One of my players is unknowingly a warlock of Levistus (not to mention a Levistus tiefling), who is guiding her into releasing him, so this will be great for when they finally go to Stygia!
imagine casting "bind to hell" on a tarrasque, then later visiting the 5th lv of hell and seeing that the tarrasque is the new champion of the fighting arena.
Or that the layer is utterly destroyed cause they can't control it...I could also imagine them just taking it and doing their best to get it out of the layer to somewhere where they don't have to deal with it
@@saeyabor Bone devils are super ancient and experienced having been every devil type bel9w where they are. Also Terrasques aren't indestructable, they're immune to a lot of stuff, but they can be hurt with acid, and there are probably devils that could transmute highly active mundane acid. In other words if they know ahead of time what they're doing, they can absolutely wrek these things, especially with a bucket brigade of Imps on hand.
I remember this guy. The only time Levistus is let out of his frozen prison is when Asmodeus calls meeting of all Lords. . At the end of epic level campaign of D&D 3.5 we played, my swashbuckler crashed Asmodeus' meeting of all devil lords to challenge Levistus to a duel for title of The Best Fencer of the Planes. After log and epic duel I won and then promptly Asmodeus smoked me xD Which was all accroding to plan of the rest of our team which used this as a distraction to sprang some soul from Asmodeus' lair in Nessus. I posthumously gained the title and party outwited Asmodeus. Good times.
I love how Asmodeus offed you, and I feel like it was less as a punishment for your hubris and more so Levistus could never reclaim his title from you.
I imagine Glasya saying something like "daaaad I just caught my bf sleeping with mooom, I think you're an asshole buuuut... Could you do something about that?" in the worst spoiler brat voice ever
pit fiend: "hey man, it seems like that levistus guy, that your daughter Glasya fell in love... yeah, he was just sleeping with your wife" Asmodeus: "he did what?" Pit fiend: "relax, relax, Glasya alredy solved everything" Asmodeus: "she just killed one of my archdukes?" Pit fiend: "no no no, she killed your wife" Asmodeus: "the, WHAT!?"
Knowing how conniving they are, Asmodeus probably at least had a healthy professional respect and wariness for him, and froze him to keep him in check since it's safer than risking him coming back or putting him in chains.
Considering how long lived some of these entities are, it is theoretically possible to boink multiple generations. Seriously, if you can live for thousands of years, you would know your grand children, great grand children easily. This... could be weird. Especially since they all seem to stop aging at a point.
Amazing that Levistus, who was arguably one of the most talented swordsmen in existence, was reduced to a frozen prisoner. Even when Asmodeus decides to briefly release Levistus for the infrequent meetings of the Archervils, Levistus is just a sodden, malnourished mess…his muscles have atrophied, so he can’t even move on his own. The fact that Levistus turned around and became one of the most tactical minds in the Nine Hells is impressive.
Every time you said Levistus' name, I can just imagine him rolling his eyes in his prison grumbling "It's... PRINCE Levistus to you... but whatever... not like I can do anything..."
so basicly he was ducking both the mother and the daughter, Amosdeus had enough to be double cucked , and so he punished the interloper. What's kinda sad is that Glasya killed her mother
Theory: Levistus was with Asmodeus's wife when Glasya (who was infatuated with Levistus) showed up and in a rage murdered her mother. Then Asmodeus froze Levistus to punish Glasya. She will forever sit in the 6th layer unable to do anything to Levistus in the 5th. So she is tormented by lusting and loathing for Levistus.
Eh, why bother answering the question at all? Some things are best left unanswered. Honestly even the whole "oh man I found someone else in your bed!?" silly sitcom stuff just feels out of place for near-omniscient and timeless entities of supposedly supernatural intelligence. The "Devil forever trapped in ice" - the reference to how Satan is depicted in Cocytus in Dante's Inferno - is super cool. I'm more inclined to say that there might be some truth to the idea of the malicious tryst, but that's an idea vastly simplified by novice wizards. The layers of nuance are more numerous and complex for most mortals to really understand, and even the basic reality is something they vastly misinterpret. It could even be possible that this arrangement is entirely Levistus' plan. There are so many potential ways you could interpret Levistus's prison within the prison that is Baator.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 "feels out of place for near-omniscient and timeless entities of supposedly supernatural intelligence." Someone has never learned about Greek Mythology. That literally happens with Zues/Hera... And, depending on the telling of the story of Arachnid you could count Poseidon/Athena too.
