| 1 | !![[center: [-[[Characters/PathfinderDeities Main Deities]], [[Characters/PathfinderTianXiaDeities Tian Xia Deities]], [[Characters/PathfinderPantheons Racial and Cultural Pantheons]], [[Characters/PathfinderOuterGods Outer Gods]], [[Characters/PathfinderEmpyrealLords Empyreal Lords]], Fiendish Divinities, [[Characters/PathfinderGreatOldOnes Great Old Ones]], [[Characters/PathfinderOtherDeities Other Gods]]-]]] |
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| 3 | Fiendish divinity is a general term for [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lords, archdevils, archdaemons]], and other fiendish demigods. Most notable amongst them are the Demon Lords of the Abyss, the Apocalypse Riders who rule Abaddon, and the lords of the nine layers of Hell. |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:As a whole]] |
| 8 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: As unique and very powerful fiends and the rulers of their kind, they are some of the most powerful evil entities in the multiverse, and command their own cults and religions, due to their status as quasi-deities, demigods and (for the most powerful ones) full-fledged deities. |
| 9 | * SheIsTheKing: The titles of demon lord and (pre-Remaster) Horseman are both gender-neutral, so Szuriel is still called ''Horseman'' of War despite being a woman for example. |
| 10 | [[/folder]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | !Demons |
| 13 | !!Demon Lords |
| 14 | [[folder:Lamashtu]] |
| 15 | ->'''The Demon Queen''' |
| 16 | ->'''Demon Lord and Goddess of madness, monsters, and nightmares''' |
| 17 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 18 | |
| 19 | A demon lord who slew a true deity and took his power to ascend to divinity. See the page for [[Characters/PathfinderDeities core deities]]. |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Abraxas]] |
| 23 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_abraxas.png]] |
| 24 | ->'''Master of the Final Incantation''' |
| 25 | ->'''Demon Lord of forbidden lore, magic, and snakes''' |
| 26 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Abraxas claims to know many things, from how aboleths called down meteors to the origins of souls. While some may be exaggeration or lies he doubtless knows much about the workings of magic and his most famous secret is the Final Incantation, a spell that can unmake magic itself. |
| 29 | ---- |
| 30 | * AffablyEvil: Those who encounter him often find him quite reasonable and willing to discuss magical theory. |
| 31 | * {{Antimagic}}: He knows the Final Incantation, a single word that can destroy artifacts, render others unable to use magic ever again, and erase spells from existence. He has to use it sparingly, however, as it negates his powers as well. |
| 32 | * TheArchmage: Like Nethys, the actual god of magic, Abraxas is by definition one of of the most powerful and skilled magic-users in existence. |
| 33 | * EvilerThanThou: With Geryon, an archdevil who shares his portfolio and weapon of choice. |
| 34 | * EvilSorcerer: Arcane casters are among his most fervent and powerful followers. |
| 35 | * GreaterScopeVillain: In the Second Darkness Adventure Path, he serves as the BigBad's patron and source of power, and likely the inspiration for her plan. |
| 36 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His shield can animate and fight alongside him. |
| 37 | * ManipulativeBastard: Abraxas is a Demon Lord renowned for his subtlety and far-reaching plot. |
| 38 | * PowerNullifier: Abraxas' greatest weapon is the dreaded Final Incantation, a single potent word that can unmake magic itself. He has used it to destroy minor artefacts, forever strip spellcasting creatures of their ability to use magic, and to remove all knowledge of a certain spell from an entire world's libraries and minds. |
| 39 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Abraxas is a demon from the ''Infernal Dictionary'', though before his classification in that book he was known as everything from an aeon to an archon to a god. Naturally, the ''Pathfinder'' version draws primarily from the demonic interpretation. |
| 40 | * SnakesAreEvil: One of three fiendish divinities (along with the archdevils Asmodeus and Geryon) associated with serpents. Needless to say, snakes do not have a good reputation within the ''Pathfinder'' verse. |
| 41 | * SnakeWhip: He's sometimes depicted wielding a whip that ends in a living snake's head. One of the boons he grants his followers, Fanged Lash, causes any whip or lash they wield to grow scales and a snake's head capable of poisoning those it strikes. |
| 42 | * StupidityInducingAttack: He wields a whip that lets him steal thoughts out of people's minds. |
| 43 | * TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: As the demon lord responsible for forbidden knowledge, Abraxas very much has this in his portfolio. |
| 44 | * UnfriendlyFire: Self-directed; using the Final Incantation temporarily disables many of his own magical and supernatural abilities. |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Aldinach]] |
| 48 | ->'''She of the Six Venoms''' |
| 49 | ->'''Demon Lord of sand, scorpions, and thirst''' |
| 50 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 51 | |
| 52 | One of Lamashtu's daughters, Aldinach is locked in conflict with her sister Areshkagal for control over territory, a conflict Aldinach is winning. |
| 53 | ---- |
| 54 | * BeastWithAHumanFace: She has a human face, albeit a hideously distorted one. |
| 55 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: She takes the form of a giant, human-faced golden scorpion. |
| 56 | * ParentalNeglect: Since her mother, Lamashtu, ascended to godhood, they have had little to do with each other. |
| 57 | * PoisonousPerson: Her sting injects six different venoms and harms even those immune to poison. |
| 58 | * PyramidPower: Many of her temples are, appropriately, pyramids. |
| 59 | * ScaryScorpions: She looks like a giant scorpion with crystal claws and a human face. |
| 60 | * ShiftingSandLand: Her realm, the Sea of Whispering Sands, which she stole from her sister, Areshkagal. |
| 61 | * SiblingRivalry: She is constantly defending her realm from invasions by her sister's minions. |
| 62 | * TheSwarm: She has a swarm of scorpions perpetually inhabiting her back. She can control them with her mind. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Andirifkhu]] |
| 66 | ->'''The Razor Princess''' |
| 67 | ->'''Demon Lord of illusions, traps, and knives''' |
| 68 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Andirifkhu is a master of traps and probably the one responsible for all those death traps still inexplicably functioning in those ancient ruins. |
| 71 | ---- |
| 72 | * AmazonianBeauty: She appears as a "towering, beautiful woman" with green, scaled skin and long, crimson hair. |
| 73 | * ColdBloodedTorture: She loves torture and sadistic inventions, and is a patron to torturers. |
| 74 | * DeathTrap: She loves them, as do her cultists. |
| 75 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Those who make it to the center of her maze (where she resides) are so traumatized by all the traps that they have no choice but to become her favored slaves. |
| 76 | * KukrisAreKool: Her favored weapon. |
| 77 | * LizardFolk: She has scaled skin and reptilian eyes. |
| 78 | * MacGyvering: She can put together traps out of almost anything incredibly quickly. How quickly? Let's put it like this: she can make traps out of her surroundings, her own hair, and the weapons ''her enemies are wielding''. Yeah, if you're fighting her it's best to escape while you still can. |
| 79 | * TheMaze: Her realm is the Vault of Ten Thousand Deaths, a trap-filled maze the size of a continent, making this equal parts this and TempleOfDoom. |
| 80 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has six of them, each wielding a different weapon. |
| 81 | * PsychoKnifeNut: Her followers are often blade-obsessed sadists. |
| 82 | * RazorWire: Her ''hair'' acts as this, slicing through anyone unfortunate enough to touch it. |
| 83 | * TrapMaster: Andirifkhu's cultists are fond of building trap-ridden dungeons and sending sacrifices inside to die on spikes, swinging blades, and spear tips within. |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Angazhan]] |
| 87 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angazhan.png]] |
| 88 | ->'''The Ravener King''' |
| 89 | ->'''Demon Lord of apes, jungles, and brutal tyrants''' |
| 90 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 91 | |
| 92 | If you're in the Mwangi Expanse, Angazhan is the demon lord whose worship you'll find the most. He's a brutal combatant, preferring to take foes apart with his bare hands, fangs, and tail rather than wield weapons. |
| 93 | ---- |
| 94 | * BewareMyStingerTail: His tail ends in a nasty stinger. |
| 95 | * TheCaligula: Anghazan presides over all capricious and irrationally brutal rulers. |
| 96 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Why yes, the giant red ape is aggressive. Why do you ask? |
| 97 | * DarkestAfrica: His worship is the strongest in the least civilized areas of the Mwangi Expanse. |
| 98 | * DrugsAreBad: His worship involves the consumption of mind-altering jungle plants. |
| 99 | * EvilOverlord: Jungle warlords are numbered among his favored worshippers and servants. |
| 100 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: He innhabits a massive black ziggurat that straddles several rifts in the Abyss. |
| 101 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Of most campaigns taking place in the Mwangi Expanse, and definitely of any campaign that involves Ruthazek, Usaro, or the high girallons. |
| 102 | * HornedHumanoid: Horned ape actually, but you get the idea. The baregara, a group of apelike demons dedicated to his service, also have this look. |
| 103 | * HumanSacrifice: Demands that the Spawn of Angazhan sacrifice human captives to him. |
| 104 | * HungryJungle: He rules over hostile, sweltering jungles crawling with monsters, and his realm within the Abyss takes the form a deep rift whose sides are covered in jungles infested with demons and fiendish dinosaurs, serpents, apes, giant insects and worse. |
| 105 | * KillerGorilla: The high girallons and awakened dire apes who worship Angazhan fall into this category, as do the fiendish apes, fiendish dire apes, fiendish girallons, and baregaras who serve as his minions; the Gorilla King, who represents him in on Golarion; and the demon lord himself. He also has various chimpanzee- and baboon-like minions, but gorillas are his favorite. |
| 106 | * JungleDrums: The apemen, girallons, and local natives all use drums in their worship of Angazhan. |
| 107 | * LargeAndInCharge: He takes the form of a huge, red, six-fingered gorilla. |
| 108 | * ManiacMonkeys: He takes the form of a colossal red ape, is worshipped by the charau-ka and the high girallons, and is served by fiendish dire apes, girallons, and other jungle monsters. |
| 109 | * SummonMagic: He grants his followers the ability to summon fiendish apes, dire apes, and girallons. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Areshkagal]] |
| 113 | ->'''The Faceless Sphinx''' |
| 114 | ->'''Demon Lord of greed, magical and mundane portals, and riddles''' |
| 115 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 116 | |
| 117 | One of Lamashtu's children, Areshkagal has been engaged in a bitter feud with Aldinach ever since the latter defeated the former and consigned her to the Blood Clefts, a feud she shows no sign of winning. She may or may not have a connection to Nyarlathotep, whether because she was one of his worshipers in life, deliberately mirrored one of his avatars to confuse people, or is herself an aspect of the Crawling Chaos. The nature of the connection, if there even is one, is a riddle Areshkagal shows no sign of answering. |
| 118 | ---- |
| 119 | * BloodIsSquickerInWater: Her current realm, the Blood Clefts, is a region of crimson, stony hills and gulches flowing with rivers of blood. |
| 120 | * TheExile: Her sister, Aldinach, kicked her out of her former realm, the Sea of Whispering Sands. |
| 121 | * TheFaceless: She appears as such. Although she does have one, but you don't want to see it. |
| 122 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: What happens to those who see her face, unless of course they just die from the sight instead. |
| 123 | * OurSphinxesAreDifferent: She takes the form of a giant, faceless sphinx with a pharaonic headdress, draconic wings, six legs and a snake for a tail. She is often served by evil sphinxes, and her worship traditionally takes place inside giant sphinx statues. |
| 124 | * PyramidPower: Like her sister, she uses pyramids as temples. |
| 125 | * RiddlingSphinx: A particularly unfair and sadistic version -- her riddles are often unsolvable, and one of her boons allows her worshippers to tell riddles so vexing that [[BrownNote they drive listeners insane]]. She also has a riddle-whispering viper for a tail, and her faithful worship her by carving riddles in their own skin. |
| 126 | * SiblingRivalry: With her sister Aldinach, who kicked her out of her old realm and with whom she's still feuding to this day. |
| 127 | * VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: She has six legs plus wings, totaling up to eight limbs. She is a demon though, so abnormal biology is to be expected. |
| 128 | * VillainousFriendship: Her cults get along well with those of Nyarlathotep. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Baphomet]] |
| 132 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_baphomet_6.png]] |
| 133 | ->'''Lord of the Minotaurs''' |
| 134 | ->'''Demon Lord of beasts, labyrinths, and minotaurs''' |
| 135 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 136 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 27 |
| 137 | ->'''Size:''' Large |
| 138 | |
| 139 | Once Lamashtu's consort, and before that the first minotaur, Baphomet tried to steal Asmodeus's ruby rod to gain even greater favor. Asmodeus captured him, carving his symbol into the demon's brow and casting him into a labyrinth. After only a decade, the demon lord escaped the supposedly unsolvable maze and took it with him back to the Outer Rifts to use as his personal domain. |
| 140 | ---- |
| 141 | * AmicableExes: While being abandoned to Asmodeus by Lamashtu left him permanently leaving his position as her consort, he doesn't hate her at all and in fact often serves as her vizier and co-conspirator. |
| 142 | * {{Baphomet}}: The classic archdemon in the winged and goat-headed flesh, presented as a major demon lord worshipped by secretive templar cults. |
| 143 | * TheBeastmaster: Beasts, particularly bulls and hyenas, are closely associated with Baphomet. |
| 144 | * TheCorrupter: He enjoys turning good people to demon worship and animalistic behavior. |
| 145 | * TheDragon: The closest thing that Lamashtu has to one. |
| 146 | * EasilyForgiven: He forgave Lamashtu for leaving him out to dry, though he didn't go back to being her subservient consort. |
| 147 | * EscapedFromHell: He tried to steal Asmodeus's ruby scepter but was caught, got a pentagram branded on his head, and was imprisoned in a continent-sized maze (the Ivory Labyrinth). Not only did he escape in under a decade, he ''took the entire maze with him to make it his Abyssal lair''. |
| 148 | * EthnicGod: He's the patron of the minotaurs and the most popular deity among the bull-men, and said to be their progenitor as well. |
| 149 | * EvilSorcerer: He taught himself magic while imprisoned in Hell. |
| 150 | * ImAHumanitarian: Both he and his followers are fond of devouring human flesh. |
| 151 | * ItsPersonal: With Asmodeus who captured him, branded his forehead with a pentagram, and imprisoned him in the Ivory Labyrinth for a decade. |
| 152 | * KilledOffForReal: If the party manages to defeat him in ''Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth'', he's permanently killed, having already been slain by Nocticula in a previous part of the adventure and having thus used up his once-yearly resurrection. Canonically, this does not happen; instead, he simply went into hiding in his realm for a year. |
| 153 | * KillTheGod: He aims to have his revenge upon Asmodeus by murdering the god of tyranny and claiming his soul. |
| 154 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's around 12 feet tall. |
| 155 | * LeanAndMean: Due to his decade of imprisonment by Asmodeus, Baphomet wasted away. Once he was huge and muscular, but now he's thin and gaunt. |
| 156 | * TheMaze: His domain is the Ivory Labyrinth, the planet-sized maze Asmodeus tried to imprison him in. |
| 157 | * MonsterProgenitor: He was the first minotaur, and is still worshipped by his far-flung spawn. |
| 158 | * MythologyGag: Other than his leanness and submissive position to Lamashtu, he's ''exactly'' like his namesake in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', even having the same favored weapon and areas of influence. The fact that ''Pathfinder''!Baphomet is Lamashtu's lover (and possibly son) is an interesting one, since Lamashtu is most commonly associated with gnolls, to the point that A: she is their patron goddess, and B: her primary appearance is vaguely gnoll-like. ''D&D''!Baphomet is defined heavily by his vicious rivalry with the hyena-like demon prince Yeenoghu, who is the patron god of gnolls in ''D&D''. |
| 159 | * NamedWeapons: His glaive is named ''Aizerghaul'' -- Abyssal for "Labyrinth's Final Edge". |
| 160 | * OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Baphomet is lord of the minotaurs, and grants his followers the power to turn into minotaurs. If you go off the legends, he was actually created by Lamashtu for the specific purpose of leading her armies of minotaurs. He no longer has a bull's head (it has become goat-like for some reason), but takes the form of a giant minotaur when appearing to his minotaur worshipers. |
| 161 | * PublicDomainCharacter: In the real world, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet Baphomet]] is a demon whom the Knights Templar were falsely accused of worshiping, which is associated with the famous "Sabbatic goat" image (a winged, three-horned, goat-headed entity) that was adopted by the Church of Satan. |
| 162 | * UnholyMatrimony: He is one of Lamashtu's favorite lovers and is held highly in her esteem. Try not to picture that, okay? |
| 163 | * WingedHumanoid: He's typically depicted with a pair of great feathered wings. |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Cyth-V'sug]] |
| 167 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cyth_vsug.png]] |
| 168 | ->'''Prince of the Blasted Heath''' |
| 169 | ->'''Demon Lord of disease, fungus, and parasites''' |
| 170 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 171 | |
| 172 | A former qlippoth who was transformed into a demon lord after eons of battling against them. He still loathes all demons, himself included, and shares the qlippoth's common goal of ending mortal life so that they may put an end to all demons. |
| 173 | ---- |
| 174 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungus from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. |
| 175 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: His hatred of demons eventually led him to become one as his greed for vengeance and having his home back grew. |
| 176 | * BoomerangBigot: He was originally a qlippoth lord who was transformed into a demon lord after being infected with sin by the prayers of his mortal worshipers. He ''hates'' demons and shares the qlippoths plans of wiping them out by wiping out mortal life. He doesn't much care that this will mean his own destruction, as it means that his hunger and greed will finally be sated. |
| 177 | * BotanicalAbomination: As the demon lord of fungus, parasites and disease, in addition to having been a qlippoth and thus lacking anything resemblance to normal mortal forms, he unsurprisingly is this. He takes the form of a house-sized, animated mass of fungi, vines, tubers and rot. |
| 178 | ** His physical depictions vary between showing him as a hulking, beast-like quadruped made of rotting vegetable matter or as a flying mass of wooden claws, fangs and horns dotted with bulbous fungal "eyes" and gnarled branches, but always shrouded in miasma and swarming vermin. |
| 179 | ** His realm, the Jeharlu, is itself a planet-sized mass of living fungus that feeds parasitically on any world or plane it is able to contact, corrupting them and absorbing them into itself. |
| 180 | * CombatTentacles: Cyth-V'sug fights with his tendrils. |
| 181 | * FesteringFungus: Cyth-V'sug resembles a monstrous fungal dragon, sprouting with tentacles, and waiting to devour or infect anything that comes into range. |
| 182 | * GeniusLoci: He lives at the centre of the Jeharlu, a massive, living parasitic fungus larger than entire worlds. |
| 183 | * GreenThumb: Inverted. Cyth-V'sug destroys entire forests, leaving areas bereft of life. |
| 184 | * HorrorHunger: He's been afflicted with an unending hunger ever since he was transformed into a demon. |
| 185 | * HumanityIsInfectious: In the worst way; qlippoth are horrifically evil and malicious, but they have no concept of such mortal failings as greed; Cyth-V'sug was infected with greed by the prayers of his mortal worshipers, transforming him into a demon lord and making him even worse than he was before, as he now had a need to consume more and more. |
| 186 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He might well be this to Treerazer, one of his spawn whom he recently exiled to the Material Plane. Some suspect that Treerazer's attack on Kyonin is part of Cyth-V'sug's plan to establish a foothold on the Material Plane much like that held by Deskari in the Worldwound. |
| 187 | * {{Plaguemaster}}: Disease emanates from Cyth-V'sug's being. |
| 188 | * PlanetEater: He consumes the life of entire worlds and adds their remnants to his ever-growing realm. |
| 189 | * PoisonousPerson: To be near Cyth-V'sug is to risk being poisoned by fungus. |
| 190 | * PuppeteerParasite: Numbers them among his minions. |
| 191 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Well he was never ''good'' but he was a different kind of evil. He started drawing on mortal worship to boost his power and rebuke the demons. Over time he drew on more and more, eventually becoming one of the demons he hated. |
| 192 | * SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: Cyth-V'sug wants to put an end to all mortal life, which will put an end to all demons, himself included. He's all right with that -- if anything he ''wants'' to die. |
| 193 | * VampiricDraining: His parasites can grant this power to his followers. |
| 194 | * WalkingWasteland: He transforms entire regions into dying ruins filled only by fungus and parasites. |
| 195 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: As a qlippoth, he deeply hated demons for having taken control of the Outer Rifts from his race and having wiped out most qlippoth in the process, and he sought to wiped the multiverse of demonkind. He eventually transformed into a demon lord himself, but his views haven't changed -- he just extended his hatred of demons to himself. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Dagon]] |
| 199 | ->'''The Shadow in the Sea''' |
| 200 | ->'''Demon Lord of deformity, the sea, and sea monsters''' |
| 201 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 202 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 28 |
| 203 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 204 | |
| 205 | Once a mindless qlippoth lord roaming the depths of the Abyssal sea of Ishiar, Dagon became a demon after consuming demons and mortal souls. He knows his origins but pays them no heed, as he has no wish to return to his animalistic origins, abandoning the qlippoth cause and acting as the demon lord he now is. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * BigEater: Back when he was still a qlippoth lord, Dagon was a ravenous sea monster that ate everything that crossed his path. |
| 208 | * CombatTentacles: His primary limbs are a set of claw-tipped tentacles. |
| 209 | * EldritchAbomination: Dagon's a former Qlippoth Lord and it shows. Both his size and shape are near impossible to describe. |
| 210 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Dagon will sleep with everything and anything, though it's for the purposes of breeding, not enjoyment. |
| 211 | * FaceHeelTurn: From the qlippoth's point of view. He turned into a demon, but unlike most former qlippoth lords he embraced it. |
| 212 | * FishPeople: His followers can easily degenerate into this, becoming twisted deep ones. |
| 213 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: Dwarfs all other sea monsters except Oaur-Ooung, and most demon lords for that matter. He also commands the alleigance of many of these beasts. |
| 214 | * ProngsOfPoseidon: Dagon, demon lord of the sea, has the trident as a favored weapon. |
| 215 | * PublicDomainCharacter: He's based on a Semitic fertility god. |
| 216 | * TheRival: To Gozreh and Besmara for control over the oceans and the monsters within them. It's worth noting that many of the evil beasts of the deep choose to worship Dagon, likely because he's the option who matches their attitudes best -- Gozreh has little interest in monsters as such, and Besmara's servants only obey her because she'll kill them if they don't. |
| 217 | * SeaMonster: Dagon is not fully fish, octopus, or eel, but he is all utterly horrific. He is also followed by many sea monsters, including [[TentacledTerror devilfish, krakens]], and other acquatic horrors. |
| 218 | * SwampsAreEvil: Marsh giants are among Dagon's most fervent followers, and areas where his worship is prevalent seem to degenerate into this sort of territory very swiftly. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Deskari]] |
| 222 | ->'''Lord of the Locust Host''' |
| 223 | ->'''Demon Lord of chasms, infestation, and locusts''' |
| 224 | -> '''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 225 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 29 |
| 226 | ->'''Size:''' Gargantuan |
| 227 | |
| 228 | Perhaps the most prominent demon lord known to Golarion, it was Deskari who tore open the breach to the Outer Rifts known as the Worldwound. Despite the crusades mobilized against him, his reach grows ever outward from the rift as his many plans bear fruit. |
| 229 | ---- |
| 230 | * ArchEnemy: Of the nation of Mendev in the present, and of the nation of Sarkoris and the god Aroden in the backstory. |
| 231 | * BigBad: He's the main villain of Wrath of the Righteous, due to being the mastermind behind the demonic invasion and the Worldwound that the players fight throughout the adventure path before coming face to face with him in his Abyssal realm. |
| 232 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: He resembles a human/locust hybrid, and is served by various giant insects and vermleks. |
| 233 | * BrownNote: His exoskeletal plates grind together as he moves, making a horrible griding noise that can drive people insane. |
| 234 | * TheChessmaster: He's a devious tactician, having thousands of years to hone his intellect and understanding. This is best shown with his cunning at the Worldwound crusades. The initial attack from his armies was deliberately allowed to be undisciplined and chaotic in order to make their enemies underestimate them in the future, all while also providing a distraction for other demons to teleport elsewhere across Golarion. Nowadays he's perfectly capable of marching out in full force to crush the mortal opposition entirely, but he prefers to sit back and yet the years of pressure take its toll on his enemies and lead them to destroying themselves through corruption and sin. [[spoiler: Of course, [[ComplexityAddiction sitting back and letting his myriad plans play out bites him in the ass]], as it allows the heroes from Wrath of the Righteous to gain mythic powers and slay Deskari.]] |
| 235 | * ADeathInTheLimelight: Deskari received a full six-page article (a treatment that not many non-core gods receive) in the sixth volume of the Wrath of the Righteous AP--the same issue in which [[spoiler:he gets KilledOffForReal]]. |
| 236 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: Averted, unlike most other demon lords -- he was the child of two demons and never mortal to begin with. |
| 237 | * DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His entire goal is to make the Worldwound spread grow as much as possible and turn Golarion into a demon-infested wasteland. |
| 238 | * FantasticRacism: He looks down on demons, even demon lords, who were once mortal. In his many eyes, only demons born to demons are truly pure. |
| 239 | * FinalBoss: Fighting Deskari in his own center of power serves as the climatic finale to Wrath of the Righteous. Canonically, [[spoiler:Deskari did indeed get destroyed at the end of the Fifth Crusade]]. |
