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Rhevanna
Angelbane (CR 22)
Home Plane: Gehenna / Mungoth and Krangath
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Themes: Assassins of celestials
Philosophy:
The rhevanna is a formidable hunter, binder, and devourer of celestials—especially aasimon. They appear as angelic fiends wrapped in razor wire and chains, with a haunted look painted on their faces. Their own shadows manifest as pitiful angelic silhouettes desperately clawing for escape, often resembling the last celestials the rhevanna destroyed. Chant goes the the fiend itself cannot see this shadow.
Rhevannas originally hail from the darker layers of Gehenna—Mungoth and Krangath—but are rarely found there. Fortunately, they are vanishingly rare fiends, perhaps because their home layers are so barren, but also because their afterlives are exceptionally dangerous. They are stalkers and assassins of celestials, and not just the rank-and-file: rhevannas seek the scalps of the most exalted of archons, the most holy of angels and the most benevolent of guardinals. They are driven by bitterness and vengeance, resenting the celestials for how easily goodness comes to the privileged. And so they hunt them down like animals, seeking to humble them and then consume them utterly.
Rhevannas are extraordinarily dangerous creatures, especially for celestials. They have powerful anti-healing auras that siphon vitality from healing spells and the dying, can anchor their prey dimensionally—preventing them from plane shifting, and the lethal ability to bind celestial souls in gems. Graybeards are divided on the origin of these beings—perhaps they are themselves fallen celestials, or perhaps they are manifestations of the spite of Gehenna itself. Whatever the truth, the mere mention of their name is enough to get solars looking nervously over their shoulder and cause throne archons to grow pale.
Canonical Sources: Agents of Edgewatch: #162 Ruins of the Radiant Siege [PF2e] p83
Source: Jon Winter-Holt