Editing Hordling (section)

==World Axis Hordelings==
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In the [[World Axis]], hordelings embody the unholy fecundity of the [[Abyss]]; they are literally scraps of elemental corruption and chunks of demon flesh born from the seething tides of profane energy emanating from that [[plane]]. When demons slaughter each other in battle, the corpses become the seed of new generations; the raw elemental substances of demonic carcasses is impregnated with the essence of pure evil that permeates the Abyss, causing new tiny fiendlings to rise up and carry on with the circle of birth, pain and death that keeps the Abyss alive.

Hordelings do have some overlap with manes, in that they are the very least form of [[demon]] in the World Axis, generated spontaneously from the Abyss and potentially growing and evolving into stronger demons - either morphing into an established breed, or potentially becoming their own breed. However, most hordelings are typically lobbed across battlefields, crushed underfoot, consumed or slaughtered willy-nilly in demon games before they get much of a chance to experience living.

The 4e hordeling was detailed in the [[splatbook]] "The Book of Vile Darkness", where it came in the form of the Hordeling Mob (level 11 Elite Brute Swarm) and the Hordeling Breakaway (level 11 Minion Brute). An article in issue #197 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], "Creature Incarnations: Hordelings" restored the idea of the Greater Hordeling, an exceptional or long-lived hordeling that is on the verge of maturing into a "real" demon.