Ingenious megalomaniacs, the devils known as blast tyrants are convinced of their gods-given right to rule the mortal world. And if anything stands in their way, they bomb it into oblivion. Small of stature but possessed of a vast intellect, blast tyrants are students of axiomite artifice, which they have adapted and twisted to their own infernal ends.

Concocted by an expert tactician, the schemes of a blast tyrant frequently involve misdirection, cat's paws, and asymmetrical warfare. Indeed, several of the most infamous blast tyrants are noted for staging attacks on various mortal worlds using other planets as forward operating bases, retreating to their adopted homeworlds as necessary to avoid ultimate defeat.

Blast Tyrant Contraptions

Blast tyrants are ingenious artificers who study the techniques axiomites used to forge the various outsiders known as inevitables. Blast tyrants use those same techniques to construct their own mechanical minions, and various other contraptions they use to rain destruction down on their foes.

A given blast tyrant may have access to any or all of the following blast tyrant contraptions. Others not listed here surely exist. Unless noted otherwise, a blast tyrant contraption has no market price, and does not count towards a blast tyrant's CR or treasure.

Devil's Arbiter: Crafted by a blast tyrant using techniques only understood by such devils, a devil's arbiter is an arbiter inevitable with the fiendish simple template. Many blast tyrants have a devil's arbiter as a familiar.

Exo-Armor: Exo-armor is a shield guardian iron golem with a landing platform where its head should be. A creature can land a carpet of flying on the golem's platform to ride the golem as a mount, using the rider's Fly skill bonus as its Ride skill bonus for that purpose. Exo-armor can be constructed in the same manner as an ordinary shield guardian iron golem. Unless its market price is counted against a blast tyrant's treasure, exo-armor counts as an independent creature (CR 15).

Golem Beacon: A golem beacon is a bracer-like device that a blast golem can implant in its wrist to create a link between itself and specially-constructed minions. The summon spell-like ability of a blast tyrant with a golem beacon summons alchemical golems instead of barbed devils. A golem beacon is a minor artifact that can only be constructed by blast tyrants.

Interplanetary Teleporter: In settings where the range of the greater teleport spell is limited to a single planet only, blast tyrants frequently construct devices known as interplanetary teleporters. These large, immobile disks allow any creature with greater teleport as a spell-like ability to use interplanetary teleport instead when standing on the disk. A planetary teleporter is a minor artifact that can be constructed by blast tyrants and select other beings.

Ray Gun: A ray gun is a wand-like metal object that draws power from its creator's aura to generate destructive energy. A blast tyrant that constructs a ray gun loses its bomb ranged attack, but gains disintegrate as a spell-like ability usable at will whenever it holds its ray gun. A ray gun is a minor artifact that can only be constructed and used by blast tyrants.

Shantak Beacon: This device resembles the golem beacon described above, except it allows the blast tyrant to summon a fleet of three shantaks with the giant simple template instead of alchemical golems. Each summoned shantak carries a wagon-like metal carriage that can be used to transport creatures. Time each shantak spends using its starflight ability does not count against the duration of the ability that summoned it.