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“Not content to work in a butcher’s shop for the rest of his life, Yeenoghu the butcher quit his job and went around assaulting people with his magic flail, eventually becoming a demonic god of the gnolls….”
**Assaults his 1 millionth victim**
Level up!
You have acquired the title *Demonic God!*
New head cannon
In my version of the story a Barbarian hero went to Avernus in an attempt to slay Yeenoghu with a war hammer and ended up hitting him in the scrot, and his healing factor caused the splattered sperm to grow into Gnolls.
It may not be what actually happened, but I tell the story like this because it is my job.
@@rachdarastrix5251 Honestly your version sounds like something that would occur irl myths. Have you even read some of the mythologies of like the Greek, Norse, Hindu, Polynesian/Hawaiian, etc.? Some of them are even weirder than yours about Yeenoghu.
He's also the archenemy of Baphomet. The two used to be allies but after a failed invasion of an elven kingdom each blamed the other and now they war constantly.
I was about to say, they have very similar ideologies
@@agentchaos9332 The difference is that Baphoment is more like a hunter, while Yeenoghu is more of a wild animal and predator.
Baphoment is a bit more cerebral and not as hostile to a degree of civilization.
That seems kind of petty for demon lords lol
Probably not the lore I'd use. Not even sure why they'd be allies to begin with. I don't see Baphomet or Yeenoghu as the "allying" type.
You could almost make a more interesting story of Yeenoghu once being the hunting hound of a demon lord, maybe Baphomet. When the hound neared being as strong as the master, Yeenoghu could no longer be subjugated. That might have happened coincidentally around the invasion of an Elven kingdom. Baphomet might have "failed" taking the Elven kingdom, but Yeenoghu didn't because death and slaughter is his only goal.
Or maybe they’re just simply rivals competing for who’s the top spot for savagery and anti-civilization.
I think they are brothers by Pale Night and it's sibling rivalry Abyss style. Mommy favors her little minotaur over her little Gnoll. Maybe Bap is the youngest of the family of fiends!
I don't care if it's canon. Yeenoghu will always be pronounced "You know who" at my table. Love this demon lord!
Meeee too. I'm actually planning a one shot involving his as the big baddy looming threat
Imagine everyone referring to the big bad as "You know who" much to the perplexity of the players, only for them to find out you always told them who the bad guy was, just with a funny way of pronouncing it
That's a LB HackEmUp intro!
As narrated by Tasha.
“Some gnolls could suffer from a rare form of madness that could quell their intense hunger and evil instincts, causing guilt for their misdeeds and a pacifistic nature.”
This is official 5e forgotten realms lore. I don’t know when it was written in 5e’s lifetime but Wizards really seems to be on the fence with this race. I really wish they’d give more lore on these mad Gnolls because with this lore they could easily be made into a player race. Perhaps give them Fiend heritage like elves have Fey heritage. Or just make them Fiends since we can play as Sayters and other Fey
They certainly were playable in 3.0/3.5 and Pathfinder 1e, and may have been playable in AD&D 2e. I don't think they have been added as a playable species to PF 2e yet.
@@havokmusicinc They have, actually, and were given not just a very in depth and respectful portrayal, but more varied and nuanced than 5e's by a mile.
There's a gnoll fang of Yeenoghu in _Out of the Abyss_ that is affected by this very madness. He regrets all of the harm he's caused, and won't fight except in self-defense. However, the campaign states that if this fellow has something like Greater Restoration (or any other magical effect that cures indefinite madness) cast on him, he immediately reverts to the typical gnoll mentality.
@@JanusHoW yeah that’s a big problem with 5E like you can’t really play a wearwolf when any 2bit cleric can cast remove curse. There should be a mechanic where creatures can choose to resist spells like that.
@@jwall1646 Maybe greater rest would temporarily remove that madness. Causing gnoll to go feral for 1 hour?
I love gnolls and have used them since second edition. The Lovecraftian entry of the person who mentally connected with them in Volo's as well as the way they'll just rise up make them really work as enemies that aren't people and never were, more an infestation of hunger given physical form, which removes a lot of larger considerations. As a side note, Doresain was freed from Yeenoghu's service with the help of the Seldarine. This is why elves have immunity to the paralysis effect of ghouls.
