[Good thing he's sitting down, since...he sure does know a lot, being one and all!]
When a demon is killed, we don't exactly have an afterlife of our own to go to, so there's a lot of different things that can happen to our souls. The best option, in a lot of cases, is to become a Devil Arm, a weapon powered by the soul of a slain devil. If this happens under the right circumstances, it's basically a means of preserving our souls so that we can generate new bodies after recovering...like what happened with me after I was killed by Mundus. A lot of devils even set it up ahead of time, binding ourselves to our favorite weapons so we don't have to worry about someone deciding to eat us instead.
Devil Arms can take pretty much any shape you can think of, the definition of 'weapon' can get pretty loose. I'm a longsword, but there's a succubus who became a literal electric guitar, and I've heard rumors of an immensely powerful Devil Arm that's something similar to a briefcase until a wielder reshapes it into something else. Yours...I think might be gauntlets by the name of Ifrit.
If someone with any capacity for channeling magic picks up a Devil Arm, and the Devil Arm is willing to cooperate, we can lend them some of our innate powers as long as we're being wielded. When my master used me, I made him faster and more agile than normal, let him channel my lightning through my blade, and always returned to his hand when he threw me. Other stuff too, but it takes actual demonic blood or the most terrifically powerful and difficult Witchcraft to access all of it.
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Date: 2023-07-10 06:03 am (UTC)When a demon is killed, we don't exactly have an afterlife of our own to go to, so there's a lot of different things that can happen to our souls. The best option, in a lot of cases, is to become a Devil Arm, a weapon powered by the soul of a slain devil. If this happens under the right circumstances, it's basically a means of preserving our souls so that we can generate new bodies after recovering...like what happened with me after I was killed by Mundus. A lot of devils even set it up ahead of time, binding ourselves to our favorite weapons so we don't have to worry about someone deciding to eat us instead.
Devil Arms can take pretty much any shape you can think of, the definition of 'weapon' can get pretty loose. I'm a longsword, but there's a succubus who became a literal electric guitar, and I've heard rumors of an immensely powerful Devil Arm that's something similar to a briefcase until a wielder reshapes it into something else. Yours...I think might be gauntlets by the name of Ifrit.
If someone with any capacity for channeling magic picks up a Devil Arm, and the Devil Arm is willing to cooperate, we can lend them some of our innate powers as long as we're being wielded. When my master used me, I made him faster and more agile than normal, let him channel my lightning through my blade, and always returned to his hand when he threw me. Other stuff too, but it takes actual demonic blood or the most terrifically powerful and difficult Witchcraft to access all of it.