Yozi Hierarchy

The format for the following summaries is simple. The name of the Yozi is indicated in a green heading. This is followed by the names of the Unquestionable (Third Circle Demons) that make up their souls with names bolded, starting with the Fetich (central soul) of the Yozi when this is known.

Under the names of the Unquestionables are given the names of the souls that make up the Second Circle of Demons — each Unquestionable has seven souls (protecting, gratifying, defining, communicating, expressive, reflective and understanding). The Second Circles are given in that order, by role.

Finally, the names of the known First Circle progeny of each Second Circle are given below each of the Second Circle entries, in italics.

Obscurity: In addition, demons have their Obscurity ratings noted. The first number is the total (Occult + Demonology totals required to know of the demon's existence, though not necessarily all the details of its Traits. The second number is what is required for the summoner to effectively know everything about that demon. Membership in an organization revolving around sorcery grants access to records for demons of an Obscurity equal to the rating in the Backing -1, or just the Backing rating if the organization specializes in demonology.

Note: Not everything in this page is canonical, and fits into the needs of my own chronicle first and foremost.

[Yozi Name]
[Third Circle Demon Name]

• [Second Circle Demon Name] – Protecting/Warden
  • [First Circle Demon Name]
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Gratifying/Indulgent
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Defining
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Communicating/Messenger
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Expressive
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Reflective
• [Second Circle Demon Name]– Understanding/Wisdom

Malfeas, The Demon City

His name is Malfeas, the Demon City, though once he wore another. His heart is a green metal sun. His body has turned inside out to form his eternal prison: a city of black stone and brass, a living metropolis of fluted, flared architecture and mad interwoven design. IN his rage and frustration, he has grown new cities of his flesh and sent them slamming against the older cities that surround them - a hundred times, at least, and perhaps a thousand. Now, the city exists in endless layers, with his tarnished heart casting a green glow over the whole.

Often, two layers crush together. They do not rebound. Rather, the outer layer expands, its structure both collapsing and unfolding like a puzzle to form a larger, greater shell. The greatest city of them all, the otuermost layer where his inside-out body lies raw and open with its visceral rooflines and its black towering bones, has nearly infinite scope. There is room for worlds to pass between its arches and Yozis to wander down its streets. Even Malfeas, the Demon City, can dance in its central square. The demons that fly between that city and the next one inward sometimes become lost in its skies, unable to see anything but green light in any direction. They wither into nothingness thereafter.

Of all the Yozis, Malfeas hates the world the most. Though his pan matches theirs, his shame is greater. He cannot break free, though he tries, and so, he rages. He plans more cruelly than his peers against the Exalted and the gods who imprisoned them.

Ligier, the Green Sun, Fetich of Malfeas (3/7)

• Sondok, She-Who-Stands-in-Doorways, the Protective Soul of Ligier
  • Erymanthus, the Blood-Ape (3/3)
• Berengiere, the Weaver of Voices, the Gratifying Soul of Ligier (4/5)
  • Neomah, the Makers of Flesh (3/4)
  • Noresores, the Passion Moray (5/5)
• Gervesin, the Grieving Lord, the Communicating Soul of Ligier (5/7)
  • Decanthrope, the Body Snatcher (4/4)
  • Metody, the Malfean Elemental (3/4)
• Auguinare, the Blood of the Forge, the Expressive Soul of Ligier

Kagami, the City of Mirrors, Third Soul of Malfeas

• Strephon, the Turning Wheel, the Defining Soul of Kagami

Ekrasios, the Sculptor in the Maze, Fifth Soul of Malfeas

• Jolenta, the Creeping Oracle, the Understanding Soul of Ekrasios
  • Jasperid, the Precious Serpent
• Tatjana, the Sobbing Dancer, the Expressive Soul of Ekrasios

Amalion, the Manse of Echoes Ascending, Sixth Soul of Malfeas

• Huoc, the Thorn in the Song, the Indulgent Soul of Amalion
  • Galere, the Blood-Singer

Ceclyne, the Endless Desert

Near the edge of the Demon City, there lies the beginning of the desert Cecelyne. On one side, she rests within Malfeas, bound by the terms of their imprisonment. On the other side, she has no boundary and extends outward forever. One can walk on Cecelyne straight through the Malfean walls, under the blank black desert sky. A traveler with the time to spare could walk from Malfeas to where Creation should begin, and beyond, and keep on walking for the desert goes yet further. Cecelyne stretches to the very edge of infinity, and what she has learned there she does not say.

