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Psychopomp, Memitim
Habitat: Underlands, Prime
Alignment: Neutral
Challenge Rating: 15
Far above many a battlefield of the planes, you’ll likely see ominous figures soaring. Perhaps if you look closely, you’ll spy a towering, black-winged angel, with a gaze as dark and unyielding as onyx, peering out from beneath its legionnaire’s helmet. This is a memitim, psychopomps known to soldiers as an angel of death—and it’s a silent sentinel hovering over the tumult of war.
Memitims are not the ferrymen of souls, and they do not guide the fallen to their final rest. Instead, they stand as guardians against those who gather to prey on souls—the malevolent entities that lurk at the fringes of mortality, hungering for the essence of the departed.
These black-winged specters form an impartial legion, a third host that watches over the bloodiest of battlegrounds. As soldiers fall and the clamour of combat rises, the memitims ready their weapons, prepared to repel monstrous scavengers that might snatch souls from the shallows of the River of Souls. Their adversaries are many—daemons, night hags, the undead—but the memitims are fearless. They strike with righteous fury against any who would dare to interrupt the natural passage of souls or harvest their life essence. Their presence is a bulwark against the unnatural interruption of life’s final journey.
Most hauntingly, memitims emanate an aura of terminality. When they draw near to one of these harbingers, those on the brink of death find their wounds deepening, their demise hastening. The memitim’s mere presence is a reminder of the inevitability of death. They are the unyielding protectors of the fallen, the silent warriors against the desecration of the soul, and their task is to ensure that each spirit, regardless of its mortal allegiance, safely finds its way to the afterlife.
Sources and Stats:
- Bestiary 6 [PF1e] here
- D&D conversion by d’Artagnan [5e] here
- Origin: The Bible’s Book of Job 33:22 mentions memitim as ‘destroyers’, while Proverbs 16:14 uses the term angel of death. The angel Azra’il is often called this as well. More on this here.