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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Tasha went on to create various spells, including Tasha’s Hideous Laughter, and her magic-fueled ambitions brought her into contact with demons and demon lords, which she subjugated and used
sent a version of herself from the past to Alustriel’s side. The Tasha who appears in Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a powerful wizard, though she is not yet a witch queen or an archfey.Abyssal Visage (2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
minor demons akin to quasits. While the larger demons embody evil qualities such as blood lust and torment, these lesser demons reflect the whimsical and chaotic side of Rakdos and his cult. Their
Demons Just as angels are incarnations of the ideals of justice, demons embody depraved impulses: selfishness, cruelty, hatred, greed, and lust for power. Demons are strongly associated with the Cult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Demonic Point of View Why do we descend upon the domain of our hated enemies? Because that’s where the fighting is!
— Zaadaaak, demon of the Abyss
Most other creatures believe demons to be
have made quick work of the hordes that erupt from the Abyss. In fact, even though demons are quintessentially chaotic, their evilness combines with that outlook to produce a fiendish, subtle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
General Features The features of Pandesmos Outlook are described in the following sections. Demons The chaos and violence brewing in the area attracts demons. Within 10 feet of the bottom of the
cliff’s lowest shelf are two degloths and two vlazoks (see appendix A for stat blocks for both). The exact placement of the demons is at your discretion. If they notice the characters, the demons attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
undulate like a writhing snake. Each time one side gains an advantage, invariably its lines weaken somewhere else. Demons enter the Nine Hells by following the River Styx from the Abyss into Avernus
positions with each passing day. About once every thousand years, the demons close in on the lower reaches of the Styx and portals leading deeper into the Hells. Invariably, the legions of the Nine Hells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a servant of House Auvryndar. All three demons are outlined with faerie fire spells cast on them by drow of the opposing side. Characters who side with one drow house become the focus of the opposing
12. Drow Battle Characters who approach this 50-foot-high cavern for the first time hear the sounds of battle ahead. Demons. In the narrower section between the north and south halves of the cavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, or diplomacy, demons infect a world by traveling there and beginning to transform their environment to resemble the malleable, chaotic substance of their home plane. If demons dwell in a place for a
more of the essence of the Abyss pushes its way through. In time, a plane or a world could become a colony of the Abyss, overrun with demons and devoid of all other forms of life. Initial Infection A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
darkness.
The square tower is twenty feet on a side and thirty feet high, with arrow slits in each wall. A battlement crowns its top, with a stone gargoyle peering over each side. Set into the middle of
demons slipped in as well. The demons killed the owner and left her remains on the first floor. The tower can’t be tipped over or otherwise moved from its position, and the arrow slits on each level are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hells and the Abyss, though fighting also takes place on the Material Plane, on the planes between those realms on the Great Wheel, and anywhere else demons and devils congregate. Although the intensity
of the conflict waxes and wanes, and the front lines of the war can shift drastically, a moment never goes by when demons and devils aren’t battling each other somewhere in the multiverse. Many demons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
fiends including incubi, succubi, and night hags work for whichever side offers the best compensation. Demons use them as insurrectionists in the Nine Hells, inciting rebellion and defiance. The
other realm where the forces clash. The leaders of each side recognize that the introduction of some unexpected factor could permanently affect the balance of power. Accordingly, demons and devils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
balance of obscure planar forces. 2 Ensure neither side gains the upper hand in a conflict between good and evil. 3 Excavate a portal to another plane. 4 Find a lost contingent of modrons. 5 Reactivate
a titanic but lost modron device. 6 Remove a forest, mountain, or city before the arrival of a modron procession. 7 Seal off a planar rift or wild magic zone. 8 Wage war with demons, slaadi, or chaotic Fey.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Fiend Folio published in 1981. Many of these monsters, old and new alike, are ideal for use with the earlier chapters of this book. For instance, the demons and devils presented here — lesser varieties as
