Devil, Erinyes

Some calamity has befallen this angelic warrior. Wings-stained black shear the air as her merciless eyes searches for a target.

Family: Devils

Medium fiend (devil), lawful evil

Armor Class 18 (plate)
Hit Points 153 (18d8 + 72)
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +8, Wis +6, Cha +8
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren’t silvered
Damage Immunities fire, poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages Infernal, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 12 (8,400 XP)

Special Traits

• Hellish Weapons: Their weapon attacks are magical and deal an extra 13 (3d8) poison damage on a hit (included in the attacks).
• Magic Resistance: They have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

• Multiattack: The erinyes makes three attacks.
• Longsword: Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands, plus 13 (3d8) poison damage.
• Longbow: Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 13 (3d8) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned. The poison lasts until it is removed by the lesser restoration spell or similar magic.

Reactions

• Parry: The erinyes adds 4 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the erinyes must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.

Daimon, Erinyes

Family: Daimons

Medium fiend, lawful evil

Armor Class 18 (natural armor)
Hit Points 110 (13d8+52)
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

Saving Throws Constitution+8, Wisdom+6, Charisma+4
Damage Immunities electricity, poison
Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren’t silvered
Condition Immunities poisoned
Skills Insight +6, Perception +6
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages Common, Infernal
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)

Special Traits

• Foment Madness. Any creature that isn’t a demon that starts its turn within 30 feet of the erinyes must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw, or it whispers of its sins in its head for a moment and has disadvantage on its next attack roll, saving throw, or ability check. If the saving throw against Foment Madness fails by 5 or more, the creature is instead subjected to the confusion spell for 1 minute (no concentration required by the erinyes). While under the effect of that confusion, the creature is immune to Foment Madness.
• Vengeful Tracker. The erinyes knows the distance to and direction of any creature against which it seeks revenge, even if the creature and the erinyes are on different planes of existence. If the creature being tracked by the erinyes dies, the erinyes knows.

Actions

• Multiattack. The erinyes makes three attacks: two with its scourge and one with its snake hair, or one with its bite, one with its claws, and one with its snake hair.
• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.
• Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) slashing damage. If the target is a creature against which the erinyes has sworn vengeance, the target takes an extra 14 (4d6) psychic damage. Instead of dealing damage, the erinyes can grapple the target (escape DC 16) provided the target is Large or smaller.
• Scourge. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage plus 17 (5d6) poison damage.
• Snake Hair. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage.
• Vengeful Glare. The erinyes targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it and against which it has sworn vengeance. The target must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the target is paralyzed until the erinyes deals damage to it, or until the end of the erinyes’ next turn. When the paralysis ends, the target is frightened of the erinyes for 1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if it can see the erinyes, ending the frightened condition on itself on a success.

About

Before you hovers a creature that only passably resembles a woman. Its eyes weep tears of blood, huge wings protrude from its shoulders, and its hands and feet are tipped with awful claws.

The erinyes are punishers of those who commit murder, perjury, ingratitude, disrespect, harshness, violation of filial piety and the laws of hospitality. They will track down the criminal to the ends of the earth and drive him mad. An erinyes stands about 6 feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds.

Tartarus Bound. When they are not tracking down the guilty, erinyes reside in Tartarus to torture the damned.

They are sacred to Hades and often in his employ. In Infernus they reside on the Sixth Circle and are interchangeable with the Furies.

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Devil, Erinyes (The Furies)

Some calamity has befallen this angelic warrior. Wings-stained black shear the air as her merciless eyes search for a target.

Known by many names—the Fallen, the Ash Wings, and the Furies—the devils called erinyes mock the form of the angelic hosts in their exaction of vengeance and bloody justice. Executioners, not judges, erinyes alight upon the bladed eaves of Dis, Hell’s cosmopolitan second layer, ever attentive for chances to soar into battle, whether in defense of Hell, on the whims of diabolical masters, or at the impassioned summons of jilted mortal summoners. All erinyes weave deadly living ropes from their own hair, which they use in battle to lift their foes into the air, mocking and condemning their victims for their transgressions before dropping them from great heights.

They appear as darkly beautiful angels, augmenting their sensuality with deliberate bruises and scars. Yet despite their beauty, erinyes are not seducers—they lack the subtlety and patience required for such fine emotional manipulations, and instead vastly prefer to solve their problems with swift and excruciating violence. Often, an erinyes will stay her hand before attempting to slay a foe simply so she can draw out the victim’s suffering.

Death is usually the only way to escape their not-so-tender attentions, and the most powerful of these devils excel at keeping their enemies alive but helpless so as to extend their torment—many going as far as to keep their victims alive with magic. Rumors hold that the most powerful erinyes torturers have skills that allow their torment to continue even after their subject has died from their attentions.

Most erinyes stand just under 6 feet tall and weigh approximately 140 pounds, even with their black-feathered wings that stretch over 10 feet wide.

Combat

Erinyes prefer to engage in combat from a distance. They use charm monster to distract or disorganize their opponents, then rain down fiery arrows from above.

An erinyes’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as evil-aligned and lawful-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

• Entangle (Ex): Each erinyes carries a stout rope some 50 feet long that entangles opponents of any size as an animate rope spell (caster level 16th). An erinyes can hurl its rope 30 feet with no range penalty. Typically, an erinyes entangles a foe, lifts it into the air, and drops it from a great height.
• Spell-Like Abilities: At will-greater teleport (self plus 50 pounds of objects only), charm monster (DC 19), minor image (DC 17), unholy blight (DC 19). Caster level 12th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.
• Summon (Sp): Once per day an erinyes can attempt to summon 1d4 Erinyes with a 50% chance of success. This ability is the equivalent of a 3rd-level spell.
• True seeing (Su): Erinyes continuously use true seeing, as the spell (caster level 14th).