The World is to be tainted... made into a rotting husk...
Dissonance
Demons of Corruption gained dissonance whenever they did not try to corrupt something that was pure at least once a day. If they filled their "quota" they needed not try to corrupt anything else, but this was never the case for many of these demons... they loved their work.
Band Attunements
Balseraphs: For every level of Discord/Disadvantage that the target of the Balseraph's resonance has, they will have a -1 to the roll to resist the resonance.
Djinn: Whomever Djinn of Corruption attune to, they will slowly become corrupt as if they were being ridden by a Shedite! Treat the attuned as being possessed by a Shedite as long as the Djinn is attuned to the target. If the Djinn breaks the attunement early, then all of the corruption will go away.
Calabim: These Calabim can cause insidious and lasting damage. If they so choose, the damage they do with their resonance can be double what the check digit was, but the damage will come at one point per hour to the subject, and can only be healed with the Corporeal Song of Healing.
Habbalah: For every successful use of their resonance, the Habbalah's target will find it harder and harder to resist their own emotions. Treat this as any emotional discord or disadvantage the target has as being effectively one higher for every time the Habbalah succeeds at their resonance on the target. If the target succumbs to the Discord/Disadvantage in a way that further corrupts themselves or someone else, the "extra levels" disappear. These Habbalah were a nightmare to Elohim.
Honorium: Although no Honorium served Beelzebub (in canon anyway) if they did, they could engulf their bodies in a hellish yellow and black flame whenever they fought in celestial form. For every successful hit they landed, their target's Will would go down by one, recovering at the rate of 1 every 2 rounds. (The Honorium are Sirea's counterpart to the Malakim. -Ed.)
Lilim: These Lilim would automatically know the Needs of any corrupted individual. Treat this as being able to sense the individuals level of Need based of the highest Discord or Disadvantage they had. So if an angel had Anger/4, the Lilim would be able to see up to his Needs/4.
Shedim: A terrifying precursor to Legion, these Shedim automatically succeeded in possessing anyone, and could selectively corrupt their host. They could choose to degrade morals, health, the mind, the soul - anything they chose.
Impudite: For every successive use of their resonance, their target had a -1 to resist the Impudite the next time, often snowballing into people who could never tell the Impudite no. If the Impudite failed a roll at any time, or the target resisted, the penalty was lost.
Skulker: These Fallen Grigori would automatically succeed in masking disturbance caused by an act of corruption.
Servitor Attunements
The Black Hand: Whatever these demons touched would be subtly corrupted, softening them for the more heavy things. For 4 Essence, whenever the demon touched a human, they would do something in the next 24 hours that was totally out of their moral realm. A priest might speak a heavy blasphemy, a pacifist raise their hand in anger, or a fasting monk gorge themselves on food. If the demon touched an object, it had the effect of the Calabite resonance, with an automatic success, and a slower effect of one damage point per minute.
Heart of Darkness: These demons could spend 1 Essence and know which of the seven sins their target could be most easily corrupted by. While this always showed the Truth, it never meant that the actual corruption would be easy...
Degradation: These demons could impose their own discords on someone else, for substantial Essence cost. For Essence equal to the level of discord the demon has, they can place it upon any other being within their line of sight. The Discord will stay with the target for 24 hours, after which it returned to the original owner. The demon could extend the duration past 24 hours for 1 Essence for each additional hour. Unfortunately, the demon would still register as having the Discord to any demons of the Game, and were not safe from any sudden investigations.
As Above, So Below: Upon touching their target, these demons could see in their mind the absolute lowest depths that the target could go. This was not the same as seeing the person's Fate - while the vision they received could certainly be part of the person's Fate, it only showed the potential depths that the target's soul could reach.
Distinctions
Knight of the Yellow Eye: These demons are partly what made Uriel so frothing with rage. Knights of Corruption could spend 2 Essence and use the Malakim resonance with an automatic check digit of 2, and only to see the most ignoble thing the target had done in the last week.
Captain of the Rotted Heart: These twisted demons could force the dissonance an angel or demon had to double in value, by spending Essence equal to the new amount of dissonance the target would have, and only if the target failed a Will roll. For example, if the demon targeted an angel with 3 notes of dissonance, they would have to spend 6 Essence and the angel fail a Will roll for the angel to then have 6 notes of dissonance.
Baron of the Infinite Fall: These dark masters had a powerful ability... they could force an angel to Fall. For 8 essence, plus whatever the demon had left over, they could force an angel that had at least one level of discord and 2 notes of dissonance to Fall, and only then if they failed a Will roll, at a penalty of the number of notes of dissonance and levels of Discord the angel had.
Other Distinctions
The Fallen: This was a unique Distinction that Beelzebub gave out to a large number of his valued servitors. This Distinction supposedly stopped anyone who had served Corruption from ever redeeming, much like how Uriel's angels could never Fall. While this seems redundant, it had a valued effect. First, if the demon refused, they obviously had thoughts of Redemption in mind, and were destroyed by the Game. If they accepted, then no matter how selfless they became, this permanent mark would never let the demon become an angel, they would always die horribly in the process. Novalis had been heard weeping more than once after the horrid cries of an attempted redemption of one of these demons...
Relations
Allied: No one
Associated: Andrealphus, Mammon, Saminga, Magog, Makatiel, Meserach
Neutral: Everyone else except...
Hostile: No one
Enemy: Asmodeus, Genubath
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