Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix. ↑ Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008).Edited by Michele Carter, Penny Williams. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook (October 2000).↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins ().In the 5th Edition Monster Manual, cambions are simply the offspring of any variety of fiend with any humanoid. Then, with 4th edition a fourth meaning was given: the child of a human and a devil. The Expedition to the Demonweb Pits adventure threw in a third definition, claiming that a cambion was the child of a demon and a tiefling.
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In 3rd edition, it was a synonym for any humanoid half-fiend (according to the Monster Manual 3rd edition). In 1 st- and 2 nd-edition Dungeons & Dragons, and by extension the Forgotten Realms, "cambion" was a term that meant the always-male offspring of a demon and a human female. Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Novels The Glass Prison Video Games Baldur's Gate III See Also.Īppendix Appearances Adventures Hellgate Keep Raphael, a devil that targeted a group of adventurers who were infected with modified illithid tadpoles in the late 15 th century DR.Kaddrus, cambion sent by powerful nobles in Tethyr to protect the Hhune family's secrets.Acererak, a cambion who later became a lich.Lorcan, sole son of the erinyes Invadiah.Thraxxia, though described as resembling an alu-fiend, was the daughter of Graz'zt and a mortal female, and thus a cambion by most definitions of the word.Isair and Madae, the children of Belhifet and leaders of the Legion of the Chimera.Kaanyr Vhok the Sceptered One, leader of the Scoured Legion.Ĭambions bred true with each other, but they often preferred to seek out humanoid mates to create tiefling children. and they were often catalysts for major events. Ĭambions were very ambitious and always put as much effort as they could into whatever they attempted, maybe either to prove themselves to a parent or to themselves, but regardless, they made great leaders, information brokers, etc. They then warned demons of the mortals' approach and let them do what they did best so the souls could be turned into larvae or manes. Ĭambions excelled in luring mortals to the Abyss the only demons better at it were succubi. Good-aligned cambions were rare, but sometimes, if their mother was good- or neutral-aligned, they took on her non-evil nature and were subsequently doomed to a life of loneliness, as not even their demonic patrons would accept them. Loners by nature, they liked to get lost in the crowds of large cities, especially in places where people didn't ask questions. Many though, were made ambassadors to the worshipers of various demonic powers, usually Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Orcus and Lolth. Never accepted by either society, cambions invariably grew up bitter and twisted but, due to their powers, they often became exceptional assassins. The mothers of true cambions always died in childbirth, serving to strand the newborn on the Material Plane, where it would be orphaned, or in the Abyss where it would be abused by the demons who looked down upon such children. The offspring of a mortal male and a succubus was a different creature known as an alu-fiend. After the Spellplague of 1385 DR, the terminology and usage of this term shifted to mean the union of a mortal female and a devil. They also further delineated this terminology to create "noble cambions": marquis and baron cambions were similarly sired by a demon lord father and a female humanoid half-fiend. Some sources stated a "true" cambion" was the union of a planetouched woman (usually a tiefling) and a tanar'ri. The exact meaning of the term "cambion" has differed over the years.
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