"HAH! Alright! I have to give it to you, that was a first."

"So i'm in?"

"Well, you certainly did an impression so, welcome to the 'Insert Nongeneric Name' or 'I.N.N.' for short."

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"Huh, audible blinks, that's absolutely going to the top ten."

"Is... is it really called 'Insert Nongeneric Name'?"

"Yes."

"...Alright, any specifics i may need to know?"

"Mmm... i suppose i may as well explain the layout of the city in our way."

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"Alright, let me see if i got it right... It is Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Greed, Envy and Lust, clockwise, right?"

"That's right, their position within the city is, according to them, symbolic."

"According to them? And what is it according to you?"

"Politics, what else? Many of the inhabitants of the plains foolishly think that when, if, they ascend, their existence will become a paradise of indulgence and comfort, and for that end they babble and squabble at each other as if it would bring them out of here. Noisy retards is what they are and nothing less. They have all the brains of a newcomer demon and half their bravery."

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"Soooo... i've heard the distinction between demons and devils a couple times but, what does it mean?"

"Trying to take my mind off politics by changing theme, are you?"

"It depends... does it work?"

"Heh! Yeah, it does. The distinction is due to what they were before turning into hellspawn, and usually how they turned too. As you can see the 'standard' form or imps are anthropomorphic, that probably has a reason but for now let's skip it, what were you before dying?"

"Alright, yeah, i was anthropomorphic, but with a practically limitless number of worlds out there it doesn't make sense that all beings with a soul capable of, what was it? condensing?"

"Condensing, yes."

"Well, the point is there must be non-anthropomorphic beings that turn into hellspawns so the imp standard makes no sense, right?"

 "You are quick on the uptake, i'll give you that. Yes, that should be the case shouldn't it? Well then, why isn't it?"

"Aaaaaaaah, i have no clue."

"Neither me, it is and no one down here knows why. What's important for now is that the anthropomorphic forms are prevalent as sapients within the system, and for some reason, unknown of course, only the souls of sapient beings condense and turn into hellspawn, now that prevalence means that over ninety percent of hellspawn are what is called 'Devils' because of their similarity with prevalent sapients, but even with those uncanny numbers there are indeed species of non anthropomorphic sapients, and when they condense they turn into other, more appropiate forms, and thus 'Demons'. Of course there are individual names for their subgroups but they are not important now, so, got it?"

"More or less, yeah, but, you said that how they turned had something to do with it..."

"Oh right, almost forgot, this should not matter for now as you are still an imp, but it's no big secret so... well, ascended, some of them, have the ability to turn others into hellspawn, for example, it is said that those who follow wrath can, at some point, duel a beast in a ritualistic duel and obtain said beast's soul to turn into a war mount or pet by turning them into hellspawn, it's also said that sapients that indulge with lust followers until their death can be turned into mindless hellspawn that follow their master's every order like an IT customer service employee."