@@themalakorein396 Oh, I know that Greek mythology is basically a soap opera! It's part of why it's entertaining. For DnD though, it changes the tone I'd want to potentially set. While I'm totally down with the gods of mortals acting goofy like most gods of antiquity, because they're fundamentally empathetic and similar to the flawed individuals that believe in them (and maybe once were), I think that devils that are fundamentally NOT related to humanity and have existed for almost all of time aught to be different, and through that alien-yet-scarily-familiar aspect much more intimidating. I know that's a much more modern take, but I prefer having both sources of inspiration - just in different places that make some basic philosophical sense.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 Ahh now I see what you are saying. Personally in fantasy settings I like to go a slightly different route. Gods are what humans could be with ultimate power, while devils are what they more often than not become with ultimate power. (In most situations I prefer that devils and gods represent chaos and order, both potentially evil if taken too far, and both are necessary to stop that from happening because I really don't like the concept of evil and good. It's too simplistic for such great entities for me.
Didn't expect a trip to Hell today. I love the 9 Hells, instead of just an eternal fire, there are so many different variations. Much like Dante's Inferno. So interesting!
@@Voldrim359 I think you can have a guide. But there is no teleporting forward through layers. If you want to reach the ninth layer, you need to arrive in the first and walk all the way down. The only ones exempt from this rule are the archdevils and Asmodeus can teleport to each layer at will.
I personally like to imagine asmodeus with no wife, but with a waifu body pillow. He even basically never leaves his house. He's basically an otaku already.
As always great content, i really love the way you tell the D&D lore never feel like it's just some guy telling facts but rather as a Bard telling a story or the wise old sage enlightening his pupil on the story of world.
Been wanting to add Levistus as a cog in my campaign for ages now. But I've been reluctant as I really couldn't find that much information on him, so all I've been able to do is hint his involvement. Thank you.
During DMing Icewind Dale i had an Idea. The Codicil of the White has some powers of Auril. What if the Holy book of the godess of Ice herself can break or weaken not only the Glacier, but the Ice of Levistus aswell? Levistus should have a huge interest in this book and it would be a nice plot addon :)
Levistus strangely looks more like Rhexx than any other character in DnD lol... (I mean this in a good way, you're the best) 'MrRhexx resides on the TH-cam layer and is frozen behind a screen, where he collects viewers and subscribers.'
The best feeling is when you find something in lore that fits that missing piece of your home game. In my current game, one of my players wants to multiclass into Fiend-lock swapped with cold, and at the end of our last session, I brought back a "thought to be dead" party member, stripped of his memories, with like, half a plan on why he was back, thank God we had to stop before the interrogation, lol. Tl;dr I need a devil with ice powers and a penchant for wiping peoples memories for fun, and here's this!
What if, plot twist: Levistus was always loyal to Asmodeus, who was also very aware of both Bensozia's treacherous inclinations AND Glasya's rebellious delusions. So to deal with both menaces and give a cool gift to his best bro, Asmodeus devised this plot for Levistus to "Betray" him. The frozen cage? Invincibility for his true body. The temporary loss of his status as lord of Stygia? Just vacation time to chill. The obligation to help anyone escape? Easy soul-buying hotline so he can always have enough souls to pay his quota AND keep some spare. Heck, it's even possible Asmodeus gave Levistus a secret avatar so he could go around to do stuff, albeit strictly anonymous.
This could be a cool plot twist to a story make it so the party had to defend this strange dude who keeps paying em out their noses for said protection all whilst slowly discovering this secret and at the end have two options either A. Try to spill the secret and either die or get hunted or the more tantlising options B. Levistus keeps this hidden from asmodeus, he lets em free and he continues to use their services when ever he feels like traveling and pays em handsomely, the drawbacks would be basically a campaign of a escort quest and the party is probably attacked a lot sense the man is strange and well wealthy
Nice! I had totally forgotten about him. In the early years I was less interested in the 5th level and many DMs just skipped it for the most part. The few who did use it mostly ignored its lord for some reason. I had read some about him and had a passing interest in running something involving him, but this makes me want to get back to the note books and start writing
So, Levistus bumbled himself into a Faustian deal that actually made him far more powerful than when he was free. He's frozen solid in an invincible indestructible iceberg but his influence still reaches out as an unstoppable wave of subtle power-brokering for Levistus. Something tells me Levistus found a way out of his damnation but decided he was "far better off in lock-up" and decided to simply not get out. Well, not yet.
You need to make more videos like this. You are literally leaving money on the table. There are A TON of interesting creatures in DnD and I would love to hear about them all.
Aaaah my second favorite lord of hell! Mephisto being my all time favorite. Great video, i now want to make a warlock of Levistus wanting to be the all time best duelist in the nine hell and have the largest number of souls brought in the hall of the vanquished.
