Angelic savior of ethuriel Leader of the riders of hell Dutchess of fire in mural Losing her sword, her hand was felled Her loyal companions stayed One saved her sword, hope compelled With hopes she would be remade With her sword in the scab Her companion changed as she bade Will she be redeemed to rise unnabbed She could remain in this hellish slab
I ran this campaign for my players over the course of about two years and we all loved it. The well-developed NPCs with real arcs and complex motivations, the strong themes, and the insans action. 10/10 I don't know if I'll ever run a campaign that good again, but I'm going to try.
I am a cleric of Zariel in my current D&D game. My character is an anarchist who seeks the freedom of all beings from the dogmatic rule of the primordial order. His end goal is to ultimately manifest Zariel as a mortal being along side all deities who seek to manipulate fate. His alignment is technically chaotic evil but he considers himself to be chaotic neutral. As a player, I know this plan is flawed in many ways and will result in failure. It just makes for a more compelling story if the character doesn’t know the likely outcome of their established goals. Especially if they involve grand scale concepts and nye incomprehensible figures like gods. It’ll be a fun to see how my GM Dashes his dreams…😅
well did they use that inevitable who job is to make sure God's stay on their thrones or did the God's just bitch slap him away or did it never reach that point?
I remember encounter Zariel with my Lawful Neutral Bounty Hunter Ranger some odd years ago. The encounter was mostly business, I was tasked to bring back some heretics and be paid in coin. Sadly I did not specified the coin as long as it is valuable and useful in the material plane. One of Zariel's advisors, some cambion simp boy, paid me in Soul Coins. I could not argue against that due to the statement of valuable materials to trade with. So I just left the five poor sods to Zariel's judgment despite hearing all their sob stories about why they made pacts and tried to get out of the deal. Sucked my party were so against it despite themselves being Lawful Evil and the like. Only the Cleric of Selune was my sort of closest friend and ally. At least till Zariel's minions came to 'request' me to do another job for her.
I hold the personal cannon that her “failed” crusade into hell that resulted in her being captured and turned into a devil by Asmodeus wasn’t actually a failure. It was her plan from the beginning. She knowingly led those knights to their deaths as a sacrifice to Asmodeus to demonstrate her fealty. She planned to join the hells as a commander of the devils in the blood war. The reason being that she believes she can do a better job beating back the hordes of demons and is disgusted by the higher plane’s lack of action in the matter. I hold to this because the cannon reason for her capture, that she thought that she, a single solar, leading a few thousand mortal warriors could charge into hell and defeat the entirety of the forces of the nine hells and the INFINITE abyss, ending the blood war, is so unbelievably stupid that if it were true then Asmodeus wouldn’t put that idiot in charge of a mop much less the command of the first line of defense of his domain.
Hilariously I have 2 Tieflings that would have strong feelings on opposite ends regarding her. Sylas Almont- a Zariel Tiefling born of the Almont clan. A family that forever hunts the night, the branch of the family he’s a part of made a deal with her 3 generations ago that in life she helps them conquer the night that trespasses onto the material plane. But in death they shall join her armies onto the frontlines of the Blood war. He has zero disillusionment about what he is and where he will end up and frankly doesn’t care. All that has ever mattered is the family mission. Then there’s Johan Finnegan, divine soul PHB Tiefling sorcerer. Turns out that both his divine and infernal heritage came from the same place, Asmodeus. He would look at her and feel regret and loss for what happened to her. He would absolutely be the type to plead with her out of compassion. Although she may look at him and see an ironic contradiction of what should not be possible.
I'm playing descent into avernus, and my character is a tiefling oathbreaker who SIMPS for Zariel like there's no tomorrow, but tries not to show it. If she were to tell him to slaughter the whole party, he would in an instant with his +3 hellfire flail and +2 vicious shotgun
@@Champion_of_Vlaakith upgraded sending stones for starters, maybe dreams, maybe in person when he starts yeeting grenades into hordes of daemons while riding a ghost rider type devils ride straight into them, backflipping off it and shotgunning just about everything. (prof. in acrobatics)
