“She’s so hideous that reality itself rejects her.” Yet Asmodeus still tapped dat

Pale Night reminds me strongly of Chambers' "King in Yellow". "You, milady should remove your shroud ! - I Wear ni shroud... - No shroud ? No shroud !"

Actually fought Grazzt once and got him to half health (I got a hyper buff from a planetar to do it due to being in an extreme holy site.) And on his turn he left but said he will get his mom. A few sessions ago I met his mom. She reduced me to 1 charisma before my turn came up I hit her twice and she respected me enough to use the true form to insta kill me rather then doing the horrific things that happen when you hit 0 charisma from a demon. All in all I would rate it a 9/10 of a time since she was not nearly as rude as some of the other demon lords i met.

It's strangely nice of chaotic evil pale night to hide her insanity inducing appearance.

“And then our party was attacked by a skeletal igloo.” “A what?” “A Skeletal Igloo.” “How?” “It jumped at us from the left and attempted to crush the Cleric.” “No, I mean how is it possible for A) an igloo to be made of bone, and B) a skeletal building to attack someone?” “Welcome to the Abyss kid”

Pale Night gives new meaning to the phrase “junk in the trunk.”

In 3.5 you didn't get a willsave to resist madness when you saw her true form. You got a Fortitude save for your body failing to process what it saw so it never reaches your mind. If it DOES reach your mind, you just die. Flat out, instant death.

Lolth: I am the Demon Prince of spiders Pale night: and I took that personally

"I built a house WITH THE BONES OF MY ENEMIES! "

10:00 just noticed that single frame....I love it.

Interesting part for more exploration: her fascination with chaotic good corruption

I love geeking out on dnd lore.

Pale Night is easily the coolest character in all of DnD lore I've come across so far. I'm about to start a campaign with Pale Night as my warlock's patron, hope this works out...

It's 2024 and man I remember when these first came out! I still love coming back and listening to these!

Really, really nice work with the Pale Night imagery. The subliminal effect is... very effective.

Graz'zt's mom is one scary, and dangerous thing. I don't know how you fight someone who reality has rejected. Reality said nope!!! This scares me more than the rest of the demon lords. Well anyone who likes hunting children is sick. But Pale Night takes it up to new levels.

I'd say the castle would have her "perfect" demons that survived the maze for a long long time or maybe reminds her of home a horror that she's nursing etc the maze has a reason to root out the weak so that's my best guess some sort of perfect horror she's keeping for her own means Ps. Homebrew name of it would be something cool like the moonlit child maybe it takes a form of a small frail pale child

I’d love to see a pack of Bebiliths fight a Deathdrinker, and considering how egomaniacal the DD’s can be, it’s not a long shot to say one of them might walk through the Pale Night with his undead horde to test his mettle and prove his superiority.

20:10 "Just fly over the maze right into the castle!" Pazunia, less than ten thousand feet above them: "So you have chosen death." Paladin: "Wizard, why is the sky falling upon us?" Wizard, passing their arcana check: "FFFFF-" Pazuzu: *mouth pop* "Noice."

I have my own head cannon that Graz'zt is the son of Pale Night and Asmodeus, and is the true heir of the lower planes. King of Demons and Lord of The Nine

@10:20 I caught that. Oh God. Your videos are always so good (I only just found them), but It's odd you left *out* some of the spookier details for this one. How creatures damaged by her touch can be reduced to incorporeal versions of themselves, wrapped in a shroud like hers and held in stasis forever and how she intentionally keeps these victims floating in her palace, like her own personal gallery of macabre art. How one of her combat tactics is simply to suppress the effect that hides her true form for a moment, and forcibly subject anyone fighting her to the understanding of what she really is. How in the fiendish codex from 3.5 the effect of failing the save isn't that spectacular ruinous madness you described but just outright death; the mind actually understanding what it sees and just *ceasing to function completely*. (Also I'd love to know where that description of madness came from. The only thing I can think of that's similar is the way *devils* see the world all the time, but being able to force that onto a character is awesome). And just, other people noted it in the comments, and I said it in another one, but in a species made entirely of Lovecraftian horrors she is the *most* terrible of all of them. She's the King in Yellow and the Black Goat with a Thousand Young and more, all at once, all wrapped together in what might be the very first 'Mother' in the D&D multiverse. That's the kind of understanding that leaves someone never quite the same. Again, great video like always.

