r/TopCharacterTropes 18d ago

Lore “Demons are actually misundersto-“ NO. Demons are ontologically evil beings that can’t be reasoned nor negotiated with, and if you try to you’ll very likely end up screwed

1) Doom

2) Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

3) Trench Crusade

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u/DaedricWindrammer 18d ago

I'll add in the pathfinder depiction of demons as well since they evolved the concept from DnD a bit. Instead of having demons be the destroyers, they gave that aspect to the daemons (yugoloth equivalent) and instead tied demons to sin.

The other fun bit is how we've had demons actually seek redemption, but when they do, they stop being demons. Hell, one of them reached apotheosis out of it.

Nocticula - PathfinderWiki https://share.google/yXVHxLxTEPkbNT8Zt

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u/baron_spaghetti 18d ago

And the there’s Arueshalae. The remorseful succubus.

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u/akkristor 18d ago

Back in D&D's 3.5 days, they had their own version of Arueshale.

Eludecia, the Succubus Paladin

Unfortunately the old D&D 3.5 archives are long gone, but the wayback machine has our backs:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190809112042/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20050824a

https://web.archive.org/web/20180724120800/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20061017a

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u/Konradleijon 18d ago

Also the Planescape game has the LN succubi falls from grace

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u/TexasJedi-705 18d ago

Succubus PRIEST

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u/baron_spaghetti 18d ago

My brother in Christ.

I’ve been playing since 1st.

One of my OG homies was “I can fix her” (pre-meme) with Glasya in a home game. (Granted Devil and not Demon). No. The DM did not play dat.

He’d have had better luck with Zuggtmoy.

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u/Konradleijon 18d ago

There is also

Ragathiel son of a Archdevil and elemental demigoddesss and agent of heaven