Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170903230801

Orcus is both a single world and a Empire in it's own right. Now this is no Empire of our reality oh no this is a demon Empire birthed from a tear upon the poor planets lower depths. For centuries the demons burrowed beneath the surface until a Gretch exploration team fracked into the surface and awoke the hoards. Within days the entire Gretch team, their outposts, and exotic beast and slaves they carried with them where slaughtered and their ship dragged into the depths. The demon lords down in their halls looked upon this ship and the tech inside with awe and attempted to reverse engineer it they had moderate success and where able to craft crude weapons, but they need more parts of ships and so on. Thus they activated the ships distress beacon and continuously jumped those who landed upon the world and with every ship getting closer and closer to their goal. Space Travel.

Now what drives these Demons is unknown save their seemingly unquenchable thirst for warfare, bloodshed, and the like. Also how these Demons reproduce in such large numbers to field the hoards they do is also unknown seeing as no one survives for long on a demon world and those worlds that manage to be cleansed have all inhabitants, artifacts, and evidence completely whipped away. No matter what though these beings/Demons fester and grow like a hoard slowly taking world after world.

Now how the Demons actually take over the worlds come in two main ways:

- They can either infest a asteroid and then but rudimentary engines and drift it towards a inhabited planet. Using the asteroid as both a weapon, base of operations, and as a massive landing craft. Some hoards have been known to use hundreds if not thousands of asteroids during invasions.

- They can stowaway on a ship hiding in the vents and going into a deep hibernation awaiting it's chance to infest the world. The demon in question tends to quickly scatter off once the ship lands and burrow itself into the ground, hide in the sewers, and many other means. During this time it finds a suitable location and hunting ground to both create and have a prosperous nest. From this a small hive grows and either is found out by the locals and burned away or continues to fester until it starts devouring town by town and then the cities and eventually the world itself.

Demons come in many forms from the common and expendable fiends to the Blight hoards and many, many, many other even darker forms. Here is a list of both the basic and known types:

- Fiends are the basic 'troops' or 'workers' of the Demon hoards being generally lightly if even armored at all with all sorts of scavenged weapon or nothing save their claws. Some that survive the fields of battle will eventually be given some armor and decent weapons to expand the hive. They are by far the most common type of Demon.

- Blights are disfigured, mutated, and overly revolting shock troops of the Demon hoards generally having multiple mouths and all sorts of weird mutations as well as rather thick skin. They tend to be deployed en mass as shock troops of sorts.

- Pit Terrors are the military elite of the Demons said to be born, as the name suggests, the fiery pits below demon worlds surfaces. They tent to stand roughly 8-12ft tall and are muscle bound and heavily armed and armored.

- Demon Lords/War lords within the so called 'aristocracy' of the Demons lies many ranks with the most basic being a 'lord' who rules over his own hive and war band respectively. These titanic creatures are true horrors to behold and even worse to fight.

- The Arch Demons are Demon lords that have either gained other Demon Lord followers or forcibly put them under their banner. They are even larger Demons with even larger armies and 'hoards' under their command they could be viewed as a 'Marshal' of sorts.

- Devils are the true elite of the Demons (as observers state) they rule over their own mini Empires with hundreds of Arch Demons within their hosts.

- Arch Devils are the true leaders of the Demons with 7 in total who sit upon a 'council' of sorts upon their crown world of Orcus. From here they dictate the countless wars of their hoards, relish at the uncountable screams of their victims, and attempt to fulfill their blood lust. 