Editing Demon: The Descent (section)

==Cryptids==
The animal equivalent of Stigmatics, creatures that have mutated as a result of the toxic byproducts of the God-Machine's Infratructure. Two of the more well-known examples are the Mothmen (sweet-natured, squirrel-eating humanoid moths- no, they cannot predict disasters) and the Reptillians (former lizards now turned into sentient humanoid shapeshifters; timid, inoffensive, easily frightened, and in no way secretly lead the New World Order no matter what conspiracy theorists on the Internet might try to tell you).

Depending on their nature, they can be either helpful or harmful to demons; while the God-Machine uses some types as guard dogs, others are ignored or even exterminated if their activities are deemed a threat to the secrecy of the Machine's operations. Should knowledge of their activities leak into the public eye, the Machine is ready to provide the media with "experts" to discredit and/or rationalize away any cryptid sightings.

Even plants and microorganisms can become cryptids; these cryptoflora are hard to detect but can be very nasty indeed (e.g. a cryptid virus that is harmless to humans but drains the Aether of the demons that it infects).