danger — to adventures that take heroes into the Underdark or the Shadowfell. Or, if you’re interested in exploring either side of the conflict between the gith that’s portrayed in chapter 4, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Balance The demons and the devils both foresee their own versions of the future of the multiverse — a cosmos in which one side or the other triumphs in the Blood War and rules for the rest of
the Material Plane from the devils’ taint, but doesn’t appreciate that it also would bring a grievous setback to the forces that had been keeping the demons from overrunning Avernus. Those who vow to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
save it. If convinced that the characters are on its side, a character who makes a successful DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check convinces Alazub to share the following information: Demons under the
Scab Locations The following encounters are keyed to map 4.1. Because the scab wraps around the Bleeding Citadel, a creature can move off the left-hand side of the map onto the right-hand side of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
the entire area reveals only that the north side of the hill has a crumbling cliff of sand and gravel about 20 feet high in the middle of the whole. (This cliff face is represented by the northern
the passage that lies beyond, but a crawl space can be opened in 10 minutes. Probing of the gravel and sand face can begin wherever the characters choose—east side, west side, middle, several locations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and Haruman, refused to leave Zariel’s side. All three were captured and sent to Nessus, the lowest of the Nine Hells. There, Zariel was brought before Asmodeus, who welcomed her with open arms. The
Hells, Zariel could bring her rage to bear against the demons and continue to fight in the Blood War, with legions of devils under her command. Zariel accepted Asmodeus’s terms, completing her fall from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
.
Child of a Savage Land. You were born into a lawless realm where violence was the only constant. How have you adapted to life on the other side of the Labyrinth? Are you superstitious, refusing to adapt
Settlements are few and far between in the Demon Wastes. The Carrion Tribes are semi-nomadic, assembling camps in the crumbling ruins of long-forgotten cities built by demons in the first days of the world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, Khyber spawns demons and monsters to plague the children of Eberron. This might be myth and metaphor, but it’s also a description of fact: there are worlds within the world, realms inhabited by
array of demiplanes, each stranger than the last. When descending into a chasm, you could find a labyrinth inhabited by demons or discover a realm consisting of the guts of a colossal living creature
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
regularly confers with a plane-hopping archmage regarding the dragon’s ongoing dreams of other worlds and other lives.
4
A drow priestess of Lolth and several yochlol demons have been ordered
manage to access the other side of the cave’s crystal walls discover a network of dark, cobweb-choked tunnels extending deep into the earth, set with natural steps and shelves throughout. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Iceberg (in this chapter). They manipulate the winds to bring the iceberg to the tower’s location, but as a side effect, the perpetual storm grows more intense and ravages the surrounding countryside
when the artifact is brought into the tower, it temporarily corrupts the Labyrinth Funnel. Demons from the Fiendish Incursion Encounters table (see chapter 3) appear in waves to thwart attempts to cleanse the artifact.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
side view of these areas. Diagram 5.2: Revolving Room Trap 38A. Control Room This room is dark and dusty. A hulking figure wearing a bucket helm stands to the west, with one hand on an iron lever set
farther down into a well-lit room shaped like a cylinder tipped on its side.
The helmed figure is a tomb guardian: a flesh golem clad in plate armor (AC 17). Its task is to pull the lever when it sees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
boil. Each side blames the other for recent happenings in the City of Blades and believes it can use the situation to its advantage. Keepers turn up dead, murdered by mysterious assailants, while
powerful patron. The duergar and derro hatch a scheme to sacrifice Themberchaud as an offering to Demogorgon, drawing the demon prince to their city and pledging themselves to the Prince of Demons. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
overgrown “valleys” between the debris of the crumbled buildings. The largest of these valleys all lead to the central clearing where a great pyramid stands. In the south side of that clearing is a
an elven cult, possibly connected to the line of Vol. Alternatively, Tamoachan could be a truly primeval location in Q’barra, and the Olman “gods” actually fiends from the Age of Demons.