That flash of the 1st Edition Cthulhu critter when showing Pale NIght still freaks me out.....well done.

The Bebilith is my fav demon in D&D behind my bois, the Quasit.

10:00 guess i should take a sanity check

The "fallen attackers are forcibly used as a defensive force" thing is also in the story "Maze of the Enchanter" written by Clark Ashton Smith in 1932. A powerful enchanter picks a woman from the tribes to go with him to his palace as a sort of tribute. This woman happens to have a smart and athletic man attempting her rescue from the enchanter. As the man makes his way through a maze at the front of the palace, he is attacked by mutant gorillas. Later, he understands they aren't mutant gorillas at all. They are actually the mutated humans of tribesmen who tried to rescue their own women. Slightly different concept, but pretty close in general.

I had to slow down the video and pause multiple times to glimpse the true form of The Pale Night. I have since been unable to sleep and all food tastes like the cold fatty parts on a piece of undercooked steak to me. Word to the unwise, do not seek that which you should not find.

Well played with the one-frame horror of Pale Night.

So you won't enter Pale Nights palace for any price? What about for gaining the true names of Pazuzu, Baphomet or Dagon as payment?

Great video. You painted a great image. Thank you.

Hey huge congrats on 2k followers man, here's to 5k!

I have been binging your video while I work. It has been weeks and there still more to catch up on!! So much content. Keep up the hard work!

Man I'd love to know some of things they had to hunt ordered by Pale Knight. How dangerous did those beings have to be?!

I managed to pause the video at the right time to see those flashes when you shower her floating saw all the faces and eyes of the demons pretty crazy picture

Grats! I love the hidden images :)

These areas are so cool but I can't imagine how even a high-level party could last half an hour in them. It's a shame because I'd always wanted to have an adventure there but I feel like I'd have to just pull punch after punch to make it work.

I'm so happy to have found your channel! The details and suggestions you offer are great for beginning DMs (like me) to get a better understanding of the creatures and how to play them. Thank you and keep up the good work!

after i slawed it down to see the 2 frame picture of pale night and then they describe the affects i could only think of docter strange when he was like WHY WOULD YOU PRINT THE WARNING AFTER THE SPELL

Just recently found you. You've done a great job with these videos.

2000! Congratulations, that is quite a milestone.

it's fun to find this and hear a 20k announcement and see you made it to 103k now, awesome stuff

Look under the sheet and they roll a zero meaning their head just pops like a balloon

Great video my dude

Since radient energy damages some necrotic lifeforms, are gnome-made glowsticks radient poison?

10:00 I like that. That's a nice touch.

i enjoy recognizing all the mtg art you have in your videos lol

Gz on 2k man great job.

Thank you for these videos, im new to the hobby and toying with building a campaign for my group and your videos are really helpful.

Wow the bebelith is a bit toned down since 2e D&D, they could be a party wipe even for a fairly high level party in planescapes Edit: yep shoulda watched the whole entry before i opened my trap

90k subs in 6 years as of typing this. Good work Aj

Seeing horrific things in ordinary objects. Seeing people around as decaying hunks of organic rot. Not being able to appreciate beauty because everything seems fleeting. Not being able to feel joy or pleasure. Everything appears as rotten, diseased, foul, disgusting... OK, so a regular Tuesday? 😂

Good work by the way

What a great video

Congrats!

Late to the party, but looks like someone found their BBEG for his next campaign

I have to ask, if you ascended to some level where you so much as MIGHT be able to stand a chance against her, would you be able to hit her by punching the area AROUND the form of the veiled figure, slowly being able to guess her vague shape via enough attacks or is it only her figure that mortals can see that has a functional "hit box" so to speak?

At 20:48 there is this demon in the background that's huge and red furred with giant scorpion pincers. I thought if he was in a game the DM should give him a high pitched voice and should say lines like "I'm gonna give you such a pinch."

