Cubi

The Cubi are reportedly<ref name=":2"/> Demons that stem from the Choir of Sin, they can instill a sense of uncontrollable lust with exposure. Their presence usually presaged by the increased of abusive relationships and divorces but one advanced case showcased the creation of a number of Oddfolk.<ref name=":1">The being we sought that night was more powerful than we had anticipated. It was intelligent enough to hide the bulk of its activities from the outside world. We expected an imp. We found something evolved enough to be birthing its own imps, to have a form and its own symbolism.

A devil of the sixth choir. The choir of man’s evils. A weaker choir, and the one most personal to all of us.

She had collected inhabitants of a small town into a cult and church, and she had done it long enough that her initial followers had descendants. Mother, father, child, grandchild. All rutted on the floors and pews of the devil’s church in a grand, senseless, ceaseless orgy, the devil herself presiding above all in naked, Wrong splendor.

A devil of incest, she had made her own monsters even before she began creating imps, by way of inbreeding and birth defects. There was only horror there, enough to sear its way into my eyes.

I will sum up that night by saying that each of us who walked in there with guns at the ready walked away alive, but we did not walk away intact.

When I think of what drove me to write this work, this event was one that remained with me. I spent some time wondering about the aftermath. It was my first eye-opening experience, and it was the last incident where I researched the long term effects.

It was only when I’d researched the events that are covered in each chapter that follows, that I let myself look into this one. I looked at the numbers, and I want to point to statistics, the increase in birth defects in that town and county. To the rise in the divorce rate, or the rates of abuse. - Excerpt from Gathered Pages: 4</ref>

Different sources intimate that this is an erroneous classification for a species of Shadow others that specializes in corruptive magic, so good are they that some think of them as demons.<ref name=":2">Incubi and Succubi, Others of shadow that corrupted their targets by changing their dreams and using those dreams to alter the Self. Some did dark things to turn the Self evil, or devoured the Self and weakened or eventually killed the victim, and victims wouldn’t fight the process because the dreams were, um, really pleasant. Others edited the brain through nightmares to corrupt the Self to be salacious, wanton, or just corrupt in a way that had the wantonness and lack of inhibition as a consequence, which apparently created a sex-focused label that might have shaped the Succubi and Incubi that came after. Once confused with demons, because they were so insidious. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref> Have some cross over with a Jockey given their facility ability to Possession.

May be the preferred prey of High Preversions.<ref>Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

Notable Examples

• 'Incest' Succubus<ref name=":1"/>

Trivia

• Just as mares were sometimes used to explain sleep paralysis incubus and succubus were used to explain nighttime emission and the natural children that resulted from premarital sex.
• Called Cubi here as a gender neutral term, Incubi and Succubae both derive from a Latin verb which means to lie down, in a very specific context.
  • Given the old fashion nature of Otherverse it is unknown if various cubi can switch sexes or genders or if they are 'locked' into specific categories.

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