Kyton

Pathfinder chose to depict its basic kyton in a more seductive fashion.

Kytons or Chain Devils are a fiendish race present in both Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder.

D&D

Originating in D&D, the Kyton is a minor fiend native to the third level of Baator, where they rule the chain-woven city of Jangling Hiter. Characterized as humanoids wrapped up like mummies in barbed chains, kytons are notorious for their skill at wielding chain weapons and their sadistic love of inflicting pain. Whether they're actually a strain of Baatezu or a minor fiendish race subliminated to diabolic rule is unclear.

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Pathfinder

In Pathfinder, Kytons have stepped out of the hells and gotten a lot more development. Now residents of the Plane of Shadow, the Kytons of Pathfinder are... well, essentially they're Barker Coenobites. Obsessed with pain, pleasure, and the limits of the flesh, they are a race of twisted flesh and mutilating metal, servitors of the mad God of Pain, Zon-Kuthon. Their leaders are demigods known as Demagogues. They have been renamed "Velstracs" as of PF 2nd Edition, presumably to protect Paizo from litigation. Canonically the word "Kyton" means "Master" or "Virtuoso" in the Velstrac's language, so the reason they didn't / don't mind being called Kytons was because they see it as a form of flattery.

Types of Velstrac

Almoner

The ones who forge the chains and blades that all the other velstracs dress up in. They look like halflings with 3 sets of arms and no legs. They are blind, deaf, and mute.

Apocrisiarus

Obsessed with truth and incapable of lying. They physically and mentally cut off pieces of their victims until they are reduced to "a single truth". They look like humans with blank white eyes crying blood, with various knives stabbed into their body.

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Apostle

Mortals who have been turned into velstracs.

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Augur

The lowliest and most common type of velstrac, these guys were humanoid at one point, but have been squashed into a meatball to fit inside a 1-foot diameter floating metal sphere covered in spikes.

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Cantor

Act as scouts and guides. They look like grey skinless children with glowing red eyes.

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Ephialtes

After a velstrac kills their 999th victim, they can undergo a ritual to turn them into an Ephialtes, an ugly frankenstein worm thing that, despite having a leadership role, is significantly stupider than the average velstrac.

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Eremite

Second in command to the Demagogues. They have skeletal wings and are always looking for new body parts to replace their heavily mutilated flesh.

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Evangelist

Your classic blue-skinned Chain Devil.

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Interlocutors

Surgeons/fleshsculptors akin to haemonculi.

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Lampadarius

The divine servitors of Zon-Kuthon. They cut out pieces of their flesh and replace it with shadowstuff.

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Libitinarii

Obsessed with cold and ice. They have icicles pierced through their hands. Typically servants of the Demagogue Inkariax.

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Oitos

Skeletons!

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Ostiarius

Gatekeepers and emissaries between the Material and the Plane of Shadow. A crown of red gemstones juts out of their heads.

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Phylacator

Jailers and executioners. Curiously the only Velstracs, that *don't* like being called Kytons adventurers who make the mistake will be corrected firmly, but politely, exactly once.

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Precentor

Storytellers and historians. They charm people into following them around and screaming at the top of their lungs.

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Sacristan

A created slave race.

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Suffragan

Also called "Joyful Things", these are velstracs who have undergone the Joymaking ceremony, where they have their arms, legs, eyes, ears, nose and tongue removed. Chains, barbed whips, and other artificial appendages are attached to the stumps.

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Termagant

Constantly pregnant and giving birth to more velstracs.

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Velstrac Demagogues

• Arrogus, the Abbey Maker

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• Barravoclair, Lady of the Final Gasp

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• Fharaas, the Seer in Skin

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• Inkariax, the White Death

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• Kaikyton, the Stitchweaver

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• Morrobahn, the Parasite Seed

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• Raetorgash, the Skull-Hoarder

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• Sugroz, the Voice in Screams

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• Vevelor of the Broken Dream

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Velstrac-spawn Tiefling

Introduced alongside a bunch of other variant tieflings in the splatbook Blood of Fiends.

Ability Modifiers +2 Con, +2 Cha, -2 Wis

Alternate Skill Modifiers: Escape Artist, Intimidate

Alternate Spell-like Ability: Web

Traits:

Chain Master: +2 trait bonus on combat maneuver checks to trip opponents with a chain or whip.

Pain Artist: +2 trait bonus on Intimidate checks on against helpless creatures

The Fiends of Pathfinder
Lawful:	Asuras - Devils - Rakshasas - Velstracs
Neutral:	Daemons - Divs - Sahkils
Chaotic:	Demodands - Demons - Lilus - Nindorus - Qlippoth
Any:	Oni
Lords:	Ahriman - Archdevils Demon Lords - Four Horsemen