@@DarthSidian unfoturnatly most of the DM's that i know doesn't like running evil PC campaign. They're kind of snowflakes and easy to trigger, so playing something straight out of the nine hells would be difficult for them to digest. I mean, i would understand if players around the table were bad and would want an evil setting just for the sake of being evil, but even with well rounded players that would do things "correctly" without having an "evil ego trip", both of these DM struggle with anykind of "abuse" so forget about cruel acts, treasons involving murder, tortures, manipulation etc etc... And i wouldn't want to play a "washed up" devilish warlock, it wouldn't be fun, nor in character.
Thank you much for the information on the current BBEG of my campaign. I just hope my players don't come looking for this until the campaign is done :P
One twist I kind of love if they pulled... is that either Levistus or Asmodeus did this on purpose. Levistus drew ire from everyone and was eventually going to be dispatched, while he is a great duelist his charisma is his greater power. . Certainly the ironic "You must help anyone who asks" is bad... but think of it another way, it also means he would gather far more people who would possibly free him without causing Asmodeus to lose face.
I like how all the Demon lords in 5e have stats and we can fight them( even though they're nerfed) but most of the Archdukes don't. Tiamut and zariel weren't originally one of the archdukes 'm talking about the OG's
These are my favorite kinds of videos that you do. The ones where you reveal hidden/secret stories about the all powerful characters in dungeons and dragons. I find it fascinating.
Very interesting, it means that becoming a warlock or a hexblade is extremely simple. But one thing I want to know is what do the priests do besides fighting the frozen souls? Do they have a form of ceremony? How are they praying? Is it just besting their opponents?
So upon pausing and reading very little of the Dark Eight, this definitely seems like something worthy to watch in a future video if you're covering the devils @MrRhexx
Great timing one of my players just made a deal with a spined devil follower of levistus who got sucked into the prime by a portal and thought "well I'm here.. might as well get to work lol"
Ever since I saw him and his lore in the 3rd edition book a few years back, I knew I had to add him in as a major player in some form for my campaign. Will reference this video as I work towards him in a few years.
truly is last ability is chilling. No previous memories, the first information your mind registers is images of hell and devils. The confusion mixing with fear and pain.
DARK ALLIANCE!! I don't play DnD (as in in real life) But i darn love it! So this is PERFECT!! Also, can we have an Episode on the Origins of the Cacodemon? (Astral Dreadnought)
Keep a recording of your Patreon supporter’s names and just add to it as needed. Every little bit will help save your throat at the end of the day. Like your videos keep em coming :)
My Rime of the Frost Maiden campaign pretty much features him because of a player in my party. I couldn't find shit about him, so thank you for uploading this much needed information!
Habe you considered body doubles? Available in many flavors influding Clone, Illusion, and silicrum. All for the low low price of your players respect if you do not do it correctly.
My Stygia is obsessed with classic French literature. -Every Vassavor has their own 3 Musketeers -Everyone seems to have at least one Count of Monte Cristo style vengence on the works -People sing songs from Les Miserable *constantly*
I'm imagining a story about him breaking free and the other devils give him a welcome back party, but it's a trap and he ends up back inside that block of ice again. It's what they were welcoming him back to.
I'm running Icewind Dale and added an element where the devil father of a tiefling party member is looking to rise in the ranks and gain Asmodeus's favor and become the archdevil of Stygia while Geryon and Levistus are fighting. He's been making a bunch of deals with the party and he recently became a pit fiend because of a really good deal he made, so he's very close.
Honestly not a big of Levistus because of the whole mother and daughter story thing because it falls into the really tired narrative of villains are just straight up evil and yes I get that they are devils, but DnD goes out it's way to show that Amodeus is an interesting figure because he simply doesn't see himself as the bag guy, he believes what he is doing is right and as such is not a horrible person deep down, it's quite possible he could loved his wife and daughter. But instead of an actual complex narrative with betrayal and hardship, it's just, super smooth devil comes in and chats his wife and daughter so he can bang them betray Amodeus. Because the most complex a female devil is, 'oh she sexy she must do sex'. While at least the narrative of him killing his wife because she refused him shows signs of loyalty and arrogance on Levistus, which only makes more sense, because Yeah Levistus is smooth, but Amodeus is said to be the most charismatic being 'in existence'. And just, I hate how one dimensional that version makes everyone.
Speaking of the love triangle between the mother and daughter of hell. I've had a storyline with Moloch having his followers trying to find resources in the upper planes like the soul forge of Moradin or maybe maybe something to donwith Primus, but the end result being to recreate the sound of Glasyaa's mother and find her a new body as a tribute to Asmodeous to allow Moloch to re-enter the hells in his normal form. Still unsure how to recreate the soul. Trying not to just make it a wish, since anyone high level could do that.
