Sound Demon
Posted by Meg
A fascinating new demon has been discovered by Jim …
Name: Sound Demon
Appearance:
The Sound Demon’s face was flat except for the bulge of its wide mouth, a pair of elongated white fangs protruding from behind its thick lips. Vapor puffed from the narrow slits that were set into its face where a nose might have been. The coreling had not one but two ears on each side of its head, a smaller ear overlapping a larger one, and all four ears ended in sharp tips. It stood on two legs at a little over four feet, hunched over, both its arms ending with fat three-fingered hands. Beneath short, thick and shiny fur, the demon’s entire body was packed with muscle, and hollow silvery quills flowed down from the back of its skull, all the way to the end of its spinal cord, which was just above its rump. The quills on its back, which were apparently hollow, emitted faint, shrill whistles as it exhaled. Slightly bent ivory blades extended past its elbows.
Staring through huge and slanted pupil-less silver eyes that seemed to glow like the moon, the coreling released a baritone cry that released a stream of cacophonous wind that ripped across the earth. It was sometimes said that the Sound Demon lured naïve Messenger’s away from their warded circles by imitating human voices or calls for help but what made the demon truly dangerous was the musical blasts it was able to shoot, either from its quills or mouth.
Abilities:
The Sound Demon is rarely seen near another of its species, and often it prefers to hunt alone. However, it can charm other demons with its melodious voice, the only coreling known to be capable of doing so, except for coreling royalty. The Sound Demon is intelligent enough to repel arrows with its melodious bark and keep a safe distance from anyone carrying warded weapons. Also, its sense of hearing makes it difficult to sneak up on normally.
Defense:
A Sound Demon’s hide is surprisingly soft, allowing for someone with an unwarded blade to wound it, though it will regenerate unless the weapon in question has indeed been marked. Although the coreling wields strength comparable to a gorilla on steroids, the demon is reasonably slow in close quarters. There are a number of common wards that can bar Sound Demons, but only specialized mute wards can render their sound blasts harmless and or negate all sound within the mark’s limited range to negate the coreling’s musical control over other coreling’s. The mute wards may also be used to simply create a sound proof environment specifically designed to prevent eavesdropping if charged by demon energy.
By Jim Carnes
Age 24
From The United States, California
Thank you for showing us the Sound Demon, Jim! I love the detail you give describing the quills and how they lure humans and other corelings with music and voice imitations. Fantastic work!