I am reminded that my DM tried to get the party to jump into a portal that had one of these on the other side. We were level 5. He legitimately said, "It had the right amount of experience." Needless to say we were not amused.
I know I can always count on your channel when I'm looking for consistent, quality videos about some of my favorite interests and hobbies, I know that I for one am a better DM because of this channel. Keep it up man, and keep being awesome!
Despite their power and influence the Sibriex's own body seems kind of haphazard. It's like they lack the power to make a true body for themselves, so they just slap together whatever is within reach and chain it together to prevent it all from exploding apart. Perhaps that is the true goal of all Sibriex, to form a body perfect enough to contain their immense essence and usurp the self-styled abyssal lords.
There's one notable sibriex in a published D&D campaign (mild spoilers ahead): In _Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus_ players may encounter one chained up and being interrogated by a yugoloth and some devils. Thankfully, the chains are such that the obyrith can't use its spells or other actions to escape. How the players act determines what happens, but the game intends the players to try and interrogate the obyrith for information.
Huge and new fan Aj I actually have never played d&d but I love all things lore you make it all so interesting lol I'm happy I found this channel -binge watch videos every night
It is like the worst tropes of mad scientist taken to extreme. Their corrupting presence, makes me think of an angel in Curse of Strahd which even it could go insane. Creating a Flesh Golem, and mongrel folk. That maybe this demon could effect an angel like that.
This is why, Asmodeus has a Wand of Spheres of Annihilation, a Fiendish Tarrasque, Fusion Warheads from.. who knows. Yeah, now I get WHY he has such incredible stuff in Nessus. These things right here. O_O
@@Scortch-lo3xy watch AJ's Nessus video, I believe is where he mentioned Asmo has nukes. I am uncertain as to where he got that source himself, but I do not dispute AJ on the lore. If AJ reads this, where DID you find that glorious tidbit of info? Dragon magazine? Is it in a sourcebook from an older edition? And if Asmo has that kind of junk, what ELSE does he have?!?!
Asmodeus has whatever secret weapon you think is appropriate for the setting to help him keep the demons in check. So he could have nukes. The only restriction is do you think your setting could have the object in question at any point in time?
I had an idea for a dungeon in an astral dreadnaught's extra dimensional stomach that was a library dedicated to the elder elemental eye that had fallen to it's forbidden knowledge. It was going to be infested with former researchers allip, and mutant nothic, magical mishaps in the form of unatural horrors and living dunamancy spells, as well as elemental guardians, and paranoid spectators left to protect the research but at the bottom of all of it was a bound sibriex in the lowest level who manipulated them all into collapse and the party would have to bargain with it to gain some insight on how to stop the BBEG of the campaign.
if some idealistic adventurer needed any proof that the Demons are absolutely beyond redemption or mercy this would be it. A sadistic monster that looks like it came straight out of a David Cronenberg movie with a Sadistic streak that makes the average Osyluth seem like a normal sensible person. this thing is horrifying, pure evil, and is disgusting beyond all human descriptions and that is what makes so friggin Awesome!!!!!
Not beyond redemption. They just would never accept it. Demons in general are driven mad by the experience of being part of the abyss. And Sibriex in specific embody the kind of malicious, intelligent madness that makes demons dangerous. Even when they seem reasonable you have to remember this thing is so twisted they might reach out and twist off your head while having a well thought out debate with you without seeming to realize they have done so.
An end to The Blood Wars would mean an end to the entire D&D multiverse. If the Demons or Devils ever won, they would turn their full attention to the mortal plane and the gods. In my campaign, I planned to build a portal and get the devils to place it in hell, but from your videos, I learned that some cheeky god beat me to it. I need a new plan.
I only play with 3.5e rules. And my game shop use Titans as generic avatars for gods. Run an encounter of "Thor & the Warriors Three," as titans and have your players face off with a group of pit fiends/ balors. With some great wrym red dragons. And there is a taste of Epic character Level "Blood War" combat.
In the name of all that is holy and good what the heck. Your descriptions in the video actually cuddled the cream in my coffee. Very well done I bow to you and your descriptive might. With your permission I would love to just play that part of this at my table if ever I curse my players with an encounter with one of these horrors.
I think SCP's Sarkicism was influenced by the Sibriex. SCP-610 The Flesh that Hates seems like a pale comparison to what these creatures can really do...
Well, scp 610 is kinda like alive, and has logic and purpose in its mutation. Like, its not perversion of live, its a grotesque assimilation. Flesh shaping of Sibriex is much more...wrong. They do so, because they are amused by this, and that they want to know if they can, not even considering, if they should. If 610 feels like bacteria, using existing cell to spread, Obyrith really do feel like cancer
Loved the video AJ. your demon series is the best, and this demon is certainly a disgusting beauty. You could write a whole campaign around one of these, and yet the idea of trying to kill them all would be so tempting to anyone on the side of law or good. Such a campaign would have a party battling against demon lords and the super elite of the abyss itself. Thanks for the ideas as always.
Weird Question, How do you decide which stuff in the magazines are canon and aren't? Is it as simple as Yes all content from them is fair or is it more complex? If it is covered in a video I am happy to take a link. Sorry havent watched the whole back log yet....working on it only found the channel a few months ago.
