Salathiir

Demonlord of Dragons

The Demonlord of Dragon is spoken of in legends. Many powerhungry monarchs and overzealous occultists have attempted to harness its destructive chaos for their own ends. Such was their hubris.

Characteristics

Abilities

Salathiir's tactics are simple: he follows whatever course of action would cause the most suffering. In truth, Salathiir is a cold and calculating demon lord when left to its own devices, and often passes up causing temporary pain in the name of causing greater suffering in the future.
Salathiir is accompanied by a cloud of 2d20 salthezau demons that buzz about him like flies about a corpse.

Lair

Salathiir's lair is the festering pit of despair at the heart of the Abyss that birthed it. In some legends, it is said that destroying the Demon Dragon here will eliminate him forever.
The Demon Dragon lurks within the pool of primordial suffering that spawned him. This lightless void is a 1,000-foot-wide cavern of roughly spherical shape, save for a gaping opening at its top. Its bottom half is filled with viscous liquid that shimmers with oily, spectral colors. This defiling lake has no shores, and a living creature that is not a fiend that touches the liquid or starts its turn touching it must make a DC 21 Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the creature is affected by the confuse spell. If a creature fails this saving throw again while confused, it gains a form of short-term madness. If it fails this save again while affected by shortterm madness, it gains a form of long-term madness. On a failure while affected by long-term madness, it gains a form of indefinite madness.
Each time a creature fails this saving throw, its form warps to become similar to Salathiir.
First, its eyes turn crimson, then its flesh becomes covered in jet-black scales, then its head becomes perfectly spherical and dominated by a gaping mouth of sharp teeth, then dozens of flapping bat wings burst from its flesh. These transformations can be cured individually by a greater restoration spell. If the creature fails this save while affected by indefinite madness, it is transformed into a salthezau demon. Its soul cannot be recovered until the demon is killed and the creature is returned to life by a wish.
On initiative count 20, two salthezau demons spawn from the surface of this pool and attack the closest creature. These winged monsters try to drag Salathiir's enemies into the pool of suffering, just as they once corrupted Aurathiir.

Wealth

Salathiir does not hoard wealth, but his scales are made of a supernaturally powerful material that can only be worked by the most skilled armorers. When destroyed, 3d100 of these scales clatter to the ground, and each is worth 1,000 gp to a master blacksmith. A weapon or piece of armor made from these scales is a +3 Adamantine weapon, armor, or shield.

History

Blood stained with pain drips into the depths of the Multiverse, cascading into its darkest and most sinister crevices. The hatred and agony of the Multiverse accumulates in the abyss, where it simmers and boils like the original elixir that brought forth mortal life.
For eons, a specific type of demon has spawned from this malevolent brew. The Salthezau, also known as Torment Demons, emerge from this well of twisted emotions and spread throughout the planes in pursuit of filling the universe with suffering and perpetuating their monstrous species. These tiny demons resemble large bats and possess three pairs of flapping wings around a spherical body dominated by a large, toothy mouth. Blind, but able to sense the emotions of living beings, Salthezau are relatively harmless on their own. However, when encountered in swarms, they become a terror impossible to escape.
Such was the fate of the dragon Aurathiir, a defender of order and justice during the War of the Ancients. Aurathiir was a benevolent dragon, fighting alongside heroes to overcome the demons. But even the bravest of dragons are not immune to suffering.
While flying in the abyss, fighting the demons in their homeplane, a swarm of Salthezau greater in number than anything he had encountered before attacked him. Despite his valiant efforts, the demons latched onto him, weighing him down until he no longer had the strength to flap his wings.
Thus, Aurathiir fell, tumbling for what felt like an eternity into the heart of the abyss and beyond, until he ultimately crashed into the pools of primordial torment from which the Salthezau had spawned. There, Aurathiir perished.
Centuries later, Aurathiir was resurrected as Salathiir, the Demonlord of Dragon. It is said that every generation, this being of suffering rises from its dark abyssal home to encourage mortal creatures to give in to their darkest desires and plunge the world into pain, hatred, and loss. It is the bane of civilization, the destroyer of peace, and the extinguisher of hope. After gorging itself on torment, it returns to the abyssal pools to heal its wounds and plan its next attack.

Salathiir

(Demonlord of dragon)

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Titles
Suffering made flesh
Race
Demon
Sex
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Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Symbol