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I heard this game was really bad
@@Shadowbandits It is pretty terrible. Maybe a 6 outa 10 at best. Sorry boi's this one's a loss.
@@superkatoe Humanity cracks me up..the game is not that bad stop spreading this bullshit
@@superkatoe Welp, time for a refund.
"What They Don't Tell You About Levistus, Lord Of The 5th Layer Of Hell."
Everything apparently, this is the first I've heard of him!
Warlocks have an Invocation called Tomb of Levistus from XGtE.
@@Battleguild Huh, must have missed that.
Only know of him cause of the Basically Series.
Also one tiefling subrace comes from him, they have ray of frost, armor of agthys and darkness.
@@Gabe600 Actually one of the best tiefling subrace !
"The gods of monetization shackle me" this made me laugh so much
komi
I giggled too, but it's still a pretty dark story
And that's why we hate censorship lads
He RENDERED her powerless and unable to move using his charms and dashing good looks.
what was he not allowed to say?
Literally just added levistus as a large component of my current campaign. This timing was great
I've been looking in to 9-Hells stuff. In what capacity like a villain or what?
Let us know how it goes!
One of my players is unknowingly a warlock of Levistus (not to mention a Levistus tiefling), who is guiding her into releasing him, so this will be great for when they finally go to Stygia!
@@andrew3122 sounds like things will get interesting 🤔
@@andrew3122 that seems great!
imagine casting "bind to hell" on a tarrasque, then later visiting the 5th lv of hell and seeing that the tarrasque is the new champion of the fighting arena.
Or that the layer is utterly destroyed cause they can't control it...I could also imagine them just taking it and doing their best to get it out of the layer to somewhere where they don't have to deal with it
Funny enough I think a few bone devils will have experience in killing Terrasques.
@@-kenik9629 bruh XD
@@-kenik9629 Can you elaborate on that?
@@saeyabor Bone devils are super ancient and experienced having been every devil type bel9w where they are. Also Terrasques aren't indestructable, they're immune to a lot of stuff, but they can be hurt with acid, and there are probably devils that could transmute highly active mundane acid.
In other words if they know ahead of time what they're doing, they can absolutely wrek these things, especially with a bucket brigade of Imps on hand.
I love how Rhexx was like “next video we’ll be talking about the dead gods of the Astral Sea.” Then he goes straight to Devils. ADHD brain.
tehe. next video i promise
I remember this guy. The only time Levistus is let out of his frozen prison is when Asmodeus calls meeting of all Lords. . At the end of epic level campaign of D&D 3.5 we played, my swashbuckler crashed Asmodeus' meeting of all devil lords to challenge Levistus to a duel for title of The Best Fencer of the Planes. After log and epic duel I won and then promptly Asmodeus smoked me xD
Which was all accroding to plan of the rest of our team which used this as a distraction to sprang some soul from Asmodeus' lair in Nessus. I posthumously gained the title and party outwited Asmodeus. Good times.
Now that’s a good way for a character to go out.
@@ataraxia7439 For sure, sounds so cool
I love how Asmodeus offed you, and I feel like it was less as a punishment for your hubris and more so Levistus could never reclaim his title from you.
@@peanutmoose9591 Oh! I haven't thought about like that, but now I absolutely agree!
This is gold
I guess you could say Asmoudeus gave Levistus the cold shoulder.
You could also say he's cold as ice, or needs to chill.
Levistus isn't being punished; he just needs to cool off.
underrated.
All of you, please take this boat, row through the river Styx and GET OUT!
Badum tss
"He was doing the mother and the daughter"
What an absolute Chad
You jelly, bro? I am :(
I imagine Glasya saying something like "daaaad I just caught my bf sleeping with mooom, I think you're an asshole buuuut... Could you do something about that?" in the worst spoiler brat voice ever
pit fiend: "hey man, it seems like that levistus guy, that your daughter Glasya fell in love... yeah, he was just sleeping with your wife"
Asmodeus: "he did what?"
Pit fiend: "relax, relax, Glasya alredy solved everything"
Asmodeus: "she just killed one of my archdukes?"
Pit fiend: "no no no, she killed your wife"
Asmodeus: "the, WHAT!?"
This is so good, I cannot stop laughing.
Imagining the Ruler of the nine hells having girl problems makes me happier then it should lmao
This is so underrated. So true.
and he slew her
4:12 genuinely was expecting you to reveal that Levistus was Asmodeus's love interest.
