Well said.

Are you assuming Asmodeus is real? 😂 but seriously, at his level *A* plan is a lie, there are many plans all based on possible out comes

I mostly agree. But an aspect of Tiamat roams Avernus (I think). I guess I look at possibly a greater god, certainly a powerful draconic one, and think, "does Asmodeus allow Tiamat to, for example, gate in devils, or does he bend over backward to not cross her"

Would add that, again, very much opinion, but I see a strong opportunity for narrative involving the Abishai. Whom do they serve? She is their creator.

Not only that, BUUUUTT! Better the devil you know than the one that you don't! 🤓

@@anthonyromasco3528 This dude gets it.

@Hilary Charania BEGONE BOT!!

Asmodeus from AD&D2ndE Planescape and the Guide to the Nine Hells, feeds directly off of souls from people that commit suicide. Did a few mini games where the PC loses all faith and commit suicides but still stubborn enough to have some faith and belief in themselves. They show up in the Ninth Layer seeing the unimagine truth of reality before them. Then on a daily bases roll int/wis/cha checks to keep from losing their sanity, and experience slow regeneration as cornugon devils claw at them and drop them off of cliffs. If the PC manage to gain sanity points they transform into free willed fiends or wights. What is the nature of endurance, ..? Even in death you can not escape from one's own self.

Try researching it!

@@AJPickett I don't envy you.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Thanks Sven!

Lol that sounded really....ummmm? Nevermind! 😂😂😂

You gotta be careful banging them 9 hells babes. That herpes simplex-666 is a real man-eater! 🤓

Game of Thrones was the PG version of this.

Consorts were spies for Asmodeus basically. They were not suppose to be tanks. I did increase their hit points by 50% though.

@@joeward2009 Uh, you really want me to explain the "joke" here? Think what is the number 69 often associated with?

Guess you are thinking with the head that gets you paternity suits and w case of the drips.

I had her enter too, but she got killed when the Lady destroyed her entire layer

She was pretty much my "go to" devil in my campaigns in the 80s. She is so wickedly diverse you can use her anywhere.

That is like saying the fish of the ocean

@@evilallensmithee Glasya is the lawyer that the lawyers call.

Daddy’s little girl.

I think that is the point. If she can't keep up with him she would never be a good heir. I wouldn't be surprised if raising his daughter to be his successor is part of his end game to end the blood war and lay siege to the heavens

I'm listening...

I've heard that one, but in most versions,the mastermind is the General of Gehenna the ruler of the yugoloths. Supposedly.

@@briancorvello3620 not pazazu who gave Asmodeus the heart of evil and possibly corrupted him?

@@dude9822 I think Tharizdun did that; it's how the Abyss was created, at least in 4th edition. Pazuzu is an obyrith, which is the Chaotic type of Elder Evil.

@@AJPickett why not throw in a Matermind who has never revealed himself at all? It's not hard to imagine such a force being able to completely erase all of his history through assassination & memory corruption. A GM could mine other settings for the puppeteer behind Amadeus besides D&D, even if they have a D&D counterpart. From In Nomine you could pull Kobal the Prince Of Dark Humor, he's using the Blood War & the War of Good versus Evil to weave a cosmic joke by the general upon the particular. Also in the RPG In Nomine Kronos is in control of the concept of Fate, the worst possible future, I can Chronos as a Yugoloth ascended to Godhood running both sides of the Blood war to drive the Multiverse into an Entropic ruin of wreckage & misery before finally snuffing it out altogether. The Eldest Brain could be another such Mastermind, it acts as a Pan-Temoral MEGA Brain using all of the lesser Elder Brains as neuron bundles & the illithid as nerve endings, the slaves of the mind flayers are the equivalent of muscle tissues etc. Basically this mastermind is a giant organism that is spread out across all of interplanar space time. The final option is to go META & have the characters find out about the nature of their existence & realize that they are merely playthings of other intelligence on a higher realm of existence. IE the characters find out that there really is a Gaming Operations Director (GOD,) or Gaming Operations Director Doing Sadistic Stuff (GODDESS.)

really where did you find this?

