History Characters / PathfinderFiends

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lilu]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----
* BirdPeople: All lilus have mixed avian and humanoid appearances.
* FeatheredFiend: Lilus are a family of evil fiends with both avian and humanoid features.

!!Hurlilu
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lilu_hurlilu.png]]
->'''Level:''' 11

----
* TheBully: Hurlilus prefer to spend their time bullying smaller creatures in High M'Vania's vast cliffside cities, but they're unwelcome there and driven out when discovered by occupants with greater authority. Some migrate to other parts of the Outer Rifts, where they lead gangs of lesser fiends they've bullied into submission.

[[folder:Qlippoth]]

Perhaps the oldest form of life in the multiverse, the qlippoth are the original inhabitants of the Outer Rifts. After a daemoic experiment taught the Outer Rifts to catalyze mortal souls into demons it stopped producing qlippoth, leaving them greatly reduced in numbers. Seeking to reclaim their place, they now seek to wipe out all mortals and thus prevent their sins from creating more demons.

* EvilIsNotAToy: Sahkil are easier to summon than an outsider of their power would normally be, but are also more difficult to control.

* SummonMagic: They all have an ability called Easy to Call. This makes them easy to summon, but gives them bonuses to break free from a summoner's control.

!!Penqual
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Huge

%%* InsaneEqualsViolent

Demons born from suicide.

* DrivenToSuicide: They're born from evil mortals who took their own lives, and seek to drive as many mortals into killing themselves as they can.
* ExtraMouths: Seraptis demons have red-rimmed, fanged mouths lining their arms.

!!Balor (Fire Demon)
->'''Level:''' 20-25
->'''Size:''' Large

The most powerful non-unique demons, serving as rulers of their kind.

* BigRedDevil: Balors are towering demons with horned heads, large wings, hooved feet and bright red skin.
* BloodKnight: If presented with an opportunity to join a fight, few balors choose to resist.
* FlamingSword: Balors favor flaming whips in combat, which can strike with enough force to take a person's head off.
* AGodAmI: Some balor lords view themselves as objects of worship.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Much like their ''D&D'' counterparts, their name, appearance and frequent use of flaming whips betray their inspiration from Creator/JRRTolkien balrogs.
* MonsterLord: A balor typically commands vast legions of demons.
* PlayingWithFire: Most balors are closely tied to fire, and can choose to wreathe themselves in flames or to call down rains of fire from the sky. There are good reasons many know them simply as fire demons.
* WreathedInFlames: Balors are usually wreathed in constantly burning flames that the balors can suppress at will, although they rarely do so.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lilu]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----

[[folder:Bebilith]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bebelith_pathfinder.png]]
->'''Level:''' 10

->'''Size:''' Huge

Large spidery predators from the Outer Rifts. Created by the qlippoth lord Mazmezz before she became one of the demons she so hated, they continue to prey on demons in accordance with their purpose.

* AllWebbedUp: They have the web ability.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Successful claw attacks let them peel apart a target's armor.
* FoodChainOfEvil: The bebilith's favourite food is demons.
* GiantSpider: A bebilith looks like a spider the size of an elephant.
* HunterOfMonsters: Against demons.
* ItCanThink: They're as smart as people despite their bestial appearance.
* PoisonedWeapons: Their bites make flesh rot and melt.
* SpellBlade: Their claws count as chaotic and magic weapons, as well as cold iron and good when attacking demons.
* WeaponOfXSlaying: A bebilith's claws are especially effective against demon flesh.

[[folder:Chatterer Swarm]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_chatterer_swarm.PNG]]
->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Diminutive [swarm]

These incessantly chattering tiny demons swarm their target and hungrily gnaw their way into the victim's flesh. There, they invade their host's thoughts with a barrage of suggestive prattle.\\
\\
Their 3.5 stats can be found in ''The Demon Within'' or online [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Chatterer%20Swarm here]].

* PersonalSpaceInvader: A chatterer swarm that deals 15 or more points of damage to a single target successfully gnaws its way into the victim's flesh and begins wreaking damage upon its mind and body.

[[folder:Fantionette]]
->'''Level:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Small

* CassandraTruth: When a fantionette pretends to be part of a group of children, sometimes a child perceives its true form and attempts to warn their parents, but the parents stand too far to see the fantionette and dismiss the child as foolish.
* HumanDisguise: Fantionettes appear as human children or adult halflings to all creatures outside of its aura of revelation.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Fantionettes either don't want to or are forbidden from harming children.

[[folder:Howler]]
->'''Level:''' 3

* BrownNote: A howler's constant howling is a grating, exhausting baying that can drive listeners insane.

[[folder:Kakuen-Taka]]
->'''Level:''' 14

->'''Size:''' Huge

Half-living siege engines created out of carcasses and putrefying meat by tiny fiends called bhogas.

* HiveMind: A kakuen-taka is driven like siege engines by a swarm of fiends called bhogas. An individual bhoga has little wit or skill, but together they have a malign intellect that allows them to construct mobile nests out of dead flesh like termites building a mound.
* MeaningfulName: It means "Hunger That Moves" in some language or another, presumably Chthonian.

[[folder:Labyrinth Minotaur]]
->'''Level:''' 16

->'''Size:''' Large

* BrutishBulls: Labyrinth minotaurs are as bestial as their mortal kin and prone to outbursts of violent rage.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Like their mortal counterparts, labyrinth minotaurs are massive, burly humanoids with thick fur on the chest and legs and a horned, bovine head, and possess innate cunning and logical ability.

[[folder:Lamhigyn]]
->'''Level:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Small

* HairTriggerTemper: In general, they tend to get along with other lamhigyns, though almost anything can set them off. When this happens, lamhigyns unleash the full force of their fury on each other, until only one or none remains.

[[folder:Ostovite]]
->'''Level:''' 1

->'''Size:''' Tiny

* DemBones: They themselves look something like giant ticks made out of fish bones, and can commandeer a creature's skeleton and walk around in it.
* TheNapoleon: They are about the size of a cat and have a burning hatred and envy of all bigger creatures.

[[folder:Qurashith]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qurashith.png]]
->'''Level:''' 17

->'''Size:''' Huge

* AbstractEater: A qurashith does not simply devour its victims, but physically subsumes prey into its own body, metabolising their spiritual essence.
* BatOutOfHell: Qurashith are fearsome, bat-like predators that haunt the upper reaches of Gluttondark's cavern-worlds.
* TheParalyzer: The qurashith's saliva can paralyse victims.

[[folder:Son of Perdition]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_son_of_perdition.PNG]]
->'''Level:''' 13

Once angels who were found consorting with temptresses of the Outer Rifts, the sons of perdition had their souls wrenched from their perfect bodies and cast down into the damned land they coveted. Stripped of their powers, they were embraced by the Outer Rifts and endowed with new abilities with which to fulfil their sinful desires.

* DemonicPossession: Sons of perdition enviously covet the bodies of mortal creatures, especially those who remind them of the beauty they lost long ago, and attempt to possess mortals in order to use their bodies for their own ends and pleasure.
* FallenAngel: The sons of perdition were once angles from the heavens, before they fell into corruption through associating wit demonic beings and were stripping of their powers and cast into the Outer Rifts.
* NonIndicativeName: Contrary to their name, sons of perdition can be either male or female.

[[folder:Vescavor]]
->'''Level:''' 5 (swarm), 9 (queen)

->'''Size:''' Diminutive (swarm), Large (queen)

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A vescavor queen is an insect that measures roughly 10 feet long and weighs nearly 500 pounds.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Vescavors can devour nearly anything, and their hunger is insatiable.

[[folder:Warped One]]
->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Medium

Living humanoids corrupted and warped by the chaotic energies of the Outer Rifts, forever reshaped and mutated in endless agony.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Warped ones can have several limbs, four of which always sport particularly sharp talons.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Raw Abyssal energies course through and constantly shift a warped one's body, reshaping and rebuilding it in minor but hideous ways.

[[folder:Xacarba]]
->'''Level:''' 15

->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* MultipleTailedBeast: A xacarba's tail splits into three.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Xilvirek]]
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
----
* CombatTentacles: The xilvirek has two tentacles on its back that it can use to suck the life from its prey.
[[/folder]]

!Other Planes
[[folder:Nindoru]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
----

!!Vrolikai
->'''Level:''' 19

The final stage of growth for nabasu demons.

For tropes pertaining to fiends in ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'', see Characters/StarfinderOutsiders.

** LawfulEvil souls in Hell are tortured over centuries into becoming mindless masses of cancerous flesh called lemures. The most evil souls may get promoted into more powerful forms, but only after going through the mindless stage first, resulting in all memories of their former lives being destroyed. Some of these souls, usually asura rana worshippers or anti-theists, end up in the hands of the asuras and over time become asuras themselves.%%In-universe

[[folder:Barghest]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_barghest.png]]
->'''Level:''' 4 (normal), 7 (greater)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium (normal), Large (greater)

Wolflike monsters with the faces and hands of goblinoids, barghests are otherworldly predators that stalk the mortal world to sate their hunger for mortal flesh. They once served Asmodeus in Hell, defected to Lamashtu and the Outer Rifts, and now serve no-one but their own appetite.

Barghests that devour a large number of slain mortals metamorphose into greater barghests, powerful monsters which often develop strange mutations on top of their already monstrous natures -- envenomed fangs, toxic breath, vestigial limbs, leathery wings and the like are among the most common changes, and much stranger ones are well within the realm of possibility.

* BreathWeapon: Some greater barghests develop the ability to exhale clouds of toxic gas.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Their entire goal in life is basically to get more powerful, which requires [[ToServeMan eating non-evil humanoids and devouring part of their souls]]. Once they do this enough they become a greater barghest (or even a mythic greater barghest, if they're lucky.)
* {{Hellhound}}: Fiends from the lower planes that resemble monstrous wolf-like monsters with twisted goblin faces, which come to the material world to hunt down and devour mortal victims.
* MonsterLord: Greater barghests often seek out a goblinoid tribe to rule over.
* MonstrousCannibalism: If multiple barghests find themselves sharing a common territory, one will typically end up killing and eating the others.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can take on the form of a goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear or normal wolf at will.

