Lord Loss (character)

Lord Loss is the Demon Lord from Darren Shan's 10 book series The Demonata. Lord Loss is supposedly the cause behind all sorrow and despair in the world; and his ways are what brings forth and Kernel Fleck into the Demon Universe.

Lord Loss is the only character to definitely have appeared in all eight books, and is likely to appear in all of them.

He is the cruelest character in the books. Two of the three times that people betray their allies, he does not permit them to live. He also kills people in the cruelest way possible. In Bec he kills a woman by tormenting her with zombies of her dead children.

Lord Loss is the first demon to be named in this book, although Vein and Artery were described before him. He first appears during the slaughter of Grubbs' family, and then comes back later to play chess against Dervish and Grubbs, where he is beaten.

Appearences
Lord Loss is the first demon to be named in this book, although Vein and Artery were described before him. He first appears during the slaughter of Grubbs' family, and then comes back later to play chess against Dervish and Grubbs, where he is beaten.

He lives in a castle made of webs. The webs vary from strong to thin in order to make the mechanisms of the drawbridge, etc. work. There is a moat with demon sharks at the bottom and instead of water there is empty space.

Lord Loss
In Lord Loss, the title character is first seen killing the family of our protagonist, Grubbs, accompanied by Vein and Artery. Using his power to cure lycanthropy, he instigates a game of chess against Dervish. As this opponent fails and leaves, Grubbs takes his place and makes a bad game worse. But once he notices that Lord Loss is feeding off his misery and desperation for it to be over, he puts on a happy façade and storms to victory.

Demon Thief
Lord Loss masterminded the cruel plot to slowly drag Kernel towards him and let him realise the truth about Art.

Slawter
Lord Loss was the only Demon Master in the town of Slawter. Before the demons were released, he gave a speech to the crowd, then unleashed his demon followers. He had a one on one fights with both Dervish and Grubbs, but eventually they escaped with the 34 survivors of the cast and crew.

Bec
Lord Loss purposefully assisted to destroy the demon attacks on Ireland, due to the fact that the human world was where he got his power from, through misery and sorrow. However, he did not permit any of the group that destroyed the tunnel to live. It is in this book he first learns about chess, as he sees Drust playing it. He also sours Bec "victory" with an admission to the futility of their mission, claiming that closing the tunnel had no effect and he had been crossing for centuries before that.

Blood Beast
Lord Loss is not seen until the plane scene where he and his demons start killing people on the plane. He rips the lower half of a womans face off and feeds it to Artery. It is unclear how Lord loss got in contact with Juni Swan, it may have been before or after Slawter but he seems to be working with Juni to lure Grubbs to his death. It is possible that Juni learned how to access Lord Loss during her travels when she was learning more about magic.

The Demonata

 * Lord Loss
 * Demon Thief
 * Slawter
 * Bec
 * Blood Beast
 * Demon Apocalypse
 * Death's Shadow

Short Stories

 * Shanta Clause