The creatures of Cecelyne resemble the desert creatures of Creation: snakes and scorpions, vultures and mice. They rise at her whim from the sand, and they are of the sand, and they travel to the other places where Cecelyne does not extend. They gulp the sustenance of the outer worlds and spit our desert, and in this fashion, Cecelyne ever grows. If Malfeas stopped casting off his shells and the wind Adorjan stopped blowing back her edge, Cecelyne would drown the Demon City and this would make her glad.

Cecelyne is the affliction of the Yozis. Her endlessness has become their boundary. The gods twisted her living essence to bind the Yozis away from Creation. Thus, if the Demon Princes should crack open Malfeas and crawl into the world beyond, they would find only Cecelyne - and know only Cecelyne - and this would not bring them closer to Creation.

The Yozis have given Cecelyne care over the demons of the city, that their servants should not seek to overthrow their Primordial lords. IN her name, her servants order and regiment the demons. Her power also keeps the lesser demons from Creation, that they may not slip from Malfeas while no one watches. The Yozis cannot leave, and their petulance rarely permits their lessers freedom.

Orabilis, the End of All Wisdom, Sixth Soul of Ceclyne (4/7)

• Lucien, the Guardian of Sleep, the Expressive Soul of Orabilis (3/5)
  • Gilmyne, the Dancer at the Saigoth Gates (4/4)
  • Perronele, the Living Armor (5/5)
• Florivet, the Whim-of-the-Wind, the Reflective Soul of Orabilis (4/6)
  • Agata, the Beauteous Wasp (3/4)
  • Vakotha, the Jubilation of Screams
• Uringu, the Infamous Architect of the Unknowable Razor, the Gratifying Soul of Orabilis
  • Tiya-ha, the Sweet Razors
  • Gwelot, the Wrathful Hunter
• Thancharat, the Crawling Rune, the Warden Soul of Orabilis
  • Aalu, the Cannibal Bureaucrat
  • Zhu-Kenin, the Tomb-Guardians
• Tankarish-ha, the Terrible Mother of Glass, the Defining Soul of Orabilis
  • Aubrexor, the Forge-Wights
  • Iha-Boti, the Cloud of Shredded Flesh
• Inyab-Loth, the Communicating Soul of Orabilis
  • Gotehaqu, the Ghul-Lords
  • Rugosha, the Whisperers of the Dolmen
• Micatehatho, the Understanding Soul of Orabilis
  • Negnat, the Smoking Mirror
  • Klili'ogub, the Ill-Wrought Black Worm

She Who Lives In Her Name

She Who Lives In Her Name is a fire surrounded by a crystal sphere. That fire whispers its name to the 100 fires that surround it, each in their own sphere. Each of those fires whispers its name to the 99,997 fires that whirl around the whole. Mortals and demons who hear the name that these fires whisper become its tool. They murmur or shout that name to those around them, never ceasing in this chant, and turn their hands and eyes to the lady's work. Until their voice fails and they fall from the chorus, they are the servants of the great fire at the center of She Who Lives In Her Name.

Of all the Yozis, She Who Lives In Her Name fought the hardest against her imprisonment. As the flesh of Malfeas closed behind her, she cracked three spheres against his bones, and the flames that rose from them swept across all things. The things they did not burn are now Creation. The things they turned to ash are beyond the memory and ken of the world and the gods. Not even the Yozi know the price Creation paid for her vengeance, before the flames died and the bones of Malfeas sealed her in.

She Who Lives In Her Name embodies the principle of hierarchy. Her touch made the great things greater and the small things smaller. Her fires bound the small to the great. Creation is a place of heirarchies, of rulers and the ruled, with chains of command descending form the greatest gods and kings to the smallest spirits and slaves. Before her vengeance, it held better orders, though their natures are unknown. Now, it reflects her nature, the organization of her fires. For all their glory, the gods fear that they live in her shadow - in the world she remade.

She Who Lives In Her Name still hates the gods and their children, but her plans for the mortal world rarely express this hatred. She wishes to see the world become as she would have created it, a thing of absolute order and regulation, without the freedoms and insubordination that corrupt its hierarchies today. She wishes to rub the gods' noses in the knowledge that the world is already somewhat hers. For all her bitterness, these motives are benign in comparison to those of her peers. Sometimes, they even lead her to aid the gods and the Exalted in their tasks.

