Demonic Lore

[Alzrius]

found another creature:
Dungeon #64, "Grotto of the Queen," page 22 features the Tribute Gatherer, an octopus-like creature that serves the goddess Umberlee.

Cool find, but it's in no way demonic that I can see. It's just a creature created by a deity that lives in the Abyss.

 

[BOZ]

despite the thread title, i never intended it to be demon-only; all Abyssal things will do.

 

[Ripzerai]

What struck me was that krakentuas are the only things called demons in the Kara-Tur MC, despite the large number of other wicked supernatural monsters who could be called youkai. It's not definitive - and I've said over and over that they might be from the Material Plane instead - but it looks like a meaningful choice to me.

Just noticed that the krakentua originally appeared in the adventure Test of the Samurai, and there they're described as "evil spirits" rather than "demon spirits" as the Kara-Tur MC had them; they also seem to be native to the Material Planar island of Gargantua. From their treatment in that module, I'd have to classify them as fey. Gigantic, scary-ass fey.

 

[BOZ]

the male krakentua actually predated the female, and is found in Night of the Seven Swords.

i really didn't look in the old modules for ecological info, so i totally missed the "island of Gargantua" bit. when we did the CC conversion, we stuck with Aberration (their 3.0 conversions were Aberration); some creatures are hard to call so you kind of have to go with your instincts. Fey would seem to work just fine, as would Monstrous Humanoid or Outsider depending on how you look at them.

 

[diaglo]

found another creature:
Dungeon #64, "Grotto of the Queen," page 22 features the Tribute Gatherer, an octopus-like creature that serves the goddess Umberlee.

did you check out the old Monsters of Dungeon thread in the CC forum?

i think dungeon 89 and 95 are ones to reference for the prevision stats. Orcus and some chosen of Kootchtchie are in 89 iirc. and the Narzugon and Mezzoloth plus Orlath and some thrall of Demogorgon are in 95.

 

[BOZ]

ooh, juicy - i didn't notice that. a new demon type in Dungeon #95!

i wonder if the Kostchtchie article (Dragon #341? #345?) will reference Dungeon #89 at all. and Frostburn too, for that matter. he was originally taken from Russian folklore correct?

also, apparently, Dungeon #117-119 was a demon-themed story arc which featured a cleric of Kosty.

 

[diaglo]

ooh, juicy - i didn't notice that. a new demon type in Dungeon #95!

i wonder if the Kostchtchie article (Dragon #341? #345?) will reference Dungeon #89 at all. and Frostburn too, for that matter. he was originally taken from Russian folklore correct?

also, apparently, Dungeon #117-119 was a demon-themed story arc which featured a cleric of Kosty.

do you need those Dungeons added to your list?: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=67183

 

[Shade]

I know I've got the orlath and chosen of Kostchtchie in the Dungeon monsters index. I'll check on the rest.

The orlath is quite cool.

Also, although this may have already been mentioned here, the Lord of the Scarlet Tide from #85 was referenced in the Zuggtmoy article.

 

[BOZ]

right - i remember noticing that.

 

[KL]

Overlooked demon

Didn't Dragon magazine once published the gelloudes, a form of demon who serve the demoness Gello?

Also, did anybody here mentioned the Orlath and Cataboligne?

Anyhow, Gygax's Gord books do include a lot of demons: chargin (and their lord Cagrino), zubassu (which I think is NOT a form of nabassu as they have been described as four-winged man-hawks) and their lord Ogrijek, the fesroo, boorixtro, wulox, dusin, nikomar, etc.