Forgotten
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
campaign. For example, a character who draws the Knight card might meet a warrior along the side of the road, in a tavern, or even trapped in a dangerous dungeon; by freeing the warrior, the character earns
the demons have attacked them anyway? The Book of Many Things doesn’t answer this question; the answer is up to you and your players. When you take a narrative approach to the Deck of Many Things
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Abyssal Prisons Originally an area containing summoning traps, this sector has been changed into a place for confining demons. Thayans break the will of imprisoned fiends and bind them into service
dimensional barriers that prevent fiends from teleporting or summoning other demons within the sector. Fiendish Arena In this zone, a vampire named Issem culls the weakest demons using arena combat. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Summerlast. Their armor is covered in the ichor of Yeenoghu’s demons. The ichor has driven the guards mad, making them hunger for humanoid flesh. When they notice the characters, the guards attack. If a
battling demons in the fields when they suddenly felt an overwhelming desire to consume humanoid flesh. These guards are eager to return to the battle in the fields, disappearing as they pass through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the dead rise to stand at his side.
This area of the chapel was used for funeral services for esteemed political and military leaders of Elturel. If a creature kneels before the damaged window and
the demons. If Gideon is present and the characters refrain from attacking him after the first round or two, they have advantage on checks to parley with him after the battle. Otherwise, they have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Duke Ravengard. If you haven’t done so already, unfold the poster map with the Elturel side facing up so players can get a sense of the city’s layout and where they must go to reach the High Hall. Map
2.1 is a shrunk-down version of this side of the poster map. Whenever the party moves from one named location to another, roll a d20. A roll of 11 or higher indicates an encounter while the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the story of Tira Miron. Centuries ago, one of the ancient and powerful demons chained within the world broke free from its bonds, unleashing terrible suffering on the people of Thrane. The nation
compassion that is the cornerstone of the faith. As Keeper of the Flame, she wields tremendous divine power; she has summoned angels to her side and resurrected Cardinal Halidor after his assassination.
But
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Feygrove The southeastern side of the hill once held flourishing gardens: an idyllic refuge in an otherwise martial environment. When the abbey was destroyed, three dryads settled in the abandoned
garb of a bestial cult summon demons and slay other minotaur priests in a horrific bloodbath. 3 Monks and knights travel to the hill and construct the abbey at its summit. 4 Knights defeat a hobgoblin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
fly across the Tartyx without Erebos’s permission find themselves attacked by flocks of vicious monsters. The demons of the Underworld make this flight with better success than most, though. By
as demons, harpies, and other deadly foes pursue them. Lathos Hidden in the bowels of Erebos’s palace is the portal Lathos, which leads to the mortal world. Moreover, tales say that Lathos can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, so she is eager to talk. She identifies both sides in the fight but insists she’s not loyal to either side. Vaeve shares the following key points in her conversation with the characters: Caroline
recently freed from imprisonment, but he hasn’t left the citadel yet—Vaeve doesn’t know why. Miska’s forces are varied spyder-fiends as well as flying demons that drip deadly blood. Vampire’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, while elephantine demons on the other side trumpet at them through barbed trunks to break their concentration.
A boxy, winged modron in a padded helmet with a face cage hovers in front of your castle
text: A gigantic flat diamond, its three points marked with squat pedestals, shimmers within a ringed field. Celestials in radiant uniforms practice at swatting glowing orbs on one side of the field
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Harkina has heard from other survivors that this side of Elturel (formerly the eastern part of the city) is the worse off. The High Hall — the great castle that is home to Elturel’s leaders — is where she
the city appeared in the sky. The demons are trying to climb the binding posts or fly to the city, but the devils constantly push them back. The devils are also trying to figure out how to best use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
demons with crablike bodies and wolflike heads flank the door.
Two phisarazu spyder-fiends (see appendix A) flank the open door that leads to area Y3. The phisarazus don’t leave this chamber, but they
this chamber has a three-dimensional map of the cliff that shows the tower above and the citadel below. Glowing dots are scattered across the map. Three monstrous spider demons, two human-sized and