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'Daimon' may refer to:

★ Daimon is a town in Toyama prefecture, Japan.

★ Daimon is an alternative spelling for daemon, originally a feature of Greek mythology.

★ In psychology, the Daimonic is the unrest which forces one into the unknown, leading to self-destruction or self-discovery.

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In fiction

★ In Star Trek, Daimon is a rank in the Ferengi military/merchant fleet, approximately equivalent to a captain in Starfleet.

★ Daimons are the "monsters of the week" in the third season of ''Sailor Moon''.

★ In the ''Dark Hunter'' series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, daimons are Apollites who have turned to sucking the souls from humans in order to stay alive. As such they are the adversaries of the ''Dark Hunters''.

★ In the novel ''Aristoi'' by Walter Jon Williams, daimones are a computerized sub-personalities developed through a combination of mental exercise and embedded computers.

★ Daimon Hellstrom, a Marvel Comics character

★ Daimon in the RPG Ars Magica are ancient beings of the magic realm.

★ In W. B. Yeats' ''A Vision'', the Daimon is the anti-self, each Daimon being drawn to the man it most differs from.