Spiritual Demon Faction: Body Stealing Parasites.

[FateWeaver]

I was thinking of unique gameplay for new "civilizations"(this is more of a modifier though) and had an idea, what about a playable faction of spiritual demons?

Rather than be flesh and blood life-forms(unlike everyone else) they would start the game with no bodies of their own, having to steal bodies, like parasites.

Each demon would be rare, and powerful, encouraging frequent body-jackings.
A body-less demon is weak, and invisible(spirits after all), but once hosed in a body it buffs that body up way beyond what that unit is normally capable of.

Once the possessing demon leaves its old body, for a new one, the old body dies, as the demon pretty much devoured the soul of the previous owner.

The same goes for their cities, rather than build new cities, they steal them, by possessing their citizens.

I imagine the demons would be extremely stealthy in their spiritual state, but not being able to do much without a host body, to balance it out.

So spirit form would be their scouting phase, when they scope out their first targets.
After that they are body hopping from one physical body to the next.

Captured heroes can be possessed in the dungeons, regular troops possessed right there and then on the battlefield.

Newly summoned demons start out in spirit phase again.

This is just a rough draft I came up with while watching an anime with some creepy well done demons("I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability.").
Quite honestly... The way the demons describe how they mentally torture their victims to death, while body snatching gives me existential dread...
Like cenobites that endlessly torture and heals you til you snap, over months and months...

Its early morning hours so i am dead tired, but I figured I would throw this out here, to see if anyone would be interested in this sort of gameplay.

I am not that good at fleshing out my ideas, more of a rough draft kinda guy, so feel free to add whatever you feel fits if you like the idea.

Cheers everyone, hope you all have a nice day. ^^

[~ Fabulous ~]

so dire penguins?

[FateWeaver]

Originally posted by ~ Fabulous ~:

so dire penguins?

Um... Errr... Huh... Was not expecting that reply...
Well, let's just say they might get along swimmingly with dire penguins? ^^'

[~ Fabulous ~]

Originally posted by FateWeaver:

Originally posted by ~ Fabulous ~:

so dire penguins?

Um... Errr... Huh... Was not expecting that reply...
Well, let's just say they might get along swimmingly with dire penguins? ^^'

yeah I think fans want dire penguins, possessing people to kowtow to them sounds cool

[Blanch Warren]

Possession is generally considered a powerful trait. Unless it's expensive, its not going to be something immediately available.

[GreyHuntr]

Reminds me of the Dark Elf Incarnate unit from AoW1