History Characters / DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Compared to his fellow Demon Lords, he is the smallest except for Graz'zt. Though he is not the strongest of the demon lords, he is still immensely powerful by mortal standards (in 5e specifically, he has a Strength score of ''29,'' among other things).

* HatedByAll: ''Nobody'' like Fraz-Urb'luu, and rival demon lords in partciular despise him for effectively crank calling them.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Compared to his fellow Demon Lords, he is the smallest except for Graz'zt. Though he is not the strongest of the demon lords, he is still immensely powerful by mortal standards (in 5e specifically, he has a Strength score of ''29'').

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Compared to his fellow Demon Lords, he is the smallest except for Graz'zt. Though he is not the strongest of the demon lords, he is still immensely powerful by mortal standards.

* VocalDissonance: He's described as having a very melodious and pleasant voice and looks like, well, look at the pictures.

* BladeOnAStick: In some editions they wield lances, spears, and other polearms.

* BladeOnAStick: In some editions they carry ranseurs.

* PossessingADeadBody: Their specialty. A dybbuk can possess the corpse of a humanoid or beast and retains control of it while the corpse is intact. When the corpse is damaged beyond repair, the dybbuk abandons it in search of a new one.

* WhipItGood: Balors favor the use of long, flaming whips studded with blades and hooks, which they use to snare and entangle their foes.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Demons get stronger by killing things, and the various demon lords have been killing for a ''long'' time. Appeal to force is the only kind of authority demons respect: a weak demon obeys a stronger one because the stronger one can annihilate it if it doesn't. Currently, the strongest among them is the Demogorgon.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Demogorgon is probably the most powerful Demon Prince, which is why so many serve him -- [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority in the Abyss, the only way to get people to do what you want is to force them]].

The Demon Lord of Savagery, Yeenoghu is the creator of gnolls. He is a lesser power compared to princes like Orcus and Demogorgon, but was still able to subjugate Doresain, the Demon Prince of Ghouls who was a former vassal of Orcus. He controls the Abyss' 422nd layer, which he has simply named "Yeenoghu's Realm" (he isn't very creative).

* WeaponOfChoice: In 5th edition, each molydeus wields a demonic weapon associated with its patron demon lord: a glaive for Baphomet, a whip for Demogorgon, a flail for Yeenoghu, and so on. No matter what form this weapon takes, it always has the power to decapitate on a critical hit.

* HiddenElfVillage: Their ''AD&D'' lore describes isolated communities of a few hundred bar-lgura dwelling in simple tribal societies, using their weight of numbers of ensure their independence from Abyssal politics and the Blood War. There are also stories of vengeful balors singlehandedly wiping out such communities of "rebellious" tanar'ri.

* DumbMuscle: Their ''Planescape'' entry explains that bulezau's "chief vulnerability's found in the hollow space between their ears," and the only thing dumber than one is two of the demons.

* DealWithTheDevil: They occupy this niche among the demons, manipulating and tempting weak-willed mortals with the promise of a ''wish'' spell. The catch, however, is that the ''wish'' can only be used for an evil cause, or one that would spread destruction and suffering. Failing that, an act of imense wickedness or great sacrifce is required as payment.

* MagicDance: In 3.5, three or more vrocks can form a circle and start dancing. If nothing interrupts their dance, the vrocks will then unleash a wave of destructive energy that inflicts tremendous damage to everything that isn’t a demon within a 100-foot radius.

* EvilIsNotAToy: Glabrezu are often summoned by mortals who think that, as demons, they're dumber and easier to handle than devils. But anyone who opts to summon a glabrezu under the impression that they can trick it is in for a ''nasty'' surprise, and anyone who thinks they can overpower it is most likely just as wrong. Even those who try to deal "fairly" with a glabrezu are in danger -- at least with a devil you have assurance that it will stick to the letter of the bargain.

A powerful, multi-armed, snake-bodied feminine demon. Mariliths are amongst the most feared demons of the Abyss, and not just for their combat prowess. While most demons are near-mindless beasts whose best grasp of tactics is "hit thing until thing dies", Mariliths are ''smart'', and combine their keen minds with their chaotic free-thinking natures to produce plots of literally fiendish ingenuity.