| 240 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: His are made of a swarm of locusts. |
| 241 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Of essentially any campaign taking place in Mendev or the Worldwound, or involving the latter's demons. |
| 242 | * KilledOffForReal: In Rasping Rebirth, it was revealed that [[spoiler:the heroes of Wrath of the Righteous were able to seal off the Worldwound and slay Deskari for good, although as part of that scenario a Pathfinder takes his place in his realm. It still counts, as it will take a long time for them to become a true demon lord, and they'll never truly replace him.]] Second Edition corroborates this. |
| 243 | %%* InTheBlood |
| 244 | * NamedWeapons: His favored weapon is ''Riftcarver'', a gigantic scythe that he used to cut the canyons and rifts of his realm out of the Abyss' matrix. |
| 245 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: Human(ish) from the waist up, locust from the waist down. |
| 246 | * OverlordJr: If the stories about him being Pazuzu's son are true, he spent much of his early life secreted away in his father's realm until ready to stake out an Abyssal claim of his own. |
| 247 | * SinisterScythe: His main weapon, ''Riftcarver'', is a gigantic scythe formed from the remnants of his own mother. |
| 248 | * SorcerousOverlord: The true ruler of the Worldwound. |
| 249 | * TheSwarm: He controls swarms of verminous insects, particularly locusts, as part of his portfolio. |
| 250 | * TakeOverTheWorld: He seeks to conquer the entire world through the rent his cultists have opened in the Worldwound. |
| 251 | * WeHaveReserves: He'll sacrifice as many as he needs if it furthers his stratagems. |
| 252 | * WingedHumanoid: Discounting his less-than-humanoid lower half, this is one trait he inherited from his father. Unlike papa Pazuzu, though, Deskari's wings are in fact two swarms of Abyssal vermin arranged in roughly wing-like shapes. |
| 253 | * TheWormThatWalks: His wings are made out of thousands of buzzing insects. He also counts many Worms that Walk among his worshippers. |
| 254 | * ZergRush: Deskari's followers understand that they are weak as individuals but that together they are strong, and rush into battle as a single-minded horde. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Flauros]] |
| 258 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flauros.png]] |
| 259 | ->'''The Burning Maw''' |
| 260 | ->'''Demon Lord of fire, salamanders, and volcanoes''' |
| 261 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 262 | |
| 263 | Flauros is a master of magma, capable of making it flow like water or cool in moments. He has a feud with the elemental lord of fire Ymiri and regularly raids her from portals created through volcanic calderas. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | * ArchEnemy: Of the Mistress of Flame Ymeri, who battles him for the loyalty of the salamanders. So far, Flauros is winning. |
| 266 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: He and Fhengasma are a villainous example. Flauros has never commented one way or another, but let's put it this way -- she roosts at the foot of the volcano he lives in, she's been there as long as anyone can remember, and there seem to be a lot of half-fiend red dragons hanging around Flauros' lair. |
| 267 | * FierySalamander: He looks like a salamander made of obsidian and magma. |
| 268 | * GodOfFire: Flauros, demon lord of fire and lava, is favoured by salamanders, arsonists and mortals who live in volcanic regions like fire giants and red dragons. |
| 269 | * LargeAndInCharge: He is described as "immense" and wields a sixty-foot spear. |
| 270 | * LethalLavaLand: He lives in the Bloodpyre Fields, an arc of volcanos on the shores of a sea of lava. |
| 271 | * MagmaMan: Magma Amphibian, anyway. His favored form resembles a giant salamander made out of lava and volcanic rocks, and he rules over fire and volcanoes. |
| 272 | * MorphWeapon: His spear, ''Eshaharu'', can transform into a burning whip that immolates anything it strikes. |
| 273 | * MyBloodRunsHot: He bleeds lava. |
| 274 | * NamedWeapons: An obsidian spear named ''Eshaharu'' that can transform into a whip of lava. |
| 275 | * NotGoodWithRejection: It's rumored that his feud with Ymeri is because she rejected him as a suitor. |
| 276 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: He counts a sizeable number of red dragons among his worshippers, he's served by half-fiend red dragons, and he's likely in a relationship with one as well. |
| 277 | * PlayingWithFire: He can grant this power to his followers. |
| 278 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: His worshippers includes many arsonists among their number. |
| 279 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: He can quickly cool lava into weapons of obsidian and volcanic glass. |
| 280 | * StealthInsult: He never loots anything during his raids on Ymeri, implying that his fires burn so much hotter that nothing he takes would survive. |
| 281 | * UnholyMatrimony: He's rumoured to be in a long-term relationship with a red dragon named Fhengasma. |
| 282 | * VolcanoLair: He makes his home in the midst of a gigantic volcano in the Abyss' depths. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Gogunta]] |
| 286 | ->'''The Song of the Swamp''' |
| 287 | ->'''Demon Lord of amphibians, boggards, and swamps''' |
| 288 | ->'''Alignment:''' Chaotic Evil |
| 289 | |
| 290 | Gogunta can appear as either a titanic frog with too many eyes and mouths, even accounting for the fact that she also has too many heads, or as an immense boggard queen. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One possible origin story for Gogunta is that she was a mobogo (a monstrous frog-like monster) that ascended to demonhood by eating just the right parts of just the right creatures. Another explanation, and the one most demon experts believe, is that she was a hezrou in service to Dagon who ascended the more traditional way. |
| 293 | * BrownNote: Imagine a frog croak loud enough to be heard for miles and across dimensions that drives those who hear it mad and leaves them with a compulsive desire to seek out the source to sacrifice themselves. That's the song of the swamp. |
| 294 | * EthnicGod: She's the chief deity of the boggards -- in fact, it's rare for anyone else to worship her -- and some legends claim that she's the progenitor of the entire boggard species. |
| 295 | * MarsNeedsWomen: Not all who she compels to her with her song offer themselves as meals, but as mates. |
| 296 | * MultipleChoicePast: Some stories say that she was once an boggard, while others say that she started out as a hezrou demon and that the boggard race can be traced back to her instead. |
| 297 | * MultipleHeadCase: She has many heads, and even more eyes and tongues. |
| 298 | * MultipurposeTongue: They drip acid. |
| 299 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: She can swallow people and spit them back up as frog-like mutants. |
| 300 | * {{Squick}}: In-universe, her cultists will go into great detail describing her relationship with Dagon, enough that an impassive informative description describes the stories as "disturbing to recount". If they're right, boggards owe their existence to Dagon just as much as Gogunta. |
| 301 | * SwampsAreEvil: Her worship is strongly associated with swamps, and her abyssal realm, Mephizim, is a salt marsh floating on top of Dagon's oceanic realm Ishiar. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Haagenti]] |
| 305 | ->'''The Whispers Within''' |
| 306 | ->'''Demon Lord of alchemy, invention, and transformation''' |
| 307 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 308 | |
| 309 | A manipulative demon lord who whispers to inventors and creators to spread chaos through their creations. |
| 310 | ---- |
| 311 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: He's often presumed to be among the least destructive and most reasonable demon lords. This is a ruse to get society to invent destructive weapons. |
| 312 | * BreathWeapon: In his battle form, his breath can [[BodyHorror fleshwarp]] anyone it touches. |
| 313 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Haagenti has myriad forms and can change his appearance at will. He often appears as an especially attractive member of whatever race he interacts with, particularly in a shape that others will find seductive or pleasing to be around. |
| 314 | * MadScientist: He is the patron of mad alchemists. |
| 315 | * MadScientistLaboratory: His abyssal realm, Cerebulim, is essentially an immense interlinked collection of laboratories, libraries, torture chambers, and bestiaries that he can shift around at will. |
| 316 | * OurMinotaursAreDifferent: His preferred battle form is that of a demonic winged bull with metal horns. |
| 317 | * PhilosophersStone: Taught mortals how to turn lead into gold using one. |
| 318 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He prefers to appear as a member of the same race he is interacting with. What is true form is, if he has one at all, is unknown. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Jezelda]] |
| 322 | ->'''Mistress of the Hungry Moon''' |
| 323 | ->'''Demon Lord of desolation, the moon, and werewolves''' |
| 324 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 325 | |
| 326 | Widely believed to be the first humanoid to be infected with lycanthropy, Jezelda's worshippers remain tight-lipped on the subject of her origins. |
| 327 | ---- |
| 328 | * FantasticRacism: She's explicitly a deity of ''werewolves'', not lycanthropy in general, and absolutely despises other werecreatures. |
| 329 | * GodOfTheMoon: She's strongly associated with the moon as a result of lycanthropy's ties to its phases. Her realm, the Moonbog, is illuminated only by an unsetting, unwaning moon. |
| 330 | * HornedHumanoid: In her humanoid and hybrid forms, as she maintains her horns regardless of what form she's in. |
| 331 | * HornsOfVillainy: She has horns regardless of the form she's using. |
| 332 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: She and her consorts kidnap mortals from countless worlds in order to hunt them. |
| 333 | * LeanAndMean: She appears emaciated in all of her forms. |
| 334 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: She's the patron of werewolves, has many among her faithful, and may be the one to have introduced lycanthropy to the world in the first place. |
| 335 | * SavageWolves: Counts werewolves among her faithful, and has dire wolves, wolves, and wargs as her favored minions. |
| 336 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can choose between taking the shape a beautiful Varisian woman, a slavering wolf, or a mix of the two. |
| 337 | * WeirdMoon: The moon always hangs over her lair in the Moonbog. |
| 338 | %%* WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Jubilex]] |
| 342 | ->'''The Faceless Lord''' |
| 343 | ->'''Demon Lord of ooze, poison, and sloth''' |
| 344 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 345 | |
| 346 | An ancient, mindless qlippoth lord who ascended by consuming and assimilating a demon lord. Whether he's realized the change, or even realizes he's worshipped, is a point of debate. |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: His realm resembles a gigantic network of sewers and sluices running throughout the underbelly of the Abyss. |
| 349 | * AdaptationNameChange: From Juiblex in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' to Jubilex in ''Pathfinder''. |
| 350 | * TheAlcoholic: He counts many drug addicts, alcoholics, and other substance abusers among his followers. |
| 351 | * BlobMonster: He appears as a gelatinous blob of protoplasm studded with orange eyes, and is served by a variety of ooze monsters including. His favored servants are the omoxes, living waves of slime given sentience. |
| 352 | * BodyHorror: You know all those liquids inside of you? Blood, bile, marrow, gastric juices, all those chemicals in your brain, other less-polite substances? Jubilex can give all of those the properties of oozes, which means any unfortunate who gets targeted with this gets eaten from the inside out as every fluid in their body comes alive. |
| 353 | * ExtraEyes: His blobby body is covered in thousands of red eyes the size of a man's head. |
| 354 | * TheGodsMustBeLazy: Whether Jubilex even realises he ''has'' worshippers is a matter of some debate. |
| 355 | * ImAHumanitarian: He enjoys absorbing mortals into his protoplasmic bulk when he runs into one. |
| 356 | * LazyBum: Not only in he the patron of sloth, but he suffers from it too. Unless you accidentally run into him, Jubilex poses essentially no threat to you. |
| 357 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's a joke as a deity, but Jubilex still has stats of well over CR 25, meaning that if you encounter him, you are just as dead as if it were any other Demon Lord. |
| 358 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Jubilex spends most of his time wandering through the Abyss, bothering no one. |
| 359 | * PoisonousPerson: He grants his followers the power to poison their targets. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Kabriri]] |
| 363 | ->'''Him Who Gnaws''' |
| 364 | ->'''Demon Lord of ghouls, graves, and secrets known only by the dead''' |
| 365 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 366 | |
| 367 | The first humanoid to commit cannibalism, Kabriri spreads both his worship and ghoulism between worlds. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: His rulership over the ghouls makes him Piazo's version of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' own Doresain, King of Ghouls and toady to Orcus. |
| 370 | * BreathWeapon: His breath spreads ghoul fever. |
| 371 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: He was an elf before dying and becoming a demon. |
| 372 | * LittleBitBeastly: He has cloven hooves for feet. |
| 373 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Played with. He's just as powerful as he claims to be, but the Leng ghouls see him this way. They've been around long before him and consider the ghouls Kabriri created to be stumbling children learning a way of life they're perfected. |
| 374 | * WasOnceAMan: Kabriri formed from the soul of the first humanoid who fed on another. |
| 375 | * YouWillBeSpared: He avoids elves and the elven immunity to ghoul paralysis is because all ghouls can be traced back to him. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Kostchtchie]] |
| 379 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kostchtchie.png]] |
| 380 | ->'''The Deathless Frost''' |
| 381 | ->'''Demon Lord of cold, giants, and revenge''' |
| 382 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 383 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 26 |
| 384 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 385 | |
| 386 | Once a powerful warlord, Kostchtchie tried to force Baba Yaga to make him immortal. She granted his wish but twisted his form in the process, sending him fleeing in shame. He eventually found his way to the Abyss where he grew in power to become a demon lord. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | * AnIcePerson: Cold and frost are a part of his portfolio. |
| 389 | * BaldOfEvil: He has a big beard, but his scalp is barren. |
| 390 | * BeardOfBarbarism: He has a long beard interwoven with bones. |
| 391 | * BeardOfEvil: Complete with skulls woven into it. |
| 392 | * BestServedCold: He's the patron of delayed revenge. [[AnIcePerson Make your]] [[{{Revenge}} own joke]]. |
| 393 | * BullyingADragon: He tried to threaten ''Baba Yaga'', who is quite possibly the most powerful mortal magic-user in existence, into making him immortal. He got what he wanted, and he also got to be a hideous monster for the rest of his everlasting life. |
| 394 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: Unlike almost all other demons, who originated as mortals that died, went to the Outer Rifts, became larvae and gradually metamorphosed into demons, Kostchtchie became a demon lord without ever having died. He simply charged into the Outer Rifts and basked in its chaos and evil until he became a demon, and then a demon lord, himself. He is immensely proud of this. |
| 395 | * {{Determinator}}: An evil example. Having been transformed into a disfigured giant by Baba Yaga, Kostchtchie journeyed to the Outer Rifts and became a demon lord (a process that can take eons) specifically so that he might gain revenge upon the witch. |
| 396 | %%* EvilIsDeathlyCold |
| 397 | * EvilVersusEvil: He's a rival of [[WickedWitch Baba Yaga]] and Thremyr, ChaoticEvil god of the frost giants. |
| 398 | * HeManWomanHater: He is far and away the most overtly misogynistic archfiend around -- he teaches his followers that women exist to please men and breed more warriors, and refuses to commune with or grant spells to his female worshippers. |
| 399 | %%* HeWhoFightsMonsters |
| 400 | * OurGiantsAreBigger: He stole the worship of many of the frost giants from their god, and he resembles a deformed frost giant himself. He also counts hill giants, ettins, trolls and ogres among his worshippers. |
| 401 | * PublicDomainCharacter: He's named for Koschei the Deathless, one of ''the'' {{Big Bad}}s of Russian folklore (and an archetypal lich) alongside Baba Yaga. |
| 402 | * {{Revenge}}: Kostchtchie loves the vengeful, and seeks to gain revenge himself on Baba Yaga. |
| 403 | * RevengeByProxy: He hopes to raze Irrisen and kill Baba Yaga's daughters as a lesson to her. |
| 404 | * SelfMadeOrphan: When he was human, his father forced him to murder his mother and his sisters. Kostchtchie went him one better and killed his father as well. |
| 405 | * WasOnceAMan: Kostchtchie was a human who was turned into a deformed giant by Baba Yaga. He fled to the Outer Rifts and changed once again, becoming the demon lord he is today. Unlike most demon lords though, he didn't have to die to transform, instead transitioning through absorbing the essence of the Outer Rifts. |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | [[folder:Mazmezz]] |
| 409 | ->'''The Creeping Queen''' |
| 410 | ->'''Demon Lord of binding, driders, and vermin''' |
| 411 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 412 | |
| 413 | Once a qlippoth lord, Mazmezz took interest in the lives of the mortals that created demons and took pleasure in being worshipped. When she realized her subjects would be killed by the qlippoth as part of their plan to eradicate the demons, she betrayed them to become a demon lord. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * ChestBurster: She can implant her eggs in her enemies with her attacks, followed quickly by their hatching and gruesome exit from their host. |
| 416 | * MonsterProgenitor: Mazmezz spawned the first bebiliths back when she was still a qlippoth lord. |
| 417 | * OneWingedAngel: In a fight she sheds her disguises and assumes her true form, a tangle of hundreds of legs endings in claws, pincers, and spinnerets sprouting from a roughly spherical body covered in writhing hair. |
| 418 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can wrap herself in webs and compress her form to appear as a beautiful woman or drider. |
| 419 | [[/folder]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[folder:Mestama]] |
| 422 | ->'''Mother of Witches''' |
| 423 | ->'''Demon Lord of cruelty, deception, and hags''' |
| 424 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 425 | |
| 426 | A cunning demon lord, Mestama prefers long term plots and devious schemes to outright confrontation. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Mestama, the demon lord of cruelty and deception in ''Pathfinder'', is one to Fraz-Urb'luu, the Prince of Deception in ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}''. |
| 429 | * DontGoInTheWoods: Her domain is the Barren Wood, a confounding forest of dying and dead trees with the occasional broken-down cabin or cave. |
| 430 | * HitAndRunTactics: In combat, she prefers to strike grievous wounds from hiding and vanish before her victims can retaliate. |
| 431 | * KillAndReplace: She likes to kill brides-to-be and take their place, only revealing their truth during the consummation of the wedding. |
| 432 | * MotherOfAThousandYoung: Her KillAndReplace tactic seen above is usually followed by the birth of a new monstrous half-fiend young, which she usually sends to kill the unwitting father in a few years. |
| 433 | * TheRival: She's this to Gyronna the Angry Hag, with whom she competes for the worship of witches. |
| 434 | * StrawFeminist: Mestama's cult is composed entirely of eunuchs and women, for she would not stand for the outrage of a man calling upon her powers. |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | [[folder:Nocticula]] |
| 438 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_nocticula.png]] |
| 439 | ->'''Our Lady in Shadow''' |
| 440 | ->'''Demon Lord of assassins, darkness, and lust''' |
| 441 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 442 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 30 |
| 443 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 444 | |
| 445 | The first succubus, Noticula has a habit of killing demon lords to absorb their power. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | This folder covers Nocticula in her 1st edition role as a demon lord. For tropes pertaining to her 2nd edition identity as a goddess, see [[Characters/PathfinderInnerSeaDeities Inner Sea Deities]]. |
| 448 | ---- |
| 449 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: She has a truly nasty set of nails. |
| 450 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Nocticula the queen of succubi in ''Pathfinder'' is one to Malcanthet the queen of succubi in ''D&D''. |
| 451 | * ArmedLegs: Her feet are actually hooves made of stone that can exude heat. |
| 452 | * AttractiveBentGender: She turns into a man when seducing individuals who aren't attracted to women. He looks different each time, but is always attractive. |
| 453 | * BatOutOfHell: She has a bat's wings and uses bats as her minions. |
| 454 | * BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:This is at the core of her eventual HeelFaceTurn in 2E; she's come to understand how ''limiting'' being a succubus is, and desires more than to just be a FemmeFatale. She's not ashamed of her sexual abilities, but she does realize she wants to have more appreciation for beauty and romance in general than what she naturally does.]] |
| 455 | * BewareMyStingerTail: She has three short tails ending in stingers. |
| 456 | * BlackWidow: She seduces and then murders her targets. |
| 457 | * BrotherSisterIncest: She's in an on-again-off-again tryst with her brother Socothbenoth. |
| 458 | * CastingAShadow: She's associated with darkness and shadows, even blessing her worshippers with darkness and blinding spells. |
| 459 | * TheDreaded: She's feared even among fellow demon lords, for she's known to have assassinated some of them. |
| 460 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Her skin is extremely pale, which contrasts with her dark hair to give her a mystical appearance. |
| 461 | * EvilerThanThou: One of the few demon lords to openly oppose Lamashtu. |
| 462 | * FemmeFatale: She's such a skilled seductress that even those who know better tend to fall for her, often leading to their downfall. |
| 463 | * GodhoodSeeker: While she's already a demon lord and thus a lesser divinity herself, she's rumored to want to become the second demon lord to ascend to full godhood -- something that worries Lamashtu enormously, as Nocticula's rise to her already considerable power has been paved with the a number of slain rivals impressive even among demons. At the end of first edition Nocticula indeed ascends to godhood, although to considerable InUniverse surprise she does so [[spoiler:as a ChaoticNeutral, rather than ChaoticEvil, deity -- her desire for godhood was in large part driven by a desire to grow past the bonds of demonhood and the limited nature of most outsiders' wills]]. |
| 464 | * GoodAllAlong: It's hinted in several places that Nocticula might in fact be a fallen empyreal lord, killing other demon lords in the hope of eventually escaping and redeeming herself by the process of ascension to full godhood. Of interest is her statblock, which has a notably different damage reduction to the standard set of demon lord resistances, and has been confirmed as not an error. |
| 465 | * HeelFaceTurn: It's hinted at in several places that Nocticula may be seeking redemption alongside divinity -- some of her cultists believe so, at least, and worship her as the Redeemer Queen on this basis. [[spoiler:This is confirmed at the end of ''Wrath of the Righteous'' and in ''Planar Adventures''. Ayavah, a "heretical" follower of Nocticula and the primary believer in the tale, was explicitly right all along. If Nocticula ascends her alignment moves to Chaotic Neutral, shedding her demonic aspect, and she becomes a patron of, among other things, outcasts. Perhaps like she herself. Still, this is entirely optional -- it's just as likely that the [=PCs=] can decide to go finish her off. In any event; the game's second edition treats her ascension as canon.]] |
| 466 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: Her most famous assassination targets have been other demon lords in the Abyss, so she can steal their worshippers and increase her own power. |
| 467 | * KlingonPromotion: She's cut a swath through the Abyss' demon lords, seducing them, murdering them, and stealing their followers. Lamashtu worries that she may well be Nocticula's ultimate target, as the demon lord's path to power bears a striking resemblance to Lamashtu's own. |
| 468 | * {{Lust}}: She personifies all the negative aspects of lust, with the worst of her followers being serial rapists, sexual sadists, and the ever profligate drow. |
| 469 | * ManEatingPlant: Like Cyth-V'sug, Nocticula often uses these to do her dirty work for her. |
| 470 | * MonsterProgenitor: She's the first of the succubi and is worshipped by them. |
| 471 | * PointyEars: She has pointy, elf-like ears. |
| 472 | * PrehensileTail: Like most succubi, she has tails that can act as limbs. Unlike most succubi, she has ''three'' and they all have [[BewareMyStingerTail stingers]]. |
| 473 | * ProfessionalKiller: One of several beings to offer assassins their patronage. |
| 474 | * ProphetEyes: She has pure white pupils, denoting her status as a mythic being. |
| 475 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Indeed it is, and Nocticula loves those bold enough to commit it. Rapists are among her most fervent worshippers. |
| 476 | * SexIsEvil: As the Demon Lord of {{lust}}, she personifies all the negative aspects of sex. |
| 477 | * SexGoddess: As the first of the succubus, her sexual prowess is near legendary. |
| 478 | * ShapeshiftingLover: Like most succubi, she can shift her form to meet the desires of those observing her. |
| 479 | * SiblingsInCrime: With her brother/lover Socothobenoth |
| 480 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: She's the first succubus so her attire is fairly similar to theirs, which is to say there's very little of it. |
| 481 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: She's the MonsterProgenitor of all succubi in the Pathfinder universe and is often referred to as the "Succubus Queen". She possesses most of the traits associated with them, such as their [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace unnatural beauty]], their skill at [[TheVamp seduction]] and [[SexGoddess carnal pleasure]], and their [[ShapeshiftingLover shapeshifting powers]]. Her natural form also shares the physical characteristics succubi have, such as the [[WingedHumanoid bat-like wings]], [[AbsurdlySharpClaws sharp talons]], hooved feet and [[PrehensileTail prehensile-tails]]. |
| 482 | * TheVamp: She's a master seductress that knows how to use her sex appeal to her advantage. |
| 483 | * VillainousRescue: At the climax of the fourth installment of the ''Wrath of the Righteous'' adventure path, ''The Midnight Isles'', she saves the heroes from being killed by Baphomet when she attacks him in retaliation for trespassing on her domain. |
| 484 | * WeaponSpecialization: Her Favored Weapon is the crossbow. She even has a personal magic crossbow named Shadowkiss. |
| 485 | * WingedHumanoid: She's a humanoid woman with massive bat-like wings that are covered in magical runes. |
| 486 | [[/folder]] |
| 487 | |
| 488 | [[folder:Nurgal]] |
| 489 | ->'''The Shining Scourge''' |
| 490 | ->'''Demon Lord of the deserts, the sun, and senseless warfare''' |
| 491 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 492 | |