Lol, giant plot twist and tbf if your a devil that's centuries/millennia old you'd probably try some kinky stuff out of boredom
Same. If I ever run a campaign that includes this plot point, I'm going to make it that he was actually having an affair with all three.
@@darkeather2, at that point, he'd be the patron god of all stereotypical bards
Knowing how conniving they are, Asmodeus probably at least had a healthy professional respect and wariness for him, and froze him to keep him in check since it's safer than risking him coming back or putting him in chains.
BRO SAME. I WAS EXPECTING A SOAP OPERA LEVEL OF BETRAYAL FROM HIM.
...I mean it kind of was, but not in this way
It’s nice to see that Levistus Tiefling Bards follow in their old man’s footsteps.
So... Boinking the mother and the daughter, a true classic lmao
Considering how long lived some of these entities are, it is theoretically possible to boink multiple generations. Seriously, if you can live for thousands of years, you would know your grand children, great grand children easily. This... could be weird. Especially since they all seem to stop aging at a point.
@@isaacgraff8288 case in point Zeus.... enough said
@@jacthing1 Zeus tied to boink anything with a hole.
Of your boss the mad man.
@@isaacgraff8288 probably has tried to boink anything that doesn't even have a hole....
Amazing that Levistus, who was arguably one of the most talented swordsmen in existence, was reduced to a frozen prisoner.
Even when Asmodeus decides to briefly release Levistus for the infrequent meetings of the Archervils, Levistus is just a sodden, malnourished mess…his muscles have atrophied, so he can’t even move on his own.
The fact that Levistus turned around and became one of the most tactical minds in the Nine Hells is impressive.
Every time you said Levistus' name, I can just imagine him rolling his eyes in his prison grumbling "It's... PRINCE Levistus to you... but whatever... not like I can do anything..."
"Well I now have to teleport you to safety, but you didn't say prince; so how safe does it really have to be..."
so basicly he was ducking both the mother and the daughter, Amosdeus had enough to be double cucked , and so he punished the interloper.
What's kinda sad is that Glasya killed her mother
Considering what type of Devil her mother was, no, not really.
I just want to know if there are Tiflis whit linage of glasy
@@antoniosanchez-qd4cg There are! Google Tiefling, Bloodline of Glasya!
asmodeus was double cucked so he gave levistus eternal blue balls
They are devil's, IN HELL!
Love, consideration, and loyalty aren't exactly motivators for any fiend.
Ask any succubus, she will tell you how it is.
You heard my prayers.
Levistus is part of my campaign, now I know more. Thank you.
Love when Rhexx uploads as I open YT to go on a walk.
Theory: Levistus was with Asmodeus's wife when Glasya (who was infatuated with Levistus) showed up and in a rage murdered her mother. Then Asmodeus froze Levistus to punish Glasya. She will forever sit in the 6th layer unable to do anything to Levistus in the 5th. So she is tormented by lusting and loathing for Levistus.
Eh, why bother answering the question at all? Some things are best left unanswered. Honestly even the whole "oh man I found someone else in your bed!?" silly sitcom stuff just feels out of place for near-omniscient and timeless entities of supposedly supernatural intelligence.
The "Devil forever trapped in ice" - the reference to how Satan is depicted in Cocytus in Dante's Inferno - is super cool. I'm more inclined to say that there might be some truth to the idea of the malicious tryst, but that's an idea vastly simplified by novice wizards. The layers of nuance are more numerous and complex for most mortals to really understand, and even the basic reality is something they vastly misinterpret.
It could even be possible that this arrangement is entirely Levistus' plan. There are so many potential ways you could interpret Levistus's prison within the prison that is Baator.
Making the choice of punishment even better love this idea!
@@monsieurdorgat6864 "feels out of place for near-omniscient and timeless entities of supposedly supernatural intelligence." Someone has never learned about Greek Mythology. That literally happens with Zues/Hera... And, depending on the telling of the story of Arachnid you could count Poseidon/Athena too.
@@themalakorein396 Oh, I know that Greek mythology is basically a soap opera! It's part of why it's entertaining.
For DnD though, it changes the tone I'd want to potentially set. While I'm totally down with the gods of mortals acting goofy like most gods of antiquity, because they're fundamentally empathetic and similar to the flawed individuals that believe in them (and maybe once were), I think that devils that are fundamentally NOT related to humanity and have existed for almost all of time aught to be different, and through that alien-yet-scarily-familiar aspect much more intimidating.
