Editing Tanar'ri (section)

===Generic and Unclassified Demons===
During second edition, demons were renamed Tanar'ri.  When third edition was released, they started calling them demons again and made Tanar'ri the word for the largest category of demons, with the rest being [[Loumara]] or [[Obyrith]], and a few random demons that don't fit into any of the three.  [[Dragon Magazine]] Issue #359 groups some of these demons into Servitors, demons created by gods like the yochlol, The Created, demons artificially created by less powerful beings like the quasit (even if the abyss has started forming them spontaneously like other demons), and Beasts, the abyss's equivalent of animals like the skulvyn.  Additionally, during fourth and fifth edition several new demons were added and were never categorized.  This list does not include monsters that were only demons in 4th edition, such as the various types of [[Yugoloth]]s.  We will list these demons here because we don't have anywhere else to put them.  This list is probably incomplete.

* '''[[Abyssal Chicken]]''': A very weak joke monster that looks almost nothing like a chicken aside from having the legs and flavor of one.  They grow like fruit from trees in the abyss.
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* '''[[Abyssal Drake]]''': A failed attempt to create flying mounts for demon lords by breeding demons with dragons and wyverns.  Their breath deals fire and unholy damage at the same time.
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* '''[[Abyssal Eviscerator]]''': Dumb four armed demons that fight by grabbing enemies and tearing their guts open.
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* '''[[Abyssal Maw]]''': A demon consisting of a [[Xorn|giant vertical mouth with three eyes and several short clawed arms]].  In 5th edition it is said that their mouth leads directly to the belly of [[Yeenoghu]].
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* '''[[Abyssal Scavenger]]''': A quadrupedal demon with a vertical mouth.  These demons are individually very weak, but they are extremely dangerous to summon because they can multiply extremely fast if there are no other demons keeping their numbers in check, and they can form portals to the abyss when a large number of them are gathered in one place.
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* '''[[Abyssal Skulker]]''': Sneaky but weak demons.  Looks very similar to the Abyssal Scavenger, probably because the scavenger recycled the design.
* '''[[Abyssal Ravager]]''':  A demonic hyena with a scorpion tail. In fifth edition this demon was combined with the [[Shoosuva]].
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* '''[[Abyssal Rotfiend]]''': Undead demons with psychic powers made of demon and devil flesh stitched together.
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* '''[[Abyssal Wretch]]''': A victim killed by a Rutterkin or a Sybriex in 5th edition may rise as an abyssal wretch.
* '''[[Abyssal Wurm]]''': Two-headed half-centipede half-dragons born from [[Tiamat]] screwing a demon lord called Kothok.  They are used for guarding portals in and out of the abyss.
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* '''[[Ash-Wrought Soulburner]]''' Fiery demons that once were [[Efreet]]i.  They suck the heat out of living creatures.
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* '''[[Bebilith]]''': Giant spiders that hunt other demons.
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* '''[[Blood Demon]]''': Not to be confused with the blood fiend.  These mysterious demons are [[Slime|oozes]] made of blood that randomly appear in the abyss in swarms before vanishing again.  One theory is that they are the remains of an [[Obyrith]] lord killed by [[Tharizdun]] that are trying to reform.
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* '''[[Bloodseep Demon]]''': Another four armed demon.  They can spray blood from their body that heals other demons and is poisonous to other creatures.
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* '''[[Bonegouge Assassin]]''': Shadowy skeletons with big claws.  These demons are believed to have been created by [[Orcus]] by transforming mortal assassins.
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* '''[[Clockwork Horror]]''': Demonic constructs, usually resembling spiders.  And they can multiply.  They killed the demon lord that created them and swarmed across the abyss before the demon lord [[Haagenti]] managed to get control over them.  They likely would have wiped out all organic life if he hadn't.
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* '''[[Consumptive Parasite]]''': Small demons that attack in massive swarms.  They were once [[Slaad]] tadpoles corrupted by the abyss.
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* '''[[Deathdrinker]]''': Extremely arrogant demons with an aura that harms the living and heals undead.
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* '''[[Demon Spawn]]''': The taint of the abyss sometimes causes mortals to give birth to demons.  Evil spellcasters and [[Hag]]s can also create them on purpose with dark magic.  They resemble their humanoid parents but with scary deformities.
