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A greater demon commands shrieking mobs of lesser demons because it can destroy any lesser demon that dares to refuse its commands. A demon's status grows with the blood it spills; the more enemies that fall before it, the greater it becomes.
Energy Drain (Su): Any living creature hit by a blood fiend's claw attack must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw (DC 21) or gain one negative level. For each negative level bestowed, the blood fiend heals 5 points of damage.
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Soul larvae were 5‒6 ft (1.5‒1.8 m) long, yellow, worm-like monsters whose squirming bodies appeared both sickly and fat. They oozed an odorous, viscous slime from their bodies that coated the ground they wriggled across like a slug's trail, producing a noise like a vomiting dog as they moved. The actual body of a soul larva was fluid, almost liqui...
Soul larvae were wretched, miserable creatures stripped of the intelligence and personality they had in life apart from faint, leftover recollections. Despite their greatly reduced mental faculties they could still understand the languages they knew in life, and scholars that studied them believed them to possess their own crude and indecipherable ...
Although pitifully weak, the fangs of soul larvae were still dangerous and caused those bitten by them to bleed profusely. They also harbored a deadly, degenerative disease that could result in painful skin rotting for those bitten. Three weeks into the illness, a victim would need to lie completely still to avoid further health risks but death wou...
Only when compelled to by a more powerful entity would the larva of the Gray Wastes swarm their assigned foes.Otherwise, they generally left others alone even when a mortal was in their midst, although it was possible to drown in a sea of the wriggling worms when they were packed closely enough together, an experience that often proved extremely tr...
Soul larvae lacked any kind of society or culture of their own and to most were mere horror stories used to scare children straight, but were immeasurably important to those of the Lower planes. Larvae were the epitome of untapped, evil potential, able to serve a myriad of purposes throughout the evil-aligned planes. In terms of economy, soul larva...
Larva byproducts could be found in a wide range of lower planar merchandise like the distilled larva liquor known as "Yellow Wurm Stout" or a female-marketed perfumecalled "Evil", many of which could be found in the Emporium.
Soul larvae were petitioners that could be described as mortal souls trapped within the bodies of maggots rather than being maggots themselves, and without them the lower planes would be without several distinct fiends. The exact process of promotion was varied depending on the fiends in question and for several types, unknown. Quasits and imps wer...
Fiends had learned ages ago how to twist larva into lemures, manes and other Lower planar creatures and that corrupting mortals gained them an easy supply of new followers.However, soul larvae were known to have existed even before the first mortals appeared, having been present in Baator before it was taken over by the baatezu. A night hag brandin...
Ambrosial was the herald of the hag goddess Cegilune, a colossal larva with the strength of a purple wormbred to exact divine retribution on its deity's behalf. Bloated and thrashing, the massive,...Alvarez, The Purging Duke, was a soul larva that proved his hatred so cunningly that the nalfeshnee that judged him turned him into a chasmedemon.Orcus was believed to have started his demonic existence as a larva before slowly working his way to demon lordstatus.Vanthus was a mortal servant of Demogorgonturned into a soul larva upon death.The swordsman releases a wild storm of slashes in multiple directions, against any number of creatures within 20 feet causing 1D12 radiant damage to each and creating numerous crescent moon blades, if using Blood Demon Art. Thirteenth Form: New Moon - Nightmare Palace . Requires Demon Slayer Level 14
Shadow Demon. [ Démon des ombres ] Medium fiend (Demon), chaotic evil. Armor Class 13. Hit Points 66 (12d8 + 12) Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. STR. 1 (-5) DEX.
As an action, the shadow demon can attempt to possess a humanoid within 100 feet of it that it can see. The target must make a Charisma saving throw against the shadow demon’s spell save DC (12). On a failure, the shadow demon’s body disappears, and the target’s body becomes its new host.
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If a creature goes mad in Baphomet's lair or within line of sight of the demon lord, roll on the Madness of Baphomet table to determine the nature of the madness, which is a character flaw that lasts until cured. See the Dungeon Master's Guide for more on madness.
