That matter is still up in the air in my new setting , but prior to my reboot , I had an entity known as the Lord of Sorrow who was nighomnipotent so long as he never expressed sorrow , lest his powers implode and destroy himself . While he tried masking things over with disproportionate rage causing many to mix him up with the Lord of Hate , who can ' t express anger and CAUSES sorrow by being a trickster , he ultimately felt this wasn ' t safe enough and ultimately created his personal pocketdimension paradise where even the Lord of Hate was barred from entering . However , such a dimension was unstable not in a way that would harm the Lord , but it would cause spectres of his residual ambition to spontaneously appear throughout the world the Demands of the Lord Ascendant , more commonly referred to as demons .