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@TNT261
You'll have your share of now knowing who is the bad dude, be sure. Think of the demons as machines for now, the ones that we have seen aren't actually sentient, they do what they are told and that's about it. But as the story progresses it gets very convoluted, beginning from the very reason for their existence and such.
@Kaarme
And your explanation is slightly wrong. Mythological demons are not paragons of evil or punishers of sins. That's a perversion made as a simplification later on. They are either paragons of freedom (Lilith abandoned heaven because she didn't want to be bound to mankind, Lucifer fell from heaven because he didn't think God had the right to punish humans for the freedom he himself gave them, etc), unpredictability (Bleezebub is the incarnation of all plagues and pests, Abbadon of all illness, etc) or they are bound to the will of man (Mephistopheles gives wishes, and many minor demons are actually there to be summoned. The art of summoning them is considered evil by definition because the price to pay for it is paid in blood or decency, but the demon itself is no evil, the summoner is).
In this work, the demons mentioned (Andraelphas, Valefor, Andras) are hermetic demons, which don't belong to the "standart" christian mythology. They belong to a sect called "The Golden Dawn" which is another can of worms (Not exactly because the book was translated by the Golden Dawn, not written by them, but knowing those madlads it's unwise to assume there is no personal affect in what's written in the only known version of the thing). As a curiosity, Zagan is the elected leader of the demons in the book, all other "kings" get the title either through inheritance or force.
You'll have your share of now knowing who is the bad dude, be sure. Think of the demons as machines for now, the ones that we have seen aren't actually sentient, they do what they are told and that's about it. But as the story progresses it gets very convoluted, beginning from the very reason for their existence and such.
@Kaarme
And your explanation is slightly wrong. Mythological demons are not paragons of evil or punishers of sins. That's a perversion made as a simplification later on. They are either paragons of freedom (Lilith abandoned heaven because she didn't want to be bound to mankind, Lucifer fell from heaven because he didn't think God had the right to punish humans for the freedom he himself gave them, etc), unpredictability (Bleezebub is the incarnation of all plagues and pests, Abbadon of all illness, etc) or they are bound to the will of man (Mephistopheles gives wishes, and many minor demons are actually there to be summoned. The art of summoning them is considered evil by definition because the price to pay for it is paid in blood or decency, but the demon itself is no evil, the summoner is).
In this work, the demons mentioned (Andraelphas, Valefor, Andras) are hermetic demons, which don't belong to the "standart" christian mythology. They belong to a sect called "The Golden Dawn" which is another can of worms (Not exactly because the book was translated by the Golden Dawn, not written by them, but knowing those madlads it's unwise to assume there is no personal affect in what's written in the only known version of the thing). As a curiosity, Zagan is the elected leader of the demons in the book, all other "kings" get the title either through inheritance or force.
