What They Don't Tell You About The Duergar - D&D
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Monster Manual 1st Edition
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Dragon Magazine #325
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Races of Faerun
Dragon magazine #281
Dragon Magazine #152
Mordenkainens Tome of Foes
Dungeon Magazine #187
Grand History of the Realms - เกม
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epic
please do lore on the dwarfs humans gnomes and halfings please
Duregar, "Dourgar" - I call them _" Du ergar"_ anyways. ^_^
Wow this is going to be good Love dwarves.
FINALLY more love for Duergar!~
So you're telling me that from the moment the duergar have understood the weakness of their flesh, it disgusted them?
The flesh is weak! Praise the Machine!
Praise be to the Omnissiah
So you're saying that it's legit to have the 'Cult of the Iron Hand'?
They craved the strength and sertanty of steal.
They crave the certainty of steel. They aspire to the purity of the machine. Your kind cling to their flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will be them to save you.
I once met a Duergar who had been banished from his community for occasionally showing emotions that slightly resembled a form of mild happiness - he had been sent to the surface so he could learn from personal experience how there’s nothing to ever be happy or smile about - or die trying….
... how'd that work out?
@@zeusdemi6858
Well, after some horrifying adventures we parted ways, and the last thing I heard was him cursing loudly and angry at me as I unfortunately for a brief moment made him nearly smile and feel a slightly warm sensation where there were only supposed to be feelings of anger and hate, with my parting words, "til we meet again my friend"....
But it's a harsh and cruel world, and being a Duergar banished to the surface is no joke, so maybe he's had more luck losing the ability to feel sensations resembling joy since...
If not and you run into him some day, tell him Grímnir Hrafnsson will never forget the friendship we forged - I'm sure he will be delighted, but make sure to keep a shield nearby or have something to take cover behind...
@@gorillaguerillaDK
Who knows, maybe he will find happyness one day and create a society of other Duergar on the surface
@@erickchristensen746
Yeah, well, that was most definitely not what he was searching for.
But you know what, maybe he will end up accepting that it's okay to be different, and that he might be a Duergar, but what he sees as a curse, might be a gift from some deity.
When the other Duergars banished him the oldest of them did mention something about how he reminded them all to much of his awful grandfather, Ragdar Hjaldrgegnir who he also had been named after, who had been known to sometimes wander the surface, and had been an incredible fierce warrior. He was also know as among the Duergars as being troublesome and as someone who had an "awful temperament".
But as that's from a Duergar perspective, it meant he would sometimes smile and even laugh joyfully, which to the other Duergars was even worse than if he had just killed random kinsmen in sheer anger.
But the elders of the clans would not accept another one of these weirdos of the Hjaldrgegnir clan, so as their suspicion grew larger, they banished my friend from all Duergar communities.
I have never, in all my traveling life, ever heard of a society of surface dwelling Duergars.
My friend definitely has a strong preference of dark caves - but you know what, there's a multiverse out there and so far I've only been traveling parts of Toril, Mystara, and Krynn - and to tell you the truth, I have been a bit to occupied to even ask anyone if such a society exists.
But you know what, weirder things has happened - so it's not unbelievable that something like it already exists somewhere out there.
Although I don't even know if there's Duergars outside of Toril...
If I’m battling duegar and one smiles, he will be spared for the sole reason that he seems to have something to live for. Thank you for your wisdom strangers
The last time I was this early, the Duergar were just dwarves.
Illithids: “why does everything I whip leave me”
"All we want is to enslave a race of perfect servants so we can take over the world in peace! Is that so much to ask! Is it!"
So parents are just Illithids
The Duergar sound like Amazon warehouse workers.
"...who frankly wanted to massacre all mind flayers" Didn't we just go over this with the Gith? For serving a giant brain they're really not catching on too fast
I mean they are alien to Reality so maybe the whole "stop making the sane mistake" is legitimately impossible for them to learn.
Considering their behavior: I bet everyone calls them dowergar as a slur.
