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“promoted” to become a pit fiend. This process involves
1,001 days of vicious torture in a pool of fire.
If they survive the experience, a new pit fiend
emerges from the pool.
Vreesar functioned well enough in the frozen tundra
where he appeared, but he noted that he and his
kind could never venture much farther south due to
the “heat” of the Realms’ midwinter. Vreesar simply
stated that other baatezu would assemble and command
the armies that would conquer all such balmy
climes of Faerûn.
History: In the year 1366 DR, an interplanar rift
opened north of Damara, near the Great Glacier.
The Harper wizard Jazrac believed that it opened
onto the Paraelemental Plane of Ice and sent the
Harper and ranger known as Martine north to close
it with some magical stones he’d prepared.
After reaching the region, Martine encountered
an ice mephit that called itself Icy-White, which
“captured” her. (See the MONSTROUS MANUAL
tome.)
Icy-White then introduced Martine to Vreesar, a
gelugon from Baator. Whether the rift Vreesar
passed through opened onto the frigid layer of that
plane, known as Caina, or if Vreesar happened to be
on the Paraelemental Plane of Ice (a not unlikely
possibility) when the rift opened there is not conclusively
known. However, Vreesar planned to use the
rift to bring more of his kind-meaning more gelugons
in particular and more baatezu in general-to
Toril in order to attack and conquer it. This would
have provided the baatezu with a strategically important
base in the Prime for the baatezus’ fight
against the tanar’ri in the Blood War. Vreesar conquered
a gnoll tribe by defeating its chieftain in
combat, and the humanoids served as the beginning
of Vreesar’s soon-to-be-vast army.
Martine, with the fallen paladin Vilheim, managed
to close the rift, but then Vreesar sought a
means to reopen it. Though Vilheim perished, Martine
managed to kill Vreesar with Vilheim’s magical
sword, ending the fiend’s threat to the North.
Sources: Soldiers of Ice, MC 8: Outer Planes Appendix,
MONSTROUS MANUAL tome.
Yochlol
Handmaiden of Lolth
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Any
FREQUENCY: Common on the Abyss/Very rare on
Toril
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Omnivore
INTELLIGENCE: High (14)
TREASURE: Nil
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
No. APPEARING: 1 (1-4 on the Abyss)
ARMOR CLASS: 10 (4 as spider)
MOVEMENT: 12, Wb 6 as spider
HIT DICE: 6+6
THAC0: 15
No. OF ATTACKS: 8 (1 as spider or humanoid)
DAMAGE/ATTACKS: 1d4+4 (x8); 1d8 as spider; by
weapon +4 as humanoid
SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below
SPECIAL DEFENSES: cold iron or +2 or better
weapons to hit, immunities (see below)
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 50%
SIZE: M (L as spider)
MORALE: Champion (16)
XP VALUE: 11,000
The drow goddess Lolth’s black webs fill an entire
layer of the Abyss, and the lesser tanar’ri known as
yochlol (or the Handmaidens of Lolth) are her servants
there. They also dwell amongst the outer
planes and throughout the Prime Material wherever
drow elves exist and venerate the Queen of Spiders.
A yochlol has several forms its body can take: a
gaseous form resembling (and with the effects of) a
stinking cloud spell; an amorphous, eight-tentacled
column of slime with a single, glaring red eye; and a
lovely elf or human female shape. Their natural form
is that of the tentacled column of flesh. These
tanar’ri serve their goddess exclusively and do not
become involved in racial or multiplanar affairs such
as the Blood War, which rages between the tanar’ri
and their enemies, the lawful-evil baatezu.
Combat: Each of the yochlol’s forms has different
combat abilities, and the specifics of each form is discussed
below. Regardless of form, a yochlol is immune
to nonmagical fire, all gases and poisons, and
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