Alu Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri]

An alu demon, the daughter of a succubus and a human man, looks like an attractive woman with strong, striking features. Only her wings and sharply upswept eyebrows betray her, and if she can hide the wings she passes for human 70% of the time. Alu demons usually speak by telepathy but sometimes know other languages too.

An inborn sixth sense warns her of coming danger 75% of the time. Her only natural weapons are fists and teeth, dealing ordinary human damage, but 75% carry enchanted weapons, often gifts from their fiendish mothers. Most are standard bonus weapons (+1, +2 and so on), with a 15% chance of something special, which she relies on and never gives up willingly. With each normal melee hit (1d8 damage) she heals half the damage dealt, rounded up.

Her base AC 5 is an inheritance from her mother and improves with enchanted armor or protective items. As with weapons, 75% wear magical armor of standard types, with a 5% chance of something special such as plate mail of etherealness.

In addition to the common tanar'ri powers, every alu demon, whatever her wits, can use charm person, ESP, suggestion, dimension door (once a day) and shape change (only into a humanoid of about her own height and weight). All have 240' infravision, and only cold-wrought iron or magical weapons harm them. A full 10% have Genius intelligence; these keep all their sisters' powers and are also mages of 1st to 12th level who may draw on every school but never specialize.

Pulled between two natures, alu demons are spiteful even by fiendish standards. They see themselves as outcasts, neither human nor tanar'ri, and other tanar'ri agree, treating them as lowly and purposeless. Only their power keeps them ranked among the lesser tanar'ri.

About 20% are chaotic neutral or true neutral. This usually happens when a succubus mates with a human who is not evil and the daughter inherits a trace of her father's conscience.