Asmodeus - D&Ds Greatest Villain
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- DnD has some great lore buried in all five editions of source books, but some of the consistent characters and monsters have changed a lot. I'm trying out a new series called Forgotten Lore, where I talk about how a character has changed throughout the DnD editions, let me know what you think!
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Still not as good as the version where he is just an elaborate illusion created by an primordial serpent thing that got hurt at the dawn of time and is slowly healing itself by feeding on the souls of atheists non- and disbelievers and uses the entire bloodwar as an giant smokescreen.
Where is this version from? Haven’t ever seen this
@@The_NaturalOnes It's from a really old module from first edition I think. There are some more recent (only twenty years old!) mentioning of this lore you can find by googling Jazirian and Ahriman.
@@The_NaturalOnes its from the Planescape setting.
That version of Asmodeus was named Ahriman, one of the primal serpents of Law. Along with the other serpent of law, Jazirian they shaped the multiverse from chaos. Asmodeus was also rumored to be Mok'sylk, the Great Serpent who was the literal personification of magic and taught the witch Mazzel and her son, Vecna. Mok'sylk then used Vecna by whispering arcane secrets and eldritch instructions which led to Vecna breaking into Sigil and reshaping the DnD multiverse from 2e to 3e/3.5e it always amazes me how all the lore vids on Asmodeus and Vecna neglect this portion of the lore. Asmodeus is Ahiriman and Ahiriman will never be a God, he is one of the Ancient Brethren that predate the creation of the multiverse and of the current crop.pf deities. He is actually hiding and waiting to reshape the multiverse another time and will continue to do so until the cosmos is what he envisions. This is the lore I grew up, played through and live. To each their own it just saddens me that one of the coolest stories in DnD history is never mentioned and will be most likely forgotten by the current generation of players
@@The_NaturalOnes it's from the Guide to Hell book (pag 1-12 i think) for AD&D
It's also cited in the Manual of the Planes for 3.0 in the Baator section
I believe that one of the books set in the Forgotten Realms 5e stated that Asmodeus is still a god, but the circumstances of his ascension were different. Instead, a group of 13 powerful tiefling warlocks conducted a ritual that changed the blood of every tiefling on Toril to that of Asmodeus, forcefully making them sworn to Asmodeus whether they liked it or not. This, combined with the spark of divinity he stole from Mystra's old servant Azuth, caused him to swell in power and ascend to godhood.
Ya I think this is spell plague lore where asmodeus like absorbed azuth and ascended, I briefly mentioned it but didn’t get in depth. Ya I’m dnd you aren’t necessarily granted deity status, you can kind of achieve it
Both the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide and Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus points out that he's a deity. And (while this is technically a different setting) Explorer's Guide to Wildemount has Asmodeus as one of the Betrayer Deities. So he's still very much a god in 5e, all things considered.
Tyrants of the Nine Hells from 3e gives Asmodeus' origin as an angel created by the gods of Law.
The algorithm giveth. Always found lore content as great inspiration for my home games, and the production quality of this video deserves far more subs than you currently have! This channel's gonna be big soon enough, and I'm getting on this train early. Looking forward to watching this channel grow!
Under used because there is a misconception that one’s soul is forfeit in every deal. Sometimes he’ll settle for less in the short run.
Subbed! Lets make this channel grow. Always like more dnd lore.
I love how your final statement was being hopeful for 6th edition changing the lore. I hope for 6th edition too. I think Wizards is going to destroy D&D with D&D one. I think whatever company buys it after will make our proper 6th edition.
Amazing stuff! great vid. Keep it up mate
very well spoken, and a good amount of info!
Uhm, In 2E ther was many manuals that speak of him, like Guide to Hell, who contain the original notions that Asmodeus was an Overlord
When I saw the title I thought "how did he get any info on my players?"
A good alternative to MrRhexx, interesting!
Bravo!
I'm glad to be your 100th subscriber!
Thank you! This has not really been my usual content but I really liked the idea, appreciate you subscriber 100
@@The_NaturalOnes You're Welcome!
I just subscribed today, it is really well done 👍
Great video dude keep it up!
Well i disagree that getting Ruby Rod from trial isn't cool. It is great proof of his inteligence and cunning that he could defeat heavens in court.
Also Forgotten realms wiki says:
According to the play The Trial of Asmodeus, which was allegedly based on facts, Asmodeus was obliged to always carry the Ruby Rod of Asmodeus by Primus. The rod would act both as a symbol for him and his devils' right to forge pacts with mortals and as a punishment device for all devils that do not respect the strictures of their bargains.
So probably he still create Ruby Rod.
Btw he lost some of his power but he is still a god.
Ya he’s not as lame as I may make him out to be, I think the whole trial is a bit of a left turn and a divergence from his story. And yes the whole story is a device to show how he is very evil yet calculating and lawful, he did all of these terrible things within the bounds he was allowed. I like the shard of the abyss story better personally, also gives more context to blood war
Oh hey great channel thank you for these nice videos
There were demons and Devils in 2nd edition.. Out of the abyss was a planscape adventure in 2e.
Kind of… they were never called demons or devils, they actually changed all mention of them. Devils became the Baatezu I believe and Demons became Tanar’ri. But no “demons or devils.” Kind of a technicality but true!
Yeah 2e went to great lengths to never use the term demon or devil in 2e. It was in response to the Satanic Panic and the idea that DND was getting kids into devil worship etc.
So they became Bazatue (sp?) and Tanna'ri instead.
Me, knowing 40k lore, laughing at satanic panic
Yeah DND really took one for the whole RPG team by getting people largely over that hump.
Wht's the name of the song that starts playing around 1:04? I've seen this music being playing around a lot but whenever I check the description or ask in the comments, no one answers me :(
That is Dragon Castle by Makai Symphony
@@The_NaturalOnes Thank you so much! And awesome recap about Asmodeus btw. As a player that loves campaigns that take the party to fight real important villains, it's great to see the story of one of D&D's most iconic villain inperspective. Both in lore and time period perspective.
Yo get this guy some more subscribers
Seriously!
"6th edition" 👀👀
I think they've said there will be no 6th edition?
We’ll I don’t think they’re calling it 6th edition, One D&D is kinda the code name right now, we’ll see the official name I guess
@@The_NaturalOnes One DnD is basically the same as 5th edition, more or less 5.5.
They've said that they don't want to make any big changes to 5th edition because it's so popular and accessible
Yeah officially they're not calling it a new edition but they're going to keep tweaking the lore and rules.
3 rd edition
True! Hadn’t thought of this
3rd ed was nerfed bs
Amen brother
@@The_NaturalOnes Sorry but to me it was little more then an admittedly successful, yet none the less desperate attempt, to get the video game millenial generation involved. And threw alot of OG Gamers like myself off of DND for a while.
I've heard that from some of the original DnD'ers, then of course 4e/5e was polarizing to a lot of the people who loved 3e. I guess thats just how it goes, are you actively playing any editions?
@@The_NaturalOnes Abit of 5e,and still ring via email a 2ed campaign based in dragonlamce
@@The_NaturalOnes been playing since the original dungeons and dragons
Sure, he's cool, but not really the greatest villain.