[[folder:Dorvae]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_dorvae.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

* AbusiveParents: A dorvae treats its spawn with abuse and humiliation until it manages to escape. In this way, dorvaes perpetuate a cycle of hatred, teaching their descendants to distrust one another above all.
* BadBoss: Dorvaes usually crush their own minions or send them on suicidal missions.
* RealityWarper: Rarely, a dorvae accumulates so much personal power that it can reshape reality, projecting an aura that transforms its immediate surroundings to befit the dorvae's mood and tastes.
* TheStarscream: A dorvae's job lasts only so long as it serves its purposes and satisfies its ego, or at least entertains it while it waits to betray its clients.
* {{Telepathy}}: An ability it shares with many evil outsiders, though a dorvae's only extend to 50 feet, as opposed to usual 100.
* TrulySingleParent: New dorvaes arise from a parent's egotistical desire to bully and manipulate powerful beings, driving it to tear apart fragments of the cosmos and spin the tendrils into a new dorvae.

* DudeWheresMyReward: Hishanduras most often originate from petitioners and lesser asuras convinced that the gods never rewarded them for their loyal service.

!!Lemure

The lowest kind of devil, only slightly above petitioners, lemures are living materials used to make other devils.

* BlobMonster: A lemure's saggy flesh runs and drips and it does not have a permanent form.
* FusionDance: When transformed by a pit fiend into lesser devils, one lesser devil is each created from multiple lemures, the exact number of which depends on the lesser devil's hit die.

!!Imp
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imp_pathfinder.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Small but cunning devils who serve mortals as familiars.

* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tails end in a scorpion-like barb they can use to poison people.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: When working for a spellcaster as a familiar, imps will always make sure that its master's soul will be dragged to Hell alongside as many others as possible.
* EliteMook: Imp consulars are one in a thousand, capable of telepathic communication and shapeshifting into small animals.
* {{Familiar}}: Imps readily serve spellcasters as familiars.
* NoSell: They're immune to both fire and poison.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At a mere CR 2, imps aren't that dangerous in a straight-up fight. That doesn't stop them from being expert manipulators and delivering hundreds of souls to Hell.
* OurImpsAreDifferent: Imps are among the weakest of all devils, and resemble diminutive versions of the classic BigRedDevil with long tails tipped with venomous stingers. They're often summoned by evil spellcasters to act as familiars, a role they take to with servile glee because it allows them extended one-on-one time with which to subtly push their would-be master towards damnation. In Hell, they mostly act as secretaries, gofers and general-purpose lackeys while trying to impress their superiors enough to be promoted into a stronger form of devil.
* SummonMagic: They're the easiest devils to summon. The ritual is made easier by sacrificing a small animal to placate their tiny egos and show they a caster's willingness to commit evil acts.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A thousandth of imps, called imp consulars, can transform itself into a small animal.

!!Zebub (Accuser Devil)
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Small

The spies and messengers of Hell.
----

!!Barbazu (Bearded Devil)

* AdaptationalDumbass: Considerably dimmer than their [=DnD=] counterparts, with a paltry Intelligence of 6.
* BeardOfEvil: As their name indicates, a bearded devil has a hideous, spiky, filthy beard.

!!Levaloch (Warmonger Devil)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devil_levaloch.png]]

->'''Size:''' Large

Soldiers in the infernal legions.

* {{Cyborg}}: Levalochs are strange amalgamations of devil and automaton. In 2nd Edition, they simultaneously have the Fiend and Construct traits.
* DevilsPitchfork: Levalochs wield tridents crafted from their barbed iron substance.

!!Patraavex (Sire Devil)

->'''Size:''' Medium

Devils who live to spread Hell's taint in the mortal world through fiendish heritage.

* MotherOfAThousandYoung: A sire devil lives to insinuate Hell's influence into the mortal population, and each is the progenitor of many tieflings.

!!Salikotal

Assassins whose killings shape the mortal world.

!!Pit Fiend

The greatest of the devils short of unique fiends, pit fiends are masters of entire armies and rulers of nations.

* BigRedDevil: Pit fiends are the classic take on devils as red-skinned, horned, bat-winged and pointy-tailed infernal masterminds scheming for mortal damnation.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: A pit fiend might serve a mortal master but its goal is always to corrupt the master's soul and ensure that when the mortal dies it will have another lemure servant.
* FireballEyeballs: A pit fiend's eyes smoulder like embers.
* HornedHumanoid: Pit fiends sport large horns growing from their brows, as well as additional ones decorating their shoulders.
* MonsterLord: Pit fiends are the rulers of infernal realms, generals of Hell's armies and advisors to archfiends.
* PlayingWithFire: Pit fiends are masters of controlling fire.
* SuperEmpowering: Pit fiends have the authority to transform lemures into lesser devils.

* HypnoticEyes: The ixion worm employs hypnotic abilities to motivate Phlegethon's petitioners into working harder and discourage them from challenging what they believe to be their only friend in Hell.

Cacodaemons are the least of daemons, forming from petitioners and lacking the power to embody anything in particular.

* SevenDeadlySins: Demons are born from mortal souls tainted by sin, and while specific demons varieties exist to embody an immense variety of moral failings the seven "basic" variants -- the ones usually described in each edition's basic ''Bestiary'' -- embody the seven famous sins; dretches are born from Sloth, invidiaks from Envy, succubi from Lust, nabasus from Gluttony, vrocks from Wrath, nalfeshnees from Greed and mariliths from Pride.

!!Dretch (Sloth Demon)

Born from the sin of sloth, dretches serve as slave labor to their more powerful kin.

* KingOfTheHomeless: Some dretches become the pauper-kings of the Outer Rifts, ruling over undesirable areas of the Outer Rifts and a population of vermin, broken souls, mindless undead and other dretches.
* LazyBum: Dretches embody the sin of sloth, and are chronically averse to physical labor -- their one requirement when summoned is that they will be allowed to spend an equal or greater amount of time resting as they will spend working.

!!Quasit
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quasit_pathfinder.png]]
->'''Level:''' 2\\
'''Size:''' Tiny

When a spellcaster reaches out to the Abyss for a familiar, a quasit is formed to answer that call.

* {{Familiar}}: A quasit's first role in life is that of a familiar to a spellcaster. They actually don't exist otherwise, as the act of calling a familiar from the Abyss is what creates a quasit in the first place.
* {{Flight}}: Those wings aren't just for show.
* HornsOfVillainy: Ram horns curl back from the head of a quasit.
* InvisibleMonsters: They can turn invisible at will.
* MookPromotion: More powerful demons can mold them into stronger forms of demonic life. Usually this require a bargain on the quasit's part, frequently by bartering the souls of their former masters.
* NoSell: They're immune to poison and electricity.
* OurImpsAreDifferent: Quasits are demonic counterparts to imps, and resemble tiny, horned, winged humanoids covered in green scales. Unlike other demons, which originate from the souls of deceased, sinful mortals, quasits are created in the act of being summoned when a fragment of the summoner's soul breaks off and mixes with the matter of the Abyss. They're spiteful and scheming servants, but serve their role until their master's death frees them; at that point, they either race their master's soul to the Abyss to grab it for themselves and use it to bargain for power or a better position with more powerful demons or choose to remain as free-willed troublemakers in the material world.
* TheStarscream: Due to their nature. Quasits are created when a mortal spellcaster's soul brushes the Abyss during a call for a familiar, causing a fragment to break off and become bonded to the caster. Because of this they're intrinsically bound to a particular soul and can feel it at all times, something that they loathe because they know that without the caster's influence they could have been more. As such, they're constantly scheming to kill their masters and claim their soul as bargaining chip to be promoted.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: They have no innate way to return to the Abyss, meaning that unless they hitch a ride back with their master's soul they're stuck on the Material Plane.
* YourSoulIsMine: When a quasit's master dies, it can follow the master's soul to the Abyss, where the soul becomes a larva in the quasit's possession.

!!Vermlek (Worm Demon)
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Medium
Demons born from the violation of the dead.
----

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Only one iathavos can exist at any given point. The reason given for this is that they are so horrible [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth even the ABYSS ITSELF can't stand having more than one in inside it.]]

Large spidery predators from the Abyss. Created by the qlippoth lord Mazmezz before she became one of the demons she so hated, they continue to prey on demons in accordance with their purpose.

Once angels who were found consorting with temptresses of the Abyss, the sons of perdition had their souls wrenched from their perfect bodies and cast down into the damned land they coveted. Stripped of their powers, they were embraced by the Abyss and endowed with new abilities with which to fulfil their sinful desires.

* FallenAngel: The sons of perdition were once angles from the heavens, before they fell into corruption through associating wit demonic beings and were stripping of their powers and cast into the Abyss.

Living humanoids corrupted and warped by the chaotic energies of the Abyss, forever reshaped and mutated in endless agony.

[[folder:Oni]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Rarely, a mortal's soul can become a disembodied oni upon death or, in even rarer cases, after a truly evil individual has undergone a particularly vile ritual that ends in suicide.
* EvilOverlord: Oni are most comfortable in positions of leadership over enslaved or oppressed societies populated by humanoids they can masquerade as.
* ExtraEyes: All oni yai have a third eye on their forehead.
* FaceHeelTurn: The majority of oni were once kami who failed their wards, or more often, who deliberately abandoned them.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: All oni are capable of changing their shape to assume forms more pleasant to the eye.
* ForTheEvulz: To the oni, no pleasure is more enjoyable than one that deprives or wounds another.
* {{Gonk}}: An oni's true form is always similar to that of a specific humanoid race, save that it is always deformed and monstrous.
* MonsterLord: Particularly powerful oni, known as yai, gather to their side entire legions of oni.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Oni are a race of evil spirits, native to the Universe, that manifest physical bodies based upon the shapes and desires of humanoid mortals.
* SenseFreak: Oni arrive in physical form starved for sensory experience, and never fully sate their desire to gorge on such experiences.

