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Archives of Nethys

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PFS StandardPusk (Sloth Demon)

Among the lowest and least powerful of all demons, the wretched pusks are just as vicious and cruel as their more powerful brethren. They happily vent their frustrations on anything weaker than themselves.

Born from the souls of the slothful, these demons appear vaguely humanoid in appearance with awkward limbs and slack lumps of skin hanging from their frames. Supposedly, a single slothful soul of sufficient depravity and strength can spawn an entire horde of these creatures. However, as weaker demons, their lot in life is to suffer at the hands of more powerful Abyssal predators, and only a tiny number of pusks ever manage to become something more. For this reason, pusks are quite accommodating when summoned by mortals. They're usually content to work under conditions few other fiends would accept, although they'll still gladly turn on even the kindest of masters who show even the slightest hint of weakness.

Recall Knowledge - Fiend (Religion): DC 16
Unspecific Lore: DC 14
Specific Lore: DC 11

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PuskCreature 2

Small Demon Fiend Unholy 
Source Monster Core pg. 76
Perception +6; darkvision
Languages Chthonian; telepathy 100 feet
Skills Acrobatics +6, Athletics +8, Deception +6, Stealth +6
Str +4, Dex +0, Con +4, Int -3, Wis +0, Cha +0
Sloth When a pusk regains their actions, roll 1d4. The pusk regains that many actions for the turn (to a maximum of 3, or 2 if the pusk is a minion). Effects like the slowed condition can further reduce their number of actions.
AC 17; Fort +10, Ref +4, Will +8
HP 36; Weaknesses cold iron 3, holy 3
Speed 20 feet
Melee [one-action] jaws +10 [+5/+0] (magical, unholy), Damage 1d8+4 piercingMelee [one-action] claw +10 [+6/+2] (agile, magical, unholy), Damage 1d6+4 slashingDivine Innate Spells DC 16; 3rd slow; 1st fear
Rituals DC 16; 1st demonic pact
Cower [one-action] The pusk makes itself as small as possible, protecting its vital organs with its limbs. It gains a +4 circumstance bonus to AC but takes a –2 penalty to attack rolls. This lasts until the pusk moves from its current space, falls unconscious, or ends the effect as a free action.Frenzied Slashes [three-actions] The pusk makes three claw Strikes, each at a –2 penalty, all targeting the same creature. The pusk's multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until after it has made all three attacks. The pusk gains the clumsy 2 condition until the beginning of its next turn.Vicious Criticals A pusk makes the most of any weakness it finds. Whenever a pusk scores a critical hit with its claw Strike, the target takes an additional 1d6 persistent bleed damage.

All Monsters in "Demon"

NameLevel
Brimorak (Arson Demon)5
Omox (Slime Demon)12
Pusk (Sloth Demon)2
Seraptis (Suicide Demon)15
Shemhazian (Mutilation Demon)16
Succubus (Lust Demon)7
Vrolikai (Death Demon)20

Demon

Source Monster Core pg. 76
When a sinful mortal soul is judged and sent on to the Outer Rifts, it can become a deadly fiend—a demon. Demons are living incarnations of sin—be they classic sins like wrath or gluttony, or more “specialized” depravities like an obsession with torture or the act of treason or treachery. Once formed, a demon's driving goals are twofold—the amassing of personal power, and the corruption of mortal souls to cause them to become tainted by sin. In this way demons ensure a never-ending supply of new demons to bolster their ever-growing ranks in the Outer Rifts.

Demons are selfish and self-absorbed creatures, and most firmly believe that mortals only play at being more virtuous than fiends. They enjoy tempting mortals into damnation to both indulge their egos and swell their armies. Like many other fiends, one of the great rewards of this manipulation is fulfilling their hunger for souls. In their eyes, the primary use for these souls is to spawn new demons, who can serve as soldiers, slaves, pawns, or even currency for their more powerful masters.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Demonic Deities

The most powerful demons are known as demon lords (the term is gender neutral in this case). Of these divinities, Lamashtu is the most powerful. Countless other demon lords exist, including Abraxas, Cyth-V'sug, Kabriri, and Zura.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Demonic Sources

When a sinful mortal soul is consigned to the Outer Rifts, it spends time wallowing in the mire and feeding on filth. If it survives and is not itself eaten, the soul eventually ascends into a demon, as influenced by the nature of its sin, yet most demons are themselves capable of reproduction as well. The fecundity of demonic life is perhaps the greatest—and most threatening—aspect of these dangerous fiends.

Sidebar - Related Creatures History of Evil

Before mortals flooded the Universe with their sins, qlippoths (page 280) ruled the depths of the Outer Rifts. It has been ages since a qlippoth has risen high enough to directly challenge the demons' hold, but the ancient fiends still work to weaken their enemies by attacking the mortals that spawn them.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Newcomers to the Rifts

Though now the most plentiful fiends of the Outer Rifts, demons are relative newcomers, spawning only as mortal influence—and mortal sin, in particular—began to shape the plane. For eons, demons fought with other longstanding residents of the Rifts for dominance, but eventually their sheer numbers allowed them to become the predominant fiends of the plane.

Sidebar - Locations Out of the Rifts

The winding, ever-changing realm of the Outer Rifts is the planar home of demonic life, but demons can be found anywhere the capacity to sin exists. Evil or foolish conjurers are fond of calling upon demons for advice or darker needs. When the Outer Rifts wear through the boundaries of reality to create wound-like portals into other worlds, demons can spill over to wreak incredible havoc.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Sinful Destruction

While they enjoy causing destruction themselves, most demons prefer to trick and tempt mortals into falling to sin of their own volition. Unlike devils, who seek control, demons have a taste for ruin.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Uncountable Demons

The Outer Rifts may be the largest of the Outer Planes, and mortals have an equally large capacity to betray themselves, society, and the natural order of reality. With this limitless source for increasingly specialized sins, the Outer Rifts is constantly generating new types of demons to plague reality. While the vast majority of these are swiftly destroyed and never rise again, enough survive that dozens, if not hundreds, of types of demons are known to exist beyond those listed here.

Sidebar - Additional Lore What Makes a Sin?

Some classify sin into seven categories—envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath. While these sins embody some of the most powerful and numerous demons, far more than seven types of demons exist. Any act of cruelty or destruction a mortal takes to gratify the self at others' expense is, in effect, a sin, and any such act can spawn a demon from a soul in the afterlife.