Demodand

Also known as gehreleths, demodands were said to have been fashioned by one of the baernoloths, primal creations of Evil and exiled because of their chaotic taint.

Description
Demodands had three forms, although other subraces were said to exist, each so hideous that even other denizens of the Lower Planes found gehreleths grotesque. All demodands had corpse-like characteristics, from their loosely hanging skin to the putrid miasma coming off their disgusting forms. As they rose in rank they simultaneously grew heavier.

Personality
Demodands were largely driven by an instinctual urge to bring ruin onto others, a desire that manifested in more sophisticated ways depending on their rank. Rather than create anything, gehreleths destroyed the societies of others, either through direct attacks or subtle corruption. Ruthlessly selfish and wickedly cunning, the mind of a gehreleth was a confusing combination of unfathomable loyalty, intense xenophobia and enigmatic loathing.

They often roamed Carceri searching for new victims, expressing their unbridled hatred for all other entities through random acts of mayhem. > Their refusal to properly participate in the Blood War, primal grudge against the yugoloths, and unconcealed contempt for all non-gehreleths made them hated in turn throughout the entire multiverse. Unlike most other fiends, they were mostly uninterested in the subjugation or manipulation of mortals, preferring instead to sadistically torment them through menace, taunts and acts of brutality.

Demodands thought of themselves as the jailors and wardens of the entire population of Carceri, forcing all others on the plane into their twisted sense of order. Like most convicts of the Tarterian Depths, they scorned those capable of passing through the plane as desired but also saw it as their duty to keep petitioners bound there, making no distinction between travelers and prisoners.

Abilities
Gehreleths were fewer in number than other fiendish races but even the members of their lowest caste were comparable to high-ranking entities from other beings of the Lower Planes. They naturally were under the effect of freedom of movement at all times and could summon other demodands to their aid. They also shared common spell-like abilities, including detect magic, detect invisibility, invisibility, fear and tongues at will, as well as fog cloud, ray of enfeeblement and dispel magic several times per day.

The lower castes could dissolve themselves into the types of ooze they normally secreted. Liquefication in such a way was an agonizing process that took several minutes to complete and the liquid state could be held for centuries. Reforming could take as little as a couple seconds or even longer than the original dissolution depending on outside circumstances.

Society
Demodands were organized in ranks. The lowest of them were the farastus and the nobility was filled by shators, a race of shaggy scribes.

Shators organized plots to increase the demodand race's influence on Carceri. Kelubars were the bureaucrats and farastus the menial laborforce.

Demodands were generally on Carceri and forced their idea of order onto the local population and journeyed to other planes to recapture escapees.

The gehreleths worshiped or honored a patron deity called Apomps, the Three-sided One, a renegade baernoloth who was exiled to Carceri for the act of creating them.

They were servants of Vhaeraun, a drow god from Carceri and were sent by him to the Toril

As of 1372 DR, they were also found on the Supreme Throne, the realm of the mad god Cyric.

History
Demodands were created by Apomps, the Three-sided One, who was then exiled to Carceri. Something about or some action of the farastus caused the entire demodand race to be exiled to the Red Prison too. The kelubars and shators loathed the farastus ever since.

Subtypes
There existed several subraces of the demodands but the most common subraces were the farastu, the kelubar and the shator.

The lowest of the demodands, farastus could undergo a lengthy and painful process of self-liquefaction into the secretion they most frequently exuded. These pools of tar and slime could be bottled and stored for centuries as a kind of "instant army".
 * Farastu

The bureaucrats of the demodands, kelubars could undergo a lengthy and painful process of self-liquefaction into the secretion they most frequently exuded. These pools of tar and slime could be bottled and stored for centuries as a kind of "instant army".
 * Kelubar

The nobility of demodands, a race of shaggy scribes.
 * Shator

Notable encounters
Demodands were encountered in 1357 DR on the plane of Tarterus by the Companions of the Hall.