They were probably satyrs, once. Now that their god has turned into a god of cruelty and pain, they have been remade. The primary changes have been to stretch their tails out into long, whiplike ones with a triangular tip and the removal of almost all the fur on their digitigrade legs. Most are hideously ugly and they are bred for size, strength and viciousness above all else. Their teeth tend to be oversized and very sharp. A lucky few get massive, twisted bat-like wings grafted onto their backs, "elevating" them above the lesser fiends both literally and figuratively.
Succubi: a handful, however, are bred for beauty and grace instead. They look almost like another species entirely, being slender and attractive, soft-spoken and elegant females instead. They are used to seduce enemies of their deity and whored out as a reward to her servants who perform well. Unlike most fiends, whose mouths are full of jagged teeth, they have only small fangs designed to let blood flow painlessly. They are vampires, and require a portion of their diet to be blood in order to survive.
What most people don't know is that, since their lord is cruel, a prospective Succubi's genitals are surgically altered as soon as they reach puberty, so that while they are still capable of performing sex acts, they are no longer capable of experiencing pleasure from them. This helps ensure that they hate all of their partners. What they hate most of all, though, is Succubi who escaped this fate for whatever reason.
Males of this clan (commonly referred to as Incubi) are mostly kept as slaves for breeding purposes and actual agents are encountered only very rarely. Their surgical alteration is even crueller (although more subtle), and only those who can perform despite the agonizing pain that sex causes them are used as agents. They tend to be thoroughly psychotic.
There are a tiny handful of "free" families in one of the nicer realms, though. These are the extended families of Succubi and Incubi who rebelled and eventually gave birth to children who were not surgically altered (although their upbringing is notably twisted at times). They have to avoid "true" agents of their deity, because there's nothing that their kinfolk hate more.
Posted by Kiz at December 12, 2004 11:14 AMCommentsPost a comment