Yeah it is a bit complicated, for instance, the first edition stuff was not very homogenous, they were still kind of just throwing things together, there wasn't exactly any classification of dragons into types, for instance. Also, 4th edition made sweeping changes to a lot of the lore that most 2nd and 3rd edition players were not at all happy with, and many folks who went over to Pathfinder or never bought into 3 & 3.5 just don't care about. 5th edition is, for the most part, fine, but there are some glaring problems, lore wise, that seem a lot like the kind of mistakes that were made with 4th edition, in that the game designers are cherry picking and modifying as they see fit. This is not a policy that I think is very wise, nor a good idea, long term, as it essentially throws the baby out with the bath water, since the cohesive and rich lore and mythology of D&D is one of it's most valuable assets. When I look at the material I am doing my best to build a cohesive and inclusive body of lore that people can use, paying as much respect to published work as I can, and as a general rule, video game lore is fine, unless it is contradicted by published source book lore, and the same goes for novels, however, if 5th edition source books make a glaring omission, like not mentioning the Sibriex is an Obyrith or the Dybukk is a Loumara, or make a sweeping change and lack of detailed info, such as the lore they made up about Asmodeus' Ruby Rod and no mention of the artifact abilities it has.. well, it is just sloppy, so, I will do my best to add lore and point out when the 5th edition writers are screwing up stuff, and if something I mention contradicts 5th edition changes, there will usually be a good reason for it.
Okay, I love this answer. On the magazines specifically how do they fit in? I hear you mention them from time to time especially on "Lords of Ruin" videos.
The Dragon Magazine articles, particularly the Demonomicon of Iggwlv and the Monster Ecology videos are all pretty firmly established canon lore. Lore from Dungeon magazine is also pretty solid.
Amazing content as always AJ! I love hearing about the strange, bizarre, weird and odd side of DnD. Although, It doesn't really matter what you talk about because I'll love it anyway. Thank you!
Ive read about these sometime, somewhere...I want to say in Thay...nope that was a crazy, large size baby, running an undead factory. I think Ao and his griffon took that crazy baby on.
Your descriptions are always so captivating. Aj pickett Do you have any advice for anyone trying to expand there vocabulary and become equally as good if not better at coming up with these ingenius description?
My mother taught me how words derive from other languages, getting to know a bit of latin certainly helps, otherwise, read, and learn how to speak using words that don't alienate your listener.. there is no point using words that the average person doesn't recognise, it defeats the who purpose of communicating.
Krimson Wolf well my friend I do not mean to seem pessimistic. But I regard demons very highly as I think them to be the closest to us. While being anything but in close similarity to us. There really just very fascinating in general.
Yay! I've been waiting for this one ever since I first saw your video on the Obyrith and I was not disappointed. They're wonderfully horrible. Thank you, mate. 😃
So we are talking about stuff that would make HR Giger's creations seem like a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon... I also think of the game "Scorn"...
I love these guys. Got a home brewed abyssal monster and your players want validation for its existence?? Poof, these dudes made it. And it gives you a super bad ass boss fight when you finally fight your way through hordes of demons and reach the evil bastard.
Sat down to breakfast and thought I would listen to some Mighty glue stick. Of all videos to click on. XD Still I love the content so keep it up. I've never played D&D but love the lore and hopefully if I ever get to play you will have prepared me ahead of time.
Thank you for inspiring me with your descriptions of the abyssal realms. Where before I thought they were lackluster comepared to the far realm, I now see their potential. Also makes me think of what the game Agony might have been
If you ever wonder how this stuff might look, just go read a Warhammer book that involves the legions of Nergal I imagine those are about spot on for what the demons of d&d would look like Personally, I would recommend the plague war series by Dan Abnett
I made it a point to eat through the video. Muhaha. My stomach of steel. You already made a video that freaked me out. Rot Grubs. The art work was full body horror. Liked the video. Interesting monster, one of those fun ones I don't think we have in Pathfinder.
That sounds awesome. They have so many cool ones. Like what they did with the aboleth lore, they fleshed it out to fill a cool niche. PF2e is going to be fun.
Would be interesting in an epic-level game to have a plot in which there's an entity going about the abyss destroying sibriexes and you have to prevent it from happening so that the devils keep being tied up in the blood war... who knows what terrible things would happen if the demons or devils weren't constantly pushing against each other.
That material plane would shortly be a new abyssal layer, probably. If a lich was unbelievably lucky, it could continue on as a demon lord, though it's unclear if it would still be the same being after that transformation
If you wanted to blend cosmologies with the World Of Darkness the only faction there that I could conceivably see as willing to try & eliminate the last of these monstrosities might be the Specters Of The Labyrinth in some mad attempt to annihilate the Multiverse into the pure nothingness in a Crusade to end all of existence (as most feel existence is pain so Omnicide is the only solution.)
'If you see it, it can drive you mad' works in a game like Call of Cthulhu, but, in a game like D&D, where players have gained high enough level to fight one, they've seen enough of the Abyss that this becomes hard to swallow. In a world where magic is a daily encounter, there isn't much believably in 'HOW CAN THIS BE??!?' A simple walking skeleton is, in my mind, more offensive to logic and reality than a mass of warped, but living flesh.
