Demodand

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Demodands (gehreleths in 2nd Edition D&D) are a race of fiends native to the Tarterian Depths of Carceri in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The gehreleths worship or honor a patron deity called Apomps, the Three-sided One. Each of the races has certain peculiarities. The farastu and the kelubar can undergo a lengthy and painful process of self-liquefaction into the secretion they most frequently exude. These pools of tar and slime can be bottled and stored for centuries as a kind of 'instant army'.

[edit] Types

Farastu: Also known as tarry demodands, are the most common type of demodand.

Kelubar: Also known as slime demodands, are the bureaucrats of demodand society.

Shator: Also known as shaggy demodands, are the obese and disgusting leaders of demodand society.

[edit] Related Creatures

Shrieking Terror: Vargouille/hydra crossbreeds created for war and destruction, sometimes used as advance troops by demondands.

Tarterian Creature: Via ancient magical rituals, a creature may gain some of a demodand's power in exchange for surrendering its soul to Carceri upon death. The demodand is destroyed in the process, but gains freedom from the eternal prison plane.

Tarterian Dragon: Gaunt, tattered dragons native to Carceri that feed on demondans and condemned souls.

[edit] Notable Appearances of Demodands

Demodands feature prominently in the Shackled City Adventure Path, including Dyr’ryd, a massive and deformed shator who founded the Cagewrights.

The shator Drigor is trapped within the demiplane of Ravenloft, and the shator Xideous is lurking in the criminally and irreversably insane ward of the Gatehouse in Sigil, working on a revision to the Book of Keeping. The latter one has a price on his head by the 'loths.

Wulfgar encounters a farastu in The Halfling's Gem.