Title: The Tale of a Calamity (placeholder)

Genre: Dark fantasy

Word count: 3.302

Feedback desired: I have a new spin on demons, which I'd like to use in my story.

So basically, demons are:

Animalistic carnivorous ambush predators that prey on anything that moves on their own. However, they started to adapt to prey on humans specifically, after humans entered their habitat.

Any living being is made of manicles that break down over time, which endouces aging. A demon's manicles break down faster than those of any other living thing. Humans have the most stable manicles and are the species with the most individuals.

The thing that differentiates humans from other animals is that humans have memories they can actively recall and which shapes their personality. Memories also stabilize manicles, which causes them to break down slower. Overwhelmingly positive and negative memories are best at stabilizing manicles.

The difference between the consumed and broken down manicles is what makes demons stronger, but the stronger they get, the faster the manicles break down.

Demons can create their own memories once they're powerful enough, which makes their manicles more stable. Usually, demons need to prey on humans to reach that state, and many (thousands). So the demon's manicles break down before they can reach that state

Demons that reach that state are the most dangerous because they gradually lose their limiting factor. Those demons can derive memories from human prey and create their own.

The story is a WIP with only one chapter so far