Daemon, Lagodaemon
"Fluffy Needs to See A Doctor" © deviantArt user Piyratheon, accessed at her gallery here
[The lagodaemon joins my cockentrice as part of a recurring series of food themed monsters. In this case, the inspiration was rabbit starvation, a form of malnutrition from consuming nothing but lean protein by rugged (read: stupid) men during the Age of Exploration. The problem is that malnutrition doesn't exist in Pathfinder; there's rules for starvation, which kills very slowly, and a realistic equivalent of malnutrition would kill even more slowly. So it took me a while to figure out how I wanted to model it mechanically, before hitting on a riff on the geas/quest spell. And, because it's me, developing a rabbit themed monster became a means of adapting a specific Bugs Bunny cartoon. It's Hare Tonic, btw.
I'm not dying of malnutrition, thank Holda, but the Creature Codex Patreon does put food on my table. Chip in, won't you?]
Daemon, Lagodaemon CR 7 NE Outsider (extraplanar) This tall humanoid is monstrously gaunt, with its ribs and hip bones visible underneath its skin. Its skin is covered in suppurating sores, and its hands and feet bear curved claws. Its head is a parody of a rabbit’s skull, albeit with fleshy ears.
Lagodaemons are cruel tricksters that represent death by malnutrition. Their bodies are rabbit like, but they have a surprising affinity for passing themselves off as human. As little as a white coat and a stethoscope can have people assuming that a lagodaemon is really a doctor, for example, and most lagodaemons carry a number of costumes and wigs on hand in order to be able to change their role on the fly. Lagodaemons are social creatures, and use their gift of gab with magical compulsions to convince people to focus their diets on a particular type of food, reject eating some type of food, or simply to cut their diet down to the bare minimum. People who succumb to this dietary geas begin to waste away with alarming speed, although they remain convinced that their new diet is in fact helping them. Attempting to resume normal eating habits without magical intervention causes rapid and dramatic pain and weakness, bolstering these delusions. Once victims are weakened to the point of frailty, the lagodaemon strikes to finish them off.
A lagodaemon will gladly fight to defend itself and eliminate any naysayers before its magical malnutrition can take its full effect. They have sharp teeth and claws, but their primary strengths are magical; those fighting a lagodaemon can be afflicted with magical starvation, horrible rashes and weakening beams. The bite of a lagodaemon carries the dread disease rabbititis, which causes spots before the eyes, coating of the tongue, violent fits, blindness, and delusions of being a rabbit. Especially brazen lagodaemons will loop back around to rabbititis infected patients in a different guise, claiming that their affliction can be cured with just the right change to their diet.
It is thought that the first lagodaemons were created by the meladaemons in order to have a servitor species to push around without having to deal with the goals of other Horsemen or daemonic lineages. If that is the case, it was a decidedly mixed success, as the charming lagodaemons are very good at getting daemons of multiple types to cooperate. They are especially successful as liaisons between leukodaemons and meladaemons, as the malnutrition they spread causes mortals to be much more susceptible to diseases. Their shared skill at manipulating mortal behavior makes them natural allies of placebodaemons, and the two types often work together to soften up a city to prepare it for a mass casualty event.