If the worlds of The Reveal were to be viewed from the outside, it would seem that humans wished to be Vampires, Vampires wished to be Demons, Demons wished to be Magical, and the Magical wished for peace of mind.

While some attributes might be unique to one particular Demon world, there were others universally held by all those from the Demon universe. All Demons came from worlds where survival was a constant balancing act between environment and inhabitant. This left them, whether they were Martyc or Poqir, with a compelling desire to regulate every aspect of their surroundings in order to survive a nature whose attributes were not determined by ancestry alone.

When humans discovered the formidable beings that arrived from The Reveal, with their seemingly supernatural qualities and ugly forms, they deemed them evil and called them Demons. This term stayed around the human realm long after their visitors had left, becoming a nightmare used to frighten the unsophisticated into submission via story or faith.

The human realm kept vigilant in noting any recurring visits as Demons were pronounced bastions of evil, serving some malevolent devil bent upon the destruction of the universe. While in part this was true, Demons did serve their own purpose, and to the human eyes a malevolent one. It was similar to the conquest of one human nation over another in their own history.

The reality of the Demon was complicated by the excesses of their natures, the quirks of their natures, and the failings of their natures. One common characteristic of all Demons was passion, as they were victims of a passionate disposition that burned through them until it almost sparked from their fingertips.

Demons had no down time, for they couldn’t comprehend the value of calm, and lit from their own internal inferno they blazed through life burning the same in work and recreation. Barely able to control the fires within they often failed. This caused fires without, for without restriction or restraint a Demon world could indeed resemble the hell of the human mythology.

Their continued survival was due to their excellent reading of a world, as the Demon felt the fabric of their surroundings the way a human might feel the texture of cloth. Centuries of containing inner furies powerful enough to tear a world apart gave them the ability to read emotions, intent, information from the air itself.

The Demon would feel the violence of movement upon the atmosphere, alerting them to a perpetrator about to strike. They could sense the presence of and distinguish between their kind and other creatures nearby.

The higher caste Demons had more refined senses and could read larger areas from a distance while the lower could only read what was close by. Given strong bodies suitable for battle, the weakest of Demons could with ease defeat the strongest of humans. Through evolution, the Ancient Vampire, once Aunsin, could match the stronger Demon.

The Vampires lived in a frustrated world where they fought to maintain control of their own environment. Magical creatures lived in a neurotic realm caused by a clash with the harshness of reality. Demons lived in a paranoid world where they could be overwhelmed by their own barely suppressed emotions.

Prisoners of their heritage, they maintained a superficial vestige of control, but the Demon never really owned their own soul. Aware of their flaws they used self-knowledge to destroy those who would stand in their way, and sometimes wound up destroying themselves in the process.

The Demon soul consumed itself while the emotions of hatred and love, with all their affiliations, preoccupied their every waking moment. While not all Demons appeared Demonic, they all carried the hell of unbridled passion within the framework of an unchanging nature.

Demons marched throughout The Reveal, destroying, building, loving, hating, struggling, failing, yet never able to facilitate the transformation they so desperately desired—to allow them the simple luxury of choice.

The Demon universe was filled with worlds ranging from black pits of hell to the pale grey cities of modern civilisation. Regardless of their origin, Demons shared the same basic traits where obsession grew from passion, greed replaced ambition, and power was the god of everyone.

Once discovering The Reveal, they ventured forth to conquer, fight, or trade, with the various worlds they encountered. The Demons, due to their inherent avarice, found themselves under the control of one particular world whose higher caste subjects managed to control their vices.

While the Martyc Demon could have used brute force to battle their way to the top of a Demon empire, they were clever enough to realise that those who owned the banks owned the universe. The Martyc paved the way for those of lesser power, and while not all Demons were peaceful, many realised that when crossing into other worlds business was often the fastest way to power.

The first contact with the human world found a primordial creature who saw the Demons exactly for what they were—Demons. Those unable to pass as human found themselves under constant threat by a fearful and superstitious world capable of violence to rival any Demon.

The interlopers quickly learned that though the human creature might not match them in strength or skill, they possessed a fierce dedication to their gods and would willingly fight until extinction. As civilisation tamed the wild humans it also gave them sophistication in all things war, and soon Demons found an opponent of equal calibre in their skirmishes. This violence fell by the wayside as a new enlightenment of economic focus dawned.

Those able to pass as human meshed into the fabric of a society whose corruptions were as varied as they were prolific because this was a world the Demon understood and often facilitated. While the Demon universe had sorted different worlds into bankers, assassins, aides and mercenaries, the human world had all these living under the one realm. As the primitive human hunted the Demon as the antithesis of their god—the modern human was more concerned with profit margin than origin of the species.

Of all the gifts, curses, and knowledge the Demon worlds brought the human there was one that neither could have predicted, and that was the mutation called Vampire. The first contact with Demons brought not only information, but also their infections. The human world found itself subject to plagues, illness, and finally a virus that created in their victim a metamorphosis in order to survive.

The virus didn’t take a strong hold until the world contained enough deviations for the deviant to hide within, and then they multiplied. The Vampire learned as they grew in numbers using their weakness and strength to build their shadow empire, a world within a world, reigning in the dark shadows of a sunlit domain.

As the human world became organised, so did the Vampire and they found themselves inextricably bound to humans in a duet of interior and exterior worlds. The Vampire, useful to both Demon and human alike, discovered themselves protected by their influence and so any hint of their existence was quickly erased from the mind of the populace.

The majority of humans played out their time caught up with the frustration of unanswered desire, lives lost or wasted, left to chase dreams of an impossible nature. Rarely examining their source, they never imagined that the aspirations of this unsettled life often rested upon the foundations of some murky Demon world. The Vampire provided the cloak, the Demon the dagger, and the human the stage for this very unusual drama.