Wise Ones

The Wise Ones are a race of Shet'Eru Demons that serve Shuliak, and are seemingly the only demon race that serves Shuliak. Their monstrous bodies bely their massive intellect, allowing them to easily deceive those that think they are mere beasts; their propensities for deception and secret-gathering allow them to, practically without effort, ensnare them and devour their mind and souls.

Wise Ones are common sights in the underwater temple-cities that worship Shuliak, and are surprisingly quite rare on Shet'Eru; other places they can be found are lakes, the sulfur flats of northwestern Cel, the straight of Kzel, and the Archipelago of Kan Kudan.

History
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Appearance
Wise Ones are bizarre, unnatural creatures. They have traits of amphibians, cephalopods, various aquatic worms, and crustaceans; their bodies are long and slippery, with long tentacle-y arms ending in the claws of a lobster, lower bodies of squirming serpentine bobbit worm coils with a skirt of octopus' arms; their heads are unholy, even worse than the rest of the creature, a beard of cirri wriggle under the chelicerae of a crab and multitudes of antennae and stalk-eyes shift around. Their whole bodies are colourful like nudibranchs, very much so.

Abilities
The Wise Ones, as with all Shet'Eru, are capable of phasing out of the layers of reality and into the incorporeal realms, teleporting, traveling amongst the Spheres, using magic without training or experience, shapeshift, and many other powers that are common to the demons of Shet'Eru. Wise Ones, in particular, can survive in water much easier than their kin, so much so that their very bodies are crafted from the cells up for aquatic environments. They hold immense magical abilities and secrets, able to cast spells that even master sorcerers can barely even begin to understand. Magics that Wise Ones are fans of are divination, hydromancy, summoning, and transmutation; even the most hands-on Wise One can summon hordes of monsters and flood the surrounding areas without effort, some can even rip the water from the blood and desiccate the living at will.