| 493 | Once a sun god in the time of Azlant, the moon goddess Acavna clove him in two during one of their battles. The greater half of him became Nurgal, while the lesser became the infernal duke Nergal. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * ArchEnemy: His ultimate nemesis was the Azlanti goddess Acavna, at least before she split him in half and later died during Earthfall. |
| 496 | * CainAndAbel: Is said to be the half-brother of Nocticula and Socothbenoth. He has been at war with both of them for eons. |
| 497 | * DividedDeity: The god Nurgal was cloven in two by Acavna; the greater half became Nurgal, while the lesser half became the infernal duke Nergal. |
| 498 | * EvilIsNotPacifist: He enjoys pointless wars. |
| 499 | * EvilerThanThou: With the misotheistic aboleths, who destroyed Azlanti rather than let Nurgal have it for himself, and the demon lord Socothbenoth. |
| 500 | * GodOfLight: Nurgal is a demon lord who embodies the destructive aspects of the sun. |
| 501 | * LightIsNotGood: The poster boy, having the form of a lion, being associated with the sun, having light leak off of his body, and being completely and totally evil. |
| 502 | * PantheraAwesome: He is served by many lions and leonine creatures. Nurgal himself has the lower body and head of a lion. |
| 503 | %%* PlayingWithFire |
| 504 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: He represents all the negative aspects of the sun -- drought, scorching heat, dehydration, etc. |
| 505 | * SealedEvilInACan: Not Nurgal himself, but his mortal aspect of Nu'ruu'gaal is trapped in the remnants of an Azlanti city. |
| 506 | * ThirstyDesert: Is most frequently worshipped in regions like this, and makes his Abyssal realm resemble one. |
| 507 | * WarGod: He represents wars that never should have been fought in the first place, and takes delight in sparking senseless conflicts. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[folder:Orcus]] |
| 511 | ->'''Prince of Undeath''' |
| 512 | ->'''Demon lord of death, necromancy, and wrath''' |
| 513 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 514 | |
| 515 | A wrathful demonic lord with a bitter rivalry with the other gods, demigods, and archfiends of undeath. His cult is fairly minor on Golarion, but far more widespread on other worlds. |
| 516 | ---- |
| 517 | * ArchEnemy: He considers all gods and empereal lords who oppose necromancy to be his. |
| 518 | * DeathWorld: His realm is Uligor, a vast domain of swamps, deserts, mountains, ruins, and frozen seas, all permeated with undeath. |
| 519 | * GruesomeGoat: His sacred animal, and he himself has the head and legs of a monstrous goat. |
| 520 | * MythologyGag: In-universe, Orcus is one of the most powerful demon lords and has a big cult throughout the universe, but his presence on Golarion is rather small. In real life, Orcus has starred in a lot of ''D&D'' material and is the mascot of Necromancer Games, and Paizo decided to downplay him in ''Pathfinder'' to avoid stepping on other companies' toes. |
| 521 | * OneHitKill: The ''Rod of Orcus'' can slay with but a touch. |
| 522 | * TheRival: Oh, where do we start? He's fiercely possessive of his rule over the undead, and doesn't get along with any other power claiming dominion over all or some of the living dead -- Urgathoa, Kabriri, Zura, and Mordiggian are just a few of the other deities he doesn't like sharing territory with. |
| 523 | * SkullForAHead: He has a ram skull for a head. |
| 524 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: He's fairly minor on Golarion because his attention is focused on other planets, and because the cults of Kabriri and Zura and the church of Urgathoa are entrenched deeply enough to leave little room for his own cult. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Pazuzu]] |
| 528 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pazuzu_pathfinder.png]] |
| 529 | ->'''King of the Wind Demons''' |
| 530 | ->'''Demon Lord of the sky, temptation, and winged creatures''' |
| 531 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 532 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 30 |
| 533 | ->'''Size:''' Large |
| 534 | |
| 535 | One of the oldest demon lords, Pazuzu holds a major grudge against Lamashtu for striking the killing blow against a god and stealing his chance at divinity. The fact that he could probably has ascended on his own if he didn't expend so much effort on his feud just makes him hate her more. |
| 536 | ---- |
| 537 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: The original Pazuzu from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' was an obyrith lord (obyriths being the AlternateCompanyEquivalent to the qlippoth in ''Pathfinder''). This Pazuzu has always been a demon and was never a qlippoth. |
| 538 | * AmbitionIsEvil: He's arguably the most ambitious demon in the Outer Rifts, which is truly saying something. |
| 539 | * ArchEnemy: The battles between Pazuzu and Lamashtu are legendary. |
| 540 | * BadBoss: Most demon lords are terrible bosses in any case, but Pazuzu makes a point of ''never'' helping his worshippers when they call on him -- in Pazuzu's mind, the moment his cultists call on his aid is the moment they prove they're too weak to be worthy of him, and his only response to that is to send a minion to either kill them outright or to mock them as they die. |
| 541 | * BewareMyStingerTail: He has the tail of a scorpion on a body that is otherwise equal parts bird and human. |
| 542 | * TheChessmaster: He's one of the few demon lords smart enough to plan for the future. |
| 543 | * TheCorrupter: A notorious recruiter of antipaladins, Pazuzu enjoys creating fallen heroes. |
| 544 | * DemonicPossession: He grants this power to his followers. |
| 545 | * DrivenByEnvy: His enmity for Lamashtu stems from the fact that she achieved godhood and he did not. |
| 546 | * EvilGenius: Pazuzu is one of the smartest demons in the Abyss. It's why he's able to vex someone as powerful as Lamashtu. |
| 547 | * EvilVersusEvil: He and Lamashtu deeply hate each other, and have competed for eons for supremacy over the Abyss. |
| 548 | * FeatheredFiend: He rules over all evil flying things, and certainly fits the bill himself. |
| 549 | * TheFinalTemptation: He can grant this power to his worshippers. He's also rather fond of doing it himself. |
| 550 | * GodhoodSeeker: He desperately wants to be a true god. |
| 551 | * GreenEyedMonster: He's profoundly envious of true gods, coveting their status for himself. |
| 552 | * KillTheGod: He and Lamashtu lured one of the gods into the Abyss and murdered him. Since Lamashtu was the one to deliver the killing blow, she ascended and Pazuzu did not; Pazuzu's goal is now to kill Lamashtu and take her place in the pantheon. |
| 553 | * KlingonPromotion: He seeks to gain promotion to full godhood by murdering Lamashtu. |
| 554 | * LeanAndMean: In sharp contrast to the perpetually pregnant Lamashtu. |
| 555 | * MixAndMatchCritters: Appears as a human/bird mix with the tail of a scorpion and a snake in place of his genitals. |
| 556 | * NamedWeapons: He bears the ''Scepter of Shibaxet'', which he can transform into a sword. |
| 557 | * ParentalFavoritism: Pazuzu has many offspring, demonic, half-fiend, and tiefling, yet the Demon Lord Deskari remains both the most powerful, and his father's favorite. |
| 558 | * PetTheDog: Many good people will actually pray to Pazuzu to keep Lamashtu from deforming their unborn kids. Pazuzu, in return, hates Lamashtu so much he is actually willing to act upon these prayers without being a dick about it. |
| 559 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Like Lamashtu, he is a demon from Myth/MesopotamianMythology. |
| 560 | * ShoutOut: His penchant for DemonicPossession is inspired by his role in the classic movie ''Film/TheExorcist''. |
| 561 | * TrulySingleParent: He's said to have created the Demon Lord Deskari with the first breath he exhaled on the mortal plane. |
| 562 | * VillainTeleportation: His headquarters teleports from layer to layer within the Outer Rifts, making it almost impossible for the likes of Lamashtu to get a fix on him. |
| 563 | %%* WingedHumanoid |
| 564 | [[/folder]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[folder:Shax]] |
| 567 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shax.png]] |
| 568 | ->'''The Blood Marquis''' |
| 569 | ->'''Demon Lord of envy, lies, and particularly violent murder''' |
| 570 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 571 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 28 |
| 572 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 573 | |
| 574 | The lord of torturers and murderers, Shax likes to draw out a death as long as he can, from hours to days, just to savor the suffering. |
| 575 | ---- |
| 576 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Many of Shax's worshippers are depraved aristocrats who use their wealth and status to conceal their activities. |
| 577 | * BirdPeople: He resembles a humanoid heron. |
| 578 | * BloodMagic: He can control blood to a terrifying degree. Pulling it out through wounds and sending it flowing into people's lungs is just some of his tricks. |
| 579 | * DualWielding: He wields a pair of daggers with amazing skill. |
| 580 | * FeatheredFiend: His form is that of a humanoid bird, and like all demons he's evil to the core. |
| 581 | * HopeCrusher: Technically played straight, but he prefers to avert it. There's nothing Shax loves more than a victim who holds out hope for escape up until the moment of their death. |
| 582 | * PsychoKnifeNut: Shax, demon lord of violent murder, favors the dagger, and wields a pair of them. |
| 583 | * SerialKiller: Many of them consider him their patron. |
| 584 | %%* ThePowerOfBlood |
| 585 | %%* TrapMaster |
| 586 | [[/folder]] |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Shivaska]] |
| 589 | ->'''The Chained Maiden''' |
| 590 | ->'''Demon lord of aberrations, clocks, and prisons''' |
| 591 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 592 | |
| 593 | Shivaska keeps a clock the size of a city, measuring time in intervals of 13 hours with the aid of thousands of slaves to turn the gears. Within the clock is said to be a second secret face, counting down the time until the next extinction event. |
| 594 | ---- |
| 595 | * BodySurf: Though she currently wears the body of a monstrously deformed choker she's previously possessed a chuul, a dwiergeth, a grimslake, and a naga. |
| 596 | * ChainedByFashion: She has semi-animate chains embedded in her back. |
| 597 | * CombatTentacles: The chains on her back act like this. |
| 598 | * DemonicPossession: Her true form is the chains that adorn the body she's currently wearing. |
| 599 | * ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: She counts many such things among her followers, and regions infested by her cult tend to come with numerous stories of things that hide in closets, in dark corners, in chimneys and under beds, and which come out in the dark to take children away. |
| 600 | [[/folder]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | [[folder:Sifkesh]] |
| 603 | ->'''The Sacred Whore, Lady of Heresy''' |
| 604 | ->'''Demon Lord of hopeless despair, heresy, and suicide''' |
| 605 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 606 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 28 |
| 607 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 608 | |
| 609 | Sifkesh enjoys twisting mortals into sin and depravity before consuming their souls upon their death. |
| 610 | ---- |
| 611 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: She was once a devil who betrayed Hell to become a demon lord. |
| 612 | * DespairEventHorizon: She especially enjoys drives her victims into suicidal despair. |
| 613 | * DrivenToSuicide: Her specialty -- she drives people to suicide, then claims their souls. |
| 614 | * FloatingLimbs: Her limbs are severed, though the exact location of the cuts tends to vary, and float slightly above their stumps. |
| 615 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Hers look like the standard angelic white feathered wings, but she's far from good. |
| 616 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: She's noted to actively defy standard fiendish classifications -- she corrupts her victims like a devil and eats souls like a daemon, but is actually a demon. |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Socothbenoth]] |
| 620 | ->'''The Silken Sin''' |
| 621 | ->'''Demon Lord of perversion, pride, and taboos''' |
| 622 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 623 | |
| 624 | An unusually social demon lord, Socothbenoth recently had a falling out with his sister Noticula and now lives in fear that he will be her next target. |
| 625 | ---- |
| 626 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Socothbenoth is officially considered to be the stand-in of the ''D&D'' demon prince Graz'zt, who cannot be used at all in ''Pathfinder'' due to being a wholly original creation of Creator/GaryGygax. |
| 627 | * {{Archenemy}}: Of Nurgal. |
| 628 | * AristocratsAreEvil: He's said to be worshipped by secret society of depraved nobles in the city of Karcau. |
| 629 | %%* BondageIsBad |
| 630 | * BrotherSisterIncest: With his sister, Nocticula. |
| 631 | %%* TheCasanova: Dark take. |
| 632 | * EvilerThanThou: With the demon lord Nurgal. |
| 633 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Like his sister, Socothbenoth doesn't care if his lovers are male, female, alive, dead, mortal, demon, bestial, or anything else. He has supposedly had affairs with [[VillainousIncest Nocticula]], [[BirdPeople Pazuzu]], [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Baphomet]], Andirifkhu, and [[ReallyGetsAround Lamashtu]], to name just a few. |
| 634 | %%* TheHedonist |
| 635 | %%* SuccubiAndIncubi: He's an incubus. |
| 636 | * NamedWeapons: He used to wield a quarterstaff named ''Rapture''. |
| 637 | * MagicStaff: He once wielded the staff ''Rapture'', which could transform those it struck into distorted monsters or apexes of beauty depending on his whim. Noticula has since shattered it, leaving him searching for the pieces so he can reforge it. |
| 638 | * MoreThanMindControl: Can compel people into sleeping with him, and grants the same power to his followers. |
| 639 | * {{Pride}}: To his sister's {{Lust}}. She commits rape for its own sake; he revels in his own perversion and boasts of it. |
| 640 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Like his sister, he thinks it is the kind of special that deserves a reward. |
| 641 | %%* SexIsEvil |
| 642 | * SiblingsInCrime: With Nocticula. |
| 643 | * TheVamp: A male version. |
| 644 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: primarily for seduction, but he uses it to rapidly grow new appendages in combat as well. |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | [[folder:Urxehl]] |
| 648 | ->'''Trollfather''' |
| 649 | ->'''Demon Lord of natural disasters, storms, and trolls''' |
| 650 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 651 | |
| 652 | Although he's said to be the father of trolls, Urxehl despises the giants and hates himself for sharing their appearance. |
| 653 | ---- |
| 654 | * AllTrollsAreDifferent: He looks like a twenty-foot, horned troll with an immunity to fire. |
| 655 | * ArchnemesisDad: He created the trolls yet loathes them all, going so far as to make his Abyssal realm a place of constantly burning fire, their one weakness. |
| 656 | * DeliberateInjuryGambit: Parts of himself that he removes rot away in stinking vapor that blinds those exposed to it. As a result, he'll often pull out chunks of his own flesh and lob them at his enemies. |
| 657 | * DontGoInTheWoods: His realm is Verahkivan, a perpetually burning forest where the rain only fuels the flames. |
| 658 | * EthnicGod: He's the chief deity of the trolls, who in turn make up the bulk of his worshippers. In a twist, he loathes them unreservedly and loathes his own resemblance to them -- he tends to prefer the fringe groups of druids who worship him as the patron of natural calamities instead. |
| 659 | * GaiasVengeance: Some druids, focusing on his role as the lord of natural disasters, see him as such. |
| 660 | * GodOfThunder: He's worshipped as a deity of destructive storms and skyborne disasters by some druids. |
| 661 | %%* HairTriggerTemper |
| 662 | * HealingFactor: Strong enough that pieces cut off of him grow into new trolls. |
| 663 | * HornedHumanoid: He has a pair of large and twisting horns. |
| 664 | * LargeAndInCharge: He stands twenty feet tall. |
| 665 | * NoSell: He's immune to fire and can grant the same immunity to his druids and clerics. |
| 666 | %%* PlayingWithFire |
| 667 | * SelfHarm: His hatred of trolls extends to his own appearance, and he regularly mauls his own face to try and change his visage. |
| 668 | [[/folder]] |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:Xoveron]] |
| 671 | ->'''The Horned Prince''' |
| 672 | ->'''Demon Lord of gargoyles, gluttony, and ruins''' |
| 673 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 674 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 27 |
| 675 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 676 | |
| 677 | Resembling a monstrous gargoyle, Xoveron desires nothing less than mass extinction so that he may rule over the empty cities left behind. |
| 678 | ---- |
| 679 | * DeadlyGaze: Has a parlyzing gaze that he can grant to his followers. |
| 680 | * EthnicGod: He's the patron deity of the gargoyles. |
| 681 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Stone bat wings. |
| 682 | * MultipleHeadCase: He has four heads. |
| 683 | * OurGargoylesRock: He rules the gargoyles and himself takes the form of a massive, four headed gargoyle. |
| 684 | %%* VillainousGlutton |
| 685 | [[/folder]] |
| 686 | |
| 687 | [[folder:Yhidothrus]] |
| 688 | ->'''The Ravager Worm''' |
| 689 | ->'''Demon Lord of age, time, and worms''' |
| 690 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 691 | |
| 692 | A titanic worm-like demon lord who was once a qlippoth, and may actually still be a qlippoth at the far end of its unfathomably long body. |
| 693 | ---- |
| 694 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Yhidothrus is ''Pathfinder'''s answer to Ugudenk from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Ugudenk is a demon lord of worms mostly focused on devouring everything in his path and worshipped primarily by madmen, and Yhidothrus is a demon lord of worms mostly focused on devouring everything in his path and worshipped primarily by madmen. |
| 695 | * FightingAShadow: One of the theories about it is that it's nothing more than the tip of the tongue for some impossibly gigantic monster. |
| 696 | * HybridMonster: While Yhidothrus' "face" might be a demon lord, his back end is still a qlippoth lord. |
| 697 | * {{Kaiju}}: It's so long no one's ever seen the end of his body and most don't even get farther than a mile or two. If some of the stories are to be believed, it's long enough to extend past the Outer Sphere. |
| 698 | * MonsterProgenitor: Many conqueror worms consider Yhidothrus to be their creator and first ancestor, and worship him as such. |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Zevgavizeb]] |
| 702 | ->'''The God of the Troglodytes''' |
| 703 | ->'''Demon Lord of vast caverns, reptiles, and troglodytes''' |
| 704 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 705 | |
| 706 | Despite his power, Zevgavizeb cares for little outside of his empire. |
| 707 | ---- |
| 708 | * ArchEnemy: Shiggarreb specifically is a focus of Zevgavizeb's recent and continuing hatred, with the former increasingly seeking to convert the latter's worshippers from among the enlightened xulgaths of Deep Tolguth on Golarion. |
| 709 | * BeneathTheEarth: The troglodytes and morlocks make their homes here, as does Zevgavizeb himself. His portfolio includes most of the world's vast underground caverns. |
| 710 | * CombatTentacles: Appears as some sort of combination of dinosaur, dragon, worm, and tentacled monster. |
| 711 | * EthnicGod: Zevgavizeb is best known as the patron deity of the xulgaths. |
| 712 | %%* LargeAndInCharge |
| 713 | * LostWorld: His Abyssal realm closely resembles one, and his worship is strong in the lost worlds below Golarion, including dinosaur-infested Vaults of Orv like Deep Tolguth. |
| 714 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: He rarely gets involved in anything outside of his domain and doesn't really care about expanding it. |
| 715 | * OrderVersusChaos: More than any other demon lord, Zevgavizeb has no time for civilization. All of his worshippers (troglodytes, morlocks, lizardfolk) are primitive, often dwelling in caverns. |
| 716 | * PrehistoricMonster: He's served by fiendish dinosaurs, and allows his worshippers to call them forth for aid. |
| 717 | * PsychicPowers: Zevgavizeb's psionic powers are strong enough to tear enemies apart with just a thought. |
| 718 | * TRexpy: He looks like one, and summoning a fiendish tyrannosaur is the best spell he can grant. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Zura]] |
| 722 | ->'''The Vampire Queen''' |
| 723 | ->'''Demon Lord of blood, cannibalism, and vampires''' |
| 724 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 725 | |
| 726 | Once an Azlanti queen, Zura became a demon immediately upon arriving in the Abyss and became a demon lord before the fall of the empire that birthed her. |
| 727 | ---- |
| 728 | * BatOutOfHell: Like Nocticula, she frequently uses bats as minions and messengers. |
| 729 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: She used to be an Azlanti queen. |
| 730 | %%* EvilRedhead |
| 731 | * FanDisservice: Zura's true form is that of a monstrous, ugly woman that does not wear clothes. |
| 732 | %%* FangsAreEvil |
| 733 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She was a monstrous queen in life; she's worse now. |
| 734 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Bat wings. |
| 735 | * ImAHumanitarian: Many of her worshippers are cannibals. |
| 736 | %%* LeanAndMean |
| 737 | %%* OurVampiresAreDifferent |
| 738 | %%* TheUndead |
| 739 | %%* WolverineClaws |
| 740 | [[/folder]] |
| 741 | |
| 742 | !!Nascent Demon Lords |
| 743 | [[folder:Nightripper]] |
| 744 | ->'''The Promise of Pain''' |
| 745 | -->'''Nascent demon lord of botched executions and pits''' |
| 746 | -->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 747 | |
| 748 | A serial killer named Rictus Scroon was arrested and charged with 46 deaths, to which his response was to correct their number to ''953'' and tell them where to find the evidence. After his ensuing execution, he managed to pass through the Abyss with his memories intact and rise to become a powerful demon. |
| 749 | ---- |
| 750 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: He was ''so evil'' that he made it through the Abyss with his memories and personality intact, and Lamashtu personally transformed him into his current demonic form to serve as her personal assassin. |
| 751 | %%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast |
| 752 | * ProfessionalKiller: He serves as Lamashtu's assassin. |
| 753 | * RasputinianDeath: It took thirteen executions to kill him. |
| 754 | * SerialKiller: He was one in life -- with over nine hundred victims. |
| 755 | %%* TortureTechnician |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:Treerazer]] |
| 759 | ->'''Lord of the Blasted Tarn''' |
| 760 | ->'''Nascent demon lord of pollution and the corruption of nature''' |
| 761 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 762 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 25 |
| 763 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 764 | |
| 765 | Once the favored minion of Cyth-V'sug, he was forced to flee to Golarion after a failed attempt to wrest power from his master. He now resides in a corrupted swamp called Tanglebriar. |
| 766 | ---- |
| 767 | * AcidAttack: Treerazer wields the ''Blackaxe'', which oozes acid. |
| 768 | * ArchEnemy: Of the elves of Kyonin. Not only did he destroy their sacred forest and take it as his own, he remains the one enemy whom the elves cannot outwait. |
| 769 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He's technically a ''nascent'' demon lord, which means he can be killed by non-epic mortals, but still has worshipers and can grant spells to his followers. |
| 770 | * TheExile: Treerazer has been exiled to the Material Plane and is completely severed from the Outer Rifts. Because of this, in 1st Edition, he's considered to be a native outsider (and not an extraplanar one like every other demon is), and if he's killed then his essence will not return to the Outer Rifts and his death is permanent. |
| 771 | * FertileFeet: Inverted. Mushrooms and mold sprout wherever he walks. |
| 772 | * GiverOfLameNames: Seriously? ''Blackaxe?'' How much can something BE ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin? |
| 773 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Evil batlike wings. |
| 774 | %%* GreenThumb: Horribly inverted.%%How? |
| 775 | * LargeAndInCharge: A towering monster who leads his followers into battle. |
| 776 | * MixAndMatchCritters: He looks like a combination of a TRex and [[DinosaursAreDragons massive humanoid dragon.]] |
| 777 | * {{Mordor}}: Turned the Fierani Forest into a barren, twisted wasteland known as the Tanglebriar. |
| 778 | * TheStarscream: His former master, Cyth-V'sug, exiled him to Golarion for attempting a coup. |
| 779 | * UnwittingPawn: His betrayal and exile may be all part of a plan by Cyth-V'sug to establish a foothold on Golarion, much like that held by Deskari in the Worldwound. |
| 780 | * WalkingWasteland: Poisons the land wherever he walks. |
| 781 | [[/folder]] |
| 782 | |
| 783 | [[folder:Other Nascent Demon Lords]] |
| 784 | !!Daclau-Sar |
| 785 | ->'''The Lord of Carrion''' |
| 786 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of carrion and scavengers''' |
| 787 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 788 | |
| 789 | Daclau-Sar cares little for trickery or politics, content to rule his corner of the Abyss and command his monsters. |
| 790 | ---- |
| 791 | * TheBeastmaster: He rules over the monsters of the Abyss. |
| 792 | * MixAndMatchCritters: He looks like a six legged, two headed hyena with vulture wings. |
| 793 | |
| 794 | !!Izyagna |
| 795 | ->'''She of the Sevenfold Swarm''' |
| 796 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of angry mods and ants''' |
| 797 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 798 | |
| 799 | Izyagna has seven bodies, all of which share a mind. |
| 800 | ---- |
| 801 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Her bodies resemble giant ants. |
| 802 | * HiveMind: Kind of. She's one being with seven bodies, which just happens to function like this. |
| 803 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Each body can shapeshift into a specific race. |
| 804 | |
| 805 | !!Menxyr |
| 806 | ->'''The Coffin Groom''' |
| 807 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of grave robbing and necrophilia''' |
| 808 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 809 | |
| 810 | Despite his seeming frailty, Menxyr is a force to be reckoned with for both his magical power and deceptive physical strength. |
| 811 | ---- |
| 812 | * BodyHorror: He can pull people's bones out. |
| 813 | * ILoveTheDead: He can raise the dead, which he uses specifically for this purpose, and sometimes he doesn't even bother with that. |
| 814 | * KillAndReplace: He can crawl into freshly dead bodies to animate them. |
| 815 | * LeanAndMean: He's so thin he looks like little more than a skeleton. |
| 816 | |
| 817 | !!Murnath |
| 818 | ->'''The Horned Rat''' |
| 819 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of rats and sewers''' |
| 820 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 821 | |
| 822 | ---- |
| 823 | * BewareMyStingerTail: He has thin venomous spines at the tip of his tail. |
| 824 | * HornsOfVillainy: That title isn't figurative, he has horns. |
| 825 | * LittleBitBeastly: Inverted, he looks mostly like an animal but has human hands. |
| 826 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: He appears as a rat the size of a horse. |
| 827 | |
| 828 | !!Ovonovo |
| 829 | ->'''The Gluttontide''' |
| 830 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of sharks and shipwrecks''' |
| 831 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 832 | |
| 833 | Ovonovo is a nascent demon lord commonly worshipped in The Shackles. |
| 834 | ---- |
| 835 | * ThreateningShark: She's a gigantic one. |
| 836 | |
| 837 | !!Shamira |
| 838 | ->'''The Ardent Dream''' |
| 839 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of lost dreams and the seduction of the pure''' |
| 840 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 841 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 25 |
| 842 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 843 | |
