---
title: "Hellbound Attorney"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.NdFrf18BMeIw52iH" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/devil
  - pf2e/creature/type/evil
  - pf2e/creature/type/fiend
  - pf2e/creature/type/human
  - pf2e/creature/type/humanoid
  - pf2e/creature/type/lawful
  - pf2e/creature/type/unholy
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/4
statblock: inline
name: "Hellbound Attorney"
level: 4
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 3"
name: "Hellbound Attorney"
level: "Creature 4"
rare_03: [[Uncommon]]
alignment: ""
size: "Medium"
trait_01: [[devil]]
trait_02: [[evil]]
trait_03: [[fiend]]
trait_04: [[human]]
trait_05: [[humanoid]]
trait_06: [[lawful]]
trait_07: [[unholy]]
modifier: 11
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+11; Greater Darkvision"
languages: "Common, Diabolic"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +10, Deception: +11, Diplomacy: +11, Intimidation: +11, Society: +12, Legal Lore: +14"
abilityMods: [1, 2, 0, 4, 1, 3]
speed: 20 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 3_"
ac: 20
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "20; __Fort__ +9, __Ref__ +12, __Will__ +13"
hp: 60
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "60; __Weaknesses__ holy 2; __Resistances__ fire 4"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Items"
    desc: "[[Equipment/Mace|Elegant Cane (As Mace)]], Legal Ledgers"
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Greater Darkvision|Greater Darkvision]]"
    desc: "  A creature with greater darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. A creature with greater darkvision can see through even forms of magical darkness."

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Abrogation of Consequences"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Trigger** The Hellbound attorney rolls a success or critical failure on a saving throw against a linguistic effect.\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The attorney finds a loophole in the wording of the effect, turning the success into a critical success or a critical failure into a normal failure."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Elegant Cane"
    desc: "+12 (agile, finesse, shove, unholy)\n__Damage__  1d4 + 3 bludgeoning"

  - name: "Divine Innate Spells"
    desc: "DC 21, attack +13; __1st __  _[[Spells/Breathe Fire|Burning Hands]]_"

  - name: "Opening Statement"
    desc: " (auditory,concentrate) **Trigger** The Hellbound attorney's turn begins.\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The attorney enumerates the alleged crimes of a creature they can see and attempts a Legal Lore check against that creature's Will DC.\n\nOn a success, the attorney's Strikes deal an additional 2d6 precision damage (4d6 precision damage on a critical success) to the creature until the end of the attorney's turn."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Hellbound Attorney
creatures:
  - 1: Hellbound Attorney
```



The Hellbound attorney sought the assistance of a [[Monster Core/Phistophilus|Phistophilus]]-one of Hell's contract devils-to bolster her legalistic ability on the Material Plane.

* * *

There are countless legions of lawful fiends in the nine layers of Hell, warring against the celestial planes and scouring the Material Plane for souls to corrupt.
