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[[folder:Bouda]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BigEater: Bouda have a weakness: they are incorrigible gluttons. When presented with a fresh corpse, even in combat, they will attempt to gorge on it or at least defile it for later consumption.
* ChildEater: Boudas seek out happy families, consuming the children in the night and leaving gruesome trophies behind.
* HeinousHyena: Boudas are hyena-faced fiends that eat children and despoil purity and family.
* HumanDisguise: The bouda polymorph into a human, a hyena, or its true form, which is a hyena-humanoid hybrid.
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[[folder:Cambium]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A cambion wears voluminous robes to hide its supernumerary arms.
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[[folder:Chatterlome]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* SerialKiller: After the victim dies, the supplicant must deliver the chatterlome's box to nine more victims or forfeit their own life. A string of deaths occurring shortly after victims received mysterious boxes is a sure sign that a chatterlome is in the area.
* TrackingSpell: A chatterlome whose box has been delivered knows the location of the victim and tracks the person relentlessly.
* YouGotMurder: When a person calls upon the chatterlome, they soon receive an intricately carved oaken box with an obsidian inlay of a humanoid heart. Upon touching the box, the supplicant immediately knows that the box must be delivered to the home of the person who wronged them. When the victim opens the box, the chatterlome springs forth, claiming the heart of the victim.
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[[folder:Corrupted Pixie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Hags sometimes capture pixies and torture them by forcing them to watch acts of depraved violence. These acts combined with the hags' magic drive the pixies mad, twisting their forms and turning them into fiends.
* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: Corrupted pixies take a special joy in destroying anything beautiful, and sometimes become distracted from their hag-assigned tasks because the opportunity to mar something perfect is too good to pass up.
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[[folder:Demon]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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!!Alnaar
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* BigEater: These demons have an insatiable appetite, and a single alnaar has been known to devour a cattle herd in minutes. Alnaar who have not eaten recently become weakened and desperate.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Alnaar sometimes serve as mounts for powerful demons.
* PlayingWithFire: Alnaar resemble a great blackened asp with fiery fangs, and can superheat themselves to expel momentous energy.
!!Apau Perape
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* KillerGorilla: Apau perape are black-furred, sharp-toothed gorilla demons.
* PyroManiac: Apau perape gleefully set fire to villages and crops if their master is snubbed or insulted.
* UndyingLoyalty: Apau perape serve only Mechuiti, the demon lord of fire and apes. Their final loyalty is unshakable, though sometimes they serve others for a time.
!!Baliri
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A baliri's arms end in crimson crab-like pincers.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: A baliri demon is created when a humanoid suffers at the hands of family or peers and turns to a demon lord for succour and bloody retribution. When the victim is executed, the demon lord snatches up their soul and transforms it into a baliri demon.
!!Berstuc
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
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* BeardOfEvil: This demon has a thick moustache and beard that reach almost to its waist.
* WeirdBeard: A berstuc has a moustache and beard made of moss.
!!Cipactli
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* BigEater: Cipactli are always hungry and ever-seeking easy prey.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Cipactli's bloodline traces back to the earliest elementals. All elementals are at least somewhat respectful to a cipactli, and the two occasionally form alliances.
* ForcedSleep: A cipactli can sing a soporific, primordial song of eternal rest and divine repose.
* AKindOfOne: In Myth/AztecMythology, the Cipactli was a unique monster that existed in primordial times, was slain by the gods and used to create the Earth. Here, it is reimagined as an entire species of demon.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Cipactli are a hideous, demonic blend of the worst elements of crocodilians and deepwater fish with some of the colouration of a poisonous frog.
* TooManyMouths: A cipactli has a mouth on every single joint.
!!Culicoid
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* FromASingleCell: When the culicoid is reduced to 0 hp, it transforms into a swarm of mosquitoes. If at least one mosquito from the swarm survives for 24 hours, the culicoid reforms at the following dusk from the remaining mosquitoes.
* MosquitoMiscreants: The culicoid is a mosquito demon that can communicate with mosquitoes and similar creatures. These creatures innately feel a connection to the culicoid, who surrounds itself with swarms of them and uses its sensitivity to the smell of blood to lead its allies to feasts.
!!Echo Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: It is said when a truly despicable liar's soul passes to the Abyss, it sometimes takes the form of an echo demon.
!!Fulad-zereh
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* BigRedDevil: The fulad-zereh is an enormous horned, winged, blood-red demon.
* TakenForGranite: The fulad-zereh's gaze can turn enemies into stone.
!!Kishi
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* BattleTrophy: Kishi frequently behead, scalp or skin their conquests and decorate their shields with their trophies.
* LiteralManeater: Gender-inverted. Kishi are driven by their voracious appetites, carnal or otherwise, with a predilection for female humanoids. They persuade women into their embrace, but their trysts always end in a grisly feast.