| 844 | A nascent demon lord who serves Noticula. |
| 845 | ---- |
| 846 | * ArrowsOnFire: Shamira carries a slender bow made of flames. |
| 847 | * MysteriousPast: Shamira is tight-lipped about her history. None in the Outer Rifts recall her in Alushinyrra before she appeared in Nocticula's palace one moonrise and seduced her, earning the position of Lady of Alinythia. |
| 848 | * SexFaceTurn: Inverted, she seduces pure souls to turn them to evil. |
| 849 | * TheStarscream: To Noticula, who she plans to weaken and overthrow. |
| 850 | |
| 851 | !!Sithhud |
| 852 | ->'''The Frozen Lord''' |
| 853 | ->'''Nascent Demon Lord of blizzards and the frozen dead''' |
| 854 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 855 | |
| 856 | Once a demon lord, Sithud regressed in power after being ousted by Kostchtchie. |
| 857 | ---- |
| 858 | * AnIcePerson: Though he's weakened he still holds great command over cold. |
| 859 | * BroughtDownToBadass: A nascent demon lord is still a CR 20+ threat, even if it's not what he once was. |
| 860 | * DemBones: He appears as a twisted, frost-coated skeleton. |
| 861 | * TripodTerror: He has three spindly legs. |
| 862 | [[/folder]] |
| 863 | |
| 864 | !Daemons |
| 865 | !!Apocalypse Riders |
| 866 | [[folder:Apollyon]] |
| 867 | ->'''The Prince of Plagues''' |
| 868 | ->'''Rider of Pestilence''' |
| 869 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 870 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 29 |
| 871 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 872 | |
| 873 | The current Rider of Pestilence, Apollyon devotes his time to the manufacture of planet shattering diseases. Having come out on top in the civil war between harbingers when the last Rider of Pestilence mysteriously vanished, Apollyon keeps one ear to the ground for any news of his predecessor's return. |
| 874 | ---- |
| 875 | * ArtifactOfDoom: Creates artifacts and unholy weapons that he than turns loose on the Material Plane to corrupt those mortals who find them. |
| 876 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: When his predecessor Yrsinius vanished, Apollyon defeated all-comers to become the new Rider of Pestilence. Daemon society in general is also structured this way. |
| 877 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Rules the daemons alongside the other Four. |
| 878 | * BlowYouAway: Air is one of his domains, presumably to better carry his plagues. |
| 879 | * BodyHorror: Looking closely at Apollyon's character art reveals that, behind the belts, his skin is sloughing off similarly to a leper. |
| 880 | * EasyRoadToHell: He can infect people with a ''very'' deadly disease. Anyone who dies from this disease goes to Abaddon (The NeutralEvil plane), although they can still be resurrected. |
| 881 | * EnemyMine: While he and Ghlaunder are allies on the surface, the mosquito god knows that Apollyon sees existence as a zero-sum game and that behind the alliance they are both jockeying for position against one another. |
| 882 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: Apollyon aims to craft a perfect plague that will depopulate the whole multiverse. |
| 883 | * FlayingAlive: Wears the hides of the angels who failed to slay him as a cloak. |
| 884 | * GeniusLoci: His fortress is cut into the still living body of an immense being. |
| 885 | * GenuineHumanHide: Worse. He wears a cloak made of the hides of a dozen angels, stitched together. |
| 886 | * GrimReaper: Shares the archetype with Charon. Apollyon has the SkullForAHead and SinisterScythe aspects of the Reaper, Charon has the black robe and dominion over death. |
| 887 | * HellishHorse: Septisaeus, a diseased nightmare wearing a golden crown with a neck pierced by dozens of barbed arrows. |
| 888 | * HornedHumanoid: A man with the skull of a ram for a head. |
| 889 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: One of the Four, with the domain of Pestilence. |
| 890 | * MisanthropeSupreme: All daemons hold that mortality is a torment and that the entire universe has to be scoured of life, despite the fact that they themselves were once mortal. |
| 891 | * MysticalPlague: How he creates them, going for maximum virulence. Some of his diseases even attack the fabric of reality itself. |
| 892 | * NamedWeapons: He wields ''Usher of the Black Rain'', which can take the form of either a bow or a scythe and does extra damage to targets who are diseased. |
| 893 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: A hulking giant with a ram's skull for a head. |
| 894 | * OmnicidalManiac: All daemons are nihilists, who seek to feed on the flood of souls at the end of creation. The Riders are the worst of the lot. Apollyon seeks to cause it through the spreading of diseases that slaughter planets and warp reality itself. |
| 895 | * ThePlague: Other gods like Ghlaunder and Urgathoa have a stake in disease as well, but only Apollyon symbolizes sickness on this scale. |
| 896 | * {{Plaguemaster}}: Where other gods might represent various diseases, or forms of infection, Apollyon represents fullscale pandemics. |
| 897 | * PoisonousPerson: Is one and can transform his followers into them as well. |
| 898 | * ThePowerOfHate: All the Horsemen run on hatred of mortal life. |
| 899 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Apollyon was originally the Greek name of the Hebrew [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon Abaddon]], alternately the "king of tormenting locusts" and "angel of the bottomless pit" or the place of the dead. ''Pathfinder'' uses the Greek name for the Rider and the Hebrew name for the plane he co-rules. |
| 900 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: Frequently makes use of them to deliver his plagues. |
| 901 | * SinisterScythe: Carries one as his weapon. |
| 902 | * SkullForAHead: A naked ram's skull to be precise. |
| 903 | * StrawNihilist: Daemons know that everything eventually dies. They, and their cultists, tend towards this attitude, believing that if nothing truly matters they may as well end the world. |
| 904 | * SwarmOfRats: Uses them as carriers of his infections. |
| 905 | * SyntheticPlague: He's manufactured a lot, through alchemical, biological, and magical means. |
| 906 | * TooManyBelts: One of the few examples of this trope where it's played for horror. His character art reveals that he's covered from head to toe in belts. Looking at the exposed bits of skin reveal it to be [[BodyHorror rotting off]], implying that ''the only thing keeping it on his body is the belts''. |
| 907 | * TyphoidMary: Has manufactured and manipulated more than a few of them. |
| 908 | * VillainTeamUp: His cultists often ally with followers of Rovagug, Urgathoa and especially fellow {{Plaguemaster}} Ghlaunder, whose portfolio of parasites, infection, and stagnation nicely complements Apollyon's love of pandemics. |
| 909 | * YouDirtyRat: Counts many wererats among his most fervent worshippers. He's also served by giant plague rats and other vermin. |
| 910 | * YourSoulIsMine: Daemons are all soul thieves, and the Horsemen are more powerful than most. They can also grant their worshippers the power to become Soul-Drinkers, who ape the daemons by feeding on innocent souls. |
| 911 | [[/folder]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | [[folder:Charon]] |
| 914 | ->'''The Boatman''' |
| 915 | ->'''Horseman of Death'''[[note]]specifically, the inevitable death of old age[[/note]] |
| 916 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 917 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 30 |
| 918 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 919 | |
| 920 | The oldest, longest serving, and most powerful of the Horsemen, Charon embodies death through time and rules over the River Styx, through which all souls must travel after death. Appearing as a cloaked boatman on a skiff, Charon keeps secrets known only to himself, and is fond of making deals with mortals and other deities alike, with only he being fully aware of all the details. |
| 921 | ---- |
| 922 | * ArchEnemy: He's right behind his harbinger, Corosbel, on the minor god Hanspur's hit list, since it was as a sacrifice to Charon that Hanspur was murdered by Corosbel. Charon for his part, barely seems to acknowledge Hanspur's existence, though he does nothing to prevent Corosbel from prosecuting the vendetta. |
| 923 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Charon has defended his title against all comers since Abaddon began. |
| 924 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: Charon is easily the quietest, subtlest, and least overtly antagonistic of the Four. He's also the most patient, underhanded, and dangerous. |
| 925 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With the other Four, though he's the closest to being first among equals, due to his age and status as the only one of the original Horsemen left. He rules the largest domain as well, with the River Styx touching on the realms of all the other Four. |
| 926 | * BlackCloak: Shrouds his body in a black cloak. |
| 927 | * BossInMooksClothing: It's hinted that when mortals think they've encountered a thanadaemon, sometimes it's actually Charon. |
| 928 | * TheChessmaster: Charon plays the longest game of Four, and is willing to wait eons for his plans to come to fruition. |
| 929 | * ClassifiedInformation: He suppresses information that could destabilize the daemonic power system, most notably information about the Oinodaemon and Trelmarixian's parentage. |
| 930 | * CoDragons: Was once Co Dragons to the Oinodaemon alongside the rest of the original Four. |
| 931 | * CoolBoat: His skiff, which can travel anywhere in the cosmos. |
| 932 | * DealWithTheDevil: The most likely of the Four to make a deal with a human and honour it (at least on the surface). |
| 933 | * DemBones: Under his boatman's cloak Charon is nothing but a skeleton. |
| 934 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: From the waters of the Styx to his gaze to the daemon himself, everything about Charon is cold. |
| 935 | * EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Averted and invoked, the Horsemen have plenty of infighting but Charon makes sure they appear as a unified force to outside threats. |
| 936 | * EvilOldFolks: The oldest and the most powerful of the Four, he's the only one of the original Horsemen left, and looks the part of an old man. |
| 937 | * EvilVirtues: Patience. Unlike some of his more impetuous kin, Charon knows that he can afford to wait a long, long time. |
| 938 | * EverybodyHatesHades: The Charon of Greek mythology may have been greedy and selfish, but he was not even close to this evil. |
| 939 | * TheFaceless: Charon's face is concealed beneath his boat cloak and broad brimmed hat. |
| 940 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Charon is far less likely to kill mortals outright than any of the other horsemen, and like his thanadaemon harbingers he is willing to even provide transportation along the Styx for a price, but one should always remember that he shares the same loathing for all life as any other daemon, and any action he takes that seems helpful is just one tiny step in a greater plan to bring about the end of all things. |
| 941 | * TheFerryMan: His nickname is the Boatman for a reason--Charon typically appears as a ragged, cloaked figure on a skiff, fishing the River Styx for souls. His thanadaemons affect the same look. |
| 942 | * FightingAShadow: It's been strongly hinted that the thanadaemon form that he normally takes is just a puppet for something [[EldritchAbomination far more alien]] that lurks beneath the Styx, or even the Styx itself. If so, this true form has not been given stats. |
| 943 | * GeniusLoci: As he is most likely older than humanoid life itself, it's suggested that his current form described above is a more recent projection, and that he may well be the River Styx itself, having attained sentience long ago. |
| 944 | * GrimReaper: Of evil souls. They all eventually come to the Styx. Appearance wise, he's got the BlackCloak and the personality, while Apollyon has the scythe and SkullForAHead. |
| 945 | * HellishHorse: Chloros, a mummified nightmare whose touch leeches life. |
| 946 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: One of the Four, responsible for Death. |
| 947 | * HumanoidAbomination: As he predates humanoid life, his nature is incredibly alien, and his humanoid body is hinted to simply be a vessel for something far more eldritch. |
| 948 | * KingMook: Looks exactly like his thanadaemons, or them like him. However, as noted above, that may not be his true form. |
| 949 | * KlingonPromotion: While Charon did not slay his predecessor, he did participate in the chaining of the Oinodaemon, elevating himself to the position of one of the rulers of Abbadon instead of merely TheDragon. |
| 950 | * MakingASplash: Water is one of his domains, and he makes his home in the Drowning Court beneath the River Styx. |
| 951 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Hates all life. |
| 952 | * TheOlderImmortal: Among the Riders, Charon is the only one who has held his title since the beginning. |
| 953 | * OmnicidalManiac: Charon is willing to wait a long time for his goals to be achieved, but like the other Riders, his objective is to usher in the End Times. |
| 954 | * OvernightAgeUp: Can inflict this upon those who see him or his steed. |
| 955 | * ThePowerOfHate: Driven and empowered, like all daemons, by the hatred of mortal life. |
| 956 | * PragmaticVillainy: Charon will do exactly what he has to in order to get results, no more, no less. |
| 957 | * PublicDomainCharacter: He's based on Charon, the Underworld boatman from Myth/ClassicalMythology. |
| 958 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Additionally, as shown in Bestiary 6, Charon is the most powerful; the others range from CR 27 to CR 29, while Charon stands proud at CR 30. |
| 959 | * StrawNihilist: In addition to being a daemon, Charon is fully aware that time will eventually destroy everything. Empires fall, stars burn out, universes collapse, nothing endures. Nothing save perhaps the Boatman himself. |
| 960 | * StrongerWithAge: He's probably the most powerful Rider and is so old that he predates the evolution of the humanoid form. |
| 961 | * {{Teleportation}}: Charon and his ferrymen can take anybody anywhere on any of the planes. This is part of what makes him so frightening. |
| 962 | * TheUndead: Frequently aids in the creation of liches, vampires, and other undead, knowing that these creatures will spread horrific levels of death wherever they go--and that in the end, they themselves will most likely be slain and end up in Abaddon. |
| 963 | * VampiricDraining: One of his HellishHorse's talents. |
| 964 | * VillainTeamUp: He's the one who offered Urgathoa and Zyphus land in Abaddon, and his cultists frequently ally with Zyphus'. Charon and Zyphus themselves seem to be on relatively amicable terms as well, or as amicable as two NeutralEvil deities can be. |
| 965 | * WeaponsOfMassDestruction: The Dustbringer is an engine of war created by Charon with the help of two other long dead Riders and powered by the soul of a third. It is currently trapped in Caina (one of the levels of Hell) after a clash with Asmodeus himself. |
| 966 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: As the agent of Death by Old Age, Charon actively opposes those who would extend their lifespans via magic or any other means. |
| 967 | * XanatosGambit: Charon is a master of these, frequently cutting deals that either end with mass deaths on a tremendous scale, or the supplicant's soul ending up in the Drowning Court. Either way, Charon wins. |
| 968 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: The subtlest and trickiest of the Riders, his eyes glow a sickly yellow. |
| 969 | * YourSoulIsMine: All daemons feed on souls and none have claimed more than Charon. |
| 970 | [[/folder]] |
| 971 | |
| 972 | [[folder:Szuriel]] |
| 973 | ->'''The Angel of Desolation''' |
| 974 | ->'''Rider of War''' |
| 975 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 976 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 27 |
| 977 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 978 | |
| 979 | The current Rider of War, Szuriel has held the position longer than any before her. In life a fallen paladin turned megalomaniacal empress, Szuriel now resembles a tarnished angel with bleeding eyes and shark-like fangs, and gladly embodies all the worst aspects of violence. Prone to loaning her daemons out as mercenaries, Szuriel tries to ensure that every campaign ends in war crimes, ethnic cleansing and ultimately, genocide. |
| 980 | ---- |
| 981 | * AllGirlsLikePonies: a '''very''' dark example, considering she's the Rider of War. |
| 982 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Szuriel managed to cut down her predecessor, a monstrous daemon who butchered 10,000 demons in a single day during the war between Abbadon and Lamashtu's Abyssal forces. |
| 983 | * {{BFS}}: She wields a black greatsword, and she prefers that her followers carry one as well. |
| 984 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With the other Four. |
| 985 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: "Mirrored and black as onyx", to be exact. |
| 986 | * BlackSwordsAreBetter: And may well cross over with ArtifactOfDoom. |
| 987 | * BloodKnight: A truly twisted one, whose wars tend to end in genocide. |
| 988 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Has a history of betraying those who contract her services. |
| 989 | * ColonelKilgore: One of the most extreme versions ever. Unlike Gorum, who just enjoys combat, Szuriel revels in war's worst aspects. |
| 990 | * CoolSword: Her weapon is a jagged black greatsword named ''Lamentation of the Faithless''; every Rider of War since the office was created has wielded it. |
| 991 | * DarkActionGirl: Of all the evil female deities she is easily the most violence-oriented. |
| 992 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: She was a mortal paladin once upon a time. After falling to an assassin's blade, she was damned to Abaddon. Through fate, luck and skill, Szuriel evaded more powerful daemons and survived long enough to become a daemon herself. |
| 993 | * EvilIsNotPacifist: She personifies the evil of war. |
| 994 | * FallenAngel: Affects this look, though she was never an angel to begin with. |
| 995 | * FallenHero: May once have been a human paladin who was run out of her faith for heresy, and then turned on the very gods she once worshipped, exterminating the faith to a man. |
| 996 | * FangsAreEvil: Has a mouth filled with shark like fangs that give away her non-angelic status. |
| 997 | * FinalSolution: Crucified every member of her faith after they excommunicated her. She has gone on to support many other similar enterprises across the planes. |
| 998 | * FourStarBadass: In life, she was a feared and powerful general and crusader. |
| 999 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: In life she may have been a conquering empress with a thing for crucifying her enemies. |
| 1000 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: She has black angel wings. |
| 1001 | * HellishHorse: Grace of Flame, a burning nightmare ridden by Szuriel and occasionally loaned to her most fervent worshippers. |
| 1002 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: One of the Four with the domain of War. |
| 1003 | * InsaneAdmiral: Combines the worst traits of the ColonelKilgore and GeneralRipper with PsychoForHire and WeHaveReserves. Sadly for the rest of the universe, she is not a GeneralFailure. |
| 1004 | * KlingonPromotion: She slew her predecessor in a duel for the title of Rider of War. |
| 1005 | * LethalLavaLand: Her domain alternates between this and desert. |
| 1006 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Szuriel had aspects of this in life, given her obsession with killing every member of her old faith and running her country into the ground. She's now a classic one as a daemon, seeking the extermination of all life, including her own. |
| 1007 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has a mouth full of fangs that would fit a dragon or a shark moreso than an angel. |
| 1008 | * OmnicidalManiac: Spreads violence, war, and chaos in the name of ending the universe. |
| 1009 | * PlayingWithFire: Fire is one of her domains, befitting a deity who wages scorched earth campaigns. |
| 1010 | * ThePowerOfHate: Even for a daemon, Szuriel is enraged by mortal life, and empowered by that rage. |
| 1011 | * PsychoForHire: Often hires out her daemons as mercenaries so that they can engage in rampant slaughter; these campaigns always end in betrayal and the destruction of all sides involved. |
| 1012 | * RapePillageAndBurn: Her modus operandi. |
| 1013 | * SaltTheEarth: A favored tactic. |
| 1014 | * SheIsTheKing: Despite being female, she's still referred to as a Horseman, a gender-neutral title. |
| 1015 | * SlasherSmile: Her fangs turn every smile she gives into one. |
| 1016 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Is currently the only female Rider among the Four. |
| 1017 | * SociopathicSoldier: Her followers, both human and daemon, will inevitably be these, or fully-fledged [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]]. |
| 1018 | * StrawNihilist: Is one herself and, as the representative of the futility of war, tends to breed them. |
| 1019 | * TearsOfBlood: Two streams of bloody tears run from each of her eyes. |
| 1020 | * VolcanoLair: Based out of the Cinder Furnace, a volcano turned forge and military barracks. |
| 1021 | * WarGod: Szuriel is the Rider of War who represents all the negative aspects of war, including genocide, war crimes, societal collapse, futility, and brutal militarism. |
| 1022 | * WarIsGlorious: Preaches this whilst embodying that WarIsHell. |
| 1023 | * WeHaveReserves: She encourages these kinds of tactics. |
| 1024 | * WingedHumanoid: She looks like an angel, complete with wings. |
| 1025 | * YourSoulIsMine: She claims the souls of all those butchered in her wars. |
| 1026 | [[/folder]] |
| 1027 | |
| 1028 | [[folder:Trelmarixian]] |
| 1029 | ->'''The Lysogenic Prince''' |
| 1030 | ->'''Rider of Famine''' |
| 1031 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1032 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 27 |
| 1033 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 1034 | |
| 1035 | The youngest, most ambitious, and most insane of the Four Riders, Trelmarixian is the current Rider of Famine, and is by the far the craziest entity to ever hold that title. Having murdered his entire world while mortal, Trelmarixian subsequently consumed the previous Rider of Famine alive after arriving in Abaddon. He claims to still hear her voice, as well as the voices of those he killed in life. |
| 1036 | ---- |
| 1037 | * ApocalypseHow: Set off a Class 5 while he was still mortal, causing the extinction of all life on his planet. |
| 1038 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Holds his position by virtue of having eaten his predecessor alive. |
| 1039 | * AxeCrazy: A gibbering lunatic who hears voices in his head. |
| 1040 | * BastardBastard: Has no idea who his daemonic parent is, and is without a doubt, a bastard in every sense of the word. |
| 1041 | * BastardUnderstudy: To his predecessor/lover, The Parasite Queen. |
| 1042 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With the other Four. He's the youngest of the quartet, but his madness and success as a mortal ensure that the other three do pay attention to him. |
| 1043 | * BodyHorror: Inflicts cancerous growths and tumours on others and himself, in order to best demonstrate the self-cannabalisation of the body. His own body is covered in numerous carcinogenic growths, and is made of a slurry of bile, blood, and mucous that is barely contained by his transparent skin. |
| 1044 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Tortures angels to the [[DespairEventHorizon brink of despair]], and then devours them. |
| 1045 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: He can still remember his life as a tiefling. |
| 1046 | * EvilSorcerer: In life. |
| 1047 | * {{Expy}}: Of game designer Todd Stewart's TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} character, Shemeshka the Marauder, another jackal-headed daemon (or yugoloth, as they were called in ''D&D'' at the time). |
| 1048 | * FullFrontalAssault: Typically doesn't bother with clothes. |
| 1049 | * HalfHumanHybrid: He was a tiefling in life, of human and daemonic heritage. |
| 1050 | * HearingVoices: Hears the voices of his servants and victims, most notably that of his predecessor, the Parasite Queen. |
| 1051 | * HellishHorse: The nightmare Halflight, a black, starving horse, with gleaming eyes. When Trelmarixian rides it, the boundaries between the two of them blur and it is hard to say which is the rider and which is the mount. |
| 1052 | * HopeCrusher: He enjoys torturing angels to the brink of despair so he can consume their essence. |
| 1053 | * HorrorHunger: Inflicts it on his followers and victims and suffers from it himself. |
| 1054 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: One of the Four with the domain of Famine. |
| 1055 | * ImAHumanitarian: Encourages cannibalism because after all, there's NoPartyLikeADonnerParty when you're the Rider of Famine. |
| 1056 | * KlingonPromotion: Killed and devoured the essence of his lover and predecessor. |
| 1057 | * MadGod: A being with the power of a PhysicalGod and a severe case of paranoid schizophrenia. Not a good combination. |
| 1058 | * TheMentallyIll: Trelmarixian hears voices and suffers from hallucinations. |
| 1059 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Killed every living being on his planet ''before'' becoming a daemon. |
| 1060 | * MultipleHeadCase: Three heads, no sanity. |
| 1061 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Anyone dubbed "The Black" is probably bad news. |
| 1062 | * OmnicidalManiac: Trelmarixian gets bonus points for killing every living thing on his home world when he was still mortal (and subsequently starving to death because of it). He's only gotten worse since becoming a daemon. |
| 1063 | * ParentalAbandonment: Trelmarixian has no idea who his parents, mortal or daemonic, were, a fact that has forever haunted him. |
| 1064 | * ParentalIncest: Possibly. There's some evidence, though inconclusive, that his predecessor and lover, The Parasite Queen, was also his mother. |
| 1065 | * PowerBornOfMadness: Madness is one of his domains and he himself is absolutely insane. |
| 1066 | * PowerFist: The spiked gauntlet is his weapon. |
| 1067 | * ThePowerOfHate: Runs on hatred of himself and the universe. |
| 1068 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Occasionally dons the skeletons of those creatures slain by famine when journeying to the Material Plane. |
| 1069 | * SoulEating: Feeds on souls, though they do nothing for his hunger. |
| 1070 | * TheStarscream: As a harbinger, Trelmarixian was a servant of his predecessor Lyutheria before he murdered her and took her title. |
| 1071 | * StrawNihilist: Like all daemons, Trelmarixian finds the torment of a meaningless existence unbearable. |
| 1072 | * WasOnceAMan: Or at least a mortal. |
| 1073 | [[/folder]] |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | [[folder:The Bound Prince]] |
| 1076 | ->'''The First Daemon''' |
| 1077 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 | The first daemon to coalesce into existence, the Bound Prince ruled Abaddon with the Four Riders as his servants. Betrayed and imprisoned by the Four, his spirit still infuses the plains of Abaddon themselves, and his eye hangs over it, endlessly watching over the race that he fathered. |
| 1080 | ---- |
| 1081 | * CessationOfExistence: What happens to those that he and his progeny feed upon. |
| 1082 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Was once ''the'' archdaemon in the way that Asmodeus is ''the'' archdevil. |
| 1083 | * DePower: He was once a fiendish divinity powerful enough to be considered a god, in the same vein as Asmodeus, Rovagug, and Lamashtu. He's since been maimed and imprisoned to the point of near powerlessness. |
| 1084 | * EldritchAbomination: The only daemon that qualifies. |
| 1085 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Ruined Spire, open to the sky wherein the Oinodaemon is trapped. |
| 1086 | * FacelessEye: Currently takes the form of a single, red eye hanging over Abaddon. |
| 1087 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Bound and preyed upon by all the Riders. |
| 1088 | * GeniusLoci: His blood has infused itself into Abaddon, meaning that he can never truly be eradicated. |
| 1089 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Sometimes addressed as The Fifth Rider. |
