Who's that demon?

[Wrox]

The other demon lords have been named: Anthraxus (hell yeah!), Kostchtchie, Oublivae, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy.

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (May and Beyond)

 

[Rechan]

I don't recognize any of those aside from Pazuzu. I wonder why they avoided the obvious, like Jubilix and the like.

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

Hmm, Anthraxus rings a bell, Kostchtchie was in 2e's Monster Mythology (and also mentioned in Birthright), Zuggtmoy is from Greyhawk (Temple of Elemental Evil) and has already been mentioned in Plane Below.

More classic monsters: ixitxachitls and incubi.

 

[Jhaelen]

I don't recognize any of those aside from Pazuzu. I wonder why they avoided the obvious, like Jubilix and the like.

I think, I know all except Oublivae.

Juiblex gets my vote as the cover demon for MM4. A dungeon article would be okay, too, I guess.

Anthraxus was the former head of Daemons/Yugoloths, right?

Kostchtchie & Pazuzu were from AD&D 1e MM2 which also had lists of minor demon lords, maybe Oublivae is one of them? I'll have to check when I have the book at hand...

Zuggtmoy appeared in an adventure, right? Was it Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth?

 

[Rechan]

I thought ixitxachitls were just sentient evil manta rays, not demons.

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

I thought ixitxachitls were just sentient evil manta rays, not demons.

Yep, they were. I guess WotC tied their origins to the Elemental Chaos, and possibly Dagon, too. Not a bad fit at all, IMO.

 

[Stoat]

Unless my memory fails me, Kostchtchie, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy got write ups in Dragon a few years ago.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Maybe form "Obliviax Moss", iirc, 1st ed? maybe one of Zuggtomy's minions?

Also, ixixacihtul's (trying to remember how to say and spell that is a DM's nioghtmare, lol) are servants of Demogorgon, their vampiric versions being his priests, iirc, ergo, quite right for inclusion into MM3 as basic critters, and the nastier demonic versions into Demonomicon?

 

[Shemeska]

Unless my memory fails me, Kostchtchie, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy got write ups in Dragon a few years ago.

During 3.x in the actual print magazine, and we also had a massive book on demons and the Abyss not too long ago too. But since those were all written for 3.x with some pretty large differences in game assumptions and with a different cosmology in mind (1e/2e/3e Great Wheel), I'd expect any 4e writeup to be massively different compared to any previous takes.

Anthraxus as a CE demon lord in 4e for instance versus the NE Oinoloth previously.

 

[Woas]

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Menacing demon (who's that demon)
Evil demon (who's that demon)
Real mean demon (who's that demon)
Hear me callin' out to you
'Cause it's all that I can do
Your eyes burn holes through me
But you say look yeah, but don't touch, baby