Interesting...my sense was that the gods reside (using colloquial language, here) even at a level above the forms themselves, but worth considering. Thank you for the link and thoughts.

My sense is that daemons are functionaries: they perform a given function or set of functions, and those functions, as with all things, are traceable back to the gods themselves and their manifestations. The Renaissance mages went to great lengths to distinguish between daemonic magic and natural magic, although I suspect that was at least partly because of fears of heresy and the consequences thereof.