Children of Maniae

Whether Maniae does this purposefully or not in not entirely known, but the Demon is capable of warping an individuals mind to such an extent that they will either shatter or adapt. Those that fail to adapt have their minds utterly and irrevocably broken, turning them into snivelling wrecks that are barely able to muster the instinctual needs to maintain themselves. These useless creatures are known as Broken, for though their minds lose all sense of humanity there remains enough there to at least sustain them for a while to know their new life. These Broken tend to band together in the deep places of the world, forming primitive communities in the dark where they constantly fight for food, even their children are not safe for their parents madness seep down the generations.

Those lucky few that survive the process however are gifted indeed. The strongest of will and the greatest of conviction do not have their minds broken but rather expanded and in turn over a long time they slowly become Demonkind. It begins with their mind, where the Broken have their shattered these successful few gain great knowledge that seems to come to them in waves as they dream. These touched individuals are known as the Disciples of Change by the Fraternitatis illustrata, a secretive order that has come to revere Maniae as a prophesying god, if the Demon actually recognises the significance of this it makes no indication. The change to the Disciples comes slowly at first, first their knowledge grows ever greater until they can begin to make accurate predictions of the future. When this starts to happen their eyes begin to warp, mirroring Maniae's ever shifting form, their eyes too begin to have the warping vortex's trapped inside, though this eventually renders them blind to all by their visions. As time goes by these beings lose more and more of their soul to Hell, their body fails, hair falls out, skin grows pale and the body weakens. This degradation continues until eventually the body expires, falling in on itself, the recently dead body tears itself apart and works itself up into a ball that seems earlier similar to that of their creator. This process takes many many years to reach fruition and many do not make it, for those that fall to madness are instantly warped into the twisted Broken, those that survive however become known as the Shards of Creation. These 'Shards' possess great knowledge and unlike their creator retain their full senses, able to think and plot and act however they wish. That said though, the vast majority of these rare beings are utterly devoted to their creator, a direct result of their preexisting faith in their deranged god.