* OneGenderRace: All kishi are male.
* TwoFaced: Kishi wear elaborate headdresses or clan veils to hide the demonic hyena face on the back of their head.
!!Malakbel
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* WreathedInFlames: A malakbel is surrounded by blinding light and blistering heat, and burns everything in its path.
!!Neophron
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* CirclingVultures: Neophron are ghoulish demons that can take the form of giant vultures.
* HorrorHunger: Neophron ravenously devour any flesh they find, living and dead alike. No matter how much they eat, hunger gnaws at them, driving them to find new victims.
!!Pishacha
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
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* DemonicPossession: Pishacha seek to possess humanoid bodies, driving their victims insane from the inside out.
!!Plaresh
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: When they devour a humanoid corpse, the victim's soul is sent to Qorgeth's tunnel-realm and comes back as another plaresh.
* HiveMind: When they band together into masses hundreds or thousands strong, these tiny worm demons are linked into a hive mind.
!!Psoglav
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* BattleTrophy: Psoglav demons carry recent kills along with them as grisly toys, and often wear strings of scalps or ears as trophies.
* {{Cyclops}}: A psoglav only has one single, baleful eye in its forehead.
* EyeBeams: The psoglav can emit a beam from its single eye, which knocks off the target's shadow and animates as an undead shadow under the command of the psoglav.
* TheFaceless: Most of the psoglav's head is covered by a helmet. Speculation about what a psoglav keeps under its helmet is rampant.
!!Rattok
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
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* TheBully: Rattok are greasy, sneering, smug and horrible bullies to lesser demons and enjoy tormenting those they catch.
* SoulEating: Rattok demons collect, bottle, and often distill and flavour souls, trading them and generating abhorrent bottled spirits from them. Consuming a bottled soul destroys a portion of a living soul and floods the drinker's mind with some of the soul's memories.
* SycophanticServant: Rattok are complete toadies to larger and more powerful demons—though bold enough to sometimes play tricks on their masters.
* YouDirtyRat: These rat-like demons constantly strive to outdo one another in vileness, and, among demonkind, they are known for their especially inventive evil deeds.
!!Rubezahl
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* BeastMan: The rubezahl resembles a black-furred stag that walks like a man, with branching antlers, sleek black fur, goatlike legs and cloven hooves.
* BeatItByCompulsion: If a group of objects is clearly pointed out to the rubezahl, it becomes distracted until it counts each item in the group. Unfortunately for mortals, rubezahls can count startlingly fast.
* ShockAndAwe: The rubezahl can call a sizzling bolt of lightning out of the sky, or from the air if underground or indoors.
!!Spawn of Alquam
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* FeatheredFiend: Birds instinctively follow the mental commands of the spawn of Alquam, and sudden changes in bird behaviour that can signal a spawn is nearby. Swarms of birds attack targets the spawn designates, act as its messengers, and enact Alquam's will in whatever way the spawn dictates.
!!Spawn of Hriggala
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* CombatTentacles: A spawn of Hriggala's mouth is surrounded by wriggling tendrils.
* EatDirtCheap: Spawn of Hriggala consume a diet of flesh and stone.
* SandWorm: The spawn of Hriggala resembles a juvenile purple worm and is used to create new tunnels for monsters of the underworld.
!!Spawn of Rhopalocerex
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* PestController: Spawn of Rhopalocerex enjoy a special kinship with moths and butterflies. Moths and butterflies regularly accompany them, aiding them whenever possible.
!!Spree
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* HatePlague: Spree demons seek to infect others with their murderous desires and inflict curses on those they harm. A single spree demon can incite violence that cripples a city for weeks.
!!Vellso
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* AntiRegeneration: While infected by a vellso with carrion curse, a creature can't be healed magically.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: These fiends love nothing more than hunting intelligent creatures, even though they actually eat little of what they kill.
* JustToyingWithThem: Vellso enjoy biting their prey a single time then releasing it, sometimes for days, allowing the wound to fester and torment the hunted.
* TheUnintelligible: Vellso have difficulty with speech due to their dagger-like teeth and long, lolling tongues. They rely on their telepathy to communicate.
!!Wind Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Wind demons have great difficulty sitting still for more than a moment. They are always in constant motion and generally making a nuisance of themselves around larger, slower demons or among humans.
* ThePigPen: Wind demons delight in foul odours, rank gasses, and poisonous air. Their arrival can make horses and dogs vomit and paw their noses.
!!Yek Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (yek), 9 (alpha yek)
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* BattleTrophy: Yek often wear entrails and bones of previous victims.
* EatenAlive: Yek do not care what flesh they feed upon but prefer it to be raw and wriggling.
