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Info for [[Demon Summoning]].

===Intro===
These large, parchment pages are bound by a wooden clip.  They are
obviously each loose-leaf folios, all part of some larger work.  

There are four folios total. To examine a particular folio, type:

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=== folio1===
Most void scholars and even some lay folk have heard tale of demonkind. 
The most common image associated with such tales, legends, or firsthand
experience tells of beasts which are so horribly strong or wickedly alien
that even the least of them are formidable.  

What fewer know is that there are a class of demons which are specifically a
mockery of the spirit world.  These creatures seldom have explicit shape, or
form, but they do have much of the intangible nature one normal sees in
spirits.  Unfortunately, demons such as this seldom possess the benevolent
or at least indifferent natures of the free form spirits of mortals. 
Rather, these are filled with a great hatred and malevolence, often directed
at mortals and even other demons who possess material form.  

Doubtless there are many, perhaps even an infinite number of such demonic
spirits in the Void.  However, there are three broad categories of them of
which we in the dark arts are aware.  


===folio2===
Firstly, there are the "devouring spirits", which seem to thrive in
the presence of the twin excesses of gluttony and starvation.  These spirits
are generally dark and wispy, and filled with insubstantial mouths, each
clamoring or reaching for some sustenance, forever unable to feed
themselves, as they have no form.  

While commonly fond in the torturous mazes of the Void, these spirits are
often called to serve by scholars.  Rather than fighting or serving some
immediate use, however, the wise scholar will keep such a spirit at his
side until he encounters a likely victim.  At the time, he will order the
spirit to actually possess his target!  

Victims afflicted by the mental presence of the spirit will be consumed with
a ravening hunger, and be forced to eat food at a nearly constant rate, or
lapse into the worse sort of behavior.  Documented instances of ghoulish
cannibalism abound, as well as the famous case of Nemlith Caridor, whose was
possessed by his own demon.  Powerless to resist, Nemlith devoured an entire
bowl of poisoned fruit, which he had been in the habit of duping unfortunate
subordinates into eating.  


===folio3===
The second type of vaporous demon-essence is more powerful.  Known only
as the "tenebral horror", this spirit appears as a noxious, yellow mist, in
which dozens of all-too real jaws clatter mindlessly.  

Tenebral horrors are reputed to roam the streets of Logor, lurking in the
alleys and cul-de-saacs of that dread city.  There, they feast on what
smaller demons they can tear the flesh from, as well as the occasional
succulent mortal soul.  

Scholars who can manage to control these demons use their hunger for blood
to good advantage.  When bound, these demons will obligingly engulf
opponents of the scholar, their jaws feasting with abandon.  The wounds left
by the thing tend to fester, being unlike any normal wounds.  Care should be
taken that the scholar who conjures the horror does not become its victim.  


===folio4===
The third, and final type of the immaterial demons known are the
so-called "unclean spirits".  Totally dark and immaterial, the area
surrounding these beings is generally cloaked in swaths of frigid air.  Pale
lights of lifeless blue shine from the depths of the demon, but these seem
primarily designed to intimidate, as they can sense living things in most
any environment.  

Little is known of the origins of this demon, but it has been conclusively
proven that powerful magic-using demon lords have been sighted with them in
attendance, or used by them as a herald for speaking through possessed
mortals.  Curiously, these defiled spirits were prominent in the court of
Xiganath, who was served by Nyogthua, one of the twin lords of demonic
magic.  One hypothesis accepted by many scholars is that the unclean spirits
are actually created from the souls of mortals, but in a crude, brutal
fashion, that copies the structure of the soul into a demonic matrix.  

The most powerful archmages can bind and control the unclean, forcing them
to serve at their side.  Like the devouring spirit, the unclean can be
ordered to possess enemies of the void scholar, assuming a partial command
of their body!  Those afflicted with the presence of an unclean spirit often
take up a similar demeanor and behavior, unwittingly becoming more like
their demonic master.  Holy ground becomes anathema to them, as does the
practitioners of various forms of positive energy.  Most alarmingly for the
victim of such an infiltration, the presence of a being of negative energy
within their minds leaves them vulnerable to command by practitioners of the
void.  

The tale is told of a minor king in the Rirro Jagka, who was afflicted in
secret by such a demon.  The cunning void scholar who used the spirit
ordered the king to appear in public, and admit that he had been dabbling in
the void.  Such was the public outcry that the spirit scholars were brought
in to test the king, who promptly went mad and attempted to murder them. 
Deposed and exiled, it was revealed that having no heirs, he had left the
kingdom to the void scholar.  And, by the time the demon had left the king,
he was living like an animal in the wilderness, and was promptly stoned when
he returned to his city.