| 1090 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifter: His imprisoned body changes shape constantly and randomly. |
| 1091 | * {{Irony}}: An OmnicidalManiac and MisanthropeSupreme whose legacy has involved the creation of the entire daemonic race, the demons, and the urdefhans. |
| 1092 | * MadGod: Has completely lost his mind since his fall, and is now a gibbering mess. |
| 1093 | * MadOracle: Since his imprisonment the Oinodaemon has gone completely mad. He has also, however, begun to make unerringly accurate prophecies. It's one of the reasons (beyond sadism and a desire for power) that the Riders keep him around. |
| 1094 | * MisanthropeSupreme: The daemonic hatred of mortality--including their own--originates with this guy. |
| 1095 | * MonsterProgenitor: He was the first soul to end up in Abaddon, and, infused with the plane's evil, became the original daemon. He later created the astradaemons to serve as his personal EliteMooks. His descendants have continued this trend, producing the demons (by fusing sinful human souls with qlippoth) and the urdefhans. |
| 1096 | * NoBiologicalSex: The Riders use him and her interchangeably when talking about the Oinodaemon. |
| 1097 | * NoNeedForNames: He's only referred to as the Oinodaemon, and it's unknown if he even has a name or not. |
| 1098 | * NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: He totally did not see his fall and imprisonment coming. |
| 1099 | * OmnicidalManiac: He is the ''Pathfinder'' verse's original nihilistic whack-job. |
| 1100 | * TheOmniscient: His omnipotence is gone, but within Abaddon his omniscience and omnipresence remains. |
| 1101 | * PhysicalGod: Close enough. |
| 1102 | * ThePowerOfHate: When the flood of souls reached Abbadon, the reason that he alone survived was because his hatred, rage, and self-loathing was so much stronger than that of his brethren that he was able to catalyze into a unique being and consume all the others. |
| 1103 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: His single red eye hangs over Abaddon. |
| 1104 | * SealedEvilInACan: The Four sealed him within his spire in the centre of Abbadon, that they might forever feed on his power. |
| 1105 | * StrawNihilist: The very first being to express the daemons' belief in all life being inherently worthless, he regarded mortality as a curse. |
| 1106 | * ThatsNoMoon: The moon that hangs over Abaddon? If you look up from the Oinodaemon's spire you'll realise that it's really his eye. |
| 1107 | * UnPerson: The Riders, particularly Charon, have done their best to erase all evidence of his existence. |
| 1108 | * YourSoulIsMine: Started the Abaddon soul trade. |
| 1109 | [[/folder]] |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | !!Harbingers |
| 1112 | [[folder:Corosbel]] |
| 1113 | ->'''The Silent Saint''' |
| 1114 | ->'''Harbinger of failed martyrdom, false worship, and ritual death''' |
| 1115 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1116 | |
| 1117 | A harbinger in service to Charon, best known for his role in the accidental ascension of the demigod Hanspur. |
| 1118 | ---- |
| 1119 | * {{Archenemy}}: When one of Corosbel's followers murdered a druid named Hanspur so the harbinger could gift his soul to Charon, it kicked off a divine enmity that would last for lifetimes. Hanspur was resurrected by Gozreh as a minor god of waterways and came after Corosbel with a vengeance, vowing to eradicate the harbinger, his patron Rider, and then all daemons. Corosbel fought back, targeting Hanspur's worshipers, and the die was cast. |
| 1120 | * BadHabits: Corosbel's portfolio includes "false worship" to start with, and he's particularly fond of targeting Hanspur's worshipers, sending his cultists out to frame them for crimes. |
| 1121 | * FalseFlagOperation: Is running one against the whole faith of Hanspur, sending his cultists out to drown people in Hanspur's name, and presenting this as a regular part of the Water Rat's worship. It's been depressingly effective thus far--not only has Hanspur's worship been banned in some civilized countries, but some of Hanspur's evil followers have taken up the practice of drowning travelers, believing it to be an action their patron will reward. |
| 1122 | * {{Fingore}}: His sigil is a malformed hand with broken fingers. |
| 1123 | * ItsPersonal: With Hanspur, who aims to eliminate Corosbel's cult wheresoever he may find it. In response Corosbel has his cultists impersonate Hanspur's worshipers and murder travelers in the demigod's name, blackening the faith's reputation in civilized lands. Unlike some divine enmities this has nothing to do with conflict over portfolio and areas of interest, and everything to do with personal hatred. |
| 1124 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: He appears as an athletic six-armed man. |
| 1125 | * ScamReligion: Part of his worship requires praying to a deity that can't hear or answer you, whether dead or non-existent. |
| 1126 | [[/folder]] |
| 1127 | |
| 1128 | [[folder:Llamolaek]] |
| 1129 | ->'''The Ascended''' |
| 1130 | ->'''Harbinger of rebirth, rights of passage, and transformation''' |
| 1131 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1132 | |
| 1133 | Once a Horseman (though he cannot remember which one) Llamolaek was betrayed by one of the other Four and trapped in the body of an astradaemon. After an untold length of time he has journeyed back to the rank of harbinger and aims to one day rejoin the Four. |
| 1134 | ---- |
| 1135 | * BlingOfWar: Is himself golden in colour. |
| 1136 | * BossInMooksClothing: Looks like an astradaemon (a CR 16 adversary in its own right), but is actually a former Horseman, stripped of his glory, and trapped in the body of an inferior daemon. |
| 1137 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Was one of the Horsemen, before a rival threw him down and trapped him inside an astradaemon. It's taken a long time for Llamolaek to climb back up to Harbinger status. |
| 1138 | * ChromaticSuperiority: His astradaemon body is gold, as opposed to the typical black. |
| 1139 | * ExtraEyes: Technically he only has one eye, which is less than normal but more than the zero normal astradaemons have. |
| 1140 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: His memories of anything beyond being an astradaemon were suppressed for millennia until the Horseman who bound him died. |
| 1141 | * LightIsNotGood: Encased in a shiny gold shell. |
| 1142 | * NoOntologicalInertia: When the Horseman who bound him died, the magic suppressing his memories dissipated, though not the magic that reduced him in power and form. |
| 1143 | * SelfHarm: His worship involves mutilating oneself during ritual meditation. |
| 1144 | * SlaveMooks: Is gathering an army of div slave-soldiers with which to invade the rest of Abaddon with. |
| 1145 | * WasOnceAMan: Was once a mortal of some sort, though Llamolaek is so old at this point it's hard to tell what he might have been. |
| 1146 | * WildCard: Unlike most other Harbingers, Llamolaek is not aligned to any of the Horsemen. |
| 1147 | %%* YourSoulIsMine |
| 1148 | [[/folder]] |
| 1149 | |
| 1150 | [[folder:Pavnuri]] |
| 1151 | ->'''The Lord of Nothing''' |
| 1152 | ->'''Harbinger of cacodaemons, cannibalism, and secret messages''' |
| 1153 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1154 | |
| 1155 | A massive cacodaemon who serves whoever he wants, Pavnuri is Abbadon's foremost information dealer and is said (mostly by himself) to be able to obtain information from anywhere on the planes within an hour. |
| 1156 | ---- |
| 1157 | %%* BigEater |
| 1158 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Pavnuri has worked for and betrayed all of the Riders at one time or another, yet is generally considered too valuable to kill. |
| 1159 | * ExtremeOmnivore: He's a cacodaemon, comes with the territory. |
| 1160 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Pavnuri was originally a cacodaemon, the lowliest of all daemons. By devouring thousands of his own kind he was able to become a harbinger, without ever changing his form. He now appears as a vast, crowned cacodaemon. |
| 1161 | * ImAHumanitarian: Not only is he the patron of cannibals, but he got his start cannibalising his fellow cacodaemons. |
| 1162 | * KingMook: He's a giant freaking cacodaemon. |
| 1163 | * KnowledgeBroker: The foremost collector of useful information in Abaddon, making him invaluable to all Riders. |
| 1164 | * LooseLips: His worship requires one to routinely tell their personal secrets to strangers. Though being a daemon, nothing in his worship says you can't just [[HeKnowsTooMuch kill them immediately after to maintain the secret]], which is probably the point. |
| 1165 | * WasOnceAMan: Was mortal at some point, before becoming first a cacodaemon and then what he is today. |
| 1166 | %%* YourSoulIsMine |
| 1167 | [[/folder]] |
| 1168 | |
| 1169 | [[folder:Vorasha]] |
| 1170 | ->'''The Ophidian''' |
| 1171 | ->'''Harbinger of incurable afflictions, poison, and toxicity''' |
| 1172 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | One of Trelmarixian's harbingers and his occasional consort, Varasha plans to one day rise to the position of Rider. |
| 1175 | ---- |
| 1176 | * AcquiredPoisonImmunity: All but required of her worshippers, as her worship involves frequently consuming poison. |
| 1177 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Driven by the desire to become one of the Riders. |
| 1178 | * BastardUnderstudy: To Trelmarixian, whom she has ambitions of replacing in much the same way that he replaced his predecessor. |
| 1179 | * BiologicalMashUp: Appears as one of Trelmarixian's maleadaemons (jackal headed humanoids) but with draconic scales and claws, and snakes for hair. |
| 1180 | * GardenOfEvil: She keeps one infested with snakes collected from all the worlds and planes. |
| 1181 | * OmnicidalManiac: Spreads disease and poison on Trelmarixian's behalf as part of the daemonic agenda to end the world. |
| 1182 | * PoisonousPerson: Toxicity is a part of her portfolio after all. |
| 1183 | * UnholyMatrimony: Sometimes acts as Trelmarixian's lover. |
| 1184 | * UnwittingPawn: Trelmarixian has implanted a part of his soul into Varasha, allowing him to influence her at will. She remains unaware of this. |
| 1185 | * WasOnceAMan: Like all daemons she was mortal at some point. |
| 1186 | %%* YourSoulIsMine |
| 1187 | [[/folder]] |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 | [[folder:Zelishkar]] |
| 1190 | ->'''The Bitter Flame''' |
| 1191 | ->'''Harbinger of arson, burning alive, and cremation''' |
| 1192 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1193 | |
| 1194 | Forged by Szuriel in the Cinder Furnaces, Zelishkar is monstrously adept as both a warrior and a tactician. He was summoned in Osirion at the height of its power by the Pharaoh of Forgotten Plagues and sealed away in a labyrinth, where he has remained trapped ever since, with the exception of a brief release by another pharaoh. |
| 1195 | ---- |
| 1196 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Originally created by Szuriel as the embodiment of the misery of a funeral pyre, Zelishkar has trascended that original purpose to become the personification of all the negative and sadistic uses of fire the world over. |
| 1197 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: Made of obsidian, with occasional flecks of fire. |
| 1198 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Has lost most of his powers due to his imprisonment. Still CR 21. |
| 1199 | * ColonelKilgore: As an officer in Szuriel's army, this is not a surprise. Like his patron, Zelishkar thrives on the worst aspects of war, especially scorched earth campaigns, giant funeral pyres, and the like. Like the TropeNamer, he "loves the smell of napalm in the morning." |
| 1200 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Two separate pharoahs have sealed Zelishkar now: the Pharoah of Forgotten Plagues, who locked him up in the first place, and one of his successors who had to deal with Zelishkar's second rampage after the Incorruptible Pharoah accidentally freed him. |
| 1201 | * TheDragon: Was once Szuriel's favored general, and was actually created by her in her volcanic forge for that specific purpose. |
| 1202 | * FourStarBadass: As the leader of Szuriel's army. |
| 1203 | * InsaneAdmiral: Like Szuriel, Zelishkar's a misanthropic GeneralRipper who views all life as the enemy and wants to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 1204 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Like his brethren, aims for the destruction of all mortal life, despite having once been mortal. As for his followers, most of them fall into this territory as well. Anybody who just wants to see the world burn offers up prayers to Zelishkar. |
| 1205 | * OmnicidalManiac: Spreads war and violence on behalf of Szuriel as part of a plan to end the world. |
| 1206 | * PantheraAwesome: Takes the shape of a huge, burning cat. |
| 1207 | * PlayingWithFire: Grants his followers command of flames, and is made of fire himself. |
| 1208 | * ThePowerOfHate: Zelishkar's hate is the only thing that keeps him going through his imprisonment. |
| 1209 | * PsychoForHire: Par for the course for followers of Szuriel. |
| 1210 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: Worshipped by arsonists and is one himself. |
| 1211 | * SealedEvilInACan: Zelishkar and his army are trapped in a labyrinth in Osirion, which is slowly bleeding their powers away. |
| 1212 | * TheStrategist: Feared as much for his tactical and strategic acumen as for his raw power. While his strength has been diminished by his time in prison, his intellect has not weakened. |
| 1213 | * WasOnceAMan: Possibly. All daemons start out as mortals, but whether Zelishkar even remembers his mortal life after Szuriel forged him into a new being remains to be seen. It's also possible that she made him from scratch using the raw soul-stuff of Abaddon. |
| 1214 | * WouldHurtAChild: His worship requires ritually burning a living being alive, one that specifically must be at least the size of an infant. |
| 1215 | %%* YourSoulIsMine |
| 1216 | [[/folder]] |
| 1217 | |
| 1218 | [[folder:Other Harbingers]] |
| 1219 | !!Aesdurath |
| 1220 | ->'''The Pale Dowager''' |
| 1221 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of immortality, liches, and magical disasters''' |
| 1222 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1223 | |
| 1224 | A harbinger who likely serves Charon. |
| 1225 | ---- |
| 1226 | * AmbiguousGender: Aesdurath's gender is unclear. |
| 1227 | * BodyHorror: Aesdurath is covered in spontaneously manifesting bite marks. |
| 1228 | * ImAHumanitarian: His worship involves eating parts of a being killed by magic. |
| 1229 | * LeanAndMean: Aesdurath is described as thin to the point of skeletal. |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 | !!Ajids |
| 1232 | ->'''Father Flense''' |
| 1233 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of mutilation, skinning, and trophy taking''' |
| 1234 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | * BodyHorror: He looks like a fleshless giant impaled on razor blades. |
| 1237 | * DesecratingTheDead: His worship involves mutilating the bodies of your defeated enemies. |
| 1238 | * HumanPincushion: With a bunch of razor blades. |
| 1239 | * {{Sadist}}: He's explicitly called one. |
| 1240 | |
| 1241 | !!Anogetz |
| 1242 | ->'''The Fated Fangs''' |
| 1243 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of animal attacks, coups, and revolutions''' |
| 1244 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1245 | |
| 1246 | A harbinger of Szuriel. |
| 1247 | ---- |
| 1248 | * AmbiguousGender: Anogetz's gender is unclear. |
| 1249 | * HungryJungle: Anogetz's realm in Abbadon is a scarlet jungle atop a plateau. |
| 1250 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: His worship involves plotting to overthrow peaceful leaders. |
| 1251 | |
| 1252 | !!Arlachramas |
| 1253 | ->'''The Silent Breath''' |
| 1254 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of dehumanization, disposal, and euthanasia''' |
| 1255 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | A harbinger of Charon. |
| 1258 | ---- |
| 1259 | * BodyHorror: She looks like a woman constantly condensing and evaporating from acid and blood. |
| 1260 | |
| 1261 | !!Braismos |
| 1262 | ->'''The Toxic Quill''' |
| 1263 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of broken deals, fine print, and unfair bargains''' |
| 1264 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 | The ruler of the Silent Nation, an entire nation frozen and alive in a glacier as it slides ever closer to the River Styx. He serves the Rider Charon. |
| 1267 | ---- |
| 1268 | |
| 1269 | !!Cixyron |
| 1270 | ->'''The Furious Thunder''' |
| 1271 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of electricity, gunpowder, and poisonous metals''' |
| 1272 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | A harbinger whose portfolio indicates service to Szuriel. |
| 1275 | ---- |
| 1276 | * ChromeChampion: Cixyron looks like he's made of metal. |
| 1277 | * DemBones: Cixyron looks like a raven-headed skeleton. |
| 1278 | * TheGunslinger: The only divine being in the entire setting to have a firearm as their favored weapon, specifically the musket. |
| 1279 | * NewTechnologyIsEvil: His portfolio includes several areas closely linked with technological progress: [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], [[StuffBLowingUp explosions]], [[GadgeteerGenius artifice]], poisonous metals, and infamously [[TheGunslinger firearms]]. |
| 1280 | * PsychoElectro: Cixyron constantly crackles with electrical discharge and presumably can use it to attack. |
| 1281 | * ViolationOfCommonSense: Moreso than most fiendish obediences, Cixyron's preferred form of worship is offered from the top of a hill during a thunderstorm. |
| 1282 | |
| 1283 | !!Dicied |
| 1284 | ->'''The Empty Dawn''' |
| 1285 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of invasive species, mass extinction, and natural disasters''' |
| 1286 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 | * AmbiguousGender: Dicied's gender is unclear. |
| 1289 | * WalkingDisasterArea: Very intentionally, Dicied brings disaster and ruin in its wake. |
| 1290 | * TheUndead: Not technically, but Dicied looks like a giant rotting lizard. |
| 1291 | |
| 1292 | !!Ealdeez |
| 1293 | ->'''The Beast behind the Dream''' |
| 1294 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of regression, reversion, and savage revenge''' |
| 1295 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | * AmbiguousGender: Ealdeez's gender is unclear. |
| 1298 | * BestServedCold: Ealdeez's worship requires plotting the murder of an enemy, whether or not [[DisproportionateRetribution they deserve it]]. |
| 1299 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Ealdeez looks like an amalgamation of many bestial limbs. |
| 1300 | * TunnelNetwork: Ealdeez's domain is a tangle of tunnels beneath Abaddon. |
| 1301 | |
| 1302 | !!Folca |
| 1303 | ->'''The Gaunt Stranger''' |
| 1304 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of strangers, abductions, and sweets''' |
| 1305 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1306 | |
| 1307 | Folca focuses his efforts on spreading terror and death among the young of mortals. |
| 1308 | ---- |
| 1309 | * TheBlank: His head and face are utterly featureless, leaving a blank canvas to see the ''child-sized handprints that constantly press against his skin as if to escape from his body''. |
| 1310 | * ChildEater: Not clear how he manages it without a mouth, but that seems to be where the handprints come from. |
| 1311 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Several of Paizo's staff have expressed regret that he made it into the final cut of ''Book of the Damned'' and have stated that he will be removed from future editions. |
| 1312 | * EvilTastesGood: He's a fiend whose portfolio includes sweets. |
| 1313 | * HarmfulToMinors: His worship requires you to force a child to witness something horrible, then release them with the promise that you'll be back. |
| 1314 | * LeanAndMean: As the title may indicate, he's rather thin and one of the most monstrous harbingers. |
| 1315 | * PaedoHunt: Most of his characterization comes across as a standard boogeyman with a dashes of fears for his worshippers, but some of the specific details of his worship like granting Lust subdomain and Unnatural Lust make this more egregious than a character like [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]]. |
| 1316 | * StrangerDanger: He's an embodiment of ominous, ill-intentioned strangers who abduct children with the intent of doing them harm. |
| 1317 | * WouldHurtAChild: His whole shtick is hurting, killing, or emotionally scarring children. |
| 1318 | |
| 1319 | !!Geon |
| 1320 | ->'''The Dancing Fiend''' |
| 1321 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of nightmares, quartering, and trampling''' |
| 1322 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1323 | |
| 1324 | A harbinger of Szuriel. |
| 1325 | ---- |
| 1326 | * DrillSergeantNasty: He trains Szuriel's mounted forces. |
| 1327 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: He looks like a bestial centaur with flaming hooves. |
| 1328 | * PsychoSerum: His worship requires taking drugs to enter a nightmarish fugue state. |
| 1329 | |
| 1330 | !!Hastrikhal |
| 1331 | ->'''The Fires Within''' |
| 1332 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of explosions, immolation, and pyromaniacs''' |
| 1333 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1334 | |
| 1335 | A harbinger whose portfolio indicates service to Szuriel. |
| 1336 | ---- |
| 1337 | * FlamingHair: Her's is made of smoke. |
| 1338 | * PyroManiac: As you can see from her portfolio, the fiendish deity of them. Her worship only furthers it, requiring her followers to set populated buildings ablaze. |
| 1339 | * StuffBlowingUp: She's the daemonic patron of explosions. |
| 1340 | |
| 1341 | !!Jacarkas |
| 1342 | ->'''The Collector''' |
| 1343 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of hobbling, lobotimization, and slavery''' |
| 1344 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1345 | |
| 1346 | Jacarkas is the ruler of Awaiting Consumption, a slave city and major marketplace for the soul trade. |
| 1347 | ---- |
| 1348 | * DisabledMeansHelpless: Specifically invoked. Jacarkas tends to maim his slaves in ways that don't impair their productivity (too much) but prevent them from being capable of fighting back or escaping. |
| 1349 | * {{Lobotomy}}: A fan and the fiendish deity of it. After all, slaves who can't think are slaves who can't rise up. |
| 1350 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Not only does Jacarkas keep an entire city of slaves, the [[{{Lobotomy}} other]] [[DisabledMeansHelpless aspects]] of his portfolio show he treats them abysmally. |
| 1351 | |
| 1352 | !!Laivatiniel |
| 1353 | ->'''The Chains in the Cradle''' |
| 1354 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of anxiety, coddling, and unhealthy parental love''' |
| 1355 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | A harbinger whose portfolio indicates service to Trelmarixian. |
| 1358 | ---- |
| 1359 | * DemBones: Her arms are skeletal and burned. |
| 1360 | * EvilOldFolks: She looks, for the most part, like a smiling elderly woman. |
| 1361 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has a dozen arms. |
| 1362 | |
| 1363 | !!Mneoc |
| 1364 | ->'''Grandfather Scab''' |
| 1365 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of decrepitude, organ failure, and senility''' |
| 1366 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1367 | |
| 1368 | A harbinger whose portfolio indicates service to Charon. |
| 1369 | ---- |
| 1370 | * BodyHorror: He has no skin and his flesh and bones have been carved with runes. |
| 1371 | * EvilOldFolks: Mneoc looks like an elderly giant when you get past the BodyHorror. |
| 1372 | * {{Gaslighting}}: His worship involves convincing an elderly creature into believing it's forgotten something. |
| 1373 | |
| 1374 | !!Nalmungder |
| 1375 | ->'''He Who Waits Below the Stairs''' |
| 1376 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of basements, closets, and delusions of safety''' |
| 1377 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1378 | |
| 1379 | * CastingAShadow: He looks like a shapeless mass of darkness and teeth. |
| 1380 | * ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Presumably his speciality, given his listed areas of expertise include basements and closets. |
| 1381 | * TunnelNetwork: His realm is a lightless place that exists beneath the domains of all the others. |
| 1382 | |
| 1383 | !!Osolmyr |
| 1384 | ->'''The One True Dream''' |
| 1385 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of flagellation, repression, and self denial''' |
| 1386 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1387 | |
| 1388 | * BodyHorror: She looks like a bloody, scourged woman whose hands have been amputated and her mouth was stitched shut. |
| 1389 | * CombatTentacles: She walks on tentacles ending in hands. |
| 1390 | * MouthStitchedShut: Part of her appearance. |
| 1391 | * SelfHarm: Her worship requires public self-flagellation. |
| 1392 | |
| 1393 | !!Roqorolos |
| 1394 | ->'''Prince of the Wracked''' |
| 1395 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of castaways, fouled water, and oceans''' |
| 1396 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1397 | |
| 1398 | A harbinger of Apollyon. |
| 1399 | ---- |
| 1400 | * ChainedByFashion: Rusted, tarnished chains wreathe his body |
| 1401 | * CombatTentacles: He has tentacles in place of arms. |
| 1402 | * LargeAndInCharge: He looks like a giant elf, albeit with a few changes. |
| 1403 | * TheUndead: Not actually, but the fact that he looks partially rotted lends to that appearance. |
| 1404 | |
| 1405 | !!Ruapceras |
| 1406 | ->'''The Scarlet Promise''' |
| 1407 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of crusades, intolerance, and cyclical revenge''' |
| 1408 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1409 | |
| 1410 | * BerserkButton: His followers must keep a list of their hatreds and intolerances, routinely adding to and expanding it. |
| 1411 | * HornsOfVillainy: His head is adorned with horns. |
| 1412 | * NightmareFace: Most of it is hidden by an executioners hood, but holes reveal [[EyeScream empty eye sockets]] and a [[ScaryTeeth monstrous fanged mouth]] perpetually dripping blood. |
| 1413 | * TinTyrant: He wears tarnished plate armor and rules a portion of Abaddon. |
| 1414 | |
| 1415 | !!Slandrais |
| 1416 | ->'''The Watcher in the Walls''' |
| 1417 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of lechery, love potions, and obsession''' |
| 1418 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1419 | |
| 1420 | A harbinger who enjoys warping people into reflections of their obsessions. |
| 1421 | ---- |
| 1422 | * AnIcePerson: He looks like he's made of bloodstained ice and ash. |
| 1423 | * BewareMyStingerTail: He has two long tails ending in scorpion stings. |
| 1424 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: A wasp and scorpion mix of monstrous size. |
| 1425 | * MixAndMatchCritters: A giant swap with two scorpion tails. |
| 1426 | * StalkerWithACrush: The basic unifying theme of his portfolio: lechery, love potions and obsession. |
| 1427 | * WickedWasps: He resembles a gigantic, fiendish wasp, and like all daemons is evil and hateful to his very core. |
| 1428 | |
| 1429 | !!Stygidvod |
| 1430 | ->'''The Charnel Child''' |
| 1431 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of wills, the fear of aging, and radical attempts at immortality''' |
| 1432 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1433 | |
| 1434 | A harbinger who serves Charon. |
| 1435 | ---- |
| 1436 | * BloodyHorror: His worship involves drinking and covering yourself in blood taken from a much younger victim. |
| 1437 | * CreepyChild: When you look at him, he looks like a young child. |
| 1438 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: You know a child is bad news when their eyes glow. |
| 1439 | * TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Look at him? You see a child. Look at his reflection, or see him out of the corner of your eye? You see a fusion of twisted, withered body parts. |
| 1440 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: His eyes appear jaundiced. |
| 1441 | |
| 1442 | !!Tamede |
| 1443 | ->'''The Fungal-Hearted''' |
| 1444 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of fungi, infected wounds, and rot''' |
| 1445 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1446 | |
| 1447 | A harbinger of Apollyon. |
| 1448 | ---- |
| 1449 | * BodyHorror: Her main body looks like a cadaver clad in rusted armor, bristling with fungal growths that bind the two together as they grow through them. |