I just imagine Yeenoghu’s warpath to look like, idk, nearly any given scene from the entirety of Superjail.
I am so glad I know exactly what you mean.
I find this to be closely accurate....
I didnt think anybody watched that show.....
@@ajizel13 If no one watched it, it wouldn’t exist!
Awesome video Jorphdan, congratulations on your milestone publication - here’s to the next 200!
I imagine that if Yeenoghu ever met any kender, then I bet those kenders’ limbs would soon become part of his throne.
I'm running a game now that uses gnolls and Yeenoghu. It's been pretty fun, like when the party could have struck a serious blow to the cult that's trying to summon Yeenoghu but decided to take a long rest when they were hardly missing any resources. When they woke up they started to feel the effects of Yeenoghu lair and they all started to develop some of flaws, like the wizard who started to rail against civilization. Good times.
I was like, "Damn! Jordan is a skilled voice actor to sound like a sensual lady! What magic is this?!".
Then I realized I has the dumb. 😋
haha!
I was particularly impressed by his laughing in multiple demon-like voices at the same time.
These lore videos are so good. Hope they keep coming!
Glad I discovered this channel. I really enjoy the lore you delve into and share with us.
Keep up the lore, this has helped me sooo much watching all your videos!
Thank you for everything you do! This has been my go-to channel for lore since I began DMing almost 2 years ago. Sending this to my players as just 2 sessions ago they unknowingly transported Yeenoghu into Eberron :D
This was very timely for me since I started running Out of the Abyss earlier this evening. Congrats on 200! I love your videos.
These videos kick ass! Glad you've been able to keep going. Gratz!
I can see Gnolls having different creation backstories on different realms, those on Toril are spawned from the hyenas that feasted in Yeenoghu's wake and are actually fiends, but on other planes such as Critical Roll & Eberon they had a creation similar to other races thus are humanoids. If we take this further I can imagine some planes where Elves are more fiendish, see the Terry Pratchett book "Lords & Ladies" for an example of this where they are closer to mildly psychic Dark Fae than the PCs of 5th edition.
Seems like we all really, really appreciate your work and passion! Thanks a bunch, man!
My friend ran a desert campaign with Gnolls being scavengers on the dunes. I can still here their laughter at night…….
Thanks for the video Jorphdan. I have watched you for a few years now and I would like to thank you for making me interested in DnD lore! Here is to another 200!
Thanks!
Loving the lore videos Jorph! Thank you!!
Glad you like them!
Cheers! Great stuff. Thanks for doing it so well!
Congratulations, Jorphdan! Your videos give outinteresting lore in nice to-the-point bites and they're always fun to watch. You deserve the success. 💜
Thank you very much!
Sound like the kind of crazies with who Bhaal would get along fine enough !
Congrats on your 200th lore vid. Keep them coming!
Congrats on the lore milestone! Your efforts are definitely appreciated!
Thank you :)
I'm running a campaign right now with some friends where they are high level adventurers that caught the attention Yeenoghu and he's "invited" them to his realm to compete against him in a hunting game.
THANK YOU. You bring joy to my day.
Congrats on the 200th! Your videos have helped me learn more about specific elements of D&D and I look forward to future videos :)
Good job on 200! Now lets get that 100k!
Love these lore videos! Thank you!
Great video as always, J - hope you hit 100k by end of day.
In my current campaign, my players just stopped a large gnoll army from freeing an imprisoned Yeenoghu on the prime material plane. Now they have to contend with the lich who was pulling the strings.
I can't wait.
"Demon lords/princes are the baddest of the bad in the abyss"
Until an Evil aligned God shows up
*drops mic*
I would've subscribed had I not been already. Anyway, I'm sure you'll get 100k very soon. You deserve that and many, many times more.
Your videos are great. Congrats on the milestone. Let's hope for many more milestones... and videos :-)
I recall an unofficial rogue archetype about harvesting organs of defeated monsters to reproduce an ability (Surgeon?) such as an use of a dragon's breath weapon from a harvested gland.