* TheEvilGenius: They're wickedly clever and often serve as generals to demonic hordes.

* MouthOfSauron: Every molydeus speaks with the authority of its patron demon lord. In some cases, they do this quite literally: the demon lord can see and speak through the molydeus’s snake head.

* EmotionEater: They can consume negative emotions such as misery, fear and rage.

* AlienKudzu: They ''are'' alien kudzu.
* BlobMonster: Their earlier incarnation was as a vaguely-humanoid mass of acidic corruption contained in a cracked, leathery coating.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: ''Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes'' notes that most demon cultists refuse to summon alkiliths, due to the danger of the fiends creating an unchecked Abyssal portal.

* FertileBlood: According to 4th and 5th Edition, babaus were born from the blood of Graz'zt when the Archduess Glasya struck him in close combat, and the newborn demons helped drive her from the field.

* VillainousDemotivator: They have the uncanny ability to sniff out Blood War deserters, and punish such demons with hideous deaths. This, and the fact that chasmes are rewarded for their service by having lesser tanar'ri sent to the front lines in their stead, make chasmes feared and hated by other demons.

Lords of abyssal oceans, these demons have humanoid torsos and eel-like lower bodies.

* BreathWeapon: In 3rd Edition, wastriliths can spray a cone of boiling water.

Born from the blood of Graz'zt, babaus combine the cunning of devils with the savagery of demons.

* AcidAttack: Prior to 5th edition, babaus secreted an acidic slime while in combat. This slime's effects varied by edition, either protecting the babau from piercing and slashing attacks (2e), corroding any weapons which touched the babau (3e), or just harming adjacent attackers (4e).
* DeadlyGaze: In 5th edition, a babau's magical gaze saps the strength of its target.

* HornyDevils: Downplayed in that lilitus are still supernaturally attractive and adept at using their looks to their advantage, but are more interested in perverting good religions than seducing individuals.

* HornyDevils: Both in a literal sense and in a figurative one- there are a ''lot'' of demons, cambions, and tieflings who trace lineage to him. Graz'zt is based on stories from witch trials, where witches would claim to copulate with the Devil in the guise of a handsome black-skinned man.
* HotAsHell: He is one handsome demon, and you best believe he knows it.

* HornyDevils: The patron of them, at least before the succubi became independent from demons.

* BewareMyStingerTail: bulezaus have a barbed tail with which to stab their enemies. It infects the target with a supernatural disease which makes their flesh rot and develop festering boils, amongst other nasty symptoms.

* BloodKnight: Bulezaus embody the violence inherent in nature, and eagerly fight and maul whatever beings they encounter. More powerful demons often use them as shock troops and thugs for this purpose, and bulezaus often turn on each other when deprived of other targets.

* ShockAndAwe: Against tough enemies, armanites can call on their innate magic to loose bolts of lightning.

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[[folder:Oublivae]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 23 (3E)

