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Silvered on 4/10/2020

The distinction between animals and monsters is important. Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic (meaning they get energy from eating other living things), reproduce by an egg or live birth, have cells without cell walls, and are capable of movement at some point in their life cycle. The animal example here is a chicken.

Monsters will often violate these rules, and sometimes they will violate the laws of biology as we know it. Monsters are often in control of supernatural abilities, usually stronger and stranger than those humans and animals are capable of. In addition, magic affects their bodies in far more extreme ways than it will affect an animal, causing mutations and sometimes granting a monster humanoid sapience. (Viruses can be mutated in this same way, causing things like viral petrification.) The monster example here is a cockatrice.

Demons follow a lot of the same rules that monsters do, but they are usually very abstract-looking and are predisposed to evil. All demons have at least one horn, to channel magic, and at least one core, to store energy. The Ether, Kedrel's dream realm, is what houses the demons, as well as angels and other spirits. The demon example here is called a "felbird", a lesser demon.