Using this!
I imagine its the Dwarven N-word
What about "cliff face?"
Glumgar is funny too.
drowgar
Duergar would make great inherent edgelord characters. They already have the deep, dark, tragic backstory. Just give them a rogue class or assassin archetype and you'll be set lol
Or Fiendish/Hexblade Warlock
Blood Hunter is great too, if DM permits.
Yes, but Duergar unfortunately don't have the stylized looks associated to edgelords.
They seem to belong to the Shadowfell, but the underdark seems close enough.
Besides the back story, most things that edgelords wear, carry, say or do, they do because it makes them look better, more mysterious or without any reason at all. Not very duergarish.
Ironically, duergars work as edgelords only on the edge.
MrRhexx: “Completely hairless”…
… sees a full santa beard …
me: confused pikachu face
They all bald with no arm hair. Also dwarf=beard
even their women are bald
The beard isn't body hair, but a functional part of their bodies.
I saw an old text post screenshot from Tumblr that said dwarfs cut off their beard to asexually reproduce
@@theblackneon5396 Hair serves a function.
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“Completely hairless” - sports a huge beard
You are not a true dwarf without a beard.
Maybe it's a fake beard
did you not see the size of that PITIFUL beard? BASICALLY HAIRLESS i would say
@@MrRhexx Pff! Barely appropriate for a Santa Claus!
Smooth down there
Epic, love the duergar. For the future, if you could do one on yugoloths, that would be amazing. Again though, awesome topic, the duergar.
Yes, Yugloths are great.
Weren't those included in his 2 videos on the Drow
@@salimufari No, you're thinking of Yochlol. Yugloths are the neutral evil equivalent of fiends. Where as Demons are Chaotic Evil, Devils are Lawful Evil. Yugloths are Neutral Evil, and super underrated imo.
Glad I'm not the only Yugoloth fanboy. Honestly two of my favourite npcs are found in uncaged; faces of Sigil, both Yugoloths. Though that book adds soooo much lore to lesser known races its unbelievable includinga freaking Titan. Gereleths, are another fancy of mine as I have no clue how 5e has adapted them.
+1 for yugoloths
Interestingly, the Monster Mythology book from 2nd Edition has a somewhat different story about Laduguer. When the other dwarven gods divided all the spheres of influence in dwarven life amongst themselves, they excluded Laduguer. The dwarves who followed him would not abandon their patron god, because he looked after their interests when they lived in the least hospitable environments, so they withdrew with him from other dwarves.
Asmodeus plays a big part in my campaign so knowing more about him would be great =D
There's an Asmodeus video from 2 years ago in this very channel.
Basically, he's such a big character he's half compelling lore half writers actually writing whatever without cross references, that Asmodeus can be pretty much what you want him to be.
At his most, he's the primordial embodiment of lawful evilness, along the god of Coatls, the lawful good one, who formed the Ourouboros and basically they were the universe. They fought, his crash into what would become hell harmed him permanently and now feeds on souls while conning all of existance into hundreds of plots.
@@nulllex0099 my advice, listen to the band Ghost (Ghost BC in america) whenever I have an asmodeus moment I'll play an instrumental from them in the background
Asmodeus is so cool! Good choice. But he's pretty scary lol
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Couatls:
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That should be a start, I would comb through his videos for anything related to the Hells, Demons, Devils, couatls, etc. Asmodeus gets mentioned a surprisingly high amount of times lol.
I can only imagine the Ilithids looking at eachother seeing the Duergar secession and saying “Did you do that?” “No?” “We didn’t even have to do anything that time!”
Asmodeus controlling the Duergar is even more interesting in my world, since the Mind Flayers (who haven't gone ferrel) are controlled by the Hag Countess's brain, which is (more or less) controlled by Glasya.
Wait, so mind flayers are being controlled by devils?