Warped flesh is something like a flesh golem, the Sibriex is an Obyrinth and the PCs will have only encountered Tenarii up to this point. Mental horror is very difficult to convey through the monster manual and so it is tempting to reduce things like the Sibriex down to base. Eg. 'Aboleth? It's just a big ugly fish', 'Illithid? More like Squid boi', 'Juibilex? What? That big ooze?' The onus is on the DM to more accurately convey the sheer transfixing terror of seeing a mass of gestating, writhing flesh lumber from the pool in front of you, faces of loved ones twisted into agonized contortions emerging from it's formlessness. The droning, whining, cacophony of a voice describing every detail of how you will suffer emerging not just in your thoughts but from your own throat, you feel powerless and a perverse alien enjoyment in revelling at how you and your companions will coalesce in a new form, the biomass offers sanctity and security. You shake your head to rid yourself of these thoughts, your companion reaches a hand to steady you, and all you feel is the soft flesh of their palm, the ease at which you could merge with them, becoming a writhi.. No! You draw your greatsword, this challenge must be met.
These are being that are multiplanar by nature. What you, the mortal, see is gonna just be the tip. Yet the full perverse grandeur of it still forces its way into your mind, which is ill equiped to understand all of this. The madness is the result of having a cosmic square peg forced into the round hole of your mind. You can't cope with this information you can't process being forced into your consciousness. Or at least most can't. Some heroic individuals can deal with the stress of it. Push back against the mind burning reality of such horrors.
@@ethanblair981 Wonderful. I am sure you make a great DM. Really good to see there are others that have a mind for imaginative flare. I always get compliments for being descriptive when dealing with creatures, magic & damage dealt. Worst DM's are the ones that do the boring thing and just mention the back & forth ov melee, announcing damage dealt by nothing but a number. And I hate when they start an encounter and then show you the freaking picture in a book to let you know what you are up against. I want to have to try to figure it out or make skill checks. Always disappointed with that. As a DM I am actively trying to kill those that play my games. Whether it is with creature, magic or traps(Grimtooth was a hero ov mine as a little kid and aided my devious mind when it came to traps). I am fair but brutal. And my players love me for it. Makes it that much better when you succeed, especially when it is by a last saving roll or something epic.
Does it only corrupt flesh or would it also corrupt spiritual beings like gods angels and jin and are constructs machines and living skeletons affected. And suppose a character is radioactive by nature or just has a whole bunch of energy flowing from them at all times would that push back the corruption any.
The only creatures that are, for certain, protected from it's corruption are gods and beings of absolute law, any being that has immunity to any form of polymorph attack. So it will warp Warforged and Angels. I'm not very sure about Genies to be honest, as they are kind of the flip side of what demons are, so, I leave that up to DMs to decide for themselves. Oh yes, some high level player characters (Monks and Druids, perhaps clerics and paladins) gain powers that prevent their body and spirit from being altered, so, they would be better protected.
@@grandmasterrodimus1480 They're intelligent though, they can certainly be bargained with. Whether or not they hold up their end of the bargain, or decide to tear you apart after the transaction is another matter. (I just saw your comment is 3 years old but I already typed my reply so here you go anyway)
Oh, you are not wrong, 5th edition is just omitting a lot of critical information. One great theory someone posted was that perhaps Mordenkainen doesn't actually know that the Obyrith are different from the Tanar'ri.
Great stuff AJ. I cant tell whether these things have a will of their own or they're more like biological weapon manufacturies that have no control over what they do.
A sybriex as a warlock patron? That's an outstanding idea! You could gain abilities to morph the flesh of others and yourself in terrifying ways, maybe give yourself an extra set of arms like a glabrezu. Plus the patron relationship could really played for plot hooks. If a sybriex is going to share even some of its power, you know it's going to want a grisly return on its investment. Thank you for this idea. ☺️
I could not imagine the cost a Sybriax would ask for. It would have to ask for something other then flesh right? That’s to easy and it’s fed parts of much greater beings daily. It would need something more delicate yet way more sinister then just your weak mortal frame. Just I am lost about what that may be.
how do these things even... live? What if order was brought into the Abyss? would all demons just die because of logic? As in, due to them logically making no sense, shooting logic at them makes them fall apart? Is there even "order magic" in D&D? I'd eagerly smite these foul beasts with equations.
Jacopo Armini I wouldn’t suggest trying unless you have a crap ton of hit points and good saves. Really tho, I really don’t think it would be effective. You’d just be wasting your time. If you can’t tear them apart and absorb their demonic powers then they won’t fear you. If they don’t fear you they ain’t going to listen to you.
Look at it this way, Elementals are like poltergeists, a strange ecology of life forms that can move through inanimate matter and animate it, Elementals feed on each other not by biting chunks out of each other, to them, chemistry is largely meaningless, they are energy, so they feed off each other's energy, the largest elementals are some of the most formidable primordial powers. When the abyss was created, it plunged into and absorbed the properties of the Elemental planes, the energy it siphoned out of the multiverse in the form of raw evil and malevolent mortal souls, plus the alien entities, the Obyrith, and their strange physics, caused the elemental power to be hybridized, corrupted and when it inhabits and animates the substance of the abyssal planes, it creates demons. Demons are like vile and twisted elementals, they are also a kind of hybrid, like the Genies, between elemental and mortal souls. Genies don't vanish when you apply logic to them, they are not illogical, just very alien.
