Daemons
Fiends
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The distinction between the three groups of fiends is that devils want to own you, demons want to destroy you, and daemons only care about what they can gain from you.
Source: Neutral Evil -
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Four Horsemen are the near-godlike rulers of the Neutral Evil fiends known as the daemons (aka yugoloths in D&D).
Source: Tabletop Game / Pathfinder -
In the Planescape setting and later (3rd edition) sources, it's heavily stated that the baatezu (devils), yugoloths (daemons), and tanar'ri (demons) were each predated by three primordial races of fiends: the ancient Baatorians, the baernaloths, and the obyriths, respectively.
Source: Precursors
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