Daemon Legate

Daemon Legates are a type of hellspawn within the novel ''Dark Blaze. ''They are stronger variants of iusto daemons and have daemonic forms which they can transform into during combat. The reason for their increased strength and additional form is due to the fact they have consumed souls, either tortured souls stuck in Hell, souls found on Earth, or even the souls of other daemons.

An alternative to their name would be legatus daemon and Legate of Hell.

Background:
Darryl M. Finch-Ellis wanted various forms of daemons with differing waves of powers. He made the daemon legates the middle-men between the iusto daemons and the rex and regina daemons in regard to power. Finch-Ellis desired to separate the various real world daemons with the various titles such as counts, marquises, presidents etc... making the lower ranked titles by historic standards as the legates instead of the rexes and reginas.

Origins:
Upon devouring additional souls once they had become iusto daemons, these spirits became much more powerful, gaining additional strength, durability, a daemonic form and the power over lesser daemons.

Characteristics:
Daemon legates posses daemonic forms which are reflections of their former human-selves warped by Hell's perspective. They do not have astral forms, being instead just black ooze. Their physical appearances are the appearances of whomever they possess, once they have possession of somebody they can use that physical being to transform into their daemonic form, however, doing so can severely damage their vessel.

Due to their superior strength to their iusto counterparts, it takes stronger magick to bring forth a daemon legate onto the Domain of the Living, some summoning spells require specifics. This is exemplified with Baal, who can only be summoned to Earth during Hallowe'en during a summoning spell known as the Samhain, and only has a limited time on Earth due to his vessel always rapidly deteriorating.

Appearances:
The only daemon legate to appear within Dark Blaze was Baal.

Powers & Abilities:

 * Extensive knowledge of Lingua Diaboli.
 * Super strength.
 * Increased sense of smell - can smell souls.
 * Immortal.
 * Deep knowledge of lore and weaknesses of monsters.
 * Power over lesser daemons.
 * Can transform into a daemonic form.

Weaknesses:

 * Holy Water.
 * Palo Santo.
 * Rapid Deterioration (Baal only).
 * Salt.
 * Binding Circles.
 * Cast-iron.
 * Mountain Ash.
 * Graveyard Dirt.

Trivia:

 * Legate was a position of a general or governor within Ancient Rome. Legatus is the Latin word for legate.
 * Baal was based on the same daemon of Abrahamic lore.