Lemure

Lemures were among the weakest devils. Lemures were the shock troops and laborers of the devils. The most selfish, cruel, and evil mortals that died and came to Hell become lemures. The only things lower in the devilish hierarchy than lemures were nupperibos, which were strange gangly limbed bloated creatures with no minds or eyes.

Description
A lemure was a hideous creature, appearing as nothing more than a man-sized blob of molten stinking flesh with a permanent expression of anguish. It oozed across the ground as it moved. They stood about 5 feet tall and weighed about 100 pounds.

History
After a mortal soul had been thoroughly tortured for an untold time, its soul was wracked with pain and infused with hatred. It was at this time that the devils then transformed the soul into one of their own. The mortal soul was corrupted with infernal power and turned into the least powerful of the devils: a lemure.

Combat
These mindless fiends made up the rank-and-file of the infernal legions. They shambled forward at the command of their masters' whips, thoughtlessly slaughtering everything in their path. When not engaged in battle, lemures were left in the fiery spawning pits of Hell to torture any mortal souls that they found swimming amid the hellfire.

Lemures usually attacked their prey by clawing them apart. They were individually weak and their tactics, or what passed as such, consisted of swarming their enemies relying on their numbers. Said numbers could reach more than thousand under a single devil commander. This tactic did not rely utterly on the numbers. As dumb lemures were, they were capable of marching in a special wedge formation that allowed them to hit more accurately.

Lemures were hard to kill. They had an inherent regeneration ability. This ability was not the fastest regeneration ability, but it was very tenuous. Even when somebody managed to turn a lemure into ash, over time, they fully regenerated. One way to permanently kill them was to use holy things like holy weapon or holy water to kill them.

Society
Lemures were the lowest of the devils. They existed en masse in infernal armies that were thrown into the Blood War.

As low a lemure's position was, they had a shot at high positions in the infernal hierarchy. Every lemure was at least theoretically capable of rising through the ranks up to pit fiend rank and from there to higher to nobility.

Appearances

 * Novels:
 * Sword Play