Hellhound

If you were looking for the 40k vehicle, see Hellhound Tank.

The Hellhound is a monstrous creature from mythology, taking the form of a massive wolf or dog with connections to demons or devils (assuming there's a difference). It frequently appears in various tabletop games as a relatively low-tier extraplanar monster, often with multiple heads and/or the ability to vomit fire over anybody it doesn't like. In Dungeons & Dragons, they're one of the oldest and most recognizable "infernal beasts", far more than their counterparts the Hellcats, and noted for being extremely evil but pack-orientated, and also for spewing fire everywhere. In Pathfinder, you have both the fire-breathing hellhounds and the Cerberus, a bigger, nastier variant with multiple heads, no fire breath and no skin.

It's probably worth noting the original Greek mythical Cerberus apparently really was just a huge good boy with three heads according to some ancient depictions, with him chilling next to Hades and not looking especially-horrifically-fearsome as he probably did during his day job as guardian of the underworld. Also, there's some speculation that Cerberus means "spotted" which would mean that Hades basically named his giant, three-headed dog monster Spot like many other unimaginative kids.

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