Forgotten Realms - The Nine Hells: Asmodeus, Devils, and Tieflings 

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What is the song? Gotta find it on Spotify

@@AlexS_983 It's a parody of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones.

@@Lorepaedia Sorry I commented before I made it to the end of this one and heard that, I mean your main song you use for most videos, I've been meaning to ask

@@AlexS_983 Ah I see, I use this collection, I really should link it in all my videos, but I'm not confident this link isn't a repost. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-km-dzgmuNXs.html

Thanks so much! I'm halfway through the 9 hells :D

Nah, he's a Prinordial who later on pretended to be a Celestial.

@@josephweymon8020 go back to second edition. Not WotC’s later and bizarre retcons. The most accepted myth (yes myth, because devil and honesty don’t go together) is that Baator formed after Asmodeus was literally tossed off Olympus. D&D if rife with dichotomy. Opposing ends to every conceivable spectrum. For the Fey Wild, there is the Shadow Fell, for the Abyss there is Mechanus, and to Olympus there is Baator.

@@mikewaterfield3599 Firm believer in the Ahriman and Jaiziran Lore behind Asmodeus.

There are three canonical origin stories for asmodeus that Im aware of. The one that matters is the one your dm chooses, and thats that. Or you can mix and match them. Hell, you can have all of them be true through time linearity shenanigans, doesnt matter

He was a celestial (in one story), but out-bargained the gods into giving him Baator as the sole deity of the plane.

I always assumed his plan was to chip away at the nine hells and gain power bit by bit.

He has those severe papa issues, his obsession w/mepho is probly just from that. I will agree though it is funny how over-confident he is to take on someone like Asmo. Perhaps he has allies & plans in the hells aside from the crown as well? Still just seems like a lost cause overall. 🤭

Considering that Mephistopheles is himself plotting against Asmodeus, Asmodeus might even support Rafael discreetly. Asmodeus might not factor into Rafael’s plans for that reason. But of course that’s just an idea.

@@brendanheald9067 indeed. Most of not all the lord's of the nine hells are plotting to usurp Asmodeus, but Rafael seems hyper focused on Mephistopheles and seems to be saying that after that it will be a cake walk to take the nine hells and then the WHOLE WORLD (street fighter ref 🤭) Asmodeus is probably completely aware of all these shenanigans and like you said probably just pitting Rafael against his daddy. I'm guessing the reason that the raid that saw the prism stolen by Durge and her merry band of cultists succeeded was probably because Asmodeus ran interference from the shadows. I'm really impressed by the depth of story telling being presented without saying half the words. Maybe I'm just seeing too much into it, but it's really nice to look beyond what the characters say and realise what it likely actually happening and what probably really went down. Vlaakith traded the prism to Mephistopheles for something only to have it come back to haunt her 😁

@@sideshowmo653 exactly! Definitely wouldn’t mind some future stories fleshing it out. Would be cool to see what happens.

Scariest lawyer in the multiverse.

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I sort of tried doing this for the subsequent videos. I will try to be better about this in the future. Thanks for the feedback!

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Same, there's a lot of interesting ideas related to lawful evil down there!

Thanks! I think I will, youtube is NOT happy about my song parodies lol. I was flattered that the YT content ID system flagged my aboleth song as this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a5Za8pKGT2E.html&ab_channel=TatianaEva-Marie%26AvalonJazzBand

It's "burying the lede"

@@drhouse6165 that's wild I never knew that since lead also makes some sense

Oh no buddy! Maybe a night hag. Gonna be real tough to ethically source souls. :x

That's how the corruption starts.... your bard might wind being a devil soon... good luck

My oathbreaker paladin had a similar experience, he found a few street orphans, two boys, adopted them, took them out for ice cream took them home and showed them the bedroom, for one child. He threw a dagger between them and told them to fight it out, winner got adopted. The smaller boy won the fight by backstabbing his friend. Before the boy died I healed him slightly with lay on hands took him to the altar I had built in my character’s home and performed the sacrificial rights while forcing my new son to participate. That kid went on to literally become a time traveling god who was true neutral, so my autistically Machiavellian views tell me I was a very good dad. Also that character went on to open a gate to the hells, got promoted to an arch-devil and became a leader of a minor faction in a campaign set in the far future. I went on to dm a short campaign that revolved around two paladins of bahamut (the players) saving a boy that was kidnapped by a devil worshipping cult. The boy was actually the first born son of my previous character now a devil lord, and the rituals they were performing on him were attempts to awake his devil powers. They didn’t know that though, they took him to a church to palor the sun god who requested help. The church leader tried to perform a ritual to channel palor’s light to burn away the boy and his immeasurably evil potential. The paladins jumped in and saved the boy from a second altar in 2 days. One of the paladins was captured (after giving in to his barbarian rage and killing multiple palor priests.) the other got the boy to safety where he got a vision from asmodeus, asmodeus had been blocking and preventing the boy’s hellish powers from manifesting because my previous character was given the rights over all devils on the mortal plane (then considered the 10th layer of hell) but my character sent all devils back through the portal except a handful he chose as personal servants. Asmodeus can’t do anything because of the contract he signed and wanted some way of getting payback. The visions of a giant platinum dragon the paladins were seeing were actually asmodeus masking himself as a dragon, but it was his original flying serpent form he was showing them. But he tricked the paladins onto that path to get the boy and raise him to use his powers for good. In short, making a deal with asmodeus and forcing starving orphans to fight to the death as a sacrifice to asmodeus was one of the best sessions I’ve played and sparked storylines for 3 full campaigns spanning 2 years.

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Thanks for the feedback, right now there is only so much ambient classical background music on available without youtube hassling me, but in the future I will buy some music rights and try to at least have something to match the mood a bit better. At least you don't hate my narration, that's harder to fix. ^^

The best part is, I don't even make money on the ads and I can't turn them off because of bogus copyright claims. ^^ We'll see if they back down in 30 days. Also, there are programs that can help with the whole, ads on the internet thing :D

Horrible take! This is much better than the standard overannunciated RU-vidr cadence.

​@@rdqnev WHAAAAAAT'S UP RU-vid TODAY WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT D-D-D-DEVILS SO BUUUURN THAT LIKE BUTTON! 🔥

agreed. 2 hours of that tone is a lot to ask.

Everyone has a right to an opinion. My opinion is OPs opinion is wrong. Please keep your chill, even talking voice

in other words you must have a voice like the Voice Actor of The Legacy of Kain.