!!Spirit Oni

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni with bodies made from their own spiritual essence rather than taking a humanoid form. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-spirit-oni/ here]].

* DirtyCoward: Even after being freed from servitude, spirit oni are too cowardly to take the risk of destroying themselves so that they can try to reincarnate as a more powerful oni.
* EquippableAlly: A spirit oni can be worn as a mask by a willing Small or Medium creature.
* EvilMask: The ritual to gain a spirit oni familiar requires the spellcaster to craft a particularly fiendish and fierce-looking oni mask, then attract a bodiless oni to it.
* {{Familiar}}: A spirit oni is created when an evil spellcaster wishes to use an oni as a familiar.
* FlyingFace: A spirit oni's body is little more than a flying, monstrous mask.
* TheResenter: A spirit oni bound to a master is robbed of its immediate chance to achieve a human form. As a result, spirit oni are foul-tempered and cantankerous creatures, even to their masters.

!!Kuwa

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from humans. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-kuwa/ here]].

* {{Greed}}: Once a kuwa secures a position in a human society, the accumulation of wealth becomes its primary motivation.

!!Ja Noi
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from hobgoblins. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Forest of Spirits'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ja-noi/ here]].

* BadBoss: If not allowed to fight for too long, a frustrated ja noi might violently turn on its followers, slaughtering entire hobgoblin tribes.
* BloodKnight: Ja noi have an insatiable thirst for combat that drives them to pursue battle and bloodshed.
* EgomaniacHunter: In extremely rare cases, when they have no campaigns to wage and no humanoid enemies to battle, ja noi simply disappear into the wilderness to fight the mightiest creatures they can find.

!!Yamabushi Tengu
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from tengu. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Brinewall Legacy'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-yamabushi-tengu/ here]].

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: In their humanoid form, they have fiery scarlet skin.
* BirdPeople: In one of their forms, they resemble large, humanoid crows with distinct arms and wings.
* {{Tengu}}: Yamabushi tengu are oni who cloak themselves in the forms of tengu, and can alternate between two interpretations of this trope -- a winged crow-like avian and a winged, red-skinned humanoid with a prodigiously long nose.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Yamabushi tengu can voluntarily alternate between two forms, one more avian and one more humanoid.
* WingedHumanoid: They possess wings attached to their shoulders in both forms -- unlike true tengu, notably, which are wingless and flightless.

!!Kigyo
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from merfolk. Their stats can be found in ''Ruins of Azlant: City in the Deep'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-kigyo/ here]].

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Kigyos take a form resembling a corrupted parody of a merfolk. Like merfolk, kigyos have a torso, arms and an aquatic lower body. Unlike a merfolk, a kigyo has a monstrous face and its body resembles that of a seahorse.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Fitting for oni derived from merfolk, kigyos are experts at wielding tridents as deadly weapons.

!!Nogitsune
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Oni who derive their forms from kitsune. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Night of Frozen Shadows'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-nogitsune/ here]].

* AsianFoxSpirit: Nogitsune mimic true kitsune in form and magic, incarnating as fox-headed humanoids capable of shapeshifting into human form and fond of destructive tricks and manipulation.
* TheCorrupter: They take particular joy in corrupting kitsune and sending them down evil and destructive paths.
* MorphicResonance: Nogitsune can take on human form, but always retain a few distinctly vulpine traits.
* NonHumanHead: In their true form, nogitsune resemble furry humans with fox heads.
* OneGenderRace: Nogitsune are always and only female.
* PoisonedWeapons: Nogitsune almost universally favor using weapons coated in poisons meant to incapacitate but not kill their victims.

!!Najikai
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from nagaji.

* PoisonousPerson: Najikai have long venomous fangs.

!!Onidoshi (Ogre Mage)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oni_onidoshi.png]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from ogres. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ogre-mage/ here]].

* MonsterLord: Onidoshi are often the leaders of ogre tribes, which they awe and cow through their intellect and magical power.
* NonIndicativeName: The name "ogre mage" comes from their association with ogres; ogre mages aren't actual ogres.

!!Atamahuta
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from ettins. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Hungry Storm'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-atamahuta/ here]].

* MultipleHeadCase: An atamahuta possesses two heads, like ettins. The right head most directly controls its actions in physical combat, and is also the only one that talks; the left head constantly mutters nonsense, and is the source of the oni's arcane power.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Most atamahuta find it beneficial to procure a silver-tongued ally who can serve as their mouth. Once they have established control over a certain realm, atamahuta will usually either kill or enslave their allies, whom they see as potential threats to their rule.

!!Earth Yai
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Oni who derive their forms from stone giants. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Tide of Honor'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-earth-yai/ here]].

* DishingOutDirt: An earth yai can fire an incredibly dense stone from its third eye.

!!Ice Yai
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frost_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from frost giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ice-yai/ here]].

* HumanSacrifice: A tribe led by an ice yai may still raid settlements of humanoids, but the tribe soon learns the value of establishing regular tributes and willing sacrifices.
* AnIcePerson: Ice yai's connection to elemental cold allows them to channel icy power through their physical attacks and to innately cast ''cone of cold'' and ''wall of ice''.
* MonsterLord: An ice yai is a natural leader among frost giants, tempering their savagery with its own wisdom.

!!Fire Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fire_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from fire giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-fire-yai/ here]].

* BigRedDevil: A giant-sized, red-skinned fiendish creature.
* EyeBeams: They can shoot fiery missiles from their third eyes.
* HotBlooded: Fire yai are the most impulsive of their kind: several tales tell of clever heroes taunting fire yai to act rashly.
* MonsterLord: Many fire yai seek out tribes of fire giants to infiltrate and rule.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire yai possess great control over their element, and can innately cast a large number of spells focused on creating and controlling flames.
* SuperSmoke: A fire yai can turn into a cloud of smoke.

!!Taiga Yai
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* EvilLuddite: Taiga yai zealously love nature in its purest form and gleefully destroy any established civilisations that they encounter.

!!Shadow Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oni_shadowyai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Shadow yai subject those who refuse to submit to them to a veritable symphony of pain that leads to a painful, drawn-out, strangely beautiful death.
* WickedCultured: Many shadow yais crave the pleasures of music and go to great lengths to secure bardic or musically inclined supplicants. These servants can find the experience extremely lucrative and enriching as long as they don't run afoul of their liege.

!!Wind Yai
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Oni who derive their forms from cloud giants. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Empty Throne'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-wind-yai/ here]].

* BadBoss: Nothing sets wind yai off in quite the same way as a weak or inept musician, and even the most innocent mistake can mean the fatal end for an indentured bard.
* BlowYouAway: A wind yai can conjure a violent updraft, sending foes flying into the air and bringing them crashing back to the earth.
* TheCorrupter: Wind yai take great pleasure in dominating cloud giants. Evil cloud giants tend to make the best soldiers, though if the wind yai can manage to sway good-aligned cloud giants under their banner, the subsequent wars are all the more satisfying.
* ShockAndAwe: A wind yai can fire a bolt of electricity from its third eye.
* WickedCultured: Wind yai have a particular affection for rare, magical instruments, especially those with strings. A wind yai takes great pride in its musical possessions, and also finds a unique pleasure in assembling masses of enslaved musicians to perform thunderous symphonies.

!!Water Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/water_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Oni who derive their forms from storm giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-water-yai/ here]].

* ElementalShapeshifting: A water yai can turn into a mobile pool of water.
* EyeBeams: Water yai can fir lightning bolts from their third eyes.
* PetTheDog: Despite their evil natures, water yai are prone to acts of unexpected frivolity.
* SeaMonster: Water yai are the most at home dwelling beneath the waves.
* ShockAndAwe: They can fire lightning from their eyes and cast ''chain lightning'' as an innate spell.

!!Void Yai
->'''Level:''' 20+
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

The strongest of oni, void yai do not model themselves after any particular race, though they're closest to rune giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-void-yai/ here]].

* DoesNotLikeMagic: Voidlords generally eschew spellcasting classes under the opinion that might and the oni's inborn supernatural abilities are a greater path to conquest than mortal magic.
* GlamourFailure: Their vanity is such that most void yai are masters of using their change shape ability to appear as breathtakingly handsome or beautiful giants, and it is in this form they prefer to live. Only when combat begins does their rage take control, causing them to revert to their true, horrific shapes.
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: A void yai has the ability to launch a negative energy beam from its third eye, assume an ethereal void form, and create a lesser Sphere of Annihilation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rakshasa]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

* AmnesiacDissonance: Rarely, rakshasas who reincarnate will not retain all their memories, and as a result may be neutral or even ''good''. Whether or not it sticks if they recover their memories is up in the air.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Rakshasas were originally evil spirits of mortal manipulators, traitors and tyrants obsessed with materialistic evil. Purely from stubborn hate, these spirits do not pass into the Boneyard upon death; instead, they take shapes that better reflect the baseness of their lives and are reborn as fiends.
* DeathlessAndDebauched: Actually born from a desire for this trope; the first of their kind was so devoted to earthly pleasures that he resolved to continue it for all eternity, becoming the progenitor of a race of materialistic evil spirits blessed with BornAgainImmortality - and in a few rare and powerful cases, CompleteImmortality. Gluttony is a running theme among rakshasas, to the point that one of the lowest rungs of their society is occupied by those who have been designated simply as ''food.''
* FantasticCasteSystem: There are seven castes in rakshasa society: pagala (traitors), goshta (food), adhura (novices), darshaka (servants), paradeshi (rakshasa-kin), hakima (lords) and samrata (lords of lords). They encompass not just all of rakshasa society, but all of life, although only rakshasas can attain the stations of darshaka, hakima and samrata.
* AGodAmI: Rakshasas see themselves as the only thing worthy of worship from the mortal races -- raja rakshasas take this to such degrees that they cannot even stand mortals worshipping more powerful rakshasas.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: Rakshasa eyes can be used to stand in for the spell ''true seeing'' when crafting magic items.
* MythologyGag: Their RedRightHand are inverted palms, as was the case with their ''DND'' equivalents. ''Pathfinder'' adds on reversed joints as well.
* PetTheDog: Rakshasa normally don't care for their spawn, but the spawn who do their duties well are bestowed less tasks, or even ''favours'', which is as good as a Rakshasa can be.
* RedRightHand: An easy way to tell if you're dealing with a rakshasa and not your average BeastMan or CatFolk is to see if their hands and lower joints are reversed.
* {{Reincarnation}}: When a rakshasa dies, its spirit seeks a new host to be reborn in.
* SemiDivine: New rakshasas come into being via the coupling of a rakshasa and a non-rakshasa or, rarely, that of two non-rakshasas, if a previously slain rakshasa can reincarnate into the world by usurping the unborn offspring's body.
* VillainCred: Rakshasas put evil non-rakshasas that are powerful enough to be considered worthy of respect into the paradeshi (rakshasa-kin) caste, which ranks above the most common castes for both rakshasas and non-rakshasas alike.

