This might be dating me but, I remember a book of kits called Warriors and Priests of the Realms which had an entry on The Riders of Eturel that would have been an awesome Paladin kit. Anyone else remember those old books?
"Zariel, thou hatred has you furious against the chaos, I see nothing but the chaos of your making." Set widen his smile. Floating stones rearrange into a sphere of earthen runes. Each written in chaotic magicks. "Time and Fate may be cruel." Set mourns, "But Elturel's fall is crueler than I would permit in my current station." The sphere glow and shape the magical energies. The image... "Destruction shall claim Avernus, as it consume all in its wake. Not even the mighty Zariel will escape it." The tall man's jaw unhinges and resets back into place. His low growl echoes among his silent library of stone. . . . Greeting the horror is the massive red moon. "For now, all shall continue as they are. And I to witness the lives in my journey." Set laughs. "The show must go on. I, The Actor, has been chosen for a role. Now... which name shall I chose for this?"
Yay back to Baator! It would be really something special if you did a series on the Abyss. There are a lot of layers, excellent lore and very interesting characters and dynamics that I just love! This was wonderful! Great set up lol. I need more NOW😭
They really need to improve their training for those Priest's, Clerics, & Paladins. They all seem to fall short in the resolve category. It's not like Zariel is a Falxugon or anything. Given her status in the nine hells, she should be on a top 10 most wanted list in most churches and temples.
I haven't found lore videos this well done. Thank you for the incredible effort you've clearly put in. I've subscribed just for this and the nine hells series, since I'm running Descent right now, but skimming through your other videos I'm realizing how much better these videos are than most on yt. I actually rarely comment, but wanted to thank you personally. Really hoping you will finish these series. Thank you!
Such high praise, i am honored by this amazing community. Thank you for taking the time to say such kind words, it is really motivating! I know you said you hardly comment, but I love interacting with the community (as my 200+ polls will show lol) so I hope this is not the last i hear from you! /bow Rich
Zariel made the ultimate sacrifice. She knew that the demons could eventually win. So sacrificed herself to lead the devils in the fight. Obviously this has corrupted her and she's made bad decisions. But her sword is her out. She may find redempgion in the end.
Just on time! Am about to prep DIA for my group, thanks for making this video! xD If I may give some constructive feedback: Check out some videos on how to edit vocals for clarity. If you got rid of the muddiness in your recorded voice, I think it could benefit your videos a lot :D Big fan since your series on the 9 hells, keep it up!
Curious about your comment on vocal clarity. I spent an inordinate amount of time in post just trying to get the audio as clear as possible, so i am curious to hear your details.
@@RichesandLiches Yes it's really noticable how much effort you put into *everything* really. So I've played around with an EQ a little. I figured a notch at ~550-600Hz with -9dB and Q=2 did a LOT for intelligibility. I also added a slight high-pass around 180Hz to remove some more of the deeper low-end, although that might as well be personal preference here.
This is amazing content! Thank you for your valuable work. I’d like to request a video about Null, Dragon God of Death and Undeath. He is my Warlock Deity and I’d love to know more lore about him. My character is an Aasimar Paladin and Draconic Sorcerer who made a deal with death (I’m going for a Draconic Angel of Death). PS - Your video about Malharak was fantastic inspiration for my character’s backstory. Cheers and thanks again!
So are the adventurers here characters you have directly created, or did you run the adventure with friends and are now chronicling it with the intermingled canon (As Baldur's Gate III did cement one of the endings of the module as noncanonical, without spoiling things for the other listeners.)
@HungHo001 They definitely do. However according to the Fiendish Codex II - devils enjoy food and other wordly pleasures, but neither food or water are required for them to live. Great question!
In my honest opinion, the gods of the Upper Planes are definitely partly at fault here. They were ready to let one of the most devoted cities on the Sword Coast fall to hordes of undead, and Torm and the other gods worshiped by Elturel citizens basically just stood idly by as Zariel corrupted Kreeg. I know gods can't directly intervene in the Material Plane, but they can send visions or act through powerful mortal agents like high-level clerics and paladins, and high-level clerics in this game can call for help from more powerful servants of their deities.
