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I guess posting a second one makes sense. with the two heads and all

So what you're telling me is that in order to defeat Demogorgon, you would need to slash through millions of demons, turn his generals against each other or just kill them, kill his kids, make his girlfriend betray him, gain the assistance of Dagon, Oblox-Ob, or Orcus - all of which would immediately turn on you as soon as he was killed - and then slash through millions more vying for the crown? Sounds like one hell of a campaign!

“Being a Lord of part of the Abyss is like being the biggest maggot on a dung heap” - Mordenkainen

To think the most powerful demon would be such a passionate lover and involved family man, to the point that messing with his family becomes his weakness.

"There you see an enormous dinosaur battle against a giant ape..." are you telling me that the Screaming Jungle has its own Godzilla vs Kong?

I like how the demogorgon still has a couple little human notes, guess being the literal first of a flavor of demon meant he kept a bit of human sympathy. Sure he's a gibbering psychopath of immense power but turns out he loves his wife and kids, is close with his neighbor, and despite the love he's still ashamed of his weirder kid.

To be honest, I never would have expected that Demogorgon's greatest weakness would be his love for his family.

"Rather than having arms, he has GREAT tentacles." Demogorgon: "Aw thanks man, i worked really hard on them!"

Who knew Demogorgon was such a family man!

it's Ironic how possibly the most inhuman creature in the multiverse has such human weaknesses

19:54 he's the reason step sisters get stuck in the washing machine

Wait, you need charisma to claim the crown. Imagine Graz'zt or Obex-Ub climbing to the gaping maw, only to be met Chad Thundercock, the horny bard who helped defeat Demogorgon, they would just give up then and there

(Demogorgon dies) Random Demon: you gonna attempt to become the next demon prince? Random Demon 2: Heck No! do you see all those insanely strong demons fighting over there? I'm not getting involved in that!

“What makes me a good DEMOgorgan? If I was a bad DEMOgorgan then we wouldn’t be sitting here talking about it, now would we?!?!!”

So theoretically, a Paladin Tiefling descended from Demogorgon could become the Chaotic Good Prince of Demons (at least for a while), and have an easier time of getting that title than even Orcus? Well, I know what I want my next campaign to be.

what I'm getting from this is that the first scene from Stranger Things was actually the end of that dnd campaign

MrRhexx is a Demogorgon cultist. Why, I hear you asking? *0:49** Nobody who is sane uses Light mode*

If the two heads could hug it out then Demogorgon would probably be much more powerful

The Demo-gorgon came out a while ago. When will the Full Version-gorgon be released?

His hidden shame? He's an Elton John fan. He and his other head do "don't go breakin my heart" karaoke all the time. It's his favorite song.

That would be a hell of a decade long campaign.

I am officially begging you to make a video about Tasha. She is such a fascinating character and I was very disappointed that some snark between sections was the only exposure we got to her in the Tashas Cauldron book

The Eladrin managing to reverse-corrupt a layer of the abyss is one of the most chad things in D&D ever and why the fae courts deserve some serious respect

I was always under the impression that Dagon likes his position as the "power behind the throne". A superior candidate to be influenced by Dagon is possible, but Dagon plays a very long game. Tying Demogorgon down with allies, feeding him enemies and constructing more then half his plane to his liking. Dagon has rendered Demogorgon as ineffectual as possible, setting the stage, as well as becoming an arbitrator of the abyss. I don't think Demogorgon's downfall has ever become a goal, but leaving it open to interpretation is a extremely beneficial bit of persuasion. Let them think Dagon is a petty feeble creature holding on to the last bit of power, his last morsels, craving for more. When really Dagon has groomed this entire situation to only benefit himself. It's just as it was the last time the abyss was in upheaval, prepared and ready to be claimed by the strongest beast and Dagon will teach that beast to respond accordingly.

Yikes. I feel bad for Demogorgon. His own beloved only seeks to one day kill him. That's rough.

