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I recall Tasha getting captured by Graz'zt first as thanks for her trying to capture him. She learned a lot from that and watching him while his prisoner, then escaped and returned the favor for him enslaving her. Then they had hundreds of years of going back and forth and they had this really weird, dysfunctional love/hate thing...

Great timing with the new release of Tashas Cauldron of everything.

Daoud’s Wondrous Lantern first appeared in S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. It’s light has healing properties and can cast various spells like prismatic spray, from jewels that adorn it.

I’m a veteran DM and I didn’t knew about this “nice woman” until yesterday. So, thank you Sir, for all the information. Interesting character, indeed.

I kinda like the outside lore behind the spell tasha's hideous laughter where a young girl (named tasha) wrote to gygax and asked him about a spell that makes people laugh. So in my campaign "broken road" while running across various multiverses and well known characters from lore including a very Shakespearian mordenkainen, a mark hamil joker vecna (who was the good guy in the situation) and a tasha based on that child, an immortal 6 year old prankster dressed up as a witch with most of the stories about being simply that, stories or jokes. While Iggwilv does exist as a alternative future (even being a patron/partner to the group's hexblade) with the kid Tasha saying they are two different people (almost treating the hexblade like a big brother). Great video

Yo Jorphdan, the ph is silent, you should do a mini series covering all the demon variants and what's unique about them. Any lore about them, that would be so awesome!

You can find info and description of the Lantern, in the module Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Great dungeon delve. I ran a 5e version three years ago.

My main character is a half orc sailor who ended up becoming a unwilling Warlock of Grazzt. He has spent the last few years researching demonology and specifically trying to locate the demonomicon of Iggwilv in order to destroy Grazzt and earn his freedom. His research is inconclusive as to how many volumes there are, some sources say 1, some say six or seven. I also thought that Grazzt commanded 3 layers of the Abyss not two. My character has gone to great lengths including commissioning an extra dimensional library where he can plot against Grazzt without being spied on, he even has a ghost librarian in his service from the Tiamat campaign. Thanks for the video.

This video should be updated with the release of The Wild beyond the Witchlight

As someone whose going to be playing in a one-shot where my group and I are all playing famous wizards (me being tasha) I find this extremely helpful, tho still having a hard time building here character in 5e

I highkey wanna make a warlock that serves Tasha as a patron now 🤔

wow, I think this is the first time I knew Greyhawk in more detail. Usually your vids are about Forgotten Realms or Oberron. I like it, keep more setting coming!

I read the Artifact of Evil Greyhawk book never realizing this was who Iuz’s mother was.

Belaphoss was the last boss of the video game Sword Coast Legends. I think he was created specifically for the game. His backstory is that he is Demogorgon's right-hand man but was secretly trying to gain enough power to dethrone him and become the prince of demons.

*☼ i cant wait till you get that 100k. your channel is awesome, and youve done your time!*

Wonder if Tasha could be a patron for a warlock. Lol I mean, she does currently live in the abyss so..... Hexblade: I have named my weapon. Player: brah, it's a sword. Hexblade: it's a blade that i can summon out of thin air. Player: ok, so what did you name your blade. Hexblade: Kindness DM: smh, you named your pact weapon ...Kindness? Player: chuckles Hexblade: Yes, so I can kill my enemies, with Kindness. My patron Tasha would approves.

I love this video so much!!! Getting background on "Tasha" before Tasha's Cauldron of Everything releases is so nice

FINALLY! It's about time that some one made a video on my D&D lady crush! I love your concise, and well done vids, Jordan!

Suspiciously well-timed! No idea she had connections to Baba Yaga, Grazzt, Iuz, and more. Can’t wait for this book!

Don't forget she has a base on the moon! I always wondered if the evil Rita Repulsa from power rangers was based on her. (There was some d&d in Japan in the form of Lodos War) .. Not researched, just noticing the correlation edit: or there's Japanese folklore linking with and moon and picked up by Gygax?

I'm guessing that Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms cross over to some extent, though being different crystal spheres on the material plane? Mordenkainen shows up in Curse of Strahd and Ravenloft kinda sits between worlds in the Shadowfell. So technically Mordenkainen and Tasha could wind up on Toril but probably stay in the planes/greyhawk for reasons.

Fun fact Daoud is arabic for King David from the bible and his "Lantern" could be a reference to the Ark of the covenant.

The module you referenced TSR S4 has all the info on the lantern in it, in fact it is in the "tomb" of Drelnza, Iggwilv's daughter, along with the Demonomicon of Iggwilv. It is a great module, and can be converted to 3.5, or 5E without too much difficulty. I have DM'd this module many times through the years, and I highly recommend it. It has a whole section in the back devoted to new monsters and magic items. I have the original printing, but I also found it as a free PDF online.

You can find info on the Lanthorn in The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (not sure of the spelling).

Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn is detailed in S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.

They just announced the "Tashas Cauldron Everything" Funny coincidence =P

I love the Greyhawk setting

Tasha is hands down one of my favourite People in dnd lore!

Love she's the Twist in the new adventure module. Finally have a proper 5e stat block.

The crone form is sometimes named "Louhi" (like in finnish myth) - source Gord the Rogue novels.

I'd love to see a video like this on Tensor

Dude, did you know what was announced today or is this just a coincidence

The lantern has various lens that you can switch out for different spell effects. I believe it is an artifact. I remember a campaign where it was in use. I thought it cumbersome.

Now if we could only get you covering more Greyhawk. That would be wonderful!

I have been looking into old school games lately. This video makes me want to run a campaign in greyhawk with Tasha as the main villain.

4:36 Shade so dark it dimmed the lights in my office * snerk *

Wow. I did not know all this about Tasha! She is Iggwilv??? and she is Iuz's mother??? Daaaammnnnn

Many people doubt that Iggwilv and Tasha are the same person, since in every apparition her stat block shows high level spells from different classes. So, she has multiclasses wizard, warlock and priest or her name is used by many half elves

"Help I'm being adopted!" literally made my spit a little water I was drinking at the time, LMAO

She wants to rule the Abyss? It’s weird to think she wasn’t envolved in Out of the Abyss. Or was she? I mean, Lolth never showed much interest in ruling the Abyss until The Rage of the Demons. Maybe Iggwilv was envolved?

Awesome, thank you for the information

Good catch on Belaphoss. I remember coming across his stat block about a year ago sifting through some old Dragon+ issues and was surprised to find this hidden gem tucked away in an early issue. Seems like it was never reproduced in an official product though.

I came here knowing nothing but her name. I leave educated and intrigued. Thank you for the video!

Thank you for this explanation! I have a NPC witch with obscure past, I think I'll use Tasha's story as inspiration :)

My first episode of this channel and I'm hooked.

As mentioned already, Daoud's Lanthorn is detailed in the Lost cavern of Tsjocanth. Loved that mod!

Hey Jorphdan, Could you do a video on Silverymoon and or the Silverymoon Conclave? There aren’t really any lore videos for it on RU-vid.

Great info. Thanks.

Not to be contrary but Bellaphoss is pronounced BELL-aws. Cos the PH is silent. :D. I'll show myself out.

Graz owns 3 soon to be 4. Just thought I'd update lore for you.

Amazing, thank you!

Okay, I had no idea who OR how awesome she is. May she become, not the Lich Queen we need, but the Lich Queen we deserve.

Great video Thank you for doing a character from Greyhawk.

Have you considered doing a video on the circle of eight? The wizard group from Greyhawk.

Tasha in 5e appears to be a very chill and funny lady, despite also being depicted as an evil witch.

Honestly, from what I’ve seen, Tasha just seems like the Mad Lad of DND Lore.

Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn is a magical item that uses crushed precious stones as fuel to cast light, and can burn for a century if properly fueled. It also had seven enchanted lenses originally, which could be used separately or in combination to cause the light from the lanthorn to produce magical effects, like Hypnotic Pattern, Hold, Prismatic Spray, Prismatic Sphere, Fear, Rage, and Confusion. Tasha also created an eighth lens that could produce a Slow effect. Tasha may have stolen the lanthorn mainly due to a desire to experiment on it, though it's found shining over the resting form of her daughter, who's become a vampire, so she may have thought she could modify it to cure her daughter (or improve on her daughter's vampirism). Three of the lenses have been lost, so some of the effects aren't producible without crafting and enchanting replacement lenses (the lanthorn is a minor artifact and very difficult to destroy, but the lenses are not and have no particular affinity for returning to the lanthorn if lost or stolen). Daoud's a hero-deity (basically a mortal who is lower in status than a demigod (who usually has divine heritage) but is becoming a god under the patronage of a full deity). He was a priest of Istus, the Goddess of Fate, and a philosopher-king when he was alive, then lost all his worldly possessions, but gained the wisdom to see through the pretenses of his society's principles and pretenses, and propose a new path based on brutal internal and external honesty, humility, and acceptance of fate. Greyhawk has a couple of unusual versions of godhood: 1. Hero-deities, who become the focus of legend, veneration, or great repute in life and are taken under the wing of a deity with similar interests who essentially vests them with a small aspect of their portfolio to act as a closer-to-humanity patron of that part (so, a Goddess of Fate vests a hero figure with the sub-portfolio of Humility (to accept fate), Clarity (to understand the workings of fate), and Immediacy (to act as fate wills). This is helpful for Istus, as she is a particularly aloof goddess, and Daoud gives her a more accessible aspect/helper). 2. Quasi-deities, who transcend mortality through means other than divine patronage. Usually they've traveled extensively in other planes of reality, created or interacted with powerful magic, and done other things that push their nature beyond the simply mortal. Quasi-deities, unlike hero-deities, cannot grant spells or answer prayers (unless they are actually present to hear the person praying, which is just regular listening and talking, which anyone can do). The main differences between the two are worshippers/venerators (hero-deities have them, quasi-deities may or may not, but often don't) and divine patronage (hero-deities have a deity essentially reaching down to give them a hand up toward becoming a god, quasi-deities don't, and often don't want to, have such a connection).

