Yoma

The Yōma (妖魔, Monster) are beings that need human flesh and blood to survive. They could shapeshift into a human form that allow them to live among humans. A yōma has strength and speed that goes over humans, and could regenerate and heal their bodies at incredible speeds. Non human-transformed yōma present common characteristics such as cat-like golden eyes, veins coming out from their head and arms and their skin turning brown, purple, gray, or green.

Types of Yoma

Normal Yōma

This kind of Yōma is the most common of all and perhaps the weakest. All Claymore are able to eliminate this kind. For this reason they are the main source of gold to the Organization. These yōma vary greatly in their appearance as they have been seen with skin ranging from brown to green and in one rare case a dark purple. Their build also vary greatly as well from lean to bulky but always muscular, usually a fairly long torso as well. These yōma as well as their flying and awakened cousins have a common trait as they all have sharp shark like teeth and with a predatory attitude to match.Most have rows of stubby spikes growing from their upper backs, with elongated limbs that end in clawed digits, large fang-filled jaws and pointed ears, giving them a bestial appearance.

Flying Yōma

They just differ from the normal Yōma by the fact that they have wings. It is unknown if their strength and speed are different from the normal kind but it is said that they are more challenge to a Claymore than a normal yōma.Only way a flying yoma can be taken down from air is by if a claymore throw his/her sword towards them like a boomeraang.Flying yoma are rare, since they were only made their debuts in couple of episodes and mangas.Claymores like Jean and Priscilla are the only two known claymores with the flesh and blood of a flying yoma.

Claymores Main Article: Claymore

Claymores can be considered Yōma, considering that they are half-human and half-yōma. They have the speed an strength at superior levels of the normal yōma and the ability to sense the yōki of yōma or other Claymores.

Voracious Eater

Main Article: Awakened Being

Officially, the Organization refers another type of Yōma, known as a Voracious Eater, as simply long-lived Yōma of extreme power and appetite. In reality, though, these are former Claymores who have lost control, called Awakened Beings within the organization; when a Claymore loses control of their yōki, their form changes into a massive Yōma-like form, far more powerful than both Claymores and normal Yōma. The appearance of an Awakened Being depends on the Claymore, and because of this is wide variety between them; whether they are actually considered Yōma or not is unclear, though normally when people use the term they refer only to the weaker ordinary monsters.

Abyssal one Main Article: Abyssal one

The Abyssal Ones are Awakened Beings that were ranked top among Claymores before they awakened. Their form and abilities are similar to those of lesser Awakened Beings and ordinary yōma, but they are vastly more-powerful, strong enough to control an entire quadrant of the world.

Trivia

 * Awakened Beings that have wings like Priscilla or Jean are probably to have the flesh of a flying type Yoma.
 * It is unknown why are Claymores stronger than a yoma while claymores are only half-Yoma.
 * It is said that Teresa is the only warrior which can kill yoma without using her yoki, though a lot of single digit warrior could do this.
 * Teresa 10% of her Yoki could Rival an Abyssal One which mean she can fight an awakened being effortlessly which probably saying that Teresa is the only claymore warrior who can fight a Voracious Eater which is awakened being effortlessly.(Since to human Voracious Eater are also a Yoma).
 * Yomas can disguise as humans by eating their brain to absorb their memory and look like the human they devoured.
 * It's possible yomas and awakened beings are related to humans because claymores exist.
 * Although half breeds claymores are treated as humans by the organization than monsters like some humans would treat them.
 * Yoma in Japan means monsters which describe their physical appearence.
 * It's possible the Voracious eater in the Catherdal in Episode 3 - Episode 4 was similar to a giant yoma than an awakened being.
 * It's possible a yoma can form alliance with an awakened being or claymore because they are related to each other.
 * Since female claymores are half humans they are similar to the Amazonian warriors.
 * Unlike their Yoma relatives Awakened beings don't have to kill a human for their brain so they can take on their form.
 * Reason why claymores can't stop their awakening process because it's almost like sexual pleasure.
 * When male claymores awakened and revert in their human form naturally they look like adults in their 20s - late 30s.
 * It was unusally that Awakened Clare wasn't hungry for innards like some awakened being would hunger for.


 * When female claymores awakened they look like teenagers or a child such as Priscilla or Riful.
 * When claymores awakened, they have an unbelieveable appettite for human guts ( or innards ).This result because when they were claymores they barely eat.
 * Also when claymores awakened blood rush to their head.
 * Being half human and half yoma claymores could possibly want to eat a human.
 * It's also a theory that Irene was possibly dipose of because they were afraid that she will awakened.
 * It's possible Teresa would've taken the same form as Clare if she was to awakened.
 * The only female yomas seen through the series are claymores because the yoma the punched Clare through the stomach was a male.
 * Priscilla, Ophelia, Rafaela/Lucia/Clare and Dauf's Infected Awakened Being are the only awakened beings that had two awakened forms.
 * It seems that the claymores that had deserted the organization seem happier and less depressed when they worked for them.
 * It would been a cannibal if a yoma eat a claymore but being half human they possibly can do this with no problem.