9:55 Dagon, Pazuzu, Obox-Ob take a pic: the Queen of Chaos crashes it. This is why there can't be peace in the abyss. This is why we can't have good things

Oh my Rhexx... You are by far the best DnD lore teller! The Atmosphere in your episodes allways hits me right to my core! getting inspired to so many scenarios in my own campaign over and over again! Never stop what you are doing, and whenever i can fully support myself i'll be your proud patreon!

I like how the subtext here works. You slay Demogorgon and assume his crown and you are inevitably doomed to become Demogorgon despite your brief time not being him. So, like Asmodeus IS his plane, Demogorgon is his plane. Still, despite his "death", I am still team Orcus. ORCUS!

I'm just imagining a player managing to take Demogorgons place, learn the true name of Asmodeus, and find all of the books that hold the names of the Yugoloths, and doing all of this crazy BS through sheer Minmax-Instigator energy in a campaign where none of this even relates to the plot. And then I realize if anyone in my D&D group were to do that it would probably be me. 😅 Maybe it's a good thing that I'm the forever DM.

I love how his actions mirror his nature, his setting is a salt ocean and a jungle, his body is mostly reptilian with mammalian heads, things that seem like they would be contrasting to find in nature

Father son talks could not be more different between the siblings

The pic of drizzt and guenwhyvar destroying demogorgon. Awesome...

to think that even Demogorgon, a literal embodiement of evil and madness, can feel heartbreak when betrayed by his girlfriend makes him way less scary somehow.

We now really need a Tasha's video

Law and Chaos work in a weird way in D&D. The demons of the abyss are supposed to represent complete chaos, yet they have armies and generals, and such things do require at least some order.

Based on that definitition, what would Graz'zt be categorized as? Assuming the rumors about him are true, that he's the child of Asmodeus and Pale Night, he wouldn't be a tenari demon. He'd be half obyrith/half celestial (assuming this took place before Asmodeus' fall) or half devil if it took place after the fall. Related to this, could Graz'zt be part of Pazuzu's plans? Maybe laying with Pale Night was one of the thing's Asmodeus had to do to get his Ruby Rod?... By asking this question, I'm sure I've marked myself for death and eternal torture, but it's still an interesting question.

Not too long ago I finished a (multy-years Long) adventure where one of the chapters was defeating Demogorgon. It started with a bard I originally was hopping to play as "Robbin Hood", called "Noble Daggers". In hiis origin adventure he ended possesed and corrupted by every demon we encounter, but he was able to roll proper WILL saves, al though we knew SOME effects would take place. So he turned evil, but with each encounter he learned more and more about demons, their LAWS, pacts and deals. Skip many adventures later and he became the "King-Ping" of Demons and deals with mortals, accentually building a small Demon City, (located over the capital city of Drows so they also had a place on the surface to call a "home") This city was pure Lawful-Evil, a place where mortals could trade with Demons and some of the worst scum in the world, and my character as Leader would trade a constant supply of Souls to diferent Demons. He him self trade his own Soul with multiple Demons and even a few mid rank Demon-Lords in such overcomplicated and twisted deals that our own world most evil Lawyers would feel proud+respect, and thats almost the feeling those demons had. Eventually do to a perfectly planed "betrayal" by character "Nobble Daggers" dies and NO demon can claim what was rightfully theirs, since this death nullified the contracts, causing a massive Civil War between demons. Skip a few adventures and a self proclaimed "NEW Prince od Demons" shows up. "Sreggad Elbon" (at this point out characters are way passed lv 20) Orquestrates the death of Demogorgon. Allies with the other big baddies and even with angels and "Old Gods" promising the death of Demogorgon. Obviously not a single band will hold their word or miss the chance to destroying every other side. Long story short, I actually DID a few of the things to weaken Demogorgon, lower its CR, even confused the 2 heads to attack each other with help of the wispers of Dagon (it wasnt him personally, we had an old artifact that wispered his voice and command)(this time wispering to bouth heads at once, causing the anger and confusion) Long story short at the moment of its death and with almost all main baddies killing each other for the double cround "Sreggad Elbon" did the unthinkable and used all the power and magic he had as new prince of Demons to physical and metaphorically destroy the crown! "no more Prince of Demons, only his Law, because no Demon, angel or Mortal was able to stop him, by the simple mention of his true Name" as Sreggad Elbon IS Nobble Daggers", and simply banished into some far away dimension (no-one knows where or can find him) In this short comment is obvious, but this story took place over 3-5 years, with different groups and NO-one ever realized that, NO master or player. So it was by best "Joke". Adventure/destiny took away my character, so I addapted and accepted my fate, and decided I would take something for my own. So I did, it was MY character who killed Demogorgon and took away the chance to claim the tittle/crown Shame I didnt knew about Obox-ob! I would have added him to the storry....maybe I WILL...maybe Sreggad is currently talking with Obox-ob, having a laugh about his master Prank.

