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Execuloths are a specialized type of daemon. They appear as women with horns, a secondary set of arms, small cervinoid hooves, and a tail ending in a stinger. They sport wings of batlike shape but draconic or reptilian-like flesh, their outer sides covered in quill-like scales that hiss in flight. Execuloths tend to have notably sharp incisors. Skin color and ethnic features are highly variable across human, part-human, and human-like species.

Execuloths speak a number of fiendish and otherwise occult tongues as a rule, as well as many mortal languages. Their own language, however, is a specialized daemonic dialect suffused with insectoid clicks, thrums, buzzes, and rattles. Execuloth society is complex and fairly obtuse to the outside observer, but can at least partly be discerned by their names. Execuloth names are composed of a caste name, personal name, and brood name. Observed caste names are Zə, Mu, Ga, Re, and Nə (with the latter noted as a highly-regarded caste); observed brood names include Gamio, Zajio, Kouma, Zain, and Gadoru.

Execuloths are not as overtly evil as some fiends, but still predicated toward malice. In their fullest capacity, they make up a nightmarish bureaucracy snarling every possible thing in red tape, a system whose priorities all seem to twist like eldritch angles to oppress and disappoint at every turn. When summoned, their options are often limited, and thus they express their malice through an amazing talent for pettiness. This is especially prevalent if an execuloth has been employed to contribute to a system's efficiency at things other than being kind of awful; she will do a very good job of it, but also find other avenues for tiny, bitter evils.

Of note is the nature of execuloth reproduction; a mating pair's preference is to acquire a mortal who they will generally kill and magically preserve. The young-bearing partner will then inject the young into the preserved corpse as an incubator. They are capable of carrying young themselves, but the lack of maternity leave policies makes this difficult. Entering the world within a confined space leads most execuloths to develop an appreciation for tight spaces. Some may feed this need by sleeping under piled pillows, while some have been known to build "nests" under furniture to sleep in. In their native environment, they occupy hives of apartment-like burrows in spires of ominous stone or vast and terrible skeletal remains.