| 1450 | * HiveMind: Her sentience is dispersed through the fungus she creates and the hosts she infects. |
| 1451 | * MushroomSamba: Eating or feeding other poisonous mushrooms is part of her worship. |
| 1452 | * SlaveMooks: She's served by daemons and petitioners who've been infected by her spores. |
| 1453 | * ThroneMadeOfX: She has a throne of skulls for her main body. |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 | !!Tresmalvos |
| 1456 | ->'''The Cistern Queen''' |
| 1457 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of cesspools, rat catchers, and sewers''' |
| 1458 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1459 | |
| 1460 | * HollywoodDrowning: Worshipping her involves drowning a warmblooded creature and eating the body while it's still wet. |
| 1461 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: She has numerous features that constantly change, sometimes disappearing entirely. The only constants are her yellow eyes and rat tail. |
| 1462 | |
| 1463 | !!Uaransaph |
| 1464 | ->'''The Creeping Pit''' |
| 1465 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of falling, projectiles, and non-magical flight''' |
| 1466 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 | Uaransaph's ability to fly was cut away from him long ago, so now he steals it from others. |
| 1469 | ---- |
| 1470 | * BreathWeapon: His mouth oozes boiling tar that he can spit as a weapon. |
| 1471 | * DisneyVillainDeath: His worshippers must throw other to their deaths or shoot them out of the sky. |
| 1472 | * EyelessFace: His head has no eyes. |
| 1473 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: He has dozens of wings, some good and some evil, all torn from his victims and grafted to himself to replace the ones he lost. |
| 1474 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Looks like a dragon, definitely a daemon. |
| 1475 | |
| 1476 | !!Xsistaid |
| 1477 | ->'''The Wriggling Wound''' |
| 1478 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of maggots, myiasis, and parasites''' |
| 1479 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1480 | |
| 1481 | A harbinger who infests and controls the bodies of others. |
| 1482 | ---- |
| 1483 | * BodyHorror: Want to worship Xsistaid for some unfathomable reason? All it takes is willingly becoming a host to parasites. |
| 1484 | * PuppeteerParasite: Though a daemon, it functions more like a parasite than possession. Its current host is a planetar angel. |
| 1485 | * WombLevel: Its realm is a mass of insects and petitioners fused together by parasitic fungi. |
| 1486 | |
| 1487 | !!Zaigasnar |
| 1488 | ->'''The Bladebride''' |
| 1489 | ->'''Daemonic Harbinger of destructive vanity, pins, and radical body modification''' |
| 1490 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 1491 | |
| 1492 | * BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: She's dressed in ornate bridal clothing, all of which is splattered with blood. |
| 1493 | * HumanPincushion: She's skewered on dozens of weapons. |
| 1494 | * SelfHarm: Her worshippers must carve the names of their victims into their own skin. |
| 1495 | [[/folder]] |
| 1496 | |
| 1497 | !Devils |
| 1498 | !!Archdevils |
| 1499 | |
| 1500 | [[folder:Asmodeus]] |
| 1501 | ->'''Prince of Darkness''' |
| 1502 | ->'''Archdevil and God of contracts, pride, slavery, and tyranny''' |
| 1503 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1504 | |
| 1505 | One of the first deities, a champion against free will who led many empyreals to become the first devils. See the page for [[Characters/PathfinderDeities core deities]]. |
| 1506 | [[/folder]] |
| 1507 | |
| 1508 | [[folder:Barbatos]] |
| 1509 | ->'''The Bearded Lord''' |
| 1510 | ->'''Lord of the First Hell, demigod of animals, corruption, and gateways''' |
| 1511 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1512 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 26 |
| 1513 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 1514 | |
| 1515 | A relative newcomer to Hell, Barbatos appeared a millennia ago and offered to serve Asmodeus. |
| 1516 | ---- |
| 1517 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: His rulership over the first layer of hell makes him ''Pathfinder'''s answer to Bel, the sole archdevil not adapted from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. |
| 1518 | * ArchEnemy: He's noted to have a particular enmity towards Ragathiel due to the latter's constant invasions of Avernus. |
| 1519 | * BeardOfEvil: He's called the Bearded Lord for a reason. |
| 1520 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1521 | %%* {{Cthulhumanoid}} |
| 1522 | * EvilOldFolks: Takes the form of an old, decrepit man. |
| 1523 | * TheFaceless: All that's seen of his face is a tangle of thin tendrils and seven eyes arranged in a pyramid. |
| 1524 | * GateGuardian: He serves as one for Hell in general, warding its borders against invasion and infiltration. |
| 1525 | * InfernalParadise: His personal fortress, The Promised Land, looks like a paradise from the distance. But a closer look reveals that it is a truly twisted realm. |
| 1526 | * InTheHood: Part of his apparel. |
| 1527 | * {{Mordor}}: His layer of Hell, Avernus, is the surface layer; a vast volcanic desert of pitted iron and charred rock. |
| 1528 | * MysteriousPast: Barbatos isn't technically a devil. No one other than Asmodeus himself knows what he actually is. |
| 1529 | * NamedWeapons: His staff ''Eyjatas'', which can [[EyeScream rip the eyes out of whoever it hits]] and allow its wielder to spy across planes. |
| 1530 | * OminousFloatingCastle: His fortress, the Promised Land, hovers over the realm of Avernus, taunting everyone trapped in the Hell below. |
| 1531 | * PublicDomainCharacter: He is based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbatos an obscure demon]] from the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''. |
| 1532 | * SpeakOfTheDevil: Say his name? He heard that. Say it three times in the same breath? He knows your name, where you are, and the next 21 words you say. |
| 1533 | * TheSpook: Barbatos is ''not'' a devil; he just randomly showed up on the gates of Hell after Typhon's death and was chosen by Asmodeus to replace him. No one, save perhaps Asmodeus, has any idea who or ''what'' he is. |
| 1534 | %%* ThirdEye |
| 1535 | * WeirdBeard: It's made of tentacles. |
| 1536 | * YouWillNotEvadeMe: He can counter or redirect teleport effects. If you manage to beat the save and resist it, he can teleport you ''back''. |
| 1537 | [[/folder]] |
| 1538 | |
| 1539 | [[folder:Dispater]] |
| 1540 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dispater_pathfinder.png]] |
| 1541 | ->'''The Father of Dis''' |
| 1542 | ->'''Lord of the Second Hell, archdevil of cities, prisons, and rulership''' |
| 1543 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1544 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 27 |
| 1545 | ->'''Size:''' Large |
| 1546 | |
| 1547 | One of Asmodeus's oldest allies, he prefers to work towards perfecting Hell rather than worrying about the affairs of the Material Plane. |
| 1548 | ---- |
| 1549 | * AmicableExes: He continues to frequently correspond with his divorced second wife, the demigoddess Feronia. |
| 1550 | * ArchnemesisDad: His son, the empyreal lord Ragathiel, considers him his arch-enemy. |
| 1551 | %%* BigRedDevil |
| 1552 | * CarryABigStick: Favors the heavy mace. |
| 1553 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1554 | * DivineInfernalFamily: The empyreal lord Ragathiel is his estranged son. Ragathiel takes a very direct role in battling the forces of Hell, in large part to prove to both himself and the rest of Heaven that he has no link to his father's evil. Dispater, for his part, considers this to be essentially a fit of teenage rebelliousness and expects that Ragathiel will return to him in time. |
| 1555 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely cares for his wife and exes (except the first, who he can't remember). |
| 1556 | * EvilOverlord: Of the city of Dis. |
| 1557 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a polite facade, but finds it utterly boring. |
| 1558 | * HappilyMarried: To his third wife, Erecura, a former mortal who is also one of his closest advisors. |
| 1559 | %%* HornedHumanoid |
| 1560 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: He can't remember what happened to his first wife, which bugs him considerably. |
| 1561 | * NamedWeapons: His mace, ''The Eclipsing Eye'', the symbol of his office granted to him by Asmodeus himself. |
| 1562 | * NobleDemon: As noble as they come here, anyway. |
| 1563 | * PoliceState: His city presumably, given that devils are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Lawful Evil]] and it is said to be Hell's greatest city. |
| 1564 | * PublicDomainCharacter: "Dis Pater" was a cthonic earth-god worshiped by the Romans who was later identified with Hades/Pluto. |
| 1565 | * SummonToHand: He can call ''The Eclisping Eye'' to his hand no matter where it is. |
| 1566 | * UnholyMatrimony: He has been married three times. He cannot recall what happened to his first wife (he's not too pleased about this), he is AmicableExes with the second, and HappilyMarried to the third. |
| 1567 | * WordsCanBreakMyBones: He has the ability to insult people so heinously that they literally take charisma damage. |
| 1568 | [[/folder]] |
| 1569 | |
| 1570 | [[folder:Mammon]] |
| 1571 | ->'''The Argent Prince'''\ |
| 1572 | '''Lord of the Third Hell, archdevil of avarice, watchfulness, and wealth''' |
| 1573 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1574 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 28 |
| 1575 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 1576 | |
| 1577 | A fallen angel, Mammon was slain on a mission to the Maelstrom. His body drifted along with the treasure he had brought for millennia before being retrieved, whereupon it was discovered that his spirit had managed to persist by binding to his wealth. Now he's a disembodied spirit who uses all the treasure of Hell as a body. |
| 1578 | ---- |
| 1579 | * ArtifactOfDoom: Any treasure from Erebus can serve as a vessel for Mammon's awareness. One of his favorite tricks is to pay others with coins from his coffers, allowing him to subtly corrupt mortals who unknowingly handle the wealth of Hell. |
| 1580 | * BrokenAngel: Mammon was ambushed by the celestials and his body destroyed; he now uses a bejewelled form designed to resemble his original one. |
| 1581 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1582 | * DemonicPossession: He can do this to those who hold or, worse still, swallow a coin from Erebus. |
| 1583 | * FallenAngel: He's the remnants of a fallen angel spread through all the treasures of Hell. |
| 1584 | * GeniusLoci: Mammon ''is'' the treasury of Erebus; every piece of treasure contains a part of his soul. |
| 1585 | * GreaterScopeVillain: In the ''Council of Thieves'' Adventure Path, where his bastard son Eccardian is the BigBad. |
| 1586 | * {{Greed}}: He's Hell's treasurer and never lets a single piece get away; nothing claimed by Mammon or the realm of Erebus truly escapes. |
| 1587 | * HeartTrauma: The gem that forms his heart is missing. |
| 1588 | %%* HornedHumanoid: On his Argent Prince form. |
| 1589 | * LivingStatue: The Argent Prince is a statue designed to resemble Mammon's ideal form that he regularly possesses when in need of a body. |
| 1590 | * {{Mammon}}: Mammon is the archdevil of greed and wealth, Hell's treasurer, and so attached to his wealth that his spirit continued to inhabit it after the destruction of his body. |
| 1591 | * PublicDomainCharacter: "Mammon" is a general term for the evil influence of wealth, personified as a fallen angel in ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. |
| 1592 | * TreasureRoom: He is one, possessing the entire Vault of Erebus. |
| 1593 | [[/folder]] |
| 1594 | |
| 1595 | [[folder:Belial]] |
| 1596 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/belial_pathfinder.png]] |
| 1597 | ->'''The Pale Kiss''' |
| 1598 | ->'''Lord of the Fourth Hell, archdevil of adultery, deception, and desire''' |
| 1599 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1600 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 28 |
| 1601 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 1602 | |
| 1603 | A creation of Asmodeus to be the perfection of form and beauty to anyone who beheld them. |
| 1604 | ---- |
| 1605 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1606 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: [[WordOfGod F. Wesley Schneider]] explains Belial's stance quite simply: |
| 1607 | -->'''F. Wesley Schneider''': Belial's got nothing but love for [[TheLongList women... and men... and the dead... and the undead... and salmon... and vultures... and owlbears... and ant swarms... and flesh golems... and iron golems... and gibbering mouthers... and sycamore trees... and your grandmother's church... and your childhood stuffed animals... and...]] |
| 1608 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Belial can take any shape imaginable, but their "default" appearance, insofar as they have one, has one red, fiendish wing and one white, feathered angelic wing. |
| 1609 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Their shapeshifting is almost unconscious, flitting between forms almost constantly. They don't mind much though. |
| 1610 | * LightIsNotGood: Invoked by the angelic half of their split form. |
| 1611 | * {{Lust}}: Suffers from it, inflicts it upon their followers, and likes those who act on it. |
| 1612 | * MadScientist: One of the more intellectual expressions of their lust-they feels the urge to create, and because of that they're renowned for their layer's forges and several innovations in magic and even a few species of devil. |
| 1613 | * MotherOfAThousandYoung: Male example. No archfiend has ever reproduced the way Belial has. |
| 1614 | * PublicDomainCharacter: They're based on a demon from Judeo-Christian apocrypha. |
| 1615 | * SexShifter: They can appear as male, female, neither, both, or other sexes from races with vastly different sexes and genders. No one's even sure what their original sex even was, or if they had one at all. |
| 1616 | * TooKinkyToTorture: They take pleasure in pain just as much as they do in pleasure itself. |
| 1617 | * TwoFaced: When dealing with the other Lords of Hell they takes on a form that is devilish on one side and angelic on the other. |
| 1618 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can take on any form when dealing with other beings, appearing as what they most desire; what their true form is, no one knows. |
| 1619 | %%* WingedHumanoid |
| 1620 | [[/folder]] |
| 1621 | |
| 1622 | [[folder:Geryon]] |
| 1623 | ->'''The Source of Lies''' |
| 1624 | ->'''Lord of the Fifth Hell, archdevil of forbidden knowledge, heresy, and snakes''' |
| 1625 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1626 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 29 |
| 1627 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 1628 | |
| 1629 | Once an asura rana, Geryon turned on its brethren and allied with Asmodeus when the devils came to Hell. Now a true devil thanks to its bargain, it spreads lies and heresies throughout the universe. |
| 1630 | ---- |
| 1631 | * BrownNote: It carries an artefact called ''The Horn of Lies''. When blown, enemies have their perceptions warped, can't tell the truth, and become incredibly paranoid. |
| 1632 | * ConsummateLiar: Geryon is the Source of Lies. With every lie spoken on the Material Plane, a drop of poison floods its realm. It is not surprising, therefore, that it is a ''very'' good liar. |
| 1633 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1634 | * TheCynic: Geryon encourages this viewpoint; anyone who cannot see past lies is a fool who deserves to be manipulated by those who do. |
| 1635 | * DealWithTheDevil: It made one with Asmodeus, becoming a devil in exchange for betraying the asuras. |
| 1636 | * DemonicPossession: It occasionally falls into a stupor and mutters blasphemies and lies of immaculate potency. It claims responsibility for these, but privately believes it becomes a conduit for the voice of Hell itself during these trances. |
| 1637 | %%* EpicFlail |
| 1638 | * EvilerThanThou: With Abraxas, a demon lord who shares its portfolio and weapon of choice. |
| 1639 | * GeniusBruiser: It may look like some sort of monstrous animal, but Geryon is actually very intelligent and has many of the secrets of the multiverse at its disposal. |
| 1640 | * GodGuise: Not ''it,'' (it's legitimately a demigod like all the other archdevils, and when worshiped it's worshiped as Geryon), but its layer contains the ruins of every false faith in its swamp, and it collects them to add to its personal palace. Word on [[ScamReligion Razmir]] is not yet forthcoming, but it's probably eagerly awaiting some Razmirian rooms. |
| 1641 | * IGaveMyWord: It doesn't happen often, but if Geryon actually gives its word, it keeps it, understanding that without truth there can be no lies. The most notorious was the unknown one-word vow of fealty to Asmodeus. |
| 1642 | * KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: A holy profession among its followers. |
| 1643 | * LargeAndInCharge: Geryon is the largest of the archdevils, and looks more like a guardian monster than one of the smartest beings in Hell. |
| 1644 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: One of its bodies always carries a shield. |
| 1645 | * ManipulativeBastard: Offers secrets and forbidden knowledge in order to tempt those who speak to it into heresy. |
| 1646 | * MultipleHeadCase: Geryon has three heads. |
| 1647 | * NoBiologicalSex: As an asura, it has no true sex. |
| 1648 | * NoSell: ''Nothing'' can change or erase its memories. |
| 1649 | * TheOlderImmortal: It actually lived in Hell before Asmodeus moved there. As an asura, it is likely only slightly younger than Asmodeus himself, and is certainly older than the other archdevils. |
| 1650 | * PublicDomainCharacter: It is based on two serpentine creatures named Geryon, one from Myth/ClassicalMythology (who battled Herakles) and one from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' (who was an actual demon). |
| 1651 | * SnakePeople: Has the lower body of a monstrous serpent and three seperate upper bodies. |
| 1652 | * SnakesAreEvil: One of two archfiends (along with the demon lord Abraxas) associated with serpents. Needless to say, snakes do not have a good reputation within the ''Pathfinder'' verse. |
| 1653 | * TheStarscream: It used to be an asura rana before it sold out its own race to Asmodeus. |
| 1654 | * TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: As the archdevil responsible for forbidden knowledge, Geryon very much has this in its portfolio. |
| 1655 | [[/folder]] |
| 1656 | |
| 1657 | [[folder:Moloch]] |
| 1658 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moloch_pathfinder.png]] |
| 1659 | ->'''The General of Hell''' |
| 1660 | ->'''Lord of the Sixth Hell, archdevil of fire, obedience, and war''' |
| 1661 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1662 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 29 |
| 1663 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 1664 | |
| 1665 | The general of Hell's armies. Whether devils, lost souls, other hellish denizens, or hired mercenaries, if they're working for Hell, you can find him at the top of the chain of command. Despite his appearance as a being of fire and steel he's surprisingly cool headed, carefully formulating tactics and stratagems for wars yet to come. |
| 1666 | ---- |
| 1667 | * AnimalMotifs: Bulls. |
| 1668 | %%* BreathWeapon |
| 1669 | * TheBrute: He is very much Asmodeus' muscle. |
| 1670 | * ChoiceOfTwoWeapons: Wields the thorned sword ''Ramithaine'' and the battleaxe ''Goreletch''. |
| 1671 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1672 | * EvilIsNotPacifist: Though less so than Szuriel. |
| 1673 | * FourStarBadass: General of Hell's armies. Unstoppable in combat. |
| 1674 | %%* HornedHumanoid |
| 1675 | %%* LargeAndInCharge |
| 1676 | * {{Hellfire}}: So you've got some nifty fire resistance, or better yet, immunity? That's cute that you think it'll protect you, because Moloch uses ''hellfire'', not the garden standard variety fire. |
| 1677 | * MonsterKnight: Counts some of these among his followers. |
| 1678 | * NamedWeapons: His main weapons have names, as seen above. |
| 1679 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: Anyone he kills is burned to ash. |
| 1680 | * PlayingWithFire: He has fire as a domain and quite a few nasty fire effects. |
| 1681 | * PragmaticVillainy: He's more responsive and merciful to his worshipers than most archfiends. Need a water source after the well dried up? He'll get a river rerouted. Home burned down and a brutal winter is setting in? He'll get you shelter. Of course the price to all this is eventually becoming a soldier in his army, as well as whatever supplies or price he asks for in the first place. But when you pray and get a direct response for your problems, Moloch has found people are much more willing to swear away their souls. |
| 1682 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Moloch was originally a god worshiped in North Africa and the Near East whose cult practiced human sacrifice by burning people alive inside a hollow metal bull statue. |
| 1683 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: If someone destroys one of his weapons he can remake it in the span of a few seconds. |
| 1684 | * SummonToHand: He can summon his sword and axe, even across planes. |
| 1685 | * ATasteOfTheLash: His clerics' favored weapon is the whip, which doesn't even do lethal damage. It makes more sense when one considers his own preference for using the whip: as great a warrior as he is individually, he can do more by leading an army. Or more specifically, by driving one by the lash. |
| 1686 | * WarGod: Moloch definitely has some aspects of this trope, and is associated with disciplined, regimented armies and no-holds-barred warfare. |
| 1687 | %%* WeHaveReserves |
| 1688 | * {{Wrath}}: All those who burn with anger join Moloch's legions. |
| 1689 | [[/folder]] |
| 1690 | |
| 1691 | [[folder:Baalzebul]] |
| 1692 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baalzebul_pathfinder.png]] |
| 1693 | ->'''The Lord of the Flies''' |
| 1694 | ->'''Lord of the Seventh Hell, archdevil of arrogance, flies, and lies''' |
| 1695 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1696 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 30 |
| 1697 | ->'''Size:''' Large |
| 1698 | |
| 1699 | Once Asmodeus's chief lieutenant, a moment of envy and anger led his to argue that he should be the highest of the archdevils rather than sharing power with the other seven. Being stripped of his form and Asmodeus's favor, he now plots and schemes to prove himself the greatest of the archdevils even as he plans to enact horrible vengeance. |
| 1700 | ---- |
| 1701 | * TheAce: He once performed incredible feats and won numerous victories for Asmodeus. Even as he is now, the other archdevils fear to cross him. |
| 1702 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wanted to rule multitudes. [[RulesLawyer Asmo]][[JackassGenie deus]] made him TheWormThatWalks. |
| 1703 | * BreakTheHaughty: Not that he's ever learned anything from it. Both envy and arrogance are part of his portfolio after all. |
| 1704 | * BrokenAngel: When Baalzebul demanded too much from Asmodeus, the god shattered his body and remade it from thousands of biting flies. |
| 1705 | * TheCorrupter: Needs everyone to be as broken and hateful as he is. |
| 1706 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: The long-forgotten and nearly dead god Azhia hangs in his throne room, pulling double duty as decoration and snack as Baalzebul feasts on him for eternity. |
| 1707 | * DrivenByEnvy: Of Mephistopholes and anything beautiful. |
| 1708 | * FallenAngel: Was once an angel with the title of the Lord of All That Flies. |
| 1709 | * GreenEyedMonster: Towards all the Lords of Hell and Mephistopholes in particular. To a lesser degree he's like this towards those angels that retain their form, and creation in general. |
| 1710 | * PublicDomainCharacter: His name is a corruption of "Beelzeboul", the Greek name of Beelzebub. Baal, an ancient Mesopotamian god and former, 'demonized' rival of YHWH may also be invoked by it. |
| 1711 | * PyrrhicVictory: Baalzebul revels in empty victories, not least because they're the only kind he ever has. |
| 1712 | * TheStarscream: Towards Asmodeus, whose throne he covets. |
| 1713 | * TheUnfavorite: Regards himself as this, with Mephistopholes as The Favorite. |
| 1714 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Desperately wants Asmodeus' approval, as much as or more than he wants his throne. |
| 1715 | %%* WingedHumanoid |
| 1716 | * TheWormThatWalks: His body is composed of millions of flies. |
| 1717 | [[/folder]] |
| 1718 | |
| 1719 | [[folder:Mephistopheles]] |
| 1720 | ->'''The Merchant of Souls, the Crimson Son''' |
| 1721 | ->'''Lord of the Eighth Hell, archdevil of contracts and secrets''' |
| 1722 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1723 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 30 |
| 1724 | ->'''Size:''' Large |
| 1725 | |
| 1726 | Formed from Asmodeus out of ash and hellfire, Mephistopheles is a master at tricking mortals into signing away their souls. |
| 1727 | ---- |
| 1728 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Unlike his [=DnD=] counterpart, who is proudly TheStarscream, this Mephistopheles has UndyingLoyalty towards Asmodeus and is one of his most trusted servants. |
| 1729 | * BigRedDevil: He's one of the most physically classic of the archdevils, resembling a towering crimson-skinned humanoid with large horns and three pairs of wings. |
| 1730 | * ConsummateLiar: Only Asmodeus can tell when Mephistopheles is lying. |
| 1731 | %%* TheCorrupter |
| 1732 | * DarkMessiah: He is Asmodeus' most fervent apostle and preaches the superiority of Hell to all those who will listen. |
| 1733 | * DealWithTheDevil: He loves them almost as much as Asmodeus. |
| 1734 | * TheDragon: He is Asmodeus' favored son and right-hand devil. |
| 1735 | * FisherKing: It's strongly implied that he's literally the embodiment of the very fabric of Hell itself. He's certainly friends with the GeniusLoci that controls his layer (not master and servant, friends -- the reason he doesn't shape it to his heart's content is that his layer has its own ideas and gets upset when he abuses it, thank you). |
| 1736 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Notably, his three pairs of wings combine the three most common types of "evil" wings at once. His lowermost pair of wings are black and feathered, his middle pair are red and batlike and his uppermost are shrouded in flame. |
| 1737 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He's the main orchestrator of the events of the ''Hell's Rebels'' adventure path, serving as the patron of the main human villain and the main authority behind the devils and hellish realm the players face in the last installment. |
| 1738 | %%* HornedHumanoid |
| 1739 | %%* ManipulativeBastard |
| 1740 | * {{Mephistopheles}}: Mephistopheles, the Crimson Son, is one of the nine archdevils, the ruler of Hell's eighth layer, and the archdevil of contracts and secrets. In the Faustian tradition, he's particularly famous for his aptitude for schemes and slippery wordplay, which is considerable even among the devils. He's a master of tricking mortals into signing away their souls, but his more complex schemes can span worlds -- foiling the plots of just one of his minions takes up an entire adventure path. |
| 1741 | * NamedWeapons: Well, ''Visineir'' is technically a quill, but he can wield it as a dagger. |
| 1742 | * PlayingWithFire: He's made of the stuff of Hellfire. |
| 1743 | %%* RulesLawyer |
| 1744 | * {{Troll}}: Very fond of subtly insulting people to their faces... [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu including the other archdevils.]] |
| 1745 | * WardensAreEvil: He's the warden of Caina. |
| 1746 | [[/folder]] |
| 1747 | |
| 1748 | !!Queens of the Night |
| 1749 | |
| 1750 | [[folder:Ardad Lili]] |
| 1751 | ->'''The End of Innocence''' |
| 1752 | ->'''Queen of Night of seduction, snakes, and women''' |
| 1753 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1754 | |
| 1755 | Once an angel of Nirvana, Ardad Lili was assigned to inspire artists of all stripes. Over time she found many of her charges harbored lust for her and though she first felt nothing but indifference for them, her feelings soon grew into hate and disgust. Making hollow promises in exchange for worship she grew in power before eventually leaving Nirvana for Hell during Exodus. |
| 1756 | ---- |
