Wvaske: Add Harvest Profile (CR 3, Uncommon ceiling — 11-slot carcass manifest per Monster Harvesting) and See also; bestiary-wide retroactive harvest coverage

2026-09-17T19:51:05Z

Add Harvest Profile (CR 3, Uncommon ceiling — 11-slot carcass manifest per Monster Harvesting) and See also; bestiary-wide retroactive harvest coverage

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 === [[Session 44 - Garmok's Mine|Session 44]] — The infernal rift beneath the mine ===
 A bearded devil fought among the fiends labouring to free a chained [[Horned Devil|horned devil]] at the rift beneath [[Garmok's Mine]], alongside a hell hound and a lemure. The company and the [[Bronze Blades]] cut them all down; a soul taken by [[Gootcha]]'s crossbow was sent to the [[Raven Queen]] rather than back to the Hells.
 [[Category:Creatures]] [[Category:Fiends]] [[Category:Devils]] [[Category:Rise of Tiamat]]

Wvaske: Session 44 backfill: add Bearded Devil bestiary dossier (new Fiends category — infernal rift arc)

2026-06-18T00:26:13Z

Session 44 backfill: add Bearded Devil bestiary dossier (new Fiends category — infernal rift arc)

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{{Monster Lore
| creature_name = Bearded Devil
| type = Fiend (devil) — a foot-soldier of the Hells, glaive in hand and a writhing beard at its chin
| vulnerabilities = None found; radiant light and a paladin's smite bite it as they bite all fiends
| resistances = Cold; and common steel that is neither silvered nor ensorcelled
| immunities = Fire and poison (the old infernal lore; not put to the test at the table)
| condition_immunities = Poisoned (lore)
| strong_saves = Resists spells readily — the magic resistance of its kind
| senses = Sees in the dark, including the magical kind
| movement = Afoot; no wings
| abilities = Strikes with a glaive and with a barbed beard that reaches farther than any beard ought; its wounds bleed and fester until magically closed (an infernal hurt); as with all devils, slain on this plane it falls to dust and re-forms in the Hells unless its soul is taken first
| confidence = One encounter, at the infernal rift beneath [[Garmok's Mine]]
| encountered = [[Session 44 - Garmok's Mine|Session 44]], the rift chamber
| agent = The company's own account
}}

''A fiend of the Nine Hells, lesser than the [[Horned Devil]] but the same breed of trouble. See also the erinyes [[Zarchelia]].''

== The Harpers' Read ==
The lowest of the proper devils your company has faced, and still no easy kill. It wades in with a glaive and that horrible reaching beard, and like its greater kin it leaves '''wounds that will not clot''' — bleeding that runs on, turn after turn, until a healer's hand closes it. Treat the bleeding as the real danger, not the cut.

The same rules hold as for all its breed: '''radiant''' and '''smite''' tell on it, common steel less so, and your spells may simply slide away. And the same hard-won trick ends it for good — take the soul out of the Pit's reach (the [[Raven Queen]]'s blessed crossbow), or it merely re-forms below and waits.

== Encounters of Record ==

=== [[Session 44 - Garmok's Mine|Session 44]] — The infernal rift beneath the mine ===
A bearded devil fought among the fiends labouring to free a chained [[Horned Devil|horned devil]] at the rift beneath [[Garmok's Mine]], alongside a hell hound and a lemure. The company and the [[Bronze Blades]] cut them all down; a soul taken by [[Gootcha]]'s crossbow was sent to the [[Raven Queen]] rather than back to the Hells.

[[Category:Creatures]] [[Category:Fiends]] [[Category:Devils]] [[Category:Rise of Tiamat]]

Bearded Devil - Revision history

Wvaske: Add Harvest Profile (CR 3, Uncommon ceiling — 11-slot carcass manifest per Monster Harvesting) and See also; bestiary-wide retroactive harvest coverage

Wvaske: Session 44 backfill: add Bearded Devil bestiary dossier (new Fiends category — infernal rift arc)