Imagine industrialised suffering to produce demons.
------How a Abberation is made:
when a human dies in the AR branch of the multiverse, key point Branch. their soul is usually in a equivalent to Limbo, and then judged by whoever they worshipped the most, and for atheists, they get something else. this means that souls are often blissfull;y asleep floating in the spirtual space of reality. this also means that they are rather vunerable for demonic entities that actually *need* to gain sustenance from these souls.
which wasn't a problem before, because the demons were more or less content with their lives down in the abyss.
Caine first built his army by plucking the souls of those in limbo into a few machines he thought of during his time between madness and clarity, constructed afther he and his trueborn razed the first earth to the ground, shattering its moon as a foundation for his multiversal march
Infernal machines of hell that resemble gaping maws of bobbit worms and a industrial grider, Soulgrinders are the factories of the Legion, and are the primary sites for abberation production., Ranging from dozens to even kilometers large, and connected to other horrific machinery, Soulgrinders dot conquered Earths, or Hellworlds like blisters upon the skin, their smoke suffocating the screams of souls and cries of humans processed in a near genocidal scale.
And yet, they only conduct one part of a most diabolical manufacturing plan, other demonic monoliths of metal and bone preparing its products for their true purpose
the first step to preparing any soul for Caine's legion is to break them, a relativly simple process for any demon, but it needs to be generalised, for souls come from a infinite variety of humans, some far stronger than the rest. (Spoilers Below)
|| to break a soul, you must torment it. stretch its perception from seconds, to days, to eons. time spans 10s of thousands of years while only mere minutes pass in "real space" your memories become your worst enemy.
Essentially, The spiritual side of a soulgrinder is essentially a torture chamber, you insert a soul in, it experiences the most realistic nightmare possible, first every fear and regret is explored down to the worst possible manner imaginable.
lets take for example, Sadie. Her soul is sent into a soulgrinder, where it is shredded into beats. her pain lasts eons as all the memories she once held dear are now the things she quivers at. Her first time meeting Katie, her first party, the first Celine Dion album they bought pooling their money together, their night out in the woods of TDI.
all tainted by the soulgrinder to become something she flees from. but theres nowhere to run or hide, for of she fought back, the soulgrinder adapts and learns, ablifying new wounds in new cracks. there is no escape. There is no Escape. There is no Escape.
Eventually, she just lets it all happen. her soul cries out in abject pain and horror as the torment continues,
until she is a shell of herself. ||
when the Soul grinder deems the subject to be broken down, it introduces new thoughts, new ideas, new memories and such.
Once the breaking is complete, the conditioning phase being as it repeatedly tells the demon to be what they're supposed to do and be, creating scenarios where they're supposed to do something, and only rewarding when they do something aligned with their future purpose.
In Sadie's place, she is taught to be a Denmother, to hate humanity for leaving her behind to suffer like so, fresh and raw her fury is it accelerates her desire to burn the primates and serve Caine and his Legion.
Eventually, they are fully indoctrinated into becoming the monsters Caine wants, forgetting most of what they used to be except the parts that are convenient, meaning only the worst aspects of their personality pre-demonification, and the memories to make them so.
sometimes, it requires the soul shards of previous souls to either fill in gaps or amplify them. nevertheless, what comes out is no longer human
it is the perfect soldier for a envious god.
||# Wombs of Babalon || (Aka. Demonic body Construction)
The Soul is broken and reborn anew, witha fervant hatred for humanity, and ready to unleash death. Now all is needed is a body, but how can one be aquired? the answer is in the next stage of the Soulgrinder, the Wombs of Babalon.
(The process is horrific ngl, imagine building a robot out of meat, so imma leave it as this)
From this one womb, there can be anything from abberations, to Venial demons, to even larvae and Implings. the lower the totem pole the more exponentially are produced. Overminds requiring specialised equipment to retain the balance of composure for the original soul yet indoctrination for it along the way.
which is how Lanius and Xhang li came to be
From this horrific display of industrialization, the Legion Gained their armies that span the cosmos, to consume and rampage across every earth until Caine's legion expands across the multiversal tree like a hellish rot
** From this process, may Caine gain his rightful vengance, and march upon the corpses of the species he forsaked**
