# DEMON OF DESPAIR
Tier 3 Skulk
A cloaked one-creature with long limbs, seeping shadows.
Motives & Tactics: Make fear contagious, stick to the shadows, undermine resolve
Difficulty: 17 | Thresholds: 18/35 | HP: 6 | Stress: 5
ATK: +3 | Miasma Bolt: Far | 3d6+4 mag
Experience: Manipulation +3
FEATURES
Depths of Despair - Passive: The Demon deals double damage to PCs with 0 Hope.
Your Struggle Is Pointless - Action: Spend a Fear to weigh down the spirits of all PCs within Far range. All targets affected replace their Hope Die with a d8 until they roll a success with Hope or their next rest.
Your Friends Will Fail You - Reaction: When a PC fails with Fear, you can mark a Stress to cause all other PCs within Close range to lose a Hope.
Momentum - Reaction: When the Demon makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.
Attribution
This content is from the [Daggerheart SRD](https://github.com/seansbox/daggerheart-srd/blob/main/adversaries/Demon of Despair.md) by Darrington Press, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Source: adversaries/Demon of Despair.md
Repository: seansbox/daggerheart-srd
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