!!Raktavarna
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_raktavarna.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* {{Familiar}}: Raktavarnas can be taken as familiars by LawfulEvil spellcasters.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: A raktavarna's master can observe the world as if looking through the raktavarna's eyes.

!!Dandasuka
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_dandasuka.png]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Small

* AffablyEvil: Despite their usual disorderly habits, they bargain good-naturedly and in good faith, only implying dire consequences for noncompliance.
* BigEater: A dandasuka is often not able to contain its fiendish appetite. It might lick a bloody blade, lap up fallen drops, or even take a bite out of a fallen foe at the expense of a more tactically sound option in a fight.
* EvilLaugh: Dandasukas go about their work cheerfully, laughing as they manipulate foes and butcher victims.
* HorrorHunger: Monstrous hunger gnaws at the hyperactive dandasuka's body, making the creature crave humanoid flesh and blood.
* ToServeMan: A dandasuka settles for other meat when it must, but it always prefers humanoid flesh.

!!Amanusya
->'''Level:''' 6

Among the most gregarious of rakshasas, amanusyas walk among mortals, learning their dreams and turning their desires against them.

* TheCorruptor: Amanusyas consider themselves keen observers and connoisseurs of mortal vice, and often adopt the guise of entertainers or holy people from distant, exotic sects. They might tempt any mortal into lives of depravity, but the eldest, most experienced amanusyas seek to corrupt the most pure-hearted souls.

!!Marai
->'''Level:''' 8

* BastardUnderstudy: A solitary marai might pose as a neophyte magician to infiltrate another spellcaster's abode. If the marai is successful, the master soon becomes either the servant or a corpse.

!!Raja
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_rajarakshasa.png]]

* AristocratsAreEvil: They love luxury and wealth, and when disguised as humanoids, pose as rich nobles and the like.
* NonHumanHead: When not disguised as a humanoid, the otherwise humanoid rakshasa has the head of an animal.
* RichBastard: Again, they love luxury and rich living, and the first edition ones even carry twice as much treasure as normal for their CR.

!!Avatarana
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_raksasha_avatrarana.PNG]]
->'''Level:''' 12

Some of the most deformed and inhuman rakshasas, avataranas possess mortals to take their place. Each time they attempt to carry out their day to day lives but gradually allow their innate cruelty to seep through, eventually abandoning their victim to the unfortunate circumstances created by the avatarana while it goes on to possess a new host of higher standing.

* {{Cult}}: If they're not working alone, they're usually heading up a sizable cult with a few lesser rakshasas as elite minions.
* DemonicPossession: They can seep into a victim's body and usurp control.
* TheFaceless: Each avatarana has a piece of leathery flesh covering its face. This is not part of their bodies but does stick to them with supernatural tenacity, giving only impressions of vague facial features beneath, often resembling the viewer.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Their Absolute Independence ability makes them immune to all magical control, from charms to possession.
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: Those determined and curious enough to carve away a avatarana's veil will find only hollow uneven cavities that never match the shapes implied by the mask.
* PrimalStance: Avataranas walk on all fours like dogs.

!!Orsatka
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Size:''' Medium

* TheBrute: Orsatkas are cruelty and brute force incarnate, and are among the least subtle of rakshasas.
* NonHumanHead: When not disguised, orsatkas resemble huge, muscle-bound humans with bearlike heads.

!!Zalyakavat

* BloodKnight: Unlike many of their kind, zalyakavats prefer the thrill and frenzy of violent combat over material wealth.
* MasterSwordsman: Zalyakavats are spiritually and magically bound to their urumi, with which they perform astonishing feats of martial prowess.

!!Tataka
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Large

* BareFistedMonk: Tatakas train from an early age in martial arts, and their fists can break bones as surely as any unarmed strike from a monk.

!!Maharaja
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_maharaja.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20+

* MultipleHeadCase: A maharaja can have anything from four to a dozen heads.
* NonHumanHead: One of a maharaja's heads tends to be humanoid, while the others take the forms of predatory animals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sahkil]]
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Psychopomps are meant to shepherd the cycle of souls, but some tire of serving the order of a system that will inevitably end. These rebels are sahkils, fiends that embrace the fear with which mortals view the messengers of death and have resolved to rule for the finite eons the multiverse has left.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Played with. Sahkils each embody a particular type of fear, but this isn't an innate part of their being. Rather, it's a conscious change they've made to themselves in order to become more terrifying to mortals.
* {{Antimagic}}: A limited version. All sahkils have the Spirit Touch ability, allowing them to act against intangible beings as if they were corporeal.
* ArchEnemy: Manasaputras and sahkils are sworn enemies, as sahkil predation actively impedes the development of mortal souls. This often results in manasaputras or their agents defending vulnerable spirits or leading quests to liberate worthy souls before they're destroyed.
* BodyHorror: Most sahkils are absolutely horrifying to look at, often bearing grotesque malformations, exposed viscera or visibly decaying flesh. This is entirely of purpose, and designed to further repulse and terrify those they interact with.
* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The sahkils make their home in Xibalba, whose centre is a massive black pyramid.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The first sahkils are dissident psychopomps, who are originally created out of mortal souls. Later sahkils are created from Xibalba's terrorised petitioners in the same way most fiends are.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Sahkil are easier to summon than an outsider of their power would normally be, but are also more difficult to control.
* FaceHeelTurn: The first sahkils were originally psychopomps who rebelled against their duty, fled to the Ethereal Plane and fashioned themselves as tyrants of fear.
* MeaningfulName: The word ''sahkil'' means ''fear'' in the Yucatec Maya language.
* NoSell: They have immunity to death effects, fear effects, disease, and poison.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: The greatest sahkils are near-indescribable horrors, obscene in both shape and proportions.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Any creature affected by a sahkil's gaze is paralysed with fear of various degrees.
* SummonMagic: They all have an ability called Easy to Call. This makes them easy to summon, but gives them bonuses to break free from a summoner's control.

!!Esipil
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/esipil_pathfinder.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Manifestations of the fear of wild animals.

* AnimalisticAbomination: They fuse the features of dogs, cats, and other domestic animals with a worm-like body and a tangle of veins dangling from their mouths.
* BloodKnight: They like to fight and scrap with nearly anything, holding their fear abilities in reserve to avoid spoiling the fight by making their opponents flee.
* CriticalHit: Their attacks confuse targets on critical hits.
* {{Familiar}}: NeutralEvil spellcasters can take an esipil as familiar.%%In-Universe
* IShallTauntYou: They telepathically harass others to goad them into attacking first, flinging highly vulgar and disconcerting taunts.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Esipils will savage helpless foes until their master calls them off, even if the foe in question is already dead.
* MoodSwinger: Not actually, but they put on this appearance to toy with people. As familiars they'll act like fawning servile pets, then delight in violent episodes where they bark and snap at others until their master brings them to heel. Then they return to the act of loyal pet and wait for their next outburst.
* SourSupporter: Unlike most fiends that can be taken as familiars, they actually enjoy serving those stronger than themselves and take advantage of their master's power, but they'll still snap and growl when given orders.
* TentacleRope: When they bite opponents, the tentacles dangling from their mouth grab them to hold in place for further attacks.

!!Nucol
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear of parasites.

* DealWithTheDevil: After a nucol infects a victim with potent insecurity, it'lloffer to remove the affliction for a price. Many of these deals are esoteric in nature, driving the victim into despair and forcing them to give up things they cherish. The sinister nucol may even reinfect its victim after completing the bargain, but a canny negotiator may be able to turn the tables and free themselves from the nucol's grasp.
* MeaningfulName: Their name comes from the Yucatec Maya word ''nook'ol'' meaning ''worm''.

!!Wihsaak
[[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wihsaak_sahkil_pathfinder_7.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear of insects, arachnids, and other things that creep and crawl.

* BrownNote: By beating their wings in a certain way, they can create a maddening drone that numbs the minds of intelligent creatures.
* BugBuzz: Their Droning Madness ability as outlined under BrownNote.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Naturally, given their habit of summoning swarms of bugs.
* GasLighting: Wihsaaks like to use ''suggestion'' to put people into terrifying circumstances and make them believe it was their own idea.
* NonHumanHead: in place of a head they have an entire giant locust.
* PestController: A given for the embodiment of the fear of bugs. They can cast ''vomit swarm'' at will and are immune to damage or distraction by swarms.
* {{Sadist}}: When in combat they like to ensure every enemy is hit with some kind of fear effect before going in for the killing blow, preferring their prey to be seasoned with terror before their gruesome demise.
* VillainTeleportation: They can cast ''greater teleportation'' on themselves at will.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Whisaaks embody it for bugs, including [[CreepyCockroach roaches]], [[FlyCrazy flies]], [[BeeAfraid bees]], [[MothMenace moths]], [[ScaryScorpions scorpions]], [[CreepyCentipedes centipedes]], [[TermiteTrouble termites]], and [[WickedWasps wasps]].
* WingedHumanoid: They have a set of locust-like wings that give them a good fly speed.
* WolverineClaws: On all four of their hands, which gives them a devastating number of attacks.

