Demons (Artemis Fowl)
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Demons, in the Artemis Fowl Series, are the Eighth Family of Faries. During the battle of Tailtte ten thousand years ago, they fought with the other fairy familes against humans, but realised that they could never win. As a result, the warlock demons used magic to try to move Hybras, their island, but ended up sending it into an unstable Limbo. Demons are unlike the other fairy familes in that they evolved from microorganisms from a chunk of the moon that fell down to Earth.
Young demons are called imps, and once they are old enough and expeience a large bloodlust, they "warp", surronded by a cucoon of slime, emerging 24 hours later into full demons. The warlock demons do not warp, for a warped demon loses any traces of magic it might've had. Once an imp warps, it chooses a name from a human book brought back from Earth by Abbot.
Demons are happiest when they are at war. The warlocks were supposedly blasted into space when they failed to completely send Hybras into Limbo, thus causing the deterioation of the time-spell. It turns out one of them, Qwan, survived, by using magic to petrify his body and have it revived with No1's help 10,000 years later in Taiwan.
Demons, at the constant urging of Abbot, who is something like a hero to them, developed a hate for humans and are expecting to kill them when given the chance. Sometimes, demons who get too close to the island's volcano are whisked across dimensions and time when they are not ancored with silver, as the time-spell that keeps Hybras in Limbo is slowly deterioating. Most of them wind up dead. The pull of the moon sends them on such journeys.
Notable demons, imps and warlocks from Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony are-
[edit] Sources
Colfer, Eoin; Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony; Scholastic, 2006
