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Tier-2 Demons are challenging combatants due to significant melee ability, though their complete lack of ranged attacks can make them less challenging for some characters. They are the second most powerful tier of demon. All of them can open doors.
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Tier-2 Demons are challenging combatants due to significant melee ability. They are the second most powerful tier of demon. All of them can open doors.
 
* {{Red|2}} [[File:Balrug.png]] [[Balrug]]: Fast, wields branded [[demon whip]]s, casts powerful fire magic, and [[smite]]s.  
 
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* {{Blue|2}} [[File:Blizzard demon.png]] [[Blizzard demon]]: Faster than average and capable of casting powerful [[Air Magic|Air]] and [[Ice Magic]].
 
* {{Blue|2}} [[File:Blizzard demon.png]] [[Blizzard demon]]: Faster than average and capable of casting powerful [[Air Magic|Air]] and [[Ice Magic]].

Revision as of 03:25, 15 April 2013

Demons are unholy monsters from the infernal planes of Hell, Pandemonium and the Abyss. They range in difficulty from minor nuisances like the crimson imp to the mighty Greater Demons, and have a wide variety of powers. They can be brought into the world by summoning them, and they also appear in later levels of the Dungeon, especially the aforementioned infernal branches.

All demons are considered evil, and take damage from holy wrath branded weapons and Holy Word. Many gods award piety for destroying them. Makhleb and Xom may grant demonic servants to their worshipers.

In the ASCII version of Crawl, demons are represented by a numeral representing their tier level (1-5).

Demon List

Demons are divided in five tiers:

Tier-5 Demons

Tier-5 Demons are the weakest class of demons. They're common in the early dungeon, and are often summoned in droves by stronger creatures. Only starting characters should have trouble dealing with these. The imps can be summoned by using Call Imp

  • 5 Crimson imp.png Crimson imp: A pesky little beast, blinks and regenerates. Otherwise fairly harmless.
  • 5 White imp.png White imp: Has Throw Frost and a cold-flavoured melee attack. Watch your potions!
  • 5 Shadow imp.png Shadow imp: Casts Pain and occasionally Animate Dead.
  • 5 Iron imp.png Iron imp: More HP and melee power, but slower speed.
  • 5 Lemure.png Lemure: Vaguely humanoid blob with almost no HP or other redeeming qualities, save poison resistance.
  • 5 Quasit.png Quasit: Decent HP and dexterity-draining melee attacks.
  • 5 Ufetubus.png Ufetubus: Resists cold and has decent EV, but is otherwise weak. Summoned in droves by the Level-3 demon ynoxinul.

Tier-4 Demons

Tier-4 Demons are some of the weakest demons in the game. They are occasionally granted as allies by Makhleb's Lesser Servant invocation.

Tier-3 Demons

Tier-3 Demons are demons of average power that display an assortment of capabilities. Some are notably more dangerous than others.

Tier-2 Demons

Tier-2 Demons are challenging combatants due to significant melee ability. They are the second most powerful tier of demon. All of them can open doors.

Tier-1 Demons

Tier-1 Demons (also known as Greater Demons) are among the deadliest opponents in Dungeon Crawl. All tier-1 demons can see invisible, and all Fiends are capable of inflicting Torment. Fighting, or even being in sight of multiple tier-1 demons, is not recommended. Additionally, a worshipper of Makhleb may summon some of them using the Greater Servant ability.