Shadow Demons

Species

 * Small Demons: looks like goblins
 * Large Demons: looks like ogres
 * Rock Demons: looks like trolls
 * Sickle Demons: variant of Small Demons that has reverse-jointed legs and sickle-shaped blades instead of arms
 * Magic Demons: variant that can cast magic

Shadow Demon Nest
A Shadow Demon nest is effectively a black sphere without a fixed form. It can attack by shooting out extremely fast and powerful tentacles. Spawns Shadow Demons endlessly until destroyed. Spawn rate is not fixed.

Year 815: First Bleed
During the incident, the entire eastern half of the continent was destroyed. How this Bleed was pushed back is not clear, but there are three main reasons that people raise: humans discovering magic, an existence called ‘heavenly soldiers’ allying with the humans, and ‘heroes’ going around and destroying a large number of Shadow Demon nests. The location of the nest that birthed this outbreak (ie. the source of this Bleed) is the Valley of Earthly Calamity.

Year 1134: Second Bleed
This is the incident where the Carbanera Knight Order played a huge part. It originated from a cave called the Jaw of the Earth. Although it was only about half the scale of the first Bleed, it still wiped out all of the countries and cities in the central part of the continent, and was the impetus behind Shulendal’s break up.

This time, an allied force of humans, elves, and dwarves ultimately met, and broke, the Shadow Demon host at the Plains of Dawn (now called the Plains of Twilight). At the same time, several parties of extremely skilled adventurers successfully infiltrated the Jaw of the Earth and destroyed the nest inside. Compared to the first Bleed, records of this second one are more numerous and detailed.