Environment

Special abilities

Fight power 3 | Regeneration 4 (1 d) | Indomitability 2 | Dark vision 10 | Aura vision 10 | Magic vision 10 | Damage to magical beings 1 | Damage to incorporeals 1 | Weapon invulnerability 1 | Evil essence 1 | Flying 3

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.

Lords

If a servant manages to become a lord, it grows to a height of about three meters, large horns sprout on its head and it grows wings. A lord is already a real threat. It only rarely leaves the Dark Region, because elsewhere it is hunted by hunters and good beings.

Lords do not get along with each other, but they are more cautious than servants and prefer to fight each other through their servants (this way they also like to get rid of overly dangerous servants). After the clash of their retinues, the two lords fight as well; the winner finishes off the defeated one and devours it. A lord who is successful in battle for a long time or devours a huge number of other beings can become a mighty lord, the first truly dangerous form.

If a demonologist summons a lord into the True World, he must be very careful, otherwise he himself will spice up the draunug's menu. A lord that breaks free unleashes a bloody hell around itself and often emerges from it as a mighty lord.