!!Ichkoh
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear that your own body will fail you.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: An ichkoh looks like a human-sized, cockroach-like monstrosity.

!!Pakalchi
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear that relationships will fail.

* PoisonousPerson: A pakalchi can fling a volley of poisonous thorns.

!!Zohanil
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of invasive surgery and needles.

* AfraidOfNeedles: Part of the fear they embody.

!!Chakanaj
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* DarkSecret: Chakanajes prey upon people's shame and fears of disclosing humiliating secrets. They enjoy ferreting out secrets and tormenting their victims by leaving incriminating hints of the truth in places others might find them, or messages threatening the victim that someone knows the truth.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: A chakanaj can disguise itself as an item of roughly the same size, and especially enjoys forcing victims to carry or wear it while it whispers hateful suggestions and stoke the victim's anxiety and suffering.

!!Penqual
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Huge

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Penquals embody the fear of crowds and confined spaces.

!!Qolok
->'''Level:''' 16

Manifestations of the fear of not having enough of something.

* TooManyMouths: A qolok has a second mouth atop its body.

!!Ximtal
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sahkil_ximtal.png]]
->'''Level:''' 17

Manifestations of the fear of isolation.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Ximtals appear as hybrids of rats and crabs with grasping tentacles.

!!Tumblak
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BuriedAlive: Tumblaks prey upon the fear of being buried alive. A creature fatigued by the tumblak's ''nightmare'' spell is subject to glimpses of being buried alive.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: In a tumblak's gasping aura, mortals struggle to breathe and must hold their breath to avoid suffocation.

!!Nenchuuj
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* EvilSmellsBad: The smell of burnt flesh and ozone hangs heavy around a nenchuuj.

!!Kimenhul
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sahkil_kimenhul.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20
->'''Size:''' Huge

The most powerful of the sahkils, kimenhul are manifestations of the fear of failure.
----
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Kimenhul personify the fear of failure and can use its Eternal Fear ability to imprint itself on the minds of all who view it. From then on, every time someone affected by it is in a stressful situation they remember the kimenhul and become shaken, even if the kimenhul in question is dead. In other words, having been affected by the manifestation of the fear of failure makes you more likely to fail in the future.

[[folder:Velstrac]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
----
* AppropriatedAppellation: The kytons call themselves ''velstracs''; the misnomer ''kyton'' arose when mortals associated the name of the demagogue Kaikyton with her followers. The velstracs decided that they like the word ''kyton'', as calling them by the name of one of their greatest is the equivalent of calling all scientists Einstein, and do not try to correct mortals when misnamed.
* ChainedByFashion: Many velstracs still proudly wear the chains that bound them.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Velstracs are born of mortal souls that were tortured in life, victims of masochism, sacrifices to gods of suffering, or those promised to velstracs. Obscure rituals force the sacrificed souls to bypass Pharasma's judgement and instead become mired in the Plane of Shadow. Over an excruciating and lengthy span of time, these souls are warped and twisted until they become new velstracs.
* TheExile: The first velstracs were native to Hell and predated the presence of devils there. When Asmodeus came with his host, the kytons were forced to move to the Shadow Plane.
* {{Expy}}: Creative designer [[WordOfGod James Jacobs]] considers them to be his take on the Cenobites from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''.
* MythologyGag: In-universe, kytons are a race of non-devil fiends which are often mistaken as devils and called chain devils by uneducated people. Out of universe, they originated in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' where they are actually a sub-type of devils, before Paizo made them into a separate race in ''Pathfinder''.
* NightmareFetishist: Velstracs seek ecstasy through pain in the form of deliberate and violent self-transformation.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Younger and weaker velstracs resemble the mortals they once were, whereas older and stronger ones are horrifying patchworks of transplanted material that rarely look like their original forms.
* {{Sadist}}: Most velstracs are aroused by the destruction of flesh. Though few allow this to overwhelm their ultimate goals, it does mean they take far more pleasure in it than they should.

!!Apostle
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

Mortals who do not perish under the ministrations of the velstrac but still come to adhere to their teachings become apostle velstracs.
----
* BrownNote: An apostle velstrac can orate a prayer so profane that it causes any non-velstrac listening to erupt in bleeding wounds.

!!Augur
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/augur_kyton.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Spies and sycophants of greater velstracs, augurs have eschewed the path of continual self alteration to indulge their all-consuming lust for blood.
----
* AchillesHeel: Good-aligned damage and silver weapons can ignore their damage resistance, making them significantly weaker.
* TheBerserker: Many augurs are insatiably bloodthirsty and cannot help but indulge themselves when exposed to gore.
* BloodLust: Like many kytons they love to see flesh mangled and ruined, but unlike most they lack the self-discipline to control themselves. More than a few augurs have been captured or destroyed because they stayed around their victims to dip their blades into and roll around in the blood.
* FallenAngel: From the perspective of other kytons, augurs that weren't created as punishment are kytons that became too consumed by the actions needed to improve rather than improvement itself and fell from the path towards eternal improvement.
* {{Familiar}}: Augurs can be taken by LawfulEvil spellcasters as familiars.%%In-universe
* FateWorseThanDeath: The condemnation of an individual's spirit to the cage-like body of an augur is the precedent for a truly agonizing and lonely existence.
* {{Flight}}: Their primary method of movement, though they can roll across the ground if needed.
* MadeOfIron: The armored plates of their bodies grant them decent damage resistance, a rarity at their level.
* NoSell: Immune to cold damage.
* {{Oculothorax}}: An augur's body is a singular large eye armoured in bloodied metal plates.
* PragmaticVillainy: Averted. They're explicitly said to be the least pragmatic kytons, and thus least respected among their peers.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: By looking at other creatures, an augur can leave them shaken for a round.
* TheVoiceless: No mouths, so no speech.

!!Lampadarius
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Size:''' Medium

Halfway between a body of flesh and shadow, lampadariuses yearn to cast off the last of their physical form even as they mourn for sensation lost.
----
* ArtificialLimbs: A lampadarius cuts away its flesh and replacing the lost parts with burning darkness from the Netherworld. Some have a shadowy right arm, others a shadowy left, some replace both limbs on the same side, others alternate which limbs are replaced.

!!Ostiarius
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Medium

Velstracs who hold the task of luring mortals into the grasp of kytons willingly. They specialize in making mortals philosophically and morally numb to pain and suffering.
----
* TheCorruptor: Ostiariuses serve to convince susceptible mortals to willingly journey with them to the Netherworld by encouraging them to abandon their tired philosophies.

!!Suffragan
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* LethalChef: Suffragans understand that other creatures must eat, and they take delight in preparing what they believe to be elaborate meals for their mortal victims, which might range from the unusual (such as moth wings) to the gruesome (such as flesh cut from the suffragan's torso).
* TortureTechnician: Suffragans often serve as torturers or jailors and take a particular, sadistic glee in the pain they inflict upon mortal victims. They believe that their own bodily transformations and the excruciating pain that comes with it are the purest and most powerful method of worshipping Zon-Kuthon, and seek to perpetuate this through inflicting the so-called 'blessings of Zon-Kuthon' upon any who fall into their grasp.

!!Evangelist
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_evangelist.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Large

Often mistaken for devils, evangelists specialize in implantation and piercing.
----
* ChainPain: An evangelist can control up to four chains, making the chains dance or move as it wishes.
* RetCon: While the first Bestiary presents the evangelist as the weakest type of kytons, the third one adds the even weaker augur.

!!Apocrisiarius
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Size:''' Medium

Velstracs who use pain and torture to cut away at their victims, both physically and metaphorically, in order to reduce them to a single truth.
----
* CannotTellALie: Apocrisiariuses are physically unable to speak any lies and can be used as lie detectors by asking them to repeat a particular phrase, which they cannot if the phrase contains any lie.

!!Cantor
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Medium

Serving as scouts and soldiers for other velstracs, cantors have had their minds broken and remade into little more than tools.
----
* PoisonousPerson: The touch of a cantor is supernaturally toxic, lingering in its victim's mind like a poison.

!!Sacristan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_sacristan.png]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium

A slave caste created from the imperfect scraps removed from others, sacristans specialise in surgeries.
----
* CastingAShadow: A sacristan can open its mouth to unloose the wailing howls and mind-twisting darkness of the Netherworld.
* SlaveMooks: Sacristans lack free will, and their minds are etched with the ability to serve, making them utterly obedient to other velstracs.

!!Oitos
->'''Level:''' 11
->'''Size:''' Medium

Kytons who specialise in the augmentation and decoration of bone.
----
* DemBones: Oitoses take the form of skeletons gilded with precious metals.

!!Interlocutor
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_interlocutor.png]]
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Large

Surgeon-sculptors to whom every bit of flesh is a canvas, interlocutors have replaced most of their own bodies with metal forged from shadowstuff.
----
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: An interlocutor is a multi-limbed monstrosity of claws and blades.
* TortureTechnician: Interlocutors are the self-proclaimed surgeon-sculptors among kytons, viewing each victim as a new chance to study the art of pain and sensation. Their ability to heal the damage they inflict, even to the extent of restoring life to a newly-expired subject, is perhaps more feared than their eagerness to cut flesh.

!!Libitinarii
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* WaxMuseumMorgue: When their victims die, libitinariis then freeze them into icy statues and arrange them into unholy menageries.

!!Ephialtes
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Size:''' Huge

Hunters of mortals, ephialtes maintain ties to Hell and will occasionally capture specific targets for their diabolic allies.
----
* ChainPain: An ephialtes can control up to four chains within 30 feet, making the chains dance or move as it wishes. The chains attack as effectively as the velstrac itself.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Ephialtes are consummate and fearless hunters of the doomed and the damned, whom they give to their diabolic allies or other velstracs as resources.

!!Precentor
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_precentor.png]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* AgonyBeam: The precentor's touch causes an enemy to constantly scream in agony.

!!Termagant
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Size:''' Large

Termagants seek to twist mortal life into their own misshapen progeny, a process most don't survive.
----
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When killed, a termagant or any creature poisoned by it explodes in a blast of flux infusion poison.
* PoisonousPerson: A creature grappled by a termagant's tentacles is exposed to flux infusion, which functions as a poison.