AJ Pickett so, basically they are still orderly and their bodies follow a certain logic, just not the logic of our universe or a logic we can understand, hence their chaotic and destructive nature?
You're assuming the rules of logic are universal to all forms of existence. Equations only work because of set theory which is accepted, because sets are a property we perceive. There might be planes where sets are meaningless.
Well, from a certain pov all demons are aberrations. They are cosmic foreigners that do not obey the rules of reality as mortals know them. Demons are just a very specific form of aberration that has a very definite origin.
Obyrith demons are corruption of elemental chaos. They came from dying universe, but still, they had A universe. Abberations come from Far realm, space beyond everything, where everything ends, and nothing begins. They feel so alien compared to other demons, because Tanari demons are corrupted mortal souls, they are much more native to our world
Arnt lemurs devil way are dey in the abyss
My bad, I meant to say Dretches.
the poor lemur is probably wondering the same
i feel like this could be a interesting story about how if you think it cant get worse well now your a lemur in the abyss
Adam Di'Cristofaro killed bye demons fore all of iturnety
Damian Struiken an idea for my next single player campaign! The PC is a lost lemure.
You'd think that a creature so skilled at fleshcrafting would give itself a body that doesn't leak everywhere.
It probably thinks it's the pinnacle of demonic perfection.
They are much like beholders in this view. They even cause creatures they modify around them to view them as the pinnacle of creation.
I am reminded that my DM tried to get the party to jump into a portal that had one of these on the other side. We were level 5. He legitimately said, "It had the right amount of experience." Needless to say we were not amused.
Yikes
Your DM is a psycho, but maybe I like them already?
i could honestly see this thing in one of nurgles many gardens like this thing looks like itd fit so nicely in warhammer40k
Well...they have a similar esthetic, but Nurgle has a much different idea
[*Holy Smiting getting Smitier*]
You have inspired me to have one my characters to want to seek one out to learn the dark secrets
I know I can always count on your channel when I'm looking for consistent, quality videos about some of my favorite interests and hobbies, I know that I for one am a better DM because of this channel. Keep it up man, and keep being awesome!
Let's not go to the abyss. Tis a silly place.
Imagining these creatures doing a musical number was exactly what I needed
It smells too.
Despite their power and influence the Sibriex's own body seems kind of haphazard. It's like they lack the power to make a true body for themselves, so they just slap together whatever is within reach and chain it together to prevent it all from exploding apart. Perhaps that is the true goal of all Sibriex, to form a body perfect enough to contain their immense essence and usurp the self-styled abyssal lords.
Probably one of my favorite demons. Body horror is MY JAM.
Check out the movie "the fly" and even though "an american werewolf in London" isn't body horror but the transformation is imo best wolf change ever.
@@iancasleton1777 I was a kid when I watched The Fly on the living room couch with my dad. That movie did things to my mind that can never be undone.
There's one notable sibriex in a published D&D campaign (mild spoilers ahead):
In _Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus_ players may encounter one chained up and being interrogated by a yugoloth and some devils. Thankfully, the chains are such that the obyrith can't use its spells or other actions to escape. How the players act determines what happens, but the game intends the players to try and interrogate the obyrith for information.
AJ - I love rewatching your videos. It’s like re-reading a favorite book for me. Great lore coverage and artwork presentation.
Wow, thank you!
Huge and new fan Aj I actually have never played d&d but I love all things lore you make it all so interesting lol I'm happy I found this channel -binge watch videos every night
It is like the worst tropes of mad scientist taken to extreme.
Their corrupting presence, makes me think of an angel in Curse of Strahd which even it could go insane. Creating a Flesh Golem, and mongrel folk. That maybe this demon could effect an angel like that.
*pictures in chain devil in an unessersray wheelchair saying* "i saw things man, i saw things!?!?"
This is why, Asmodeus has a Wand of Spheres of Annihilation, a Fiendish Tarrasque, Fusion Warheads from.. who knows. Yeah, now I get WHY he has such incredible stuff in Nessus. These things right here. O_O
Asmodeus has fusion war heads? citation?
@@Scortch-lo3xy watch AJ's Nessus video, I believe is where he mentioned Asmo has nukes. I am uncertain as to where he got that source himself, but I do not dispute AJ on the lore.
If AJ reads this, where DID you find that glorious tidbit of info? Dragon magazine? Is it in a sourcebook from an older edition?
And if Asmo has that kind of junk, what ELSE does he have?!?!
Asmodeus has whatever secret weapon you think is appropriate for the setting to help him keep the demons in check. So he could have nukes. The only restriction is do you think your setting could have the object in question at any point in time?
