#this is literally the most basic overview of mythology btw

[anamelessfool]

Your ghouls feel like Endless to me and I mean that as a compliment

I have really liked the Endless for ages, so thank you. Although my favorite character in that series is The Corinthian, if that says anything about me.

I liked how their reality was created by their minds and so it had this weird stream of consciousness quality. I'm a bit disappointed in the Netflix series that they didn't feature that whimsical aspect enough.

My ghoul HC more closely align with Djinn than with demons. Djinn in legends are corporeal but unseen beings that live parallel lives to humans. They are born neutral which means they can be faithful/convert to Islam, neutral or faithful to something else. They are capable of good deeds and sin as much as a human, although they have supernatural powers. The wikipedia page is a pretty interesting dive into ancient mythology and etymology. (And of course the rabbit hole goes much much deeper.) Many regions of the world have this "other society" being in their folklore.

Djinn and the European Fae also dislike metal, and (please don't quote me on this) one way to trap them and make them be your servant is to slip an iron pin on their clothing. They can't touch it themselves and so will do whatever you want them to do to get you to remove it.

Also the Mesopotamian and later Greek/Roman beings called Geniuses. They are not of the gods but interact with humans and were thought to directly inspire people with creative thought. Djinn/Genius some scholars believe share a root word from an ancestral language, but that's not proven. Just interesting.

I've been interested in mythology since I was little and so I put a lot of it into my work.

Copy of a genius from a Grecian vase, a Djinn lord, Copy of an Assyrian wall relief depicting a winged genius