Souls

With each other or other demons.

Baal's children are immune to faith. They have the ability to grant to mortals any virtue or grace, any benevolence or kindness, any wish or miracle of the holy spheres to a mortal--they are especially adept with sunlight, wisdom, and fertility--in exchange for that mortal's soul. They are strongest in the early autumn (after the harvest) and speak in a hoarse voice that is an affront to the Divine. It is a 25 darkness magic to summon or control one of Baal's children.

Baal was once a god, or so they say, before Shem. It was the war with Baal that drove the Arbiter from whatever realm he once belonged to, and it was the fall of Baal that sealed the Gates of Mortality. It was not allowed to use the essence of Baal that pervaded the Hells to make any demons with--the Arbiter forbade it--but the Webweaver, before he gained godhead, spoke seductive whispers into the mad ears of the Blood Mother. Being mad and vile, she secretly fashioned six and sixty and six-hundred demons of the essence and hid them in the Malebolgian Forests, the most shadowy and horrible part of the Hells, where the Arbiter even feared to look (for there rested the strongest of Baal's lost essence). So it was, then, that the Arbiter knew not that these demons existed, and so it was then that when the Blood Mother fell and the Webweaver arose, he did know they existed.

Upon his ascendancy, the Webweaver stole the Children of Baal and began to win them over. Slowly, he let them out from their dark hiding spots and into the world. When, finally, they came to the notice of the Arbiter and His Law, it was too late--He could not unmake them under the auspices of His Law (it was not their fault they were born) and she who should be punished was already dead.