Killed somehow? Id like to think he was on a ladder trying to install a chandelier for her and she decided to watch him. Well me misplaces his foot, it catches on the underside of the ladder step and he falls holding onto the chandelier but it falls on her and basically just kills her. He wakes up and it's like "aww.......shit."
You don't have to go to hell if you never die. Sell your soul to one demon for an ancient scroll or some shit, then sell that priceless artifact to another demon from a rival company in exchange for immortality.
Then could it be possible that Graz'zt also went after Asmodeus'es daughter, but left Hell and became a horny demon lord before Asmodeus could do anything?
Perhaps he hired a mortal to sell their soul in a contract to bind her to him, trying to make her accidentally write her own marriage. Asmodeus was like "nope, freeze your balls off for eternity"
please for the love of god I need more exposure to Anthraxus THE Oinoloth. 5E did the yugoloths a disservice making the oinoloth just another baddy with some meh abilities
@@gabrielmohammadi8500 I totally agree with you. The Mordenkainen's Tome Of Foes was a true disgrace to the 'loths already established lore. I just consider the said book as a massive campaign of disinformation thrown in the material plane by the greater 'loths to fool the mortals. After all, they want you to believe that they only are simple fiendish mercenaries. If you want an enjoyable in-depth experience with the 'loths in your campaign, use the 2e lore contained in source books such as "Face of Evils - The Fiend" and discover the true potential of the puppeteers of the Blood War :)
I like to interpret Fierna and Belial's relationship as a loveless marriage that neither can escape from, but they often get to points where the fighting gets bad enough that one tries to overthrow the other. The moment Belial struggles with his work, the bureaucracy starts to pile up and Asmodeus complains that everything is on more fire than usual. When Fierna isn't managing the contracts and meeting the soul quota, the casinos and brothels start acting like legitimate businesses, and Asmodeus starts complaining about getting fewer souls.
@@joeslippy1571 From what I've read, their relationship is really inconsistent between stories, and 5e decided to just shrug when deciding whether they were father/daughter, married, or maybe both. Even in the case where they are related, does it really matter? They're literally archdevils.
I really love not having to sit through 40+ minutes of repeating pictures and boring monologue to learn d&d lore. Dare I say, best lore series on RU-vid. Keep up the good work. :)
0:38 doesn't matter if you can find Acererak's phylactery. We dumped him in lava, cast Cone of Cold over said lava thereby solidifying it with him inside. Our Dao friend then cast Stone Shape to carve his rocky prison out, and when we got out of the fungeon she Plane Shift'd us to Mt. Celestia where we had his rocky prison coated in adamantine and thrown tot he bottom of the holy water sea surrounding Mt. Celestia. In the rock he can't move, can't speak, can't cast. Being a lich he can't starve to death, die of asphyxiation, or age to death. He'll be stuck there until the magic keeping him Lich'd fails because he's not able to feed his phylactery. He can't even sleep, and therefore he can't dream. All he can do is think about how much he hates the smug Dwarf Paladin who suplex'd him into lava with the line "How does it feel to know you brought this upon yourself? How does it feel to be stupid?".
@@Darknight4434 Going off Acererak's stats, he has 285(30d8+150) hp (XGtE 6). Wading through lava does 10d10 fire damage a round (DMG 249). Acererak could technically survive a round and be hit by the CoC but in order for him to be frozen over, he would have to die to the spell. A CoC at 9th level deals 12d8 cold damage. Assuming that Acererak took the maximum amount of damage from wading through lava and the CoC, and assuming he is not contained otherwise afterwards, he would still not die from one round of lava and 9th level CoC and the following turn would die from the lava and turn to dust.
@@anthonysoliven7977 The point was not to kill him, but to trap him. Flash-freezing the lava solidified the top layers thereby trapping him in solid stone.
@@Darknight4434 Naw, he's got crazy HP. The lava hurt him (My Paladin survived thanks to the fly spell. He's crazy, not stupid.) Then the lava was solidified before it could kill him.
