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into the Lord of Savagery's gullet.
8 hours, anything devoured by it is transported directly
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its
carnage and mortal flesh. After a maw demon rests for
damage with weapon attacks that use Strength for l minute.
Maw demons share Yeenoghu's ceaseless hunger for
tution saving throw. On a failed save, the target deals only half
MAW DEMON
see within 20 feet of it. The target must make a DC l 3 Consti·
Weakening Gaze. The babau targets one creature that it can
bau's baleful glare can weaken a creature.
protruding from the back of its elongated skull. A ba-
make a melee attack.
or 8 (ld8 + 4) piercing damage when used with two hands to
skin pulled tight over its gaunt frame, and a curved horn
range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (ld6 + 4) piercing damage,
the bloodthirstiness of a demon. It has leathery black
Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or
A babau demon possesses the cunning of a devil and
the preeminent demon lords of the Abyss.
Hit: 8 (ld8 + 4) slashing damage.
helped rout Glasya and secured Graz'zt's place as one of
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
his blood struck the ground. Their sudden appearance
use Weakening Gaze before or after making these attacks.
Graz'zt with her sword, and the first babaus arose where
Multiattack. The babau makes two melee attacks. It can also
the demon lord Graz'zt. It is said that Glasya wounded
ACTIONS
the archdevil Glasya against the screaming hordes of
Lower Planes. One of these battles pitted the legions of
At will: darkness, dispel magic.fear, heat metal, levitate
Demons and devils clash endlessly for control of the
lowing spells, requiring no material components:
BABAU
Wisdom (spell save DC 11). The babau can innately cast the fol-
Innate Spe/lcasting. The babau's innate spellcasting ability is
Three such demons are described here.
spreading chaos and terror throughout the multiverse.
Demon lords create lesser demons for the purpose of
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)
Languages Abyssal
DEMONS
Senses darkvision l 20 ft., passive Perception l 5
Condition Immunities poisoned
Damage Immunities poison
piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Resistances cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning,
Skills Perception +5, Stealth +5
16 (+3)
16 (+3)
19 (+4)
11 (+O)
12(+1)
13 (+l)
STR
WIS
INT
CON
CHA
DEX
Speed 40 ft.
Hit Points 82 (lld8 + 33)
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Medium fiend (demon), chaotic evil
BABAU
a war band.
with a shoosuva is second only to a flind in status within
fights alongside its master. A gnoll that has been gifted
Each shoosuva is bonded to a particular gnoll and
poison becomes easy pickings for any gnolls nearby.
bring down another one. A creature immobilized by the
while lashing out with the poisonous stinger on its tail to
the demon wraps its slavering jaws around one victim
cloud of smoke as it arrives from the Abyss. In battle,
achieves a great victory, emerging from a billowing, fetid
ghu). A shoosuva manifests shortly after a war band
especially powerful gnoll (typically as a fang of Yeeno-
A shoosuva is a hyena-demon gifted by Yeenoghu to an
SHOOSUVA
attack whatever creatures the gnolls fall upon.
them, but these demons accompany the war band and
manoids made to Yeenoghu. The gnolls don't command
summoned as part of ritual offerings of freshly slain hu-
Maw demons appear among gnoll war bands, usually