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Demogorgon towers three times the height of Th~ Demon Prince of Undeath l's a foui lmd corpulent
a human, his body as sinuous as a snake's and as cr~ature, ~ith 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
halves of his dual nature that keeps the demon lord's Wand ofOrcus, a mace-like rod of obsidian topped
ambitions in check. by a humanoid skull. He surrounds himself with
undead, and living creatures not under his control are
GRAZ'ZT anathema to him.
The demon lord Graz'zt appears as a darkly handsome
figure nearly nine feet tall. Those who refer to the YEENOGHU
Dark Prince as the most humanoid of the demon Known as the Gnoll Lord and the Beast of Butchery,
lords vastly underestimate the capacity for evil in his the demon lord Yeenoghu hungers for slaughter
scheming heart. and senseless destruction. Gnolls are his mortal
Graz'zt is a striking physical specimen, whose instruments, and he drives them to ever-greater
demonic nature shows in his ebon skin, pointed ears, atrocities in his name. Delighting in sorrow and
yellow fangs, crown of horns, and six-fingered hands. hopelessness, the Gnoll Lord yearns to turn the world
He delights in finery, pageantry, and sating his decadent into a wasteland in which the last surviving gnolls tear
desires with subjects and consorts alike, among whom each other apart for the right to feast upon the dead.
incubi and succubi are often his favorites. Yeenoghu appears as a huge, scarred gnoll with a
spiky crest of black spines, and eyes that burn with
jUIBLEX emerald flame. His armor is a patchwork of shields and
The demon lord of slimes and oozes, Juiblex is a stew breastplates claimed from fallen foes, and decorated by
of noxious fluids that lurks in the abyssal depths. The those foes' flayed skins. Yeenoghu can summon a triple
wretched Faceless Lord cares nothing for cultists flail he calls the Butcher, which he wields to deadly
or mortal servants, and its sole desire is to turn all effect or wills to fly independently into battle as he tears
creatures into formless copies of its horrid self. foes apart with teeth and claws.
In·its resting state, Juiblex spreads out in a noxious
mass, bubbling and filling the air with a profound OTHER DEMON LORDS
stench. On the rare occasions when creatures confront No one knows the full number of demon lords that
the 'd.emon lord, Juiblex draws itself up into a shuddering rage in the Abyss. Given the infinite depths of that
cone of slime striated with veins of black and green. plane, powerful demons constantly rise to become
Baleful red eyes swim within its gelatinous body, while demon lords, then fall almost as quickly. Among the
dripping pseudopods of ooze lash out hungrily at any demon lords whose power has endured long enough
creature they can reach. for demonologists to name them are Fraz-Urb'luu, the
Prince of Deception; Kostchtchie, the Prince of Wrath;
LOLTH Pazuzu, Prince of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms; and
The Demon Queen of Spiders is the evil matron of the Zuggtmoy, Lady of Fungi.
drow. Her every thought is touched by malice, and the
<depth of her viciousness can surprise even her most DEMON TYPES
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 drow followers
types. Most demons fit into one of six major types, with
bring those worlds under her control.
the weakest categorized as Type 1 and the strongest
Lolth appears as a lithe, imperious drow matriarch
as Type 6. Demons outside the six main types are
when she manifests to her followers in the mortal
categorized as minor demons and demon lords.
realm, which she does with unusual frequency. When
battle breaks out- or if she has a reason to remind her
DEMONS BY TYPE
followers to fear her- Lolth's lower body transforms into
that of a huge demonic spider, whose spike-tipped legs Type Examples
and mandibles tear foes apart. 1 barlgura, shadow demon, vrock
2 chasme, hezrou
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3 glabrezu, yochlol
Known as the Demon Prince of Undeath and the Blood
4 nalfeshnee
Lord, the demon lord Orcus is worshiped by the undead
5 marilith
and by living creatures that channel the power of
6 balor, goristro
undeath. A brooding and nihilistic entity, Orcus yearns
to make the multi verse a place of death and darkness,
forever unchanging except by his will.
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