Family: Succubus
Type: Fiend
Habitat: Urban areas
Disposition: Lustful, self-conscious, loyal
Diet: Omnivorous; spirit energy
Empusai (emm-PYOO-sigh) are mid-tier fiend mamono with alluring bodies and minor shapeshifting capabilities. Their most defining feature is having one brass or silver leg; individuals with the latter are much rarer and more powerful than the former and therefore are regarded as nobility. Like succubi empusai are naturally gifted magic casters with high libidos, though they are known by some as devourers of flesh. When aroused or experiencing strong emotions trace amounts of mana leak from their eyes and hair to giving them the appearance of being engulfed in flames.
An empusa (emm-PYOO-sah) can use her metallic leg as if it was a normal one, and the leg itself provides the extra power needed to not have its high weight hinder her mobility, but she needs to be wary of entering any body of water without proper magical assistance for she will sink like a brick otherwise. The leg is sturdy, cannot bleed, and the added mass makes her kicks pack the biggest punch of any fiend type. Furthermore, the leg lacks normal senses like touch or pain but is an excellent conductor of both electricity and spirit energy, funneling it directly into her womanhood for better or worse.
Empusai have shapeshifting capabilities but cannot shapeshift their metal legs, which confines them to shapes with humanoid legs. They are especially good at mimicking other mostly humanoid mamono like inari or elves. “Wearing” inhuman features, even their own succubus features, costs them a small amount of mana to maintain, so their resting form is that of a human woman. Oddly enough, while empusai can manifest any of the three major succubus features (horns, wings, and tail), for some reason they can never manifest more than two at the same time, which ironically renders them unable to mimic their closest relatives the succubi.
Empusai usually have lustful personalities similar to those of their succubus relatives with the caveat that most empusai are highly self-conscious about their metal legs (though much less so for the silver legged ones). Hence they have mastered the art of covering their legs with dresses, long skirts, and especially thigh-high stockings. To draw attention away from their legs empusai often dress even more scandalously than succubi above the waist, with it not being uncommon for them to leave one or both breasts bare even when out in public.
Being quite shy about revealing their lower halves many empusai have perfected the art of extracting spirit energy orally. They are renowned for their blow-jobs and cunnilingual skills as well as their endurance while deepthroating; an empusa with a gag reflex is rarer than a wurm with a PHD. While giving head might be a good way to extract spirit energy it is less effective at helping them get off themselves, but many empusai are highly reluctant to expose their womanhood and with it their metal legs. Instead, they double down on giving head and forgo their own climaxes. This has gained them a reputation as “devourers of flesh,” though that reputation has also been used by jealous competitors to unjustly paint them as savage cannibals.
Ironically due to its conductive nature the metal leg is a major erogenous zone when an empusa lays with someone who has spirit energy, like a human or an angel. A mere light stroke can send an empusa into a howling orgasm. For the same reason some of the kinkier empusai are into electromancers.
When it comes to a long-term relationship empusai desire partners they feel safe exposing their legs to, though unsurprisingly it varies greatly from individual to individual as to what criteria one must meet for an empusa to feel safe. Nevertheless, a partner that meets her criteria will find that an empusa wife is exceptionally loyal for a fiend type.
Name That Mamono: Baroness Eglantine Athalia
Eglantine, or Elegantine, as she prefers to call herself because that sounds more sophisticated, is a buxom, silver-legged, and fabulously wealthy empusa hailing from the Athalia barony in the great glen region of northern Elizabeth. Her barony only houses a single mining village, but it exploits a highly profitable silver mine which is the source of Eglantine’s vast wealth. Ever wary of evil-doers she has recently forked over a sizable sum to hire a dragon to guard her estate while she is out of town. Elegantine is beholden to the eccentric and powerful vampire marchioness of Kilkelley. She, together with many other local nobles, regularly travels to the marchioness’ estate to socialize, suck up to the vampire, and play high stakes gambling games. For those travels she has entered a covenant with a ronin cambion who provides more than just bodyguarding services while they are on the road. Even though Elegantine rarely wins at the marchioness’ gambling parties she has to keep up appearances and stay in the vampire’s good graces, for falling out of the marchioness’ favor rarely ends well. Thankfully her loyal pussybi maids always manage to cheer her up when she returns home again.
MARID
Family: Spirit
Type: Elemental
Habitat: Anywhere humans can live
Disposition: Rebellious, contrary, lustful
Diet: Spirit or demonic energy
Marid (mah-REED) are elemental spirits of darkness and confusion. As agents of chaos they revel in causing strife on any scale from a lovers’ quarrel to a world war depending on their talents and the scope of their ambitions. It’s fortunate for the world that most marids’ talents and ambitions tend toward the lower end of the scale.
A marid looks exactly like a human woman except for having hair and/or eyes in colors that are unusual among humans. Marid are quick to point out that they’re not humans, however. In fact they’ll boast about their “superior” nature at every opportunity unless they are in disguise, but marid enjoy deception so they frequently use disguises and false identities to perpetrate their schemes. When she isn’t in the midst of some charade one can often spot a marid by the contemptuous smirk that is her usual expression.
Marid have potent magical abilities, though far less so than their genie relatives. Some have been observed using curse magic, at which many of them excel, while others have been seen wielding magics as diverse as mind magic, necromancy, eromancy, and illusion. Marid aren’t forthcoming about which schools of magic come naturally to their kind and which they must work to learn, but scholars believe that each individual marid has a high aptitude for one or two schools of magic but only limited ability to learn any others. All of them can cast glamours to disguise their appearance. Marid favor subtle uses of magic over flashy offensive spells. They also have secondary abilities including disease immunity, poison resistance, and night vision.
Unlike most mamono marid never take husbands. They take concubines. A marid’s goal is to find a man and trick or blackmail him into becoming her plaything, and the more complex and dramatic the scheme the better. It is this love of drama that is a man’s best hope of escaping a marid’s clutches… or getting into them on his own terms. A marid’s rebellious nature is so strong that it makes her vulnerable to reverse psychology -- with clever wording, and if he’s not too obvious about it, a man can get a marid to do what he wants by suggesting that she do the opposite. After falling for such a deception a marid will be unwilling to admit that she was manipulated by “a mere human.” She will convince herself that she did what she wanted to do and that she wants to keep doing it. A marid will never be a meek and submissive wife, but a man who plays his cards right can convince her to make him her partner in crime. She might even be fine with that arrangement as long as she believes that she’s the senior partner.
Name That Mamono: Faiza (FIE-zah)
You can trust Faiza, she never lies. Those things you heard about her being a small-time grifter who uses magic to rig games of chance? Vicious rumors perpetuated by rivals who can’t match the scale of her ambition! And the claims that she is a 400-year-old virgin, and that she can’t even speak to a man if he can see her face? LIES! Faiza is no shy flower who gets tongue-tied at the sight of a man who is tall… and has a rugged chin… and pretty eyes… no, indeed! She is merely… selective, yes! Not just any man will do for a girl who wants one who is obedient… who will wait on her hand and foot… who will pin her down and ravish her… I mean, who knows his place! Faiza will have a man when she finds one who is truly worthy of her! That is the Lords’ own truth! You can trust Faiza, she never lies!