@@sagemagus126 It's a rinse and repeat of Asmodeus's backstory. A former Celestial who started getting things done and the Celestial bureaucracy going, "Whoa Nelly. Let's not be too rash. Let's consider things on our safe mountain aerie for a few centuries while the worlds beneath us burn instead." In response, the former Celestial answers back to their self-righteous brethren, "What are you even for?" No wonder Asmodeus gave her a job. He sympathized.
@ravendelacour1917 i never heard that before. Asmodeus kinda evolved from angel into his role because of a demand for rules and justice. The other angels just didn't like his evolving appearance and evolving role. Asmodeus' evolution birthed the pact primeval, almost analogous to Singapore being ejected out of Malaysia like exile
@@sagemagus126 @sagemagus126 Asmodeus in the early stages was a Celestial actually enforcing the rules over the early iteration of reality. In the beginning times, demons corrupted mortals to commit sins so the demons could get their souls. The young Celestials thought making rules against sin would mean mortals would just stop sinning. Turns out no, mortals will sin if there's no consequences. So they tasked Asmodeus and his people to punish sinners and Asmodeus was quite good at punishing people. Then Celestials found seeing the torment and torture of the sinning souls harshed their buzz and demanded Asmodeus do it out of sight in what would become the Hells. At this point Asmodeus started corrupting mortal souls himself because that would take them away from the demons much more effectively and by enslaving them himself, Asmodeus could ensure the souls were being used for what he considered positive aims. The Celestial found out about that, realized that the rules Asmodeus helped write totally allowed that and have been pissy but hands off about Hell ever since. In his mind, Asmodeus is totally the good guy and Zariel is now his willing disciple in that aim.
Right at the beginning: doesn’t BG3 take place after DiA, not before as is suggested? I thought the tieflings in BG3 were refugees from being kicked out of Elturel due to racism caused by the whole Avernus thing.
@natewright1197 you are correct, I made a small edit to remove "before" to avoid confusion. It is not perfect but I appreciate your taking the time to give feedback.
@@logisticsnerd76 The tieflings who lived in Elturel were thrown out of the city after it returned from Avernus because they were tieflings (and not because of anything they actually did). So yes, racism.
I feel like most of these people would have cause to dispute the contract. How can he put someone else's soul in there? Seems contrary to most of the lore that requires all parties to agree.
If I had to guess it has something to do with the concept of a ruler owning someone. I don’t know if you played bg3 but a similar thing happened to karlach. I don’t know if these are retcons or the way things are gonna be in faerun going forward. I sort of understand the logic. If you give someone power over you maybe that has some innate magical meaning. Or maybe it has to do with the creed resolute. Maybe it’s written somewhere on the last page in invisible ink that if you sign your name you give up your soul.
@bcfb21 maybe so. There has to be something limiting, otherwise what stops unscrupulous individuals from selling the souls of their neighbors for fabulous cash and prizes?
If you had written the adventure "Descent Into Avernus", it would have worked SO much better instead of the clunky, inconsistent, railroady hot mess it became.
Will she clash back with heaven because of them not helping Zariel out are they just there to sit on the sidelines like they ought to be I'm only human and those are my questions if I was that so call third party or A WHAT IF both sides would be very upset.
This is not how the story of Descent into Avernus was written. Thavius didn't have good intentions choosing the lesser of two evils. Thavius was actually jealous of High Rider Dhelt and plotted his assassination, which failed and was transported to Barovia and returning a vampire. When High Rider Dhelt returned a vampire, Thavius was unable to deal with Dhelt seeking justice, now in vampiric means. So that's when Thavius sought out Zariel
This might be dating me but, I remember a book of kits called Warriors and Priests of the Realms which had an entry on The Riders of Eturel that would have been an awesome Paladin kit. Anyone else remember those old books?
She gives off valkia the bloody from warharmner fantasy
Thanks!
Very well-done sir! Great story, the Art is amazing! I am looking forward to the rest of the parts of the series!
Amazing story telling
That was great looking forward to the rest
Once again great work.
"Zariel, thou hatred has you furious against the chaos, I see nothing but the chaos of your making." Set widen his smile.
Floating stones rearrange into a sphere of earthen runes. Each written in chaotic magicks.
"Time and Fate may be cruel." Set mourns, "But Elturel's fall is crueler than I would permit in my current station."
The sphere glow and shape the magical energies. The image...
"Destruction shall claim Avernus, as it consume all in its wake. Not even the mighty Zariel will escape it." The tall man's jaw unhinges and resets back into place. His low growl echoes among his silent library of stone.