I had an idea for a dungeon in an astral dreadnaught's extra dimensional stomach that was a library dedicated to the elder elemental eye that had fallen to it's forbidden knowledge. It was going to be infested with former researchers allip, and mutant nothic, magical mishaps in the form of unatural horrors and living dunamancy spells, as well as elemental guardians, and paranoid spectators left to protect the research but at the bottom of all of it was a bound sibriex in the lowest level who manipulated them all into collapse and the party would have to bargain with it to gain some insight on how to stop the BBEG of the campaign.
In the words of our party's wizard (who studies the abyss) "you dont fight a sibriex, you survive, even if you wish you hadn't"
Personally, I love the idea of a covert devil aiding and guiding adventurers to destroy the remaining sibriex.
if some idealistic adventurer needed any proof that the Demons are absolutely beyond redemption or mercy this would be it. A sadistic monster that looks like it came straight out of a David Cronenberg movie with a Sadistic streak that makes the average Osyluth seem like a normal sensible person. this thing is horrifying, pure evil, and is disgusting beyond all human descriptions and that is what makes so friggin Awesome!!!!!
Not beyond redemption. They just would never accept it. Demons in general are driven mad by the experience of being part of the abyss. And Sibriex in specific embody the kind of malicious, intelligent madness that makes demons dangerous. Even when they seem reasonable you have to remember this thing is so twisted they might reach out and twist off your head while having a well thought out debate with you without seeming to realize they have done so.
and that's how I start my workweek with a smile, Thank You!
You are most welcome citizen Chance!
0:18 Worst Macy's day parade. Ever!
An end to The Blood Wars would mean an end to the entire D&D multiverse. If the Demons or Devils ever won, they would turn their full attention to the mortal plane and the gods.
In my campaign, I planned to build a portal and get the devils to place it in hell, but from your videos, I learned that some cheeky god beat me to it. I need a new plan.
I only play with 3.5e rules. And my game shop use Titans as generic avatars for gods. Run an encounter of "Thor & the Warriors Three," as titans and have your players face off with a group of pit fiends/ balors. With some great wrym red dragons.
And there is a taste of Epic character Level "Blood War" combat.
In the name of all that is holy and good what the heck. Your descriptions in the video actually cuddled the cream in my coffee. Very well done I bow to you and your descriptive might. With your permission I would love to just play that part of this at my table if ever I curse my players with an encounter with one of these horrors.
Permission granted, tell your players I say Hi.
I think SCP's Sarkicism was influenced by the Sibriex. SCP-610 The Flesh that Hates seems like a pale comparison to what these creatures can really do...
That's one of my favorite scps I can definitely see that
Well, scp 610 is kinda like alive, and has logic and purpose in its mutation. Like, its not perversion of live, its a grotesque assimilation. Flesh shaping of Sibriex is much more...wrong. They do so, because they are amused by this, and that they want to know if they can, not even considering, if they should. If 610 feels like bacteria, using existing cell to spread, Obyrith really do feel like cancer
Only 200 left?? We must put the Sybriex on the list of endangered species.
*Slowly backs away*
I'm going to... Go side with Asmodeus. At least he has politics.
*Breaks into a run*
That pretty much covers the entire Abyss...
Loved the video AJ. your demon series is the best, and this demon is certainly a disgusting beauty. You could write a whole campaign around one of these, and yet the idea of trying to kill them all would be so tempting to anyone on the side of law or good. Such a campaign would have a party battling against demon lords and the super elite of the abyss itself. Thanks for the ideas as always.
Weird Question, How do you decide which stuff in the magazines are canon and aren't? Is it as simple as Yes all content from them is fair or is it more complex? If it is covered in a video I am happy to take a link. Sorry havent watched the whole back log yet....working on it only found the channel a few months ago.
Yeah it is a bit complicated, for instance, the first edition stuff was not very homogenous, they were still kind of just throwing things together, there wasn't exactly any classification of dragons into types, for instance. Also, 4th edition made sweeping changes to a lot of the lore that most 2nd and 3rd edition players were not at all happy with, and many folks who went over to Pathfinder or never bought into 3 & 3.5 just don't care about. 5th edition is, for the most part, fine, but there are some glaring problems, lore wise, that seem a lot like the kind of mistakes that were made with 4th edition, in that the game designers are cherry picking and modifying as they see fit. This is not a policy that I think is very wise, nor a good idea, long term, as it essentially throws the baby out with the bath water, since the cohesive and rich lore and mythology of D&D is one of it's most valuable assets. When I look at the material I am doing my best to build a cohesive and inclusive body of lore that people can use, paying as much respect to published work as I can, and as a general rule, video game lore is fine, unless it is contradicted by published source book lore, and the same goes for novels, however, if 5th edition source books make a glaring omission, like not mentioning the Sibriex is an Obyrith or the Dybukk is a Loumara, or make a sweeping change and lack of detailed info, such as the lore they made up about Asmodeus' Ruby Rod and no mention of the artifact abilities it has.. well, it is just sloppy, so, I will do my best to add lore and point out when the 5th edition writers are screwing up stuff, and if something I mention contradicts 5th edition changes, there will usually be a good reason for it.
Okay, I love this answer. On the magazines specifically how do they fit in? I hear you mention them from time to time especially on "Lords of Ruin" videos.
The Dragon Magazine articles, particularly the Demonomicon of Iggwlv and the Monster Ecology videos are all pretty firmly established canon lore. Lore from Dungeon magazine is also pretty solid.