* MonstrousCannibalism: After a yek pack leader is killed and a new one is chosen, the weakest member of the pack is devoured by the new leader.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Yek are among the most mercenary of demons and can be bargained with to a greater degree than most. An evil spellcaster can perform a yek summoning ritual, offering blood and bone and a stream of rich and constant plunder to the pack leader, in exchange for service against a particular foe. If the plunder and cartloads of bone are not forthcoming, the yek invariably take their fee out of their summoner or that summoner's troops and followers.
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[[folder:Devil]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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!!Arachnocrat
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* AllThatGlitters: Arachnocrats have a second stomach that can turn common rocks into faux gemstones. They vomit up the gemstones after digesting the rocks for a few months, and use the gemstones to fund their endeavours. The counterfeit nature of the gems is detectable by only true craftsmen.
* HumanDisguise: Arachnocrats are adept at disguising themselves as aristocrats. Their most noticeable features, clawed hands and spider-like faces, are covered with gloves, masks, scarves, voluminous robes and similar attire. The eccentricities of the well-to-do help to cast off any suspicion over their odd coverings.
* WickedCultured: Arachnocrats enjoy masquerading as members of high society, eating haute cuisine and drinking fine wine in the company of humans. Viewing the wealth and standing of their victims as the greatest measure of taste, these devils delight in aristocratic prey, though they most often feed on the liquefied innards of servants of the aristocracy to avoid detection.
!!Automata Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* BellyMouth: The automata devil's stomach opens up like a second mouth, filled with spines.
* ChainedByFashion: An automata devil's skin is pierced with barbs, sharp nails and coils of wire, which have been threaded through its flesh.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms ending in large grasping hands erupt from an automata devil's shoulders.
!!Chort Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* FlamingSword: Any weapons wielded by a chort devil deal additional fire damage.
!!Crystalline Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* ChestMonster: In its treasure form, a crystalline devil resembles a pretty, sparkling jewel lying on the ground, glowing with a warm inner light. It seeks to catch the eye of an unwary creature whose mind it might corrupt to greed and murder.
* CrystallineCreature: Crystalline devils resemble gem-coated humanoids with terrible talons like shards of broken glass.
* GemstoneAssault: The crystalline devil can attack by magically spraying shards of crystal.
!!Fire Imp
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
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* EnergyAbsorption: Whenever a fire imp is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead heals equal to the fire damage dealt.
* EngineeredHeroics: Efreeti often have fire imps set fires to the property of nobles so that the genie can save the day for a price.
* PlayingWithFire: A fire imp ignites everything with a touch.
!!Gilded Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* HumanDisguise: Gilded devils are usually only seen in their true form in Hell. When pursuing a mortal of high standing, they prefer unassuming appearances, making themselves look the parts of wise advisers, canny merchants or sly confidants.
!!Infernal Knight
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16
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* BlackKnight: The infernal knight wears black plate whose edges glow red hot with the glare of hellfire leaking from them.
* ThinkingUpPortals: The infernal knight can magically tear a rift in the fabric of the multiverse, which leads to a plane of its choice.
* YourSoulIsMine: An infernal knight draws victims' souls into its dark blade and carries them back to its master.
!!Ink Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
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* DirtyCoward: Ink devils are talkers and cowards. When forced to fight, they prefer to hide behind other devils.
!!Koralk
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
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* BewareMyStingerTail: The koralk's three stingers drip poison that liquefies the victim's insides.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: A koralk is large and strong enough for Medium-size devils to ride as a mount. They don't like being used this way, but do what they're told by their betters or suffer the consequences.
* MultipleTailedBeast: A koralk has three tails dripping poison.
* SpawnBroodling: When a victim dies from koralk venom, it releases a spray of gelatinous goo and reveals a lemure.
!!Lunar Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* {{Lunacy}}: At range, lunar devils hurl moonlight at foes.
!!Orobas Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
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* BeastMan: An orobas resembles a strong man with well-chiseled muscles, an equine head, flaring nostrils and hoofed feet.
!!Salt Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* SlaveMarket: Salt devils create slave markets and salt mines, where they thrive on the misery of those indentured into their service.
!!Spawn of Parzulon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* CatGirl: A spawn of Parzulon resembles a woman with a sharp-toothed leonine visage and long needlelike claws.
* OneGenderRace: All spawn of Parzulon are female.
* SemiDivine: Spawn of Parzulon are the results of liaisons between the Arch-Devil Parzelon and mortal women.
!!Wind's Harp
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
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* CounterSpell: The wind's harp devil can play a single, infernal note to interrupt a spell.
* MagicMusic: Wind's harp devils serve the courts of Hell as background music and as instruments of sonic and psychic torture.
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[[folder:Dream Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* EmotionEater: Dream eaters feed on hope and aspiration, leaving helpless thralls willing to sell their souls for their vices.
