Timestamps, an ongoing channel challenge, and Possible Spoilers Below! 0:10 Well summoning Obyrith is definitely one way to start a video. 0:37 Intro and Pazuzu in Earth-Mythology. 2:38 Appearance in older editions 3:23 Description 4:29 Obyrith Lord 5:40 Lord of Abyssal Skies and semi-enemies 6:21 Feeding On Innocence and purity, answering prayers 8:43 Very Devil-Like Demon, The Long Game 10:00 Pazunia, First Layer of the Abyss 14:22 Pazuzu in Pazunia 14:47 Meeting, Interacting, and Ill advised Fighting Pazuzu 17:35 Stats 22:07 Speaking the Name, and Torremor 24:46 Onstrakker's Nest 26:36 Lord's Rock 27:46 Corrupting through aiding 29:38 Cults of Pazuzu 32:53 Juicy bit of 4e lore on Asmodeus and the Ruby Rod I would be a poor timestamper for the channel if i didn't recommend a few videos after this. The Lords of Ruin are always great videos and here are a few to check out if you have not already. Each has fantastic flavor to add to your game. Demogorgon: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKeCgMih192cgH0.html The Obyrith: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ppyXicaG38nMeYU.html Orcus: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ab6WpM15uN-dhmw.html Graz'zt: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ociha9SJ2qjeZYk.html Fraz-Urb'luu: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9qVgZl_xJa2pGQ.html Also a shout-out to a challenge we have going on for the channel: Part 2 of the Netheril Empire videos, we have to get part 1 to 14,000 views by the end of the year. We have gotten another 200 views in the last week so we are on a good start! Link below if you are interested. History of the Netheril Empire: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKeCgMih192cgH0.html

"Pazuzu you ungrateful gargoyle! I put you through College and this is the thanks I get‽"

Pazuzu has pretty much no enemies. Pazuzu has his own layer of the Abyss. Pazuzu controls the skies of pretty much all layers of the Abyss. Pazuzu doesn't care about the Blood War. dude, Pazuzu won the game! he's the true master of evil!

He wants to turn things evil, but is the only one I know of in the D&D multiverse that understands that means spending time in evil places is pointless for this goal.

I was looking for a Pazuzu lore video... i typed his name in 3 times and this video appeared.

Finally! A Demon-Lord with a brain and a motivation other than KILL THE THINGS AND STAY ALIVE. I mean, there's Grazzt too, but he's just the god of college frat-boys.

I once played a Halfling cleric of Pazuzu! Escaped from a lamashite-dominated town where children were plagued by nightmares. I protected children and taught Evil as individual freedom, an antidote to Good - which is a ruse by Lamashtu and Asmodeus who want you to suffer quietly. We governed a kingdom that had kobolds as police, to which I correctly told that Pazuzu could turn them into dragons. Also all but the followers of Abadar (it was Pathfinder) recited the name three times in a row at every meeting. All Hail The Locust Host!

Pazuzu: “I can summon a handful of rocks.” Other Demons “Well that doesn’t seem so useful...oww! Wtf?” Pazuzu, 300 ft in the air throwing down handfuls of rocks: “Those rocks still not seem useful?”

A truly sinister force of evil! I like to think he'd have spells and magical artifacts from The Far Realm that are older than time itself!

I absolutely enjoy the Lords of ruin series. Always get ideas for them in Games thanks AJ

“And that little one is how papa earn his freedom.” -Pazuzu

My favorite Demon Lord. I put a hint for his presence in almost every campaign I DM. My players haven't figured it out thus far but they know that if they see a bunch of dumb looking pigeons staring at them something is terribly wrong... especially if they are in the abyss...