@@Scortch-lo3xy From a D&D 3rd Edition sourcebook called "Lords of Darkness". In the pages detailing Sfena, it says she was born in 1278 DR, that is three years before the events of the Icewind Dale game, and she founded the Iron Throne 21 years before the Baldur's Gate game's story in 1347 DR. She was trained as an assassin in Baator, working for her mother Glasya (The identity of Sfena's father is a mystery) who kept her on a tight leash and prevented her from advancing in the baatezu hierarchy. 21 years before the Baldur's Gate game, during a mission on Faerûn, a strange incident occurred when she was captured by storm giants: her body transformed into a hard crystalline substance, which had the effect of removing her connection to Baator, forcing her to stay in the Material Plane. Sfena decided to create the Iron Throne as method to cure herself. Her plan was to construct a rich and powerful mercantile organization and trade it to a powerful devil in exchange for a cure. Even though the iron crisis was stopped by Sarevok's sibling who was raised by Gorion, Sfena still managed to make the Iron Throne fairly rich in the few following years. But in 1371 DR, which is two years after the events of Baldur's Gate 2 Shadows of Amn (and one year after Throne of Bhaal) and one year before Neverwinter Nights, Sfena was betrayed by her lieutenant, a male half-moon elf named Maready tipped off Glasya on where her daughter is, and Glasya forced Sfena to return to the Nine Hells, allowing Maready to take over as leader of the Iron Throne. With this information in mind, its easy to realize that selling the Iron Throne to a devil when it is the richest mercantile organization in exchange for a cure for her condition is the very reason why she permitted Sarevok's foster father's plan to poison all the iron in the Sword Coast and hoard all the pure iron so that people will buy weapons, armor and farming tools made out of pure iron from them, which would make the Iron Throne filthy rich.

@@LightStreak567 i see very cool will have to check it out

No problem 😊

The Splat book Elder Evils suggested that Zargon (one of the Elder Evils) is somebody he DOES NOT want freed. The book claims Zargon was ruler of Hell before Asmodeus took over and might know something Asmodeus doesn't want known. There's also the matter of Armaros, one of the"Rabble of Devilkin" (powerful devils who were stripped of their positions for one reason or another, but are considered too valuable to kill. supposedly, he's one of the most powerful Archmages in the multiverse and even more powerful than asmodeus, who is the only one allowed to visit him. Which he often does.its conceivable he also knows something that could detrimental to the Overlord of Hell

@@briancorvello3620 I'm sure there's more people than that who know things that Asmodeus would much rather go unknown, though probably not many. I'd imagine there's more skeletons in Asmodeus' closet than most graveyards. My contention is that knowing something useful about someone and doing something with that knowledge are two radically different things- especially when that someone is the greatest schemer in the known multiverse.

"Glasya, before we get engaged, I gotta know. Do you have daddy issues?" "Like you wouldn't believe..."

Well, of course he doesn't. He just puts that ambition to use. Look at the arch Devils. Most of them would gleefully betray Asmodeus and he knows it. But he keeps them all balanced against each other so they never dare make a move. So that the only safety to be hard is in law. HIS law. Grinding that into them until they cannot imagine ever going against it. But there is always cleverly manipulating the letter of the law for your benefit.

Mephistopheles also openly and flagrantly vies for Asmodeus' throne, to the point Asmodeus is just as openly annoyed by him, but he keeps Mephistopheles around because he's useful. I think the same goes for Glasya. He knows neither of them would be able to properly take him down, not with the amount of surveillance he has on them, but he knows they're good at what they do and he has to choose whether he wants someone good at the job or someone that isn't constantly scheming against him. And good luck finding the latter anywhere in Hell.

Agreed.

Next, on Survivor: Baator!

The Kardashians: Archdevil edition.

You mean when Godbrand attempts to confront Dracula.

except that she's not dumb? She is playing the long game just like her daddy.

Infinitelt better, and infinitely worse than the abyss.

Almost as bad as our own political system.

Fierna is still the hottest in my opinion

That is the kobiashi maru scenario for bards.

@@AJPickett now I have to make a hard named Tiberius K. (Sounds better for fantasy without the James in the front) And figure out how to win that situation lol

@@AJPickett With enough charisma, that bard might walk out with all three on his arms like Hugh Hefner.

@@hazbinhotelsuperfan3383 yeah, but he isn't ever gonna be seen again

Best times. I only ever had one character attain god status.. Belchimeral the god of psionics.

@@AJPickett wow bet hes an amazing psionic surgeon!

Scortch! Hello, I missed you, where have you been?