@@gabrielrussell5531 If your DM, allowed you to freeze...lava...then more power to your party. And CoC states that it only freezes upon killing a creature, but realistically it could flash freeze the area around it. But I mean, going off Wall of Ice as a baseline for magic ice to be thawed or melted or 'destroyed,' it's certainly impossible to even flash freeze lava. Going off of Wall of Ice and Ice elementals, most things that are ice-based have a vulnerability to fire.
"Don't deal with Devils." B-but, that one promised me a +2 longbow that insults anything it fires at... Edit: In lieu of freaking out over the number of likes, I'll sweeten the deal - IN THE VOICE OF GILBERT GOTTFRIED!!!
Should be a sling instead Edit: Sling of Insults (tentative). This weapon yells out an insult when it is being used. This weapon does not need ammo, and deals 1d4 psychic damage instead of bludgeoning. When attacking with this weapon, instead of rolling a ranged attack, the enemy has to make a WIS saving throw and is hit on a failure. Yes, I know it's just Vicious Mockery without the disadvantage part. I came up with it on a whim.
1:41 There's actually a few ways into the Abyss. There's the gate-town connecting it to the Outlands (Neutral outer plane) and there's planar travel magics. (Which don't work for Demons)
Dealing with Zariel seems a little like dealing with Odin. Die, show up, fight until you die again, wake up, repeat til end of existence. Honestly I'm surprised there isn't a barbarian/warlock cult that trains everyday waiting til they can join her.
I'm imagining a zealot barbarian devoted to Zariel who the party defeats at some point, but who returns as a devil later with some of his powers retained from life.
Also her pacts make for really great simple warlocks. "Some motherfucker wronged me. Sold my soul to take revenge on him, and now am wandering around, both enjoying life and gathering strength and favor, because if I'm gonna fight a war forever, I do NOT want to be on the front lines".
Not only that, she is literally the only devil who doesn't care about her wealth and power, just fighting demons. Also her contract doesn't include eternal suffering, just, you guess it, more demon-killing. And she is one hell of a B O S S. Being Solar pre-fall, she is being mentioned as one of the two greatest fighters in Nine Hells and obviously superior than Geron (the other one).
Zariel's entire thing is just straight rage and fighting, which is kind of amazing? It's completely simple and her whole thing about dealing is you kill for her and when you die, you continue to kill for her
You forgot to mention that Asmodious also eats Heretics, Blastphemers, & Athiests, and that he's essentially a big Snake called an Ouroboros from the days when the elements were about as stable as a Grandma's Hand when she's eating Peas with a Fork during an Earthquake. "Mammon is sitting on a pile of Gold as big as your Mom (essentially it's infinite)" xD
@@dragoliched1977 I honestly don't fully remember. If that wasn't Asmodious, it might have been the other half of the Dual Ouroboros, which landed on the summit of Mount Celestia. I know that Asmodious' Blood was used to make the Celestial Snakes tho, so they're essentially Asmodious' babies. The opposite can be said for the Devils ironically, they're the babies of the one atop Mount Celestia since they're made from that one's Blood. Obviously both creations are corrupted by their Creator & Regional influence (hence the Lawful Good Angel Snakes for example, the Snake part was Asmodious)
@@BlueNEXUSGaming the one that landed on mount celestia started with a J and wasn't Ahriman. Ahriman's blood created pit fiends while J's created the Coualtls. (Definitely mispelled that.)
@@dragoliched1977 Nope, it was not the Blood of the Mt. Celestia Ouroboros which created the Couatl, it was in fact the Blood of the Champion of the Elemental Chaos which was a Snake Type Ouroboros that goes by the name of Asmodious. Asmodious' Fall created the giant Snake shaped Hole in the 9 Layers of Hell, and his Blood, falling from the Mouth of the other Champion, gave birth to the Couatl as it fell upon Mt. Celestia. If Ahriman was the Blood used for the Pit Fiends, then it is Ahriman sitting atop Mt. Celestia. P. S. The 9 Hells is also an inverted Mountain as well, hence why each Layer is smaller.
