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considered granting the master one wish. Serious practitioners
of entity creation do not consider Djinn worth
the effort as animating spirits.
Chaos Demons warp order by their very existence.
Place a Golem or Construct too close to a Chaos
Demon for a prolonged period and strange
things will happen to the entity – its color
will fluctuate, its size and shape will stretch,
shrink, and transform in multiple directions,
and even its material will alter.
Its magic will fail and the artificial
entity will be no more than a misshapen
amorphous blob of matter.
The magical order essential to
artificial entities is diametrically
opposed to the anarchic nature
of Chaos Demons – imbedding
attempts simply fail.
The natures of the other extra-planar
entities are too poorly
understood for the Compel Demon
# and Imbed Demon # spells
to effect them. Gaining that understanding
and creating the
requisite spells would be an epic
quest in itself …
Demonic Empowerment has
a number of advantages over
alternative methods. Intellectually,
Demons cover the
entire range with even some
of the least powerful possessing
substantial intelligence.
Thus casters will
rarely need access to the Sentience
spell list. Once a Demon
has been imbedded in
an artificial entity, the amalgam
will spontaneously manifest
at least one magical ability
(see section 7.3 for further details).
Demons summoned using
Demonic Empowerment can
also be ordered to perform tasks
other than enhancing entities.
The bad news is that summoning
and imbedding Demons
is extremely dangerous.
Demons hate taking orders
from anybody else, and detest
being summoned from
their own planes by
mortal wizards. Being
forcibly imbedded into
an artificial entity
heightens their antipathy
to non-Demons –
every indignity suffered and every order received will be
remembered until the day of reckoning
when the Demon escapes
from the caster’s control. Demons,
whose rebelliousness is restrained
by Compel Demon #
spells, will seize any chance for
liberty provided by the interruption
of those spells, either by their
duration running out or the entity
moving beyond their range. Even
Demons that have been imbedded
into Golems or Constructs protected
by Glyphs of Control will
plot against their masters, although
they may not act directly
against them. Acts of omission,
support for third parties, and
finding loopholes in ambiguously
worded orders are the traditional
techniques of disobedience.
Exacerbating the issue of
control is the lesser potency of Compel
Demon # spells. Compared to Elemental
Compel # and Compel Spirit #
spells, the initial duration and range
of control supplied by Compel Demon
# spells is significantly better.
However both Spirit Empowerment
and Elemental Empowerment include
Extend Compel I and II, which provide
order of magnitude improvements
in both distance and time.
Spirit-animated and Elementalanimated
Golems and Constructs
are better suited for long-term and
long-distance duties; Demon-animated
entities must remain close
to their master, who must ensure
that he is able to renew the control
spells regularly.
Finally most of the Summon Demon
spells do not guarantee the conjuring
of a specific species of Demon.
The caster can only specify the Type
of the demon desired, i.e. Summon
Demon I will summon a Type I
Demon, but this might be a Demon
of the First Pale, a Daedhel or
a Hothrog from the Void, a Corvox,
a Frizzm, a Grumoz, or a Tlaque.
(Casters who summon a Shaan,
for instance, will banish it immediately
and try again for a more
intelligent victim.) Unless
Summon Demon True is used, the
result will be completely random.
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