[Commissioned by @menaceomysterio in their continuing Phantom Tollbooth requests. This was originally the Overbearing Knowitall, one of the Demons of Ignorance. The name is derived from cavillate, “to raise dispute about trivial points.”]
Cavillodaemon This immense being is mostly head
and mouth, dragging its body along on six spindly legs that seem too small to
support its weight. It is yammering incessantly.
The
cavillodaemon is called the Overbearing Know-it-all by many who encounter it,
as they have unending, uninformed opinions about everything. They represent
death by ignorance, and every life lost due to a lack of knowledge is precious
to them, from a lone traveler poisoning themselves by eating the wrong berries
to an entire planet altering their climate while denying the effects.
Cavillodaemons talk constantly and are almost always wrong, and the inhabitants
of Abaddon can hear them coming from far away. Cavillodaemons are usually found
in the mountainous reaches of Abaddon, and rarely care if they fall—a
plummeting cavillodaemon takes no damage and shortly begins to climb again,
living a perpetual, futile cycle. They are vain creatures that frequently
decorate themselves in the trappings of academia—robes, mortarboards and the
like.
Although
cavillodaemons are intensely stupid, they are dangerous combatants due to their
great strength and mind-numbing babble. A cavillodaemon can speak words so
remarkably ignorant that it hinders creatures who hear it, giving the creature
enough time to crush an impeded enemy under its body. More intelligent daemons
use them as living weapons, tasking them with battering down fortifications and
disrupting and distracting enemies with their chatter.
Cavillodaemons
are among the largest of daemonkind, growing forty feet long and weighing
fifteen tons.
Cavillodaemons are despised by the faithful of Fawfin, and they gladly work against that faith in turn, though they usually enlist the aid of more cunning entities.
Shores of Swords 