@@BlueNEXUSGaming I just checked. The blood from Jazirian's tail after Ahriman/Asmodeus bit it off formed the Couatls, while the blood from Ahriman/Asmodeus' tail after Jazirian bit it off and he fell to bottom of the nine hells created the pit fiends. P.S. I knew the current nine hells looks like an inverted mountain. I play dnd a lot as a DM. forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Jazirian forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Asmodeus
yup, the operate under extremely complicated rules and contracts that they HAVE to follow or get hella punished. They even have an actual court system where they will give mortals an Erinyes as a lawyer if they don't have one, who will ACTUALLY try to defend them if the devil breaks the contract on their side.
@@red_comet_3326 imagine humans, but uglier and mildly more evil. tbh they're an incredibly dull race, in my opinion, as proven by the fact that wotc has never really done anything with them. You could replace them with an evil mage using an army of mutants and lose nothing.
No no no trying to overthrow asmoudeus is legal mordenkainesns tome of foes page 15 " He conspired to topple Asmodeus and replace him, which in itself was not a crime. "
In a campaign I was in the whole party signed a Contract. My character has since died... He was a Chaotic Neutral Barbarian named Udoroth and I can't wait to see what the DM Does with him.
This is quite useful...particularly for all the new tiefling subraces from "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes". Dispater is great for a character who is essentially being used as a spy...their connection to Dispater allows them to send him juicy bits of information they discover over the course of the game. Glasya, in fitting with the whole "mafia" thing, would be good for a rogue character. Zariel is like some wonderful boon for Conquest Paladins...pretty sure that her hell-scape would seem like heaven for a Conquest Paladin.
3:38 Another fun thing about this place I feel should be mentioned. Due to some politics shit, this place was briefly ruled by a night hag named Malagard. Either because she literally got too big from power or Asmodeus just wanted to make room for his daughter, Malagard grew to enormous size and then exploded, throwing giant bits of dead night hag everywhere that are still rotting. Her massive skull now is the base structure around which Glasya's palace is built. The whole place is really interesting, I recommend anyone who is interested look more into it, it's actually pretty cool.
Bard: so let me see if I understand. If I sign the contract you will give me a magic harp that makes me the best harpist when I play it? Devil: yes, no strings attached. Bard: good good... wait a second... no strings attached...
Levistus was a masssssssive man sloot before being put on ice. In the 3.5 manual Tyrants of the Nine Hells one of the posited theories DnD put was that he made a move on Azzy's main slam piece
i love that primus is just the uninterested father of all the gods "son, please, can't you see i'm sending more minions to go on a march? talk to one of the maruts about it."
I love how asmodeus has constructed the biggest lie so much so that he could've won the blood war from the very beginning but he doesnt want to yet because he's wounded and has been healing those wounds for millenias and his own true form and name is a lie, he's literally a snake named ahryman.
Depending on how long you've been playing p&pRPGs, demons, devils, dyvals, daemons, and other creative spellings of those two words represent completely separate, unrelated, and often antagonistic races.
"When you started playing DND, and devils came up, you probably thought..." Me: "Google, I will go to hell, find you, and make you pay for foiling my prank on those 4 sleeping adventurers."
So I wrote up a contract with a devil in one of the games I played and I was the one who wrote it and basically what it was is that I would handle all of the background work of managing Zarials plane while she goes and beats up demons also I get immortality and stuff
And here I am, an intellectual, who knows that Asmodeus is actually a big-ass snake that created the entire multi-verse alongside his good counterpart, and is responsible for the creation of the Abyss too.
@@jacobvanveit3437 So... Tharizdun took a part of the bleeding snake body of Asmodeus and with it created the Abyss? Thought that Asmodeus' actions by breaking the Ouroboros was the chaotic act that created the first abyssal plane.
So, if Mephistopheles sends me a contract offer that gives me access to his infinite knowledge (with the catch that I'd basically become his slave), can I then go to Glasya and ask her to write me a counter-offer where I don't become a slave, then use Mephistopheles's library knowledge to outsmart Glasya as well?
Always, always, always include a clause on the contract where you substitute a bunch of other people's souls for yours! The Devils don't care. Bonus points for opposed clergy!
