Evil creatures from lower planes
_Apau Perape Sharp teeth fill this large, demonic ape’s mouth. Its long, muscular arms stretch to the ground, ending in wickedly curved claws._ _**Servants of Fire.**_ These black-furred gorilla demons serve only their demon lord. Their final lo...
Medium Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts.
_This pale-skinned, white-bearded hermit wears a winter cloak and travels the mountain paths, cliff sides, and trade routes alone._ **Feigns Weakness.** Living in isolated mountain passes and foraging along little-traveled slopes, the stuhac is ...
_“They led that caravan without mercy or kindness. If you fell or stumbled, they struck you, making your tongue feel as sand or your body ache with pain, then laughed, telling you to get up. And once we arrived, gods, they had us take the tools fr...
The star-dwelling, octopoid servants and children of Cthulhu are enormous and strange, with clawed hands, powerful but distended brains, and winglike spines on their backs, with which they propel themselves through the frozen emptiness between sta...
_Resembling a black-furred stag that walks like a man, this creature has a pair of immense, branching antlers arching above its coldly gleaming eyes. The fur is sleek over most of its body, but becomes shaggy around its goatlike legs. The creature...
Medium Fiend, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts.
_Creatures of variable appearance, soul eaters conjoin fleshy elements with ectoplasmic forms._ **Called from the Abyss.** Soul eaters are summoned from the Abyss and other extraplanar ports of call where they can freely barter for prey. They al...
_Within a blinding wave of heat and glare strides a long-limbed, misshapen form. The creature scorches everything in its path as it strides forward._ What most people recall most vividly from an encounter with a malakbel is the blinding light an...
Large Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts.
_Tall and powerful, this creature resembles a strong man with well‑chiseled muscles, save its equine head, flaring nostrils, and hoofed feet._ The orobas thrive in Hell, selling their knowledge to those who have the coin (or other form of paymen...
Medium Fiend, CR 17. From Tome of Beasts.
_The fiendish hulk bears features taken from a nightmare scorpion, with three stinging tails and four limbs, and wields a massive scythe._ _**Transforming Poison.**_ Poison from any one of the koralk’s three stingers liquefies the target’s insid...
Medium Fiend, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts.
_Combining the head of a goat and the body of a monkey makes the creature odd enough; combining the social grace of a baboon with pretensions of a scholar makes it more comical than threatening._ Fiendish pests that infest derelict wizards’ towe...
_This small devil wears a small red hat. A wicked grin flashes black teeth, and the creature nervously wrings its hands, baring long, needle-like claws._ Ink devils have small, pursed mouths and long, thin, bony fingers. Their nails resemble qui...
_Created and favored by Mammon, the arch-devil of greed, crystalline devils masquerade as magic treasures._ **Barefoot, Gem-Coated.** Crystalline devils resemble gem‑coated humanoids with cruel, twisted faces, jagged teeth, and terrible talons l...
_Stunningly tall and beautiful fiends, the heralds of darkness resemble dark-haired fey wearing cloaks and armor glittering with dark light and often surrounded by a nimbus of pale green fire._ Heralds of darkness speak in fluid tones and sing w...
_The heralds of blood are 20-foot-tall giants with bruised purple skin, and wart-like blood blisters that deform their features. They often wear cowled robes over golden armor streaked with black or green, and their staves of power are always ebon...
_This tall, bronze-complexioned man is abnormally long-limbed and clad in armor of stained and battered coins. His wiry frame is festooned with mismatched bracelets, rings, and necklaces, each gaudier than the last. The easy smile on his face is c...
_Small horns crown this pig-faced devil’s head. It stands on shaggy goat legs and holds a flaming polearm in its clawed hands. It bears a wicked gleam in its black eyes._ **Bad Bargains.** Quick and canny, a chort devil uses varied, pleasing for...
_Unfolding impossibly from beneath voluminous robes, this creature’s pockmarked, spindly arms end in clusters of narrow spikes. Its long, hollow, needle-like fingers and its many-jointed arms move with surprising speed and strength for such an ema...
_A hulking, hyena-faced humanoid with heavily scarred, oversized muzzle, a bouda looks as if its jaw had once been ripped apart and put back together. Clouds of gnats and fleas roil around its arms._ **Glowing Eyes and Teeth.** Bouda are child-e...
_A hulking figure floats in the air, a winged horror painted in mist and moonlight._ **Corruptors of the Moon.** Always standing a bit apart from the machinations of the Dukes of Hell due to their dependence on moonlight, lunar devils can be fou...