“It Cannot Be Harmed By Normal Weapons”
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Here’s a photo waiting to go on a black metal album cover. Firefighter David M Konyndyk claims he captured this wonderfully chilling demonic image at a blaze in Oregon in 2007,
He’s convinced. It’s a fire demon. Definitely a horned beast of the Nagual realm.
A somewhat scholary take on fire demon lore :
Fire-demons are associated with destruction and typically are summoned by the forces of evil. Their power comes from the depths of the earth and the energy of the sun; they love the day and fiery caverns. Driven by avarice for power and death, thev are among the most fearsome of demons. The favored guardsmen of Kadaena, most were banished forever during the Final Conflict. But some were actually imprisoned within deep caverins, unable to return to their planes and yet unslain. They await the unwary who might free them and find death as a reward.
Typical Fire-demons reach about 13’ in height and are large, cunning creatures. Most are armed with Fire-weapons (e.g., a sword of flame), great two-hand arms that they wield in one hand. Their thick, smooth hide is both enchanted and resilient, and cannot be harmed by normal weapons. When they immolate, they deliver Heat criticals to every victim within range of their flaming bodies.
I’d imagine we’ve been seeing beasts and demons in fire, and creating stories about them, since well before we turned fire into the tool that first raised us above other animals.
Massive fires sweeping into our hunting grounds millions of years ago, consuming our food supplies and those of us who couldn’t run fast enough, might have perceived as something living, an awesome savagery, attacking and killing us.
How impressive it must have then been when we learned to capture fire, to control it, make it ourselves, and contain it in a ring of rocks for cooking, warmth and protection. We still saw the fire demons and beasts in the flames, but we had mastered some control of their ability to destroy us.