Devils can be a generic term for a number of creatures. I hear older people use it that way more often than people nowadays. Honestly, the dichotomy between demons and devils in D&D is one of the most interesting things to me. That sort of warring multiple faces of evil. Then there's the yugoloths. I also kinda like how all of the lower planes really embody that "hell of our own making" idea. In Baator, devils get power and promotion, but it just nets them more jealous looks and paranoia, but being lower gets you underpaid, so there's no happy place in it.
I remember Cania! You end up there in Hordes of the Underdark and actually take periodic damage if you don't have gear that grants you protection from cold.
Devils ruined my last campaign. Well....players ruined my campaign....using the help of Devils. The party was ECL 9 (3.5e), and consisted of a human wizard named Svein, a weretiger druid named Ragnarok, a LE cleric named Tabitha, and a charisma max rogue named Aralis. The gang was rolling into a new port town, Hadun. Hadun controlled the entire coastal area, through military power and trade laws. In the last town the players visited, they heard many rumors about strange lights and happenings in Hadun. I had written up a simple bad guy, and some lackies for the party to fight. The BBEG that I had written was an ECL 12 cleric of the law and evil domains. His name was Warder, and he was just supposed to die in that town. Instead, as soon as they meet Warder, they realize how powerful he is. Before I know it, the party is trying to pal around with Lawful Evil cleric bro. After a couple sessions of having Warder become their new quest giver (as a dm I prefer to roll with player choices for the story), the party had become lawful evil warlords. Warder joined them as a cohort (the wizard took leadership), taught them some evil magic, and after only a month got the party to sign infernal contracts. The players summoned up a bunch of devils, infested my material plane, and started what has been referred to in my game group as "The infernal crises" or "Evil Oopsie 2: electric boogaloo". Spent the rest of that campaign sweating over the fiendish codex 2, listening to slayer 🤣
Levistus slept with Asmodeus’s consort and tried to overthrow him, at the same time he was sleeping with Asmodeus’s daughter. When the daughter found out, she killed the consort and blamed Levistus for the murder.
I have a crazy idea for a warlock! He made a packed with the fallen angel making him technically immortal but each time he dies he has to slay a number of demons to return as a any age he wishes to the land of the living but every time the number of demons he must slay rises and if he fails he’ll end up in hell for ever!
I knew another story about Asmodeus. He was a helper for the deities and offered to keep in prison the souls/creatures who have sinned. The deities agreed and made him a god with power over the domain "Sin". Then he noticed that usually the best humans were recruited by deities or saved from hell somehow, so he instructed his devils to corrupt souls using evil pacts. The deities discovered it and imprisoned him in his realm, the Nine Hells
Idea for homebrew class: Hell-Hacker - someone whose job is finding, twisting and subverting the small type in Hellish contracts, so they can summon devils but should not have to go to hell. Ideal for someone who works in computing. Dispater (emerging from the ground): What? The devs said they'd fixed this bug! Hell-Hacker: Yeah, but the password input was susceptible to SQL injection... soooo... Dispater: (growls) This is the last time, mortal. Hell-Hacker: (smiles innocently) (that would obviously be endgame)
Honestly I like to get rid of the blood war and have fiends work together from time to time but of course they are in constant civil war and giving fiends a bit more flexibility helps to such as make demons have some loyalty and don't stab each other in the back all the time and Devils having some chaotic tendencies overall makes fighting fiends a lot more interesting.
The blook war works in a scenario where demons are chaotic and devils lawful just because they are opposite of each othee and would kill themselves if working in the same thing That said do whar you want, the blood war just works on those specifics, you're right to get rid of
I guess I should say that in most homebrew settings I make I just have one plane that represents evil which is the abyss but only 666 layers instead of being infinite and all fiends live there with asmodeus in charge at the bottom layer and he's neutral evil being a pragmatic asshole willing to use anyone and anything to further his plans.
Vengeance paladin who makes a contract with Zariel to be better at killing demons, eventually dies and gets to kill demons for all eternity. Fuck yeah.
Don't deal with devil's? I think you mean don't accept their contracts. Being good enough to make your own contract (which doesn't include souls) and convincing them to sign it? That's how you get it done BD
6:02, this actually sounds like a hilarious and great backstory and motivation for the lord of greed. He tasks the party for help of getting back the 5 gold he was a “cheated” out of.