The Demon Lord of Ruin and History, Oublivae lives to bring ruin and destruction to all corners of creation and rule over the remains. In the infinite, chaotic layers of the Abyss, it is Oublivae who works to ''keep'' things chaotic. She rules over layer 100 of the Abyss, known as The Barrens, a vast expanse filled with ruins from civilizations past, present, and future.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Looks like an attractive female humanoid covered in chitinous plates with a long tail ending in a deadly stinger.
* TheChessmaster: When her predecessor Ugoreth had her surrounded, she appealed to his vanity by saying she carried a message for his ears only. It worked, and once they were alone she killed him and ate his soul.
* EldritchLocation: Even by the standards of the Abyss, the Barrens are weird in that it contains ruins of civilizations that haven't even been formed yet. This could be explained by the belief that the Barrens were once an astral domain that fell to the Abyss.
* EvilerThanThou: When the former ruler of the Barrens, Ugoreth, first met her, he had his minions surround her and demanded her service. Oublivae then outsmarted Ugoreth, killed him, ate his soul, and destroyed his empire before taking his position as Demon Lord for herself.
* HiddenDepths: Given how she all but embodies destruction, it might come as a surprise that Oublivae holds a knowledge of history rivalled by only the likes of Graz'zt, Vecna, and Iggwilv.
* HopeCrusher: She enjoys breaking the spirits of those she hunts by showing glimpses of their future where all they love is gone, right before devouring their soul.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her past, just that one day she crawled out from the dregs of the Barrens, went straight to Ugoreth's castle, and promptly killed him.
* OmnicidalManiac: Her ultimate goal is to turn the world into nothing but wasteland for her to rule over.
* OverlyLongTongue: She has a long, ghoulish tongue that she uses to lap up the blood of her victims.
* RedBaron: She has such [[SarcasmMode lovely titles]] as the Queen of Desolation, the Demon Monarch of the Barrens, and the Angel of the Everlasting Void.
* RunningOnAllFours: When provoked, she drops to all fours and fights like a feral beast.
* SmarterThanTheyLook: Has a vast knowlege of history and is just as much a scheemer as Graz'zt.
* SoulEating: Is explicitly stated to eat the souls of her victims, and even ate the soul of the former ruler of the Barrens, the demon lord Ugoreth.
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22 (3E), 26 (5E)

* EvilIsNotAToy: Glabrezu are often summoned by mortals who think that, as demons, they're dumber and easier to handle than devils. But anyone who opts to summon a glabrezu under the impression that it'll be easier to trick than a devil is in for a ''nasty'' surprise, and anyone who thinks they can overpower it is most likely just as wrong. Even those who try to deal "fairly" with a glabrezu are in danger -- at least with a devil you have assurance that it will stick to the letter of the bargain.
* GeniusBruiser: Glabrezus have 20 strength and 19 INT, compared to the human max of 18. These ain't your average Abyssal DumbMuscle...

->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14 (3E), 13 (4E)

* TentacledTerror: They seem to lack bodies, instead appearing as "an indistinct knot of writhing ropes and tendrils," some lined with tiny mouths, others ending in paddle-like fines, and two muscular tentacles ending in wailing, crocodilian jaws.

[[folder:Carnage Demon]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)

Brutish, ape-like demons that resemble red-skinned orcs and exist only to batter other creatures to death.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Their slam attacks automatically overcome a target's DamageReduction as if the carnage demon's fists were silvered, adamantine, etc.
* TheBerserker: They have even odds of going into a frenzy once in combat, attacking the closest thing that isn't another carnage demon.
* ZergRush: Carnage demons gain a morale bonus to attack rolls and damage based on how many more of their kind are nearby.

[[folder:Deathdrinker]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 18 (3E)

Huge, horned demons that empower themselves with every foe they slay.

* BigRedDevil: Horns, red skin, hoofed feet, but don't mistake them for a balor.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Deathdrinkers stay out of Abyssal politics and view such conflicts as beneath them. They're only concerned with their own comfort and finding flatterers to surround themselves with.
* LifeDrain: Every time a deathdrinker kills something, its signature ability heals them based on how many hit dice its victim had.
* WalkingWasteland: Deathdrinkers are surrounded by an aura of negative energy, healing undead and damaging the living.
* WorthyOpponent: They actively seek out these, since they get a morale boost to rolls for 1 minute after killing a foe, but only so long as it had at least 10 HD.
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[[folder:Elemental Demon]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (air, ash), 5 (earth, water), 6 (ice), 7 (fire) (3E)

These fiendish elemental creatures exist as savage wildlife, or as the minions of tanar'ri lords or mortal mages.
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[[folder:Ghour]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (3E)

Creations of the demon lord Baphomet, these horned goliaths help guard the Endless Maze, or act as his emissaries among loyal ogres, minotaurs and giants on the Material Plane.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Ghours can loose an ear-splitting roar once per day, potentially stunning and deafening those around them.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: They could be considered giant-sized, fiendish minotaurs, and fittingly can use ''maze'' three times per day.
* PoisonousPerson: Once per minute, a ghour can exhale a long cloud of poisonous gas that deals [[NonHealthDamage Strength damage.]]

