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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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