Environment

Special abilities

Fight power 1 | Regeneration 2 (4 d) | Indomitability 1 | Dark vision 10 | Aura vision 10 | Damage to magical beings 1 | Weapon invulnerability 1 | Evil essence 1

Devourer demons, the draunugs, are obsessed with the desire to drain the strength of other creatures. Each of them, even the smallest, grows by what it consumes: the more strength it absorbs, the bigger, smarter, more experienced and more powerful it becomes. Higher forms also gain a more terrifying appearance – lords grow horns, wings and tails.

Devourers form a strict caste society. Lower forms recognize the authority of higher ones and serve them as servants or soldiers, although they secretly hope to devour them one day. Along with the transformation the temperament changes too: a slave is a natural bootlicker, while all lords are terribly conceited and demand flattery and humility.

From a devourer that consumes more strength than it can bear, nameless horrors, puny devourers and other small demons may split off. If they have enough food and luck, other, bigger demons grow from them over time.

Slaves

The slave is the first more dangerous form of devourer. It arises from a puny devourer that attaches itself to a larger creature or seeks out someone defenseless and inconspicuously drains their strength. As soon as it has soaked up enough of it, it pupates, and after several days a slave emerges from the pupa.

Slaves have almost no will of their own and are easily manipulated. Higher devourers send them on the dirtiest tasks and also use them as food. Only a few slaves are lucky enough to survive and turn into a servant.