Devil, Lemure
Medium Outsider (Baatezu, Evil, Extraplanar, Lawful) — CR 1
- Hit Dice
- 2d8 (9 hp)
- Initiative
- +0
- Speed
- Land 20 ft
- Armor Class
- 14, touch 10, flat-footed 14
- Base Attack / Grapple
- +2/+2
- Attack
- Claw +2 melee (1d4)
- Full Attack
- 2 claws +2 melee (1d4)
- STR
- 10
- DEX
- 10
- CON
- 10
- WIS
- 11
- CHA
- 5
- Fort / Ref / Will
- +3 / +3 / +3
- Challenge Rating
- 1
- Alignment
- Always Lawful-Evil
- Organization
- Solitary, pair, gang (3–5), swarm (6–15), or mob (10–40)
- Treasure
- None
- Environment
- Nine Hells of Baator
- Level Adjustment
- —
Special Abilities
The creature surges forward, not unlike a molten mass of flesh oozing across the ground. It has a human-shaped head and torso, but its body is a shape-less mass below the waist. A permanent expression of anguish twists across its face.
Description
The scourge of humanity and the cosmos, devils are fiends from the Nine Hells of Baator, a lawful evil realm. Devils enjoy bullying those weaker than themselves and often attack good creatures just to gain a trophy or three. The most powerful devils occupy themselves with plots to seize power, wreck civilizations, and inflict misery upon mortals.
Many devils are surrounded by a fear aura, which they use to break up powerful groups and defeat opponents piecemeal. Devils with spell-like abilities use their illusion abilities to delude and confuse foes as much as possible. A favorite trick is to create illusory reinforcements; enemies can never be entirely sure if a threat is only a figment or real summoned devils joining the fray.
The most numerous devils are the baatezu, infamous for their strength, evil temperament, and ruthlessly efficient organization. Baatezu have a rigid caste system, in which authority derives not only from power but also from station. They occupy themselves mainly with extending their influence throughout the planes by corrupting mortals. Baatezu who further this goal are usually rewarded with improved stations.
Lemures are pathetic creatures that mainly serve as slaves and conscript troops for more powerful baatezu.
A lemure is about 5 feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds.
Lemures are mindless and cannot communicate, but they are sensitive to telepathic messages from other devils, typically obeying a devil’s mental commands.
Combat
Lemures crave revenge against the universe that has made them what they are. They surge toward anything they meet and try to claw it apart. Only a telepathic command from other devils or the complete destruction of the lemures can make them stop.
A lemure’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as evil-aligned and lawful-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
See in Darkness (Su): Can see perfectly in darkness of any kind, even that created by a deeper darkness spell.
Mindless (Ex): Immunity to mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).