Demons are fiends, or evil outsiders, native to the Abyss.
Pluprex & Prexian Mutantspawn
The Abyss is a warped mirror that reflects all sinful possibility in mortal life, and as mortals advance technologically, so too advances their capacity to sin. Pluprex demons are one such modern reflection—incarnations of the cruelties and devastation wrought by those who harness the power of radiation to do harm.
A pluprex forms from the sinful soul of a mortal who, in life, gloried in the use of radiation as a weapon or who used radiation to experiment on unwilling subjects or to poison the innocent. Many pluprexes died of radiation poisoning themselves in their mortal lives. A typical pluprex stands 7 feet tall but weighs only 100 pounds.
For some victims of a pluprex’s invoked mutation, death is only the beginning. When a victim of an invoked mutation perishes in the Abyss or in an area suffused with chaotic and evil energies, mutations in its flesh can sometimes animate into a horrific form of life known as a prexian mutantspawn. These deformed monstrosities claw their way loose from their hosts’ dead bodies as collections of misshapen bones, sinew, teeth, and tumors that shouldn’t be able to live, yet somehow do so with fervor.
A prexian mutantspawn’s shape may vaguely resemble that of its original host body, but it has none of the birth corpse’s memories, skills, or abilities. The transformation into a mutantspawn has no effect on a creature’s soul, and the mutantspawn is a new form of outsider life, not an undead—a creature that dies and then spawns a mutantspawn from their body can be brought back to life normally.
Flashfire
Throughout the galaxy, constructed environments make life possible in even the most hazardous environments, but the failure of such infrastructure can result in ghastly tragedies. A flashfire demon embodies the threat and chaos of such sudden disasters.
Flashfire demons are master saboteurs, using the inherent dangers of malfunctioning systems to slaughter innocents. They prefer methods that result in abrupt, catastrophic failures that minimize the chance for survivors. Their name derives from their common tactic of sabotaging life support systems to increase oxygen in a closed atmosphere such that a spark causes an explosive fire. However, these demons are endlessly creative in their schemes. They experiment with new methods to freeze, asphyxiate, dissolve, electrocute, explode, or obliterate their victims.
Grand acts of sabotage are difficult tasks, and direct intervention could reveal a flashfire demon’s involvement to their victims. Therefore, flashfire demons “recruit” help whenever possible using their sabotaging compulsion ability while they lurk in the nearby shadows.
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