Geneth, the Eye of the Flames, Second Soul of She Who Lives in Her Name

• Khsiret, Bearer of the Fiery Chalice, the Defining Soul of Geneth
  • The Ember-Born
• Liellus, the Indexer of Archives, the Messenger Soul of Geneth

Munaxes, the Ravine of Whispers, Fourth Soul of She Who Lives in Her Name (4/7)

• Ibrithia, the Spider-in-the-Pit, the Protecting Soul of Munaxes
  • Anuhles (2/4)
• Octavian, the Living Tower, the Defining Soul of Munaxes (4/5)
  • Luminita, the Deer That Hunts the Man (4/5)
  • Tomescu, the Clamorous Cloud Arsenal (4/5)
• Stanewald, She Who Surmounted the Omphalos, the Reflective Soul of Munaxes

Adorjan, the Silent Wind

Somewhere in the Demon City blows the wind Adorjan, and all things she touches die.

Once, she was Adrian, the River of All Torments, who encircled Creation and rained fire, razors and ice upon the army of the gods. The horrors that raged from her surface held even the Exalted back, until the Solar Marus met the demon Lilike that was Adrian's heart and slew him. Then, Adrian lost herself and become Adorjan, the Silent Wind. This took some of her power - but Creation and Malfeas still fear her. Without the secret of the Demon Wracking Shout that Marus heard as Lilike died, the Exalted could not have held Adorjan back from their armies. Demon Princes and immortal behemoths alike bear scars from where they have felt Adorjan's touch.

Silence heralds Adorjan's coming. A sufficient clangor rebuffs her. Thus, throughout the Demon City, there is song, music, shouts and the ringing of bells to keep Adorjan away. However, the greatest raucous sounds the demons make cannot keep Adorjan at bay if she chooses to pass among them. When a silence rises from the north or the west or the south or the east, the demons cry "Adorjan comes!" and make to flee. Then, she descends among them, and they die by the hundreds.

These things are most effective against the Silent Wind: the Demon Wracking Shout that certain of the gods remember; the laughter of a child, caught in a shell, ground down to paste and mixed painstakingly with silver and gold; and the arias of Adorjan's smallest children, the demjen and the kataline, the gyorgyike and jazon, the fulope and the angyalka. For this reason, there are demons who spend their eternal lives grinding shells and others who hunt Adorjan's children along the spindly roads and black stone towers of the city, sot hat the great and powerful may live without fear of Adorjan's touch.

Silence heralds

Gahrovis, a Silent Scream Tearing at the Throat, Fetich of Adorjan

• Mistress Ganisthaia, the Wretched Courtesan, Indulgent Soul of Gahrovis
  • Fulope, the Attendants-in-Tatters

Zinridi, the Unfettered, the Third Soul of Adorjan

• Alalgar, the Ever Open Door, Reflective Soul of Zinridi
  • Demjen, the Howl-in-Silence
  • Shilkani, the Creeping Rift
• Dilmun, the Intricate Paradise, Indulgent Soul of Zinridi
  • Kataline, the Song of Temptation
  • Gyorgyike, the Piper of Ten Thousand Excrutiations

Jacint, the Prince Upon the Tower, the Eighteenth Soul of Adorjan (4/7)

• Zsofika, the Kite Flute, the Communicating Soul of Jacint (4/4)
  • Angyalka, the Harpist (3/5)
  • Teodozji, a Lion Sent Into the World (4/5)
• Gumela, the Jeweled Auditor, the Understanding Soul of Jacint (4/6)
  • Amphelisia, the Teakettle Courtier (3/5)
  • Marottes, the Hopping Puppeteer (3/5)

The Ebon Dragon

Erembour, That Which Calls to the Shadows, Fetich of the Ebon Dragon (4/7)

• Makarios, the Sigil's Dreamer, the Protecting Soul of Erembour (3/5)
  • Chrysogona, the Crying Woman (4/5)
• Alveua, the Keeper of the Forge of Night, the Expressive Soul of Erembour (4/5)
  • Firmin, the Needlemaker (4/4)
  • Sesselja, the Stomach Bottle Bug (3/5)
• Mara, Shadow-Lover, Eater of Souls, the Reflective Soul of Erembour
  • Bisclavarets

Marsilion, the Eidolon of Shadow, Second Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Achololim, He Who Awaits the Sign, the Understanding Soul of Marsilion
  • Naneke, the Reader of Forbidden Texts
  • Simnel, the Final Friend
• Alioth, Night's Embrace, the Messenger Soul of Marsilion
  • Ferimur, the Evanescent Journeyman
  • Shadha, the Kindly Succubus

