[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

And where can I find out more about the demonic forces beyond the info link?

You pretty much have to ask me, or school yourself in classical demonology and then ask me if specific things apply here.

But, in short, "demons" here are not the denizens of Hell (Hell is peopled by the fallen angels of the first and second revolts in Heaven led by Satan and Semyaza respectively).

Demons exist outside of reality in the primordial nothingness into which sprang the Light of Genesis, the "dark materials"* from which God sculpted the universe. They are beings inimical to the laws of physics and essentially abstract and eldritch entities, not strictly personalized or possessing identity or will.

Fallen angels on the other hand, have been cursed by God and denied their Heavenly forms, and have over the millennia been twisted by the essential Hell within their own souls (is a complicated concept found in Paradise Lost) into a near-infinity of abominable shapes.

No two fallen angels are alike, though the most powerful faction among them (led by Beelzebub, Satan's second), self-styled the "Princes of Hell" retain some vestige of their angelic form and lordly mind, and are not *entirely* opposed to humanity in this struggle, though they're hardly on friendly terms either -- they're consumed by their own struggle to maintain control of Hell over the hordes of their corrupted brethren, and to guard the shores of the Abyss to prevent true Demons from assailing the material realms.

(None of that is even touching Abaddon's forces from Sheol, which is an entirely different matter altogether.)

*

The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wild Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage: for no narrow frith
He had to cross.

-John Milton, 1667

--Not Phillip Pullman 1995 :|