When Training your little Demon you have to take into consideration what kind of Demon you currently carry in you, what development you aspire and what your personal capabilities are.

Generally speaking the earlier in life you start, the greater your later possibilities.

But you have to remember that Greed is always your start and Pride is always your end.

Only by wanting for more, reaching for more and fighting for more will you eventually become more.

Greed is the most easily to develop as it can feed on everything, but it is the hardest to keep. Once you loose your pure Greed, you will never get it back.

Feeding and training a Greed therefore has it's own complications.

Like mentioned before, the best way to feed your Greed is like you would feed a hunting dog.

Only ever enough to keep it wanting for more.

Therefore there are several important rules you should follow when trying to raise a Greed.

First of all, do not lie to your Greed. You do not need to share everything, but never lie. This also holds true for all other Demons.

Second, never overfeed your Greed. If your Greed looses it's balance it will more easily slip out of your control and turn into something lesser. Therefore when acquiring something new don't feed your Greed everything at once. Instead always keep back at least two thirds and if needed feed it a little bit of something else to compensate. Balance is key.

Third, do not attempt to take from your Greed. Greeds are hoarders, they will freely discard things they consider useless, but they will react violent if one tries to take. If your Greed claimed something you want then exchange it for something else or wait till he bores of it. But do not try to take from a Greed by force. Never.

Fourth, Greeds thrive on novelty and balance. So to minimize the risk of taint you have to offer your Greed a variety of different things. Therefore you either have to seek the adventure and travel the world, or make the world come to you. Raising a Greed is a team effort. You can attempt it on your own, but sooner or later you will fail to provide. The later it happens, the more violent the feedback and backlash you will receive from your unhappy Greed. If you know that you will fail to provide, taint your Greed and make it lesser. If you fail to provide and Greed feeds on you, be prepared to loose everything, including everything in your surrounding.

All the other Sins, except Pride, can be seen as intermediate stages that are more or less interchangeable with enough effort on your part.

But there are some more common traits that one has to keep in mind.

Envies are the closest to Lust and Wrath and the most susceptible to external stimuli, such as social pressure. Envies feed on setbacks. Never underestimate the will of an Envy that you defeated or left behind. The more they suffer, the more likely they are to go to extremes to surpass their old selves and all those that surpassed them. Never turn your back on an Envy you scorned. However, if you truly defeat an Envy it can turn into a Lust with a masochistic kind of love for you, or turn into an uncontrollable Wrath that will haunt you for the rest of it's life.

Gluttons are closest to Sloth and can reach it as easily as overfeeding on everyday things. So always keep their diet balanced. Gluttons develop on an obsession. Their single minded obsession makes them relatively easy to control, as long as you can provide, but also very terrifying if you try to block them or harm their obsessions. Gluttons with material obsessions are prone to develop OCD or similar mental disorders.

Lusts most easiest change into Envy, but with an overstimulation they can directly transition into an uncontrollable Wrath. Lusts are most susceptible to strong emotional stimuli from it's host. Lusts come in a variety of different obsessions. Not all require sexual intercourse, some thrive on simple bodily contact, hugging, kissing or just being around their partner or partners. They are very social and open with their kinks and make for great companions. However, due to their extreme reactions to their hosts emotional state, they are considered as unstable. And if they should fall into Wrath, they will not stop at anything.

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Sloths are the most flexible ones. With enough stimulation they can easily change into any other, but they are also closest to Pride. So beware! Unlike portraited Sloths are very smart and tend to plan ahead for every thinkable eventuality, just so that they can relax and be comfortable for as long as possible. If you encounter a solitary, resting Sloth, do not approach. Chances are that there is at least one layer of lethal trap set up around it. Sloths thrive on rest and recreation, this however requires the hosts to spend most of their waking time learning, making plans or improving their mental abilities and foresight to prepare for there prolonged rests. Due to their distrustful nature and their prolonged sleep Sloths are either solitary or in monogamic, lifelong relationships.

Wraths are closest to Lust and Sloth. And are especially susceptible to change after long, drawn out physical activities. Wraths feed and thrive on all of their hosts negative emotions. This makes them very susceptible to self-loathing, self-harm and they can turn socially inept. However, similar to Envies, they tend to go to extremes to reach their goal. But unlike Envies they do not require their goal to be a living being. Wraths can focus all their energy on an object, a symbolic concept like a country or a kingdom, a force of nature like an ocean or a volcano, or even something as unreachable as a star in the sky. There was a case of a Wrath that focused all her hate on a river after loosing her parents and her entire hometown in a flood. She spend her entire life constructing dams and digging side rivers and lakes. She thereby not only relocated the river to flow several kilometres around her former hometown, but also changed the ecosystem of a good part of her country all by herself. However, their dependence on negative emotions make them hard to predict and control, and trying to indoctrinate them into loyal fanatics can just as likely to turn them into rebelling extremists, that will commit suicide bombings just to spite you.

Last of all Pride.

The end of all those that loose their ambitions.

Pride is surprisingly easy to reach and also develops very fast in it's beginning stages. But it is impossible to further develop once you reach your threshold.

And Pride is impossible to change into anything else.

Remember, Greed is always your start and Pride is always your end.

If your Pride beliefs that the end of the alphabet is W, it will stop when reaching W and will never even consider words containing X, Y or Z as part of the same language.

Same rule applies to everything else. If your Pride beliefs that it reached the pinnacle it will stop supporting you.

Young people that get stuck with a Pride due to their upbringing, can develop fairly normally as long as they are kept clear of self-imposed or societal thresholds. So the most important thing for a young Pride is to think and look outside the box for areas he can develop in. Areas that are as free of biased thresholds as possible. Prides do not do well in science, martial arts or any other field that undergo or requires constant change and improvement. But Prides excel in law, accounting, teaching, politics and similar fields that change slowly and very little over the span of a human life.

The later in life you reach Pride, the higher the chance for stagnation. Therefore remember to always be cautious.

Prides feed on the positive feedback and praise their hosts receives from their surroundings. They are solitary, very territorial and thrive in competitions were they can demonstrate their superiority. However, Prides do not suffer setbacks well, and will self-destruct if they fear that their pride is shattered or lost.

Never give in to pride. Only ever feed your greed.

Only by wanting for more, reaching for more and fighting for more will you eventually become more.

Only by becoming more, can you potentially escape from your Demon.

And only by escaping from your Demon can you possibly reach immortality.