* HumanDisguise: Dream eaters often use magic to disguise themselves as attractive members of a humanoid race.
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[[folder:Gumienniki]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DealWithTheDevil: Gumienniki strike fiendish bargains with willing farmers, offering to protect silos and storehouses from vermin, thieves and fire in return for a steady supply of livestock. Most of these bargains end poorly for the farmer, who soon discovers that the gumienniki doesn't discriminate when it's hungry.
* HumanSacrifice: Gumienniki delight in sacrificing captured humanoids or livestock in starlight. They sometimes ally with dark fertility cults in hidden groves, bringing blood sacrifices directly from their protected farmers.
* TemporaryBlindness: When the gumienniki flashes its glowing eyes, creatures that can see it risk getting temporarily blinded by the resulting illumination.
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[[folder:Kalke]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: The drive to produce ever more fanciful rituals gives a kalke the compulsion to accumulate occult paraphernalia, even though these objects serve no purpose. Because they have no ability to distinguish what's magically useful from what isn't, they grab any objects they uncover.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The kalke combines the head of a goat and the body of a monkey.
* RitualMagic: Twice a month, or more during major astrological and seasonal events, the kalkes gather to perform an imagined rite of great magic. The effort has an equal chance of triggering nothing whatsoever, dangerous but short-lived misfortunes, or calamities.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Kalkes can sense spellcasting in a 5-mile radius, as long as the effect is not innate.
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[[folder:Karakura]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CharmPerson: Karakura can use their wit and charm to magically draw in prey.
* EmotionEater: Karakura prefer to feed upon devotion and love, though flesh and blood will do in a pinch.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The karakura can only exist on the Material Plane at night or underground.
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[[folder:Kuunganisha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
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* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Kuunganisha constantly exposed to divination magic grow non-functioning, constantly-moving eyes across their skin.
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[[folder:Rakshasa]]
!!Greater Rakshasa
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Greater rakshasas are driven by a lust for power, keeping their true natures hidden as they maneuver themselves into the highest echelons of society.
* ManipulativeBastard: No scheme is ever too complicated for greater rakshasas, and they are willing to employ a variety of techniques to achieve their aims, including eloquence, deception, bribery, blackmail and intimidation.
* SecretIdentity: Greater rakshasas are adept at assuming multiple identities to carry out their plots, sometimes whispering in the same person's ear from different guises.
* StrongerWithAge: When a truly wicked rakshasa is reincarnated after several lifetimes of treachery and depravity, it will return to the Material Plane from the Eleven Hells as a member of a higher caste.
* ToServeMan: Greater rakshasas feed on the flesh of their mortal puppets when tiring of them.
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[[folder:Soul Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* SoulEating: Soul eaters do not devour flesh, instead feasting on a victim's soul and spirit.
* TrackingSpell: When a soul eater's conjurer orders it to find a creature, it can do so unerringly, despite the distance or intervening obstacles, provided the target is on the same plane of existence. If the target dies before the soul eater can drain the target's soul, or if the soul eater is defeated but not killed by its target, it can use this ability to locate and attack its conjurer.
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[[folder:Spawn of Chernobog]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ChestBurster: If a bite wound from the spawn of Chernobog results in an infection that subsequently kills the victim, a new spawn of Chernobog will spawn from its corpse.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A spawn of Chernobog is shaped like a bear rearing up on its hind legs, and possesses the antlers of a massive elk.
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[[folder:Star-Spawn of Cthulhu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* AttackReflector: When an attack that causes psychic damage is directed against the spawn, the attack rebounds against the attacker.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Star-spawn don't need air, warmth, ambient pressure, food or water and can survive indefinitely in space.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Being quite obviously based on the TropeNamer, star-spawn have a humanoid body and a face full of tentacles.
* DeadlyGaze: Star-spawn can turn living flesh into miasma through nothing more than a focused gaze.
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[[folder:Stuhac]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ForcedToWatch: Stuhacs weave new ligaments into their clutters while their still-living victims watch. Lying in crippled agony, they cannot flee as the stuhac tears fresh material from their bodies for its garments.
* HumanDisguise: Wrapping heavy furs around itself, a stuhac poses as a feeble hermit or traveller needing assistance. Only after its victims have been lured away from warmth and safety does the stuhac show its true nature.
* ToServeMan: Once its clutters are done, the stuhac feeds on its live victim, devouring everything but the bones. Finding a clean-picked humanoid skeleton along a mountain path is a reliable sign of a stuhac's presence.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Umbral Vampire]]
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: An umbral vampire is a fiendish creature, once human but twisted into a dark reflection by an ancient curse.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Umbral vampires are weakened in direct sunlight.
