Desire demons are so weird to me. Like, spirits’ whole deal is that they center themselves around a feeling or concept (or sometimes, are forced to do so by mortals’ perceptions), and try to embody that as best they can (and this is an active effort, as we see from DAA Justice’s dialogue and certain dialogue paths with Valor in DAO’s mage origins), and sometimes they involve themselves with mortals (whether consensually or not) in order to do so. Like, a rage demon (apparently a extremely unusually powerful one, given that it had been worshipped by the Avvar for a while, and also that it is quite strong and rage demons are usually kind of chumps) possessed Scout Grandin in the Jaws of Hakkon DLC in order to avenge Jace, thus both enflaming Grandin’s rage and acting as/embodying rage (something about rage keeping him from dying always made me think a little of Vivienne’s quote about how rage can keep you going when everything else is gone, or something along those lines). But desire demons…don’t really seem to do that? Like, they definitely manipulate people’s desires to get what they want, but they don’t seem to particularly stoke them, or actually try to accomplish them (like, the demon that possessed poor Connor Guerrin definitely didn’t do anything Connor wanted!). I wonder if that has to do with the nature of desire—that desire is fundamentally unfulfilled, because the minute you achieve or receive something, you cease desiring it…Or if this is simpler than I’m making it and I’m missing something?