I know that's a much more modern take, but I prefer having both sources of inspiration - just in different places that make some basic philosophical sense.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 Ahh now I see what you are saying. Personally in fantasy settings I like to go a slightly different route. Gods are what humans could be with ultimate power, while devils are what they more often than not become with ultimate power. (In most situations I prefer that devils and gods represent chaos and order, both potentially evil if taken too far, and both are necessary to stop that from happening because I really don't like the concept of evil and good. It's too simplistic for such great entities for me.
Looking at Glasya's stat block:
"HIT DICE: 69 hp"
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I just took the "Tomb of Levistus" eldrich invocation for my warlock, awesome to learn where it comes from.
Didn't expect a trip to Hell today. I love the 9 Hells, instead of just an eternal fire, there are so many different variations. Much like Dante's Inferno. So interesting!
Fun fact, due to laws laid out by Asmodeus, you have to go through the layers in order.
@@daviddaugherty2816 without a guide?
@@Voldrim359 I think you can have a guide. But there is no teleporting forward through layers. If you want to reach the ninth layer, you need to arrive in the first and walk all the way down. The only ones exempt from this rule are the archdevils and Asmodeus can teleport to each layer at will.
Love when you upload a video right as I get out of the gym. Your voice and storytelling are the best way to cool down and relax.
Imagine a campaign where Asmodeus's wife gets revived.
"Tonight, on Jerry Springer."
I personally like to imagine asmodeus with no wife, but with a waifu body pillow.
He even basically never leaves his house. He's basically an otaku already.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 That is trauma of loss for ya.
Thank you for giving me some inspiration, for my next campaign
@@mystery_box1172 Maybe she knows which version of death is real.
As always great content, i really love the way you tell the D&D lore never feel like it's just some guy telling facts but rather as a Bard telling a story or the wise old sage enlightening his pupil on the story of world.
It would be cool to see each of the 9 lords getting there own lore video. He's done Asmodeus and now Levistus.
Been wanting to add Levistus as a cog in my campaign for ages now. But I've been reluctant as I really couldn't find that much information on him, so all I've been able to do is hint his involvement. Thank you.
”Honey! Where’s my supersuit?”
During DMing Icewind Dale i had an Idea. The Codicil of the White has some powers of Auril. What if the Holy book of the godess of Ice herself can break or weaken not only the Glacier, but the Ice of Levistus aswell? Levistus should have a huge interest in this book and it would be a nice plot addon :)
Your videos about notable Fiends are always my favourite, they have some of the best lore in D&D in my opinion
Levistus strangely looks more like Rhexx than any other character in DnD lol... (I mean this in a good way, you're the best)
'MrRhexx resides on the TH-cam layer and is frozen behind a screen, where he collects viewers and subscribers.'
The best feeling is when you find something in lore that fits that missing piece of your home game. In my current game, one of my players wants to multiclass into Fiend-lock swapped with cold, and at the end of our last session, I brought back a "thought to be dead" party member, stripped of his memories, with like, half a plan on why he was back, thank God we had to stop before the interrogation, lol.
Tl;dr I need a devil with ice powers and a penchant for wiping peoples memories for fun, and here's this!
They also don't tell you that he guest starred as a character in several episodes of happy tree friends.
Honestly, sounds like a great guy to sit down and have a beer with.
What if, plot twist: Levistus was always loyal to Asmodeus, who was also very aware of both Bensozia's treacherous inclinations AND Glasya's rebellious delusions. So to deal with both menaces and give a cool gift to his best bro, Asmodeus devised this plot for Levistus to "Betray" him. The frozen cage? Invincibility for his true body. The temporary loss of his status as lord of Stygia? Just vacation time to chill. The obligation to help anyone escape? Easy soul-buying hotline so he can always have enough souls to pay his quota AND keep some spare.
Heck, it's even possible Asmodeus gave Levistus a secret avatar so he could go around to do stuff, albeit strictly anonymous.
This could be a cool plot twist to a story make it so the party had to defend this strange dude who keeps paying em out their noses for said protection all whilst slowly discovering this secret and at the end have two options either A. Try to spill the secret and either die or get hunted or the more tantlising options B. Levistus keeps this hidden from asmodeus, he lets em free and he continues to use their services when ever he feels like traveling and pays em handsomely, the drawbacks would be basically a campaign of a escort quest and the party is probably attacked a lot sense the man is strange and well wealthy
Yaaaas I have a character centered around this and have wanted this for a while. Thankyou
Nice! I had totally forgotten about him. In the early years I was less interested in the 5th level and many DMs just skipped it for the most part. The few who did use it mostly ignored its lord for some reason. I had read some about him and had a passing interest in running something involving him, but this makes me want to get back to the note books and start writing
Logan from Runesmith was right Asmodeus is the king of funny pranks
Thanks for this my tiefling cleric made a deal with this guy as her backstory for CoS to save the tiefling paladin so this will help alot
Rhexx, you’re the only one I subscribe too, that I immediately jump into the video every time.