[[folder:Myrlochar]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)

Also known as soul spiders, these fiendish arachnids rank below yochlols in Lolth's service, and are thus easier for drow priestesses to summon to the Material Plane.

* GiantSpider: They're Medium-sized fiendish arachnids, capable of [[WallCrawl climbing sheer surfaces]] and ignoring webbing both magical and mundane, though they cannot themselves spin webs.
* GravityScrew: Their bite attack can deliver a four-round ''reverse gravity'' effect, if the myrlochar wills it.
* MaximumHPReduction: Their bite attacks have a 1-in-6 chance of permanently transferring one of the victim's hit points to the myrlochar.
* NoiselessWalker: Myrlochars move in total silence, and cannot be heard unless they want to be.
* TheParalyzer: Their bite attacks can deliver a four-round ''hold person'' effect, if the myrlochar wills it.
* PowerGlows: Their bodies have a SicklyGreenGlow, while their eyes glow an ominous red.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Myrlochars are often summoned to the Material Plane to hunt down foes of the drow, but the Spider Queen is also known to send uncontrolled soul spiders when a priestess who has fallen out of her favor attempts to summon a yochlol.

[[folder:Nashrou]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E)

Ten-foot tangles of chitinous claws and spines, which rove across the Abyss in animalistic packs.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Four legs and six fighting limbs capable of goring or clawing opponents.
* OneHitKill: Nashrous are distinctly vulnerable to {{Critical Hit}}s, which instantly kill them no matter how much HP they had before.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Though nashrous are no more intelligent than beasts, observers have noted that they tend to send the younger, smaller members of the pack into battle as the first wave, to either let them earn their place in the pack or purge said pack of weakness.

[[folder:Sibriex]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15 (3E), 18 (5E)

A gruesome creature resembling an enormous floating head, bloated with disease. Those who encounter one may have their sense of self-worth diminished as they view the sibriex in question as the ideal physical form.

* ChainPain: These floating demons anchor themselves to the ground with massive chains, which they can magically animate and attack with.
* FlyingFace: They're just levitating, horrifying heads with a writhing nest of puckered tubes dangling where their necks should be.
* MadArtist: Sibriexes view the grafting of flesh as an art form, and are happy to practice on those they encounter, or hire out their talents to abyssal lords.
* MakerOfMonsters: The signature trait of the sibriexes is their penchant for "flesh warping." They can quickly apply fiendish grafts to willing or helpless targets, generating the new limbs or organs out of raw Abyssal chaos, or modify a subject's anatomy by converting their hands to claws, growing their eyes out on stalks, swelling or shrinking their body, and so forth.
-->'''Mordenkainen:''' No creature embodies the chaotic nature of the Abyss so well as the sibriex. Although the realm of demons is already a place of infinite horrors, sibriexes for some reason make even more of these monstrosities.
* PoisonousPerson: Sibriexes are so foul that they contaiminate the area around them with a virulet poison.
* SuperSpit: They can also spray bile from their mouth or other orifices to deal acid damage.

[[folder:Uzollru]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 16 (3E)

Colossal monsters that lurk in the lightless depths of the Shadowsea, attacking anything they come across, though they also serve as the heralds of the demon prince Dagon. Those who encounter them may have their minds and psyches shattered by the demons' sheer size.

* CombatTentacles: Uzollrus feed by burrowing its tentacles into prey, dissolving flesh and bone so the demon can drink its meal, and leaving behind carcasses marked by horrifying tunnels of missing matter (or in gameplay terms, dealing Constitution drain). It's noted that as demons, uzollrus have no strict need to eat, rather their hunting is fueld by their hatred for all other lifeforms.
* CreepyCentipedes: They're compared to enormous, amphibious centipedes.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: At Intelligence 6, uzollrus are fairly dumb bruisers, especially by demonic standards, but in obscure reaches of the Shadowsea there are sunken ruins of "dizzying spires and bulbous buildings" all sized to accomodate uzollrus. This suggests that these obyriths were at one point much more intelligent and civilized than they currently are, though most Abyssal scholars can only hope that the monsters' minds continue to decline.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: They're a demonic variant, certifiably Colossal sea demons who dwell in the depths of an extraplanar ocean. In the thankfully rare event an uzollru escapes to the Material Plane, it swiftly lays waste to everything around it.
* MagicalEye: Their huge, balefully-glowing eye can stun those who meet its gaze.
* PowerPincers: They can grapple and constrict victims in their claws for nearly a hundred points of damage.

