Demonic Bestiary 5E (2014)

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48 Folklore-Inspired Fiends for High-Level Campaigns

Every Game Master knows the struggle: once players reach level 12 and beyond, standard monsters become mere bags of hit points. Epic encounters devolve into a predictable grind, and the genuine fear of the unknown vanishes

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It’s time to bring the terror back to the table

Welcome to the Demonic Bestiary 5E. Designed specifically for mature (16+) high-level campaigns (Levels 12-20), this supplement introduces 48 utterly unique, folklore-accurate infernal entities. These aren't just mindless brutes; they are cosmic architects, psychological manipulators, and primordial elemental lords who will challenge your players' tactics, morality, and sanity.

Unleash the True Power of the Pit

Drawing deep inspiration from Theresa Bane's Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures, each entity in this book is steeped in real-world mythology—from Assyrian witch-demons to Aztec star-horrors. We’ve translated ancient legends into devastating 5E mechanics.

What’s Inside?

- 48 Epic-Tier Monsters, ranging from CR 6 possession-spirits to CR 25 apocalyptic Arch-Lords.
- The "Dual-Nature" System: Transform combat into storytelling. Separate the physical, flesh-and-blood demon from its summonable spirit. Players can perform occult rituals to call upon a demon for forbidden knowledge or lost artifacts—but if the ritual fails, the beast materializes for a deadly fight.
- Psychological & Reality-Warping Tactics: Challenge players with mechanics that go beyond AC and HP. Face Dantalian, the Keeper of the Library, who steals memories; or Lucifuge, the Prime Minister of Hell, whose "Wealth Unmade" ability instantly vaporizes the party's hoarded gold and gems.
- Harvestable Trophies & Dark Pacts: Defeating these fiends yields legendary loot. Harvest Abezethibou’s barbed red feather to craft healing-blocking staves, or steal the Ring of Agaliarept to see the invisible.
- Every demon comes with rich lore, behavioral traits, and dedicated GM tips. Drop them into your current game as standalone boss fights, mysterious quest-givers, or the ultimate Big Bads of a sweeping planar campaign.

Whether you need a mastermind plotting the downfall of a kingdom or a sudden, devastating ambush in the depths of the Abyss, the Demonic Bestiary 5E is your ultimate toolkit for Tier 3 and Tier 4 supremacy.

Abezethibou: A one-winged demon of black magic who wields water and counter-spells.
Agaliarept: The head of Hell’s secret police ceaselessly reads minds and erases abilities.
Agares: An aged duke who causes earthquakes, bestows authority.
Amducias: A maestro whose thunderous cacophony inflicts devastation and envelops the field in Silence.
Astaroth: The indolent grand duke on a dragon whose putrid breath poisons while he divulges past, present, and future.
Astarte: A lioness-headed queen of love and the dead who rides a four-horse chariot.
Baal-Zephon: The impenetrable captain of Hell’s guard who thwarts every stealth attempt.
Bael: A three-headed spider-king of invisibility who grants stealth and strikes while blinking in and out.
Beelzebub: The lord of flies whose decaying aura sends swarms to blind.
Belial: A splendid yet deceitful fiery charioteer who fosters arrogance and treachery.
Belphegor: A demon of discoveries and sloth who lures victims with ingenious inventions.
Berith: Alchemist who lies unless questioned directly and can transmute metals or melt armor.
Bifrons: Demon who moves corpses and teaches occult sciences.
Buer: A wise mentor who grants swift mobility, healing, philosophy, and knowledge of herbs.
Byleth: A fallen angel who, to the accompaniment of a feline orchestra, manipulates human passions.
Caym: A blackbird that becomes a swordsman who converses with all animals and can turn nature against foes.
Cherufe: A magma-dwelling lava giant who devours virgins and flings their flaming heads from volcanoes.
Choronzon: The desert-summoned entity 333.
Dantalian: A multifaced man holding a book who reads minds and switches persona and spell set each round.
Decarabia: A Marquis of Hell, wields absolute control over birds, gemstones, and plants.
Dusiriel: A courteous serpent with a maiden’s face.
Dybbuk: A formless goatlike spirit that possesses bodies through nostrils or food.
Furfur: A Grand Count of the Underworld who commands storms absolutely.
Glasya-Labolas: A demonic count capable of instantly imparting all knowledge—especially the art of murder.
Ifrit: A colossal winged fire djinn who embodies the destructive might of elemental flame.
Ipes: Prince who holds all-encompassing knowledge of past and future, bestowing prophetic insight upon the chosen.
Labartu: An Assyrian witch-demon on a donkey who steals children, and mutates victims with her touch.
Leonard: The black goat master of the sabbat who leads witches and grants allies magic resistance.
Lucifuge Rofocale: Prime minister of Hell who uses contracts to strip wealth or curse with poverty.
Malphas: A raven demon-architect who builds fortresses.
Marchosias: Demon who excels in ranged combat and hopes for redemption.
Melchom: Satan’s treasurer who manifests as a wealthy figure and spreads consuming greed.
Moloch: A red-hot bull-headed idol that incinerates child sacrifices inside its metal body.
Nebiros: A wrathful three-headed rooster who necromances, corrupts animals.
Obyzouth: Demoness who relentlessly stalking pregnant women and newborns.
Orobas: A rearing horse who answers truth, grants titles, and protects summoners from other spirits.
Ose: A spirit who serves as an enlightened tutor of the liberal arts.
Paimon: An infernal monarch who appears as a crown-topped androgynous figure astride a camel amid a deafening trumpet fanfare.
Pazuzu: A scaly, four-winged wind lord with dog head and scorpion tail.
Praestigiatores: Demons whose imitating divine miracles and weaving subtle illusions to spiritually blind and manipulate humankind.
Sabnack: A lion-headed armored rider on a pale horse who builds fortifications and inflicts incurable wounds.
Samael: A fallen archangel who serves as the heavenly accuser and angel of death.
Scox: A demon that appears as a stork, depriving people of their senses and absconding with their riches.
Stolas: A raven or crowned owl prince who teaches astronomy, prophetic botany, and gemstone lore.
Tzitzimitl: Skeletal sky demons in skull-patterned skirts who descend during solar eclipses to devour humanity.
Ukobach: A lesser demon who serves as Hell’s “infernal engineer” and stoker, keeping the cauldrons blazing.
Xaphan: The arsonist fallen angel who fans infernal flames with bellows and can ignite opponents’ gear.
Zagan: A bull with griffin wings who forges lies, transmutes blood to oil, metals to coins, water to wine, and endows fools with intelligence.