I can EASILY picture Pazuzu choosing NOT to reveal his nature to living petitioners for his rewards, but instead guiding them to the Abyss by favors he asks in return, this is a role I can see done by Servitors capable of taking a mortal form. Every time offering along with the dark deed a justification for it as to WHY it isn't really all that bad, a few goods slipped through customs here, or a small act of perjury there to keep some wheels greased. The thing that he knows is one favor leads to another, & once one moral boundary is crossed he next is easier to cross as well. The road to the Lower Planes is paved with good intentions. He could also support those who are acting in a Evil manner but convinced they are acting out of a sense of Righteous GOOD. The Elvin Paladin who slaughters the entire Orc tribe including the old, women, & children, as well as the warriors because "Orcs are EVIL," could find aid from Pazuzu in disguise, this would be a very fertile ground for souls begging for his brand of corrupting favors as both sides of a war fueled by fanatics doing evil things in the name of Good gods. I can also see an alternate form for Pazuzu as a swarm of birds or flying insects making him harder to hit in combat & intimidating to mortals on the Prime Material plane. A few million locusts blackening the sky & creating a voice with the buzzing of their wings would be a KILLER visual for the players.

I feel like that favor Pazuzu is owed is going to be called in if Grazzt ever gets the upper hand on him. Use Asmodeus to defeat or even kill Grazzt. This is right up Pazuzu alley since according to some sources, Grazzt is Asmodeus’ son, making it even more evil than the normal Archdevil-Demon Lord fight.

Yes, I’m taking notes. “Note to self: Do *not* call on Puzuzu...for *any* reason!” Got it! 📝

Pazuzu's been all over the multiverse. One of the mightiest Shen Gong Wu has bears his namesake. The Pazuzu Atom has been the center of many Xiaolin Showdowns.

Pazuzu sounds like a great excuse for a character having a warlock pact. Eerily helpful and plotting your demise, sure, but at least you likely won't have to deal with him in the short-term. Most campaigns begin and end at a relatively low level anyways.

A young child offers a good hero aid in his quest. "Our lord wishes only to see evil vanquished," the child says as the silhouette of wings frame the child's shadow. "Clearly this is an angelic force on our side," the adventurer says. >;)

“You have one wish left professor”

Pazuzu:"ha ha ha! I'm Pazuzu, king of plagues and locusts, I'll kill all these mesopotamian losers!" Lamashtu:"k, I'm gonna murder some children." Pazuzu:"WHAT? You can't be THAT evil!" Lamashtu:"why not? You kill people with plagues, it's not like you are any be..." Pazuzu:"SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" A battle to the death ensues

Pazuzu, Sovereign of the Skies, Tempter of the Just, & A friend to Clerics & little girls everywhere!

I've had the pleasure of seeing Pazuzu as the big bad of a long-running Planescape campaign. The Lady of Pain stopped appearing in Sigil and nobody knows why, but he was quick to seed and command cults within the hive, as well as ripping open rifts in the skies above both the Outlands and many Primes. An epic campaign of interplanar war on the grandest of scales, with a great DM.

"Why Dimmy? Why you leave me to die with the rats and the roaches?"

Great video, would have loved that for the last adventure my heroes went on. It's stated that Pazuzu spends time guarding certain places in Thanatos for Orcus, so I had the demon's vrock minions notice that the good heroes were sneaking into the plane. However instead of attacking them, the vrocks explained that their lord, the Prince of the Air, was bored and they would gain favor if they would entertain him with a fight. This fight was clearly stated to have no lasting injuries and curry great favor, so the players eventually agreed. The vrocks summoned an aspect of Pazuzu who dueled them. It would have been nice to here your ideas on his stats and wargear. The heroes won the fight just barely, and so Pazuzu gave them the blade he had been using, and encouraged them to call upon his aid in the future, since he was quite bored after all. That future wasn't too far off, and they soon requested his aid in removing a Godzilla sized monster that was clogging the Styx.

Pazuzu is the demon portrayed in the exorcist movies as well....makes perfect sense he would want to possess and corrupt a young girl

I can see a vengeful aerie of Aarakocra who tribe has been decimated by hobgoblins or some such, asking for Pazuzu's help in their darkest hour of need. Perhaps the high priest of the tribe reached out alone to Pazuzu in order to enact revenge of the most extreme degree against the tribes enemies, thus corrupting the entire tribe over time to do unspeakable acts on any and all ground-dwellers who happen through their territory. Before you know it you've got Vrocks mixed in with the flock who are there to make sure their lord's will is done.

Then there’s the wise Paladin “thanks for helping me destroy demons and leave the abyss I hope to never see you again because just because your nice doesn’t mean you aren’t evil.”

