Eclipse Demon
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Another day, another entry! I love the pictures that come with this one. So much detail!
Hello Peter!
My name is Gano Hasanbegovic. Your books are my favorite! I cannot wait to read The Daylight War! I have a ton of demon ideas and it was a hard to only choose three but these are among my favorites.
Humanoid form of eclipse demon
1. Ka Pal’AlaGai, Brother of Alagai Ka, (The Eclipse Demon)
Today is the day. Deep in the core, the eclipse demon wakes from his sleep. This time he will rise, for the deliverer has returned, and he must be silenced.
As the moon finally begins to cover the sun, a dark figure seeps out of the ground and into the shadows. It rises up and takes a black humanoid form, scarred with the ancient wards of Sun and Moon and with a dark mirror masking its face. The wards are also carved into the mirror. Two horns protrude from its head and up into the sky. The poor messenger who happened to be there is shocked.
Eclipse demon rising from the shadows
“A demon during the day? The eclipse is usually the only day demons do not rise.”
The eclipse demon can read the man’s thoughts and is amused, for his drones only do not rise because they fear him. Today is his day to hunt.
The man makes the mistake of looking at the face of the demon. The demon deeply penetrates the man’s mind and finds the image of his most horrific nightmares. The eclipse demon shifts its form to match the image. The messenger is paralyzed with fear as the demon pounces on him; its belly opening up as a huge mouth and swallowing him whole.
Eclipse demon facing the messenger
The eclipse demon then shifts form again to that of something resembling a wind demon and takes off, using the shadow of the Moon to hide itself from the world and reads the minds of the people it passes. This “Warded Man” and “Shar Dama Ka ” are close, and its hunger is great. The Eclipse demon is the brother to the infamous Alagai Ka. As Alagai Ka will only rise during a lunar eclipse, when there is no light whatsoever, his brother may only rise when the shadow of the shadow of the moon and the light of the solar eclipse is upon this world. Other corelings do not rise when he does. Food is reserved for him and him alone on the occasion of his arrival. Both Mimic and Mind demons are his very spawns. The mimic has the eclipse demon’s power of shapeshifting, to an extent, and the mind demon princes have his power of penetrating the thoughts of others, although the mind demons also get other powers from his Brother and his mother, Nie.
Looking into the mirror on the eclipse’s face will torture a man’s mind with illusions of his nightmares, and the demon likes to change shape into whatever his prey fears the most. His original form is dark and human like, 6 feet tall and almost like an anti-deliverer with demonic wards scared into his body. His chest has a second set of eyes, and a vertical slit that can open up as a second mouth to devour bigger prey. The demons carapace is as thick as any rock demons, but combat wards can damage him, though not to the same extent of other demons. The eclipse is also stronger, faster, and smarter than regular corelings. Hidden deep in Anoch Sun is the ward that can kill this demon, similar to the wards on his face, a weapon with the eclipse ward that pierces this demons mirrored mask will kill it. This ward on a man’s forehead will protect him from the nightmare illusions and will give you the power to resist the invasion of your mind.
On a brighter note, the eclipse gives all defensive wards great power, so any ward net will effectively keep the eclipse demon out. Wards on the deliverer’s body will not take in the power of the eclipse for some reason, so while his bodily wards will repel the eclipse demon to an extent, he can still be harmed.
There are many legends for how Nie created the Alagai Ka’s brother, but the truth lies entwined with the hidden secret of the deliverer Kaji’s family … Kaji had a twin brother. He was always jealous of his brother, and after a dispute a few years after Kaji revealed himself as the deliverer, His Twin left Krasia as an outcast. All information on Kaji’s brother was taken out of Krasian texts. Kaji and his brother both had wards on their body, for these wards were not tattoos or scars, they were birthmarks. His Twin spent many years alone killing alagai, and taking demon magic into his body. Coupled with his hate and jealousy, the dark magic infected his mind. He renounced God and created a religion of Nie worship. This religion only spread to a select few and can be found rarely today. He began eating the corelings he killed, and drinking their ichor.
On the day of the solar eclipse, he figured out how to dissipate, and he was pulled deep into the Core. His turning against God gave Nie the chance to take the Twin of Kaji and kill him. Then she reanimated him and transformed him into her second son. The blood of Kaji replaced by her very own. Thus, the eclipse demon was born.
This is my favorite demon idea. Even if I do not win this contest, it would be awesome to see the Arlen and Jardir set aside differences to take on this threat.
Eclipse ward
2 Glass Demon
Glass demon with Ash demon cloud in the back round (and glass ward)
Way south of the Desert Spear is a place called the mountain of glass. It is at the equator, and the sand is littered with glass, created from the intense heat of the sun and from fire demons. There is a mountain of rock , glass, and sand that is really a volcano. This is where the glass demon resides.
Its bones, claws, horns, teeth, and protrusions are all made of glass that is impossible to break, much like warded glass, sharp as the sharpest blade, and almost invisible to the naked eye due to being so clear and transparent. Its body is easy to penetrate, but its film, like skin, reflects is surrounding so that in the sand, you can hardly see this demon. Its size can range any where from small and large fire, clay, and sand demons. It stays low on four legs to hide its black belly that isn’t reflective. all of its limbs can move in 360 degrees, so its movements are hard to predict. It likes to crawl and slither in the sand or climb the sheer surface of the mountain.
3 Ash Demon
Ash demon about to take flight (and ash ward)
Lava demon taking form (lave ward)
This demon spawns inside volcanoes along with lava demons (another of my creations that I’m not submitting due to the limit, but I will include a picture just for fun) and looks a lot like wind demons. It has two legs with sharp claws that can dig into the mountain sides that it takes off from, and large clawed wings that it uses to fly with. It has dark, hard, but light pumice-like armor that covers its whole body except the belly and membranous wings. It breaths out and spews black clouds of smoke, ash, and poisons. Many believe that it can breathe fire, but these myths have not been confirmed.
I hope you like my demons!
Awesome pictures! I love the idea of a human being transformed into a demon. Very intriguing, especially since Alren is worried about his lack of humanity. Great job, Gano!
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Haha today I just found out that there will be a solar eclipse that can be seen pretty well here in Utah on Sunday. Fun Coincidence. It looks like my demon is coming out on sunday 😉