For those interested in running a campaign that involves a lot of this lore, I'd suggest the 3rd edition adventure path "The Savage Tide" from Dungeon Magazine #139 - #150. I ran it converted to 5th edition and my players loved it.

I'm a simple man, I see Mr.Rhexx, I watch.

So your telling me that the strongest gods couldn’t take over a single layer of the abyss, but the god dam *FAE* could?

Last time I was this early I cried the rest of the night.

I would really love a video on Pale Night! They are a super powerful demon entity in the Abyss, and descended from the Obyriths!

Holy.. I never knew about The Sibriex. That art. That's a going to be either a plaguebearer or a nurglings amalgamation in my army.

kinda neat that the first demon and the first-er demon are buddies. :)

When I hear his name, I hear it as "Demi-gorgon", half-gorgon. But no, it's Demogorgon, so I guess he's the people's gorgon.

Just sat down after a long day at work, ready to prep my next session, and you came to mind. Decided to check youtube and here we are. You're a saint!

Speaking of the Abyss, you should do a video on the Chained god Tharizdun. If I understand it correctly he was the creator of the Abyss. He seems like an interesting topic and related to these last few videos.

I'd love to know more about the sibriex, maby a future video?

Did you just said that demogorgon would become weaker if malcanthet betrayed him? Well, time to give that old alcoholic in my campaign a backstory

Dungeon magazine's last issues had a campaign where you kill and possibly replace Demogorgon. They called it "The Savage Tide". Utterly epic, level 1 to 20+.

Your videos have been a Godsend on my notifications for a solid year! Keep up the awesome work buddy

@MrRhexx I just quickly wanted to take the time to thank you for your videos. I often listen to them to fall asleep at night and they are actually part of how I got into DnD. They are amazingly researched and have an been inspiration for many campaigns I have DM'd so far. I hope you can keep this series going for as long as possible and wish you the best of luck in any endeavor and good health for the future!

Fam, you make the best DnD lore videos. I love you and everything you do, please never stop.

The Demogorgon is one of my favorite killers in Dead by Daylight.

Gotta say. This is my favorite type of video of yours. Deep detailed videos about powerful beings or races. The kobold video is also one of my favorites.

I subscribed as I thought that this video was above and beyond the stories you told before. Keep up on doubling up your talents as an all powerful and knowing bardic sage of all and everything.

Excellent vid and I had liked clicked before the first minute was up!!! Keep up the amazing work!!!

Man you just described an entire campaign, i love your work, keep it up

Thanks for the video! I always love your lore dives even if they usually aren't with the current edition, cool lore can always be made cannon again by me when I'm running the game!

Seems his realm is full of Stranger Things.

It would be interesting if Malkenthet and Oboxob had a relationship, and then see what kind of spawn would come from that. The act of that as well as the blow to Demogorgon might be pretty bad.

lol I hadn't heard of Socothbenoth before. He's an interesting freak, isn't he?

He should consider himself lucky. I can 1-hit any 2 legged mammal. But he doesn't have that weak spot.

I really want to see the rest of the inner place but i can be patient since these vids about Demogorgon are so freaking epic. Great job as always!

Thank you so much for making videos about the prince of demons, this is going to be the secret BBEG in my on going campaign so all of this information is going to make the game so much more interesting lol

There's that "False Hydra" monster which has become a very popular homebrew, but what about a "False Demogorgon"? A Demon created by a Sibriex or powerful Wizard that's like a combination of other demons made to resemble Demogorgon.