Man, that is a perfect hexblade warlock if ever I've seen one
As WoW player, I have goosebumps when I hear stygia.
keep farming them!
T__T
What is stygia?
Currency in WoW
Thank you so much for all of your videos, they have helped me be a much better dm and create a lot more interesting stories
My favorite arch devil. Super chill guy. Always ready to sit back and crack open a cold one.
So, Levistus bumbled himself into a Faustian deal that actually made him far more powerful than when he was free. He's frozen solid in an invincible indestructible iceberg but his influence still reaches out as an unstoppable wave of subtle power-brokering for Levistus. Something tells me Levistus found a way out of his damnation but decided he was "far better off in lock-up" and decided to simply not get out. Well, not yet.
Great vid, I love the ones about the demon lords and arch devils. They are such interesting and fascinating beings in d&d
You need to make more videos like this. You are literally leaving money on the table. There are A TON of interesting creatures in DnD and I would love to hear about them all.
Aaaah my second favorite lord of hell!
Mephisto being my all time favorite.
Great video, i now want to make a warlock of Levistus wanting to be the all time best duelist in the nine hell and have the largest number of souls brought in the hall of the vanquished.
Do it.
@@DarthSidian unfoturnatly most of the DM's that i know doesn't like running evil PC campaign. They're kind of snowflakes and easy to trigger, so playing something straight out of the nine hells would be difficult for them to digest.
I mean, i would understand if players around the table were bad and would want an evil setting just for the sake of being evil, but even with well rounded players that would do things "correctly" without having an "evil ego trip", both of these DM struggle with anykind of "abuse" so forget about cruel acts, treasons involving murder, tortures, manipulation etc etc...
And i wouldn't want to play a "washed up" devilish warlock, it wouldn't be fun, nor in character.
Dude. Thx u so much!!! This is exactly what the doctor ordered. Im so glad you covered the “chad” of hell. Thank you.
"If Demogoran can do it, anyone can do it!"
I feel personally attacked, here, Mr. Rhexx. Low blow, my dude. Low blow.
What I want is a link to the original art work that shows a cartoony map of the NIne Hells that appears on 8:22
Thank you much for the information on the current BBEG of my campaign. I just hope my players don't come looking for this until the campaign is done :P
I fall asleep to these videos; not because they are boring. I just find them very soothing to unwind and drift off to
One twist I kind of love if they pulled... is that either Levistus or Asmodeus did this on purpose. Levistus drew ire from everyone and was eventually going to be dispatched, while he is a great duelist his charisma is his greater power.
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Certainly the ironic "You must help anyone who asks" is bad... but think of it another way, it also means he would gather far more people who would possibly free him without causing Asmodeus to lose face.
I like how all the Demon lords in 5e have stats and we can fight them( even though they're nerfed) but most of the Archdukes don't. Tiamut and zariel weren't originally one of the archdukes 'm talking about the OG's
This helps my campaign so much, thank you MrRhexx!
Currently running through Icewind dale rime of the frostmaiden and plan on making him a more prominent part of my world. This is perfect
These are my favorite kinds of videos that you do. The ones where you reveal hidden/secret stories about the all powerful characters in dungeons and dragons. I find it fascinating.
Hey, I was subscribed. TH-cam said I wasn’t for some reason. I love your channel. Keep your content ongoing. You have the best lore I’ve seen.
Very interesting, it means that becoming a warlock or a hexblade is extremely simple.
But one thing I want to know is what do the priests do besides fighting the frozen souls? Do they have a form of ceremony? How are they praying? Is it just besting their opponents?
So upon pausing and reading very little of the Dark Eight, this definitely seems like something worthy to watch in a future video if you're covering the devils
@MrRhexx
Hey Rhexx thank you so much for this video Levistus is my bbeg of my campaign and the video helped me out a ton.
I love listening to these when falling asleep. So soothing.
Great timing one of my players just made a deal with a spined devil follower of levistus who got sucked into the prime by a portal and thought "well I'm here.. might as well get to work lol"
7:37 *cuts to Ed Greenwood smiling and nodding approvingly*
Ever since I saw him and his lore in the 3rd edition book a few years back, I knew I had to add him in as a major player in some form for my campaign. Will reference this video as I work towards him in a few years.
truly is last ability is chilling. No previous memories, the first information your mind registers is images of hell and devils. The confusion mixing with fear and pain.
Ahh, how would you know devils are bad or dangerous ?
