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Thanadaemon (Death Daemon)
Also known as the deacons of death, thanadaemons represent death via old age. They're among the most patient daemons and prefer to bide their time to enact far-reaching, decades-long plans rather than fight (though they're still deadly foes). Like the Apocalypse Rider of Death, they ply the waters of the River Styx in search of wayward souls. Rarely are thanadaemons seen without a trademark oar (which they wield as a bo staff), a tool they use to navigate the river's muck-ridden channels and turbulent rapids.Recall Knowledge - Fiend (Religion): DC 31
Unspecific Lore: DC 29
Specific Lore: DC 26
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Changes from being Weak are marked in red below.NOTE: The -2 damage penalty to non-strike offensive abilities (-4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.
Weak ThanadaemonCreature 12
Medium Daemon Fiend Unholy Source Monster Core 2 pg. 80
Perception +24; darkvision, truesight
Languages Common, Daemonic; telepathy 100 feet
Skills Arcana +20, Deception +24, Intimidation +24, Religion +20, Styx Lore +22
Str +6, Dex +6, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +5, Cha +7
Items +1 striking bo staff, soul gem
AC 32; Fort +19, Ref +21, Will +24; +1 status to all saves vs. magic
HP 250; Immunities death effects; Weaknesses holy 10
Terrifying Gaze (aura, divine, emotion, fear, mental, visual) 30 feet. When a creature ends its turn in the aura, it must attempt a DC 28 Will save. If the creature fails, it becomes frightened 2. The creature is then temporarily immune to terrifying gaze (but not Focus Gaze) for 24 hours.
Speed 25 feet, fly 25 feet
Melee [one-action] bo staff +26 [+21/+16] (magical, parry, reach 10 feet, trip, unholy), Damage 2d8-2+16 bludgeoning plus 1d6 void and draining strikeMelee [one-action] claw +25 [+21/+17] (agile, finesse, magical, unholy), Damage 3d6-2+17 slashing plus draining strikeDivine Innate Spells DC 32 (-4 dmg); 7th execute, interplanar teleport (at will; self plus skiff and passengers only; Astral; Ethereal; and unholy planes only), teleport; 6th slow, vampiric exsanguination (×2); 5th translocate; 4th translocate (at will); Constant (7th) truesight
Rituals DC 32 (-4 dmg); 2nd create undead
Draining Strike (divine) When a thanadaemon damages a living creature with a melee Strike, the creature must succeed at a DC 31 Fortitude save or become drained 1. Further damage dealt by the thanadaemon increases the drained condition value by 1 on a failed save, to a maximum of drained 4.Focus Gaze [one-action] (concentrate, divine, fear, visual) The thanadaemon glares at a single creature they can see within 30 feet. The target must immediately attempt a DC 31 Will save against the thanadaemon's terrifying gaze. If the target was already frightened, a failed save causes it to become fleeing for 1d4 rounds; this second effect has the incapacitation trait. After attempting its save, the creature is temporarily immune to this ability until the start of the thanadaemon's next turn.Soul Crush [two-actions] (manipulate) Requirements The thanadaemon has a soul gem; Effect The thanadaemon crushes the soul gem in one hand and gains fast healing 15 for 1 minute.
Styx Passage Fees
Gliding with eerie ease along the murky River Styx, thanadaemons are only too happy to offer mortals passage aboard their dilapidated skiffs—for a price. Gold is typically an acceptable payment for a thanadaemon's services, though these fiends are well-known for altering the details of arrangements after the fact and may just as likely demand a favor or some esoteric good, such as a soul gem, instead of coin.All Monsters in "Daemon"
Daemon
Source Monster Core pg. 72 1.1Denizens of the bleak and terrible plane of Abaddon, daemons are shaped by and devoted to the destruction of life in all its forms. They seek the death of every mortal being by the most painful and horrible means possible, in service to the Apocalypse Riders. Each kind of daemon represents a different way to die, and their powers are nearly always aimed at spreading that particular form of death. Through the use of these powers, they seek to drag all existence down into a pit of hopelessness and despair, and to commit all souls to oblivion.
While mortals who summon daemons usually seek to use the creatures' destructive and corrupting powers for their own ends, daemons always look for ways to spread fear, doubt, and despair wherever they go. Often, daemons disguise their plots as the workings of other fiends, knowing that such confusion compounds mortals' fear and keeps those mortals from bringing the most effective weapons. As a result, learned mortals sometimes refer to daemons as “riders” after their leaders or “soul mongers” after their largest industry.
While many fiends seek to tempt mortals into lives of nihilistic evil to increase their own numbers and power on their native planes, daemons are further driven by a supernatural hunger for mortal souls and use a variety of methods—not least of which is the cacodaemons' soul gems—to entrap them. On Abaddon and in other forbidding places across the multiverse, souls are simultaneously a delicacy, a trade good, and a source of magical power, and the daemons are among the greatest gluttons, merchants, and abusers of this spiritual “resource.”
Daemonic Divinities
Numerous powerful and unique daemon demigods, known collectively as harbingers, rule over swaths of Abaddon. Above these demigods, though, are entities of even greater power—the four Apocalypse Riders. As the eons go on, the names and identities of specific Riders change. Currently, they consist of Apollyon (Rider of Pestilence), Charon (Rider of Death), Szuriel (Rider of War), and Trelmarixian (Rider of Famine). Of these, only Charon has never fallen to an upstart. Some hold that a “Fifth Rider” once ruled over the other four, while others maintain that the eternally eclipsed sun in the skies above Abaddon is all that remains of this long-dead god.
Other Daemons
As many daemons exist as there are awful ways to die. The bloody sangudaemon personifies death by blood loss, while the skeletal thanadaemon represents death from old age. The most powerful daemons are the olethrodaemons, who represent the massive deaths caused by apocalypses and the end of entire worlds.
Soul Gems as Treasure
Soul gems are traded in illicit markets, a tradition celestials and psychopomps alike find vile. Soul gems' value varies, but they're generally worth an amount relative to the level of a gem's captive soul. The Daemonic Paradox
Daemons embody a fundamental paradox—while they are incarnations of death and seek to devour all that lives, they are themselves living creatures. Some speak of a glorious end time after which reality will finally be free of the contagion that is life itself. Most daemons give no thought to this paradox.
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