Echthros, the Rent in the World-Cloth, the Third Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Roiye, the Mote in the Eye of the Sun, the Warden Soul of Echthros
  • Relkast, the Spider's Mask
  • Tluspa, the Forlorn Seekers
• Kassat, the Vigilant Collector, the Messenger Soul of Echthros
  • Fillax, the Wondrous Butterfly
  • Uthiul, the Vitreous Jailer
• Mellamy, the Confessor Wreathed in Grey, Indulgent Soul of Echthros
  • The Pearl Child
  • Tosuir, the Scourge of Souls
• Trespan, the Mourning Sage, the Understanding Soul of Echthros
  • Fasherai, the Cast-Off Revelation
  • Merdui, the Tangled Whispers
• Oskilla, the Eggshell Sentry, the Expressive Soul of Echthros
  • Myrriah, the Madness at Morning
  • Kerumath, the Lastling Road
• Sossurl, the Mason of Creation, the Defining Soul of Echthros
  • Salthri, the Four-Faced Sepulcher
  • Ferthan, the Marble Steed

Malgorun, The Eternal Abyss*, the Sixth Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Bagannathir, Madness-in-Silence,* the Expressive Soul of Malgorun

Jugurtha, the Coils of Night, the Seventh Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Sekai, the Shadow-Rider, the Messenger Soul of Jugurtha
• Jomis, the Breath That Consumes, the Warden Soul of Jugurtha

Aramedisae, the Path Between the Forgotten and the Lost, the Ninth Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Inchoal, the Deformed Child, the Warden Soul of Aramedisae

Xipantek, the Shadow Feeder, the Tenth Soul of the Ebon Dragon

• Yura of the Demon Hair, the Expressive Soul of Xipantek
• Kambos the Flesh-Eating Mask, the Defining Soul of Xipantek

Cytherea, the Mother of Creation

Ormanlyz, That Which Sings to Walls of Basalt and Brass,* the Third Soul of Cytherea

• Corr'dal, the Slug-Mother, the Defining Soul of Ormanlyz
  • Founder

Zahanna, Who Betrays That Which She Loves, Fourth Soul of Cytherea

• Aza, the Heart's Assassin, the Warden Soul of Zahanna
  • Kitari, the Heart Eaters
• Metronium, the Masked Harmony, the Indulgent Soul of Zahanna
  • Barra-kith, the Fair Revellers

Kimbery, the Sea That Marched Against the Flame

Ululaya, the Blood Red Moon, Fetich Soul of Kimbery

• Amelitu, the Bejeweled Historian, the Defining Soul of Ululaya

Fastred, the Just Betrayal, Second Soul of Kimbery

• Loreli, the Puppet with Cut Strings, the Understanding Soul of Fastred
  • Tatar, Favor Friends
  • Antip, Sailors on a Sea of Bile
• Theda, That Which Came Before, the Indulgent Soul of Fastred
  • Jwan, They Who Seek Life-in-Death
  • Baatyr, the Grief Without Warning
• Vokmar, She Who Strives, the Warden Soul of Fastred

Ologanoro, The Tide That Knows No Life, Third Soul of Kimbery

• Kimberry's Dawn, the Expressive Soul of Ologanoro (5/6)
  • Eristrufa (4/5, 3/5 in the West)

Persine, the Seeker of Treasure Among Waves, Eighth Soul of Kimbery

• Badr Basim, the Unmarried Captain, the Messenger Soul of Persine

Madelrada, That Which Wears Down Mountains, Ninth Soul of Kimbery

• Calymdos, Wielder of Javelins of Rusted Bronze, the Defending Soul of Madelrada

Isidoros, the Black Boar That Twists the Skies

Avarret, the Breaker of Blades, Second Soul of Isidoros

• Lorenc, the Tireless Rider, the Messenger Soul of Avarret
  • Kotsos, the Arachnid Innkeeper

Oramus, the Dragon Beyond the World

Remondin, the Misconstrued Counselor, Second Soul of Oramus

• Esprevere, the Vernal Aviatrix, the Expressive Soul of Remondin
  • Marcule, the Raucous Agonists
• Janequin, Fortune's Fool, the Indulgent Soul of Remondin
  • The Ruinous Butterfly

Thari, the Word Serpent

Halkomelem, the Enigma of Red and Gold, Fetich Soul of Thari

• Tremembé, He Who Beats the Drum, Reflective Soul of Halkomelem
  • Lehali, the Gold-Dust Golem
• Gobasi, the Unctuous, the Indulgent Soul of Halkomelem
  • Kayabi, the Tenebrous Amphibologies
• Euskarra, Never-Ceasing Speaker, the Reflective Soul of Halkomelem
  • Kalevala, the Child Who Births the Mother
  • Thogma, the Rambling Centipede