| 1757 | * GreenAndMean: Green is one of her preferred colors. |
| 1758 | * LightIsNotGood: White is one of her two preferred colors. |
| 1759 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: She got a lot of unwanted attention before she started using it. Her issue wasn't necessarily that she was attractive, she just couldn't stand mortals having the arrogance to think such transient beings were worthy of her. |
| 1760 | * SnakesAreSinister: Her wings have snake tails rather than feathers. |
| 1761 | * TheVamp: She has this reputation and style, though she largely deals in empty promises and honeyed words. Despite this, she's good enough at it that people still fall for it, hoping to be one of the few exceptions. |
| 1762 | [[/folder]] |
| 1763 | |
| 1764 | [[folder:Doloras]] |
| 1765 | ->'''Our Lady in Pain''' |
| 1766 | ->'''Queen of Night of detachment, dispassion, and pain''' |
| 1767 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1768 | |
| 1769 | Once a planetar angel, Doloras began her fall when demons captured her three brothers and dragged them into the Abyss. She followed alone, capturing and torturing the demons she thought responsible. But when it became clear that they weren't the ones who took her brothers and didn't know where they were she didn't stop, even when messengers came to tell her of her brothers' safe return. When she finally slew her captives and returned to Heaven she found the gates blocked, so she descended to Hell and took up residence in the eighth ring. |
| 1770 | ---- |
| 1771 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Her favorite pastime. |
| 1772 | * FallenAngel: She used to be a planetar angel. |
| 1773 | * FemmeFatalons: She has blades for fingers. |
| 1774 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Hers have blades for feathers. |
| 1775 | * IThoughtYouWereDead: Her brothers mourn her as dead, though they have suspicions about the truth. |
| 1776 | * RuleOfThree: Thrice emissaries of Heaven came to tell her that her brothers had returned, and thrice she slew them. |
| 1777 | * TheStoic: She's cut herself off from emotion, now knowing little more than sadistic pleasure. |
| 1778 | [[/folder]] |
| 1779 | |
| 1780 | [[folder:Eiseth]] |
| 1781 | ->'''The Erinyes Queen''' |
| 1782 | ->'''Queen of Night of battle, revenge, and wrath''' |
| 1783 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1784 | |
| 1785 | Once a movanic deva angel, Eiseth found herself frustrated by her commanders and yearned to become an empyreal lord of her own. Her patience waned as time passed until she slew her commander for what she considered a foolish decision. She fled Heaven before she could be sentenced, eventually taking up residence in the second circle of hell and forming an alliance with Ardad Lili, Doloras, and Mahathallah, who named themselves the Queens of Night. |
| 1786 | ---- |
| 1787 | * TheDreaded: Lorthact had legions of allies, from servants and minions to allied infernal dukes to at least two archdevils who employed him as an advisor. Not a single one of them would aid him against Eiseth when she roused her fury. |
| 1788 | * FallenAngel: She used to be a movanic deva. |
| 1789 | * MakeAnExampleOfThem: Lorthact tried to betray her, making her his servant while increasing his own power. Her responding fury was such that Lorthact, who was rumored to hold the favor of Asmodeus himself and had allies in every ring of Hell, was forced to flee Hell and fake his own death. |
| 1790 | * NeverASelfMadeWoman: ''Thoroughly'' averted. Several times she's been told she's risen as high as she can on her own under Hell's patriarchal society. Each time she's replied by laughing, flipping the bird, and smashing through the glass ceiling to rise even higher. |
| 1791 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: She transforms fiends into her own servants. |
| 1792 | * WalkingTheEarth: She wandered for centuries before setting up shop in Hell. |
| 1793 | [[/folder]] |
| 1794 | |
| 1795 | [[folder:Mahathallah]] |
| 1796 | ->'''Dowager of Illusions''' |
| 1797 | ->'''Queen of Night of death, fate, and vanity''' |
| 1798 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1799 | |
| 1800 | Once a psychopomp, Mahathallah knew the fate of every creature except herself. Obsessed with this blind spot in her knowledge, she travelled the River of Souls to discover it. What she found taught her the fear of death and she fled, eventually ending up in Hell when unknown words from Asmodeus calmed her in a way no other could. |
| 1801 | ---- |
| 1802 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wanted to know her own fate, a desire that consumed her up until the moment she learned it. The revelation broke her and sent her fleeing in terror throughout the multiverse. |
| 1803 | * BestServedCold: Her plots are patient, befitting someone who already knows how everyone will die. |
| 1804 | * EvilerThanThou: To the sakhil tormenters, who regard her with envy and anger. |
| 1805 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Her wings appear shattered and broken, reflecting how her own mind shattered with her fall. |
| 1806 | * ImmortalsFearDeath: She finally understood the mortal fear of death when she found her own and it nearly broke her. |
| 1807 | * PrescienceIsPredictable: Averted, she knew the fate of every creature except her own. |
| 1808 | * RapidAging: Her age varies, from youthful but clearly dead woman to ancient rotting crone. She constantly cycles between the two, with the length of time ranging from a day to a moment. |
| 1809 | * WalkingTheEarth: Not so much walking as running full speed in terror, but she wandered for quite some time before settling down. |
| 1810 | * YouCantFightFate: She knows the eventual fate of everything. And that does mean ''everything''. From amoebae to heroes to liches to angels to archfiends to gods themselves and everything in between, she knows how each and every one of them will die and nothing anyone does can change even a single one of these fates. |
| 1811 | [[/folder]] |
| 1812 | |
| 1813 | !!Infernal Dukes |
| 1814 | |
| 1815 | [[folder:Furcas]] |
| 1816 | ->'''The Knight of Laurels''' |
| 1817 | ->'''Infernal Duke of duty, flames, and herbalism''' |
| 1818 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1819 | |
| 1820 | A fallen angel and brilliant military commander, Furcas guards Voulgaz, a gate between the first and second rings of Hell. Under his watch the gate has stood strong for eons, rebuffing assaults from angels, proteans, and more. |
| 1821 | ---- |
| 1822 | * EyelessFace: He has no eyes, just two slight indentations covered in smooth skin. |
| 1823 | * GateGuardian: He serves as one for Dis, guarding a hellmouth connecting it with Avernus and preventing intruders and attackers from entering the second ring of Hell. |
| 1824 | * GreenThumb: Rather bizarrely for a devil, he has a lot of ties to plants -- he has direct access to several plant-related spells, has herbalism as one of his areas of interest, is himself an unorthodox PlantPerson and rules a realm covered in a tangle of writhing vegetation. |
| 1825 | * NamedWeapons: He wields the trident ''Avernus Claw'', a gift to him from a now-dead archdevil who once ruled the first ring, which can [[SummonToHand be called to his hand from anywhere across the planes]] and [[YouWillNotEvadeMe redirect teleportation to deposit would-be escapees right next to him]]. |
| 1826 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: He used to be a normal humanoid being. His horse-shaped lower body is made of parasitic, thorny vines that replaced his old legs. |
| 1827 | * PlantPerson: You could be forgiven for thinking he's covered in bony plates or armor, but he's largely composed of vines, bark, and thorns, though some tattered remnants of his original body persist. |
| 1828 | * PyroManiac: He's explicitly called a pyromaniac. |
| 1829 | [[/folder]] |
| 1830 | |
| 1831 | [[folder:Lorthact]] |
| 1832 | ->'''The Diabolus Mystere''' |
| 1833 | ->'''Infernal duke in exile of scholars, theories, and exiles''' |
| 1834 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1835 | |
| 1836 | Lorthact was once an infernal duke with no master, serving as an advisor to many of the lords of Hell at one time or another, sometimes simultaneously. Things went sour when Eiseth discovered his plan to elevate his own status at her expense while making her his servant, resulting in his hasty escape. Now he's hiding in Korvosa in the guise of Volshynek Ornelos, trying to accumulate enough souls and power to return to Hell and reclaim his position. |
| 1837 | ---- |
| 1838 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He belongs to a lower ranking of hellish nobility than the archdevils, the infernal dukes. He's still an epic-level threat. |
| 1839 | * EvilSorcerer: His exact area of concern is unknown, but involved a great degree of control over magic. |
| 1840 | * FairWeatherFriends: Not a single one of his allies chose to stick by him when faced with Eiseth's fury. |
| 1841 | * FakingTheDead: Several times, in various guises. He killed Volshynek Ornelos and impersonated him for two centuries. Fairly early on he also faked ''Volshynek's'' death so he could appear to the Ornelos family in secret and run things from behind the scenes. He also faked his own death to throw his pursuers off the trail. |
| 1842 | * HornedHumanoid: He has several horns sprouting from his brow in a parody of a crown. |
| 1843 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He controls Korvosa's Academae through his descendant, Toff Ornelos. |
| 1844 | %%* MasterOfIllusion |
| 1845 | * TimeMaster: He exists slightly out of the normal timestream, making him immune to magic that tells the future and allowing him to act normally when others freeze time. |
| 1846 | [[/folder]] |
| 1847 | |
| 1848 | [[folder:Other Infernal Dukes]] |
| 1849 | !!Alocer |
| 1850 | ->'''Infernal Duke of beasts, hunts, and tradition''' |
| 1851 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1852 | |
| 1853 | !!Bifrons |
| 1854 | ->'''The Second Fate''' |
| 1855 | ->'''Infernal Duke of fate, luck, and patterns''' |
| 1856 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1857 | |
| 1858 | !!Crocell |
| 1859 | ->'''The Soothing Sun''' |
| 1860 | ->'''Infernal Duke of hidden water, illusions, and language''' |
| 1861 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1862 | |
| 1863 | !!Deumus |
| 1864 | ->'''Infernal Duke of apprehension, promises, and terror''' |
| 1865 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1866 | |
| 1867 | !!Eaqueo |
| 1868 | ->'''The Finishing Knot''' |
| 1869 | ->'''Infernal Duke of depression, nooses, and tragic stories''' |
| 1870 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1871 | |
| 1872 | !!Gaap |
| 1873 | ->'''The Rai of Water Devils''' |
| 1874 | ->'''Infernal Duke of divination, illusions, and water''' |
| 1875 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1876 | |
| 1877 | !!Haborym |
| 1878 | ->'''Infernal Duke of immolation, renewal, and shackles''' |
| 1879 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1880 | |
| 1881 | !!Iaozrael |
| 1882 | ->'''Infernal Duke of authority, hubris, and liars''' |
| 1883 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1884 | ---- |
| 1885 | * FallenAngel: Once an angel, Iaozrael fell when he touched Sarenrae's wings and found himself wanting, and is now a burning shadow of his once-beautiful form. |
| 1886 | |
| 1887 | !!Jiraviddain |
| 1888 | ->'''The Duke of Fissures''' |
| 1889 | ->'''Infernal Duke of debility, dependence, and frailty''' |
| 1890 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1891 | |
| 1892 | !!Kalma |
| 1893 | ->'''The Rasping Count''' |
| 1894 | ->'''Infernal Duke of burial rites, death, and insects''' |
| 1895 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1896 | |
| 1897 | !!Lorcan |
| 1898 | ->'''The Red Reply''' |
| 1899 | ->'''Infernal Duke of blood, rebirth, and undeath''' |
| 1900 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1901 | |
| 1902 | !!Losarkur |
| 1903 | ->'''The Beastlord''' |
| 1904 | ->'''Infernal Duke of dominance, hounds, and punishment''' |
| 1905 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1906 | |
| 1907 | !!Malthus |
| 1908 | ->'''The Five-Beaked''' |
| 1909 | ->'''Infernal Duke of architecture, expansion, and waste''' |
| 1910 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1911 | |
| 1912 | !!Nergal |
| 1913 | ->'''The Slow Death''' |
| 1914 | ->'''Infernal Duke of atrocity, pestilence, and war''' |
| 1915 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1916 | ---- |
| 1917 | * DividedDeity: When the Azlanti god Nurgal was cloven in two by Acavna, the greater half became the demon lord Nurgal, while the lesser half became Nergal. |
| 1918 | * WarGod: He presides over wartime atrocities. |
| 1919 | |
| 1920 | !!Ose |
| 1921 | ->'''The Duke of Claws''' |
| 1922 | ->'''Infernal Duke of betrayal, doom, and obsession''' |
| 1923 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1924 | |
| 1925 | !!Pirias |
| 1926 | ->'''The Whispering Vial''' |
| 1927 | ->'''Infernal Duke of denial, drugs, and wonder''' |
| 1928 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1929 | |
| 1930 | !!Quindiovatos |
| 1931 | ->'''The Vicious Guest |
| 1932 | ->'''Infernal Duke of exploration, gems, and legends''' |
| 1933 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1934 | |
| 1935 | !!Rasvocel |
| 1936 | ->'''The Vulture King''' |
| 1937 | ->'''Infernal Duke of carrion, patience, and storms''' |
| 1938 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1939 | |
| 1940 | !!Ruzel |
| 1941 | ->'''Sabletongue''' |
| 1942 | ->'''Infernal Duke of blasphemy, humor, and undeath''' |
| 1943 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1944 | |
| 1945 | !!Sabnach |
| 1946 | ->'''The Forgemaster of the Living''' |
| 1947 | ->'''Infernal Duke of construction, parasites, and toil''' |
| 1948 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1949 | |
| 1950 | !!Titivilus |
| 1951 | ->'''The Scrivening Count''' |
| 1952 | ->'''Infernal Duke of lies, propaganda, and rhetoric''' |
| 1953 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1954 | |
| 1955 | !!Uruskriel |
| 1956 | ->'''The Metal Wing''' |
| 1957 | ->'''Infernal Duke of armor, mercilessness, and revelation''' |
| 1958 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 | !!Vapula |
| 1961 | ->'''The Keeper of the Pyrite Vault''' |
| 1962 | ->'''Infernal Duke of discovery, hubris, and scholars''' |
| 1963 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1964 | |
| 1965 | !!Vois |
| 1966 | ->'''The Croaking Count''' |
| 1967 | ->'''Infernal Duke of pollution, swamps, and toads''' |
| 1968 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1969 | |
| 1970 | !!Wylgart |
| 1971 | ->'''The Unbroken Word''' |
| 1972 | ->'''Infernal Duke of condemnation, judges, and revision''' |
| 1973 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1974 | |
| 1975 | !!Xhasnaphar |
| 1976 | ->'''The Faceless Truth''' |
| 1977 | ->'''Infernal Duke of masks, ugliness, and volition''' |
| 1978 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1979 | |
| 1980 | !!Yan-gant-y-tan |
| 1981 | ->'''The Wandering''' |
| 1982 | ->'''Infernal Duke of hellspawn, misdirection, and night''' |
| 1983 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1984 | |
| 1985 | !!Zaebos |
| 1986 | ->'''Infernal Duke of arrogance, nobility, and perversion''' |
| 1987 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1988 | |
| 1989 | !!Zepar |
| 1990 | ->'''The Forever Sire''' |
| 1991 | ->'''Infernal Duke of abduction, rape, and transformation''' |
| 1992 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 1993 | [[/folder]] |
| 1994 | |
| 1995 | !!Malebranche |
| 1996 | [[folder:Malebranche]] |
| 1997 | Powerful devils tasked with overseeing the subjugation of entire mortal worlds to Hell. |
| 1998 | ---- |
| 1999 | * PublicDomainCharacter: They're based on and named after the devils who torture the souls of corrupt politicians in the Eight Circle of Hell in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''. |
| 2000 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Each of them is tasked with conquering one Material Plane planet in the name of Hell. |
| 2001 | |
| 2002 | !!Alichino |
| 2003 | ->'''Jester Prince of the Cage''' |
| 2004 | ->'''Malebranche of deception, madness, and royalty''' |
| 2005 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2006 | The Malebranche tased with ensuring Golarion's subjugation. |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 | !!Barbariccia |
| 2009 | ->'''The Fearsome Father''' |
| 2010 | ->'''Malebranche of fecundity, predators, and slaughter''' |
| 2011 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2012 | |
| 2013 | !!Cagnazzo |
| 2014 | ->'''The Hunter of Souls''' |
| 2015 | ->'''Malebranche of elusiveness, fear, and murder''' |
| 2016 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2017 | |
| 2018 | !!Calcabrina |
| 2019 | ->'''The Mistress of Twilight''' |
| 2020 | ->'''Malebranche of dreams, insanity, and mystery''' |
| 2021 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | !!Circiatto |
| 2024 | ->'''The Glutton Slaver''' |
| 2025 | ->'''Malebranche of gluttony, greed, and the undead''' |
| 2026 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2027 | |
| 2028 | !!Draghignazzo |
| 2029 | ->'''The Devil-Dragon of Devestation''' |
| 2030 | ->'''Malebranche of devastation, monsters, and patience''' |
| 2031 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2032 | |
| 2033 | !!Farfarello |
| 2034 | ->'''The Lord of the Forgotten''' |
| 2035 | ->'''Malebranche of antiquity, death, and mist''' |
| 2036 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2037 | |
| 2038 | !!Graffiacane |
| 2039 | ->'''The Swarm Lord''' |
| 2040 | ->'''Malebranche of corruption, elusiveness, and vermin''' |
| 2041 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2042 | |
| 2043 | !!Libicocco |
| 2044 | ->'''The Prideful Lady of the Winds''' |
| 2045 | ->'''Malebranche of rage, violence, and wind''' |
| 2046 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2047 | |
| 2048 | !!Malacoda |
| 2049 | ->'''The Despoiler of Horizons''' |
| 2050 | ->'''Malebranche of conquest, cruelty, and martial skill''' |
| 2051 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2052 | |
| 2053 | !!Rubicante |
| 2054 | ->'''He Who Grows Red''' |
| 2055 | ->'''Malebranche of fire, honor, and nobility''' |
| 2056 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2057 | |
| 2058 | !!Scarmiglione |
| 2059 | ->'''The Pale Promise''' |
| 2060 | ->'''Malebranche of deceit, poison, and temptation''' |
| 2061 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2062 | [[/folder]] |
| 2063 | |
| 2064 | !Asura Ranas |
| 2065 | [[folder:Andak]] |
| 2066 | ->'''The Dismembered''' |
| 2067 | ->'''Asura Rana of axes, dismemberment, and torture''' |
| 2068 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2069 | [[/folder]] |
| 2070 | |
| 2071 | [[folder:Bohga]] |
| 2072 | ->'''The Treasurer''' |
| 2073 | ->'''Asura Rana of avarice, meditation, and vigilance''' |
| 2074 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2075 | [[/folder]] |
| 2076 | |
| 2077 | [[folder:Chugarra]] |
| 2078 | ->'''The Guru of Butchers''' |
| 2079 | ->'''Asura Rana of blood, butchers, and leather''' |
| 2080 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2081 | [[/folder]] |
| 2082 | |
| 2083 | [[folder:Chupuravagasti]] |
| 2084 | ->'''The Lady of Poison Mist''' |
| 2085 | ->'''Asura Rana of mist, poison, and veils''' |
| 2086 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2087 | [[/folder]] |
| 2088 | |
| 2089 | [[folder:Gavidya]] |
| 2090 | ->'''The Numberless''' |
| 2091 | ->'''Asura Rana of corruption, indoctrination, and lies''' |
| 2092 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2093 | [[/folder]] |
| 2094 | |
| 2095 | [[folder:Hydim]] |
| 2096 | ->'''Of the Eternal Fast''' |
| 2097 | ->'''Asura Rana of eternity, hunger, and madness''' |
| 2098 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2099 | [[/folder]] |
| 2100 | |
| 2101 | [[folder:Ioramvol]] |
| 2102 | ->'''With the Mouth Full of Boulders''' |
| 2103 | ->'''Asura Rana of caverns, cliffs, and premature burials''' |
| 2104 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2105 | [[/folder]] |
| 2106 | |
| 2107 | [[folder:Maeha]] |
| 2108 | ->'''Father of False Worlds''' |
| 2109 | ->'''Asura Rana of abduction, isolation, and propaganda''' |
| 2110 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2111 | [[/folder]] |
| 2112 | |
| 2113 | [[folder:Onamahli]] |
| 2114 | ->'''The Twice Pure''' |
| 2115 | ->'''Asura Rana of beauty, double-standard, and self mutilation''' |
| 2116 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2117 | [[/folder]] |
| 2118 | |
| 2119 | [[folder:Rahu]] |
| 2120 | ->'''The Sun Eater''' |
| 2121 | ->'''Asura Rana of eclispes, executions, and gluttony''' |
| 2122 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2123 | [[/folder]] |
| 2124 | |
| 2125 | [[folder:Rytara]] |
| 2126 | ->'''Serpent of the Eastern Eye''' |
| 2127 | ->'''Asura Rana of fearful memories, serpents, and vision''' |
| 2128 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2129 | [[/folder]] |
| 2130 | |
| 2131 | [[folder:Taraksun]] |
| 2132 | ->'''Awakener of Wrath''' |
| 2133 | ->'''Asura Rana of anger, dreams, and breaking bonds''' |
| 2134 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2135 | [[/folder]] |
| 2136 | |
| 2137 | [[folder:Zurapadyn]] |
| 2138 | ->'''The Beast Who Waits In Smoke''' |
| 2139 | ->'''Asura Rana of fire, injustice, and vendettas''' |
| 2140 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2141 | [[/folder]] |
| 2142 | |
| 2143 | !Oni Daimyo |
| 2144 | [[folder:Akuma]] |
| 2145 | ->'''The Horned King''' |
| 2146 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of battle, honor, and martial arts''' |
| 2147 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2148 | [[/folder]] |
| 2149 | |
| 2150 | [[folder:Chimon]] |
| 2151 | ->'''The Hunter of Blood''' |
| 2152 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of ambushes, hunting, and traps''' |
| 2153 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 2154 | [[/folder]] |
| 2155 | |
| 2156 | [[folder:Guyuku]] |
| 2157 | ->'''The Sea Devil''' |
| 2158 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of piracy, tea, and tsunamis''' |
| 2159 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2160 | [[/folder]] |
| 2161 | |
| 2162 | [[folder:Inma]] |
| 2163 | ->'''The Empress of the World''' |
| 2164 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of lavish wealth, origami, and servitude''' |
| 2165 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2166 | [[/folder]] |
| 2167 | |
| 2168 | [[folder:Muronna]] |
| 2169 | ->'''The Dark Mother''' |
| 2170 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of eclipses, sunset, and unseen things''' |
| 2171 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 2172 | [[/folder]] |
| 2173 | |
| 2174 | [[folder:Nataka]] |
| 2175 | ->'''The Red King''' |
| 2176 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of drought, forest fires, and perfume''' |
| 2177 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 2178 | ---- |
| 2179 | * BigFancyCastle: The sole oni daimyo who sees little need to downplay his power, Nataka lives in the towering Red King's Castle, which evokes imagery of the surrounding volcanoes, with perpetual fires burning atop its rooflines and towers. |
| 2180 | [[/folder]] |
| 2181 | |
| 2182 | [[folder:Onmyuza]] |
| 2183 | ->'''The Dancer in Flesh''' |
| 2184 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of orgies, sake, and tattoos''' |
| 2185 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2186 | ---- |
| 2187 | * TheHedonist: Onmyuza revels in all things physical; even the most jaded, debauched reveller would blush at the extremes she takes for granted. |
| 2188 | [[/folder]] |
| 2189 | |
| 2190 | [[folder:Ushitora]] |
| 2191 | ->'''The Keeper of the Oni Gate''' |
| 2192 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of earthquakes, keys, and sabotage''' |
| 2193 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2194 | [[/folder]] |
| 2195 | |
| 2196 | [[folder:Uzumae]] |
| 2197 | ->'''The Daimyo of the North''' |
| 2198 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of blizzards, frozen ghosts, and starvation''' |
| 2199 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2200 | [[/folder]] |
| 2201 | |
| 2202 | [[folder:Yabu]] |
| 2203 | ->'''The Lord of the Kazan Caldera''' |
| 2204 | ->'''Oni Daimyo of curses, promises, and volcanos''' |
| 2205 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 2206 | [[/folder]] |
| 2207 | |
| 2208 | !Nindoru Ascetics |
| 2209 | [[folder:Kugaptee]] |
| 2210 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2211 | ---- |
| 2212 | * SealedEvilInACan: After the heroine Tan Sui-Jing gave her life to defeat Kugaptee, her soul, reincarnated as an immense sugi tree, grows above Kugaptee's grave, ensuring he will never reincarnate and return to this world while the tree remains. |
| 2213 | [[/folder]] |
| 2214 | |
| 2215 | [[folder:Munasagi]] |
| 2216 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2217 | ---- |
| 2218 | * LargeAndInCharge: By the time it led a ninsat to infiltrate Zi Ha in 6778 IC, Musagani has absorbed the souls of 66 giants, swelling to the largest known size of any nindoru. |
| 2219 | [[/folder]] |
| 2220 | |
| 2221 | [[folder:Sigek]] |
| 2222 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2223 | ---- |
| 2224 | * BastardUnderstudy: As a young man, Sigek apprenticed himself to a lich named Nindoru. Sigek was intrigued by the promises of lichdom but concluded that a soul cage would be a vulnerability he could not afford. After five years of study, Sigek betrayed and destroyed Nindoru, then stole his soul cage for experimentation. |
| 2225 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: The existence of a nindoru demigod bearing the name Sigek suggests the disillusioned human managed to transform himself into a divine being. |
| 2226 | * FantasticRacism: When he learnt that he was a human born to samsaran parents, he grew to hate all samsarans, especially those who followed Sangpotshi. |
| 2227 | * HatesTheirParent: As an infant, Sigek was given over to a human community by his samsaran parents, who hoped their son would live a harmonious existence and reincarnate as a samsaran during his next life cycle. Instead, Sigek grew into an angry youth who resented his parents for abandoning him. |
| 2228 | * MonsterProgenitor: In 4444 IC, Sigek led his cult in a blasphemous ritual intended to force Nindoru's soul to reincarnate into something new outside of the established cycle of life and death. After that day, Sigek and his followers simply seemed to have vanished, but later that same year, the first accounts of nindorus began to appear, suggesting that Sigek managed to transform his supplicants into the first nindorus. The most powerful nindorus dispute this and claim to have always existed beyond the creation of creation itself, and it was only Sigek's actions that finally allowed them into this cycle of reality. |
| 2229 | [[/folder]] |
| 2230 | |
| 2231 | !Qlippoth Lords |
| 2232 | [[folder:Rovagug]] |
| 2233 | ->'''The Rough Beast''' |
| 2234 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord and God of wrath, disasters, and destruction''' |
| 2235 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2236 | |
| 2237 | A qlippoth who ascended to true godhood and cut a bloody swathe across creation until being sealed within Golarion's core. See the page for [[Characters/PathfinderDeities core deities]]. |
| 2238 | [[/folder]] |
| 2239 | |
| 2240 | [[folder:Chavazvug]] |
| 2241 | ->'''The Crawling Inferno''' |
| 2242 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of firey consumption and monstrous recursion''' |
| 2243 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2244 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22 |
| 2245 | ->'''Size:''' Colossal |
| 2246 | |
| 2247 | A qlippoth lord who wages war against demons rather than mortals. |
| 2248 | ---- |
| 2249 | * EvilIsVisceral: He's basically a gigantic mass of steaming hot intestines on spider legs. |
| 2250 | * LeeroyJenkins: He regularly attacks demons without regard for his own survival, focusing only on killing as many as he can before he's brought down. Given that he's a qlippoth lord, that measures up to a lot of demons. |
| 2251 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: He can resurrect mortals as possessed minions. |
| 2252 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: He grows a new body from the depths of the Abyss if he's killed, hence his willingness to engage in suicidal assaults. |
| 2253 | * WeHaveReserves: He's noted to be the most receptive and tolerant towards mortal followers among qlippoth lords, but at the same time he tends to see them mostly as expendable cannon fodder against demons at ''best''. |
