
Light and Void bled together at the borders of this realm, throwing it into turmoil with chaotic magics. However, the vast majority of them joined the Fallen Titan Sargeras and his Burning Legion, with only one purpose: destroying all world-souls in the universe.Īs the universe formed, the most chaotic energies unleashed by the clash between Light and Void coalesced into an astral dimension known as the Twisting Nether. Not all demons are evil either, many are neutral such as the observers, who serve anyone that would allow them to observe the mysteries of the universe and feed upon all sorts of magic, or the demons serving the Illidari and the Black Harvest against the Legion.

Though most demons have a deep connection with fel magic, not all of them use it, such as the demons that joined Illidan Stormrage and who fed upon his arcane source of energy instead, freed of the dependence of fel, or Lothraxion, a nathrezim infused with Light magic. Not all demons are sentient, various animals have been transformed into demons for instance, and some started as constructs such as infernals. Indeed, mortal creatures can be turned into demons (a state draenei demonologists call "man'ari", meaning 'twisted, unnatural, defiled') by being infused with large quantities of fel magic, usually in the form of a gift or blessing such as the one Sargeras offered the eredar or as with the case of the nathrezim. They can be truly killed only inside the Twisting Nether or in places where its chaotic energies leak. A demon is fundamentally a creature whose soul is bound to the Twisting Nether, and as such returns to that plane upon death. Originally, "demon" is what the races born from the Twisting Nether ( annihilan, sayaad, shivan etc.) are called, as opposed to the races of the Great Dark Beyond (such as humans).

Most of them feed upon magic and life, and delight in inflicting suffering, spreading corruption, and destroying all that is good. Demons or dae'mons ("twisted souls"), female demonesses, are immortal beings linked to the Twisting Nether.