[[folder:Verakia]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14 (3E)

Gargantuan masses of teeth, claws, horns and scales that exist only to destroy. Those who survive their attacks may become gripped with a homicidal rage of their own.

* HatePlague: Those who encounter a verakia may become consumed with a berserk fury, compelling them to take up a weapon and find victims to kill. This insane, murderous urge supercedes all others, so such affected creatures will end up dying of thirst or hunger even if nothing puts them down.
* HellFire: The verakia can breathe a blood-red fire that deals both fire and unholy energy damage.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Their bodies resemble a fiendish, draconic centaur, with a bestial lower body and a more humanoid torso atop it, capped with a four-eyed head full of horns and fangs.
* ThroatLight: A verakia's throat glows with fire.

!Loumaras

A relatively new demonic subtype, loumaras originate from the Abyss' 230th layer, the Dreaming Gulf, where the dreams of dead pantheons coalesce into fiendish form. Loumaras are distinct for lacking physical bodies, leading them to use their other powers to work their mischief on the Material Plane.

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* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Eons ago, the 230th layer was known as N'gharl and ruled by Azuvidexus, a demon prince powerful enough to resist Demogorgon's efforts to conquer him. So instead the Prince of Demons proposed an alliance with Azuvidexus, helping him set up a demon cult on a Material Plane world, before retreating to watch the fireworks. As Demogorgon planned, the local, highly territorial, pantheon responded by launching a counter-invasion of the Abyss, shrinking Azuvidexus and his domain into a head-sized sphere and then kicking it onto the Astral Plane. What nobody expected was for [[GeniusLoci the Abyss itself]] to respond to the invasion by annihilating the offending pantheon. The void left behind by N'gharl became the Dreaming Gulf, and the final thoughts of the slain pantheon gave rise to the loumara.
* DemonicPossession: While all demons ''can'' theoretically pick up this trick, loumaras all have some variant of it out of necessity, since they don't have physical bodies.
* {{Intangibility}}: Loumaras have the incorporeal subtype, and can pass through people or solid objects like a ghost. Though as of 5th Edition, this means that they'll take damage if they end their turn within a solid object.
* LivingDream: The loumara are the result of the Abyss "digesting" the dreams, desires and final thoughts of a slain pantheon, which results in the different loumara types. Guecubus, for example, are born from the last nightmares of a god of law and peace, and are thus supernatural serial murderers, while dybbuks are born from the twisted dreams of a goddess of love and art, driving them to possess comely mortals and lead them into ruinous depravity. The caligrostos are born from the nightmares of a god of craftsmanship, and thus specialize in possessing and corrupting weapons, while manitous come from the dying echoes of a goddess of fertility and nature, and take pleasure in despoiling the wilderness.

[[folder:Caligrosto]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)

Loumara that can only possess bladed weapons, which they do so to betray those who try to wield them in battle.

* AttackReflector: While it has assumed the shape of an enemy, whenever the fiend's DamageReduction reduces incoming damage, that negated damage is instead inflicted upon the creature the caligrosto is mimicking.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even other demons can be taken aback by caligrostos' cruelty and sadism.
* EvilWeapon: Caligrostos often act as such, not only possessing swords and the like, but infusing them with additional magical qualities to make them more appealing to potential wielders. They'll even try to pass themselves off as a normal magical weapon by telepathically communicating with their wielder, and insist that their "fiendish shade" ability is a variant of the ''dancing'' weapon effect. But as soon as -- or even before -- the caligrosto and its one-time wielder defeat their current foe, the demon will turn on their "partner."
* KillAndReplace: A variant; once a caligrosto has damaged an enemy, its "fiendish shade" ability lets them assume a twisted, demonic parody of that foe's appearance, which the loumara can stay in indefinitely. While in this form, a caligrosto gets an attack bonus against the enemy it is mocking, which also becomes the victim of its reflective damage reduction.
* NonHealthDamage: A caligrosto's incorporeal touch inflicts Strength damage, while also healing the demon.