Awesome LB voice acting there!!! Excellent video all the way around and one of my favorite demons! ❤
In one of my worlds I actually didn’t have gnolls exist. I had a plan to have the party witness the birth of their existence.
200th Lore video is on my favorite demon Lord Yeenoghu!? Heck yeah!
Congrats on 200 lore videos Jordan!
Thanks!
I've just painted a gnoll army for kings of war. I love gnolls. Congratulations on 200 lore videos
Congratulations on the 200 episodes and the 100,000 subscribers.
if yeenoghu used to be an elemental turned demon, his new 'element' is just murder, butchery, hunger, and gorging on your enemies
I love gnolls! Thanks for doing this video on the Endless Hunger.
Good work on 200 lore vids!!!!!
Thanks!
The bloodlust mechanic is one of my favorites, you can have a chosen of yeenoghu and his horde of bloodlust-filled gnolls and run around killing anything in its path. You can have your players save against the bloodlust as they murder their way to the leader of the pack, and if they fail they succumb to yeenoghu's overwhelming influence over a short duration.
Happy 200th!!! 🎈 🎉
Congratulations , on 200 , really enjoy you content been a fan for years :)
Yay, thank you!
@@Jorphdan your welcome :)
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Yes, I had a great time including gnolls in a campaign once. The party happened upon a crude shrine to Yeenoghu and heard howls and thrashing sounds enclosing their position. It turned into a chase sequence where they had to outrun a huge pack of gnolls or be torn to shreds.
Back in 1e/2e I had a campaign where I had one player's PCs fighting Yeenoghu, and another player's PCs fighting Baphomet - the two demon lords would both flee to an empty plane on the Abyss, and both parties would have chased them there, saw each other, and whatever happens would happen. Sadly one party completely destroyed Baphomet before he had a chance to flee. So I just had the plane start to collapse, forcing the PCs to flee into the empty plane where they would meet the others.
They would be a lot tougher of a creature if they were considered fiends, a lot of low level enchantment magic wouldn't work anymore.
oooo I wanna voice one! GRATS ON 100K!
In my current Eberron game, I've always run gnolls as just another monster race with as much culture and freedom as any orc or goblin has in the setting. They tend to prefer a nomadic lifestyle and can get violent, but it's not like the "civilized" races are free from alleyway stabbings, so that's pretty much a wash. While somewhat rare, you can find gnolls in many walks of life in Eberron.
The most notable use I had was in the "Forgotten Relics" mini-adventure from the 5e Eberron book. The module has a bit where the PCs' skycoach is attacked by a strike team of Daask gnolls riding glowing disks through the air. I immediately replaced the disks with what are functionally flying skateboards (that work only in Sharn, naturally, and are incredibly unsafe) and described a punk-themed gnollish skater gang with piercings and wildly dyed mohawks that comes swooping through the 'canyons' between Sharn's towers, bouncing over obstacles and grinding along building facades. The players loved it, so I'm sure they'll show up again at some point.
Right when I'm convinced the Slaadi are the most terrifying creatures to get steamrolled by Jorphdan drops a video
"Do you love violence? Of course you do - it's a deep, fundamental part of you. What is the point of denying your own nature? Free your mind of its own prison, and become who you really are."
One of my favorite characters that I didn't get to fully explore was a Gnoll Samurai. Now I want to try a Gnoll follower of this fascinating being
I’m still waiting to hear someone explain the connection between Yeenoghu and the grassy gnoll….
I have always been fascinated by Gnolls and I played out some interesting scenarios with them in my campaigns. I even had a plot where some of the good gods helped Gorellik regain some prominence in the world among the Gnolls but only if he reformed the Gnolls who started following him.
It actually started sticking and there started to become good Gnolls following Gorellik vs the very pissed off Yeenoghu who was worried about losing his foothold on the Material Plane.
I love gnolls, I just wish the 5e lore for them wasn't so junk.
Happy 200! Here's to another 200!
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Happy 200th lore video buddy!
Thankyou! and thank you for helping out with my video! :)
Thanks for the video.
If I had to somehow condense the portfolio of this murder puppy, it would be as such:
Big dog eats
Big dog breeds
Big dog reeees
Big dog sleeps
Big dog repeets
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
That *IS* my Moonshae campaign storyline!! With Kazgoroth doing a bit of a rampage too, just thrown in for good measure...