Super helpful for out of the abyss, thanks again rex

That was a so so SO awesome video!! Precisely much of the lore used coincides with that which i have been using for carefully crafting my homebrew campaign and worldbuild - including "planar" ecosystems - and i'm happy to see that my deductions were mostly correct seeing that in the video all comes together, including the Law-Chaos primal war which always thought was so important to give sense to the current planar ecosystem. Btw SO HYPED also for the obyrith and Abyss history videos!! Keep it up master!! :)

dang the last time i was this early... 5e didn’t exist

Love all your content that you put out! Keep up the awesome work!

Hell yeah, best part of my week. Great video 👍😎

Amazing work bro!

I live for these videos. Great job man!

Love these videos, always inspire me to make some fun quests

30 minute rhexx video? I got time for that.

Great video!!

When you realize there is so much Powerplay, betrayal, manipulation and intrigue in the abyss that you could basically have an entire game of Thrones style series set purely there

Love these videos Rhexx. So good.

OMG, THIS IS AMAZING. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!! MORE ON THE ABYSS PLEEEEASE!!!

Thanks again for another great video! 😃

When you mentioned her right at the end the very first question that ran across my mind was "What impossible price could such a simple lump of flesh have could even comprehend paying for that level of..... insight..., not understanding because those are two very different concepts. to be able to pull that off?" Then before my brain could attempt atmospheric entry a shadow of much darker things. Because everything has a price. Every spell wielder learns this lesson without fail no exceptions. She wants the crown. She's clearly in far too deep just even knowing to to appear at that capital city alone. I would not feel all that bold saying she NEEDS that crown. Because the crown is a key to unlock what she EXISTS for. But the real question is not what comes after that. That, funny enough, would be the easy part. Use IT. The what and how many of are just needless conjecture. Until that it/its would be revealed she might as well be petting newborn phasebeast who's name starts with Shro. A single wondrous moment. Just that one incalculably immeasurable instance. Its all anything ever needed ever. If she really really really really just oh so impossibly decided to do the most chaotic thing ever. You know... Go true neutral. The pull of the Abyss wouldn't seem so chaotic anymore in that one moment. Because all it took was one moment for some random ass punk with a chip on his shoulder to completely destroy magic as it once was. Because it also only took but a moment for a newborn to fix it as utilitarian as it could.

These videos are very inspiring and I thank you very much for all of them 😊

After the conclusion of the inner and outer planes series can you do a series about all of the demon lords? They are all very interesting with Juiblex being my favorite!

Doom Eternal 2: this time, its Dice Rolls!

Amazing video, love this demon-abyss stuff, man i don't even play d&d

Hey, that's the abyss from Made in Abyss in 13:18 XD

Holy crap this lote is amazing thanks for being so enthusiastic!

Wait, so let me get this straight... The Meta to becoming the king of demons, _is to be a bard?..._ ... *_SO YOU'RE SAYING I CAN SEDUCE THE ENTIRE DEMON REALM?! O-O_* EDIT: And i'll grow a second head?!! Oh my god, A SECOND VOICE FOR SONG, WHAT JOY! :')

Interesting that Demogorgon can even experience true love. It's usually reserved for a being that's, regardless of how unlikely, is potentially redeemable

I think it would be really cool to have a campaign focused on winning the crown from Demogorgon and then trying to reshape the Abyss toward a good purpose. I don't think it's likely, but it would be interesting to see how it would be attempted and anticipating the consequences.

I Didn't know any of this. Great Job!

Another well made video!

Me: I wonder how deep down this rabbit hole we're going to go. Also me: The bottom.

Love these lore dumps.

For the monster i like the idea of a paladin or cleric of a god - where the gods alignment was changed via torture and the paladins and clerics were dragged into madness and either died or were transformed - eventually into a form of undeath - so these paladins would be multiclassed death knights with smite powers from an insane and broken god - not directly turntable due to the original radiance of their deity.

Very cool video. About the worst case scenario, in the adventure series Red Tide, I think that Demogorgon's plan would also qualify.

Awesome Video ! Demogorgon is insane.

Another grate video. Now on to the obligatory request of dwarves and magic runes thank you.