[[folder:Dybbuk]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 4 (5E)

Dybbuks are immaterial fiends capable of possessing dead bodies, which they restore to a semblance of life and use to pursue the vices of mortal civilization. Though they also can't resist terrorizing mortals by making their vessels do horrific and unnatural things.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: A dybbuk's true form resembles a jellyfish and can float through the air.
* PossessingADeadBody: Their specialty. A dybbuk can possess the corpse of a humanoid or beast and retains control of it while the corpse is intact. When the corpse is damaged beyond repair, the dybbuk abandons it in search of a new one.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A dybbuk can strike fear into its enemies by forcing the corpse it is possessing to do something unnatural, such as making an animal's corpse walk on its hind legs or giving a humanoid corpse a case of ExorcistHead. If that doesn't work, they can also innately cast the ''fear'' spell.
* TouchOfDeath: In their 3rd Edition rules, dybbuks can try to create a fresh corpse to inhabit with a "death touch" attack it can attempt once a day.

[[folder:Guecubu]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)

Formless demons that possess living creatures to force them to commit murder.

* ForcedSleep: Touching a creature in a guecubu's natural form puts it to sleep, allowing the demon to possess it.
* InvisibleMonsters: Naturally invisible outside a host body.
* MindOverMatter: Guecubus can use ''telekinesis'' at will, which they use to defend themselves outside a host body, or to subtly kill people while "riding" someone who might not know they're possessed.
* SerialKiller: A demonic example. The guecubus believe each death they cause this way fits a pattern that will reveal the mystery behind existence.

[[folder:Manitou]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (3E)

Like twisted druids, these loumaras have power over nature, and can possess plants, animals and fey creatures, all so they can despoil and destroy the wilderness.

* EnemyToAllLivingThings: These demons delight in corrupting nature, and particularly relish the souls of dryads.
* GreenThumb: Manitou can cast spells like ''diminish plants'', ''entangle'' and ''plant growth''.
* NotEnoughToBury: A manitou can make a "Rend Nature" attack against targets its incorporeal form is overlapping, which deals heavy damage as creatures' bodies are torn apart by invisible force. Animals, elementals, plants and fey take extra damage and have to save or be stunned for a round afterward, while constructs, outsiders and undead are immune to this attack.
* TentacledTerror: Under a ''true seeing'' effect, a manitou looks like a ghostly mass of thorny tendrils ending in fanged teeth, which briefly solidify when it makes bite attacks. Creatures a manitou possesses are impaled by one of these tentacles, which limits the number of creatures the demon can control at once, and means they must remain within a mile of each other.
* WeatherManipulation: They know ''call lightning storm'' and ''control winds'' as once-per-day spell-like abilities.

* AssholeVictim: In one version of their backstory, they were the original masters of the Abyss and created the tanar'ri as slaves, only for the latter to betray them while the obyriths were distracted fighting an eladrin invasion.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Arguably the greatest scope of all of ''D&D''. They are responsible for the creation of the Abyss and its demons, they corrupted Tharizdun, and their ultimate goal is the end of creation.
* TimeAbyss: No pun intended. In their original lore, they're older than intelligent life on the Material Plane, while in their updated material, obyriths predate ''the multiverse itself'', hailing from a reality where their Abyss consumed all.

[[folder:Verakia]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14 (3E)

Gargantuan masses of teeth, claws, horns and scales that exist only to destroy. Those who survive their attacks may become gripped with a homicidal rage of their own.

* HatePlague: Those who encounter a verakia may become consumed with a berserk fury, compelling them to take up a weapon and find victims to kill. This insane, murderous urge supercedes all others, so such affected creatures will end up dying of thirst or hunger even if nothing puts them down.
* HellFire: The verakia can breathe a blood-red fire that deals both fire and unholy energy damage.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Their bodies resemble a fiendish, draconic centaur, with a bestial lower body and a more humanoid torso atop it, capped with a four-eyed head full of horns and fangs.
* ThroatLight: A verakia's throat glows with fire.

