Not quite like daemons back home, that's for sure. You can smell those a mile away most of the time.

[Not that it'd helped prevent his occasional impaling on a daemon's lightning-quick samurai sword. Some things even magic can't dodge if the moment isn't right.

The aether helps a little, though, and he can usually move during stasis, it's just clumsy, so after a moment he drags himself into a crouch so he's a little more mobile. His body protests every inch, but he's used to ignoring that most days.]

Was that a new spell?