Where did I put my true name?

In an urn, buried underground in a deep dark place.

Maou does sound like a wizard's name, lots of extra syllables hard to pronounce.

Hmm,

Well, demons seem to have something like a silver cord that tether them to the abyss.

It's not though, or not exactly. When they are summoned, one would think they'd leave a body behind in the Abyss that they could then go back to, like Astral Travel.

But their body fades from the Abyss and re materializes in Astlan.

One would think that using a Demonic Gateway would mean their physical body traveled to Astlan and thus any silver cord would go there, that's how it would work for a human. However, it doesn't. They are still tethered to the abyss like in a summons. And if killed they go back there.

That being said, Animage demons and Wizard Demons can actually "do astral travel/projection" and leave their body somewhere (the abyss, astlan, an outer plane) and travel to distant realms and make a second body. The two bodies are connected by a silver cord, and the astrally projected demon has a cord to his body, whereever it is. But they also that weird Abyss cord/connection.

So, if such a demon were to have a body in Astlan, leave it there and travel to say Westeros, create a body there and run around. They could zip back and forth between the bodies, the unoccupied one would just appear to sleep.

However, if the active body is destroyed, while a normal human would be pulled back to their first body, a demon goes back to the Abyss, by default, unless they can consciously force themselves to the other "stashed" body on the other plane.

This is what Lenamare thought Tom was doing. Because if Tom were on another Plane of Man, in a body there, he couldn't be conjured (the same way Lenamare couldn't conjure Tom when he was Edwyrd) Without a "stashed" body, the only place the demon is tethered to is the Abyss, and since given a true name, a wizard can conjure from the Abyss, the unbound demon couldn't escape to there.

Basically you can't conjure a spirit creature that's in the Planes of Man from one Plane to the Other or the same. You can only conjure a spirit creature from the Heavenly Planes, the Astral Plane and the Abyss.

I am not sure how you would do that.

The Abyss link is weird. There is no cord/nothing tangible that any (most) of us can see. Nothing to slice or dice or disconnect. It is a very weird link--maybe not even a link.

Remember normally astral cords/links go between two objects.

What ever binds demons to the Abyss binds them to an entire Infinite Plane that happens to fall outside the normal structure of the multiverse.

Animus is the manifestation of the fifth element, Spirit. Mana is some sort of cosmic glue that both binds elements together, and keeps them separate, like an invisible film to keep them from completely mixing if my understanding is correct. How much is present varies from reality as they each have their own rules. The link will in some instances occur naturally as Animus will often draw mana towards it, wizards however often do the reverse in using mana to draw animus towards them. They use mana to attract any desired element which they desire to use for their spells and then manifest.

I am not an expert and am basing this on my knowledge of astlanian magic.

Is it possible that the astlanian dimension supports four spatial dimensions but only uses three?
E.g. programming support on a jock's computer?
If so then the abyss might be were that compatibility is stored.
If tom figures out how to think in four dimensions... No summoning circle could fully bind him, no wizard could make a link he cannot break by tearing it apart were it has no defenses, e.g. from a fourth dimension. He could break a demons connection to the abyss and kill it forever. More important is that he could make a link that wizards and clerics don't know about and can't see, then possess them whenever the whim strikes him.
I was thinking that astral travel might just be another level of parallel dimensions that wizards discovered with similar rules to the astlanian one but for lack of a better turn, sideways... but if the abyss is four dimensional, that might be what the concordenax discovered, and what made him so powerful. Just a theory relevant to the current discussion.
It's relevant because the demonic link might be in the fourth dimension. keep this secret from anyone with a modicum of creativity will you? Because the chaos this could cause ... On second thought Tizzy please share this with everyone but lenamare.
Pandemonium is fun.

Are weapons that are effective against demons also effective against other mana entities such as dragons, avatars, angels, deities, and djinn?

I kind of want to see a god killed, it would bring chaos to the land, bring doubt to their fateful, and it might make them question for what reasons they willingly choose to summon demons into the world.

Edited by user Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:07:40 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Oh my goodness! Kill a god?

Well, history. Did you know what Americans did when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor?... Yep, Americans nuked Japan.

Now. What would the gods do when one of them is killed by demons? They will do more than nuke the demons I tell you.

Yep, I am going to build myself an ark to haul anybody that wants to get away from Maou and his crazy plans as fast as possible.

@Maou:

There is actually lots of possibilities why.

First, I revise your question. Instead of asking why the gods haven't destroyed the demons. Ask the reverese. Why would they destroy the demons?

Obviously, the situation here is very different from angel-and-devil situation in the bible. From what could be taken from the book, demons and gods are essentially two diffrent species that are just more powerful than humans. Here, to the gods, demons are just a major annoyance, but since the demons doesn't really have harmed any of the gods before. Demons, to the gods, is a nuisance but pose little threat, so it seems. But when a demon kills a god, now that is a different scenario altogether.

@Tizzy:

They get tortured?