Exploring Dungeons and Dragons: Demons and Devils 

"This demon can rip and tear" Doomslayer: *revs chainsaw indignantly*

"Asmodeus is also noted as the most handsome of all devils if you're curious." Me- "Very."

Demon/Devil: *dies in the material plane Same Demon/Devil: *Returns Player: Didn't you just die? Same Demon/Devil: Yeah, well where was I gonna go? Detroit?

I love the idiodicly over the top legalistic lifestyle that Devils have. Bureaucracy is truly hell.

Doomguy: *Hears the abyss has infinite planes with an uncountable number of demons.* "I'll have it cleaned out in six months."

*[Grey Knights suddenly breaks through to the D&D universe]*

"could have its own video detailing its infinite layers" pls

Doomslayer: *heavy breathing*

"With no rules, might makes right." WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! MO DAKKA BOYZ!

The Lemur stage of a devil's life can be skipped by those smart enough and powerful enough to negotiate that

"Demons and devils cover all the bases for evil" Yugoloths: Am I a joke to you?

I remember that Greyhawk had an interesting explanation for the Blood War. Devils make plots, Demons break plots. An infinite number of Devils make plots, an infinite number of Demons break those plots.

“Devils may be evil, but the laws they follow are their own.” *Professionals have standards.*

In previous editions, evil souls went to Carceri, in between the home planes of the Demons and Devils, and therefore also the most common battleground for the Blood War. It's the home of the Yugoloths, the Neutral Evil fiends, who play both sides against each other. I'd like to see a video on those guys.

I always found weird that Demons, which are the very embodiement of Chaos, evolve over time into fixed forms like Pokemon... It would make a lot more sense (in-universe) if they evolved "randomly" with unique forms and characteristics

Shame Graz'zt wasn't mentioned. He went from Archduke to Demon Lord!

Exploring: "Demons and Devils are different." Doom Slayer: "I believe in racial equality."

Doom Slayer: did someone knock? Kaldor Draigo: young warrior, my Order needs your help for handling the abyssal population. DS: the what? Draigo: Demons, I mean. DS: when do we depart? *reloads Redemption with angry intent.* *Mick Gordon's riffs intensify in the distance* Demons and Devils: ha ha, we're in trouble. Tieflings: *nervous stares.*

DnD party duo, which consists of: Doom Slayer, a paladin/barbarian multiclass and Mick Gordon, a "bard" who plays industrial metal

*bone devils* are what would happen if a xenomorph got hold of a giant albino wasp.

Doomslayer: Loads LMG with religious intent.

The Doomslayer would have a field day in the DnD world. Goblinslayer probably would too.

Wow, wasn’t expecting a Baphomet name drop, also some of these demon lords are both notably similar to elder scrolls daedra, and chaos gods of warhammer

I'm currently playing through descent into avernus, and it's brutal. We just made a deal with Bell to get his support to overthrow zariel.

12:13 that only applies to lawful evil souls, chaotic evil souls go to the abyss and become demons, unless they were sold to devils

*Demons and devil's come into material plane* *Paladins* "I'm about to end these things whole career"

Pale Night is my favourite creature of the abyss, and is pretty damn powerful. Known as the "mother of demons." That moniker is almost literal.

*Makes video about Demons and Devils.* Tieflings: is it because we're half-mortal, right?!

Keep up this amazing work man, always giving me something just as im leaving work, hell of a RU-vid creator this guy is

Best explanation for demons and devils on RU-vid!

could you by any chance do a video on the different planes of existence in DnD please??

7:50 doom guy: give me a 20 minutes and I’ll kill it

Orcus is actually kinda interesting to me for some reason I don’t know why though.

Fun fact, Orcus is the name of a real-life Roman deity.

Devils: life is a perfect opportunity for me to enslave, control, and dominate those that I deem inferior. Demons: life is emptiness and meaninglessness, better yet if I destroy all life and make it so it never existed.

