honestly I wish I never learned classics because now I can tell you that "dis" means chaos and "dispater" means chaos daddy

Asmodeus needs a special alignment all his own called Lawful Smug.

You see, the nine hell's is just human resources.

Holy shit dude this is great!

"Why would you ever make a devil your patron? That's just stupid." "Well my patron is Glasya an-" "Your story checks out, move along."

Levistus totally tried to date asmodeus' daughter and asmodeus said "if you screw up, hell will freeze over"....well we all know how that ended

“Don’t deal with Devils.” Warlocks “how bout I do anyway.”

"Hell sucks. Don't go there." I can vouch for that.

Levistus got Asmodeus's Wife (Glasyra's mom) killed somehow. Now he's stuck as an ice cube forever.

We all need "Basically Yugoloths (D&D)"

"Hell sucks. Don't go there. Don't deal with devils." *vibrates in Warlock*

I like to interpret Fierna and Belial's relationship as a loveless marriage that neither can escape from, but they often get to points where the fighting gets bad enough that one tries to overthrow the other. The moment Belial struggles with his work, the bureaucracy starts to pile up and Asmodeus complains that everything is on more fire than usual. When Fierna isn't managing the contracts and meeting the soul quota, the casinos and brothels start acting like legitimate businesses, and Asmodeus starts complaining about getting fewer souls.

Gotta love being held back from doing anything by a stick

Of course this video comes out while the party I dm for is stuck in hell... hehe

I really love not having to sit through 40+ minutes of repeating pictures and boring monologue to learn d&d lore. Dare I say, best lore series on KZfaq. Keep up the good work. :)

Beelzebub fact: every time he breaks another contract, he gets turned into another slug again.

"Don't deal with Devils." B-but, that one promised me a +2 longbow that insults anything it fires at... Edit: In lieu of freaking out over the number of likes, I'll sweeten the deal - IN THE VOICE OF GILBERT GOTTFRIED!!!

0:38 doesn't matter if you can find Acererak's phylactery. We dumped him in lava, cast Cone of Cold over said lava thereby solidifying it with him inside. Our Dao friend then cast Stone Shape to carve his rocky prison out, and when we got out of the fungeon she Plane Shift'd us to Mt. Celestia where we had his rocky prison coated in adamantine and thrown tot he bottom of the holy water sea surrounding Mt. Celestia. In the rock he can't move, can't speak, can't cast. Being a lich he can't starve to death, die of asphyxiation, or age to death. He'll be stuck there until the magic keeping him Lich'd fails because he's not able to feed his phylactery. He can't even sleep, and therefore he can't dream. All he can do is think about how much he hates the smug Dwarf Paladin who suplex'd him into lava with the line "How does it feel to know you brought this upon yourself? How does it feel to be stupid?".

Dealing with Zariel seems a little like dealing with Odin. Die, show up, fight until you die again, wake up, repeat til end of existence. Honestly I'm surprised there isn't a barbarian/warlock cult that trains everyday waiting til they can join her.

Okay, so... this gave me a fun character idea: A Paladin of Zariel who only wants to kill demons forever.

1:41 There's actually a few ways into the Abyss. There's the gate-town connecting it to the Outlands (Neutral outer plane) and there's planar travel magics. (Which don't work for Demons)

You forgot to mention that Asmodious also eats Heretics, Blastphemers, & Athiests, and that he's essentially a big Snake called an Ouroboros from the days when the elements were about as stable as a Grandma's Hand when she's eating Peas with a Fork during an Earthquake. "Mammon is sitting on a pile of Gold as big as your Mom (essentially it's infinite)" xD

man, that fallen angel one REALLY seems like the best patron for fiend warlocks, ghost rider anyone?

Devils are my favorite baddies because they have such an interesting set of stories and plot capabilities.

Awesome, 2/3 of fiends lore! ... So when are you doing Yugoloths?

No no no trying to overthrow asmoudeus is legal mordenkainesns tome of foes page 15 " He conspired to topple Asmodeus and replace him, which in itself was not a crime. "

In a campaign I was in the whole party signed a Contract. My character has since died... He was a Chaotic Neutral Barbarian named Udoroth and I can't wait to see what the DM Does with him.

*But what about angels*

Don't deal with devils... Unless you want to be a warlock Ignoring the brightlocks

I'm a simple man, I see some lore, I click

the nine hells? is it a lawless cesspool of violence like the abyss? no, it's worse. what could possibly be worse? bureaucracy

I read that closing note as "this video was made possible by my parents" and i just thought to my self "damn,thats sad" and then i realised it said patrons.