Thank you
I lean into the hyena reference with Yeenoghu & the Gnolls… I portray him as a Joker archetype and I like to typecast Gnolls as bloodthirsty versions of the Weasels from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, only you know they don’t die if they laugh… if I’m going for a less openly hostile portrayal I’d go with the Hyenas from The Lion King though.
I’m working on a blue mage homebrew class and you just stole my thunder! *à la Matthew McCononugnrtkfshey* COME’MAWN, MAN
I am doing a gnoll campaign and learned about Yeenoghu. He's awesome.
One of my players worshipped Yeenoghu as their lord, and committed acts of debauchery in his name. We had to kick them from the group. So their character was dragged down to hell by Yeenoghu personally, where they would be forcefully transformed into a Gnoll, but would leave their mind shattered and filled with rage.
I plan on having them return as a late-game sub-boss fight, bringing things full circle.
Currently playing a Gnoll in a campaign were doing where we are playing as the bad guys. Fighter/Barbarian multi class, absolutely loving the inherently evil culture of Gnolls. It's giving the DM and I alot to work with as my character gains power and devotes more and more kills to Yeenoughu. We're working on a way to turn my PC into a Flind and how the cult I've got going on will proceed. I suspect that if we get way further ahead in levels we may have to contend with the possibility of Yeenoghu making an incursion into the material plain
When can we expect another banana bunch game? I love & miss you guys chemistry!
“Fiends that, partook of corpse” love it
In my campaign Yeenoghu ate Gorllick and that's what gave him the domain over the Gnoll's. In 3.5 MM3 they restated Gnoll called Flind, in my game were the original creation of Gorllick and Yeenoghu, not having fully digested Gorllick can only create the Gnolls from the MM. But when a Gnoll eats a Flind they transform. In fact a Gnoll that eats a Gnoll with any template will gain the template of the Gnoll eaten. (It's a solo game for my buddy who is playing a female half-fiend Gnoll (Flind) fang of Yeenoghu, fighter 6/warlock 1.) He's hoping to have the campaign end with his Gnoll eating Yeenoghu and taking over his spot in the pantheon
I posted this rival to Yeenoghu to AJ Picket's who works especially well if you're incorporating Modern elements into your D&D setting.
Blaw Giza - Neutral Evil growing into an Arch-Yugoloth
Blaw Giza is Half Flind Half Arcanaloth operating an Inter-planear Crime Syndicate & Mercenary Force out of Sigil with aims of Godhood & displacing Yeenoghu over the Gnoll race, I guess I can name him Blaw Giza, Swahili for Dark Claw. Instead of being as chaotic as Yeenoghu he would have that nature tempered by his Yougoloth ancestry being a calm & calculating predator. Instead of dressing in ragged battle gear he dresses as a diplomat or if a modern version of Sigil a finely tailored 3 piece suit. His calculated cruelty can be quite Lawful if the situation calls for it, but he is not above getting his hands dirty either, & he knows that use of superior weapons, while less cathartic than using your claws, can cause FAR more casualties. On his person he carries a small firearm loaded with bullets made from Celestials bones, as he knows he's far more likely to be dealing with other Fiends via violent means. For Celestials he has plots in place to have them take care of any rivals & usually die in the process via webs of misdirection. If the Celestials he points at his rivals don't die, then it's FAR easier to finish off a wounded foe than one who is strong, go after the prey that limps after all.
While Yeennoghu is all about the beast's savagery Blaw Giza is focused on the incredible ability of Hyenas to get every last bit of use from what they kill & find, his watchword if forever Thrift. There is nothing Blaw Giza, his organization, & worshipers leave to waste if possible. While Yeenoghu leaves a battlefield drenched in filth & gore, if up to Blaw Giza every last inch of skin will be turned into leather or velum, & every possible bone put into use as a tool or trade item & absolutely anything of value taken to be used or sold. Sometimes they are so thorough that the area is cleaner than when they arrived. Mind you a forest won't be pristine, but instead if given enough time clear cut.
