ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 6
  con_mod: 5
  dex_mod: 6
  int_mod: 1
  str_mod: 7
  wis_mod: 6
ac: 33
ac_special: null
active_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: A non-evil target must succeed at a DC 32 Will save or become __confused__
    for 1 round, or 1 minute on a critical failure. It is temporarily immune for 10
    minutes.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Derghodaemon's Stare
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Derghodaemon''s Stare** [One Action]  (__divine__, __emotion__,
    __enchantment__, __incapacitation__, __mental__, __visual__) A non-evil target
    must succeed at a DC 32 Will save or become __confused__ for 1 round, or 1 minute
    on a critical failure. It is temporarily immune for 10 minutes.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - divine
  - emotion
  - enchantment
  - incapacitation
  - mental
  - visual
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: claw
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Rend
  range: null
  raw_description: '**__Rend__** [One Action]  claw'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Two Actions
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The derghodaemon makes up to five claw Strikes, each against a different
    target. These attacks count toward the derghodaemon's multiple attack penalty,
    but the penalty doesn't increase until after all the attacks.
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Savage Assault
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Savage Assault** [Two Actions]  The derghodaemon makes up to
    five claw Strikes, each against a different target. These attacks count toward
    the derghodaemon''s multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn''t increase
    until after all the attacks.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Two Actions
  critical_failure: As failure, but the hissing sounds caused by the infestation also
    cause the target to become __confused__ for 1 round; this additional effect has
    the __auditory__, __emotion__, and __mental__ traits.
  critical_success: The swarm disperses as soon as it deals its swarm spit Strike
    damage.
  description: The derghodaemon spews a large swarm, making a swarm spit Strike against
    up to two adjacent targets within range. Whether or not the targets are hit, each
    must attempt a DC 31 Reflex save (at a –2 circumstance penalty if it was actually
    hit by the swarm spit). __Persistent damage__ caused by the swarming infestation
    ends as soon as the creature takes any amount of damage from an area effect. The
    derghodaemon can't use this ability for 1d4 rounds.
  effect: null
  failure: The swarm clings to the target and infests it, dealing 2d6 persistent piercing
    damage.
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Swarming Infestation
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Swarming Infestation** [Two Actions]  The derghodaemon spews
    a large swarm, making a swarm spit Strike against up to two adjacent targets within
    range. Whether or not the targets are hit, each must attempt a DC 31 Reflex save
    (at a –2 circumstance penalty if it was actually hit by the swarm spit). __Persistent
    damage__ caused by the swarming infestation ends as soon as the creature takes
    any amount of damage from an area effect. The derghodaemon can''t use this ability
    for 1d4 rounds.


    **Critical Success **The swarm disperses as soon as it deals its swarm spit Strike
    damage.


    **Success **The swarm clings to the target and infests it, dealing 1d6 persistent
    piercing damage.


    **Failure **The swarm clings to the target and infests it, dealing 2d6 persistent
    piercing damage.


    **Critical Failure **As failure, but the hissing sounds caused by the infestation
    also cause the target to become __confused__ for 1 round; this additional effect
    has the __auditory__, __emotion__, and __mental__ traits.'
  requirements: null
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: The swarm clings to the target and infests it, dealing 1d6 persistent piercing
    damage.
  traits: null
  trigger: null
alignment: NE
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'Derghodaemons represent death through unfathomable violence and being
  eaten alive. Whether in life a ravenous murderer hacked them to bits for stew, a
  werewolf tore them limb from limb, or they simply succumbed to the elements and
  became worm meat, derghodaemons seek to inflict the same twisted and bloody ends
  upon any they come across. Unlike some daemons, derghodaemons derive little pleasure
  from prolonged deaths—to these fiends, the quicker they can enact a gory demise,
  the sooner they can turn their attentions to their next victim and repeat the violent
  cycle.




  Derghodaemons look like walking masses of razor-sharp insect claws connected to
  equally menacing chitinous limbs, but few linger on their appearance for long— the
  gaze of a derghodaemon is enough to cause others in the vicinity to experience severe
  visual warping. The derghodaemon''s appearance becomes more and more twisted as
  those who stare at it experience vicious hallucinations and ravenous urges to inflict
  harm on and devour others. Perhaps the most horrific attack derghodaemons can unleash
  upon their victims, though, is their swarming infestation—the daemons cough up a
  crawling, buzzing cloud of ravenous insects that cling to those targeted and chew
  them to death, provided the mind-numbing, half-whispered threats made by the rasp
  of the insects'' bodies don''t drive them to violent fury first!




  **__Recall Knowledge - Fiend__ (__Religion__)**: DC 30'
hp: 240
hp_misc: null
immunities:
- __confusion__
- __death__ effects
- __swarm__ attacks
languages:
- Common
- Daemonic
- telepathy 100 feet
level: 12
melee_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 3d8+10
    type: slashing
  - formula: 1d6
    type: evil
  name: claw
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - deadly 1d12
  - evil
  - magical
  - reach 10 feet
name: Derghodaemon
perception: 24
ranged_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 2d6+13
    type: piercing
  - formula: 1d6
    type: evil
  name: swarm spit
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - evil
  - magical
  - range 60 feet
saves:
  fort: 21
  fort_misc: null
  misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic
  ref: 24
  ref_misc: null
  will: 22
  will_misc: null
senses:
- darkvision
- scent (imprecise) 60 feet
size: Large
skills:
- bonus: 22
  misc: null
  name: Acrobatics
- bonus: 25
  misc: null
  name: Athletics
- bonus: 24
  misc: null
  name: Intimidation
- bonus: 24
  misc: null
  name: Stealth
sources:
- abbr: Bestiary 2
  page_start: '59'
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 35
  misc: null
  type: Land
spell_lists:
- attack_bonus: null
  cantrips: null
  constants: null
  dc: 32
  focus_points: null
  misc: null
  spell_lists:
  - level: 6
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: blade barrier
    - misc: ×3
      name: feeblemind
  - level: 5
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: dimension door
  - level: 4
    spells:
    - misc: at will
      name: dimension door
  - level: 1
    spells:
    - misc: good only; at will
      name: detect alignment
  spells_source: Divine Innate Spells
traits:
- Daemon
- Fiend
weaknesses:
- amount: 10
  misc: null
  type: good