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A chasme, or fly demon, was a tanar'ri demon found in the Abyss, though some served the goddess Talona, Mistress of Disease. Chasmes were horrid, disgusting hybrids of flies and humans, with the arms and face of a man but the body of a gigantic fly. They hatched from eggs laid in the corpses of huge demons left lying in the Abyss, and sucked blood through their horn-like proboscises. The droning of their wings could lull an unwary being to sleep, who might awake to find themselves being fed upon and tortured by the cruel demon.

The demonic masters of punishment, torture, interrogation, and torment, chasmes often served greater demons as inquisitors, taskmasters, overseers, or torturers. Some captured runaways and deserters of the Blood War, so they might avoid service themselves. Hence most demons despised chasme, and the feeling was mutual. They were craven creatures, but cunning, with a caution and subtlety few demons possessed.

Chained chasmes pulled the chariot of a nalfeshnee when Impiltur was overrun by demons. Later, gangs of chasme served the monster Imgig-Zu in his schemes, and the balor Errtu against the Companions of the Hall, and flew freely over Menzoberranzan. (Archive | Read more...)