Div

Divs are one of the many, many races of fiends that Pathfinder has chosen to create to further flesh out their array of evil outsiders. Partly that was because they were no longer restricted to the Great Wheel; partly they recognised that the yugoloth always sucked, and that the "revived" daemons they had inherited were now servitors of Sheol, no longer of Platonic Evil.

The Divs were mooted first in the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path. They entered the Bestiary series at volume 3. Their origin is in Sasanian-era Iranian mythology... as remembered by the Muslim Samanids, after two hundred years of destruction and memory-loss. But then it's not like we have much of a grasp of Bronze-Age Greek beliefs after their Dark Age, either.

Divs are an array of deranged, nihilistic monsters born from the souls of evil genies, supposedly born out of an ancient war in which legions of genies rose up against ungrateful and abusive mortal masters, only to be defeated by the armies of the gods, who feared the genies would annihilate all mortals. Battered, humiliated and broken, they became servitors to Ahriman, a monstrous power that seeks the obliteration of the multiverse, who twisted them into their current hideous form and charged them with sowing misery and ruination in the material world.

Most of Pathfinder's divs come from Iranian mythology, but not all. The Ghawwas is the water-djinn from Quran 38:37, whom Solomon enslaved.

Doru

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Sepid

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Bushyasta

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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