Demon, BrimorakThis muscular, red-eyed, goat-headed demon wields a burning
sword. Fire licks up from its flaming hooves.Brimorak CR 5Source Bestiary 6 pg. 83, Book of the Damned - Volume 2: Lords of Chaos pg. 56
XP 1,600
CE Small outsider (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)
Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +18
Aura smoke breath (5 ft., DC 17)DefenseAC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 15 (+3 Dex, +4 natural, +1 size)
hp 57 (6d10+24)
Fort +9, Ref +8, Will +3
Defensive Abilities boiling blood; DR 5/cold
iron or good; Immune electricity, fire; Resist acid 10, cold 10; SR 16
Weaknesses vulnerable to coldOffenseSpeed 30 ft.
Melee longsword +11/+6 (1d6+3/19–20 plus 1d6 fire),
hoof +5 (1d3+1 plus 1d6 fire)
Special Attacks burning hooves, breath weapon (20-ft. line
of boiling blood, 5d6 fire damage, Ref DC 17 half, once every
1d4 rounds)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th; concentration +8)
3/day—dispel magic, heat metal (DC 14), produce flame
1/day—air walk, fireball (DC 15), greater teleport (self plus 50 lbs. of objects only), summon (level 3, 1 brimorak 50%)StatisticsStr 17, Dex 16, Con 19, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha 15
Base Atk +6; CMB +8; CMD 21
Feats Combat Casting, Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (longsword)
Skills Acrobatics +12, Bluff +11, Knowledge (engineering,
planes) +10, Perception +18, Sense Motive +10, Stealth +16;
Racial Modifiers +8 Perception
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Ignan; telepathy 100 ft.
SQ flaming weaponEcologyEnvironment any (Abyss)
Organization solitary, band (2–6), or platoon (7–16)
Treasure standard (longsword, other treasure)Special AbilitiesBoiling Blood (Su) Any creature that damages a brimorak with a non-reach slashing or piercing melee weapon is sprayed with its blood, taking 1d4 points of fire damage on each successful hit with such a weapon.
Burning Hooves (Su) A brimorak’s burning hooves leave scorched prints. Survival checks to track a brimorak are attempted with a +8 circumstance bonus. Against a prone foe, a brimorak can make two hoof attacks rather than just one.
Flaming Weapon (Su) As a free action, a brimorak can cause a single wielded melee weapon to deal 1d6 additional points of fire damage on a successful hit. This fire damage stacks with any fire damage that the weapon might also deal. The weapon loses this ability if it leaves the demon’s grasp.
Smoke Breath (Su) A brimorak’s breath surrounds it to a radius of 5 feet. A creature who begins its turn in this area must make a successful DC 17 Fortitude save or become sickened for 1 round. A creature gains immunity to a particular brimorak’s breath for 24 hours with a successful save. This is a poison effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.DescriptionBrimoraks are demons born from the souls of arsonists, and in their fiendish lives, they love nothing more than setting fires. A brimorak stands 3 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds.Creatures in "Demon" CategorySource Pathfinder RPG Bestiary pg. 57
Demons exist for one reason—to destroy. Where their more lawful counterparts, the devils of Hell, seek to twist mortal minds and values to remake and reshape them into reflections of their own evil, demons seek only to maim, ruin, and feed. They recruit mortal life only if such cohorts speed along the eventual destruction of hope and goodness. Death is, in some ways, their enemy—for a mortal who dies can often escape a demon's depredations and flee to his just reward in the afterlife. It is the prolonging of mortal pain and suffering that fuels a demon's lusts and desires, for it is partially from mortal sin and cruelty that these monstrous fiends were born.
Demons are the most prolific and among the most destructive of the fiendish races, yet despite what some lore might preach, they were not the first forms of life to rise in the stinking pits of ruin and cruelty known across the multiverse as the Abyss. Before the first fledgling deity gazed upon reality, before mortal life drew its breath, before even the Material Plane itself had fully formed, the Abyss was infested with life.
Known to many scholars as “proto-demons,” these wretched and deadly beings were the qlippoth. Today, because of the influence of sinful mortal souls upon the Abyss, mixed with unholy tamperings at the hands of the daemonic keepers of Abaddon and the cruel whims of fate and evolution, the rule of the qlippoth has receded. The proto-demons dwell now in the noxious and forgotten corners of the Abyss, and the far more fecund and prolific demons rule now in their stead. With each evil mortal soul that finds its way into the Abyss, the ranks of the demonic hordes grows—a single soul can fuel the manifestation of dozens or even hundreds of demons, with the exact nature of the sins carried by the soul guiding the shapes and roles of the newly formed fiends.
The Abyss is a vast (some say infinite) realm, far larger than any other plane save possibly the primal chaos of the Maelstrom itself. As befits such a vast and varied realm, the demonic host is likewise diverse. Some carry in their frames humanoid shapes, while others are twisted beasts. Some flop on land while others flap in air or sea. Some are schemers and manipulators of emotion and politics, others are destructive engines of ruin. Yet all demons work to the same goal—pain and suffering for mortal life in all its forms.
Yet despite this, mortals have sought demonic aid since the start. Be it an instinctual draw to self-destruction or a misguided lust for power, conjurers to this day continue to draw forth demons with forbidden magic. Some conjure demons for lore, while others call upon them to serve as assassins or guards. Demons view such summoners with a mix of hatred and thanks, for most demons lack the ability to come to the Material Plane to wreak havoc on their own. They depend on the mad to call them up from the Abyss, and while they gnash their fangs and rail against the commands and strictures enforced, most demons find ways to twist their summoners' demands so that even the most tightly controlled demonic slave leaves a trace of ruin and despair in its wake. More often than not, a foolish spellcaster makes a fatal mistake in the conjuring and pays for it with blood, unwittingly releasing a terrible blight upon the world as his conjuration breaks free of his control.
The truly mad call upon demons to offer themselves, both body and soul, in the misguided belief that alliance with the demonic can buy salvation and protection when the demonic apocalypse finally comes to call. Tales of desperate kings who sought to engage demons to serve as generals for their armies or of lunatics who seek demonic sires to gift them with horrific children are common enough, yet worst are those mortals who worship the most powerful demons as gods, and who pledge their lives in support of that which would bring destruction to all. Demon SubtypeDemons are chaotic evil outsiders that call the Abyss their home. Demons possess a particular suite of traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry) as summarized here.- Immunity to electricity and poison.
- Resistance to acid 10, cold 10, and fire 10.
- Summon (Sp) Demons share the ability to summon others of their kind, typically another of their type or a small number of less powerful demons.
- Telepathy.
- Except where otherwise noted, demons speak Abyssal, Celestial, and Draconic.
- A demon's natural weapons, as well as any weapon it wields, is treated as chaotic and evil for the purpose of resolving damage reduction
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