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[[folder:Bouda]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* BigEater: Bouda have a weakness: they are incorrigible gluttons. When presented with a fresh corpse, even in combat, they will attempt to gorge on it or at least defile it for later consumption.
* ChildEater: Boudas seek out happy families, consuming the children in the night and leaving gruesome trophies behind.
* HeinousHyena: Boudas are hyena-faced fiends that eat children and despoil purity and family.
* HumanDisguise: The bouda polymorph into a human, a hyena, or its true form, which is a hyena-humanoid hybrid.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cambium]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A cambion wears voluminous robes to hide its supernumerary arms.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chatterlome]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* SerialKiller: After the victim dies, the supplicant must deliver the chatterlome's box to nine more victims or forfeit their own life. A string of deaths occurring shortly after victims received mysterious boxes is a sure sign that a chatterlome is in the area.
* TrackingSpell: A chatterlome whose box has been delivered knows the location of the victim and tracks the person relentlessly.
* YouGotMurder: When a person calls upon the chatterlome, they soon receive an intricately carved oaken box with an obsidian inlay of a humanoid heart. Upon touching the box, the supplicant immediately knows that the box must be delivered to the home of the person who wronged them. When the victim opens the box, the chatterlome springs forth, claiming the heart of the victim.
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[[folder:Corrupted Pixie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Hags sometimes capture pixies and torture them by forcing them to watch acts of depraved violence. These acts combined with the hags' magic drive the pixies mad, twisting their forms and turning them into fiends.
* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: Corrupted pixies take a special joy in destroying anything beautiful, and sometimes become distracted from their hag-assigned tasks because the opportunity to mar something perfect is too good to pass up.
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[[folder:Demon]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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!!Alnaar
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* BigEater: These demons have an insatiable appetite, and a single alnaar has been known to devour a cattle herd in minutes. Alnaar who have not eaten recently become weakened and desperate.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Alnaar sometimes serve as mounts for powerful demons.
* PlayingWithFire: Alnaar resemble a great blackened asp with fiery fangs, and can superheat themselves to expel momentous energy.
!!Apau Perape
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* KillerGorilla: Apau perape are black-furred, sharp-toothed gorilla demons.
* PyroManiac: Apau perape gleefully set fire to villages and crops if their master is snubbed or insulted.
* UndyingLoyalty: Apau perape serve only Mechuiti, the demon lord of fire and apes. Their final loyalty is unshakable, though sometimes they serve others for a time.
!!Baliri
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A baliri's arms end in crimson crab-like pincers.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: A baliri demon is created when a humanoid suffers at the hands of family or peers and turns to a demon lord for succour and bloody retribution. When the victim is executed, the demon lord snatches up their soul and transforms it into a baliri demon.
!!Berstuc
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
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* BeardOfEvil: This demon has a thick moustache and beard that reach almost to its waist.
* WeirdBeard: A berstuc has a moustache and beard made of moss.
!!Cipactli
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* BigEater: Cipactli are always hungry and ever-seeking easy prey.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Cipactli's bloodline traces back to the earliest elementals. All elementals are at least somewhat respectful to a cipactli, and the two occasionally form alliances.
* ForcedSleep: A cipactli can sing a soporific, primordial song of eternal rest and divine repose.
* AKindOfOne: In Myth/AztecMythology, the Cipactli was a unique monster that existed in primordial times, was slain by the gods and used to create the Earth. Here, it is reimagined as an entire species of demon.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Cipactli are a hideous, demonic blend of the worst elements of crocodilians and deepwater fish with some of the colouration of a poisonous frog.
* TooManyMouths: A cipactli has a mouth on every single joint.
!!Culicoid
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* FromASingleCell: When the culicoid is reduced to 0 hp, it transforms into a swarm of mosquitoes. If at least one mosquito from the swarm survives for 24 hours, the culicoid reforms at the following dusk from the remaining mosquitoes.
* MosquitoMiscreants: The culicoid is a mosquito demon that can communicate with mosquitoes and similar creatures. These creatures innately feel a connection to the culicoid, who surrounds itself with swarms of them and uses its sensitivity to the smell of blood to lead its allies to feasts.
!!Echo Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: It is said when a truly despicable liar's soul passes to the Abyss, it sometimes takes the form of an echo demon.
!!Fulad-zereh
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* BigRedDevil: The fulad-zereh is an enormous horned, winged, blood-red demon.
* TakenForGranite: The fulad-zereh's gaze can turn enemies into stone.
!!Kishi
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* BattleTrophy: Kishi frequently behead, scalp or skin their conquests and decorate their shields with their trophies.
* LiteralManeater: Gender-inverted. Kishi are driven by their voracious appetites, carnal or otherwise, with a predilection for female humanoids. They persuade women into their embrace, but their trysts always end in a grisly feast.
