Kyton

Kytons or Chain Devils are a fiendish race present in both Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder.
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.
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. They have been renamed "Velstracs" as of PF 2nd Edition, presumably to protect Paizo from litigation.
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An Augur Kyton, the lowliest and most common type in Pathfinder.
The Fiends of Pathfinder | ||
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Lawful: | Asuras - Devils - Rakshasas - Velstracs | |
Neutral: | Daemons - Divs - Sahkils | |
Chaotic: | Demodands - Demons - Lilus - Nindorus - Qlippoth | |
Any: | Oni | |
Lords: | Ahriman - Archdevils Demon Lords - Four Horsemen |
The inhabitants of the Planes of Planescape | |
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Upper Planes | Aasimon • Angel • Animal Lord • Archon • Asura • Eladrin • Guardinals • Lillend |
Middle Planes | Formians • Githzerai • Inevitable • Marut • Modron • Rilmani • Slaadi • Kamerel |
Lower Planes | Alu-Fiend • Baatezu • Bladeling • Cambion • Demodand • Erinyes • Hag • Hordling • Imp • Kyton • Loumara • Marilith • Obyrith • Succubus • Tanar'ri • Yugoloth |
Transitive Planes | Astral Dreadnought • Githyanki |
Inner Planes | Azer • Elemental • Genie • Grue • Mephit • Salamander • Sylph |
Sigil | Dabus • Cranium Rat |
High-ups | Archangel • Archdevil • Archfey • Archomental • Demon Prince |