Doom Slayer: Finnaly a worthy oponents our battle will be legendary

I see you are largely snubbing 4e's variations. For those interested: 4e Devils: Lead by Asmodeus, they are the twisted forms of a group of angels who rebelled against their patron deity. Asmodeus was first among them and overthrew his master with such thorough efficiency he went so far as to remove all traces of his name from the world and the akashic records. As a final vengeance though, he and his army were cursed to be as tainted in form as they were in spirit. They rule from what used to be their forgotten lord's domain and constantly vie for power in the Astral Sea. Asmodeus is also entirely responsible for Tieflings, as they came about due to a pact between him and the nobles of the once-human empire of Bael-Turoth (which destroyed itself with war both without and within). As a notable aside, there are full of evil angels in 4e who serve their various terrible gods. Only those who sided with Asmodeus during that time became the original devils. 4e Demons: The damage left behind by deployment of the Shard of Evil during the Dawn War (the conflict between the gods and the primordials) left a tainted scar in the Elemental Chaos. From this wound spills demons; elemental beings warped and deformed by the energies of the hole in reality now referred to as the abyss.

Devils: the antihero nobody asked for or wanted.

I feel the urge to play Doom once again....

5:29 Pokemon. Got to catch them all. Pikachu, eat that baby's face.

5:37 is clearly a battletoad.

You should explore Dr King and his apple seeds (SCP)

Video: "[Demogorgon] looks like a combination between a reptile and a snake" Me: Interesting

Not one of TES's better videos; it was a particularly strange choice to talk about how devils follow a strict hierarchy, and then show the *demons* promoting up through the ranks in a linear fashion. It would be far more chaotic to have any demon able to turn into any other demon at any moment, going up or down in power with no logic whatsoever.

I always like Ba'atezu and Tanari names, really made them seem extra fantastical.

Please do one on all the planes i dont see enough info on this!

Love to see if Dante and doomslayer could handle this universe!

In dungeons and dragons alignment is far more important than most people think not so much in terms of gameplay . Law and chaos are more than just obeying and disobeying legislation instead they are etched in the very fabric of the cosmos they represent freedom vs safety ,logic vs instinct ,organisation vs randomness, tactics vs beastly rage etc

learning about D&D has the side effect of learning about the origins of warhammer and warcraft

2:07 Tonari AND 3:02 Bacchus ooh

This was an amazing video, thank you!

I gotta say thank you. Listening to your videos every week gives me a break from real life, it lets me forget that I’m not happy for a while. Thank you for what you do, and keep up the good work.

i don't know much about D&D but when i saw the title i thought we were talking about a rip off

Hey man keep up the hard work! Love your videos you keep me going all day much love

The D&D 2nd amendment: The right to rip arms.

The Arch Devils that didn't climb to their positions of power, like Asmodius and Zariel, were actually Angels. The Deity they served? The Deity of Law and Order (forgot his name tho). Since they were all creations of this deity, they hated the Demons just as much as their deity, and at first, they did actually drive out & wipe out the Demons in the plane that they now inhabit. At first it was an outpost, then the longer they stayed, the more they changed and eventually became the Devils. Funny bit though, Asmodius was the one who made this Pact with the Deities. Saying that any evil doer who dies will come to the Devils and thus their celestial planes will not contain any evil mortals. The Deities agreed without reading all of this REALLY LONG contract. Eventually, the Deities discovered the Devils were deliberately pushing mortals to do evil, which meant a lot less souls would go to them, they saw this as a cheat and complained til Asmodius silenced them by pointing out the text allowing exactly that (albeit tiny and open to interpretation). So, the first beings that Asmodius screwed over with a deal was the Deities themselves. Now you know how it all started, and why Demons AND Devils are hated by Celestials.

18:37 interesting. This same concept applies to daedra within the elder scrolls universe. If they're slain in the mortal realm they go back to oblivion to reform

To quote Wreck it Ralph at the end: thanks satan!

For anyone interested MrRhexx gets into more detail in his DnD Lore videos.