The Hag Countess’s Brain??? Please explain, this has awakened some major lore thirst for me
@@cameronpearce5943 Isn’t the Hag countess’s body like… the entire 6th circle of hell? (Malbolge = 6th circle = Glasya’s Circle)
@@cameronpearce5943 well Glasya lives in the still living masticated giant body of the Hag Countess. So I figured: what about her brain? If it's under Glaya's control (more or less) than it could make for an interesting surrogate Elder Brain.
@@mediatorraptor3349 just in my campaign world. Not Forgotten Realms. Drow used an Aboleth WMD to destroy ALL the Elder Brains on the plane. Most Mind Flayers have actually gone feral from the shock, but some have started using the Hag Countess's Brain as a surrogate.
Of course, Mind Flayers are inter-planar species, but non-resident Illithids are currently being very cautious.
Thanks for this one! Duergar play a big part in OOTA and Rime, two campaigns that’s Im running atm
Already knew, but it's good to have some solid confirmation that Duergar are not simple "dwarven drow"...
Duergar have a pretty wretched mindset apparently. The more you know...
Thought they are just normal Dwarfs but from the Underdark for quite some time.
You soon learn the Underdark is the edgiest, nastiest place in 5e. The only things that are nice down there are deep gnomes and the floomphs. I can't ever spell that right.
@@nulllex0099 And also Myconids.
@@nulllex0099 There are non-dueregar grey dwarves and deep halflings but those might be from Greyhawk rather than Faerun too.
Interesting note, the spelling of Duergar is quite close to the pronunciation of the Scandinavian name for dwarves but here it has a soft g. They are also closer to their origin in Norse myth.
Ah finally. One of my favorite races, tied only with dwarves. I always imagined thei cities looking somewhere between a Dwarf Fortress military fort or a fort pretending to be a city.
Ah my favorite race.... the Dwarves tied only with the Dwarves
@@placeholdername3818 Exactly. They're dwarves with the crazy turned up to 100
@@gasmonkey1000 I just like them because they're Grey
I like how the "backstory" of Laduguer is just a twisted version of the Tolkien mythos with Laduguer as a more evil and pitiless version of Eru and the "first Derro" as a more pathetic version of Melkor.
Caught that too.
Well Tolkiens work is the template for all modern fantasy
If you were called a hertic for being enslaved. You'd be angry too.
So, ummmm... I can't be the only one who wanna know:what happened to the super Duergar the lone craftsman created? Is there an Überdwarf roaming around, or is it as invented as the rest of the myth?
that's easy, It is Moradin.
@@dragonrenver you shut your heretical mouth lol
@@andrewwilliams2014 not only was it Moradin, but it was a legitimate improvement, which is why Laduguer was so angry about it yet could do nothing but sit back and watch.
@@NoConsequenc3 Lol. Nice.
He says in the video that Laduguer turned the super dwarf into the first Derro
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I love your lore videos. They are just fun, interesting, and inspiring
Can't wait until MrRhexx does Derro. My favorite distant dwarf-kin, they're like skinny duregar with (more than) a touch of crazy...
Or those evil halflings (can't remember the name rn) or halfling vampires!!
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Thank you SO SO much for doing this! Duergar are litterally my favorite. 🖤 Your videos are the absolute best.
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Thanks for this! I was looking for an episode on this exact race. I’m fairly new to dnd so some of the commonly known race lore is usually beyond me. However my current campaign I have joined is the Icewind Dale module and I wanted to create a back up character that was this race. I just realized a bit late that I did know what to write for their backstory because I knew next to nothing other than some of that race being antagonists in the module in the later parts. Now this would be a back up character so I thought it suitable to have mine assist with my party should my current character fall but then I came to the realization that with not knowing anything of this particular type of dwarves culture I couldn’t think of a good motivation why they would be helpful. So yes, thank you, this is a very helpful guide for me in terms of helping inspire me on which direction to write my back up character’s background.
The twist at the end was epic! Mind blown.
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Definitely didnt know much of this, thanks! Would love a dwarf video in the future!
Loved the video! It would be awesome to get some more dwarven videos from you MrRhexx, especially the dwarven gods.