Amazing content as always AJ! I love hearing about the strange, bizarre, weird and odd side of DnD. Although, It doesn't really matter what you talk about because I'll love it anyway. Thank you!
A.J.: Sibriex.
Caption: Cervix.
i wonder if the obyrith were originally CE or were they desperate and became CE to escape their dying universe
"Heaving Flesh". That's hot.
You had me at "Living Mutated Furniture"...
Ive read about these sometime, somewhere...I want to say in Thay...nope that was a crazy, large size baby, running an undead factory. I think Ao and his griffon took that crazy baby on.
Yeah, that was an Atropal.
AJ Pickett did you do a video on the atropal?
Jeffrey Lucier good series!
Jeffrey Lucier yes he did. It’s way more disturbing then this one.
Love this video. Great job. Thank you for what you do.
This is a terrifying creature!!
Your descriptions are always so captivating. Aj pickett Do you have any advice for anyone trying to expand there vocabulary and become equally as good if not better at coming up with these ingenius description?
Researcher 007 very odd video to seem captivated by lol. But great question I’d also like to hear him answer.
My mother taught me how words derive from other languages, getting to know a bit of latin certainly helps, otherwise, read, and learn how to speak using words that don't alienate your listener.. there is no point using words that the average person doesn't recognise, it defeats the who purpose of communicating.
Krimson Wolf well my friend I do not mean to seem pessimistic. But I regard demons very highly as I think them to be the closest to us. While being anything but in close similarity to us. There really just very fascinating in general.
AJ Pickett Thank you I appreciate your advice and cannot wait for your next video to come out. So I may integrate your works further into my worlds
Yay! I've been waiting for this one ever since I first saw your video on the Obyrith and I was not disappointed. They're wonderfully horrible. Thank you, mate. 😃
Joshua Zane man just wait. His lineup this week is impressive.
So we are talking about stuff that would make HR Giger's creations seem like a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon... I also think of the game "Scorn"...
*Fabius Bile wants to know your location*
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Sublime! Wordsmithing at its best!
Remember, this thing has max charisma.
Why Charisma and Comeliness should be separate stats, which Second and 3/3.5 acknowledged in side books by adding Comeliness as optional stat.
I think this is the first time we heard AJ swear.
I love these guys. Got a home brewed abyssal monster and your players want validation for its existence?? Poof, these dudes made it. And it gives you a super bad ass boss fight when you finally fight your way through hordes of demons and reach the evil bastard.
Their lair sounds like a Gwar concert😂😁
Looks like a *nurgle* demon but it's a master *mutator* with a penchant for *sadism.*
And they help fuel the *Blood War!*
Sat down to breakfast and thought I would listen to some Mighty glue stick. Of all videos to click on. XD Still I love the content so keep it up. I've never played D&D but love the lore and hopefully if I ever get to play you will have prepared me ahead of time.
SamuraiHilbily a Samurai and a Hillbilly. I’d love to have you in my game
Krimson Wolf Just have to figure out how to make that happen. 🤔
Thank you for inspiring me with your descriptions of the abyssal realms. Where before I thought they were lackluster comepared to the far realm, I now see their potential. Also makes me think of what the game Agony might have been
If you ever wonder how this stuff might look, just go read a Warhammer book that involves the legions of Nergal I imagine those are about spot on for what the demons of d&d would look like
Personally, I would recommend the plague war series by Dan Abnett
Im glad I ate breakfast before watching this
Dr. Frankenstein of demons, yaaaaay
I see that Thrun the last Troll you’ve thrown in there
I must say that your descriptions about Sibriex is allmost like less refined Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith.
I made it a point to eat through the video. Muhaha. My stomach of steel.
You already made a video that freaked me out. Rot Grubs. The art work was full body horror.
Liked the video. Interesting monster, one of those fun ones I don't think we have in Pathfinder.
Paizo could make some quick dollars if they collected a bunch of their unique monsters and converted them to 5th edition D&D.
That sounds awesome. They have so many cool ones. Like what they did with the aboleth lore, they fleshed it out to fill a cool niche. PF2e is going to be fun.
This sounds more Lovecraftian than anything else or maybe something from Hellraiser
Nice. Now I have a hint, who might have made Orcus undead... To get Demogorgon busy...
Actually, he did it by himself in the guise of Tenebrous
Would be interesting in an epic-level game to have a plot in which there's an entity going about the abyss destroying sibriexes and you have to prevent it from happening so that the devils keep being tied up in the blood war... who knows what terrible things would happen if the demons or devils weren't constantly pushing against each other.
I wonder what happen if a lich where to capture one of these and bring them to the material plane
Mayhem
That material plane would shortly be a new abyssal layer, probably. If a lich was unbelievably lucky, it could continue on as a demon lord, though it's unclear if it would still be the same being after that transformation
Got a race of them descended from the Abyss that lives on the Material Plane in a magical chaos desert. They're chill
If you wanted to blend cosmologies with the World Of Darkness the only faction there that I could conceivably see as willing to try & eliminate the last of these monstrosities might be the Specters Of The Labyrinth in some mad attempt to annihilate the Multiverse into the pure nothingness in a Crusade to end all of existence (as most feel existence is pain so Omnicide is the only solution.)
