Neilos Tyrhanos.5427

Well, yeah, but even the Christian demons are just called that because of older terms being transliterated as 'demons' using a form of the Greek word. If transliteration is fine for the Christians, it's no less fine for the others. Even for Christian demons, though, the 'fallen angel' thing is just one interpretation. It's not unambiguously stated that's what all the demons are. Usually the Bible just assumes their existence and goes on without explanation.

That's just one interpretation of Christian demons-- that associates them with fallen angels, those who fell with Lucifer. But demons feature in dozens of other belief systems, including ones that long predate Christianity.

That's not really the reason people avoid using "it" as a pronoun. The reason is that it sounds dehumanising, as if referring to the person as an object. I do actually have a context example: in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff consistently refers to his son as "it", even though he knows Linton is a boy. It's nothing to do with gender at all here; the point is to show how little he cares about his son as a person, and that he considers him a tool. Or, as a more GW-specific example: the Weapons Test Engineer: "It keens with outrage, the vermin! As if that will save it!" He can clearly see Braham is male. He's using "it" because it dehumanises the test subjects, just like calling Braham "vermin".