More Boffo babble:
So, the other thing about the angels and demons is that they aren't separate things; two sides of the same coin, if you catch my drift. They're the same species, but they're all too stuck up and self-centered to admit that now. I'll have to work out a correct history for this, but the gist of the situation is that a proper, ball of energy, super-powerful angel can only be born (spawned, really) from an angel and a demon. It takes two, one of each, to reproduce properly. And since they're shapeshifters and don't have genders aside from preference, they don't really need to have sex. (*chorus of "Aw, damn" from the background*) It just requires a lot of ritual and a lot of energy, and somehow a piece of each parent gets separated out and it takes on its own personality. So every angel has a demonic brother or sister and vice versa- the spawning ritual always has a net product of two. (That sentence both amuses and bothers me, for some strange reason.)

Of course, because they are shapeshifters without set genders, they can shift down into humans or rabbits or something and inbreed...the angels don't do this; it's a crime punishable by some nasty shit that would make what they did to Radueriel look pleasant. The demons on the other hand, have no qualms about it and occasionally do go at it like rabbits. (That sentence bothers and amuses me too.) So, yeah, there have been super-powerful demonic bunnies of doom. A whole litter of them. But they all got hit by a car and died because, well, they're rabbits. But the children of an actual physical mating aren't pureblood...let's call 'em Celestials, since I'm getting tired of typing demons and/or angels. It's awkward. Children of inbreeding are mortal and typically limited to forms similar to that which they were born in; so if two demons shift to humans and have a kid, the baby demon will be stuck as a human or something very like a human. They're treated as second class citizens in Hell. And the more inbred the children, the weaker and less...stable they are. Second generation demons are superior to ordinary humans, and not too much weaker than first generation ones; anything past third generation, however, will be useless for anything but menial slave work. All of the random servants and workers in the Karolus Manor (Gad, that sounds pretentious and silly) are fourth and fifth. Catenus and Lilian are first generation demons; Cara and Jance are second gen.

Yeah. I think about these things too much. And I thing most of my ideas for the opposite polarity and powerswere inspired by L.E. Modesitt Jr.; The Saga of Recluse kicks ass, doncha know. Only his angels are angels of darkness and order. But I figure it would be a hell of a lot more fun to have a bunch of holy psychotic creatures running around; and they are all psychotic. All of them, even the quiet ones. (or, perhaps, especially the quiet ones...;))