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[Commissioned by @annotaremonstrorum​, based on a Castlevania monster. A fairly obscure one, too. Despite being a monster girl, and the internet loves monster girls, there’s exactly eight pieces of fanart I was able to find of Lerajie. The name comes from Leraie, one of the Goetic demons, who is said to be a hunter dressed in green, an excellent archer, and able to create festering wounds. I went with a monstrous humanoid rather than a fiend here, because the design doesn’t suggest any of the typical Paizo fiend types, but I wanted to keep them tied to the lower planes through flavor text.]

Lerajie CR 8 NE Monstrous Humanoid This lean, leggy humanoid has pointed ears and green skin covered in small scales. Their feet are oversized and end in reptilian talons. They carry a finely crafted gun.

Lerajies are members of an engineered species, created by a now dead Horseman of War to be snipers and scouts. They are creatures of the Material Plane, but their home world is unknown, and they have been credited with introducing firearms to a number of planets that they have expanded to. Lerajies are trained to clean, assemble and wield guns from childhood, and each one is a deadly marksman.

A lerajie prefers to attack from hiding, sniping in the hopes of taking out a foe before it can close the distance or even find them. They can climb sheer surfaces or even hang upside-down from ceilings, and prefer inaccessible perches from which to take their shots. It can cause bullets to ricochet, turning a miss into a hit, and creatures struck by their bullets can develop debilitating or deadly diseases from infected wounds. If cornered, a lerajie will fight in melee with a simple weapon or their large back claws, but they would prefer to reposition themselves and continue the battle at range. Although they are cruel, most lerajies are not stupid, and will flee or surrender if they are beaten.

Lerajies are often religious, with most of them serving one of the Four Horsemen. Others branch out to various archfiends of war, death, technology, and the intersection of all three. They are tall and lean, standing more than six feet tall but rarely topping 150 pounds. Most have somewhat androgynous features from a human perspective. Their lifespans are equivalent to those of dwarves.

Marquise Leraje / Lerajie / Leraie

May 26th-31st

Candle color: Red

Attributions: Silver, Jasmine, Lemon Peel, Rosemary, Plantain, Bay Leaves

Enn: “Caymen Vefa Leraje.” “Liftoach Pandemonium, Et Germinet Leraie.”

Lerajie is a Day Demon and rules 30 legions of spirits

Goddess of love and pleasure. She has the ability to attract others as well as drive them away.

She causes contests and battles and can cause wounds to become infected [physically and emotionally] and prevent them from healing. Wounds made during battle, esp arrow wounds, will putrefy. Words said during arguments will hurt even more and emotions won’t heal.

Love and war. She can break up love affairs or marriages, or bring people together. Causes the eruption of violence, battles. She provokes confrontation and keeps problems from reaching resolution. She can also help you reconcile differences and deal with difficult people.

Leraje also controls the winds and the climate and can teach the summoner about meteorology and weather forecasting.