An Accounting of Abbadon

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Illustration by Jorge Fares

Considering the date, a preview of a more sinister sort seems in order. A while back I put together a listing of the devilish denizens of Hell (one you can complete with the CR 14 gylou and CR 19 puragaus in Bestiary 2). But with the upcoming release of Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the third volume in our Book of the Damned series which focuses on the pure evil fiends known as daemons, it seemed appropriate to give daemonkind the same treatment. So here you go, a daemon for every dark deed and nearly every CR.

CR	Daemon	Source
2	Cacodaemon	Bestiary 2
3	Lacridaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4	Vulnadaemon	Bestiary 3
5	Venedaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6	Ceustodaemon	Bestiary 2
7	Suspiridaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
8	Hydrodaemon	Bestiary 2
9	Leukodaemon*	Bestiary 2
9	Sangudaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
10	Piscodaemon	Bestiary 2
11	Erodaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
11	Meladaemon*	Bestiary 2
12	Derghodaemon	Bestiary 2
13	Thanadaemon*	Bestiary 2
14	Temerdaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
15	Crucidaemon	Bestiary 3
16	Astradaemon	Bestiary 2
17	Phasmadaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
18	Purrodaemon*	Bestiary 2
19	Obcisidaemon	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
20	Olethrodaemonn	Bestiary 2

Ushering in his brethren, we have Jorge Fares's vile venedaemon, just one of the new breeds of daemonkind revealed in Book of the Damned 3. Also, before any one asks, no we haven't done this sort of listing for demons yet, but considering all the sources on the list above, maybe that would make a fine Bestiary 3 preview in the coming weeks. Only time will tell.

Horsemen of the Apocalypse hits store shelves next month.

Wes Schneider
Managing Editor

* Deacon. If you don't know what this is, learn all about it in Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Stealth Preview

Wednesday, March 31, 2009

Cover Illustration by Wayne Reynolds

With the GameMastery Guide off to print we need something new to start teasing you all with, and while the Advanced Player's Guide seems logical, being our next next big release, I like monsters more. So where should we look for previews of Bestiary II? Why, no farther than Pathfinder Adventure Path #33, as we've got a few homeless horrors in there that will be creeping into October's tome of terrors. See for yourself. And no, none of these are new creations for Bestiary II.

Illustrations by Tyler Walpole

Wes Schneider
Managing Editor

Three Times the Evil

Monday, March 10, 2008

We've always kind of known what role devils and demons play in the game. In Pathfinder we'll be using the classic categories for the evil outsiders. Lawful evil outsiders are devils—these are the monsters interested in corrupting and destroying the mind. They infect faith, politics, and scholastic pursuits, and strive to turn mortals into traitors and heretics against their own nature. Chaotic evil outsiders are demons—creatures of primal destruction and ruin who have existed as long as life itself. They seek to destroy and savage the world, forces of entropy that exist to bring about the end of the world itself.

But that's just 2/3 of the equation. But what about the neutral evil fiends? They always seem to get left behind. Once you have groups out to corrupt the mind and corrupt the body... what else is left? In "Seven Days to the Grave", we've got the first new daemon to grace the Pathfinder Bestiary, the diseased leukodaemon (pictured here). We also reveal a bit more about the role of fiends in the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting.

For our neutral evil fiends, the daemons, they are embodiments of death. They care little about the physical world or pleasures and torments of the flesh, nor are they particularly interested in corrupting mortal life to serve their needs or to betray its kin. Daemons have perhaps the simplest desire—to feed on the soul. In many ways, the daemons are perhaps the most dangerous of the three, since you can continue to live even if your body and mind are broken after the demons and devils are done with you. When a daemon is done with you... you're just dead.

Actually, maybe that makes the daemons the most humane of the three fiends. At least they don't torment you as much.

James Jacobs
Pathfinder Editor-in-Chief