Monster Manual 5E

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Demogorgon towers three times the height of

a human, his body as sinuous as a snake's and as

powerful as a great ape's. Suckered tentacles take

the place of his arms. His saurian lower torso ends

in webbed and clawed feet, and a forked tail whose

' whip-like tips are armed with cruel blades. The Prince

of Demons has two baleful baboon heads, both of

them mad. It is only the conflict between the two

halves of his dual nature that keeps the demon lord's

ambitions in check.

GRAZ'ZT

The demon lord Graz'zt appears as a darkly handsome

figure nearly nine feet tall. Those who refer to the

Dark Prince as the most humanoid of the demon

lords vastly underestimate the capacity for evil in his

scheming heart.

Graz'zt is a striking physical specimen, whose

demonic nature shows in his ebon skin, pointed ears,

yellow fangs, crown of horns, and six-fingered hands.

He delights in finery, pageantry, and sating his decadent

desires with subjects and consorts alike, among whom

incubi and succubi are often his favorites.

jUIBLEX

The demon lord of slimes and oozes, Juiblex is a stew

of noxious fluids that lurks in the abyssal depths. The

wretched Faceless Lord cares nothing for cultists

or mortal servants, and its sole desire is to turn all

creatures into formless copies of its horrid self.

In·its resting state, Juiblex spreads out in a noxious

mass, bubbling and filling the air with a profound

stench. On the rare occasions when creatures confront

the 'd.emon lord, Juiblex draws itself up into a shuddering

cone of slime striated with veins of black and green.

Baleful red eyes swim within its gelatinous body, while

dripping pseudopods of ooze lash out hungrily at any

creature they can reach.

LOLTH

The Demon Queen of Spiders is the evil matron of the

drow. Her every thought is touched by malice, and the

<depth of her viciousness can surprise even her most

faithful priestesses. She directs her faithful while she

weaves plots across the worlds of the Material Plane,

looking forward to the time when her drow followers

bring those worlds under her control.

Lolth appears as a lithe, imperious drow matriarch

when she manifests to her followers in the mortal

realm, which she does with unusual frequency. When

battle breaks out-or if she has a reason to remind her

followers to fear her- Lolth's lower body transforms into

that of a huge demonic spider, whose spike-tipped legs

and mandibles tear foes apart.

0RCUS

Known as the Demon Prince of Undeath and the Blood

Lord, the demon lord Orcus is worshiped by the undead

and by living creatures that channel the power of

undeath. A brooding and nihilistic entity, Orcus yearns

to make the multi verse a place of death and darkness,

forever unchanging except by his will.

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  Th~ Demon Prince of Undeath l's a foui lmd corpulent
  cr~ature, ~ith a humanoid torso, powerful goat·legs,
  and the desiccated head of a ram. His sore-ridden body
  stinks of disease, but his decaying head and glowing
  red eyes are as a creature already dead. Great black
  bat wings sprout from his back, stirring reeking air
  as he moves.
  Orcus wields a malevolent artifact known as the
  Wand ofOrcus, a mace-like rod of obsidian topped
  by a humanoid skull. He surrounds himself with
  undead, and living creatures not under his control are
  anathema to him.

YEENOGHU

Known as the Gnoll Lord and the Beast of Butchery,

the demon lord Yeenoghu hungers for slaughter

and senseless destruction. Gnolls are his mortal

instruments, and he drives them to ever-greater

atrocities in his name. Delighting in sorrow and

hopelessness, the Gnoll Lord yearns to turn the world

into a wasteland in which the last surviving gnolls tear

each other apart for the right to feast upon the dead.

Yeenoghu appears as a huge, scarred gnoll with a

spiky crest of black spines, and eyes that burn with

emerald flame. His armor is a patchwork of shields and

breastplates claimed from fallen foes, and decorated by

those foes' flayed skins. Yeenoghu can summon a triple

flail he calls the Butcher, which he wields to deadly

effect or wills to fly independently into battle as he tears

foes apart with teeth and claws.

OTHER DEMON LORDS

No one knows the full number of demon lords that

rage in the Abyss. Given the infinite depths of that

plane, powerful demons constantly rise to become

demon lords, then fall almost as quickly. Among the

demon lords whose power has endured long enough

for demonologists to name them are Fraz-Urb'luu, the

Prince of Deception; Kostchtchie, the Prince of Wrath;

Pazuzu, Prince of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms; and

Zuggtmoy, Lady of Fungi.

DEMON TYPES

Demonologists organize the chaotic distribution of

demons into broad categories of power known as

types. Most demons fit into one of six major types, with

the weakest categorized as Type 1 and the strongest

as Type 6. Demons outside the six main types are

categorized as minor demons and demon lords.

DEMONS BY TYPE

Type Examples

1 barlgura, shadow demon, vrock

2

3

4

5

6

chasme, hezrou

glabrezu, yochlol

nalfeshnee

marilith

balor, goristro