DEMON
All information presented here is from Champions Universe, 6th ed., page 128-129.
The origins of DEMON are obscure, even to superheroic mystics. It arose in 1925 as a Satanic cult in the United States, but under whose direction no one knows for sure. It remained mostly quiet through the Second World War, though cult members are said to have been involved in some bizarre crimes in New York City during the Thirties.
In the Fifties, DEMON revealed its true colors, adopting garb and methods similar to other villainous organizations and attempting to conquer the world - but with mystic power instead of technology. No one really took the group seriously until the 1968 theft of the Basilisk Orb, an ancient artifact of vast, but poorly understood, arcane power. With the Orb in hand, the leaders of DEMON, a group apparently called the Inner Circle, nearly did take over the world. Only concerted action by several superheroes and a young UNTIL stopped them, and in the process the Orb was lost again and has never re-appeared.
Its defeat in the Orb incident hit DEMON hard, costing it many members and much prestige in the underworld and Mystic World. For over a decade it struggled, often suffering additional losses at the hands of costumed do-gooders and the likes of UNTIL. But a major victory in 1981, when it lured several high-ranking UNTIL agents and four superheroes into a trap in Lagos, Nigeria and slew them all in a bloody sacrifice to the gods of the underworld, brought DEMON a flood of new recruits and vaulted it into the Department of Defense's Superhuman Survey as a "Top Ten Most Dangerous Organization" - a ranking from which it has never fallen since.
As far as the Brothers, Initiates, and most of the Morbanes know, DEMON is nothing more than what it appears to be - a Satanic cult and mystically-inclined criminal organization through which they hope to obtain riches and power. But some Morbanes, the five members of the Inner Circle, and DEMON's true leader, Luther Black know better. DEMON is actually a cult devoted to the worship, and eventually the manifestation, of five of the Kings of Edom, horrible extra-dimensional entities of immense power.
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Gallery
An ingame screenshot of a DEMON Brother.
Another version of a Brother.
A DEMON Initiate.
A few DEMON enemies as found near the Great Beast Bookstore.
A DEMON Maleficia, one of the stronger enemy types.
A DEMON Morbane, another tougher enemy.
The Black Shepherd, a named DEMON boss enemy found in the Great Beast Bookstore.
DEMON enemies sometimes summon fire demons, like this Demonling.
