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DEMONIC  C/IM810NS

            OTHER D EMONS                                       SIGNATURE  S PELLS
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            Demons of  sufficient cunning and power can bestow   Cambions have the Innate Spellcasting trait. When
            boons, using the boons' recipients as pawns. A de-  customizing a demonic cambion, you can replace spells
            mon can grant a special trait based on its type, as   in that trait with ones of the same level from the list of
            shown below.                                        signature spells in the boon entry of  the demonic parent.
                                                                The cambion can use these spells once per day each.
            BALOR
            Fiery Soul. This creature has resistance to fire damage. When   SPECIAL TRAITS
            it dies, it explodes; each creature within 10 feet of  it takes fire
                                                                A cambion descended from a demon can have the
            damage equal to its number of Hit Dice.
                                                                special traits conferred to that demon's cultists, as de-
                                                                scribed in the demon's boon section.
            GORISTRO
                                                                  Few demons consort with mortals, and those with the
            Labyrinthine Recall. This creature can perfectly recall any path
                                                                charm or desire to usually grant their cambion children
            it has traveled.
                                                                the Fiendish Charm ability. Cultists of Baphomet and
                                                                Orcus can also use foul rituals to infuse their master's
            MARILITH                                            strength into a young or unborn child, yielding a cult
            Serpentine Reaction. This creature can take an extra reaction   champion who can wield special abilities; a cambion
            each round, but this reaction can be used only to make an op-  linked to Orcus replaces Fiendish Charm with Spawn of
            portunity attack.                                   the Grave, and one linked to Baphomet replaces it with
                                                                Horned One's Call.
            NALFESHNEE                                          Horned One's Call. When the cambion targets only one crea·
            Guarded Mind. This creature is  immune to the frightened   tu  re with the attacks of its Multiattack, it can choose one ally
            condition.                                          it can see within 30 feet. That ally can use its reaction to make
                                                                one melee attack against a target of its choice.
            D EMONIC  CAMBIONS                                  Spawn of  the Grave. At the end of  each of  the cambion's turns,
                                                                each undead of its choice that it can see within 30 feet gains 10
            Cambions spawned by demon lords sometimes mani-
                                                                temporary hit points, provided the cambion isn't incapacitated.
            fest different abilities from a typical cambion. Graz'zt is
                                                                  In addition, this cambion can use its Innate Spellcasting abil-
            notable among demon lords for the many cambions he
                                                                ity to cast animate dead three times per day.
            has spawned across the multiverse. Most famous among
            them is Iuz, who combined his father's abyssal heritage
            and his mother's peerless arcane tutelage to become
            a demigod.
            CHAPTER  l  I THE BLOOD WAR.
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