Is there a devil version of a succubus?
I am looking for a devil type creature to seduce a character :)
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The Erinyes are often viewed as the devil-succubi, but I think that's mostly because they're women and have wings. They seem to be way more about fury and stuff than seduction.
Personally I see the idea of a succubi trying to seduce someone into becoming evil and so more of a lawful than a chaotic trait anyway. Chaotics just don't have the patience for a long-term plan like that, while it would fit right into a devil's portfolio
Not sure why they made succubi CE, guess some legacy reason.
In the 3.5 version of the Book of the Damned, there was a pleasure devil that happened to be an erinyes that got upgraded. CR 13 IIRC, think it's name is something like branchala.
Thanks for the help.
She will not be trying to turn him evil. She is just trying to get information from him. :)
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If you do not mind using 3PP monsters there is the Devil, Lilin
"Among the devilish ranks, lilins serve as spies and information gatherers. Though they possess decent combat skills, they generally do not serve in the hellish armies in any other role. Many an arch-devil, ignoring the foolish rumors that lilins are indeed some demon-devil crossbreed, has employed the services of a lilin on more than one occasion. Even now, many arch-devils keep a small retinue of these devilish mistresses stashed in a rival’s palace gathering as much information as they can on each other."
Perfect Bigkilla.
I do have the book of the damned, so I will check your suggestion Lathiira.
Thanks :)
Here's an idea (from Bestiary 2): a Belier devil with a greater hat of disguise (so it can alter self into a medium sized, beautiful outsider, like an aasimar or tiefling woman). The belier has a nice suite of mind-affecting spell-like abilities (suggestion, dominate person), and world-class deception skills (bluff +27, diplomacy +27). It can also possess people, so it *could* get at someone by possessing someone he already loves or cares about. The belier's whole game is possession and corruption, so it's thematically perfect, and in the event the PC *does* have a romantic entanglement with the devil, the look on their face when they see what the being *really* is would be priceless :)
Another possibility - again, altered into a pleasing form - would be a contract devil, especially if it managed to get the PC to sign an infernal contract.
The big problem such beings are always going to have is the PC's paladin or inquisitor friend, rudely detecting evil or alignment all the time; a clever devil should work out some kind of nondetection or misdirection magic beforehand. After all, it's a *devil*, not a demon, so it's thought this through and planned it. Maybe they've been called in the past, and look up an old conjurer "for old times' sake" and request his assistance, or (likely), their patron archdevil may have a cult in the PC's city, with priests or diabolists who can furnish alignment concealment and other modes of spell support.
Finally, if I were a devil, and wanted to corrupt someone, I'd gather some intelligence beforehand by having, say, an accuser devil spy invisibly on the character for awhile, bringing me reports with its Infernal Eye ability.
Good times!