Demon

How it fights

A caster is dangerous at a distance and considerably less so once you have closed. It spends the opening of a fight making the ground between you expensive to cross, and if it is allowed to keep that distance it will simply keep spending. Reaching it is the whole fight. What happens after you arrive is usually brief.

Field notes

The demons come up where the ground has been made ready for them, by fire, by killing, by a bargain, and they stay where the readiness holds. The rock is warm around them and the ash does not settle. They talk, and every word is a door held open for you to walk through, and the walking is the whole of what they want. Embers in the seams of the hide brighten before it moves.

Where it is met

Met in Sealed Keep, Old Weald of Northern Karan Coast, Close Thicket of Karan Heartland, Turret of Northern Reach, the Pillared Temple, the Abandoned Sanctum, Grey Keep and the High Eyrie, by travellers of levels 1 to 40.

The roll

Under this kind stand nine of the least sort, ten of the common sort, eight tough and 22 elite, and eight named: Ashdan, the Fang of a hidden cult, Helth, the Keeper of the Way of a hidden cult, Maeldan, the Herald of a hidden cult, Maelth, the Fang of a hidden cult, Morkell, the Keeper of the Way of a hidden cult, Mormir, the Second of a hidden cult, Nardan, the Herald of a hidden cult and Narkell, the Right Hand of a hidden cult.