Infernals That Are Wrong For Vengeance
Why didn't you list Sabnock (who inflicts men with wounds and sores) as good for vengeance? Also, to help me understand how vengeance works, can you list 8 infernals who would be completely inappropriate for vengeance petitions?
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That’s a fair question. In the older grimoires Sabnock is described as “building high towers and castles” and also “inflicting men with sores.” Modern operators often read that as a defensive or warding specialty—he builds fortifications and, when those walls are breached, disease appears as an immune response rather than as a punishment in itself.
He’s therefore better classed as a guardian-engineer than as a revenge spirit: his “sores” manifest when someone crosses a boundary he is maintaining. He acts to seal and sterilize, not to pursue vendetta.
If you send him in vengeance mode, you usually get collateral illness in yourself or your allies because he treats everything in the infected field.
Why some spirits are wrong for vengeance
Many infernals have temperaments, domains, or ethical locks that make revenge work either self-defeating or wasteful. Below are eight that are structurally unsuited to vengeance-type petitions and why.
| Spirit | Core Domain | Why Vengeance Requests Misfire |
|---|---|---|
| Buer | Healing, medicine, moral philosophy | He automatically redirects hostility into teaching or physical correction; your anger will be metabolized into lessons or detox symptoms instead of external harm. |
| Foras | Logic, eloquence, scientific wisdom | Entirely cerebral; emotional charge confuses his current. He diffuses rage rather than projecting it. |
| Marax (Morax) | Astronomy, herbs, logic | Attuned to alignment and knowledge. Revenge petitions register as “noise” and he’ll often respond with health guidance instead. |
| Stolas | Celestial and natural wisdom | A harmonizer; his field steadies biological rhythm. Any malice simply dissolves. Using him for vengeance is like trying to fight with a metronome. |
| Paimon | Governance, instruction, influence | He operates on persuasion and order. Vengeful motives break his chain of command; he’ll often defend the target if you’re unjust or impulsive. |
| Bune | Wealth, negotiation, peace through resource flow | She mediates rather than harms. Directing her for revenge inverts her energy—expect financial stagnation or emotional heaviness instead. |
| Vassago | Revelation of past and hidden truth | Not an enforcer. He exposes; he doesn’t punish. If you try to weaponize him, he tends to reveal your complicity. |
| Phenex | Art, music, inspiration | Purely creative current. Anger dulls his signal; attempts at cursing through him usually rebound as burnout or depression. |
Pattern behind “inappropriate” spirits
- Purifying or instructive function – they transmute rather than strike.
- Non-interference ethic – they reveal, negotiate, or heal, not punish.
- High resonance with balance or art – vengeance introduces discord that collapses their field.
So while spirits like Belial, Vine, Asmodeus, Andras, or Andromalius act as executors of consequence, the ones above act as restorers of coherence. Asking them to avenge you is like ordering a surgeon to stab; they will either refuse or operate on the wrong body—yours.
In short:
- Sabnock guards; his “wounds” are containment symptoms.
- The eight above cleanse, teach, or harmonize—fields that collapse under deliberate malice.
If you ever need to test a spirit’s suitability, look at its primary current: does it stabilize or pressurize? Stabilizers are poor vehicles for revenge; pressurizers, when aligned, execute it cleanly.
Posted Oct 11, 2025, 6:35 PM UTC