In service the agents of Blaw Giza are always practical & thrifty, letting NOTHING go to waste. Any enemy defeated is if retrievable made full use of, their skin, their bones, & if an illusionist is among his agents who killed them, their lives & positions as well. There's nothing like taking an enemy's position, organization, & properties, that's SO much easier if one can take their place & their face. If they had a sizable organization it's child's play to bring it down from within & liquidate anything of value if you are running it. The wise predator KNOWS to stick to the tall grass until it's best to strike when you can.
To his end of achieving Godhood Blaw Giza has infiltrated Gnoll cults not as leaders, but as advisors & lore keepers, all the better to rewrite the history & be the hand that throws the spear, letting Yeenoghu's faithful be the blade of the spear that they direct. Blaw Giza's also takes care to embrace mothers & caretakers of the Gnoll race, after all the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. Also to that end he has taught his growing cult a rite that allows them to steal the memories skills, & knowledgeof those they consume if they make some kind of souvenir out of their remains. Frequently this is an unobtrusive ring or clasp. At greater levels this rite can be used to allow the wearer of the trophy to assume the appearance of those who they have consumed, after all waste not want not. In the Outer Planes Blaw Giza has mastered the art himself meaning he has the memories of any he's consumed, & sometimes those who have THEY have consumed, this makes his favorite meal filet of Elder Brain, but being able to masquerade as a Hound Archeon after dining on one has it's so that makes a great meal too. Indeed it's incredibly useful for a member of Blaw Giza's origination to assume the visage of an Angel in order to get a would be do-gooder to go on a rampage, or better yet a kingdom to go on a genocidal crusade "Because it's what Pelor wanted." Playing enemies against one another is a great specialty of Blaw Giza's organization & cultists. Rites are simple & covert consisting of a number of whispered words & hand gestures.
If Blaw Giza had his way with Yeenoghu's realm he'd stop the wasteful way the it's master leaves it untouched. As Blaw Giza sees it there's no point in having a forest if you aren't going to have lumberjacks at it, no point in having mountains if you aren't strip mining them, and a salt flat Savannah is screaming for SALT MINES. The Curswallows would be filled with oil rigs & poison harvesting stations, gathering up the toxin to be sold across the miltiverse. Everything in his worldview is a resource to be exploited to it's fullest. If you choose to Blaw Giza eventually take over the layer of the Abyss that Yeenoghu take over currently rules he'd turn it into an industrial nightmare where every square millimetre is being put to destructive economic use.
In his heart he aims to replace Yeenoghu in all things, including being the Gnoll progenitor, as all things can be conquered, even time itself, as belief makes Gods, so does it make their histories & the past of the Multiverse can be surprisingly mutable when it comes to the history of Gods. If he must consume other Gods, & Time itself in order achieve his goals, well ... a Gnoll is ALWAYS filled with hunger & Blaw Giza leaves NOTHING to waste.
Blaw Giza is usually armed with a small handgun in a modern setting, but will make use of anything he can get his hands on, being FAR more dispassionate than Yeenoghu about the act of killing, he just wants it done so he can loot the corpse & assets of a rival. Blaw Giza is also proficient with the "decorative" pick axes, mining shovels, & other farm equipment he has around his offices for "development."
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My inspiration was the thoroughness of consumption of the Hyena, on the Savannah lions will leave the bones of a wildebeest they kill, the hyena can get at the marrow inside with it's powerful jaws. Nothing is allowed to go to waste, everything of use is taken. Th PCs could be put in a position where they can either aid Blaw Giza in his attempts to overthrow Yeenoghu or play them against one another, or you might make him into a full deity having replaced his predecessor in the past. Feel free to share this if you want.
Gnolls also appear in Droam in Eberron
200 Videos of Awesome! 100th comment ! Wooooo!!! Keep it up brother Jorphdan! Aloha! :D
Always weird when I’m reminded Yeenoghu is supposed to be male. Female spotted hyenas lead their clans, so that’s how my table has always perceived Yeenoghu and gnoll society
I've been running a 4E game for a few years now with a player who's a gnoll rogue. His backstory is that he was a slave for a group of bandits that had captured him when he was young and made him participate in their raids. Shortly after escaping, he and the party stumbled upon his native tribe, where he found that his mother was the previous chief. He ended up being recruited by the medicine woman / witchdoctor / warlock named Urd who supported his mother and hated the new chief for turning away from Yeenoghu. And although he doesn't like Yeenoghu either, he ended up killing the chief and taking over mostly out of revenge for his mother who was killed by the new guy.