!!Vincuvicar
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_vincuvicar.png]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* WardensAreEvil: Vincuvicars serve as jailers, torturers and executioners in the most terrible prisons.

!!Eremite
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velstrac_eremite.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20+
->'''Size:''' Medium (Large for overlords)

The eldest and most mutilated of their kind, eremite kytons roam the multiverse in search of perfect parts to improve themselves with.
----
* AgonyBeam: Any creature struck by an eremite's natural attacks can become staggered from the pain.
* FeelNoPain: Eremites have inflicted so much damage to themselves to be completely immune to pain.
* LargeAndInCharge: Eremite overlords are all at least Large-sized or more, compared to the normal eremite's Normal size.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A creature that succumbs to an eremite's unnerving gaze becomes paralyzed with fear as it finds itself almost longing to submit its flesh to the kyton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Half-Fiend]]
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + (1-3)
->'''Alignment:''' Evil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature
----
* SemiDivine: Half-fiends have one fiendish and one mortal parent.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hellbound Creature]]
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 1-3
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature
----
* DeaderThanDead: If the devil is dead when a Hellbound creature dies, the latter's soul is destroyed, and can't be restored to life except by ''miracle'' or ''wish''.
* DealWithTheDevil: A Hellbound creature has made a bargain with a devil, promising a service and its soul in exchange for infernal power. The specific service depends on the devil's type and motivations, but always furthers the interests of Hell.
* TrackingSpell: If a Hellbound creature is restored to life, the devil immediately senses the name and location of the creature responsible.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ammut]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge
----
* MixAndMatchCritters: An ammut has the head of a crocodile, the mane and torso of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.
* SoulEating: If a creature dies while swallowed whole by an ammut or affected by its wasting curse, its soul is consumed along with its body.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Ammuts never tire, and once an ammut notices suitable prey, it will stalk its quarry for hundreds of miles if need be before running it down. The only way to truly escape an ammut is to confront and defeat the beast.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dahzagan]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Known as "orc valkyries", these beings ferry the souls of particularly great orcs directly to their gods.
----
* {{Psychopomp}}: Dahzagans ferry the souls of orcish heroes to the halls of their gods.
* {{Valkyries}}: Dahzagans fill a similar role as choosers of the worthy dead, and are consequently known as "orc valkyries", but work specifically for the orcs and their gods.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Garipan]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_garipan.PNG]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* IdentityAmnesia: Garipans are rarely aware of the full details of their previous existence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joyful Thing]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

The most loyal of Zon-Kuthon's followers who've carved away limbs and non-vital organs in rituals akin to those practiced by kytons.
----
* BodyHorror: They're missing a lot of body parts and are grotesquely bloated, leaving them obese limbless things that wriggle and laugh at the sensation of pain.
* TheEmpath: They can read thoughts and emotions, but only by wrapping their overly long tongue around the subject's head.
* {{Sadist}}: Joyful Things have bonuses against creatures that are afraid or in pain.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karina]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
----
* FeatheredFiend: Karinas are large owl-like fiends with dark red feathers, powerful talons and unsettling eyes.
* PlagueMaster: Karinas are plague carriers and intentionally attack creatures to spread grave blight, a supernatural disease that causes fever, disorientation, and (at later stages) an innate desire to attack others and spread the disease.
* SoulEating: Legends speak of powerful grave karinas that have stolen the corpses of important figures or powerful creatures and consumed part of their soul in the process.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: A karina's broad wings conceal a pair of wiry humanoid arms.
* VoiceChangeling: Karinas can mimic voices. They typically repeat phrases they've heard, but twist the voice into a fiendish corruption of the original.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Slaugrak]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Due to Abyssal taint in xulgath bloodlines, each generation a few mutant creatures marked with its influence are born, and fiendish deformities and stillbirths reeking of brimstone are all too common. The rapacious slaugrak is one of these fiendish mutants.
----
* HorrorHunger: A slaugrak is born with an unnatural and incessant hunger for living flesh.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wrackworm]]
->'''Level:''' 20
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Titanic parasites from the hide of Rovagug. Their ability to gnaw through planes allows them to escape the Dead Vault and wander through other planes, a behavior many fear may one day weaken the prison enough for the Rough Beast to break free.
----
* BewareMyStingerTail: A wrackworm's tail is a long stinger like that of a scorpion, dripping with a flesh-ravaging toxin.
* ProportionatelyPonderousParasites: Wrackworms are 80-feet long earthworms that live as parasites on the hide of Rovagug.
[[/folder]]

* WreckedWeapon: Nindorus wield weapons that look shattered, but are functional, until they crumble into dust when leaving the nindoru's hands.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oni]]

* WreckedWeapon: Nindorus wield weapons that look shattered, but are functional.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oni]]

The leaders of Hell's cults on the Material Plane. Each advodaza was once a demigod in its own right, but when belief waned and its source of power quelled each underwent a lengthy process to be reforged as true devils.

* SerialKiller: Cults dedicated to gods of murder often summon vulnudaemons to the Material Plane and let them murder whomever they wish to.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Powerful mortals bring lapsudaemons to the Material Plane to engineer fatal accidents that kill their rivals while avoiding any suspicion of foul play.

* TheCorruptor: Dorus use exaggerations and outright lies to trick impressionable beings into ruin and waste. When this doesn't work, they resort to trying to weaken their will against future temptations.

* DeadlyGaze: Aghashes wander deserts of the Material Plane spreading doom with their cursed gazes.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In its true form, a pairaka's body is a foul landscape of blazing rashes, oozing pustules and taut blisters. Pairakas spend little time in this form while on the Material Plane, choosing to cloak themselves instead in alluring forms.

* TunnelKing: The urglid can burrow through any earthen matter, including rock. Priests of Kabriri insist that he trusted the urglids with digging the labyrinthine network of tunnels that connect Everglut with the Material Plane. Where there's an urglid, there's possibly a pathway to the Outer Rifts—and plenty of ghouls.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: The qlippoth are the most bizarre fiends around, having nothing in their forms anything approximating the human shape except by cosmic fluke or sinister mockery. Some of them ''do'' resemble the more odd creatures from the material plane, such as cephalopods or arachnids. The implications of this are unclear, but something planar scholars find very disturbing.

[[folder:Oni]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Rarely, a mortal's soul can become a disembodied oni upon death or, in even rarer cases, after a truly evil individual has undergone a particularly vile ritual that ends in suicide.
* EvilOverlord: Oni are most comfortable in positions of leadership over enslaved or oppressed societies populated by humanoids they can masquerade as.
* ExtraEyes: All oni yai have a third eye on their forehead.
* FaceHeelTurn: The majority of oni were once kami who failed their wards, or more often, who deliberately abandoned them.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: All oni are capable of changing their shape to assume forms more pleasant to the eye.
* ForTheEvulz: To the oni, no pleasure is more enjoyable than one that deprives or wounds another.
* {{Gonk}}: An oni's true form is always similar to that of a specific humanoid race, save that it is always deformed and monstrous.
* MonsterLord: Particularly powerful oni, known as yai, gather to their side entire legions of oni.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Oni are a race of evil spirits, native to the Material Plane, that manifest physical bodies based upon the shapes and desires of humanoid mortals.
* SenseFreak: Oni arrive in physical form starved for sensory experience, and never fully sate their desire to gorge on such experiences.

!!Spirit Oni
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Oni with bodies made from their own spiritual essence rather than taking a humanoid form. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-spirit-oni/ here]].

* DirtyCoward: Even after being freed from servitude, spirit oni are too cowardly to take the risk of destroying themselves so that they can try to reincarnate as a more powerful oni.
* EquippableAlly: A spirit oni can be worn as a mask by a willing Small or Medium creature.
* EvilMask: The ritual to gain a spirit oni familiar requires the spellcaster to craft a particularly fiendish and fierce-looking oni mask, then attract a bodiless oni to it.
* {{Familiar}}: A spirit oni is created when an evil spellcaster wishes to use an oni as a familiar.
* FlyingFace: A spirit oni's body is little more than a flying, monstrous mask.
* TheResenter: A spirit oni bound to a master is robbed of its immediate chance to achieve a human form. As a result, spirit oni are foul-tempered and cantankerous creatures, even to their masters.

!!Kuwa

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Oni who derive their forms from humans. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-kuwa/ here]].

* {{Greed}}: Once a kuwa secures a position in a human society, the accumulation of wealth becomes its primary motivation.

!!Ja Noi

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Oni who derive their forms from hobgoblins. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Forest of Spirits'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ja-noi/ here]].

* BadBoss: If not allowed to fight for too long, a frustrated ja noi might violently turn on its followers, slaughtering entire hobgoblin tribes.
* BloodKnight: Ja noi have an insatiable thirst for combat that drives them to pursue battle and bloodshed.
* EgomaniacHunter: In extremely rare cases, when they have no campaigns to wage and no humanoid enemies to battle, ja noi simply disappear into the wilderness to fight the mightiest creatures they can find.

!!Yamabushi Tengu
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Oni who derive their forms from tengu. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Brinewall Legacy'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-yamabushi-tengu/ here]].

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: In their humanoid form, they have fiery scarlet skin.
* BirdPeople: In one of their forms, they resemble large, humanoid crows with distinct arms and wings.
* {{Tengu}}: Yamabushi tengu are oni who cloak themselves in the forms of tengu, and can alternate between two interpretations of this trope -- a winged crow-like avian and a winged, red-skinned humanoid with a prodigiously long nose.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Yamabushi tengu can voluntarily alternate between two forms, one more avian and one more humanoid.
* WingedHumanoid: They possess wings attached to their shoulders in both forms -- unlike true tengu, notably, which are wingless and flightless.

!!Kigyo
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Oni who derive their forms from merfolk. Their stats can be found in ''Ruins of Azlant: City in the Deep'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-kigyo/ here]].