This is quite useful...particularly for all the new tiefling subraces from "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes". Dispater is great for a character who is essentially being used as a spy...their connection to Dispater allows them to send him juicy bits of information they discover over the course of the game. Glasya, in fitting with the whole "mafia" thing, would be good for a rogue character. Zariel is like some wonderful boon for Conquest Paladins...pretty sure that her hell-scape would seem like heaven for a Conquest Paladin.

The D&D channel that references prog rock is obviously the best channel ever

Bard: so let me see if I understand. If I sign the contract you will give me a magic harp that makes me the best harpist when I play it? Devil: yes, no strings attached. Bard: good good... wait a second... no strings attached...

3:38 Another fun thing about this place I feel should be mentioned. Due to some politics shit, this place was briefly ruled by a night hag named Malagard. Either because she literally got too big from power or Asmodeus just wanted to make room for his daughter, Malagard grew to enormous size and then exploded, throwing giant bits of dead night hag everywhere that are still rotting. Her massive skull now is the base structure around which Glasya's palace is built. The whole place is really interesting, I recommend anyone who is interested look more into it, it's actually pretty cool.

A basically dragons would be awsome

Levistus was a masssssssive man sloot before being put on ice. In the 3.5 manual Tyrants of the Nine Hells one of the posited theories DnD put was that he made a move on Azzy's main slam piece

i love that primus is just the uninterested father of all the gods "son, please, can't you see i'm sending more minions to go on a march? talk to one of the maruts about it."

The fact that I can come back to this and still remember most of it shows me how much this channel has defined my personality. I think I'm sad now

Are you implying each piece of Pringle isn't festering with bureaucratic evil?

I love how asmodeus has constructed the biggest lie so much so that he could've won the blood war from the very beginning but he doesnt want to yet because he's wounded and has been healing those wounds for millenias and his own true form and name is a lie, he's literally a snake named ahryman.

You have no ideia how much i love your comparisons

Seriously best lore drop on YT ever! Entertaining, illuminating, to-the-point, and yet also comprehensive. 10/10. Well done sir!

Depending on how long you've been playing p&pRPGs, demons, devils, dyvals, daemons, and other creative spellings of those two words represent completely separate, unrelated, and often antagonistic races.

You referenced Karn Evil? You have my undying respect and loyalty

Lol, Beelzebub is like making a plan in a campaign and just getting that shit nat 1 when you needed a 2.

These vids are awesome man. They help me understand dnd in a funny way. Keep them up!

How could you gloss over Fierna and Belial’s incestuous relationship?! Good vid though

And here I am, an intellectual, who knows that Asmodeus is actually a big-ass snake that created the entire multi-verse alongside his good counterpart, and is responsible for the creation of the Abyss too.

Thanks for making DnD Lorevideos that are entertaining, really appreciate it

This channel is SO good. It's just SO good. Can't stop watching

"Karn evil 9 1st impression part 2" Oh, i see you are a man of culture as well

Totally not gonna run a nine hells campaign using this

The description of this video is the absolute greatest.

This video is amazing btw. Great work!

So I wrote up a contract with a devil in one of the games I played and I was the one who wrote it and basically what it was is that I would handle all of the background work of managing Zarials plane while she goes and beats up demons also I get immortality and stuff

"Hell sucks, don't go there" Greatest advice ever.

Livistus’s actual crime was sleeping with Asmodeus’s wife, who Glasya killed because, oh yeah, he was also sleeping with her.

So, if Mephistopheles sends me a contract offer that gives me access to his infinite knowledge (with the catch that I'd basically become his slave), can I then go to Glasya and ask her to write me a counter-offer where I don't become a slave, then use Mephistopheles's library knowledge to outsmart Glasya as well?

It takes alot to have 11k views and only 1 dislike and you, Logan are one of the few people that can pull that off. Well done

5:25 I thought an ant crawled on my screen so I almost yeeted my phone into a wall

An Emerson, Lake & Palmer reference? Take my thumbs up!

"When you started playing DND, and devils came up, you probably thought..." Me: "Google, I will go to hell, find you, and make you pay for foiling my prank on those 4 sleeping adventurers."