That was more intense than I expected
Great vid btw
dwarfs I would like to know a little bit more about them in dnd
Awesome!!
Funnily enough, I was busy just now writing history concerning the duergar for the campaign I'm currently running, so this is much appreciated.
Also very interesting, that apparently, the story told in Mordenkainens is just a variant, that laduguer always was a god, and not an ascendet duergar.
Thank you so very much for all your hard work.
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Could you make a video on the Genasi? They're personally my favorite race in all of D&D and I feel they're really slept on. They're lore is quite fascinating as well.
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00:00 The Duergar
05:46 Duergar origins
09:28 Mind flayers impact
12:05 Duergars now
14:11 Culture and religion
15:34 Duergar mythos
21:09 Asmodeus influence
25:32 Conclusion
I would love a video about the far realm, I don't even know of it's posible but aberrations are my fav
Great stuff man
"Completely hairless" he says, at the duergar's beard slowly pans into view. Love these videos, the duergar are super interesting to learn about!
Bald he meant bald, he just didn’t want to be mean
If I had money I'd buy your book, legit you are my favorite dnd youtuber
I must say, the Duergar make for criminally underrated baddies, though I prefer their Pathfinder lore over their DND origin. In pathfinder, the Duergar were originally dwarves who choose to remain underground while the rest of their race migrated to the surface. Beset by all manner of horrors and catastrophes, the Duergar made a pact with a forgotten dwarven god, transforming them into the cruel, tyrannical slavers they are now.
That sounds a lot like the Chaos Dwarfs.
Great vid! Would love to see a video from you about Aasimar!
Was looking forward to this. Currently enjoying playing my drunken Duergar.
This was so good you taught me things even I didin't know!
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
This was a fantastic video, now looking forward to my grey dwarf death cleric 💀
Great video ... and I dont even play D&D. But in my system (the dark eye) there are lots of dwarf tribes too. Thank you for the inspiration!
Shouldn't the Duergar be resistant to being stunned instead of paralyzed?, that's what Mind Flayers are able to do and they shook off their enslavement so it seems more appropriate.
Fuck your psionic blast
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With this I do hope you will be going into the Dwarfs next. Seems like the perfect segway into that topic.
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YES RHEXX ever since I played Baldur's Gate II, at the start, I always wanted to learn more about the deurgar! I've actually started constructing character and stat sheets for unique deurgar commanders for my own campaign.
An armored hulk lumbers from around the corner, scales shifting as details grow clearer. A mace hangs from the creature's appendages, and the sound of a low rumble can be heard with every footstep of the beast. Rammagan has come. His darkscale plate shimmers as the breastplate chains hold the shambling construct onto the twisted dwarf. He raises his mace, and cries out a roar that shakes the ground beneath your feet. Six fire salamanders, chained with enchanted frost shackles, are led into the chamber and surround you.
Imagine an armored brick, nullifying any enchantment magic and poison, turning invisible mid combat. You'd think he was a rogue fighter. Never consider invisibility. Deurgar are broken because they break expectations. That's why I love them for plot twists and betrayals. So much evil potential.
So they are like very practical dwarfs.
I like how they don't decorate they equipment because of imagination, make them more warrior type than most of other races
Quest-o-nomican looks cool, I backed it at the start
I'd love to see one of these videos about the Sahuagin and the Bullywugs.
Hell ya, was just about to use the duergar in my campaign.
Great video once again...When are you going to do a video on yugoloths?
in my next campaign im gonna be a tiefling...whose bloodline actually came from a yugoloth
Love it. Do one about Demodands/Gehreleths
When I think of the Duergar and a life of endless crushing misery, I'm reminded of the Corpus from Warframe, in particular the workers living in Fortuna who have to go in to debt to afford their own body parts and are constantly in danger of having them repossessed and being left crippled and destitute.