| 2254 | * WreathedInFlames: He drips fire and ignites anyone who gets too close. |
| 2255 | * ZombiePukeAttack: One of his attacks involves [[{{Squick}} spewing boiling hot bile on people]]. |
| 2256 | [[/folder]] |
| 2257 | |
| 2258 | [[folder:Isph-Aun-Vuln]] |
| 2259 | ->'''The Feaster Within''' |
| 2260 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of flesh infestations and poisonous winds''' |
| 2261 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2262 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 25 |
| 2263 | ->'''Size:''' Medium |
| 2264 | |
| 2265 | The most intelligent and cunning of the qlippoth lords, a monstrous parasite of the body and soul. |
| 2266 | ---- |
| 2267 | * BodyHorror: Her hosts end up horribly mutated from her influence. |
| 2268 | * TheChessmaster: She selects hosts that put her in a position to lead entire nations to decadence and ruin. |
| 2269 | * DeadlyGas: She can create a small ''hurricane'' of poison vapor. |
| 2270 | * PintsizePowerhouse: She's only medium (about the size of a human), while all the other Qlippoth lords are at least gargantuan (about the size of a sperm whale). She's still the most powerful by far. |
| 2271 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: She can force anyone under the influence of her mind control abilities to kill themselves. |
| 2272 | * PuppeteerParasite: She infests and controls hosts in order to manipulate others. |
| 2273 | [[/folder]] |
| 2274 | |
| 2275 | [[folder:Oaur-Ooung]] |
| 2276 | ->'''The Blistering Womb''' |
| 2277 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of tainted ocean and vile fecundity''' |
| 2278 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2279 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 23 |
| 2280 | ->'''Size:''' Colossal |
| 2281 | |
| 2282 | A titanic qlippoth that dwells in the depths of a vast Abyssal sea and spawns lesser, but still quite powerful, qlippoth. |
| 2283 | ---- |
| 2284 | * BizarreAlienReproduction: She spawns her young from "blisterwombs", fluid-filled sacs that grow on her flanks until they burst and birth her young. |
| 2285 | * EnemySummoner: She can spawn most forms of qlippoth at will. |
| 2286 | * EvilMatriarch: If you're a demon you're a demon. If you were her spawn that changes nothing, she wants you just as dead. |
| 2287 | * {{Kaiju}}: Oaur-Ooung's fungal body is normally 120 feet long, and her tentacles can unfurl to a length of miles. She's massive enough to be one of the few kaiju that use the Massive rule in 1st Edition (alongside the Oliphaunt of Jandelay, Ulunat, Leviathan and Mhar). |
| 2288 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: Oaur-Ooung is an evil, miles-long aquatic horror. |
| 2289 | * MotherOfAThousandYoung: She can birth lesser qlippoth at will and occasionally gestates more powerful offspring, one of whom was Cyth-V'sug. Currently she's pregnant with another of these qlippoth, the largest yet. |
| 2290 | * OffingTheOffspring: She consumed some of her own spawn herself. |
| 2291 | * TrulySingleParent: She generates her offspring entirely on her own, without any input from other beings. |
| 2292 | [[/folder]] |
| 2293 | |
| 2294 | [[folder:Shiggarreb]] |
| 2295 | ->'''The Marauding Maw''' |
| 2296 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of forbidden magic and atrocities of war''' |
| 2297 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2298 | |
| 2299 | A master of arcane magic and messenger for the other qlippoth lords who is commonly associated with the qlippoth invasion of the Material Plane. |
| 2300 | ---- |
| 2301 | * WarIsHell: Pretty much a given considering part of her portfolio is "wartime atrocities". |
| 2302 | [[/folder]] |
| 2303 | |
| 2304 | [[folder:Thuskchoon]] |
| 2305 | ->'''The Everglutton''' |
| 2306 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of blinding hunger and revealed secrets''' |
| 2307 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2308 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 21 |
| 2309 | ->'''Size:''' Gargantuan |
| 2310 | |
| 2311 | A near mindless qlippoth lord driven only by his ravenous hunger. |
| 2312 | ---- |
| 2313 | * DumbMuscle: He's little more than a feral animal. |
| 2314 | * ExtremeOmnivore: He eats just about everything. |
| 2315 | * FertileFeet: Inverted, he leaves a slug trail of tar. |
| 2316 | * ItCanThink: When attacked, he has flashes of intelligence that allow him to use his magical abilities. |
| 2317 | [[/folder]] |
| 2318 | |
| 2319 | [[folder:Yamasoth]] |
| 2320 | ->'''The Polymorph Plague''' |
| 2321 | ->'''Qlippoth Lord of cursed kingdoms and vile experiments''' |
| 2322 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2323 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 24 |
| 2324 | ->'''Size:''' Gargantuan |
| 2325 | |
| 2326 | One of the few qlippoth lords to dwell in the upper reaches of the Abyss, Yamasoth believes that the key to victory over demonkind lies in the transformation of mortals into beasts, vermin and aberrations incapable of sin or complex thought, thereby starving the Abyss of the material needed to create demons. |
| 2327 | ---- |
| 2328 | * BodyHorror: Not only is Yamasoth throughly repulsive to look upon, but those he captures, those he fights, and those who worship him take on this look as well. One elf ate his own eye as part of a ritual to make contact with Yamasoth. |
| 2329 | * CombatTentacles: A maw and an eye surrounded by tentacles that shift to take on whatever shape Yamasoth needs them to have to cause the most pain and damage to other creatures. |
| 2330 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Yamasoth is a powerful, unique qlippoth with roughly the power (CR 24) of a nascent demon lord, infernal duke, or daemonic harbinger. Rumours of still more powerful qlippoth lords who can rival demigods and archfiends persist. |
| 2331 | * EldritchAbomination: Like all qlippoth, Yamasoth is a nearly incomprehensible, primordial evil dredged up from the dawn of time and given a barely recognisable form. |
| 2332 | * ForcedTransformation: He can inflict this upon his enemies with a glance, and delights in tormenting test subjects with it. By transforming mortals into beasts, Yamasoth rids himself of their souls and prevents their deaths from fueling the rise of more demons. |
| 2333 | * HopelessBossFight: A downplayed example: at the end of ''The Doomsday Door'', he [[spoiler:attacks through a portal (the Doomsday Door itself) and the party (who will be, at most, level 12 or so) has to survive his attacks for two rounds (he has a pretty big penalty to his attacks since he's attacking through a portal), after which the door closes and they are safe from him]]. |
| 2334 | * MadScientist: He constantly experiments upon victims. |
| 2335 | * MakerOfMonsters: He's obsessed with vile experiments, mutation, and twisting and mutating captured creatures into new and monstrous shapes. His experiments have birthed countless horrors; many were one-off creations, but others resulted in the creation entire species of qlippoth. |
| 2336 | * {{Mutants}}: He's interested in breeding up entire races of them. |
| 2337 | * PatientZero: It's implied in ''Book of the Damned Vol. 2'' that Yamasoth may be what's left of the qlippoth that gave birth to the first demon. |
| 2338 | [[/folder]] |
| 2339 | |
| 2340 | !Rakshasa Immortals |
| 2341 | [[folder:Aksha]] |
| 2342 | ->'''Of the Second Breath''' |
| 2343 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2344 | [[/folder]] |
| 2345 | |
| 2346 | [[folder:Bundha]] |
| 2347 | ->'''The Singing Butcher''' |
| 2348 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2349 | [[/folder]] |
| 2350 | |
| 2351 | [[folder:Caera]] |
| 2352 | ->'''The Blood Bather''' |
| 2353 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2354 | [[/folder]] |
| 2355 | |
| 2356 | [[folder:Dradjit]] |
| 2357 | ->'''The Godslayer''' |
| 2358 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2359 | [[/folder]] |
| 2360 | |
| 2361 | [[folder:Hudima]] |
| 2362 | ->'''The Kinslayer''' |
| 2363 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2364 | [[/folder]] |
| 2365 | |
| 2366 | [[folder:Jyotah]] |
| 2367 | ->'''He Who Walks Among the Gods''' |
| 2368 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2369 | [[/folder]] |
| 2370 | |
| 2371 | [[folder:Kunkarna]] |
| 2372 | ->'''The Dream Warrior''' |
| 2373 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2374 | [[/folder]] |
| 2375 | |
| 2376 | [[folder:Mursha]] |
| 2377 | ->'''The Beastmaster''' |
| 2378 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2379 | [[/folder]] |
| 2380 | |
| 2381 | [[folder:Otikaya]] |
| 2382 | ->'''The Spirit Archer''' |
| 2383 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2384 | [[/folder]] |
| 2385 | |
| 2386 | [[folder:Prihasta]] |
| 2387 | ->'''The General between Heaven and Hell''' |
| 2388 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2389 | [[/folder]] |
| 2390 | |
| 2391 | [[folder:Ravana]] |
| 2392 | ->'''The First and Last''' |
| 2393 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2394 | [[/folder]] |
| 2395 | |
| 2396 | [[folder:Surpa]] |
| 2397 | ->'''The Avenger''' |
| 2398 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2399 | [[/folder]] |
| 2400 | |
| 2401 | [[folder:Vibhishah]] |
| 2402 | ->'''The Seeker''' |
| 2403 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2404 | [[/folder]] |
| 2405 | |
| 2406 | [[folder:Zabha]] |
| 2407 | ->'''The Desecrator''' |
| 2408 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2409 | [[/folder]] |
| 2410 | |
| 2411 | !Sahkil Tormentors |
| 2412 | [[folder:Ananshea]] |
| 2413 | ->'''The Skin That Walks on Teeth''' |
| 2414 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of brutality, torture, and wild animals''' |
| 2415 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2416 | |
| 2417 | Ananshea frequently flies into rage when provoked, but quickly settles into cold calculation for the death of a foe. |
| 2418 | ---- |
| 2419 | * AmbiguousGender: None of the little information on Ananshea identifies a gender. |
| 2420 | [[/folder]] |
| 2421 | |
| 2422 | [[folder:Chamiaholom]] |
| 2423 | ->'''Skull Staff''' |
| 2424 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of domination, hopelessness, and mortality''' |
| 2425 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2426 | |
| 2427 | Chamiaholom revels in reminding mortals that their time is finite and often sends his minions to remind them of this fact. |
| 2428 | ---- |
| 2429 | [[/folder]] |
| 2430 | |
| 2431 | [[folder:Charg]] |
| 2432 | ->'''The Typhon Wheel''' |
| 2433 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of catastrophic decline, detrimental complacency, and monsters''' |
| 2434 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2435 | |
| 2436 | * AmbiguousGender: Nothing about Charg's gender is mentioned, not even a pronoun. |
| 2437 | * BodyHorror: Charg appears as a conglomeration of limbs, organs, and heads from a menagerie of species. |
| 2438 | [[/folder]] |
| 2439 | |
| 2440 | [[folder:Dachzerul]] |
| 2441 | ->'''Darkness Behind You''' |
| 2442 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of deadly pranks, stalkers, and sudden death''' |
| 2443 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2444 | |
| 2445 | Outwardly pleasant, Dachzeru can turn murderous in a flash. |
| 2446 | ---- |
| 2447 | * DeadlyPrank: He loves them. |
| 2448 | * MoodSwinger: He'll go from chatting casually to frothing rage in the blink of an eye. |
| 2449 | * MoodWhiplash: His personality is a reflection of his domains of sudden death and deadly pranks, where the mood abruptly shifts to darkness when tragedy strikes. |
| 2450 | [[/folder]] |
| 2451 | |
| 2452 | [[folder:Hataam]] |
| 2453 | ->'''River Eater''' |
| 2454 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of drought, drowning, and stagnation''' |
| 2455 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2456 | |
| 2457 | * AmbiguousGender: There's nothing in the little information there is about Hataam that identifies a gender. |
| 2458 | * ChameleonCamouflage: If you ran across Hataam, you might just think you're seeing a lump of flotsam. And they you'll notice the decayed limbs tangled amid the debris... |
| 2459 | * SeaMonster: Well, river monster. |
| 2460 | [[/folder]] |
| 2461 | |
| 2462 | [[folder:Iggeret]] |
| 2463 | ->'''She Who Was Lost''' |
| 2464 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of darkness, empty places, and pits''' |
| 2465 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2466 | |
| 2467 | As a mortal Iggeret faked her own kidnapping just to see how people would react and has only grown worse since. |
| 2468 | ---- |
| 2469 | * CreepyChild: She appears as a drowned child with a skeletal face. |
| 2470 | * EnfantTerrible: As a child she faked her own kidnapping and drove her parents to suicide. |
| 2471 | * TogetherInDeath: She entombed herself with her parents to rest with them. |
| 2472 | * WasOnceAMan: A little girl who drove her own parents to suicide from despair for funsies. One wonders why Pharasma possibly chose to make her a psychopomp. |
| 2473 | [[/folder]] |
| 2474 | |
| 2475 | [[folder:Nameless]] |
| 2476 | ->'''Upon An Empty Throne''' |
| 2477 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of delusions of authority, doubt, and torment''' |
| 2478 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2479 | |
| 2480 | Nameless seeks to crush all who desire power, regardless of good or evil. |
| 2481 | ---- |
| 2482 | * AmbiguousGender: Nothing regarding Nameless mentions a gender, though out of all the tormentors, Nameless seems the least likely to have one at all. |
| 2483 | * BreakTheHaughty: Nameless usually does this by killing them, though an extremely thorough ruining may do. |
| 2484 | * EldritchAbomination: Nameless is a lingering thought, a misheard sound, a sense of movement in your peripheral vision, not a corporeal being. |
| 2485 | * NeverGivenAName: Nameless's only name is... a word describing the lack of a name. It's no surprise worshippers tend to use the title Upon An Empty Throne to refer to the tormentor instead. |
| 2486 | [[/folder]] |
| 2487 | |
| 2488 | [[folder:Oranvial]] |
| 2489 | ->'''Despair's Smile''' |
| 2490 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of despair, restless spirits, and sadism''' |
| 2491 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2492 | |
| 2493 | Oranvial prefers the long game, befriending her victims to torment them all the more intimately. |
| 2494 | ---- |
| 2495 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: She sabotages her friendships with her victims bit by bit to break down their self worth. |
| 2496 | [[/folder]] |
| 2497 | |
| 2498 | [[folder:Shawnari]] |
| 2499 | ->'''The One Out Of Place''' |
| 2500 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of isolation, loneliness, and lost time''' |
| 2501 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2502 | |
| 2503 | Shawnari works against the other tormentors for reasons unknown to all but her. |
| 2504 | ---- |
| 2505 | * CategoryTraitor: She works against the other tormentors, though details are scarce enough that it's unclear if this is a ploy for power on her own part or if she plots against all sakhil. |
| 2506 | * {{Invisibility}}: She's invisible by default, and may not even be capable of becoming visible. |
| 2507 | [[/folder]] |
| 2508 | |
| 2509 | [[folder:Velgaas]] |
| 2510 | ->'''Minds in the Dark''' |
| 2511 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of emotional manipulation, emptiness, and ignorance''' |
| 2512 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2513 | |
| 2514 | The most methodical of the tormentors, Velgaas seeds doubt and uncertainty among mortals. |
| 2515 | ---- |
| 2516 | * LittleBitBeastly: He looks like a scaly human with a forked tongue. |
| 2517 | * ManipulativeBastard: He likes twisting people into doing evil, especially those who had good intentions. |
| 2518 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: He does his best to reverse this, causing people to despair at themselves. |
| 2519 | [[/folder]] |
| 2520 | |
| 2521 | [[folder:Vermillion Mother]] |
| 2522 | ->'''Vermillion Mother''' |
| 2523 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of fecundity, overgrown places, and psychoactive plants''' |
| 2524 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2525 | |
| 2526 | * MushroomSamba: A major part of her worship. |
| 2527 | * PlantPerson: She resembles a cross between a crone and a carnivorous plant. |
| 2528 | [[/folder]] |
| 2529 | |
| 2530 | [[folder:Xiquiripat]] |
| 2531 | ->'''Flying Scab''' |
| 2532 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of evisceration, fatal falls, and genocide''' |
| 2533 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2534 | |
| 2535 | Trapped beneath the Black Pyramid, Xiquiripat makes plans to terrify and kill all that lives. |
| 2536 | ---- |
| 2537 | * BlobMonster: One of his common forms is a gigantic blood clot. |
| 2538 | * OmnicidalManiac: He wants to kill everything in existence. Why? Who knows! |
| 2539 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He has a few forms he varies between. Besides the above-mentioned blood clot, another common form is a mass of matted hair and lampreys. |
| 2540 | [[/folder]] |
| 2541 | |
| 2542 | [[folder:Zipacna]] |
| 2543 | ->'''The Mountain Below''' |
| 2544 | ->'''Sahkil Tormentor of avoiding responsibility, shifting earth, and violence''' |
| 2545 | ->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil |
| 2546 | |
| 2547 | Lazy but powerful, Zipacna prefers to spend his time indulging his every whim. |
| 2548 | ---- |
| 2549 | * ExtraEyes: He has four eyes. |
| 2550 | * TheHedonist: He keeps many servants to cater to his every whim. |
| 2551 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's one of the most powerful and largest of the tormentors. |
| 2552 | * LittleBitBeastly: Inverted, he's mostly animalistic but has human hands. |
| 2553 | * NeverSmileAtACrocodile: He looks like a giant caiman. |
| 2554 | [[/folder]] |
| 2555 | |
| 2556 | !Velstrac Demagogues |
| 2557 | [[folder:Aroggus]] |
| 2558 | ->'''The Abbey Maker''' |
| 2559 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of possibility, revenge, and sanctuary''' |
| 2560 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2561 | |
| 2562 | The demagogue who led the kytons out of Hell into the Plane of Shadows, constructing the Abby of Nevers to serve as their citadel. |
| 2563 | ---- |
| 2564 | * BestServedCold: He's constantly indulging himself, as well as both his followers and victims, with dreams of revenge against the devils. However, because he's obsessed with constantly perfecting it, he'll never actually get around to ''enacting'' it. |
| 2565 | * EldritchLocation: The Abbey of Nevers is a half-physical fortress of impossibilities that can hide an entire fiendish race within it for eternity and constantly reshapes itself. |
| 2566 | * GeniusLoci: He's merged with his Abbey, becoming a sentience that warps the already mind-bending locale to his whims. |
| 2567 | [[/folder]] |
| 2568 | |
| 2569 | [[folder:Barravoclair]] |
| 2570 | ->'''Lady of the Final Gasp''' |
| 2571 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of the elderly, fatalistic insights, and resurrection''' |
| 2572 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2573 | |
| 2574 | A demagogue who has trapped herself in the moment of death for an eternity. |
| 2575 | ---- |
| 2576 | * NotQuiteDead: She's both dead and not dead, stuck in the singular moment where the soul and the body separate. |
| 2577 | * TimeAbyss: She's remained frozen in the moment of death for untold millennia, constantly extending her existence by feeding on the lives of others. |
| 2578 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Though she's never actually been in a position for someone else to torture her, she's probably one of the most extreme examples you can find. She finds normal pain too mundane to even bother with, so she died and trapped herself in the moment of expiration so she could savor the sensation of death ''forever''. Yeah, good luck finding a torture that can top that. |
| 2579 | [[/folder]] |
| 2580 | |
| 2581 | [[folder:Fharaas]] |
| 2582 | ->'''The Seer in Skin''' |
| 2583 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of experience, murder, patterns''' |
| 2584 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2585 | |
| 2586 | A demagogue who can read the futures of mortals by examining the design of their flesh. |
| 2587 | ---- |
| 2588 | * AnArmAndALeg: His worshippers often study the interiors of newly severed limbs to learn the ways of their master. |
| 2589 | * {{Seers}}: A particularly nightmarish one that reads your future by taking you apart and examining the way all your parts fit together. One would imagine that method always returns results about the subject dying via dissection, but hey, we're not the torture-fueled demigod here. |
| 2590 | [[/folder]] |
| 2591 | |
| 2592 | [[folder:Inkariax]] |
| 2593 | ->'''The White Death''' |
| 2594 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of cold, preservation, and solitude''' |
| 2595 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2596 | |
| 2597 | A demagogue who believes perfection is ruined by change. |
| 2598 | ---- |
| 2599 | * AnIcePerson: One of Inkariax's methods of preserving perfection is to freeze them. |
| 2600 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: His whole schtick is torturing and killing people with cold and ice |
| 2601 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Or rather, icicles. He has some enormous icicles imbedded is his body which he can pull out and throw like javelins. |
| 2602 | * TheCollector: Of everything from people to items to sounds. |
| 2603 | * TheyChangedItNowItSucks: An instant-to-instant version. Inkariax believes that the natural entropy brought on by time ruins perfection, and so seeks to capture perfection as the moment it is such before time can ruin it. |
| 2604 | [[/folder]] |
| 2605 | |
| 2606 | [[folder:Kaikyton]] |
| 2607 | ->'''The Stitchweaver''' |
| 2608 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of experimentation, stitches, and physical merger''' |
| 2609 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2610 | |
| 2611 | A demagogue who specializes in combining parts into more perfect wholes. |
| 2612 | ---- |
| 2613 | * AccidentalMisnaming: The source of a large-scale version. The people of ancient Golarion mistook her personal name for that of her species, resulting in the use of the name "kyton" for her kind. |
| 2614 | * FusionDance: She inflicts this on unwilling victims, combining them body and soul with other things in a way she thinks will make them more perfect. |
| 2615 | [[/folder]] |
| 2616 | |
| 2617 | [[folder:Morrobahn]] |
| 2618 | ->'''The Parasite Seed''' |
| 2619 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of invasiveness, proliferation, and redundancy''' |
| 2620 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2621 | |
| 2622 | A demagogue who seeks to spread perfection to ensure it can never be destroyed. |
| 2623 | ---- |
| 2624 | * BackupTwin: Invoked, it tries to copy perfect individuals and deposit them across the multiverse so the perfection isn't lost if the original dies. |
| 2625 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: Its worship involves forcing two similar beings to fight to the death. |
| 2626 | [[/folder]] |
| 2627 | |
| 2628 | [[folder:Raetorgash]] |
| 2629 | ->'''The Skull-Hoarder''' |
| 2630 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of evolution, mutation, and skulls''' |
| 2631 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2632 | |
| 2633 | A demagogue who studies bones in search of the potential for perfection. |
| 2634 | ---- |
| 2635 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: She examines the bones to see the evolution in the past and predict what the future may hold for the species. |
| 2636 | * FinalSolution: If she thinks a species she's examined lacks the potential for perfection, she wipes them out entirely. |
| 2637 | [[/folder]] |
| 2638 | |
| 2639 | [[folder:Sugroz]] |
| 2640 | ->'''The Voice In Screams''' |
| 2641 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of ecstasy, fleetingness, and incorporeality''' |
| 2642 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2643 | |
| 2644 | A demagogue who believes corporeal being is only a restriction for true perfection. |
| 2645 | ---- |
| 2646 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: She wants to become a being of thought and breath, without the dead weight of physical form. |
| 2647 | * BodyHorror: She cut away every part of herself save what she needs to preach her teachings. By now she's little more than the skin of a face, bereft of eyes or a skull, stretched into a macabre tapestry that whispers her lessons. |
| 2648 | [[/folder]] |
| 2649 | |
| 2650 | [[folder:Vevelor]] |
| 2651 | ->'''The Broken Dream''' |
| 2652 | ->'''Velstrac Demagogue of illusionary freedom, potential, and transcendence''' |
| 2653 | ->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil |
| 2654 | |
| 2655 | A demagogue who seeks to cast off the shackles of predestination. |
| 2656 | ---- |
| 2657 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: He didn't begin as a kyton, but willingly became one. |
| 2658 | * CastingAShadow: His body is halfway between flesh and shadow. |
| 2659 | * EldritchAbomination: Vevelor is described as a living spectrum of possibility shaped into a physical form. |
| 2660 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: He has wings made of shadows. |
| 2661 | [[/folder]] |
| 2662 | |
| 2663 | !Others |
| 2664 | [[folder:Ahriman]] |
| 2665 | ->'''The Lord of the Divs''' |
| 2666 | ->'''Demigod of divs, genies, oblivion, and subversion''' |
| 2667 | ->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil |
| 2668 | ->'''Challenge Rating:''' 26 |
| 2669 | ->'''Size:''' Huge |
| 2670 | |
| 2671 | The shadow of destruction that followed genies into existence, Ahriman is the sole ruler of the divs. |
| 2672 | ---- |
| 2673 | * AdaptationalWimp: In UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}, Ahriman is the GodOfEvil and is equal in power to Ahura Mazda, the GodOfGood. Here he is "just" a fiendish lord. |
| 2674 | * BodyHorror: Living snakes crawl in and out of his skin. |
| 2675 | * ChainPain: Huge chains are embedded in his flesh. |
| 2676 | * CoveredWithScars: Turns out having snakes covered in venom burrowing in and out of your flesh tends to leave a mark. |
| 2677 | * CrisisOfFaith: He can invoke this when he hits divine spellcasters. |
| 2678 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He's the ruler of the divs, a minor race of fiends formed from corrupted genies, and the only one of divine status. |
| 2679 | * EvilVersusEvil: Ahriman is an ascended NeutralEvil fiend with a portfolio involving oblivion who resides in Abaddon, so one could be forgiven for thinking that he and the daemons would get along. They do not, and he and his divs regularly go to war with the agents of the Riders. |
| 2680 | %%* GoodWingsEvilWings: Evil wings. |
| 2681 | * HornsOfVillainy: He has horns carved with glowing curses. |
| 2682 | * JustEatHim: Ahriman can swallow people whole. Those swallowed by him fall into a BottomlessPit for eternity. |
| 2683 | %%* LargeAndInCharge |
| 2684 | * NamedWeapons: ''Ahriman's Scourge'', a lash made from the spines of genies. |
| 2685 | * {{Necromancer}}: He created the undead genies known as ghuls, and those killed by him rise as undead. |
| 2686 | * OmnicidalManiac: Ahriman is the embodiment of entropy and oblivion. Creation is anathema to him. |
| 2687 | * PantheraAwesome: His appearance definitely resembles some sort of big cat. |
| 2688 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Based on the Persian devil-figure, also known as Angra Mainyu. |
| 2689 | * {{Thoughtcrime}}: He spreads "wrongthought", thoughts that are evil unto themselves. |
| 2690 | [[/folder]] |
| 2691 | |
| 2692 | [[folder:Dorvae Viziers]] |
| 2693 | Dorvae that have accumulated enough personal power to alter the world to suit their wishes. No specific examples are currently known, only that they exist. |
| 2694 | ---- |
| 2695 | * MonstrousCannibalism: Some become viziers by consuming other dorvae. |
| 2696 | * PocketDimension: Rather than rule a chunk of an existing plane, they create their own demiplanes to rule with absolute authority. |
| 2697 | * RealityWarper: They reshape their surroundings to match their mood and tastes. It's implied this is linked to the PocketDimension mentioned above, as wherever they go their demiplane overlaps with the normal world and allows them to manipulate it. |
| 2698 | [[/folder]] |
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