Race: Malevolence

Over-race: Demon

Classification: Living Soul

Family: Punsiher

Sphere: Darkness

Origin: Raithev fashioned the malevolences from dark cunning

Lifespan: Immortal

Habitat: The Hells, The Catacombs, dank, dark places

Food: Meat

Description: A sleek, black demon about the size & shape of a huge bear crossed with a wolverine. Their eyes are red glowing slits.

Procreation: Malevolences like to lure non-demon women into traps & offer them the choice between horrible, torturous death & bearing their children. Breeding with lesser violences creates those sorts of violences, otherwise, it's a malevolence. When they breed with other demons, it follows the mother.

Magic: 1/200000 have soul magic, 1/1000000 have heart magic. They can learn body or mind magic, & many off them do. They often have faith (but are rarely vested) in darkness, hatred, envy, despair, or destructi, & they can use void normally.

Special Powers: Malevolences are unlike other punsihers in that, while they love violence, they do not seek brutal violent battle, but rather, intricate traps in which they can inflict psychological as well as physical pain. They seek to make their malice toward their victims known. Thus, their will-slash ability is not a wounding cut, but rather, a crippling blow. They have the ability to break the minds of their victims via their gaze, & their entire body is subtled (like the silence spell) at will. They are slimy, slithery demons, & their bodies are poisonous to the touch. Their breath is corrosive. It is a 19 difficulty to summon or control them with darkness. They are immune to mundane fire.

Weaknesses:

Hope - 16

Love - 16

Light - 16

Vision - 16

Peace - 17

Home - 19

Healing - 20

Truth - 20

Order - 21

Harvest - 22

Music - 22

Sun - 23

Life - 24

Creation - 24

Culture: Malevolences are solitary trap makers, dwelling in sewers or under bridges, near to railway stations or just outside of swamps, in deep caves or in dark rainforests. Their traps are always laid far from their lairs, but always somehow bring the victim to them. They thrive off tormenting their victims on multiple levels before killing & eating them. They do not grow like violences, nor gain more spines like massacres (indeed, malevolences are sleek demons). Rather, malevolences gain more sheer power with enough victims--will power, awareness, eldritch energies, etc.

Notables: Iukazan, a particularly dangerous malevolence, dwells in the sewers of Merukis, & Manear, who rules part of the Hells

Sample statistics:

PRO 17

ATH 17

STR 17

AWA 17

WIL 17 Crippling Will 19

ROG 17 Subtle Body 23

Mindbreak Gaze 19

Corrosive Breath 19

Poisonous Body 19

Fire Immunity