Well, the Doom Guard would be against the constant acts of perverted creation the Sibriex are engaged in.
'If you see it, it can drive you mad' works in a game like Call of Cthulhu, but, in a game like D&D, where players have gained high enough level to fight one, they've seen enough of the Abyss that this becomes hard to swallow. In a world where magic is a daily encounter, there isn't much believably in 'HOW CAN THIS BE??!?' A simple walking skeleton is, in my mind, more offensive to logic and reality than a mass of warped, but living flesh.
Warped flesh is something like a flesh golem, the Sibriex is an Obyrinth and the PCs will have only encountered Tenarii up to this point.
Mental horror is very difficult to convey through the monster manual and so it is tempting to reduce things like the Sibriex down to base.
Eg. 'Aboleth? It's just a big ugly fish', 'Illithid? More like Squid boi', 'Juibilex? What? That big ooze?'
The onus is on the DM to more accurately convey the sheer transfixing terror of seeing a mass of gestating, writhing flesh lumber from the pool in front of you, faces of loved ones twisted into agonized contortions emerging from it's formlessness. The droning, whining, cacophony of a voice describing every detail of how you will suffer emerging not just in your thoughts but from your own throat, you feel powerless and a perverse alien enjoyment in revelling at how you and your companions will coalesce in a new form, the biomass offers sanctity and security.
You shake your head to rid yourself of these thoughts, your companion reaches a hand to steady you, and all you feel is the soft flesh of their palm, the ease at which you could merge with them, becoming a writhi..
No! You draw your greatsword, this challenge must be met.
These are being that are multiplanar by nature. What you, the mortal, see is gonna just be the tip. Yet the full perverse grandeur of it still forces its way into your mind, which is ill equiped to understand all of this. The madness is the result of having a cosmic square peg forced into the round hole of your mind. You can't cope with this information you can't process being forced into your consciousness. Or at least most can't. Some heroic individuals can deal with the stress of it. Push back against the mind burning reality of such horrors.
@@jacobfreeman5444 Damn. Well put.
@@ethanblair981 Wonderful. I am sure you make a great DM. Really good to see there are others that have a mind for imaginative flare. I always get compliments for being descriptive when dealing with creatures, magic & damage dealt.
Worst DM's are the ones that do the boring thing and just mention the back & forth ov melee, announcing damage dealt by nothing but a number. And I hate when they start an encounter and then show you the freaking picture in a book to let you know what you are up against. I want to have to try to figure it out or make skill checks. Always disappointed with that.
As a DM I am actively trying to kill those that play my games. Whether it is with creature, magic or traps(Grimtooth was a hero ov mine as a little kid and aided my devious mind when it came to traps). I am fair but brutal. And my players love me for it.
Makes it that much better when you succeed, especially when it is by a last saving roll or something epic.
You’ve seen movies, right? Which is more disturbing: The many scenes of moving skeletons or The Thing and other body horror movies?
Yes, been waiting for these dudes
mother brain metroid called it
I love these videos so much.
Does it only corrupt flesh or would it also corrupt spiritual beings like gods angels and jin and are constructs machines and living skeletons affected.
And suppose a character is radioactive by nature or just has a whole bunch of energy flowing from them at all times would that push back the corruption any.
The only creatures that are, for certain, protected from it's corruption are gods and beings of absolute law, any being that has immunity to any form of polymorph attack. So it will warp Warforged and Angels. I'm not very sure about Genies to be honest, as they are kind of the flip side of what demons are, so, I leave that up to DMs to decide for themselves. Oh yes, some high level player characters (Monks and Druids, perhaps clerics and paladins) gain powers that prevent their body and spirit from being altered, so, they would be better protected.
AJ Pickett ok thank you
What could a Sibriex want in exchange for a favor or knowledge?
Um name your three favorite body parts and as much road kill as you can aquire.
@@grandmasterrodimus1480 They're intelligent though, they can certainly be bargained with. Whether or not they hold up their end of the bargain, or decide to tear you apart after the transaction is another matter. (I just saw your comment is 3 years old but I already typed my reply so here you go anyway)
I had wanted to hear more on these things after seeing one at the end of dungeon dudes first season of their campaign. It was brutal.
You know. .. Even a dretch or manes would be pretty deadly if you gave it wings and a poison stinger. ..
Anything that can fly AND oneshot you is gonna be strong. That's a nasty combo
Correct me if I'm wrong but so far I have found no mention of the obyrith as a separate form of demons in 5E, even in the description of the sibriex.
Oh, you are not wrong, 5th edition is just omitting a lot of critical information. One great theory someone posted was that perhaps Mordenkainen doesn't actually know that the Obyrith are different from the Tanar'ri.
Hmm, that would greatly surprise me tbh. Also the thing with the Oinoloth that it seems is no longer a unique being.
Love the vid. A shame this wasn't out when I did my Orcus campaign last year. This would have been great. Total tpk,, but great!
Abyssal grafts, when it's not the red bull giving you wings...
This sounds like some good body horror
I have got to stop listening to these things while I make food.
