Pisces hoped Toren would level, but he gave Toren to Wrin, relinquished control of Toren to Erin, and Toren had no voice, Pisces NEVER KNEW THAT TOREN LEVELLED. No one did. Pisces knew he could think, which he never bothered to explain to Erin, but he never knew or even believed he would level.

My thoughts exactly. Who could stand against the recipients of the letters combined… and perhaps an army of sentient eternally levelling undead…

Oh no, I can’t unread Nekhti as G-man now, nooooo!!!

The necromancer Pisces met as a young boy died. It wasn’t Belavierr.

Honestly, from everything we’ve heard so far, it seems like the demons might just be another group that is so extremely repressed by other people in the world that they become “evil” because of political narrative. Rhir has always been a disaster zone of a continent, and I could easily see the following happening:

New horror spawns on Rhir and kills off much of the people living there, and most of the rest leave. The few that remain start being mutated by the environment, developing various odd bits on their bodies. “Normal” people start coming back to the continent, see all the mutated people, and become extremely prejudiced against them for their appearances. Mutants were already very low population, so new immigrant people easily become the majority, forming the Blighted Kingdom; prejudice intensifies. Some incidents occur between the normals and mutants, with mutants being accused of/blamed for crimes they didn’t commit; prejudice deepens even further. Mutant population starts revolting against unfair treatment, possibly violently; mutants begin to be termed “demons” in a campaign to justify horrible actions against them.

Wanting to, y’know, continue surviving, the “demons” have to continually escalate things in order to retain what areas they control. Narrative against them warps over time, until they are another “horror” spawned by Rhir. Conflation with actual horrors such as crelers unites the rest of the world against them.

Eventually, it becomes a situation like we’ve seen with other populations, such as goblins and necromancers. Negative sentiment towards these groups causes them to be deemed “evil” by most of society, which necessitates actions by these populations that are illegal/immoral simply to allow them to survive. This perpetuates the cycle, reinforcing the negative sentiments, which requires continually worsening actions for mere survival.

In the demons’ case, this eventually ends up with a genocidal king that will go to nearly any lengths to destroy his enemy. His tyrannical rule is perpetuated by magic that allows him to live far longer than should ever have been reasonable, warping his mental state even further as both sides commit atrocities against each other.

That doesn’t mean both sides haven’t been terrible to each other. But I would be willing to bet a lot that it was the Blighted Kingdom that started the conflict, not the demons.

spell capable of doing the same, it was minute.

Minute -> minutae