The Demonic bestiary catalogues who is who. This page answers what a soldier needs to know: what that thing is, how many there are, what it does, and what kills it.
[!important] The rule of tangibility A demon is described as a dangerous animal is described, not as a nightmare is described. Size, weight, speed, what it eats, how long it lasts, what gets through its skin.
The horror comes from knowing too much, not too little. A corporal who knows that the thing weighs two hundred kilos and runs faster than a horse over short ground is more frightened than one who only knows it is a demon.
I. THE LEGION — the unit nobody verified
The goetic texts count the power of an Infernal King in legions. Bael commands sixty-six; Vassagar twenty-six; Buer fifty.
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