Gelugon

Gelugons, also called ice devils, led the infernal legions of the Nine Hells. They were cold-hearted commanders that despised weakness and saw frailer devils as entirely expendable.

Description
Gelugons were blue and white, insectile bipeds that stood about tall and weighed around 700 lbs (320 kg). Their hands and feet ended in claws and their long, thick tails were surrounded in spikes. Their heads hosted a set of antenna, sharp mandibles, and a pair of multifaceted eyes.

Personality
Gelugons resented the weak and respected the powerful, regardless of their allegiances. They begrudgingly cooperated with weaker devils, seeing them as either pawns or outlets for their frustration. Their desire for the power held by the pit fiends ingrained not only diligent loyalty, but also a crippling fear of making mistakes. While ice devils still schemed to obtain souls for their masters, they avoided complex plans and attempted to delay the end of their plans until after they were promoted.

Abilities
Gelugons were savage warriors that fought their enemies with their claws, pincers and tails. The body of a gelugon, but particularly the tail, was surrounded by an aura of numbing cold that slowed those they struck. They were also known to freely exude an aura of fear that caused most to run in terror, and slowly regenerated when not harmed by good-aligned spells or weapons.

An ice devil's magical abilities allowed them to fly, and manipulate the cold in various ways, but their ability to create walls of ice was particularly chilling, freezing those that approached them and dissipating into dangerously frigid air when destroyed. They had a wide variety of devils they could attempt to gate in for assistance, including lemures, barbazus, osyluths, or another ice devil.

Combat
Gelugons were goal-oriented, fighting only if needed to complete their mission but never backing away from necessary battles or easy victories. Their wicked savagery was fully displayed when they were not leading soldiers into battle, as their hatred for weakness led them to destroy their frailest foes first. They favored unarmed combat, destroying their targets with their numerous natural weapons or using their supernatural abilities to send enemy ranks into disarray. Because of the important nature of their work, it was possible that losing ice devils would be fortunate enough to have a pit fiend come to their aid. Despite their preference for unarmed combat, one in four gelugons wielded barbed spears so chilling that most were paralyzed by their frost. Their typical combat strategy was to immobilize the frontline first, allowing them to use their speed and reach to strike at softer enemies thus preventing their victims from fleeing.

Notable Gelugons

 * Vreesar was a gelugon that led an attempt to conquer Toril from a portal in the Great Glacier in 1366 DR. He was stopped by a Harper ranger named Martine and a former paladin named Vilheim.