
With 1000 hit points, barons are the most resilient of all creatures in Doom save for the cyberdemon and the spiderdemon. These bruisers are a lot like Hell Knights, but look a little different and are twice as tough to kill." The original baron description was given to the Hell knight in Doom II's instruction manual.Ī baron will utter a loud, trumpeting bull-like cry when it spots a player. They are described in the Doom instruction manual as such: " Tough as a dump truck and nearly as big, these Goliaths are the worst things on two legs since Tyrannosaurus rex." The Doom II manual later described them as follows: " The Hell Knight was bad news but this is Big Daddy. Barons also appear as regular enemies in the later episodes and in the sequels coincidentally, they and their weaker counterparts the Hell knights frequently appear in pairs. The baron of Hell is an enemy monster which resembles a minotaur, faun or satyr with a pink torso, brown goat legs, and a skeletal face.Ī pair of barons, referred to internally by id Software as the "bruiser brothers," star as the bosses at the end of Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode of Doom. While the nature of this entity is unknown, it must be presumed that as the Royal Guard’s power has significantly increased, so too has the power of their master.This article is about the monster in the classic Doom series. For other games, see: Tablets, retrieved from the Great Steppe in the UAC Automated Survey of 2143, suggest that the Barons of Hell are the current Royal Guard of the unknown dark lord of the fourth age.

In the doomed Project Lazarus Manned Expedition (MTC 2145/128) it is believed that most of the explorers were set upon by Barons of Hell, though the details are unclear. Barons, larger and faster than their lesser brothers, also possess the ability to generate Hell-energy fireballs which can be hurled at a target. It is clear that Barons are ferocious fighters with a bloodlust unparalleled by any other demon. Details regarding their behavior and physiology are therefore limited. They rarely leave Hell, and no Baron of Hell has yet been captured by any of the Tethering Operations. The Baron of Hell is the highest demon among the order of the Hell Knights. He has a pink upper body with a build similar to that of the Hell Knight from Doom 3.

It first appears in Kadingir Sanctum.Īs in the first Doom, a Baron takes the appearance of a muscular, goat legged demon with slightly tan legs and hooves. The Baron of Hell is a powerful, high-ranking hell monster that appears in Doom (2016).
