| Race | The Manes |
| Over-race | Demon |
| Classification | Living Soul |
| Family | Infernal Beast, Second Court |
| Sphere | Darkness |
| Origin | Greneja created the Manes as her first pure hellspawn demons (that is, she did not use one of her children as a template, but simply made them from the fabric of the Hells) |
| Lifespan | Immortal |
| Habitat | The Hells, The Catacombs, underground or in dark areas--ruins, jungles, swamps, or urban decay |
| Food | Purity, in very small amounts |
| Description | A mane appears to be a small tube of black flesh with a mouth on one end & a pair of dragonfly-like wings on its back. |
| Procreation | Manes do not procreate with members of their own swarm, but swarms generally find other swarms when they are in heat & procreate that way. Manes are not built to procreate with other demons very easily. If it somehow happens, all offspring are manes. |
| Magic/Faith | About 1 out of every 200000 manes has soul magic--usually very weak. About 1 in every million has heart magic, also usually very weak. Manes have mouths with which they shriek & gurgle, but they do not have the patience or intelligence to learn mind or body magic, or to have any beliefs complex enough to count as faith. Only a swarm of manes has enough steam to manipulate void, & that is incredibly unlikely to happen, unless they are directed by more powerful demons to do so. |
| Special Powers | Manes within a swarm share a mind. The bite of a mane causes a small tear in the soul of the victim--about 1000 successful mane bites would utterly destroy a pure soul. Manes fly & swim well, though they dislike running water (being that they are not very strong). Manes' shrieks are generally barely intelligible demonic, & thus it has a negative effect on those that hear it. The difficulty to destroy a single mane with light faith is 1. See notes below for more comprehensive notes on this. Like most demons, manes are impervious to mundane fires. |
| Weaknesses | |
| Turning/destroying difficulties (1 mane) | Light - 1 Sun - 2 Vision - 2 Insight - 3 Order - 4 Hope - 4 Love - 4 Wisdom - 5 Life - 7 Family - 7 Home - 7 Peace - 7 Healing - 7 Truth - 7 Creation - 10 Music - 10 Harvest - 10 note: This is to destroy a single mane completely. It's much easier just to hurt one. |
| Mane control (fiend standard, difficulty vs. will power) | 10 - 1 25 - 4 50 - 7 100 - 10 200 - 13 500 - 16 750 - 19 900 - 22 1000 - 25 |
| Controlling manes via dark magic or faith/Summoning manes (to bond with or to ceremonially summon) | 10 - 1 25 - 4 50 - 7 100 - 10 200 - 13 500 - 16 750 - 19 900 - 22 1000 - 25 |
| Culture | Manes live in swarms, generally without any direction or purpose but to feed & mate. Demons ranging from fiend & above can control manes without thinking about it, though the larger the swarm, the more difficult it can be--fiends can generally control about 10 manes at a time. With dark magic or faith, the difficulty to control 10 manes is generally 10. See below for more details. |
| Notables | There are no notable members of this species. |
| Sample statistics | PRO 7 ATH 11 STR 1 Bite 4 AWA 7 WIL 1 ROG 13 Shriek 7 |
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