She's also a warlock, which means she gets her magic through a bargain with a supernatural being, in this case the cambion devil Lorcan. Heroine Farideh is a tiefling - which means that she's part of a race conventional wisdom holds to be descended from devils and looks the part, complete with horns, a tail, and creepy Monochromatic Eyes.
In Anne Bishop's Black Jewels universe, three main, sympathetic and hot characters are named Saetan, Lucivar and Daemon.Despite his frightening bat theme, the titular character of Black Bat is a pulp detective hero who fights underground criminals.Having helped the protagonist move on with his life, the Beast of Darkness leaves, maybe to find other children to help. The protagonist is initially afraid of it, but it turns out to be very friendly and supportive, using its powers and advice to help the protagonist deal with the death of his father (who died in one of Israel's many wars), his mother's re-marrying an old mutual friend of theirs whom the protagonist doesn't trust in the beginning, and the birth of his new sister (the Beast of Darkness tells the boy the baby's gender in secret long before the doctor's find out, having discovered it for itself by sneaking through the darkness in the mother's womb).
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It is extremely vulnerable to light (said to "shrink to a tiny size" during the day), but it grows to full size in the darkness can move to wherever shadows reach. The titular beast, whose full form is never really observed or described, is said to come from "the darkness between stars the deepest darkness there is. Part of the theme of the Israeli children's book "חיית החושך" ("The Beast of Darkness") by Uri Orlev.Bazil Broketail: The witches, who are good (if sometimes ruthless) often wear dark clothing, black included.His methods, though, put him squarely into the villain category. His goal appears to be to kill all Envoys (except himself), so that they do not influence humanity, letting them make their own choices. Autumn Visits, another of Sergey Lukyanenko's novels, does something similar with the Champion of Darkness, although it is difficult to sympathize with a guy who kills women, children, and elderly.