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Kigyos take a form resembling a corrupted parody of a merfolk. Like merfolk, kigyos have a torso, arms and an aquatic lower body. Unlike a merfolk, a kigyo has a monstrous face and its body resembles that of a seahorse.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Fitting for oni derived from merfolk, kigyos are experts at wielding tridents as deadly weapons.

!!Nogitsune
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Oni who derive their forms from kitsune. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Night of Frozen Shadows'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-nogitsune/ here]].

* AsianFoxSpirit: Nogitsune mimic true kitsune in form and magic, incarnating as fox-headed humanoids capable of shapeshifting into human form and fond of destructive tricks and manipulation.
* TheCorrupter: They take particular joy in corrupting kitsune and sending them down evil and destructive paths.
* MorphicResonance: Nogitsune can take on human form, but always retain a few distinctly vulpine traits.
* NonHumanHead: In their true form, nogitsune resemble furry humans with fox heads.
* OneGenderRace: Nogitsune are always and only female.
* PoisonedWeapons: Nogitsune almost universally favor using weapons coated in poisons meant to incapacitate but not kill their victims.

!!Najikai
->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from nagaji.

* PoisonousPerson: Najikai have long venomous fangs.

!!Onidoshi (Ogre Mage)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oni_onidoshi.png]]
->'''Level:''' 8

->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from ogres. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ogre-mage/ here]].

* MonsterLord: Onidoshi are often the leaders of ogre tribes, which they awe and cow through their intellect and magical power.
* NonIndicativeName: The name "ogre mage" comes from their association with ogres; ogre mages aren't actual ogres.

!!Atamahuta
->'''Level:''' 11

->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from ettins. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Hungry Storm'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-atamahuta/ here]].

* MultipleHeadCase: An atamahuta possesses two heads, like ettins. The right head most directly controls its actions in physical combat, and is also the only one that talks; the left head constantly mutters nonsense, and is the source of the oni's arcane power.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Most atamahuta find it beneficial to procure a silver-tongued ally who can serve as their mouth. Once they have established control over a certain realm, atamahuta will usually either kill or enslave their allies, whom they see as potential threats to their rule.

!!Earth Yai
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from stone giants. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: Tide of Honor'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-earth-yai/ here]].

* DishingOutDirt: An earth yai can fire an incredibly dense stone from its third eye.

!!Ice Yai
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frost_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oni who derive their forms from frost giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-ice-yai/ here]].

* HumanSacrifice: A tribe led by an ice yai may still raid settlements of humanoids, but the tribe soon learns the value of establishing regular tributes and willing sacrifices.
* AnIcePerson: Ice yai's connection to elemental cold allows them to channel icy power through their physical attacks and to innately cast ''cone of cold'' and ''wall of ice''.
* MonsterLord: An ice yai is a natural leader among frost giants, tempering their savagery with its own wisdom.

!!Fire Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fire_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Oni who derive their forms from fire giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-fire-yai/ here]].

* BigRedDevil: A giant-sized, red-skinned fiendish creature.
* EyeBeams: They can shoot fiery missiles from their third eyes.
* HotBlooded: Fire yai are the most impulsive of their kind: several tales tell of clever heroes taunting fire yai to act rashly.
* MonsterLord: Many fire yai seek out tribes of fire giants to infiltrate and rule.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire yai possess great control over their element, and can innately cast a large number of spells focused on creating and controlling flames.
* SuperSmoke: A fire yai can turn into a cloud of smoke.

!!Taiga Yai
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

* EvilLuddite: Taiga yai zealously love nature in its purest form and gleefully destroy any established civilisations that they encounter.

!!Shadow Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oni_shadowyai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Shadow yai subject those who refuse to submit to them to a veritable symphony of pain that leads to a painful, drawn-out, strangely beautiful death.
* WickedCultured: Many shadow yais crave the pleasures of music and go to great lengths to secure bardic or musically inclined supplicants. These servants can find the experience extremely lucrative and enriching as long as they don't run afoul of their liege.

!!Wind Yai
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Oni who derive their forms from cloud giants. Their stats can be found in ''Jade Regent: The Empty Throne'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-wind-yai/ here]].

* BadBoss: Nothing sets wind yai off in quite the same way as a weak or inept musician, and even the most innocent mistake can mean the fatal end for an indentured bard.
* BlowYouAway: A wind yai can conjure a violent updraft, sending foes flying into the air and bringing them crashing back to the earth.
* TheCorrupter: Wind yai take great pleasure in dominating cloud giants. Evil cloud giants tend to make the best soldiers, though if the wind yai can manage to sway good-aligned cloud giants under their banner, the subsequent wars are all the more satisfying.
* ShockAndAwe: A wind yai can fire a bolt of electricity from its third eye.
* WickedCultured: Wind yai have a particular affection for rare, magical instruments, especially those with strings. A wind yai takes great pride in its musical possessions, and also finds a unique pleasure in assembling masses of enslaved musicians to perform thunderous symphonies.

!!Water Yai
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/water_yai.png]]
->'''Level:''' 18

->'''Size:''' Huge

Oni who derive their forms from storm giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-water-yai/ here]].

* ElementalShapeshifting: A water yai can turn into a mobile pool of water.
* EyeBeams: Water yai can fir lightning bolts from their third eyes.
* PetTheDog: Despite their evil natures, water yai are prone to acts of unexpected frivolity.
* SeaMonster: Water yai are the most at home dwelling beneath the waves.
* ShockAndAwe: They can fire lightning from their eyes and cast ''chain lightning'' as an innate spell.

!!Void Yai
->'''Level:''' 20+
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

The strongest of oni, void yai do not model themselves after any particular race, though they're closest to rune giants. Their stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/oni/oni-void-yai/ here]].

* DoesNotLikeMagic: Voidlords generally eschew spellcasting classes under the opinion that might and the oni's inborn supernatural abilities are a greater path to conquest than mortal magic.
* GlamourFailure: Their vanity is such that most void yai are masters of using their change shape ability to appear as breathtakingly handsome or beautiful giants, and it is in this form they prefer to live. Only when combat begins does their rage take control, causing them to revert to their true, horrific shapes.
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: A void yai has the ability to launch a negative energy beam from its third eye, assume an ethereal void form, and create a lesser Sphere of Annihilation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rakshasa]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

* AmnesiacDissonance: Rarely, rakshasas who reincarnate will not retain all their memories, and as a result may be neutral or even ''good''. Whether or not it sticks if they recover their memories is up in the air.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Rakshasas were originally evil spirits of mortal manipulators, traitors and tyrants obsessed with materialistic evil. Purely from stubborn hate, these spirits do not pass into the Boneyard upon death; instead, they take shapes that better reflect the baseness of their lives and are reborn as fiends.
* DeathlessAndDebauched: Actually born from a desire for this trope; the first of their kind was so devoted to earthly pleasures that he resolved to continue it for all eternity, becoming the progenitor of a race of materialistic evil spirits blessed with BornAgainImmortality - and in a few rare and powerful cases, CompleteImmortality. Gluttony is a running theme among rakshasas, to the point that one of the lowest rungs of their society is occupied by those who have been designated simply as ''food.''
* FantasticCasteSystem: There are seven castes in rakshasa society: pagala (traitors), goshta (food), adhura (novices), darshaka (servants), paradeshi (rakshasa-kin), hakima (lords) and samrata (lords of lords). They encompass not just all of rakshasa society, but all of life, although only rakshasas can attain the stations of darshaka, hakima and samrata.
* AGodAmI: Rakshasas see themselves as the only thing worthy of worship from the mortal races -- raja rakshasas take this to such degrees that they cannot even stand mortals worshipping more powerful rakshasas.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: Rakshasa eyes can be used to stand in for the spell ''true seeing'' when crafting magic items.
* MythologyGag: Their RedRightHand are inverted palms, as was the case with their ''DND'' equivalents. ''Pathfinder'' adds on reversed joints as well.
* PetTheDog: Rakshasa normally don't care for their spawn, but the spawn who do their duties well are bestowed less tasks, or even ''favours'', which is as good as a Rakshasa can be.
* RedRightHand: An easy way to tell if you're dealing with a rakshasa and not your average BeastMan or CatFolk is to see if their hands and lower joints are reversed.
* {{Reincarnation}}: When a rakshasa dies, its spirit seeks a new host to be reborn in.
* SemiDivine: New rakshasas come into being via the coupling of a rakshasa and a non-rakshasa or, rarely, that of two non-rakshasas, if a previously slain rakshasa can reincarnate into the world by usurping the unborn offspring's body.
* VillainCred: Rakshasas put evil non-rakshasas that are powerful enough to be considered worthy of respect into the paradeshi (rakshasa-kin) caste, which ranks above the most common castes for both rakshasas and non-rakshasas alike.

!!Raktavarna
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_raktavarna.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* {{Familiar}}: Raktavarnas can be taken as familiars by LawfulEvil spellcasters.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: A raktavarna's master can observe the world as if looking through the raktavarna's eyes.

!!Dandasuka
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_dandasuka.png]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Size:''' Small

* AffablyEvil: Despite their usual disorderly habits, they bargain good-naturedly and in good faith, only implying dire consequences for noncompliance.
* BigEater: A dandasuka is often not able to contain its fiendish appetite. It might lick a bloody blade, lap up fallen drops, or even take a bite out of a fallen foe at the expense of a more tactically sound option in a fight.
* EvilLaugh: Dandasukas go about their work cheerfully, laughing as they manipulate foes and butcher victims.
* HorrorHunger: Monstrous hunger gnaws at the hyperactive dandasuka's body, making the creature crave humanoid flesh and blood.
* ToServeMan: A dandasuka settles for other meat when it must, but it always prefers humanoid flesh.

!!Amanusya
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium

Among the most gregarious of rakshasas, amanusyas walk among mortals, learning their dreams and turning their desires against them.

* TheCorruptor: Amanusyas consider themselves keen observers and connoisseurs of mortal vice, and often adopt the guise of entertainers or holy people from distant, exotic sects. They might tempt any mortal into lives of depravity, but the eldest, most experienced amanusyas seek to corrupt the most pure-hearted souls.

