Kocrachon

Kocrachons were insectoid baatezu devils often employed as torturers in the Nine Hells.

"Think bein' killed's painful? Try not being killed."

- An unfortunate individual being kept alive by kocrachons.

Description
Kocrachons were tall devils with exoskeletons like those of beetles, enameled, dark blue-purple carapaces that could open from the back and reveal wings with which they could fly. They had six thin, long limbs, each tipped with claws, two legs and two pairs of arms. Each of their arms ended in opposable pincer-claws capable of fine manipulation, one pair being large enough to do serious harm and the other being too small and weak to cause injury by themselves. Their small heads were equipped with three waving antenna and long, serrated proboscises that jutted out from their foreheads, just above the beady eyes that stared out from under their chitin.

Personality
Kocrachons were utterly sadistic, taking genuine pleasure in inflicting pain on others. These personality traits made them natural torturers.

Combat
Although they were quite capable of defending themselves, kocrachons usually avoided straightforward combat, preferring instead to torment their enemies slowly.

Kocrachons preferred relying on their innate magic when fighting. These abilities included animate dead, cure moderate wounds, desecrate, detect good, detect magic, dispel magic, magic circle against good, liquid pain, major image, sorrow, suggestion, teleport without error, wave of grief, wither limb, wrack, and blasphemy. They could also occasionally summon other kocrachons to aid them.

Like other baatezu, kocrachons were immune to poison and fire, and were less susceptible to to harmful sources of acid and cold damage.

Society
Many kocrachons could be found in the service of greater baatezu, usually working as torturers in great infernal citadels. The archdevil Dispater was known to employ over a thousand kocrachons on the layer of Dis.

They were usually encountered in groups of between three and six individuals.

History
In the, the imp Boonmoppet attempted to lure mortal bypassers into a cave near Daggerford, where he would ambush them using summoned kocrachons.

Appearances

 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford