Knoxonks (Knocks-aangk(like ankh)): one who will take your shadow or one who will take place of your shadow in infernal (Teach to the left and barbor to the right pictured above)
Wraith classification w/ hellcat body morphology
Knoxonks is wholly drawn to mimicking and taking form or possessing their targets, they'll go so far as to mimic one's shadow and slowly eat at the host's soul to the point they replace themselves with it or the host entirely. Not to say they are shadow beings, they may act like it in some cases, but they're more akin to parasitic isopods replacing a fish's tongue.
Symptoms of possessions are usually seen with ichor leaking out orifices, dimming of the shadow no matter how bright the light is. Apathetic episodes are followed by heightened aggression or actions that don't fit a situation. Eating things that normally would harm said host. Depending on the Knoxonk's element it's may make the host body temp low or high(to name among the many symptoms correlating to their elements). Adverse to radiant / healing spells from gods of lawful good light and/or healing natures.
While they can thrive well enough without a host, they tend to seek for one to make their hunts easier, preferring to hide in plain sight. Knoxonk's also tends to keep to their host during their inactive stages or if killed someone to returned to. (usually, the lich or necromancer that made them.) Though if there's no person to return to, a selected location is usually ready to take the place of a person.
They're deceivingly strong and sturdy for something so gangly and thin. And most tends to take the form of most hell felines or feline-like beings in general (displacer beasts(teach), rakshasa(dossi), dragonic creatures like narguacugas(une), etc) though it's very common for them to display attributes to those they've previously possessed or mimicked. This is mostly seen in knoxlings who already had a ready set form from the get-go, (Ex: Bor having insect-like features along with their already set baphomet body.)
They don't seem to possess a shadow themselves, including knoxlings who permanently have a solid form. Though the eyes that line their back seem to be the only thing that casts one. It's said these are the victims' shadows they took for themselves, though some notes they're actually what binds the creature to each other. Others claim it shows the health of a knoxonk or knoxsh'aard, stating that ones with fewer eyes are more skeletal than the ones that fully line their back. These eyes are important to these demons' health overall, they play a big part in making future knoxonks or knoxlings whenever possible. Seeing how they don't regenerate after donating one to a new making of a knoxonk/knoxling they tend to be very frugal of who they give it to.
Knoxlings seemed to be hindered by the lack of eyes, never being able to see or keep track of their targets by locking their floating eyes on their target. Connecting to other knoxonk only during sleep and most times they may not remember what's being said. Though thankfully, the closer the fellow knoxonk are the more able the knoxling can remember what's being said in the dream.
