Now you should do Dragon Magazine, issues 75 and 76, with the articles by Ed Greenwood, which did deep dives on even more dukes, princesses, Marquis's, etc., as well as descriptions of each of the nine layers themselves... ;)
Another outstanding video, Mr. Grognard! I enjoyed this one. I could never get a campaign up to high enough of a level for my players to face off against one of the Dukes. Your video gave me a much, much better insight on them than I'd had in my own head all these years.
Perhaps the most influential female devil: Tiamat the goddess of evil dragons and ruler of the first plane of hell in D&D lore! For her origin, Deities and Demigods has us covered in the Babylonian Mythos where the god Marduk battles her with nets and trident! Perhaps her name in the Krynn Lore has a mythological origin too: Takhisis?
Hutgin is a demon who finds pleasure in obliging men, enjoying their society, answering their questions and even doing them a favor especially when it comes to watching over their wives.
It's important to realize that all names, and especially short names (or titles), sound similar in different cultures, even though they uaually have no connection whatsoever. The Egyptians in particular knew this, as their very language was a case study in homonyms.
Is it just me, or do the stats for their armies suggest that they were intended to fight in wars? Queen of the Demonweb pits certainly implies that players can take the fight to several other planets, once the module is complete.
this may not be a popular comment but: looking at these elements of the setting I can see some of the reasons for the Satanic Panic of the 80's. It's complicated. While for the most part I think parents completely banning D&D and accusations of actual occultism being in the books were ridiculous; in this case I think we sort of start to tread into dangerous territory when the DM may have to roleplay evil priests praising Baal for example. Yes, you aren't really paying homage to that deity but can we be certain doing this with your imagination has zero effect? I can't say I know for sure.
Awesome topic. I wasn't a fan of Aamon being related to Baal or Amun since neither really fit his description from the Ars. Amun has a lot of detail is a primordial deity in many Egyptian stories. Baal is one of the lead gods in Sumerian, Assyrian and Phoenician mythologies. We see Baal name changed and reused over and over in myths with some deviation and D&D uses his name in it various forms. In my campaign I did place him in Hell as Baal and just made him more powerful and a Sumerian God who loves the war. Aamon along with friends from my campaign we created a first wolf. So he was the 1st Wolf which is evil in many mythos and used the Ars as a reference. Not that anyone cares love the topic :)
