Environment

Special abilities

Fight power 2 | Regeneration 3 (2 d) | Indomitability 1 | Dark vision 10 | Aura vision 10 | 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.

Servants

A servant arises from a pupated slave. It is stronger and cleverer, but it still lacks the strength to subjugate servants of its own and to defend itself against the lords. That is why it voluntarily enters the service of higher draunugs: under a lord's protection it inconspicuously gathers strength and waits for an opportunity to devour someone strong enough to become a lord itself. The lords know this, however, and they prefer to devour servants who grow too powerful themselves.

Devouring is a dangerous undertaking for a servant. If it lacks enough strength of its own, it cannot absorb the devoured power, and that tears it to pieces; from its destruction several small puny devourers then emerge.

A servant likes to be summoned into the True World, because it easily finds food here. It is not powerful or clever enough, however, to break through the protection of an ordinary demonologist, and that is why in the True World we know it precisely as a servant.