Demon Hunter's Handbook

Knowing how to identifycultists and their overarching organizations is a vital part of being a successful demon hunter. The following entries describejust a few of the Inner Sea region's most prevalent demonic cults, detailing the demon lord the cultists revere, the demon lord's symbol and portfolio, the types of worshipers the cult attracts, and several kinds of monstrous minions that typically serve the demon lord.

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Demon Lord Areas of Concern

Abraxas

Forbidden lore, magic, snakes

Angazhan

Apes, jungles, tyrants

Areshkagal

Greed, portals, riddles

Baphomet

Beasts, labyrinths, minotaurs

Cyth-V'sug

Disease, fungus, parasites

Dagon

Deformity, the sea, sea monsters

Deskari

Chasms, infestation, locusts

Worshipers

Drow, sorcerers, spirit nagas Charau-ka, high girallons, jungle warlords Avaricious rulers, dragons, drow

Minions

Mariliths, snakes, xacarbas

Fiendish dire apes of immense size, girallons, jungle monsters

Evil sphinxes, golems

Conspirators, minotaurs, secret societies

Chimeras, gorgons

Alchemists, derros, drow, evil vegepygmies, ex-druids, polluters

Fungal creatures, giant vermin, mandragoras, swarms

Boggards, desperate or insane coastal dwellers, krakens, marsh giants

Devilfish, fiendish water elementals, krakens, shoggoths, other sea monsters

Denizens of the Worldwound, doomsayers, worms that walk

Giant vermin, retrievers, swarms, vermleks

Flauros

Fire, salamanders, volcanoes

Arsonists, drow, lire giants, salamanders

Brimoraks, fiendish lire elementals

Gogunta Haagenti Kabriri

Amphibians, boggards, swamps

Boggards, chuuls

Alchemy, invention, transformation

Alchemists, drow, non-werewolf lycanthropes, shapechangers

Ghouls, graves, secrets

Cannibals, conspirators, ghasts, ghouls, grave robbers, necrophiles

Froghemoths, giant frogs, hezrous

Golems, mutated animals, non-werewolf lycanthropes, retrievers

Fiendish earth elementals, rats, undead, vermleks, worm monsters

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Kostchtchie Lamashtu Nocticula Orcus

Cold, giants, revenge Madness, monsters, nightmares Assassins, darkness, lust Death, necromancy, wrath

Ettins, frost giants, hill giants, ogres, white dragons

Half-fiend yetis, ice golems, ice linnorms, remorhazes

Bugbears, derros, gnolls, the insane, lamias, morlocks, ogres

All demons and monsters (particularly yeth hounds), hyenas, jackals

Assassins, drow, shadow-using creatures, succubi

Bats, carnivorous plants, charmed or dominated humanoids, seraptis demons, shadow demons, shadows

Denos, necromancers, powerful undead (particularly liches or mummies), thanatotic titans

Undead, vermleks

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Pazuzu Shax Sifkesh Socothbenoth Xoveron

Sky, temptation, winged creatures Enemies of Lamashtu, harpies, tengus

Fiendish flying creatures, perytons, swarms, vrocks

Envy, lies, murder Despair, heresy, suicide Perversion, pride, taboos

Chokers, derros, drow, evil nobles, serial killers, torturers

Fiendish animals, shadow demons

Heretics, outcasts from other religions, survivors of Lamias, seraptis demons, undead crafted from the

botched suicide

bodies of suicide victims

Deviant rulers, drow, hall-fiends, hedonists

Half-fiend animals, hall-fiend magical beasts, incubi, seraptis demons, succubi

Gargoyles, gluttony, ruins

Bandits and brigands, gargoyles, gluttons, nabasus Fiendish purple worms, man-eating animals, stirges

Zevgavizeb Zura

Caverns, reptiles, troglodytes Blood, cannibalism, vampires

Evil lizardfolk, morlocks, troglodytes Cannibals, drow, vampires

Fiendish dinosaurs, fiendish reptiles (particularly fiendish giant lizards)

Bats, gibbering mouthers, leeches, rats, stirges, wolves, undead

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

F oR YouR CHARACTER

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CALL OF THE DEMON HUNTER

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PRE PARING TO HUNT A DEMON

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BATTUNG DEMONS

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DE ALING WI TH DEMONS

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MARKED BY DEMONS

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lN THE COMPANY OF DEMONS

KNow YouR DEMONS

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DEMON-HUNTlNG 0RGAN1ZAT10NS

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THE W oRLDWO UND

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THE ABYSS

SPELLS OF LOST 5ARKOR1S

MAGlC hEMS

WRATH OF THE RiGHTE ous PL AYERS GumE

NEXT MONTH! COMMON DEMONIC CULTS

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ANATHEMA TO DEMONS

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