@@AJPickett For a while I sorta drifted away from dnd as a whole, The lore, the running the game videos from our master Matt the colville, It just seemed like I was missing some of the magic I had felt in the beginning when I first started out, and well I felt like I just wasn't cut out to be DM. eventually I reasoned that the problem was actually found in many of the other things that where going on in my life and some of the things still going on right now, Lets just say that Lock down was not kind to old scortch. But with the lock downs ending in the US and my professional and love life reinvigorated, Things really seem to be looking up.

@@Scortch-lo3xy I don't know you but I'm glad you're feeling and doing better. Keep going man, things are good and will only get better.

@@ShinM. thanks for the kind words, you may not realize it but they make all the difference in the world.

It's had fairly radical changes with each edition, that's kind of the tradition now.

much agreed. thats my beef with Wizards of the Coast, they change too much of the original lore instead of building on it.

This enraged her father, who punished her serverly

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 for claiming she opposed him, or claiming she loved him?

@@briancorvello3620 both and neither

She is a purpose made tool. And her hatred is likely because she knows it. She no doubt has the same potential to rise as a divine child but unlike Asmodeus she will never be allowed to inherit any more than she has already been granted. Asmodeus already knows all that she could use to steal that divine spark he wretched from his brother and nurtured since. Who better, right? I don't doubt she is intended to eventually rule the hells, once Asmodeus has restored himself enough to leave his hidey hole in his true slender.

At that point Mammon was actually decent looking, but Personality wise he has always been gross.

@@semi-useful5178 IIRC he was worse before becoming a snake. But that may be another setting's Mammon I am imagining.

@@DIEGhostfish I think you are mixing them up

@@semi-useful5178 Yeah I think the big fat guy was the Mammon from Spawn.

Both of you are correct, mammon was originally a fat pit fiend but was later turned into a ~lamia~ Yuan-Ti

Pony videos... nothing but pony videos.

Lol he probably despite that dislike maybe a subscriber to the channel just for info on his enemies maybe even a member

7 other lords have found this video, I don't think they like it.

I'd love to see more of the two as well, in fact in my own game planning to change up position of some devils. Been thinking glaysa and fierna may rule together now be it friends/lovers unsure or perhaps control closer connected realms to aid each other. Plan to tinker with most devils minus asmudoes and melf.

You'd have to get to Levistus to eliminate him. Is he still in the ice in current canon?

Have a game where everyone pulls an index card to see which PC they will be playing. Have one player get Glaysa as a character, game is set before she has been given any .. duties. Magic equipment are wands/ rods of Polymorph Other and Flesh to Stone. Objective, turning mid to high level npc into Soul Stones for trade and self empowerment. Or to use a Iron Flask to lock away a demon lord during the Blood War to permanently remove them from the playing field and prevent them from being reincarnated back in the Abyss.

smh

I want to see him get out of that ice. Levistis that is.

I live for the comments.

@@AJPickett I am soo sorry, I forgot to wish you a good weekend. But it looks like you are already having a great weekend..! God bless.

Ah, thank you! I get those two muddled up there. Mammon does undergo a transformation, in one version, into a serpent form, to prove his renewed devotion to Asmodeus, if I recall?

@@AJPickett He took the serpent lower half as an insult to Geryon and his being exiled if I recall. But Asmodeus allowed it so it had to benifit him.

Do you think an entity powerful enough to create Avatars, would really have any difficulty producing offspring with another entity? People get hung up on this stuff, they really do. All of it is a blank space that has been filled in after these figures were written up and put into the game setting by the original authors.. they didn't care about the little biological details, if demon or devil lords want to produce offspring, spawn, minions or monsters, they do something flashy, evil and magical that there is a chance adventurers or rivals can mess with in the form of a dramatic, story event... otherwise, it doesn't really matter at all right?

​ AJ Pickett I know, is just I was kinda under the impression that the avatar might be basically a fancy illusion, am just curious cuz I love the lore and tend to stick close to it even with my own, one of my own stories/campains I've been working on but kind procrastinating for a few years now, and one of the key plot points involves a mortal offspring of his

@@digunder14 Avatars are far more than fancy illusions. That's why deities are limited on how many they can have active at any one time. Each is essentially a piece of the deity themself, given the ability to function independently

If Asmodeus is indeed a Greater God,he has plenty of ways to sire children.

I figured she was an Angel

uh what where are you getting this?

Serpent, a gigantic serpent. You see this in very early source materials and in 4th edition he is depicted more like a fallen divine Coatl.

@@AJPickett but he is a god right and he is in baator not the abyss right?

@@Scortch-lo3xy sry divine serpent not dragon.