. . . Greeting the horror is the massive red moon.
"For now, all shall continue as they are. And I to witness the lives in my journey." Set laughs. "The show must go on. I, The Actor, has been chosen for a role. Now... which name shall I chose for this?"
Yay back to Baator! It would be really something special if you did a series on the Abyss. There are a lot of layers, excellent lore and very interesting characters and dynamics that I just love!
This was wonderful! Great set up lol. I need more NOW😭
You Sir are getting better and better
Happy Halloween. Always look forward to your awesome lore vids🎃🎃🎃
Do not pity the fallen angel. Fallen angels survive the fall. How many souls did Zariel bring down with her?
Mordenkainen
Yep and she returned their loyalty to her by destroying their city
Well done, sir.
They really need to improve their training for those Priest's, Clerics, & Paladins. They all seem to fall short in the resolve category. It's not like Zariel is a Falxugon or anything. Given her status in the nine hells, she should be on a top 10 most wanted list in most churches and temples.
I haven't found lore videos this well done. Thank you for the incredible effort you've clearly put in. I've subscribed just for this and the nine hells series, since I'm running Descent right now, but skimming through your other videos I'm realizing how much better these videos are than most on yt. I actually rarely comment, but wanted to thank you personally. Really hoping you will finish these series. Thank you!
Such high praise, i am honored by this amazing community. Thank you for taking the time to say such kind words, it is really motivating!
I know you said you hardly comment, but I love interacting with the community (as my 200+ polls will show lol) so I hope this is not the last i hear from you!
/bow Rich
@@RichesandLiches Good to hear, it's well deserved, thx for the reply! I'll try & will definitely be a regular watcher :)
Zariel made the ultimate sacrifice. She knew that the demons could eventually win. So sacrificed herself to lead the devils in the fight.
Obviously this has corrupted her and she's made bad decisions. But her sword is her out.
She may find redempgion in the end.
What do you mean this video is only 7 hours old and I can't watch part 2 yet?!
Just on time! Am about to prep DIA for my group, thanks for making this video! xD
If I may give some constructive feedback: Check out some videos on how to edit vocals for clarity. If you got rid of the muddiness in your recorded voice, I think it could benefit your videos a lot :D
Big fan since your series on the 9 hells, keep it up!
Curious about your comment on vocal clarity. I spent an inordinate amount of time in post just trying to get the audio as clear as possible, so i am curious to hear your details.
@@RichesandLiches Yes it's really noticable how much effort you put into *everything* really. So I've played around with an EQ a little. I figured a notch at ~550-600Hz with -9dB and Q=2 did a LOT for intelligibility.
I also added a slight high-pass around 180Hz to remove some more of the deeper low-end, although that might as well be personal preference here.
When he said “in the year 1492”… all I could think was “Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue” 😂
In my head it has now been replaced by “through our skies the alien nautiloids flew.”
This is amazing content! Thank you for your valuable work. I’d like to request a video about Null, Dragon God of Death and Undeath.
He is my Warlock Deity and I’d love to know more lore about him.
My character is an Aasimar Paladin and Draconic Sorcerer who made a deal with death (I’m going for a Draconic Angel of Death).
PS - Your video about Malharak was fantastic inspiration for my character’s backstory.
Cheers and thanks again!
Thank you
I loved this!! Do more!!
So are the adventurers here characters you have directly created, or did you run the adventure with friends and are now chronicling it with the intermingled canon (As Baldur's Gate III did cement one of the endings of the module as noncanonical, without spoiling things for the other listeners.)
It is a retelling of a game I DM'd back in 2019-2020 with friends :)
Do food and water exist in hell? If dont how they live in hell?
@HungHo001
They definitely do. However according to the Fiendish Codex II - devils enjoy food and other wordly pleasures, but neither food or water are required for them to live.
Great question!
In my honest opinion, the gods of the Upper Planes are definitely partly at fault here. They were ready to let one of the most devoted cities on the Sword Coast fall to hordes of undead, and Torm and the other gods worshiped by Elturel citizens basically just stood idly by as Zariel corrupted Kreeg. I know gods can't directly intervene in the Material Plane, but they can send visions or act through powerful mortal agents like high-level clerics and paladins, and high-level clerics in this game can call for help from more powerful servants of their deities.