!Loumaras

A relatively new demonic subtype, loumaras originate from the Abyss' 230th layer, the Dreaming Gulf, where the dreams of dead pantheons coalesce into fiendish form. Loumaras are distinct for lacking physical bodies, leading them to use their other powers to work their mischief on the Material Plane.

[[folder:Loumaras in General]]
* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Eons ago, the 230th layer was known as N'gharl and ruled by Azuvidexus, a demon prince powerful enough to resist Demogorgon's efforts to conquer him. So instead the Prince of Demons proposed an alliance with Azuvidexus, helping him set up a demon cult on a Material Plane world, before retreating to watch the fireworks. As Demogorgon planned, the local, highly territorial, pantheon responded by launching a counter-invasion of the Abyss, shrinking Azuvidexus and his domain into a head-sized sphere and then kicking it onto the Astral Plane. What nobody expected was for [[GeniusLoci the Abyss itself]] to respond to the invasion by annihilating the offending pantheon. The void left behind by N'gharl became the Dreaming Gulf, and the final thoughts of the slain pantheon gave rise to the loumara.
* DemonicPossession: While all demons ''can'' theoretically pick up this trick, loumaras all have some variant of it out of necessity, since they don't have physical bodies.
* {{Intangibility}}: Loumaras have the incorporeal subtype, and can pass through people or solid objects like a ghost. Though as of 5th Edition, this means that they'll take damage if they end their turn within a solid object.
* LivingDream: The loumara are the result of the Abyss "digesting" the dreams, desires and final thoughts of a slain pantheon, which results in the different loumara types. Guecubus, for example, are born from the last nightmares of a god of law and peace, and are thus supernatural serial murderers, while dybbuks are born from the twisted dreams of a goddess of love and art, driving them to possess comely mortals and lead them into ruinous depravity. The caligrostos are born from the nightmares of a god of craftsmanship, and thus specialize in possessing and corrupting weapons, while manitous come from the dying echoes of a goddess of fertility and nature, and take pleasure in despoiling the wilderness.

[[folder:Caligrosto]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)

Loumara that can only possess bladed weapons, which they do so to betray those who try to wield them in battle.

* AttackReflector: While it has assumed the shape of an enemy, whenever the fiend's DamageReduction reduces incoming damage, that negated damage is instead inflicted upon the creature the caligrosto is mimicking.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even other demons can be taken aback by caligrostos' cruelty and sadism.
* EvilWeapon: Caligrostos often act as such, not only possessing swords and the like, but infusing them with additional magical qualities to make them more appealing to potential wielders. They'll even try to pass themselves off as a normal magical weapon by telepathically communicating with their wielder, and insist that their "fiendish shade" ability is a variant of the ''dancing'' weapon effect. But as soon as -- or even before -- the caligrosto and its one-time wielder defeat their current foe, the demon will turn on their "partner."
* KillAndReplace: A variant; once a caligrosto has damaged an enemy, its "fiendish shade" ability lets them assume a twisted, demonic parody of that foe's appearance, which the loumara can stay in indefinitely. While in this form, a caligrosto gets an attack bonus against the enemy it is mocking, which also becomes the victim of its reflective damage reduction.
* NonHealthDamage: A caligrosto's incorporeal touch inflicts Strength damage, while also healing the demon.

[[folder:Dybbuk]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 4 (5E)

Dybbuks are immaterial fiends capable of possessing dead bodies, which they restore to a semblance of life and use to pursue the vices of mortal civilization. Though they also can't resist terrorizing mortals by making their vessels do horrific and unnatural things.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: A dybbuk's true form resembles a jellyfish and can float through the air.
* PossessingADeadBody: Their specialty. A dybbuk can possess the corpse of a humanoid or beast and retains control of it while the corpse is intact. When the corpse is damaged beyond repair, the dybbuk abandons it in search of a new one.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A dybbuk can strike fear into its enemies by forcing the corpse it is possessing to do something unnatural, such as making an animal's corpse walk on its hind legs or giving a humanoid corpse a case of ExorcistHead. If that doesn't work, they can also innately cast the ''fear'' spell.
* TouchOfDeath: In their 3rd Edition rules, dybbuks can try to create a fresh corpse to inhabit with a "death touch" attack it can attempt once a day.