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* '''[[Dust Demon]]''' Dust demons are formed from tribes of [[Djinn]]i who were transformed by the abyss into insane masses of living wind and debris.  A single dust demon is actually made up of many smaller dust wisps which are each the corrupted soul of a Djinn.  Theoretically it might be possible to transform a Dust Demon back into the Djinni it used to be by capturing a single wisp from it and healing it of its madness, then allowing it to return to the dust demon.
* '''Elemental Demons''': A family of demons that spawned from the shattered souls of Tanar'ri and Baatezu that were killed by the backlash of a powerful spell cast by a wizard to trap the pit fiend Balruhk the Invinsible as part of a deal with his political enemies while he was in the middle of a major battle.  The known types are Air, Ash, Earth, Fire, Ice, and Water.  Wild elemental demons act like little more than animals.  More powerful demons can force them into service but they are very unreliable.
* '''[[Evanissu]]''' (City Corruptor): These demon appear in corrupt cities and work to make them even worse them though a campaign of murder and terror, leading a gang of criminals and other urban monsters.
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* '''[[Evistro]]''' (Carnage Demon): Muscular demons with bright red skin.  They become stronger when groups of them are close together, but they also have a tendency to attack their allies during combat.
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* '''[[Ferrolith]]''': A [[Succubus]] that [[Wat|fell into a pool of molten iron]].  They gained iron-hard skin but lost their beauty.
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* '''[[Fire Demon]]''' [[Awesome|Skeletal demons who are constantly on fire.]]  Comes in lesser and standard forms.
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* '''[[Guardian Demon]]''': These tentacled monstrosities get their name from the fact that they are easy to magically bind into service as a guardians.  They come in two varieties, the weaker Abominations, and the powerful Soul Drinkers.
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* '''[[Ghour]]''': Another [[Minotaur]]-like demon engineered by [[Baphomet]].  Weaker than goristros but still powerful.
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* '''[[Gnaw Demon]]''': Small annoying demons that are always eating and can teleport.
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* '''[[Haures]]''': Undead demons with the upper body of a minotaur and the lower body of a giant spider, created by [[Orcus]] from the bodies of fallen Goristros.
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* '''[[Immolith]]''': An undead demon skeleton that is also on fire.
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* '''[[Jarrlak]]''': Icy horrors who kidnap people and encase them in ice while keeping them alive so they slowly die over decades in an icy torment.
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* '''[[Malgodemon]]''': A large and scary looking but not very smart demon that serves smarter creatures as thugs.  They are extremely greedy and can be easily bribed into turning on their current master.  Oddly, this creature is named similarly to the other demons that were [[Yugoloth]]s or daemons in editions other than 4th, and it is associated with [[Raavasta]], which is 4th edition's version of the arcanaloth, but there doesn't seem to be a yugoloth or daemon version of the malgodemon in other editions, unless it is in an obscure source.
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* '''[[Mahataa]]''': Blind but very powerful demons made of mud.
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* '''[[Nashrou]]''': Alien-looking demons with four legs and six arms, but no head, just a cluster of eyes where their twisted limbs all connect.  They are surprisingly weak and can be instantly killed by hitting them in the right place.
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* '''[[Needle Demon]]''': Spiky demons that mind control people into thinking their allies have betrayed them.
* '''[[Neldrazu]]''': Yet another four armed demon.  At least these ones look a little different.  They have pincers on all four arms instead of hands and four eyes and a single tentacle on the back of their head.  They ambush enemies while they are in combat with other demons and teleport away with the enemy to separate them from their group.
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* '''[[Kazrith]]''': A powerful eel-like aquatic demon.  They can also rapidly travel underground using acid to melt through the ground.
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* '''[[Pod Demon]]''': A large green slimy hulk that produces smaller minions from the pimples on its body that it uses as living weapons.
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* '''[[Quarrak]]''': These small goblin-like demons are actually very powerful for their size.  All quarraks have a twin they are constantly fighting with when they are not fighting together against other creatures.  If one dies the other will die a few days later.
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* '''[[Quasit]]''': The chaotic version of an [[Imp]].
