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Coloxus (Fly Demon)

Although the coloxus has the hideous head of a monstrous fly, these demons are fastidious and clean, always dressing in stylish clothing without a blemish on them. Coloxuses are manipulators and schemers born from destructively vain souls. Evil mortals are fond of conjuring them to serve as emissaries or spies, but they also make excellent assassins. Even in the role of murderer, the demon remains cloyingly polite and formal, reveling in the irony of perpetuating such a horrible crime under the guise of good etiquette, as if it were a delicate bit of diplomacy.

Recall Knowledge - Fiend (Religion): DC 30
Unspecific Lore: DC 28
Specific Lore: DC 25

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ColoxusCreature 12

Legacy Content

CE Medium Demon Fiend 
Source Pathfinder #200: Seven Dooms for Sandpoint pg. 189
Perception +22; darkvision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Infernal; telepathy 100 feet, tongues
Skills Acrobatics +21, Arcana +21, Deception +23, Diplomacy +23, Religion +22, Stealth +25, Thievery +23
Str +5, Dex +7, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +4, Cha +5
AC 33; Fort +22, Ref +25, Will +18; +1 status to all saves vs. magic
HP 270; Immunities disease; Resistances poison 10; Weaknesses cold iron 10, good 10
Filth Vulnerability A coloxus despises contact with filth and dirt. A small amount of filth held in the hand can be used against a coloxus as a Strike that has the thrown 5 feet trait, and that inflicts 2d6 mental damage on a hit. Forcing a coloxus to fall into or become immersed in filth deals 6d6 mental damage per round.Vanishing Words [reaction] Trigger The coloxus rolls initiative with Deception or Diplomacy and can cast invisibility Effect The coloxus casts 4th-level invisibility on itself.
Speed 25 feet, fly 30 feet
Melee [one-action] jaws +25 [+20/+15] (finesse, magical), Damage 3d8+8 piercing plus 1d6 evil and siphonDivine Innate Spells DC 32, attack +24; 6th shadow blast, summon animal (giant arthropods only); 5th abyssal plague, dimension door; 4th confusion, invisibility, suggestion; Cantrips (6th) message, prestidigitation, telekinetic projectile; Constant (6th) tongues
Droning Wings [two-actions] (divine, evocation, mental, visual) Frequency once per day; Effect The coloxus flutters its shimmering, gauzy wings and creates a mesmerizing display of color along with a sound-dampening buzzing drone. If the coloxus is invisible, that effect ends and it becomes visible. All creatures within a 30-foot emanation must succeed at a DC 29 Will save or become slowed 1 (slowed 2 on a critical failure) until the start of the coloxus's next turn. As long as Droning Wings continues, the coloxus gains immunity to sonic damage. The coloxus can Sustain Droning Wings for up to 1 minute.Siphon When a coloxus damages a creature with its jaws Strike, it siphons away the target's physical vitality and drinks from their sense of self-worth and confidence. The coloxus gains 10 temporary Hit Points, and the creature must succeed at a DC 32 Will save or become stupefied 1. Further damage dealt by the coloxus increases the stupefied condition by 1 on a failed save to a maximum of stupefied 4.Sneak Attack A coloxus deals 2d6 extra precision damage to flat-footed creatures.

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Enemies Of Filth

Filth is often inescapable in the Abyss, and as a result, coloxus demons are particularly eager to be conjured away from that plane to work their evils in cleaner realities. When one uses planar ally or planar binding to conjure a coloxus, summoning it into a clean environment and promising you won't compel it to serve under filthy conditions may make the demon easier to bargain with. At the GM's discretion, the demon may agree to serve you for longer or at a lower cost than normal.

All Monsters in "Demon"

NameLevel
Abrikandilu (Wrecker Demon)4
Babau (Blood Demon)6
Balor (Fire Demon)20
Brimorak (Arson Demon)5
Coloxus (Fly Demon)12
Degholau (Treason Demon)13
Eshmok (Wasp Demon)9
Ghalzarokh (Tyranny Demon)15
Glabrezu (Treachery Demon)13
Hezrou (Toad Demon)11
Imvath (Apocalypse Demon)19
Invidiak (Envy Demon)7
Kalavakus (Slaver Demon)10
Katpaskir (Nihilism Demon)18
Kithangian (Beast Demon)9
Miastrilek (Spider Demon)11
Nabasu (Gluttony Demon)8
Nalfeshnee (Boar Demon)14
Omox (Slime Demon)12
Pusk (Sloth Demon)2
Quasit1
Roru (Hunter Demon)7
Seraptis (Suicide Demon)15
Shemhazian (Mutilation Demon)16
Succubus (Lust Demon)7
Urglid (Grave Demon)13
Vansidieth (Pride Demon)18
Vavakia18
Vermlek (Worm Demon)3
Vloriak (Despoiler Demon)5
Vrock (Wrath Demon)9
Vrolikai (Death Demon)20

Demon

Source Monster Core pg. 76 1.1
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.