Crossroads demons are recognized by their unmistakable red eyes.
These demons holds a special power. Unlike the psychic powers of other demons, crossroads demons can only grant deals with human.
Summoning a crossroads demon
Crossroads demons got their name from the summoning ritual. Summoning a crossroads demon can only be done in the middle of a crossroads. A crossroads demon is summoned by burrying a container of ritual items in the middle of the crossroads.
These ritual items are; a photograph of the summoner, graveyard dirt, a black cat bone, and possibly yarrow.
Once the items are burried it should not take the demon more than a minute to appear in front of the summoner.
Dealing with a demon
These crossroads demons can grant any wish to any person, for a price. The deal will shorten your life-span by a considerate amount of time. Deals vary, but usually the demon will only let you live for 10 more years after the deal is done. However, the duration of time the deal allows the human to live is completely up to the demon forming the deal. Anything from a day to 50 years is acceptable as long as the human agrees.
Once the deal is made, it can not be broken. Only white eyed demons and the crossroads demon holding your deal is able to break the deal, and this is never heard of as demons gain from these deals. Killing or exorcising the crossroads demon you dealt with will not break your deal, the deal will simply be transferred to a white eyed demon instead.
Once you die an unnatural, early death, or your ten years are up, your soul will be sent to hell.
Deals are invisibly written on the skin of the person, which holds like a contract. These writings are completely invisible to any human, though demons can clearly see the contract.
Once your ten years are up, the demons will send hellhounds to collect your soul by killing you. The death is long and painful, involving these hellhounds ripping your body apart with claws and teeth.
A deal needs to be sealed with a kiss on the lips, and without a kiss the deal is not valid.
Crossroads demons also have the ability to make deals with other demons, however this is not allowed, and if caught doing so the crossroads demon will suffer horrrible consequences before being sent back to hell by a more powerful demon.
Hellhounds
Hellhounds are vicious and violent dogs. They are invisible to the human eye and can only be spotted by demons.
These dogs are controlled by white eyed demons and crossroads demons, and are used to collect souls after deals. This is done by killing the person slowly, ripping him apart with teeth and claws. Once the person is dead his soul will go to hell.
These humans who have dealt with demons will have dreams of hellhounds chasing them for days before their death. In this period the hellhounds will also be visible to the human about to die.
It is said that once a hellhound starts chasing someone, it will not stop until that person is dead, and if you were to kill a hellhound, more would take its place. There are, however, many ways to temporarly stop hellhounds.
Hellhounds, like demons, have weaknesses. They can not step over salt or goofer dust, and they can easily be killed by iron, salt and explosives. However, killing a hellhound will only make more take its place.
There is no way to escape hellhounds once you have made a deal.
