Demon, VavakiaThis reptilian demon has a quadrupedal dinosaur’s lower body,
a vaguely humanoid upper torso, and a draconic saurian head.Vavakia CR 18Source Bestiary 6 pg. 88, Book of the Damned - Volume 2: Lords of Chaos pg. 60
XP 153,600
CE Huge outsider (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., true seeing; Perception +34
Aura frightful presence (60 ft., DC 25), unholy auraDefenseAC 35, touch 14, flat-footed 33 (+8 armor, +4 deflection, +2 Dex,
+13 natural, –2 size)
hp 297 (18d10+198)
Fort +26, Ref +12, Will +22
DR 15/cold iron and good; Immune electricity, fire, poison; Resist acid 10, cold 10; SR 29OffenseSpeed 45 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Melee +1 unholy ranseur +28/+23/+18/+13 (3d6+17/×3) or
bite +27 (3d6+11 plus smoking wound), 2 claws +27
(1d8+11), tail slap +22 (2d8+5 plus stun)
Space 15 ft., Reach 15 ft. (30 ft. with ranseur)
Special Attacks breath weapon, trample (4d8+16, DC 30)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 18th; concentration +24)
Constant—true seeing, unholy aura (DC 24)
At will—enervation, greater teleport (self plus worn armor plus 50 additional lbs. of objects only), telekinesis (DC 21)
3/day—blasphemy (DC 23), quickened enervation, power word stun (DC 24)
1/day—earthquake, summon (level 6, 1 marilith 40% or 1d3 nalfeshnees 60%)StatisticsStr 32, Dex 14, Con 33, Int 18, Wis 21, Cha 23
Base Atk +18; CMB +31 (+33 bull rush); CMD 47 (49 vs. bull rush)
Feats Awesome Blow, Greater Vital Strike, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Iron Will, Improved Vital Strike, Iron Will, Power
Attack, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (enervation), Vital Strike
Skills Bluff +27, Fly +16, Intimidate +27, Knowledge (arcana,
planes) +25, Perception +34, Sense Motive +26, Spellcraft +25,
Stealth +20, Swim +26; Racial Modifiers +8 Perception,
+8 Stealth
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic; telepathy 100 ft.EcologyEnvironment any (Abyss)
Organization solitary, pair, or warband (1 vavakia plus 2–4 hezrous
and 2–8 vrocks)
Treasure standard (+2 breastplate, +1 unholy ranseur, other
treasure)Special AbilitiesBreath Weapon (Su) Once every 1d4 rounds, a vavakia can breathe out a 60-foot cone of green fire that seems to writhe and coil with the tortured shapes of a thousand screaming ghosts. This green fire comprises countless souls the vavakia has consumed, and these vomited souls consume flesh as surely as they consume sanity. A creature struck by this breath weapon takes 20d6 points of damage (Reflex DC 30 half) as the raw profane power blackens and melts its flesh and skin. Evil creatures take half damage from the breath weapon, but good creatures that take any damage from a vavakia’s breath weapon are automatically staggered for 1 round by the excruciating sensation. In addition, any living creature that takes damage from a vavakia’s breath weapon must also succeed at a DC 30 Fortitude save or take 1d8 points of Wisdom drain as its sanity slips away into madness. Immediately after the vavakia expels this green soulfire, the wailing flames flow in reverse into the demon’s gullet through its open maw. This restores 1d8 hit points to the vavakia for each creature that was damaged by its breath weapon. The Wisdom drain element of this breath weapon is a mindaffecting effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Smoking Wound (Su) The wounds caused by a vavakia’s fangs result in terrible, eerie wounds that constantly weep wisps of green smoke rather than blood, a grim manifestation of the demon’s effect on a mortal soul. Each time a vavakia bites a creature, it inflicts 2 negative levels. The wounds continue to smoke as long as the victim suffers those negative levels, causing the victim to become sickened from the hideous sensation and rank smell of the vapors. An effect that removes this sickened condition without restoring the negative levels only temporarily causes the wounds to stop smoking—they begin smoking again in 1d6 rounds. Nonliving creatures bitten by a vavakia are immune to its energy-draining bite and do not exhibit smoking wounds. The Fortitude save to remove these negative levels is DC 25. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Stun (Ex) A creature struck by a vavakia’s tail slap must succeed at a DC 30 Fortitude save or be stunned for 1 round. On a critical hit, the stun effect lasts for 1d4 rounds on a failed save and 1 round on a successful save. The save DC is Constitution-based.DescriptionVavakias are immense demons of great power. Saurian in shape, appetite, and destructive power, they are most often encountered on the Material Plane, though not as demons conjured by spellcasters to serve, but rather as violent invaders come to the world through tears in reality or portals to the deeper rifts. On the Material Plane, a single vavakia is a formidable presence, for the strange demon is driven to feed on living souls and spread destruction— roles at which it excels.
A vavakia demon measures 30 feet in length and stands 15 feet tall, weighing in at 6,000 pounds. Vavakias form on the Abyss from particularly cruel mortal souls who, in life, practiced the vile act of extracting, enslaving, and even consuming other souls. When such a sinful creature arrives on the Abyss, it brings with it partially absorbed fragments of souls from its victims, which it incorporates during its horrific transformation into one of the Abyss’s most dangerous forms of demonic life.
The creation of the first vavakias in this manner came at the hands of the demon queen Lamashtu, who was unsatisfied with the raw physical might and monstrous shape of her earliest demonic minions. In those early days, before she had become a deity, Lamashtu was already quite interested in the method by which the Abyss transformed the souls of sinful mortals into demons. When she learned that this process had first been triggered by the daemons, she was at once intrigued and enraged—intrigued because she knew that anything the Horsemen of the Apocalypse could do, she could do, and enraged at the idea that she owed her very existence to the curiosity of a daemonic lord. Though Lamashtu herself rose from the Abyss spontaneously, shortly after the daemons first “taught” the Abyss how to process sinful souls, that difference meant little to the Mother of Monsters. Fueled by rage, she waged war against Abaddon for many years and captured two Horsemen of the Apocalypse— predecessors of those who hold those titles now. She murdered one of them and forced from the other the secret method of manipulating the Abyss and its souls before murdering him as well. Both murdered Horsemen were soon replaced on Abaddon, but by that point Lamashtu’s wrath had been spent and all that remained was her own curiosity.
Most of Lamashtu’s earliest attempts to create demonic life were hideous failures, but Lamashtu found joy and delight even in these failures. It wasn’t until the demon used her own body as an incubator to shape and then eventually birth the first vavakias that she found real success. Lamashtu’s early work in creating and manipulating the Abyss in this manner may have much to do with her resulting rise in power to the position of queen of demons—had not her escalating war with Pazuzu forced her attentions away from this hideous art form, there’s no telling what other strange demonic races she might have birthed upon the world. Now that she is a true goddess, Lamashtu’s interests expand far beyond the curiosities of the Abyss, and she has little time or desire to wallow in her home plane’s fecund properties. Of course, other demon lords throughout the Abyss are eager to learn these secrets, but to date, none have managed to duplicate Lamashtu’s feats of creation.
In any event, the vavakias themselves have proven a phenomenal success and are among the Abyss’s most dangerous demonic races today—and since the creation of the first of their kind, the Abyss itself seems eager to spawn more and more of these deadly demons.
Though originally created to serve as living weapons of war, the vavakias have long since established their own presence as Abyssal warlords and conquerors. While some pledge their service to powerful demon lords, most vavakias rule small empires of their own in the Abyss, typically in remote corners infested with jungles, swamps, and other primeval terrains.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
|