to their stronger cousins.

• Bane men - Twisted version of men from the blighted land. They are mindless slaves of the daimons. They are fiercely loyal to their daimon lords. They are never encountered individually and always in a group of more than ten. They look similar to an adult human male but with longer claws, darkened skin, and bloodshot eyes.

• Shell Marchers - Insectoids living in the blighted land. Many creatures had to adapt to the new environment to continue their survival. As a result, most of them became bigger and tougher. Also, more cunning and vicious. Most widely encountered species looks very similar to ants except it is bigger than a normal human child.

• Ground-Shakers - A heavily armoured giant earthworm living in the blighted land. Once daimons conquer a region, they call these creatures to corrupt the land. Ground-Shakers will eat soils to corrupt the land which they live in. With hundred of these worms working on a region, the region will become blighted in less than a week. These worms are usually ten meters long and a meter tall.

• Wretched Crows - They are the eyes of the daimon warlords. Wretched crows have twenty eight eyes all over their bodies, giving them a full view of the surroundings. They are directly linked to the warlords, providing them all the visual information they need. They are slightly bigger than the average ravens and faster than an eagle.

• Flesh Eaters - These small daimons are menace to the world of men. They eat anything alive, from livestock to humans. Only half a size of an adult man, they are stronger and more cunning than most people. They always move in packs.