Thanks

New Jorphdan video? Yes please!

Excellent content

Points to the very module referenced regarding the powers of the Lantern.

A few paragraphs on Iggwilv on p55-56 of 9576 "Return of the Eight" based on T1-4 ToEE p99; S1-4 p56-57, 78-79; WG5 Isle of the Ape p6,8,43-44;WGR5 Iuz the evil p3; Dragon magazine #225 p49-54. [SPOILER] latest sighting of Iggwilv CY585, teaming up with Tuerny the Merciless in an attempt to take over the Flanaess [/Spoiler]

Laughs hideously...

As always nice video! Any thoughts of covering the book of vile darkness?

What will be the next player book after this one? Leomunds Book of Help and Support?

The whole "Grazz't was once an archdevil" is still kinda up to debate as to whether it's officially canon. Of course, DMs are welcome to tweak campaign settings to their own liking, so if you want that to be where he came from, it can be so in YOUR personal version of the D&D multiverse.

She’s the one who did the laughter.

Daod's Wonderous Lanthorn is a permanent/indestructible ever burning torch item repurposed as a lantern. As a permanent ever burning torch, it is a perfect source for any fire spells, conjure elementals (fire) and abjuration against flame, when fighting fire with fire is possible. 1e Artifacts were a bit broken.

Well done

Didn't know Grazzt fact noice.

This is great. (was looking for a vid cause one of my newbie players asked because of the new book). Do you you have videos on Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen?

I wonder if Gygax or one of the other O'GMs tried to woo a girl named Natasha but her hag of a mother convinced her to find another man, thereby taking revenge upon both of them by immortalizing them within the TTRPG they wrote...

fun fact I don't hear often about Tasha, is that Baba Yaga is straight up taken from Slavic Folklore. They didn't even changed her in D&D.

Nice history lesson Good stuff

Hey , where did you find the parchment background? :)

She willing? gave birth to a demon hybrid & a vampire spawn? That is some sorrowful laughter subject material...

2:20 Where'd you find the alternate art for this card?

Enjoy some Greyhawk stories about Tasha: greyhawkstories.com/tales-from-the-flanaess/iggwilv-mother-of-witches/

What's your source on Iggwilv plotting against the Demogorgon? I haven't found any references about it on your quoted sources, perhaps you missed one? I'd really like to read more about it :D

They need to create a 5th edition Greyhawk campaign setting.

Gonna be using her in my home brew campaign where she’s controlling a town as later a Wanda-vision Agatha reveal will happen cant wait to see their reactions

Cool!

2:06 - what is that art piece from? Its amazing!

Making Iggwilv Tasha was a mildly interesting retcon. Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter was the only spell bearing her name.

Vader kneeling to the Mouse...that gets a like from me.

I already found the spelling in the comments but was confused by the name Iggwilv that you kept mentioning but never spelled in your video, even when spelled all the other names. Great video and very good timed with WotC announcement. Thank you for your videos. My only (constructive) critizism of this video is that needs to include Iggwilv the spelling of Iggwilv

It would be great if you covered Greyhawk.

1. I love Belephoss he seems awesome and possibly a new favorite demon. 2. Where do I find more stuff like that stat block for Belephoss, is it the Dragon Magazines? If so is there anyway to get older ones?

3:55 WAIT! Is there a theory that Iggwilv might be the same person as Liliana Vess? I know WoTC owns both IP. Is this a theory?

One form away from Maiden-Mother-Crone.

THANK YOU.

Did you get a tip on the release or did I just come late to the party, I only saw it today

Tasha the Wizard Known for her hideous laughter

Isn't the magical Lanthorn in the Caverns of Tsojcanth?

Need Angel summoning rules!

As one of your first incusrion in Greyhawk, it's not bad but you missed a lot of infos on her. if you need info on the Daoud Lantern (which wasn't in her possession for a long time), how the Cirlce was killed or anything about the greyhawk characters history. Just ask, i've everything you need. BTW she's in the gey wastes hidding for her waaay too much powerful ennemies.

oh man, I just finished 3-year long Out of Abbys campaign a few weeks ago. Surelly, this book could be relevant then :c

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So is Tashas cauldron of everything a module or a rule book?

It is true that the name of Tasha was derived from a girl who wrote a letter to Gygax suggesting the laughter spell?