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Phenomenal, I’ve been fascinated by Azalin since I first read about him in VRGR and this video just absolutely blows me away

Could she be the first Tulpa to ever exist??

Hey mate/polongku! New sub. LOVE this content. Your VO might be best in what I'm subbed to (Dungeon Dad, MrRhexx, etc (not etc! just lists suck!)). Well produced content, right up everyone's alley; like these dastardly demons and denizens. Termikasiah -Grazie - Thanks.

A movie fit to eat dinner today, Vlaakith's will be done Thank you for another awesome video

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Another note is that Vecna breaking into Sigil to try and take it over, but was such small time he wasn't even worth her time.

Orcs on top as a wise man once said and fuck elves

I like the idea of this guy almost being a "gate keeper" in the sense that... the more magical items that the party throws into their Bag of Holding (as in, value total), it gives a bigger chance of attracting The Bagman, as he will be attracted by the vast loot and constant "useage"

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Demogorgon is so powerful that 3 kids and their friend with telekinesis powers can defeat it

All I want to do these days is play D&D.

Neogi are scary alien spiders and super brutal

The difference between AO and Primus

i just started a new strahd campaign and all the PCs decided to be bastard sons of an ever elusive father which they all banded in search of, before being given the "plea for help" starter. we just got past the church part in the village of barovia... none of them know mordenkainen is in this campaign yet but i made madam eva show up before coming to the village to read their cards and as a separate reading revealed their father has been trapped in barovia for the last year and a half and that he goes by mordekai.... and doru revealed the name of the wizard who fought strahd a year ago as mordekai their father. cant wait to do the mad mage bit and really blow their minds * evil cackles*

sooooo ... D&D Slaanesh, nice it's interesting, the fact that he consider an insult to be called a devil or archdevil but still is fond of making deal or trading favors, just like ... a devil

I want to know EACH what dope, dark, amazing background music you picked for the whole video PLEASE im on my knees

I'm gonna be real, I trust Withers more than Ao

I read all the books and "Rex" never was mentioned. Where did it come from?

In my cosmology, sigil is the literal heart of the universe. The lady of pain exist the ensure no damage is done to it, at all cost.

Bigby , Bigby , Bigby , Bigby,

This reeks of orc propaganda!

Clearly we need magic communism, gotta seize the means of magic production and forever end the gatekeeping of knowledge that creates these false lords of forces. Chaos is the one true power, all else are tertiary seclusions, may every path be connected and known.

Hole Dude? Chest Chum?

Demogorgon is a lesser god in both ADnD and in 2nd edition and clearly the most powerful Demon in the game. In BECMI he was an immortal, basically a god. 5th edition Demogorgon is the weakest version yet. Not impressive at all, Orcus is probably more powerful.

The party I’m DMing is about to turn a god into a mortal and I’m trying to figure out what the god would do to regain immortality

Geez. She's practically a DIE hire her path to godhood was so easy compared to every other tale I've ever heard of. Hell, just the final transformation of a Gelugon into a Pit Fiend is infinitely more arduous - and that's after the millennia it takes to earn the promotion.

I imagine the Doomguard are big fans.

Yeah, critical role and their use of this deity, has ruined the lore in itself for me. Everyone that likes the Raven queen, is someone I generally don't like. They're like Funko Pop collectors and stuff. Not to mention, Grandma being goth? Kinda cringe lmfao 😅

The only people that don't like 4th edition lore, are boomers that only opposed 4th edition because it's 'more video gamey' but will watch critical role even though it's like the most stupid version of 'Tumblr disguised as d&d' (and I'm talking about legitimate boomers, maybe some older Gen x)

I feel the most egregious is the Githyanki and (Just most monsters from the Fiend Folio) because it’s multiple layers of people getting Screwed over. Games Workshop (The company that laters goes on to make Warhammer) had a Column in their Magazine called Fiend Factory, where readers can submit their own monsters. One of those readers is a then Teenager named Charles Stross, and Charles Stross is probably one of the most iconic monster creators in D&D History being responsible for the Death Knight, Slaad, and the Gith. Charles Stross needed a name for the race of space raiders he created and remembered a name of a minor alien race from a Book called “Dying of the Light” which was at the time the biggest work of an American Sci-Fi writer named George R.R. Martin (The man who would later go on to write Game of Thrones), Oops. Not trying to shit on Stross too much, as I said he was a Teenager at the time, he’s spoken about his regret, and it was a fairly minor bit of plagiarism. Plus Stross got screwed over too by Games Workshop since the compensation for submitting a monster for Fiend Factory was a Free Copy of White Dwarf Magazine and maybe a few pounds. And then Games Workshop and TSR would go on to come to an agreement to publish a bunch of iconic monsters from Fiend Factory in a book called the Fiend Folio. And the payment for all the creators who got their monsters in an official D&D Book? A free or discounted copy of the Fiend Folio!!! (Only available in certain regions. Also TSR and GW had a falling out and all mentions of White Dwarf was scrubbed from the Fiend Folio. And of course a lot of the monsters that were in the Fiend Folio would go onto be mainstays of D&D for decades to come, including the Githyanki who went on to heavily feature in the Story of Baldur’s Gate 3, one of the most successful Videos of all time. Also Micheal Moorcock was probably plagiarized several times during the course of that story too, because 70s/80s Fantasy (Especially British Fantasy) needs to plagiarize Micheal Moorcock or else the author is publicly executed and their souls are devoured by the Gods of Law and/or Chaos.