[[folder:Guecubu]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)

Formless demons that possess living creatures to force them to commit murder.

* ForcedSleep: Touching a creature in a guecubu's natural form puts it to sleep, allowing the demon to possess it.
* InvisibleMonsters: Naturally invisible outside a host body.
* MindOverMatter: Guecubus can use ''telekinesis'' at will, which they use to defend themselves outside a host body, or to subtly kill people while "riding" someone who might not know they're possessed.
* SerialKiller: A demonic example. The guecubus believe each death they cause this way fits a pattern that will reveal the mystery behind existence.

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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (3E)

Like twisted druids, these loumaras have power over nature, and can possess plants, animals and fey creatures, all so they can despoil and destroy the wilderness.

* EnemyToAllLivingThings: These demons delight in corrupting nature, and particularly relish the souls of dryads.
* GreenThumb: Manitou can cast spells like ''diminish plants'', ''entangle'' and ''plant growth''.
* NotEnoughToBury: A manitou can make a "Rend Nature" attack against targets its incorporeal form is overlapping, which deals heavy damage as creatures' bodies are torn apart by invisible force. Animals, elementals, plants and fey take extra damage and have to save or be stunned for a round afterward, while constructs, outsiders and undead are immune to this attack.
* TentacledTerror: Under a ''true seeing'' effect, a manitou looks like a ghostly mass of thorny tendrils ending in fanged teeth, which briefly solidify when it makes bite attacks. Creatures a manitou possesses are impaled by one of these tentacles, which limits the number of creatures the demon can control at once, and means they must remain within a mile of each other.
* WeatherManipulation: They know ''call lightning storm'' and ''control winds'' as once-per-day spell-like abilities.

Loumara that can only possess bladed weapons, so they can betray those who try to wield them in battle.

* LivingDream: The loumara are the result of the Abyss "digesting" the dreams, desires and final thoughts of a slain pantheon, which results in the different loumara types. Guecubus, for example, are born from the last nightmares of a god of law and peace, and are thus supernatural serial murderers, while dybbuks are born from the twisted dreams of a goddess of love and art, driving them to possess comely mortals and lead them into ruinous depravity.

[[folder:Dybbuk]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 4 (5E)

Dybbuks are immaterial fiends capable of possessing dead bodies, which they restore to a semblance of life and use to pursue the vices of mortal civilization. Though they also can't resist terrorizing mortals by making their vessels do horrific and unnatural things.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: A dybbuk's true form resembles a jellyfish and can float through the air.
* PossessingADeadBody: Their specialty. A dybbuk can possess the corpse of a humanoid or beast and retains control of it while the corpse is intact. When the corpse is damaged beyond repair, the dybbuk abandons it in search of a new one.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A dybbuk can strike fear into its enemies by forcing the corpse it is possessing to do something unnatural, such as making an animal's corpse walk on its hind legs or giving a humanoid corpse a case of ExorcistHead. If that doesn't work, they can also innately cast the ''fear'' spell.
* TouchOfDeath: In their 3rd Edition rules, dybbuks can try to create a fresh corpse to inhabit with a "death touch" attack it can attempt once a day.

[[folder:Guecubu]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)

Formless demons that possess living creatures to force them to commit murder.

* ForcedSleep: Touching a creature in a guecubu's natural form puts it to sleep, allowing the demon to possess it.
* InvisibleMonsters: Naturally invisible outside a host body.
* MindOverMatter: Guecubus can use ''telekinesis'' at will, which they use to defend themselves outside a host body, or to subtly kill people while "riding" someone who might not know they're possessed.
* SerialKiller: A demonic example. The guecubus believe each death they cause this way fits a pattern that will reveal the mystery behind existence.