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Lilu, Hurlilu
Pazuzu’s Flock (CR 11)
Home Plane: Abyss / Layer 503 Torremor
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Themes: Unruly humanoid avians who pay lip service to Pazuzu
The hurlilu are fierce avian fiends—humanoid hawks with blood-red talons, wings for arms, curved horns—and are the best know, and apparently the weakest, members of an obscure race of fiends known as the lilu. These bird-like demons hail from the deep Abyssal cliffside realm of High M’Vania, patrolling its jagged skies with predatory ruthlessness. These feathered fiends construct towering eyries from which they can dominate the skies, and terrorize weaker creatures. Their philosophy is one of rebelliousness mixed with selfish ambition. Hurlilu upstarts constantly vye for leadership, while frequently refusing to obey even their demon lord, Pazuzu. Whether he approves of their free spiritedness or resents the disobedience of his minions, isn’t known. The hurlilu are able to control the winds, knock opponents out of the sky, and have a vicious beak attack which rips the flesh from their victims in such a brutal way that it is notoriously difficult to staunch the bleeding.
Planewalkers beware: the lilu are ancient Abyssal demons that are said to predate the tanar’ri. As a fiendish family, the lilu are unpredictable and cruel, excellent fliers and wielders of powerful weather magics. Other lilu—all considerably more rare than the hurlilu—include the umū dabrūtu [oomi-dabrooti], mighty fiends of hurricane; rabisu, lingering vampiric demons; and the utukku, the demon ‘who is not’. Whether the vrock are related to the lilu is a matter of debate. Most scholars believe vrock are tanar’ri, but that may not always have been the case.
Canonical Sources: Pathfinder #190: The Choosing [PF2e] p88. Canonwatch: Only the hurlilu is detailed in PF2e, the other fiend names for this family are ones I’ve found in Akkadian mythology. Hopefully one day I’ll get round to writing them up! Or perhaps Paizo will beat me to it…
Source: Jon Winter-Holt