I wanted to ask, where did you get all your info on demonology for your silver swords trilogy? pretty interested in dabbling in stories with that element and wanted some advice for research and such. thanks!
Thanks for your question! I raided the Mesopotamian pantheon for Lamashtu - she's actually a demon/goddess who was revered and feared for doing exactly what she does in this story - killing babies/the unborn. I read somewhere that people feared her so much that they invoked Pazuzu (the demon that appears in The Exorcist) to protect themselves from her.
The gods/goddesses of Sumer, Mesopotamia, Akkad and Babylon etc. are a great place to start, I think.
I based my description of her appearance in Gemfire from the picture below that I found somewhere on the web - but without the wings.
Lady Midday/Pscipolnista was pinched from Slavic legend - though I messed with her a bit to fit her to the story.
Raveners were just creatures I invented, though their appearance is based on creatures that appeared in one of Alan Garner's books (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and its sequel Moon of Gomrath). Revenants are repurposed vampires.
Another useful resource might be the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. I used a couple of demons from that in Shadowsight.
I had hoped to still have the websites I looked at while researching - but it's been so long that I no longer have them, I'm afraid. Wikipedia's a great starting point, though.