@@nu1x true I might not know, but I think the giant insectoid ice devil poking me with is fork might at least confuse me
I've played a Tiefling of his descent for the last three years! Love this video ❤️
DARK ALLIANCE!!
I don't play DnD (as in in real life)
But i darn love it!
So this is PERFECT!!
Also, can we have an Episode on the Origins of the Cacodemon? (Astral Dreadnought)
This is perfect because one of my players is a Levistus tiefling and he haaaaaates Levistus! This is going to help with my lore so much thank you!!!
Keep a recording of your Patreon supporter’s names and just add to it as needed. Every little bit will help save your throat at the end of the day. Like your videos keep em coming :)
Yes! My first ever character is part of a Levistus plot so this video came in clutch
OOH, nice. Levistus is my favorite Arch-Devil
those cuts of static tripped me out for a sec.
"He was sleeping with the mother and daughter!"
Me: Oooooooouuu Dramaaaa~ 🤭
What a coincidence. I rewatched the ten coolest magic items video yesterday.
Awesome video!! He is my bbeg in the shadows, so this video was extremely helpful!
I kinda need the video on the big guy now. Great video
My Rime of the Frost Maiden campaign pretty much features him because of a player in my party. I couldn't find shit about him, so thank you for uploading this much needed information!
Of course I just get my players involved with a demon loyal to Levistus when this video comes out. @MrRhexx knows exactly what I need!
Kinda wish I hadn’t just murdered Levistus in my current campaign.
Habe you considered body doubles? Available in many flavors influding Clone, Illusion, and silicrum. All for the low low price of your players respect if you do not do it correctly.
@@nikkibrowning4546 players respect is over rated, their fear is more valuable-some DM somewhere
So this has perfect timing I’m currently making a new character my first. I’m making a Levistus Tiefling Devine soul sorcerer
I really love the flavour of the 'last chance' archdevil!
In my opinion one of the more interesting devil lord's would like to see a pc free him or just have a close encounter
12:45 I mean, a Barghest is CR4 and can make a soul even more irretrievable just by eating the victim. 5th level spells come in much later.
My Stygia is obsessed with classic French literature.
-Every Vassavor has their own 3 Musketeers
-Everyone seems to have at least one Count of Monte Cristo style vengence on the works
-People sing songs from Les Miserable *constantly*
I'm imagining a story about him breaking free and the other devils give him a welcome back party, but it's a trap and he ends up back inside that block of ice again. It's what they were welcoming him back to.
I just finished a 21 km run. Perfect timing good sir! 😅
Great video, Rhrexx
Aren't a giant shark god and Set down in Levistus's layer trying to take it over?
I always appreciate your videos man :)
I appreciate you!
Huh, I recently made a tiefling who worshipped Levistus! Great timing!
Mother AND daughter... he truly is a handsome devil.
Awesome video, I would love to see a series on eas of thr layers of the nine hells and their ruler.
I'm running Icewind Dale and added an element where the devil father of a tiefling party member is looking to rise in the ranks and gain Asmodeus's favor and become the archdevil of Stygia while Geryon and Levistus are fighting. He's been making a bunch of deals with the party and he recently became a pit fiend because of a really good deal he made, so he's very close.
Honestly not a big of Levistus because of the whole mother and daughter story thing because it falls into the really tired narrative of villains are just straight up evil and yes I get that they are devils, but DnD goes out it's way to show that Amodeus is an interesting figure because he simply doesn't see himself as the bag guy, he believes what he is doing is right and as such is not a horrible person deep down, it's quite possible he could loved his wife and daughter.
But instead of an actual complex narrative with betrayal and hardship, it's just, super smooth devil comes in and chats his wife and daughter so he can bang them betray Amodeus. Because the most complex a female devil is, 'oh she sexy she must do sex'. While at least the narrative of him killing his wife because she refused him shows signs of loyalty and arrogance on Levistus, which only makes more sense, because Yeah Levistus is smooth, but Amodeus is said to be the most charismatic being 'in existence'.
And just, I hate how one dimensional that version makes everyone.
Please more videos like this on the other layers. Please, Please PLEEEASE!
Speaking of the love triangle between the mother and daughter of hell. I've had a storyline with Moloch having his followers trying to find resources in the upper planes like the soul forge of Moradin or maybe maybe something to donwith Primus, but the end result being to recreate the sound of Glasyaa's mother and find her a new body as a tribute to Asmodeous to allow Moloch to re-enter the hells in his normal form. Still unsure how to recreate the soul. Trying not to just make it a wish, since anyone high level could do that.
Perfekt! One of my players in Rime of the Frostmaiden has just the right patron...