This giant, vaguely humanoid fiend is draped in tattered, bloody rags that drag along the ground. Its arms split at the elbow into six separate arms, each with a clawed hand. Pauldrons of black feathers adorn its shoulders.

Each nuckelavee is a greedy fiend, eager to collect any magic item or resource it can use to further its eventual ascension into a fiend lord. It is not above stealing the good luck of its allies to fuel its own continued rampage. For this reason, other fiends tend to dislike the nuckelavee, and thus it is usually encountered alone.

Fate Stealer. Although magic items interest a nuckelavee greatly, it is just as intrigued by the fate and destiny of mortal creatures, which it can steal even more easily. When it steals the luck of a creature with an influential destiny, the nuckelavee learns more about the movings of the cosmos and comes one step closer to its apotheosis. It also gets vague glimpses of the great and terrible things that a creature it has stolen from might accomplish, and can use these visions to set into motion complex schemes to get power that its victim would have rightfully earned were it not for the nuckelavee's interference.

Despoiler of Waters. An incarnation of rot, ruin, despair, and waste, the nuckelavee wallows in the waters of lands its legions have despoiled, tainting them with fiendish diseases, hazards, and poisons (see Ravaged Lands on page 122).

Legions. Nuckelavees typically serve as generals and elite scouts for the Cocytus, Styx, and Tartarus legions.

This towering quadruped has two clawed, gangly arms dangling down below its equine maw. A cloud of wet stink follows it.