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Fiendish Beasts and How to Bind Them
They’re animals, sure, but not as we know it. The Lower Planes can be weird places, after all, and it shouldn’t be a surprise that the animals of these planes can be equally strange. More intelligent than your average Prime beast, but more importantly, infused with the essence of an Outer Plane, fiendish beasts can combine the ethical vacuum of animals with the most feral aspects of fiends. And let me tell you cutter, you need to learn the difference between a yeth hound and a hell hound, because one day that might just save your hide.
—Voilá!
| Fiendish Beast | Home Plane | Fiendish Theme | Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abrian | Carceri | Fast-moving hunters with a deafening scream | Bad-tempered ostrich |
| Achaierai | Acheron / Avalas & Thuldanin | Aggressive carnivores who have domesticated rust dragons | Four-legged birds with giant heads |
| Ammut †| Underlands | Devourers of souls, but they only eat the mighty ones | Part-hippopotamus, part-large cat, part-crocodile |
| Diakk | Gray Waste | Magic-wielding beasts who can perform a dance of weakening | Flightless bird-like predators |
| Hellcat | Baator | Familiars of powerful baatezu and lower planar mages | Usually invisible, large tiger-like creatures |
| Hell Hound | Baator | Fire-breathing canines who hunt in stealthy packs | Large rust-red-brown hound with glowing eyes |
| Hellwasp Swarm †| Baator | Wasps who can inhabit and control humanoid corpses | Fist-sized insects who form enormous swarms |
| Hook Spider | Acheron, Baator, Gehenna | Venomous, psychic ambush-hunters | Giant spiders with long hooked legs and enormous mandibles |
| Howler | Pandemonium | Keening singers of dementia | Gigantic wolf-porcupines covered in quills |
| Nightmare | Any Lower Plane | Flaming harbinger of death | Equine with black fur and burning hooves and eyes |
| Qurashith †| Abyss | Fearsome predators who absorb their prey into their bodies | Huge bat-like predator made from bodies bound by scar tissue and pus |
| Terlen | Carceri, Gehenna, Gray Waste | Silent hit-and-run hunters, striking from the water or air | Flying amphibious shark-snake with camouflage abilities |
| Vorr | Pandemonium, Carceri, Abyss, Outlands | Stealthy hunters that can turn into shadows | Gray-black hyena with long rat-tails and black, leathery skin |
| Yeth Hound | Gray Waste | Light-fearing, flying hounds with a terrifying baying howl | Flying shadow-hounds with human-like faces |
Fiendish Beasts with Full Write-Ups
Source: Jon Winter-Holt. Canonwatch: †from the Pathfinder setting; ‡ Homebrew