* OneGenderRace: All kishi are male.
* TwoFaced: Kishi wear elaborate headdresses or clan veils to hide the demonic hyena face on the back of their head.
!!Malakbel
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
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* WreathedInFlames: A malakbel is surrounded by blinding light and blistering heat, and burns everything in its path.
!!Neophron
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* CirclingVultures: Neophron are ghoulish demons that can take the form of giant vultures.
* HorrorHunger: Neophron ravenously devour any flesh they find, living and dead alike. No matter how much they eat, hunger gnaws at them, driving them to find new victims.
!!Pishacha
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
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* DemonicPossession: Pishacha seek to possess humanoid bodies, driving their victims insane from the inside out.
!!Plaresh
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: When they devour a humanoid corpse, the victim's soul is sent to Qorgeth's tunnel-realm and comes back as another plaresh.
* HiveMind: When they band together into masses hundreds or thousands strong, these tiny worm demons are linked into a hive mind.
!!Psoglav
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* BattleTrophy: Psoglav demons carry recent kills along with them as grisly toys, and often wear strings of scalps or ears as trophies.
* {{Cyclops}}: A psoglav only has one single, baleful eye in its forehead.
* EyeBeams: The psoglav can emit a beam from its single eye, which knocks off the target's shadow and animates as an undead shadow under the command of the psoglav.
* TheFaceless: Most of the psoglav's head is covered by a helmet. Speculation about what a psoglav keeps under its helmet is rampant.
!!Rattok
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
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* TheBully: Rattok are greasy, sneering, smug and horrible bullies to lesser demons and enjoy tormenting those they catch.
* SoulEating: Rattok demons collect, bottle, and often distill and flavour souls, trading them and generating abhorrent bottled spirits from them. Consuming a bottled soul destroys a portion of a living soul and floods the drinker's mind with some of the soul's memories.
* SycophanticServant: Rattok are complete toadies to larger and more powerful demons—though bold enough to sometimes play tricks on their masters.
* YouDirtyRat: These rat-like demons constantly strive to outdo one another in vileness, and, among demonkind, they are known for their especially inventive evil deeds.
!!Rubezahl
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* BeastMan: The rubezahl resembles a black-furred stag that walks like a man, with branching antlers, sleek black fur, goatlike legs and cloven hooves.
* BeatItByCompulsion: If a group of objects is clearly pointed out to the rubezahl, it becomes distracted until it counts each item in the group. Unfortunately for mortals, rubezahls can count startlingly fast.
* ShockAndAwe: The rubezahl can call a sizzling bolt of lightning out of the sky, or from the air if underground or indoors.
!!Spawn of Alquam
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* FeatheredFiend: Birds instinctively follow the mental commands of the spawn of Alquam, and sudden changes in bird behaviour that can signal a spawn is nearby. Swarms of birds attack targets the spawn designates, act as its messengers, and enact Alquam's will in whatever way the spawn dictates.
!!Spawn of Hriggala
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* CombatTentacles: A spawn of Hriggala's mouth is surrounded by wriggling tendrils.
* EatDirtCheap: Spawn of Hriggala consume a diet of flesh and stone.
* SandWorm: The spawn of Hriggala resembles a juvenile purple worm and is used to create new tunnels for monsters of the underworld.
!!Spawn of Rhopalocerex
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* PestController: Spawn of Rhopalocerex enjoy a special kinship with moths and butterflies. Moths and butterflies regularly accompany them, aiding them whenever possible.
!!Spree
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* HatePlague: Spree demons seek to infect others with their murderous desires and inflict curses on those they harm. A single spree demon can incite violence that cripples a city for weeks.
!!Vellso
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* AntiRegeneration: While infected by a vellso with carrion curse, a creature can't be healed magically.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: These fiends love nothing more than hunting intelligent creatures, even though they actually eat little of what they kill.
* JustToyingWithThem: Vellso enjoy biting their prey a single time then releasing it, sometimes for days, allowing the wound to fester and torment the hunted.
* TheUnintelligible: Vellso have difficulty with speech due to their dagger-like teeth and long, lolling tongues. They rely on their telepathy to communicate.
!!Wind Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Wind demons have great difficulty sitting still for more than a moment. They are always in constant motion and generally making a nuisance of themselves around larger, slower demons or among humans.
* ThePigPen: Wind demons delight in foul odours, rank gasses, and poisonous air. Their arrival can make horses and dogs vomit and paw their noses.
!!Yek Demon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (yek), 9 (alpha yek)
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* BattleTrophy: Yek often wear entrails and bones of previous victims.
* EatenAlive: Yek do not care what flesh they feed upon but prefer it to be raw and wriggling.
