Not to mention the 2025 Monster Manual.

These monsters take toughness to a whole new level.

In Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes,the hierarchy of devil society is laid out quite clearly.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing an empyrean, a kraken and a yeti.

Devils are ranked from one to thirteen, and their form normally corresponds to the devil’s status.

However, the only devils that can claim rank thirteen are the lords of the nine hells themselves.

That’s why they’re often found on the front lines of Hells' armies.

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Pit Fiends are personal servants and bodyguards of the lords of the nine.

Split image screenshots of Yeth Hound, The Tarrasque, and Dragon D&D art.

Even if you defeat one, you’ll likely have to contend with its master soon afterward.

In fact, one of her many titles is Archdevil.

Perhaps the most notorious such story is that of Baalzebul.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a barbed, horned and chain devils.

The devil Baalzebul once ruled over two layers of the nine hells, both Malboge and Maladomini.

First, he turns into a hideous slug for a year whenever he lies to a devil.

Second, any deal made with him will inevitably end in disaster.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a barbazu.

Art by Yongjae Choi

8Glasya

Glasya is the daughter of Asmodeus.

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This was not always the case, though.

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Art by Justin Gerard

The reason behind this imprisonment is still unknown.

Stygia, like Cania, is a frozen wasteland, but an ocean roils beneath the ice here.

In places, the water has broken free of the ice sheet, and giant glaciers float about.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing an ice devil.

Art by Nils Hamm

Asmodeus makes this exception because he feels the two devils complement each other exquisitely.

The two are constantly at one another’s throats, fighting over the singular lordship of the realm.

Neither of them has succeeded in besting the other.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a pit fiend.

Art by Eric Belisle

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a fiendish and celestial empyreans.

Art by Nestor Ossandon Leal

Dungeons & Dragons image showing Tiamat.

Art by Chris Rallis

Dungeons & Dragons image showing Baalzebul from the third edition.

Art by Lars Grant-West

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Bone Devil via Wizards of the Coast

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Art by Michael Broussard

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a mountainous devil city in the nine hells surrounded by fiery chasms.

Fortress in Avernus via Wizards of the Coast

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