Devils ruined my last campaign. Well....players ruined my campaign....using the help of Devils. The party was ECL 9 (3.5e), and consisted of a human wizard named Svein, a weretiger druid named Ragnarok, a LE cleric named Tabitha, and a charisma max rogue named Aralis. The gang was rolling into a new port town, Hadun. Hadun controlled the entire coastal area, through military power and trade laws. In the last town the players visited, they heard many rumors about strange lights and happenings in Hadun. I had written up a simple bad guy, and some lackies for the party to fight. The BBEG that I had written was an ECL 12 cleric of the law and evil domains. His name was Warder, and he was just supposed to die in that town. Instead, as soon as they meet Warder, they realize how powerful he is. Before I know it, the party is trying to pal around with Lawful Evil cleric bro. After a couple sessions of having Warder become their new quest giver (as a dm I prefer to roll with player choices for the story), the party had become lawful evil warlords. Warder joined them as a cohort (the wizard took leadership), taught them some evil magic, and after only a month got the party to sign infernal contracts. The players summoned up a bunch of devils, infested my material plane, and started what has been referred to in my game group as "The infernal crises" or "Evil Oopsie 2: electric boogaloo". Spent the rest of that campaign sweating over the fiendish codex 2, listening to slayer 🤣

I dunno about that last one, Kapow Life sounds pretty good just gimme guns rum and meats with that eternal damnation Edit: and undead minions

Holy Hell, if your Beholder video hadn't already made me subscribe to you, that ELP reference would've done the trick for certain!

"Hell sucks, don't go there" Really wish somebody would've told me that before I started playing Descent into Avernus

"Don't deal with devils" *Has a character that is the adoptive daughter of Dispator* Damn

Devils can be a generic term for a number of creatures. I hear older people use it that way more often than people nowadays. Honestly, the dichotomy between demons and devils in D&D is one of the most interesting things to me. That sort of warring multiple faces of evil. Then there's the yugoloths. I also kinda like how all of the lower planes really embody that "hell of our own making" idea. In Baator, devils get power and promotion, but it just nets them more jealous looks and paranoia, but being lower gets you underpaid, so there's no happy place in it.

Levistus slept with Asmodeus’s consort and tried to overthrow him, at the same time he was sleeping with Asmodeus’s daughter. When the daughter found out, she killed the consort and blamed Levistus for the murder.

This was actually super cool to watch. I'd love more.

I thought 5:36 said ‘Vegans Of Hell’

Karn Evil 9 part 2. I love you.

I fucking loved this video I learned so much and your descriptions were really funny

Fierna also quotes the wicked witch of the west on the page of the monster manual featuring the spined devils.

Fun fact: In D&D a group of devils is called a Conspiracy

Recently I sent a group of adventurers to hell. Not in the "Go to hell!" style. They almost died. It was very entertaining and instructive.

This is legit an invaluable video series for DMs … or at least for myself as a DM

Stumbled upon this video and this guy is hilarious, Awesome narration.

Me: I present to you, the Lord of Dis Player: The Lord of Dis? Me: Yeah, Lord of Dis NUTS *Slaps knee* GOT EM!

Always, always, always include a clause on the contract where you substitute a bunch of other people's souls for yours! The Devils don't care. Bonus points for opposed clergy!

Extremely glad I found you.

This video gave me many ideas to shape the contract my warlock has with his infernal!

Right when I get done with tutoring I get this gift.

Honestly hell doesn't sound that bad. Seems like either tuition free college or work at a law firm and also get super powers.

That was a sick ELP reference. You're my hero :')

I knew another story about Asmodeus. He was a helper for the deities and offered to keep in prison the souls/creatures who have sinned. The deities agreed and made him a god with power over the domain "Sin". Then he noticed that usually the best humans were recruited by deities or saved from hell somehow, so he instructed his devils to corrupt souls using evil pacts. The deities discovered it and imprisoned him in his realm, the Nine Hells

Idea for homebrew class: Hell-Hacker - someone whose job is finding, twisting and subverting the small type in Hellish contracts, so they can summon devils but should not have to go to hell. Ideal for someone who works in computing. Dispater (emerging from the ground): What? The devs said they'd fixed this bug! Hell-Hacker: Yeah, but the password input was susceptible to SQL injection... soooo... Dispater: (growls) This is the last time, mortal. Hell-Hacker: (smiles innocently) (that would obviously be endgame)

Just finished a campaign where our enemy used asmodeus as his lawyer in the court of primus

Very nice Emerson lake and Palmer reference he squeezed in there..

Obscure reference, the voice he was doing in the beginning about Lucifer was Edith from the old sitcom All in the Family.

So freaking cool how DnD Hell is just Hell from "Inferno".

Good thing I have a snuggy

That Emerson, Lake and Palmer reference is on point

I remember Cania! You end up there in Hordes of the Underdark and actually take periodic damage if you don't have gear that grants you protection from cold.

Video has 666 views. No thanks.

"When you started playing D&D, and devils came up-" _shows picture of a balor, a demon, from Pathfinder_

Honestly, I use the Ruby rod as a weapon in some of my one shots/hell campaigns, and it's really op when you read up on it. Pretty fun divine/devil weapon to give the BBEGs

That’s exactly how I was like when devils came into play! 100% accurate description. So much confusion!