If a wish can go wrong, a glabrezu will make sure it
does. These creatures are the
ultimate tempter demons, specializing in monkey’s paw wishes with truly horrid consequences. They’re also fierce combatants—Huge, four-armed, and with
spell-like abilities that don’t just hurt, but also wreak havoc when employed (chaos hammer, confusion, power word stun,
reverse gravity, and the ability to summon vrocks or another glabrezu). And they’ll answer planar ally or planar binding
spells if the opportunity is sweet enough, meaning PCs could wind up facing
them anytime they make a powerful enemy.
After losing the
trail of a gelugon, some knights are approached by the ice devil’s direct
rival, a glabrezu, who offers to serve as an adviser and guide. They know the demon will turn on them
at some point but the intelligence he offers is at first glance invaluable.
Adventurers are
forced to turn to a glabrezu to raise their dead friend. At first, they think they have crafted
a loophole-free wish—right up until
the moment a marut shows up, convinced their friend’s soul must be returned to
the Beyond. The adventurers must
choose to flee or fight, neither of which will be easy once the treachery demon
and his summoned vrocks join in, pitting both the forces of Law and Chaos
against them…at least for a few rounds, until the marut can be convinced to
relent or the demon’s discipline breaks and they attack the hated inevitable.
An efreeti malik and
a glabrezu square off in a duel of wishcraft. After some haggling over the terms (the genie limiting
himself to three wishes a month
within the city of the duel, versus the glabrezu’s one), they each choose a
mortal to tempt, the goal being to create as much tragedy as possible. Both are bound to cheat of course—the
demon with summoned allies, the genie
with wishes cast just outside the
duel’s confines—and after only a few months of this game, the cumulative
horrors from wishes gone awry begin
to mount.
—Pathfinder Bestiary
61
As usual, James Jacobs has a bit more on the glabrezu in Book of the Damned, Vol. 2: Lords of Chaos.
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