Excruciarch

Excruciarchs, also called pain devils, were mercenary baatezu torturers.

Description
Excruciarchs resembled bald. pale-skinned humanoids with red eyes that typically wore bloodstained leather aprons and masks. They stood just under tall and weighed about.

Personality
Excruciarchs were orderly creatures, but were also extremely cruel. They greatly enjoyed torturing helpless beings. When fighting, pain devils liked to lure an almost-defeated opponent into a false sense of hope by seeming weaker than they were, just to be able to extinguish the hope of victory or escape when the cruel fiend won.

Combat
Excruciarchs typically used scourges in combat, and preferred to fight in pairs. Their normal strategy involved luring a foe away from their group, and they made extensive use of the range their hell scourges gave them.

History
In the later years of the 15 century DR, the Ashmadai cells in Neverwinter were known to employ pain devils.