Naive optimism, [which both is and isn't a joke at Myr's own expense.
He catches the veiled compliment for what it is, and gives a pleased little hm.] Right enough. Let's talk demons.
You'd asked, [linden tree embraced by a desire demon, check the highest branch,] about their motivations and whether they've all the same ones. Which they do and don't--just the same way you could boil down men's wants to the basic desire to live or have something of themselves carry on after they die, demons want to expand their influence. Whether that's in the Fade or out of it--and most of them prefer out, because they'd love nothing more than to take the Realm of Opposition for their own.
But the sort of influence they'd like, and how they wreak it on those who run into them--that differs by the sort of demon and the vice they resonate with, whether it's pride or sloth or desire or rage. And then within the types you've individuals--usually the older ones--who've all got their own ways of doing things.
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He catches the veiled compliment for what it is, and gives a pleased little hm.] Right enough. Let's talk demons.
You'd asked, [linden tree embraced by a desire demon, check the highest branch,] about their motivations and whether they've all the same ones. Which they do and don't--just the same way you could boil down men's wants to the basic desire to live or have something of themselves carry on after they die, demons want to expand their influence. Whether that's in the Fade or out of it--and most of them prefer out, because they'd love nothing more than to take the Realm of Opposition for their own.
But the sort of influence they'd like, and how they wreak it on those who run into them--that differs by the sort of demon and the vice they resonate with, whether it's pride or sloth or desire or rage. And then within the types you've individuals--usually the older ones--who've all got their own ways of doing things.