The Incubus (plural: Incubi), is the male counterpart to the Succubus. They possess many of the abilities of the succubus, including their ability to take vessels and their supernatural ability to seduce. However, whereas Succubi target men (and often have an easier job), Incubi target women.
Description[]
Incubi are often incredibly handsome, slim, and athletic men, cultured and highly intelligent. They appear to know a myriad of information on topics of politics, theology of various religious, and demonology of the Judeo-Christian faiths.
Their true forms consist of a large and serpentine demonic creature with skeletal phantom limbs that possess qualities of a bird, and their underbellies are constantly bathed in the blood of the victims they have taken over the ages, with their backs bearing striped fur.
It is also generally believed that incubi and succubi were the same demon, able to switch between male and female forms. A succubus would be able to sleep with a man and collect his sperm. After using dark power to corrupt and strengthen the seed, to guarantee impregnation, the succubus then transforms into an incubus and uses that seed on women.
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The origins of the incubus are unknown, though it is more than likely that they originated from Lilith or one of her sisters. It is said that the incubi were also known as Asmodai which are considered a second horde of demons that were birthed from Lilith after mating with Asmodeus. Moreover, the Asmodai consisted of both incubi and succubi, the latter of which were a lesser species of the Lilim, the first and strongest of the succubi that came into existence when Lilith mated with Samael.
One of the earliest mentions of an incubus comes from Mesopotamia on the Sumerian King List, where the hero Gilgamesh's father is listed as Lilu. It is said that Lilu disturbs and seduces women in their sleep, while Lilitu, a female demon, appears to men in their erotic dreams. Two other corresponding demons appear as well: Ardat lili, who visits men by night and begets ghostly children from them, and Idlu lili, who is known as a male counterpart to Ardat lili and visits women by night and begets from them.
Though many tales claim that the incubus is bisexual, others indicate that it is strictly heterosexual and finds attacking a male victim either unpleasant or detrimental. Incubi are also sometimes said to be able to conceive children. The half-human offspring of such a union is sometimes referred to as a cambion. An incubus may pursue sexual relations with a woman in order to father a child, as in the legend of Merlin.