The arm position thing you mentioned at the start of the video is a gesture associated with some of the more martial and/or malevolent entities in ancient middle-eastern mythology. To the Mesopotamians of that time, it variously represented power, menace, and the destruction of one's enemies, and was meant to be imposing. It later came to be associated with the phrase "as above, so below" (a hermetic axiom) but that's a fairly recent thing by comparison.

The way you described Pazuzu’s style of corruption sounds like a metaphor for addiction. Please don’t tell me I’m not the only one thinking as such.

The hand thing is a reference to "Everything above corresponds with everything below and everything below corresponds with everything above" or "as above, so below" in Alchemy, I believe.

No mention of pazuzu sitting on the chained oblivions shoulder convincing him to create the abyss.

Pazuzu isnt that bad, he was a loving father and saved the professor from being aged to death

Pazuzu, you ungrateful gargoyle! I put you through college, and this is how you repay me?!

No strings attached hmmm >:3 That was a delicious line I could almost feel like someone who Spoke AJs name 3 times hehe .

Known to a favorite few as "Captain Howdy".

Well, the Obyrith originally came to this world to escape their own dying reality. So I suspect why he seems to have adapted so well to this world is because he has what he wants. A new reality to conquer and shape to his desires. He has no use to remake this world to fit the shape of what he left behind. The corruption of what is before him is more than enough. This may be why he and Pale Night do not get along. He is content with what he has. She is not.

Pazuzu is the ultimate vicemonger. And like all such merchants, he's all too happy to give out the first taste for free.

I seem to remeber a sequel to "The Excorcist" that featured this demon, acting through locusts.

ah yes, asmodeus, tharizdun and now finally pazuzu. At long last the unholy trinity is complete, bless you aj for fighting through the heebie jeebies ol bird-lejuice gives you.

"fiendish rocks" I can just imagine an angry rock

M'lord, some villain calling himself Steven King called at the postern gate asking for the return of his Fog. I informed him that you were not in possession of his Fog and set him upon his way.

Fun Fact: Pazuzu was the demon who possessed a young girl in the classic movie, "The Exorcist".

Everytime I hear the name "Pazuzu", I immediatly think of Futurama. i miss them...

AJ Pickett... AJ Pickett... AJ Pickett... *locks around* (f*ck me and my false hope) ;)

That's my favorite Demon of them all. Probably because of the Exorcist movies. Swarms of locusts engender such awe and destruction to crops, it is no wonder that it was personified as a demon,

Pazuzu is the demon featured in The Exorcist movies and novels. The Exorcist is the scariest movie I ever saw. Freaked me out.

Pazuzu is the type of boss you start praying for your DM to roll nat one's every turn he's running him.

Time to cut your wings Pazuzu! *Pulls out cimmitar*

He reminds me of Tash from The Chronicles of Narnia. A while ago I was reminiscing on just how strange those books were. One legged people, talking mice, a horse keeping a boy as a slave.

Send in an old Priest and a young Priest. If Hollywood is to be believed, they can handle him!

I wish they had more lore on oberith like pale night.

I prefer the depiction of Pazuzu as a Lawful Evil and Chaotic Neutral bounty hunter, killing demons and taking their power in order to become the greatest warrior in existence

when you think about it, Pazuzu could very well be the god of drug dealers. Even if you know perfectly well the dangers of summoning him, the allure is _just that strong_ . "I know I shouldn't summon him, but _grrrr, I want a vorpal sword!_"

“Pazuzu you ungrateful gargoyle, I put you through college and this is how you repay me?” *poops*

All of his stats are 30 and his strength is 27 ?????? That is even stronger than the demon prince himself!!

Thank you so much AJ!!! I was the one who asked you on FB to make this vid! I appreciate all your videos, they are infinitely amazing. Pazuzzu is the BBEG in my Campaign and has been keeping an eye on the PC's for sometime. Thanks again!

Next one needs to be on the slaad lords. The insanity and entropy ones.

This is the perfect patron for any good warlock or good necromancer.

I have played D&D since I was 10 and still the first thing I think of is Pro. Farnsworth

Funny thing is that I was reading about him this mornjng

You think by now someone would have been able to pull one over on Parrot-Face with the One Free Wish deal. Edit: Fallen! A fellow fan I see.

