Editing Devourer (section)

==Publication History==
Devourers first appeared in the [[Planescape]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix III for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 2nd edition.

They were updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] in the 3.5 [[Monster Manual]], and had an "Ecology of the Devourer" article that fleshed them out in [[Dragon Magazine]] #355. This stated that the first devourers were the followers of a [[githyanki]] general who rebelled against [[Vlaakith CLVII|Vlaakith]]. They had their souls ripped out and their bodies left to drift in the Astral Plane. The general's corpse came into contact with a color pool to the [[Negative Energy Plane]], reanimating him. He then proceeded to reanimate his entire army.

They then made it into [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], once more appearing in the [[Monster Manual]]. This edition divided the Devourer into three different versions; the original devourer was now renamed the ''Spirit Devourer'', to contrast the ''Viscera Devourer'' (actually a conversion of the [[Mohrg]]), and a new, more powerful devourer called the ''Soulspike Devourer'', which has giant ribcage spears it can impale multiple souls on until it's ready to eat them. 

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], though, they didn't appear until Volo's Guide to Monsters. Here their fluff was changed considerably. Reclassified as [[fiend]]s, they're now [[demons]] created by [[Orcus]].