The inhabitants of the unseen world are called Daemons. Ranging from mindless winds brushing across the border of the real, sometimes felt as a passing malaise, to sentient, alien beings, bent on proliferation through contact with other daemons and the psyches of mortals, a daemon is anything solely within the unseen world and capable of activity. While often hazardous, daemons are not entirely harmful to humans. Philosophers suggest that the human soul is in fact a daemon accumulated around the mind. However, daemons form another sort of life cycle which sentience has forced humanity to take part in. In other words, an evil spirit which drives a man to evil deeds, a dangerous and infectious idea, and a magical spell are all examples of daemons. Some schools of atheist believe that gods are in fact daemons.
Space in the unseen is poorly understood, but it’s thought that daemons expand and contract to fill space in that realm, as they are not constrained by bodies. As void and air fill the physical world, daemons fill the unseen world. Daemons can do extremely little to impact the real world without possessing a body, being perhaps as unaware of the physical world as ordinary humans are of the unseen. When possessing the body of an animal, they may act more intentionally, but only with a human body (or a homunculus) are they able to perform magic. While the root cause is unknown, this is thought to relate to the fact that human psyches also have souls and the fact that Magi cannot polymorph for extended periods of time.
Daemons, being largely unknowable forces with the potential for great harm to humans, feature prominently in religion. Though daemons are in truth disembodied, demoniacs are seldom seen as victims of possession, but as daemons in their own right. In Adanism, demoniacism is a grave but situationally excusable sin. The Sasinthēne religion has accounts of ‘sea demons’, bloodthirsty monsters which arise from dark water and heathen religion to corrupt good society. In Namorism, they are the preferred children of a rival god to Namor, a divine patriarch who favors humankind. Culturally speaking, the concept of a daemon is only in specialist cases distinct from that of a demon. Often seen as the sources of misfortune and malediction, and not always wrongly, few outside of the Lodge system feel the need to distinguish between benign and malignant daemons.
There are some parts of the world which draw distinction between daemons of ill and daemons of good. In the spiritualism of old Hesod, daemons were referred to as the Birds of Harwa, Harwa itself referring to the patch of the spring and early summer sky, 17 degrees northwest of the Wayfarer, and 2 degrees north of the Eagle, which is utterly starless. Due to the prominence of the House of Ansus, a Hesodic lodge, Lodge Magi tend to call daemons Birds, too.