Incubus

Incubus
"Oh, good heavens, no. I would never even DREAM of having sex in MY bed. That kind of thing is FAR too messy." --Anonymous incubus
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Alignment	Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil
Element	Air/Wind/Sky, Darkness/Shadow, Fire, Mind/Spirit/Psychic, Sleep/Dream/Nightmare
Species	Demon
Appearance	Infernal humanoid seducer...

Origins

The Incubus is a single-gender race that serves as the male counterpart of the Succubus. Although many similar creatures exist in legend, the most famous accounts mentioning them come from Medieval legend and folklore. In particular are references from the famous Malleus Maleficarum.

Incubi were often blamed, in those times, for sexual attacks on otherwise chaste, upright, respectable women and girls in the community. And despite the undoubted sexual pleasure of the experience, it actually carried with it a stigma of tremendous shame.

The name "Incubus" itself comes from the Latin "incubo" meaning "nightmare", akin to "incubare", meaning "to lie upon" (a combination of the Latin "in" meaning "on top", and "cubare" meaning "to lie", denoting a nightmare or a dominant sex partner).

Ironically, elder incubi are actually incapable of reproducing (there are even accounts remarking on the coldness of the incubus' penis). The only means by which they may produce children is to deposit a man's semen into a woman, after sleeping with that man as a succubus, and collecting the man's semen. The union of sperm and egg produces a child tainted by the creature's touch, a Cambion.

Appearance

Due to the fact that many of them are shapeshifters, the appearance of an Incubus is often varied. Some like to take on a more human appearance (or "human mien"), while others retain a fully demonic mien (horns, wings, tail, etc.). Still others are obliged to combine the two.

However, no matter how their appearance changes, an Incubus is always handsome and physically appealing. Ugly Incubi simply do not exist in nature. Even while in their normal form, most Incubi are highly attractive.

And their fashion is no different. Often, they wear very luxurious fabrics; handsome to look at, and pleasant to the touch. Likewise, their fashions are typically sexually provocative, hinting seductively at their handsome physiques. That is, when they decide to wear any clothes at all.

Behavior

Incubus behavior is based primarily on its sexuality. Their nature is proud, hedonistic and charismatic, and they are always on the hunt for potential female prospects. They scoff at ideas like virginity, celibacy and monogamy. Though, each has his own approach.

Some are reclusive, disdaining social company, and preferring the most guarded secrecy until the mood suits them, to feed, or to engage in...other pursuits. Others prefer to interact with potential prey in more gregarious settings, like in parties, and at brothels (as prostitutes or patrons), to feel out the people to whom they feel the greatest attraction.

However, incubi have little respect for women. Aside from going out to rape them at a whim, incubi often keep a harem of runaways or prostitutes waiting at their lair; they keep house for the lazy incubus, and often put up with any change in mood, in exchange for just one more night of erotic pleasure.

Moreover, while a homosexual or bisexual incubus is not unheard of, many incubi have a great dislike for other males (even sometimes other incubi). This often prevents them from even being friends, let alone lovers. Some simply find subjects of the same gender to be unappealing, and sexual intercourse with them unpleasant, while others cannot engage sexually with the same gender for fear of death. Likewise, for some unknown reason, sex between incubus and succubus is nearly unheard of.

Abilities

An incubus is often devastatingly handsome to look upon, by nature. They are the peak of physical fitness, gifted with superhuman power and toughness. They also possess a shapeshifting ability, which lets them change their appearance to match nearly any standard of beauty (even, sometimes, with the capability to turn into an succubus); this capability also allows many to rapidly regenerate from injury.

In older or stronger incubi, this may also (or instead) manifest as the ability to assume an incorporeal spirit form, and possess the bodies and minds of males, in order to change their form.

What's more, incubi can psychically perceive what sexually attracts and pleases others; this same psychic sense allows them to perceive the sexual thoughts of others. Using that extensive knowledge, the incubus speaks with a silver tongue, giving them an air of confidence, charm, wittiness and eloquence that is nearly unmatched by mortals.

And when the incubus has made its way into the prey's bed (by charm, or force of rape), it feeds vampirically off of the libido produced during their erotic fantasies, and during intercourse. Some are even so strong as to feed off of the very life-force of victims; when they leave, the victim is either sapped of energy, sapped of health or dead.