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Demogorgon towers three times the height of The Demon Prince of Undeath is a foul and corpulent
a human, his body as sinuous as a snake's and as creature, with a humanoid torso, powerful goat legs,
powerful as a great ape's. Suckered tentacles take and the desiccated head of a ram. His sore-ridden body
the place of his arms. His saurian lower torso ends stinks of disease, but his decaying head and glowing
in webbed and clawed feet, and a forked tail whose red eyes are as a creature already dead. Great black
whip-like tips are armed with cruel blades. The Prince bat wings sprout from his back, stirring reeking air
of Demons has two baleful baboon heads, both of as he moves.
them mad. It is only the conflict between the two Orcus wields a malevolent artifact known as the W a nd
halves of his dual nature that keeps the demon lord's ofOrcus, a mace-like rod topped by a humanoid skull.
ambitions in check. He surrounds himself with undead, and living creatures
not under his control are anathema to him.
GRAZ'ZT
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The demon lord Graz'zt appears as a darkly handsome YE N OGHU
figure nearly nine feet tall. Those who refer to the Known as the Gnoll Lord and the Beast of Butchery,
Dark Prince as the most humanoid of the demon the demon lord Yeenoghu hungers for slaughter
lords vastly underestimate the capacity for evil in his and senseless destruction. Gnolls are his mortal
scheming heart. instruments, and he drives them to ever-greater
Graz'zt is a striking physical specimen, whose atrocities in his name. Delighting in sorrow and
demonic nature shows in his ebon skin, pointed ears, hopelessness, the Gnoll Lord yearns to turn the world
yellow fangs, crown of horns, and six-fingered hands. into a wasteland in which the last surviving gnolls tear
He delights in finery, pageantry, and sating his decadent each other apart for the right to feast upon the dead.
desires with subjects and consorts alike, among whom Yeenoghu appears as a huge, scarred gnoll with a
incubi and succubi are often his favorites. spiky crest of black spines, and eyes that burn with
emerald flame. His armor is a patchwork of shields and
jUIBLEX breastplates claimed from fallen foes, and decorated by
The demon lord of slimes and oozes, J uiblex is a stew those foes' flayed skins. Yeenoghu can summon a triple
of noxious fluids that lurks in the abyssal depths. The flail he calls the Butcher, which he wields to deadly
wretched Faceless Lord cares nothing for cultists effect or wills to fly independently into battle as he tears
or mortal servants, and its sole desire is to turn all foes apart with teeth and claws.
creatures into formless copies of its horrid self.
In its resting state,Juiblex spreads out in a noxious OTHER D E MON LORDS
mass, bubbling and filling the air with a profound No one knows the full number of demon lords that
stench. On the rare occasions when creatures confront rage in the Abyss. Given the infinite depths of that
the demon lord, Juiblex draws itself up into a shuddering plane, powerful demons constantly rise to become
cone of slime striated with veins of black and green. demon lords, then fall almost as quickly. Among the
Baleful red eyes swim within its gelatinous body, while demon lords whose power has endured long enough
dripping pseudopods of ooze lash out hungrily at any for demonologists to name them are Fraz-Urb'luu, the
creature they can reach. Prince of Deception; Kostchtchie, the Prince of Wrath;
Pazuzu, Prince of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms; and
LOLTH Zuggtmoy, Lady of Fungi.
The Demon Queen of Spiders is the evil matron of the
draw. Her every thought is touched by malice, and the D E MON T Y PES
depth of her viciousness can surprise even her most
faithful priestesses. She directs her faithful while she Demonologists organize the chaotic distribution of
weaves plots across the worlds of the Material Plane, demons into broad categories of power known as
looking forward to the time when her draw followers types. Most demons fit into one of six major types, with
the weakest categorized as T y pe 1 and the strongest
bring those worlds under her control. as Type 6. Demons outside the six main types are
Lolth appears as a lithe, imperious draw matriarch categorized as minor demons and demon lords.
when she manifests to her followers in the mortal
realm, which she does with unusual frequency. When D E M O N S BY TYP E
battle breaks out-or if she has a reason to remind her
followers to fear her-Lolth's lower body transforms into Type Examples
that of a huge demonic spider, whose spike-tipped legs 1 barlgura, shadow demon, vrock
and mandibles tear foes apart. 2 chasme, hezrou
3 glabrezu, yochlol
0RCUS 4 nalfeshnee
Known as the Demon Prince of Undeath and the Blood 5 marilith
Lord, the demon lord Orcus is worshiped by the undead
and by living creatures that channel the power of 6 balor, goristro
undeath. A brooding and nihilistic entity, Orcus yearns
to make the multiverse a place of death and darkness,
forever unchanging except by his will.
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