Do a vid on the most powerful beholder
Great stuff AJ.
I cant tell whether these things have a will of their own or they're more like biological weapon manufacturies that have no control over what they do.
Could you use one of these Sybriax as a patron for a great old one?
A sybriex as a warlock patron? That's an outstanding idea! You could gain abilities to morph the flesh of others and yourself in terrifying ways, maybe give yourself an extra set of arms like a glabrezu. Plus the patron relationship could really played for plot hooks. If a sybriex is going to share even some of its power, you know it's going to want a grisly return on its investment. Thank you for this idea. ☺️
Joshua Zane any time man I was just thinking about it while watching the video
I could not imagine the cost a Sybriax would ask for. It would have to ask for something other then flesh right? That’s to easy and it’s fed parts of much greater beings daily. It would need something more delicate yet way more sinister then just your weak mortal frame. Just I am lost about what that may be.
HIGHLY dangerous, but yeah, certainly.
siriex one of my favorite demons. basically they ARE the abyss and thier wickedness creates new devils for them to use lol
Hmm I could use these in my homebrew
how do these things even... live? What if order was brought into the Abyss? would all demons just die because of logic? As in, due to them logically making no sense, shooting logic at them makes them fall apart? Is there even "order magic" in D&D? I'd eagerly smite these foul beasts with equations.
Jacopo Armini I wouldn’t suggest trying unless you have a crap ton of hit points and good saves. Really tho, I really don’t think it would be effective. You’d just be wasting your time. If you can’t tear them apart and absorb their demonic powers then they won’t fear you. If they don’t fear you they ain’t going to listen to you.
Krimson Wolf
so then, there is no order magic capable of dispelling their chaos powers?
Look at it this way, Elementals are like poltergeists, a strange ecology of life forms that can move through inanimate matter and animate it, Elementals feed on each other not by biting chunks out of each other, to them, chemistry is largely meaningless, they are energy, so they feed off each other's energy, the largest elementals are some of the most formidable primordial powers. When the abyss was created, it plunged into and absorbed the properties of the Elemental planes, the energy it siphoned out of the multiverse in the form of raw evil and malevolent mortal souls, plus the alien entities, the Obyrith, and their strange physics, caused the elemental power to be hybridized, corrupted and when it inhabits and animates the substance of the abyssal planes, it creates demons.
Demons are like vile and twisted elementals, they are also a kind of hybrid, like the Genies, between elemental and mortal souls. Genies don't vanish when you apply logic to them, they are not illogical, just very alien.
AJ Pickett
so, basically they are still orderly and their bodies follow a certain logic, just not the logic of our universe or a logic we can understand, hence their chaotic and destructive nature?
You're assuming the rules of logic are universal to all forms of existence.
Equations only work because of set theory which is accepted, because sets are a property we perceive. There might be planes where sets are meaningless.
Good video
So, a good way for my PC to quest for wings?
That'd be a dope campaign
It's moments like this that I have to be thankful these monsters aren't real.lol
2:00 how horrifying
I use Magic Missle!
I LOVE the sibriex, they make abyssal wretches, spit acid, have all that forbidden knowledge thumbs up aj
So these are true chaotic creatures in every sense.
This is some SCP type of monster.
10:58 drunsindrendragins
A tad too Lovecraftian for my taste(for D&D anyways). This isn't the stuff you fight; this is the stuff you try to run away from and not go insane...
Thanks for your voice mate
Papa nurgle my old friend.
Paladin Demo I would be all over an AJ video of nurglings like mould over my deceased boyfriend.
Odenetheus Bellander he did orks.
I am very tempted.
AJ Pickett just nurgle or all the Chaos Gods.
Hmmm... Well it would be wrong to not do Khorne as well.
The queen of chaos is the pale night?
Victor fs *Corrected*. 🤔. I thought they were the same.
Negative, they are completely different entities, both very powerful Obyrith.
Thank you for responding :D
So New Jersey? This was about New Jersey right?
Brian Travis 😂😂😂
I'm from there. Not far off from the truth!
Yay Sibriex !
Oh shit... This thing is horrible
R.I.P. Jupiter Jones
My darkest nightmares made manifest, eh gads.
Gosh it looks like me without makeup.
Andrea I. L. G. True. ;) jk.
ikr everytime I go out without makeup I have to explain myself to all the pallys in town.
Andrea I. L. G. LMAO.
And the worst part is, I am Lawful Evil by the grace of Asmodeus' Pants! On a brighter note, at least all those smites don't go to waste.
Perhaps the end☠of the abyss itself oh no 🤤🤤 that legitimately scared me
The sibriex sounds more like an aberration than a demon, but hey I don’t assign the monster classifications 🤷🏻♂️
Well, from a certain pov all demons are aberrations. They are cosmic foreigners that do not obey the rules of reality as mortals know them. Demons are just a very specific form of aberration that has a very definite origin.
Abbrations go to extends way above.
Obyrith demons are corruption of elemental chaos. They came from dying universe, but still, they had A universe. Abberations come from Far realm, space beyond everything, where everything ends, and nothing begins. They feel so alien compared to other demons, because Tanari demons are corrupted mortal souls, they are much more native to our world
So basically they are televangelists?