So anyway, Urd keeps pushing him to worship Yeenoghu, but since he hasn't yet, she's gonna probably find someone else to try to kill him and take the tribe next!
Basically, the gnolls in my campaign are on the edge of reformation, and as a rule of thumb, they're more concerned with the pack than with Yeenoghu, but if the alpha says to do something, they're gonna do it. The PC uses this as his explanation for why he hangs out with the party as he sees them as packmates (especially since they helped save him). As long as the PC remains the chief, things will be fine for the gnolls, but if someone else steps up, things might go south fast especially with Urd around and the PC being off on adventures all the time.
Yea. My players are going through an arc with gnolls as the Villians
Gnolls were created by the ancient Nithians in the Mystara campaign setting.
In the campaign I was a part of up until very recently--scheduling conflicts--gnolls were the primary antagonists for the first part of the game. They were gathering in the lawless lands in the south and conspiring with these Grey Druids who were akin to eco-terrorists. We had faced down many champions of Yeenoghu and even rallied Orcus to our cause; we reasoned with him that he might be usurped by Yeenoghu and that boiled his blood something fierce!
I'd love to run/play in a campaign where the goal is to help Gorellik overthrow Yeenoghu and 'restore' the mindless Forgotten Realms style gnolls to a more civilized state. Probably not any less angry, but less burn down your village and wear your face because they happened to be in the neighbourhood.
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Totally here basking in the Maxx art.
Freaking love the Maxx. Editing the video I kept picturing his realm as a darker Outback, hence the Maxx art ;)
Thank you! I couldn't remember the name!... takes me WAY back, lol.
In Libris Mortus for 3E it mentions that Doresain had broken free from Yeenoghu and returned to Orcus. Poor Ghoul Lord can't catch a break.
sounds like he needs his own video!
@@Jorphdan I'd watch it
GRATS JORPHDAN on your 200th LORE video!
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In my world my party has been fighting two cults recently, one of which is Yeenoghu, the other is a mostly Homebrewed deity, I am planning to start hinting that the cults may begin joining forces by command of their deities.
I love yeenoghu's lore and tend to keep my gnolls as insane murder machines. Although, since any other race who falls under yeenoghu's influence starts acting the same way, I take that to mean all of that behavior is from the demonlord himself. So, if anything separates a gnoll from that influence, the creature essentially becomes a regular humanoid. (still affected by their own history and probably barbaric, but capable of civility and goodness.)
I wish wizards would have kept using multi types for monsters. As long as you keep it fairly simple, you could easily keep gnolls as fiend/humanoid without breaking anything. I know this breaks some monsters like the giant/humanoid one with certain spell effects, but maybe spells with type specifics like that you could say it has to be pure type
Can't wait for you talking about fungus demon lord queen.
She's my favorite actually!
@@Jorphdan She look like one of the most civil demon lords.
Actually he is mentioned in ebberron in3.5 for Droam
Happy 200th
Whistle whistle whistle here puppy............ Oh s*** hes coming get through the gate
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I play a gnoll whose ultimate goal is to kill Yeenoghu.
I found 5e PC stats for a Gnoll character online, and I'm currently playing one as a Path of the Beast Barbarian. Expertise in Survival, and can track anything like a bloodhound. His name is Ugot, he's always hunting because he's hungry, and his answer to any challenge is violence.
Very fun character! The Druid hates him because he's constantly eating small animals, and the Pacifist Wizard is perpetually horrified at the amount of violence he must contend with on a day-to-day basis.
Quote: "IF UGOT WAS NOT MEANT TO KILL, THEN UGOT WOULD NOT HAVE CLAWS AND TEETH . . . GET OVER IT."
I've always wanted to play a flind ranger that has rejected the chaotic ways of his race. He'd be an edgelord with a wolf mask to hide his identity.
Now I want to play a gnoll cleric of gorellic.
Yes!