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* '''[[Rageborn]]''': Ape-like demons who serve [[Kostchtchie]]
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* '''[[Retriever]]''': Technically not a demon, but actually a powerful construct resembling a giant spider created by demons. In 5th edition they are retconned as creations of the [[Drow]] instead.
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* '''[[Ruin Demon]]''': Demon-shaped swarms of flies with human faces that consume all other organic creatures except for plants.
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* '''[[Runespiral Demon]]''': A demon that wears a rune covered shell on its back like a hermit crab.  Their are multiple types of Runespiral demon but the most common ones shoot lightning.
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* '''[[Rupture Demon]]''': Tentacled blobs of darkness that sacrifice themselves to restrain enemies so stronger demons can kill them.  When a rupture demon dies they also release an explosion of goo and tentacles that heals and boosts the power of another demon.
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* '''[[Shoosuva]]''': An obscure undead hyena monster that only appeared in magazines until it got to a appear in a book for the first time in 5th edition.  Now instead of an undead, it is a demon hyena that serves [[Yeenoghu]], given only to [[gnoll]]s who have earned his favor.  Looks like a giant hyena with a scorpion's tail.
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* '''[[Scion of Zuggtmoy]]''': Fungus-infested skeletal demons made of demons and mortals transformed by being buried alive in [[Zuggtmoy]]'s Gardens of Rot, or by being infected with the spores of another Scion.
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* '''[[Seszrath]]''': An undead demon formed from many corpses fused together.  It is a huge hulking creature with octopuses for hands, the feet of an elephant, a huge lamprey mouth on its belly, and a small head.
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* '''[[Shaadee]]''': An undead demon formed from the soul of a mortal spellcaster who swore themselves to a demon lord in life and their master forced them to continue serving in death.
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* '''[[Skulvyn]]''': A lesser aquatic demon with an aura that slows down other creatures around it, resembling a lizard with webbed feet and four tails.
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* '''[[Spawn of Juiblex]]''': These [[Slime|ooze]] demons are formed from pieces of [[Juiblex]] and so they resemble smaller copies of him.
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* '''[[Tlacatecolo]]''': Looking like a small emaciated [[owlbear]] (that can fly), already a bad sign. The Tlacatecolo delights by spraying mortals with its Plague Winds and watching the ones that survive the cold damage slowly succumb to exhaustion. The disease halts progression and can only be cured while the victim is in direct sunlight, which can be a problem (crippling if not death) if the party is in the Underdark or on a plane without a sun. They can also transform into a owl around the size of a man (becomes that's not suspicious).
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* '''[[Tomb Demon]]''': A serpentine demon with a pair of bony arms.  The first Tomb demons spawned from the battlefield where [[Orcus]] and his army battled and defeated the demon lord Sylbarax and his army who used to be servants of the snake god [[Zehir]].
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* '''[[Voracalith]]''': The most gluttonous of all demon.  They resemble humanoids with four long tentacles with stingers on the ends growing from their back.
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* '''[[Whisper Demon]]''': Ghostly demons who try to drive mortals into committing suicide.  They could turn those who died around them into [[Allip]]s under their control.
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* '''[[Writhing Crag]]''': Evil [[Roper|tentacled boulders]] that were once some elemental earth creatures such as [[Xorn]]s.
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*'''[[Wendigo]]''': A demon that possesses a person who has committed the sin of [[Cannibalism]] and transforms them into a monster.
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*'''[[Wrackspawn]]''': Good aligned souls who were kidnapped from their proper afterlife and tortured into insanity by demons.  They wield spears that they craft out of their own bones.
*'''[[Yochlol]]''': The handmaidens of [[Lolth]], the Yochlol are shapeshifters who can freely change between their [[drow]] form, a spider form or that of [[slime|a great mass of yellow ooze with a single staring eye]]. They enjoy Lolth's protection from other demons and act like it, but they'll get brutally murdered if another demon thinks it can get away with it.
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* '''[[Zovvut]]''': Muscular demons with massive claws, feathered wings, and three eyes.  Probably created by [[Orcus]].  It can heal itself by draining life from those who look into its eyes.  Victims who are killed this way rise as [[wight]]s.  In 4th edition, Zovvuts were redesigned to be prettier and they were retconned into being fallen angels of [[Tharizdun]].
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* '''[[Zythar]]''': Powerful demons resembling a humanoid flame wearing armor.
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