Can you do 2786? Would fit in w/ the theme of D&D real well imo

One interesting thing about Devils not mentioned; because they require mortal souls to swell their ranks, and most of the fighting of the Blood War happens in Avernus (meaning permanent deaths for Devils), sometimes the forces of good will reluctantly turn a blind eye to the Devils corrupting mortals, as they understand that without the souls the Devils would likely lose and all other planes would be invaded by Demons.

Doom intensifies

This was amazing to listen to, thank you.

Another foible of this video is referring to Demogorgon as resembling "a cross between a reptile and a snake".

7:05 I’m imagining the boss fight against mergo’s wet nurse

Awesome video! I personally prefer the 2nd edition Blood War material for my Evils, particularly the role of the Yugoloth in the Blood War and the purported origin story. Are Yugoloth still a thing in 4e and 5e?

Fun fact, Balor is also the name of the leader of the Fomorians in Celtic mythology

Doomslayer: hey, I’ve seen those before

This whole concept makes a lot of sense. Devils in real world mythology are always plotting and scheming whilst the concept of a demon is a non-human entity that delights in destruction and torment.

Your videos are always extremely well made and get me interested in things I otherwise never even think about. Keep it up!

Corporate hell is the scariest hell

Baphomet is a humanoid with the head of a goat and cloven hooves (often depicted with the hind quarters of a goat as well) Similar to a Minotaur but distinct enough to be an observable difference

Keep up the good work man.

Glabrezus delight in *killing Pike*

"The abyss is the Source of Chaos" Someone obviously never read the Manual of the Planes.

16:20 Khorne is pleased.

5e also made the Devils a lot stronger than the Demons, at least above the regular Monster Manual denizens. The strongest of Demon Lords only roughly compare to the weakest of Archdukes.

novimus

I wonder if the exploring series would cover about the typemoon universe lore.

Damn, I was hoping to veg out to something more in-depth. Like Dagon, who speaks telepathically to each of Demogorgon's heads to keep him as insane as possible :D

Actually Exploring the Tanar'ri Demons as of 3.5 (and possibly 3.0) are made from Mortal Souls, like Devils. Once mortal souls started getting channeled into the Abyss they started being molded into slaves by the Obyriths and eventually took over the plane. The Obyriths, in turn, are the ones made from the plane itself, having been around far longer than mortals have. Good examples of the Obyriths are Pazuzu & Pale Night

Can you imagine if the demagorgen looked that lame in stranger things? Amazing

The illithid empire nearly caused a pause to the blood war.

Dude. You are incredible. I listened to one of your audiobooks from Lovecraft and it was amazing. Your voice is perfect for this. Hope and wish the best for you.

I wonder if a Good Wizard could summon a Dretch and make it into a servant.

Seems like they would be endlessly summoning lesser beings from each other. You know, for fun.

Ahh...yess...who doesnt know the story of the Zariel and her gool old friend Eric the Garlic Farmer.

Some guys has commented 19 hours ago and this was released 2 minutes ago

Long Live Mephistopheles! May the God of Hellfire live forever!

Pretty hard to say that Baalors are just balrogs considering balrogs were basically not described like at all physically

I want to be the Doom Slayer just rip and tear them all. You should talk about Doom lore. Can't wait to play Doom eternal.

Dope

A shame you didn't get to the mercenaries of the Blood War, the Yugolths.

Demogorgon has no hands. No thumbs. Nowhere but the Abyss could he actually be 'in charge' to the degree he is.

I _was_ curious. Thank you

In the Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore, Lloth was ALL about spreading chaos.

See kids this is why you should be evil, you help keep the multiverse safe from Chaos

Are liches the most powerful evil spell casters? Or psionocists?

would an Erinyes produce a tiefling or an aasimar as an offspring? Tho i'm guessing IF a tiefling is born of erinyes, they would probably look alot like an aasimar anyways... almost makes the question moot

Ah but we won't get to Deamons I guess? (Ahead of the video) They are the most interesting of the fiends.