The Orders of the Infernal

Almost all of the creatures of the Infernal share a common heritage, owing their origin back to Bamon’s original moment of defiance.  Here are the orders of Infernal Creatures and their relationships.

Fallen Angels

God created the Angels, but Bamon created the Infernal by corrupting the plan of God.  He led first one Fall and then another, in the end claiming two thirds of the Host of Heaven.

                No one knows if the Nopheratus has any connection to this Falling, or if it’s the power of the Nopheratus that aided in this initial corruption, but by the end of the War in Heaven, the deed was done.  Angels were no longer necessarily Divine.

Devils

There are a finite number of Devils, because there were a finite number of Fallen Angels.  Every Fallen Angel that survived the War in Heaven ended up in Hell after the Sundering.  These are now the Devils of Hell and many of them are immensely powerful--the Dukes and Duchesses of Hell.  They rule under the brutal guidance of Bamon, the Dark Prince.

The Nephilim

The second Falling of Angels came about due to the Sin of Wantonness.  These angels lay with the daughters of mortality and begot children by them--the races of giants, the Nephilim.

                In creating the Nephilim Bamon accomplished his greatest achievement.  The Fallen Angels would only dwindle in numbers from that time forward, as God created no new angels, but the Nephilim could marry one-another and produce young.  They were a race that could perpetuate themselves.

                But the true importance of this achievement wasn’t apparent until the first Nephilim died.  At that point its soul went to Hell and became the first demon.  Suddenly not only was there a race of evil in the Mortal Realm, but  they swelled the ranks of the infernal in Hell as well.  Within a few generations, demons outnumbered devils.

Demons

But not all Demons are the souls of dead Nephilim.  There are some Demons, the Demons of Achievement, who are not of directly infernal birth.  These are the souls of dead Mortals who achieved such a greatness of evil in their lives that Bamon rewards them in death.  They are infused with infernal energies through some unknown process, becoming full demons.  Some of them become so powerful, are worshiped so widely, that they become the Infernal Equivalent of Saints . . . the Archdemons.

Cambions

When a Demon lies with a Mortal, the resulting child is a Cambion, a creature half Mortal and half Demon.  These Cambions are the final level of the Infernal.  The Cambions can mate with one another and reproduce, creating their own young.  This makes them not only the final rank of Infernal, but the one most numerous in the Mortal Realm.