* MonstrousCannibalism: After a yek pack leader is killed and a new one is chosen, the weakest member of the pack is devoured by the new leader.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Yek are among the most mercenary of demons and can be bargained with to a greater degree than most. An evil spellcaster can perform a yek summoning ritual, offering blood and bone and a stream of rich and constant plunder to the pack leader, in exchange for service against a particular foe. If the plunder and cartloads of bone are not forthcoming, the yek invariably take their fee out of their summoner or that summoner's troops and followers.
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[[folder:Devil]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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!!Arachnocrat
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* AllThatGlitters: Arachnocrats have a second stomach that can turn common rocks into faux gemstones. They vomit up the gemstones after digesting the rocks for a few months, and use the gemstones to fund their endeavours. The counterfeit nature of the gems is detectable by only true craftsmen.
* HumanDisguise: Arachnocrats are adept at disguising themselves as aristocrats. Their most noticeable features, clawed hands and spider-like faces, are covered with gloves, masks, scarves, voluminous robes and similar attire. The eccentricities of the well-to-do help to cast off any suspicion over their odd coverings.
* WickedCultured: Arachnocrats enjoy masquerading as members of high society, eating haute cuisine and drinking fine wine in the company of humans. Viewing the wealth and standing of their victims as the greatest measure of taste, these devils delight in aristocratic prey, though they most often feed on the liquefied innards of servants of the aristocracy to avoid detection.
!!Automata Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
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* BellyMouth: The automata devil's stomach opens up like a second mouth, filled with spines.
* ChainedByFashion: An automata devil's skin is pierced with barbs, sharp nails and coils of wire, which have been threaded through its flesh.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms ending in large grasping hands erupt from an automata devil's shoulders.
!!Chort Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
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* FlamingSword: Any weapons wielded by a chort devil deal additional fire damage.
!!Crystalline Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* ChestMonster: In its treasure form, a crystalline devil resembles a pretty, sparkling jewel lying on the ground, glowing with a warm inner light. It seeks to catch the eye of an unwary creature whose mind it might corrupt to greed and murder.
* CrystallineCreature: Crystalline devils resemble gem-coated humanoids with terrible talons like shards of broken glass.
* GemstoneAssault: The crystalline devil can attack by magically spraying shards of crystal.
!!Fire Imp
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
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* EnergyAbsorption: Whenever a fire imp is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead heals equal to the fire damage dealt.
* EngineeredHeroics: Efreeti often have fire imps set fires to the property of nobles so that the genie can save the day for a price.
* PlayingWithFire: A fire imp ignites everything with a touch.
!!Gilded Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
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* HumanDisguise: Gilded devils are usually only seen in their true form in Hell. When pursuing a mortal of high standing, they prefer unassuming appearances, making themselves look the parts of wise advisers, canny merchants or sly confidants.
!!Infernal Knight
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16
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* BlackKnight: The infernal knight wears black plate whose edges glow red hot with the glare of hellfire leaking from them.
* ThinkingUpPortals: The infernal knight can magically tear a rift in the fabric of the multiverse, which leads to a plane of its choice.
* YourSoulIsMine: An infernal knight draws victims' souls into its dark blade and carries them back to its master.
!!Ink Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
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* DirtyCoward: Ink devils are talkers and cowards. When forced to fight, they prefer to hide behind other devils.
!!Koralk
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
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* BewareMyStingerTail: The koralk's three stingers drip poison that liquefies the victim's insides.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: A koralk is large and strong enough for Medium-size devils to ride as a mount. They don't like being used this way, but do what they're told by their betters or suffer the consequences.
* MultipleTailedBeast: A koralk has three tails dripping poison.
* SpawnBroodling: When a victim dies from koralk venom, it releases a spray of gelatinous goo and reveals a lemure.
!!Lunar Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
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* {{Lunacy}}: At range, lunar devils hurl moonlight at foes.
!!Orobas Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
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* BeastMan: An orobas resembles a strong man with well-chiseled muscles, an equine head, flaring nostrils and hoofed feet.
!!Salt Devil
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
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* SlaveMarket: Salt devils create slave markets and salt mines, where they thrive on the misery of those indentured into their service.
!!Spawn of Parzulon
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
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* CatGirl: A spawn of Parzulon resembles a woman with a sharp-toothed leonine visage and long needlelike claws.
* OneGenderRace: All spawn of Parzulon are female.
* SemiDivine: Spawn of Parzulon are the results of liaisons between the Arch-Devil Parzelon and mortal women.
!!Wind's Harp
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
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* CounterSpell: The wind's harp devil can play a single, infernal note to interrupt a spell.
* MagicMusic: Wind's harp devils serve the courts of Hell as background music and as instruments of sonic and psychic torture.
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[[folder:Dream Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* EmotionEater: Dream eaters feed on hope and aspiration, leaving helpless thralls willing to sell their souls for their vices.