Say what you will about the Infernal, they do keep their own.
Exactly, the celestials in mount Celestia refused to do anything. Only Zariel went to fight for the people
@@sagemagus126 It's a rinse and repeat of Asmodeus's backstory. A former Celestial who started getting things done and the Celestial bureaucracy going, "Whoa Nelly. Let's not be too rash. Let's consider things on our safe mountain aerie for a few centuries while the worlds beneath us burn instead." In response, the former Celestial answers back to their self-righteous brethren, "What are you even for?"
No wonder Asmodeus gave her a job. He sympathized.
@ravendelacour1917 i never heard that before. Asmodeus kinda evolved from angel into his role because of a demand for rules and justice. The other angels just didn't like his evolving appearance and evolving role. Asmodeus' evolution birthed the pact primeval, almost analogous to Singapore being ejected out of Malaysia like exile
@@sagemagus126 @sagemagus126 Asmodeus in the early stages was a Celestial actually enforcing the rules over the early iteration of reality. In the beginning times, demons corrupted mortals to commit sins so the demons could get their souls. The young Celestials thought making rules against sin would mean mortals would just stop sinning. Turns out no, mortals will sin if there's no consequences. So they tasked Asmodeus and his people to punish sinners and Asmodeus was quite good at punishing people. Then Celestials found seeing the torment and torture of the sinning souls harshed their buzz and demanded Asmodeus do it out of sight in what would become the Hells. At this point Asmodeus started corrupting mortal souls himself because that would take them away from the demons much more effectively and by enslaving them himself, Asmodeus could ensure the souls were being used for what he considered positive aims. The Celestial found out about that, realized that the rules Asmodeus helped write totally allowed that and have been pissy but hands off about Hell ever since.
In his mind, Asmodeus is totally the good guy and Zariel is now his willing disciple in that aim.
Talk about easily preventable by the gods and with little effort on their part
Right at the beginning: doesn’t BG3 take place after DiA, not before as is suggested? I thought the tieflings in BG3 were refugees from being kicked out of Elturel due to racism caused by the whole Avernus thing.
Yeah that was an error on Rich's part. BG3 remarks on Elturel a lot in Act 1.
@natewright1197 you are correct, I made a small edit to remove "before" to avoid confusion. It is not perfect but I appreciate your taking the time to give feedback.
'racism'??? AYFKM
@@logisticsnerd76 The tieflings who lived in Elturel were thrown out of the city after it returned from Avernus because they were tieflings (and not because of anything they actually did). So yes, racism.
I feel like most of these people would have cause to dispute the contract. How can he put someone else's soul in there? Seems contrary to most of the lore that requires all parties to agree.
If I had to guess it has something to do with the concept of a ruler owning someone. I don’t know if you played bg3 but a similar thing happened to karlach. I don’t know if these are retcons or the way things are gonna be in faerun going forward. I sort of understand the logic. If you give someone power over you maybe that has some innate magical meaning. Or maybe it has to do with the creed resolute. Maybe it’s written somewhere on the last page in invisible ink that if you sign your name you give up your soul.
@bcfb21 maybe so. There has to be something limiting, otherwise what stops unscrupulous individuals from selling the souls of their neighbors for fabulous cash and prizes?
A comment for the numbers Brother
If you had written the adventure "Descent Into Avernus", it would have worked SO much better instead of the clunky, inconsistent, railroady hot mess it became.
Woooooooo also, second. But mostly, wooooooooooo
What aversion to male melee characters does DnD have? Of course she is going to be wielding a big sword, armor and having a buzz cut.
First
Will she clash back with heaven because of them not helping Zariel out are they just there to sit on the sidelines like they ought to be I'm only human and those are my questions if I was that so call third party or A WHAT IF both sides would be very upset.
This is not how the story of Descent into Avernus was written. Thavius didn't have good intentions choosing the lesser of two evils. Thavius was actually jealous of High Rider Dhelt and plotted his assassination, which failed and was transported to Barovia and returning a vampire. When High Rider Dhelt returned a vampire, Thavius was unable to deal with Dhelt seeking justice, now in vampiric means. So that's when Thavius sought out Zariel
1,000% not buying this game. That is all I needed to see.
"Please sir, give me some propaganda instead of a game. 🙏🏻"
What are you talking about?