In my world demons play an important role of how evil got into the world. Especially Demogorgon. I useally role play him as Godzilla and sometimes with the MonsterVerse personality where he also has a personality and laughs at the pain he causes.

It says something about the epic scale of the Age of Worms adventure path that a trip through the Tomb of Annihilation is just an optional side quest for party to get some ladt last minute power-ups before heading to the final showdown.

I know the *ACTUAL* reason, but why the hell does every other Eldritch god / Daemon prince have human bodies? I mean…come on, REALLY?

Finally, an image to the whole "seen someone tear legs from a screaming neogi." And Laezel infiltrated a whole fleet?

Just use the King in Yellow instead

Starspawn?

The Neogi are so vile and repugnantly disgusting in their wickedness that even other evil creatures don't like them and only work with them sparingly.

I love your presentation on this, it's very good! 👍 I would like to point out that much of Neogi lore is focused around how most of them are pirates, very focused around their use of spelljamming ships, more so than most other races actually. It's true that there are some in the underdark, but the vast majority of Neogi are scattered throughout the astral sea on ships and on stuff like asteroids and small planets that other races don't want. Also, a big theme is that almost nobody will do business with them. Even races that will do business with fiends and Mindflayers won't deal with Neogi, because they will consistently double cross everyone they interact with whenever possible. I don't mean this as a complaint about the video, I just thought I would add what I know

I know it may not be a very exciting or interesting monster, or even in the 5e monster manual, but is there lore behind the three-armed Athach? In 3rd edition, it was a huge sized aberration with a poisonous bite, and a side from a dislike for giants and giant kin, the 3e monster manual didn't say much else

If available, the Ravenloft novels "King of the Dead", and "Lord of the Necropolis", are excellent reads. They detail Azalin's "adventures" in the Lands of Dread. In the first book, "King of the Dead", Irik is indeed brought to the Lands of Dread, with his father Firan/Azalin. At the end of that story, the Dark Powers release his spirit, to ascend, and replace it with a "fake Irik", complete with all the original's memories/behaviors, to torment Azalin. I won't ruin the whole story, since it a great story. But, at the end of "Lord of the Necropolis", Azalin is actually absorbed into the "gestalt" that makes up the Dark Powers. It's really fascinating! I also knew that after Azalin's disappearance, that Il Aluk became "Necropolis". But, I didn't know about him returning, after these events. I'll have to do some further research/reading. Thanks for renewing my interest! My favorite Ravenloft characters were Lord Soth, and Azalin, followed by Strahd in 3rd place.

Great video, about a great character! I read, and absolutely loved, the old Ravenloft books. The demiplane of the Lands of Dread were a cool, dark, counterpart to the other cosmological DnD spheres. Also, just a slight correction. The mercenaries that were sent after Firan/Azalin did not attack him, by infiltrating his castle. Firan/Azalin was lured out with the promise of newly discovered magic (from a double agent), accompanied by only a small retinue of guards, and then ambushed by said mercenaries. edit: Also, just another quick note. There was no ruler of Darkon before Azalin, because the land was literally formed for him, by the Dark Powers. When Azalin left Barovia, and entered the Mists, the Dark Powers "separated" Azalin into two individual entities. One was the powerful mortal wizard, Firan, with no memories of being the lich Azalin, who wondered the mists for an indeterminate amount of time. The other was the lich Azalin (who named itself Darcalus), with no memory of it's former mortal life as Firan, who entered into the new land of Darkon, and ruled from Castle Avernus. When Firan finally exited the Mists (only entering Darkon after years of Azalin's rule, according to the memories of its inhabitants), and eventually confronted Darcalus, the two separate beings would merge into the "true" complete Azalin, replete with all memories, again. The whole setup was another cruel game orchestrated by the Dark Powers, for their amusement.

great video

I love this. Lord Soth is one of the best characters D&D has ever created. Evil but sympathetic. I'm old enough to remember playing the original DragonLance series and he terrified me. I did have a really good DM who found out everything he could about Soth before we played. What I still don't get, though, is how Kitiara was so hot that everybody that looked at her fell in love. I'm glad Tanis ended up with Laurana.

This was great! Ravenloft was such a gem in the 90s, Azalin was the goat!

You forgot to mention that in order to come back from the time of unparalleled darkness, he now uses the body of his dead son as his physical form since his lich essence needed a corpse to inhabit, so the dark powers played a nasty trick on him and made that one the closest. His sons ghost haunts him more frequently now because of this.

Thanks for these 😎🤘🍻

I'm running a Ghost of Saltmarsh campaign and unknown to my players, Dagon's influence and the Yellow King's Influence are the main antagosnits of this story. It's a ancient battle from Elder Evils (Demons for Dagon) and the Heroes are mere pawns in the grand shceme of things.

My D&D group just foiled a plan by Azalin. Azalin was able to escape by hijacking the body of a Vistani child, possessing it with his spirit. This violation of a seeming rule of Ravenloft, an actual escape caused turmoil within the land of Mist. The mists began to materialize on, over time, all other planes, searching for the escaped prisoner, and, in their haste, leaving people in planes not their home one. They eventually found out his plot, travelled to Darkon with assistance, broke the Soul Jar containing the infant's soil, and sent him back to Darkon to remain forever. Glad to find a video on him! Thank you!

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