@@AJPickett that's what I meant but couldn't remember the term for winged serpent.

Poor Geryon.. he deserves a video.

Amen..

Ever walked from New York to Los Angeles? It takes FOREVER... according to Google Maps and apocryphal accounts. That distance isn't infinite, but with my lazy ass, it might as well be. "Really freaking big" isn't literally infinite, just functionally infinite.

@@adamchristopher6917 Shit, that kid from Florida did (charity walk for homeless kids/mom's). Not even close to forever 😁😉

The abyss has its charms lol

I think what makes the hells more interesting is that in the hells, there a is a mutually agreed upon code/order. However, they only really obey it when others might catch them not following. While in the Abyss, the chaos and havoc are a smokescreen for long term plotting. ENANTIODROMIA

@@anthonyromasco3528 My game shop ran Hell/ Baator with badges of Patronages and cell phones, with " passports " built in. As long as you carry your Badge of State, other devils will leave you alone for the most part. Devil Officer ," cough, cough, " I found your missing uh, .. employee ..now where is the finder's fee ? Character, " Hello boss, .. I can explain, just give me a moment."

That's how I run Angels. But devils and demons specifically have succubus and Erinyes for this reason. So that kind of goes against established lore for not much reason

I read in one 3.5 source that the only devils who can bear children are erniyes, brachina (which are evolved erinyes) and unique females like Glasya; with the first two, it might have something to do with how they're direct descendants of the original host of fallen angels that, er, fell with Asmodeus. Male devils, however, cannot sire offspring with other devils, but they can with mortals, and most sources say that can be worse than being killed by one.

So.. like nudibranchs, try to stab the other with a harpoon penis because the loser has to rear kids which causes them to become weak and usually die post child birth. New lore discovered?

Nailed it. They’re not constrained as mortals are, so why wouldn’t they? Address them as they appear (if your characters are so brave), or by an honorary/title, if it’s been made known. Refer to them however you want; doesn’t matter if they’re not there.

I mean since true polymorph is a thing in dungeons and dragons anyone of high enough magical power can but it’s more than likely they will mostly keep to mail forms as they are a humanoid and the humanoid male form is stronger thereby being more suited to fighting and b It’s probably part of a self image thing once you’ve spent 1000 years looking one way you probably don’t want to change too much

the biggest flaw the hag countess did was attempting the ritual in the hells. No doubt it was sabotaged in a myriad of ways from the very onset.

@@zacharyhawley1693 you are probably right. Seeing as Asmodeus basically has control of everything, it would have only succeeded if he allowed it to.

Natasel I’m talking about the hag countess which is a night hag which is classified as a fiend in the monster manual despite being a hag

Glad you like them!

Erinyes are fallen angels. They’re older than the Nine Hells. They were part of Asmodeus’ army of angels fighting against chaos before evil existed. That’s why the Erinyes are outside of the devilish hierarchy and why they can freely travel to the prime material, unlike the devils born since the Nine Hells were created. They are exiled from the heavens, not bound to the hells.

Lol, same here. :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@AJPickett I did! And if you knew how long I've spent researching the Lords of The Nine Hells, and the Demon Lords, you'd understand how impressed I always am when you include things in these videos that I've never heard, or read, before!

@@AJPickett I have had very little success in researching Tiamat's consorts. Are you still planning on doing a video on them, and maybe even the children of Tiamat, at some point?

@@gabrieladerre2862 The first of the remastered dragon series is being created right now.

@@AJPickett that's awesome! I will be looking forward to that! As will many others, I'm sure! Also, I am so happy, and proud, to see how far your channel has come, and how much it has grown, since my discovery of it, a few years ago! You deserve even more success than you have already gained! 😊 It's also nice to have all of your videos to binge watch while this madness is going on!

The ruler of the 7th Layer has always been Baalzebul, he is only named Beelzebub in some third -party sourcebooks. Clearly, his name is based on that of the mythical Beelzebul, although why there was ever a change - unlike Mammon, Moloch, and Mephistopheles, for instance - is hard to say.

@@briancorvello3620 Mephistopheles, isn't that the guy that messes with Spiderman and Doctor Strange ? My bad, different multiverse and publishing company. Then again ...

@@krispalermo8133 Originally the Silver Surfer, but after a while he tended to be trouble for every hero in Marvel. Seriously, though, both versions of Mephistopheles are named after a much, much older name. Even Christopher Marlowe based the character on one from a much older story.

Thanks :)