Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-24701421-20140918120545

Hetaera

Species: Succubus Subspecies

Habitat: Human Realm, Demon Realm

Disposition: Gentle, Warm, Devoted

Diet: Spirit Energy of men

A subspecies of succubi, hetaerae are the followers of Eros much like dark priests who are the followers of the Fallen God. Possessing pink tails and feathers while dressed in pink or white garbs with golden highlights, they act as guides and advisors in the ways of love for not only mamono but even humans. In addition, they perform marriage ceremonies much like sea bishops, the priestesses of Poseidon. In fact, they actually possess the power to transform not only men into incubi but even women into different kinds of mamono depending to the women’s unique traits. They also possess the ability to cast runic spells such as Spirit Link and Calming Purification which help to strengthen the bonds of a loving marriage, a skill which sea bishops quickly learnt how to use as well. Strangely enough, unicorns will not be corrupted into bicorns when a hetaera converts a unicorn’s husband into an incubus, but only when no “extramarital sex” is involved.

As they believe in love rather than lust, they are antagonistic against dark priests and dark angels who value the perverse pleasures of lust over all else. However, much like sea bishops who would otherwise never actively attack anyone, they can be rather lustful themselves once they have a husband of their own. Given their gentle and warm personalities, they rarely need to actively seek out men who would usually be drawn to them instead, especially men with troubled love lives, unlike dark priests that actively attack men and women to stain them with the pleasures of lust. Depending on the situation, a confrontation between a hetaera and a dark priest could end up with a man having both of them as rival wives. As for what would happen to the husband, it would largely depend on whom he chooses as the dominant wife, which would result in the other priestess becoming a submissive convert. Despite the antagonism between hetaerae and dark priests, it is rumoured that both Eros and the Fallen God are not antagonistic to one another although it could be argued that both love and pleasurable lust are closely intertwined when it comes to lovers.

Due to having similar professions, it is not uncommon for hetaerae and sea bishops to get along amicably. However, when a mamono from the sea is competing against her land-dwelling counterpart, both hetaerae and sea bishops often act as peacekeepers to help resolve the issue. If a hetaera and a sea bishop end up liking the same man, they would at least try to resolve the issue peacefully as equals as opposed to how a hetaera would aggressively compete against a dark priest.  