Imagine you're traveling in the Underdark, and you've made your way to Gracklstugh. A song not unlike "We All Lift Together", but altogether drained of even the tiniest sliver of hope drifts up over the slag pits. You can't appreciate it though, because immediately you're being harassed by a Duergar who insists you owe him for the air your breathing. But he's elbowed away by another who gives you a ticket for occupying space on the street without displaying a license. Everywhere you go you're being charged for existing, racking up an enormous debt. You can't hope to pay it off in anyone's lifetime, and so you are declared bankrupt and sold into slavery. Gracklstugh is a large and prominent trade city, located on a major Middledark waterway. Anyone from anywhere could have purchased you. You wanted to explore the Underdark, and you will certainly go further than you ever planned to.
"It opens up so many doors."
Thank you for being one of those doors, MrRhexx. :)
Thanks for this great video.
So glad one of my favorite races got a video. I’ve always wondered how they’d interact with gith.
Also can’t wait for a hobgoblin vid
Hobgoblins are my favorite
@@sangheilijedi I picture hobgoblins and Duergar occasionally having alliances to beat up the drow
@@bluebird3281 Oh for sure. Also they're said to ally with evil Stone Giants, but I feel fire giants would also be good ones. Because other than the blazing beards, a Duergar using enlarge might look rather like a Fire Giant.
I really like that you could make a Rune Knight and reflavour most all of the abilities as Duergars natural enlarge ability and psionic powers
When I saw this video title, I mentally screamed "FUCK YEAH". I have always loved the Duegar and I'm so ready for this deep dive.
Id love to hear a more in depth Sharian intake. Her inclfluence on the planes etc. Good stuff
Great video again. Now I got to check the asmodeus' video I didn't see yet ? *run*
Duergar are just awsome. They are my absolute favorite race of all
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Thanks for the video.
Yo, great video, I might insert some duergar dungeons in my campaign. Got a suggestion also pathfinder wrath of the righteous is doing a massive sucess right now. Perhaps would be cool to cover some of those pathfinder settings idk... might boost the channels views. Keep the good content!
Duegar are awesome love them
I'm ready for the other outer planes videos to continue or more undead
Well, most of those duergar illustrations have some pretty sweet looking armour
Well since the Drow are done and now Duergar as well, a certain question has been bugging me. If Drow are elves underdark version and Duergar are Dwarfs from underdark...is there a human equivalent as well? Of course I was thinking about the Gith races (Githiyanki and Githzerai) but perhaps there is a human race that was shaped and reformed by underdark and lives almost exclusively there
Maybe goblinoids?
Don’t forget the Derro being under dark equivalents to halflings
Gith are not underdark races
there's also orogs (half ogre half orc) who are basically deep orcs.
It'd be cool to see underdark variants of other races, imagine an underdark variant of thri-kreen.
Nice twist!
Loved the video, could maybe do one on aasimar or yuan ti? They are my favourites...no matter if yes or no, keep on doing amazing lore videos
Thank you for this video on my fravourite race :)
Thank you
I wanna know where you find all your lore I’m loving it
I honestly question what happened to the rest of the abyss related videos. Also, that was probably one of the most interesting videos have I seen thus far, for I didn't know that much on the duergar until now.
FINALLY!!!
Closer and closer you get soon the dwarves and magic runes will come and I will be hear on this day. Upon that day I shall speak ( typing ) a big message for you. And thank you for the great video keep up the good work
Thought this video would be... _shorter_
I'll see myself out...
Hey funny coincidence, I got the dscryb ad right before this video
"The creature appears completely hairless..." Shows a drawing of a Deurgar with a large beard.
Feels like this was going in to 40k territory at the end . :)
Nice!
Great so it’s not dew-er-gar, but dew-re-gar. Cool, thanks for letting us know Mr. Ehrxx.
MrRexx,
can you cover the Ghostwise Halfling at some point? I've not been able to find much about them or how they got their 'Silent Speech' ability or many details about the Ghostwise wars.
I know they're niche but I'd appreciate it.
Can you do a video about Fraz-Urbluu please :)