Another great video (glitch insert horror) 😏 Question! Could you help elaborate on the differences of Pale Night and Queen of Chaos since both are the mother of demons. Plus what is there relationship like beyond that they both are Oberynth.

"Special 2k subscriber milestone", then five years and 100k subs later.. Great accomplishments AJ, no doubt a credit to your humble dedication and inspiring diction! Keep it up :)

Will you be revisiting the Nine Hells in future videos? I found your channel while looking for more information on the plane and it's denizens, would love to learn more about it. Love the channel man, keep it up!

well........ I ain't sleeping tonight lmao. That thing is horrid! also awsome. Great vids dude keep um coming!

Dang total nightmare fuel!

Can you polymorph into a bebilith to destroy the denizens in the 9 hell's? What about making one a familiar or a mount?? And could they take on a demon lord??

Shes possibly the most powerful being in dnd universe. More powerful than the greater deity

Strange after watching this video I now want to buy local brands. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the subliminal advertising. :) Great work Bud. I really enjoyed it. Your knowledge and dedication is always impressive. Excellent work.

oh no I'm being stalked by a bebilith on Facebook! great video, congratulations on the gang o subs!

Bebilith sounds cool!

10:30 - 11:30 wait, i thought thats how everyones life was... ~sigh~ im going to go play a couple rounds of russian roulette 🤣

She is responsible for making Troglodytes for the other Demon Lords.

10:15 Pause and you’ll make a Wisdom Saving Throw.

Great video. Can someone post a screen grab of Pale Night's true form @9:50?

Okay, celebrity-deathmatch: Pale Night vs Lady of Pain. Go. My money's on Lady of Pain, but so little is known about either of them that it'd at least be an interesting discussion.

I have a Dungeons and Dragons story I am working on, in which Pale Night plays a key role. I want to read everything official about her, but I cannot find any directions online toward sources for a particular connection between her and the Bebiliths. Could you please tell me where you found that?

whats the image you used at 9:51? its gruesome and I'd love to find more like it XD

Quick question : which sourcebook give you the lore that behilit come from Pale night ? I really want to know

So the plateau is basically Hueco Mundo ;p

That easter egg around 10:14 Why did I notice it only now?

Wish you hadn't glossed over the rescue mission. It was my favorite part of the fiendish codexes.

AJ, I saw that. Where can I find the pic you spliced in?

...and then I say to Graz'zt "yo mama so ugly even reality said NOPE!" I laughed. He laughed. Now here I am in the Nine Hells. How'd you get here?

Bebilith is the most metal monster that isn't a skeleton on an undead horse.

Book Title Pale Night, History and Lore: The conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.

Oh you, I caught those subliminals.

I know this is an old video, but does anyone know what the artwork for 13:00 is or a link for it?

It took me a while, but I got to freeze the image at 10:00. I feel accomplished.

AJ, what's your favourite song from Hardwired?

bebilith. kick ass

Bebilith seem very uninspiring as monster spiders go, it's not like someone bred Ungoliant with Komunga, now those would be some monster spiders.

How many babiliths would it take to kill a) a balor/pit fiend b) demigorgon c) a deva ?

7:00 subscribed

Wait a minute. The worst will be a loss of taste and smell! Oh crap.

I like her!

2000 subs? Its 132k now :D Awesome stuff. Still. Like before.

Its been 4 years, but I'm doing a video a day, so ill be done in... another year. Jesus. You are, in a word, Fuckinamazinmate.

Is that an actual figure (and if it is who by) at the beginning and at 10:00. I take it is Pale Night Obelith

i relay want to know more about her

Those little flashes of Pale Night reminded me of a Living Wall. Look forward to your video on it(them?)

Why would a demon that exists to destroy demons that are too chaotic evil exist? Is this things existence preventing new demon lords from. Forming? Do material planes owe their existence to it halting abyss corruption across the multiverse? I don’t get the concept

Agh, those fucking subliminals

are devils and demons not the same in DD?

Baby litch! You wish