Funny thing, I was browsing asmr videos and KZfaq recommended me this soothing video on Pazuzu. Looks like I’m once again falling asleep to lower planes lore :)

Pazuzu, you ungrateful gargoyle. I put him through college and this is how he repays me?

Ah, everyone's favorite feathered plot device.

*The exorcist has left the chat*

My question is how did it come into the care of Professor Farnsworth?

The right hand is raised and the left-hand was lowered just like the Baphomet. This is to show the ancient axiom "As Above So Below." The hermetic laws concerning duality.

The reason his right hand is raised and his left hand is pointing down is to symbolize the ancient, occult idea of As Above, So Below.

I really like the style of this Prince. He is a refreshing change to the "destroy existence" mentally of most of his peers.

4:50 is how I think demons should look....more chaotic and awful, less chubby ape and furry

when you asked me if i was taking notes, i actually started noting it down in a notepad

The hands point up and down to heaven and earth like the god baphomet. As above so below.

L.O.L. "free, no strings attached" :-D

Right hand raised left hand lowered means "As above, so below.". or "What is in the heavens so to on the earth."

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I know it's a lot to ask, but if you continued to do more and more of the lords of ruin, that would be excellent. They are some of my favorite videos. Also, the next time you do a demon video, could you explain why an individual demon may want to collect souls?

Wow this was really good thanks AJ. Also, Pazuzu is a great name for a demon.

I love these poem starts to these videos. This one and the Dagon one gave me chills.

I appreciate your channel. I love Folklore both conventional and D&D Lore. Thank you for your videos!

so what exactly is stopping a scholar who knows well enough to summon him, wish for X awesome thing, and then never summon him again?

you should really try to make a video on Calimshan from the beginning to post second sundering

My fav Abyssal lord. Also like Yeenoghu. Theres something about a Gnoll. Gotta back the underdogs lol.

Sounded like you said Pazunia is full of massive “pets”.

so basically you can summon him like beetlejuice... imagine if he was real? there'd be a lot of smart asses in danger.

I wonder what Pazuzu looked like in pure Obyrith form? Clearly he's shifted himself intl a pseudo-tanari to look more like a mortal

Was going to make fun of his name, but as the lesson went on decided against it. . .

4:28 I always get more coffee before your videos, AJ ☕☕☕

It's refreshing to see a demon who isn't just an insane bag of bees. Most demons are like dangerous animals or bad weather, there going to harm you straight up.

As Father Damien (the Exorcist) found out: "The power of Christ compels you..." ...except when your a sneaky ancient Demon of the East Wind, that can find ways to circumvent that.

Fascinating, a sort of pre-modern demon, one which embodies separation between motivation and behavior, a separation that exists purely internally, and is not logically subject to any form of objective judgment.

In the words of Professor Herbert J Farnsworth Curse you Pazuzu you ungrateful gargoyle

_the ultimate first time offer_

I can imagine other demon lords, even ones more powerful than Pazuzu himself, would be afraid of him due to his Obirith origins.

A thought. It wasn't that pestilence and fierce winds were not that bad but he was placatable. His former lover could not be. So while he was an malicious entity he was also one you could bribe to leave you alone.

Ah, Pazuzu. My favorite out of all the demon lords.

I have been waiting for this video since palenight. Imagine my surprise at work when i saw this on my que!

Hey another topic that I don’t believe you might have touched on are the various slimes jellies and pudding’s of the DND world

Another idea might be the hundred handed ones although they may be a bit niche

Could it be that Pazuzu is responsible for the corruption of Asmodeus? If he tempted Asmodeus, offering him power in the form of a sliver of the shard of ultimate evil as a "gift", something he had likely learned or deduced would be the one thing Asmodeus wouldn't be able to resist, and the "gift" was accepted, this act would have brought him one step closer to chaotic evil , first to Lawful Neutral and Pazuzu might even have then personally finalised Asmodeus' fall to Lawful Evil through a second "gift". If he put Asmodeus onto the path towards Lawful Evil, then he has brought more destruction and suffering to the cosmos than any other demon can boast.

Hey random question completely unrelated to this video. You know how there is a weave and a shadow weave what would happen if a god made a 3rd weave like thing?