* HumanDisguise: Dream eaters often use magic to disguise themselves as attractive members of a humanoid race.
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[[folder:Gumienniki]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DealWithTheDevil: Gumienniki strike fiendish bargains with willing farmers, offering to protect silos and storehouses from vermin, thieves and fire in return for a steady supply of livestock. Most of these bargains end poorly for the farmer, who soon discovers that the gumienniki doesn't discriminate when it's hungry.
* HumanSacrifice: Gumienniki delight in sacrificing captured humanoids or livestock in starlight. They sometimes ally with dark fertility cults in hidden groves, bringing blood sacrifices directly from their protected farmers.
* TemporaryBlindness: When the gumienniki flashes its glowing eyes, creatures that can see it risk getting temporarily blinded by the resulting illumination.
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[[folder:Kalke]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: The drive to produce ever more fanciful rituals gives a kalke the compulsion to accumulate occult paraphernalia, even though these objects serve no purpose. Because they have no ability to distinguish what's magically useful from what isn't, they grab any objects they uncover.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The kalke combines the head of a goat and the body of a monkey.
* RitualMagic: Twice a month, or more during major astrological and seasonal events, the kalkes gather to perform an imagined rite of great magic. The effort has an equal chance of triggering nothing whatsoever, dangerous but short-lived misfortunes, or calamities.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Kalkes can sense spellcasting in a 5-mile radius, as long as the effect is not innate.
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[[folder:Karakura]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* CharmPerson: Karakura can use their wit and charm to magically draw in prey.
* EmotionEater: Karakura prefer to feed upon devotion and love, though flesh and blood will do in a pinch.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The karakura can only exist on the Material Plane at night or underground.
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[[folder:Kuunganisha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
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* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Kuunganisha constantly exposed to divination magic grow non-functioning, constantly-moving eyes across their skin.
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[[folder:Rakshasa]]
!!Greater Rakshasa
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Greater rakshasas are driven by a lust for power, keeping their true natures hidden as they maneuver themselves into the highest echelons of society.
* ManipulativeBastard: No scheme is ever too complicated for greater rakshasas, and they are willing to employ a variety of techniques to achieve their aims, including eloquence, deception, bribery, blackmail and intimidation.
* SecretIdentity: Greater rakshasas are adept at assuming multiple identities to carry out their plots, sometimes whispering in the same person's ear from different guises.
* StrongerWithAge: When a truly wicked rakshasa is reincarnated after several lifetimes of treachery and depravity, it will return to the Material Plane from the Eleven Hells as a member of a higher caste.
* ToServeMan: Greater rakshasas feed on the flesh of their mortal puppets when tiring of them.
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[[folder:Soul Eater]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* SoulEating: Soul eaters do not devour flesh, instead feasting on a victim's soul and spirit.
* TrackingSpell: When a soul eater's conjurer orders it to find a creature, it can do so unerringly, despite the distance or intervening obstacles, provided the target is on the same plane of existence. If the target dies before the soul eater can drain the target's soul, or if the soul eater is defeated but not killed by its target, it can use this ability to locate and attack its conjurer.
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[[folder:Spawn of Chernobog]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ChestBurster: If a bite wound from the spawn of Chernobog results in an infection that subsequently kills the victim, a new spawn of Chernobog will spawn from its corpse.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A spawn of Chernobog is shaped like a bear rearing up on its hind legs, and possesses the antlers of a massive elk.
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[[folder:Star-Spawn of Cthulhu]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* AttackReflector: When an attack that causes psychic damage is directed against the spawn, the attack rebounds against the attacker.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Star-spawn don't need air, warmth, ambient pressure, food or water and can survive indefinitely in space.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Being quite obviously based on the TropeNamer, star-spawn have a humanoid body and a face full of tentacles.
* DeadlyGaze: Star-spawn can turn living flesh into miasma through nothing more than a focused gaze.
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[[folder:Stuhac]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* ForcedToWatch: Stuhacs weave new ligaments into their clutters while their still-living victims watch. Lying in crippled agony, they cannot flee as the stuhac tears fresh material from their bodies for its garments.
* HumanDisguise: Wrapping heavy furs around itself, a stuhac poses as a feeble hermit or traveller needing assistance. Only after its victims have been lured away from warmth and safety does the stuhac show its true nature.
* ToServeMan: Once its clutters are done, the stuhac feeds on its live victim, devouring everything but the bones. Finding a clean-picked humanoid skeleton along a mountain path is a reliable sign of a stuhac's presence.
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[[folder:Umbral Vampire]]
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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: An umbral vampire is a fiendish creature, once human but twisted into a dark reflection by an ancient curse.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Umbral vampires are weakened in direct sunlight.
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