[UA] Demon variant

[Steven and Karen Roman]

Well how about this: Deva.
 
Demon + inversion of the first two letters in avatar = Deva.
 
I think this would fit well, as in Hindu & Buddhist myth, the deva were spirits of light and air.  However, in Persian myth, as I recall, the word was used for evil spirits & demons.  (According to Zoroaster, devas were created by Ahriman.)

So ... the word deva works symbolically, religiously, mythically, and textually as an ambiguous combination of your creature that is neither demon nor avatar.
 
(Waits for applause.)
 
~Roman

Jo Andros <catalyst_paradox at hotmail.com> wrote:
So here's an idea I had... IMUAC there's a guy who was trying to ascend a 
new archetype, The Defiler (some of you may recall). He died, with his 
Avatar skill as his Obsession. And, he has a demon sticking around.

So what kind of demon is formed around an obsession like that? IRC The UA 
book says that a demon is what is LEFT when an obsession is strong enough to 
survive death: weaker bits of the personality are stripped away, leaving 
pure, obsessed twistedness.

I suppose being dead would prevent a normal Avatar from channelling any 
power, but in this particular case, things are different. There is no 
Ascended Archetype which the power is channelling down from. The 
Avatar/Demon in question stands alone. Furthermore, his very death was the 
SAME symbolic action which WOULD have ascended him, had he survived. (He 
was murdered by a victim, and since his 'defilement' of said victim had 
driven her to this act of murder, totally against her nature, it was the 
ultimate defilement, turning this person into the complete opposite of what 
she intended or wanted to be.)

Anyway, this leaves a person caught between Statosphere and the real world. 
a VERY peculiar position.

What I'm really looking for is a TERM that will somehow illustrate the state 
this soul is in, simultaneously inhabiting heaven and hell, as it were. 
I've tentatively called him a "Daemon" but I don't like this... I want 
something better.

Thoughts?

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