Glabrezu [True Tanar'ri]

This massive, muscular fiend has four arms, two with clawed hands and two with heavy pincers, and a fanged canine head with piercing violet eyes. Its hide ranges from dark russet to black. It speaks by telepathy.

A glabrezu prefers tricks and bargains to battle, but if a plan sours it kills mortals casually, figuring their souls will likely reach the Abyss regardless. It attacks with pincers (2d6 each), claws (1d3 each) and a 1d4+1 bite. A claw hit lets it seize and lift a foe of 150 pounds or less unless the foe passes a Dexterity check; the captive may fight at -4 or use its attack on a Strength check to escape. Only imminent death makes the fiend drop its prey.

Mundane attacks like fire, acid or gas fail against it, as do weapons under +2. Its extra powers, at 10th level, are always-on true seeing and detect magic, power word stun (7/day), and burning hands, charm person, confusion, dispel magic, enlarge, mirror image and reverse gravity. Once a day it may gate a greater tanar'ri (50%).

Glabrezu are the demons that usually answer mortal summonings, and they may plane shift at will, though they rarely leave unbidden. They tempt weak, rash mortals into handing over power. A summoner trusts his magic to stay in control, but the immortal fiend knows each summoning plants a seed of its influence that keeps growing. Hoards of gold and magic in deep Abyssal lairs serve as bait for the next caller.

They siphon power from other planes and use it with surgical care, staying out of the war's carnage while doing subtler, deeper harm. Mariliths dislike them.