!!Marai
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Size:''' Medium

* BastardUnderstudy: A solitary marai might pose as a neophyte magician to infiltrate another spellcaster's abode. If the marai is successful, the master soon becomes either the servant or a corpse.

!!Raja
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_rajarakshasa.png]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium

* AristocratsAreEvil: They love luxury and wealth, and when disguised as humanoids, pose as rich nobles and the like.
* NonHumanHead: When not disguised as a humanoid, the otherwise humanoid rakshasa has the head of an animal.
* RichBastard: Again, they love luxury and rich living, and the first edition ones even carry twice as much treasure as normal for their CR.

!!Avatarana
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_raksasha_avatrarana.PNG]]
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Medium

Some of the most deformed and inhuman rakshasas, avataranas possess mortals to take their place. Each time they attempt to carry out their day to day lives but gradually allow their innate cruelty to seep through, eventually abandoning their victim to the unfortunate circumstances created by the avatarana while it goes on to possess a new host of higher standing.

* {{Cult}}: If they're not working alone, they're usually heading up a sizable cult with a few lesser rakshasas as elite minions.
* DemonicPossession: They can seep into a victim's body and usurp control.
* TheFaceless: Each avatarana has a piece of leathery flesh covering its face. This is not part of their bodies but does stick to them with supernatural tenacity, giving only impressions of vague facial features beneath, often resembling the viewer.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Their Absolute Independence ability makes them immune to all magical control, from charms to possession.
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: Those determined and curious enough to carve away a avatarana's veil will find only hollow uneven cavities that never match the shapes implied by the mask.
* PrimalStance: Avataranas walk on all fours like dogs.

!!Orsatka
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Size:''' Medium

* TheBrute: Orsatkas are cruelty and brute force incarnate, and are among the least subtle of rakshasas.
* NonHumanHead: When not disguised, orsatkas resemble huge, muscle-bound humans with bearlike heads.

!!Zalyakavat
->'''Level:''' 13

* BloodKnight: Unlike many of their kind, zalyakavats prefer the thrill and frenzy of violent combat over material wealth.
* MasterSwordsman: Zalyakavats are spiritually and magically bound to their urumi, with which they perform astonishing feats of martial prowess.

!!Tataka
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Large

* BareFistedMonk: Tatakas train from an early age in martial arts, and their fists can break bones as surely as any unarmed strike from a monk.

!!Maharaja
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakshasa_maharaja.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20+

* MultipleHeadCase: A maharaja can have anything from four to a dozen heads.
* NonHumanHead: One of a maharaja's heads tends to be humanoid, while the others take the forms of predatory animals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sahkil]]
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Psychopomps are meant to shepherd the cycle of souls, but some tire of serving the order of a system that will inevitably end. These rebels are sahkils, fiends that embrace the fear with which mortals view the messengers of death and have resolved to rule for the finite eons the multiverse has left.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Played with. Sahkils each embody a particular type of fear, but this isn't an innate part of their being. Rather, it's a conscious change they've made to themselves in order to become more terrifying to mortals.
* {{Antimagic}}: A limited version. All sahkils have the Spirit Touch ability, allowing them to act against intangible beings as if they were corporeal.
* ArchEnemy: Manasaputras and sahkils are sworn enemies, as sahkil predation actively impedes the development of mortal souls. This often results in manasaputras or their agents defending vulnerable spirits or leading quests to liberate worthy souls before they're destroyed.
* BodyHorror: Most sahkils are absolutely horrifying to look at, often bearing grotesque malformations, exposed viscera or visibly decaying flesh. This is entirely of purpose, and designed to further repulse and terrify those they interact with.
* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The sahkils make their home in Xibalba, whose centre is a massive black pyramid.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The first sahkils are dissident psychopomps, who are originally created out of mortal souls. Later sahkils are created from Xibalba's terrorised petitioners in the same way most fiends are.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Sahkil are easier to summon than an outsider of their power would normally be, but are also more difficult to control.
* FaceHeelTurn: The first sahkils were originally psychopomps who rebelled against their duty, fled to the Ethereal Plane and fashioned themselves as tyrants of fear.
* MeaningfulName: The word ''sahkil'' means ''fear'' in the Yucatec Maya language.
* NoSell: They have immunity to death effects, fear effects, disease, and poison.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: The greatest sahkils are near-indescribable horrors, obscene in both shape and proportions.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Any creature affected by a sahkil's gaze is paralysed with fear of various degrees.
* SummonMagic: They all have an ability called Easy to Call. This makes them easy to summon, but gives them bonuses to break free from a summoner's control.

!!Esipil
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/esipil_pathfinder.png]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Manifestations of the fear of wild animals.

* AnimalisticAbomination: They fuse the features of dogs, cats, and other domestic animals with a worm-like body and a tangle of veins dangling from their mouths.
* BloodKnight: They like to fight and scrap with nearly anything, holding their fear abilities in reserve to avoid spoiling the fight by making their opponents flee.
* CriticalHit: Their attacks confuse targets on critical hits.
* {{Familiar}}: NeutralEvil spellcasters can take an esipil as familiar.%%In-Universe
* IShallTauntYou: They telepathically harass others to goad them into attacking first, flinging highly vulgar and disconcerting taunts.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Esipils will savage helpless foes until their master calls them off, even if the foe in question is already dead.
* MoodSwinger: Not actually, but they put on this appearance to toy with people. As familiars they'll act like fawning servile pets, then delight in violent episodes where they bark and snap at others until their master brings them to heel. Then they return to the act of loyal pet and wait for their next outburst.
* SourSupporter: Unlike most fiends that can be taken as familiars, they actually enjoy serving those stronger than themselves and take advantage of their master's power, but they'll still snap and growl when given orders.
* TentacleRope: When they bite opponents, the tentacles dangling from their mouth grab them to hold in place for further attacks.

!!Nucol
->'''Level:''' 4

Manifestations of the fear of parasites.

* DealWithTheDevil: After a nucol infects a victim with potent insecurity, it'lloffer to remove the affliction for a price. Many of these deals are esoteric in nature, driving the victim into despair and forcing them to give up things they cherish. The sinister nucol may even reinfect its victim after completing the bargain, but a canny negotiator may be able to turn the tables and free themselves from the nucol's grasp.
* MeaningfulName: Their name comes from the Yucatec Maya word ''nook'ol'' meaning ''worm''.

!!Wihsaak
[[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wihsaak_sahkil_pathfinder_7.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear of insects, arachnids, and other things that creep and crawl.

* BrownNote: By beating their wings in a certain way, they can create a maddening drone that numbs the minds of intelligent creatures.
* BugBuzz: Their Droning Madness ability as outlined under BrownNote.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Naturally, given their habit of summoning swarms of bugs.
* GasLighting: Wihsaaks like to use ''suggestion'' to put people into terrifying circumstances and make them believe it was their own idea.
* NonHumanHead: in place of a head they have an entire giant locust.
* PestController: A given for the embodiment of the fear of bugs. They can cast ''vomit swarm'' at will and are immune to damage or distraction by swarms.
* {{Sadist}}: When in combat they like to ensure every enemy is hit with some kind of fear effect before going in for the killing blow, preferring their prey to be seasoned with terror before their gruesome demise.
* VillainTeleportation: They can cast ''greater teleportation'' on themselves at will.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Whisaaks embody it for bugs, including [[CreepyCockroach roaches]], [[FlyCrazy flies]], [[BeeAfraid bees]], [[MothMenace moths]], [[ScaryScorpions scorpions]], [[CreepyCentipedes centipedes]], [[TermiteTrouble termites]], and [[WickedWasps wasps]].
* WingedHumanoid: They have a set of locust-like wings that give them a good fly speed.
* WolverineClaws: On all four of their hands, which gives them a devastating number of attacks.

!!Ichkoh
->'''Level:''' 7

Manifestations of the fear that your own body will fail you.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: An ichkoh looks like a human-sized, cockroach-like monstrosity.

!!Pakalchi
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of the fear that relationships will fail.

* PoisonousPerson: A pakalchi can fling a volley of poisonous thorns.

!!Zohanil
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Size:''' Medium

Manifestations of invasive surgery and needles.

* AfraidOfNeedles: Part of the fear they embody.

!!Chakanaj
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* DarkSecret: Chakanajes prey upon people's shame and fears of disclosing humiliating secrets. They enjoy ferreting out secrets and tormenting their victims by leaving incriminating hints of the truth in places others might find them, or messages threatening the victim that someone knows the truth.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: A chakanaj can disguise itself as an item of roughly the same size, and especially enjoys forcing victims to carry or wear it while it whispers hateful suggestions and stoke the victim's anxiety and suffering.

!!Penqual
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Huge

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Penquals embody the fear of crowds and confined spaces.

!!Qolok
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Size:''' Large

Manifestations of the fear of not having enough of something.

* TooManyMouths: A qolok has a second mouth atop its body.

!!Ximtal
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sahkil_ximtal.png]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Size:''' Large

Manifestations of the fear of isolation.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Ximtals appear as hybrids of rats and crabs with grasping tentacles.

!!Tumblak
->'''Level:''' 18

* BuriedAlive: Tumblaks prey upon the fear of being buried alive. A creature fatigued by the tumblak's ''nightmare'' spell is subject to glimpses of being buried alive.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: In a tumblak's gasping aura, mortals struggle to breathe and must hold their breath to avoid suffocation.

!!Nenchuuj
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Size:''' Medium

* EvilSmellsBad: The smell of burnt flesh and ozone hangs heavy around a nenchuuj.

!!Kimenhul
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sahkil_kimenhul.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20

The most powerful of the sahkils, kimenhul are manifestations of the fear of failure.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Kimenhul personify the fear of failure and can use its Eternal Fear ability to imprint itself on the minds of all who view it. From then on, every time someone affected by it is in a stressful situation they remember the kimenhul and become shaken, even if the kimenhul in question is dead. In other words, having been affected by the manifestation of the fear of failure makes you more likely to fail in the future.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Velstrac]]
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil