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Dennis
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 Posted - 08 Aug 2011 : 09:16:12
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I might vote for Graz'zt for being the only handsome (by demon standards, of course) and most fashionable archdevil. |
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jordanz
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 06:00:55
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Originally posted by Dennis
I might vote for Graz'zt for being the only handsome (by demon standards, of course) and most fashionable archdevil.
Yes and to have someone as calculating and logical as Vuron as your advisor is downright GANGSTA! |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 10:24:48
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Originally posted by jordanz
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Originally posted by Dennis
I might vote for Graz'zt for being the only handsome (by demon standards, of course) and most fashionable archdevil.
Yes and to have someone as calculating and logical as Vuron as your advisor is downright GANGSTA!
I read somewhere (I can't recall exactly, but it's either in one of the Warhammer novels, or the Riftwar Cycle) that among demons, "good looks" and brains usually go together. |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 10:47:08
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| That would explain why they're all ugly as sin. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:10:31
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Not all of them. Depending on which angle you're looking at.
Anyway, I haven't seen any vote for Levistus. I think the imprisonment is a major turn-off. But then again, he's able to command armies, silently rules his own layer in Hell, and keeps his rivals at bay. |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:21:32
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The smartest one of them is Dagon. If intelligence and beauty are in direct corralation here, that is a sad statement.
And Levistus is mostly luck; Belial was pretty sure he could take him before he got distracted with the whole, Glaysa issue. Not to mention; would you want to rule Stygia? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:28:24
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Yes, I pretty much like the intense, bone-chilling cold. I like ice as much as fire. |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:34:27
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| Look, I'm not saying there isn't a sinister beauty in watching someone freeze to death; their flesh turning blue and then black as the water in their cells crystalizes, destroying the tissue, rotting their bodies even as they draw breath...where was I going with this...oh yes. But then there's the wind. The deafening, howling wind that drives you to madness even as it soaks you in the dagger-like sprays of water from the River Styx, robbing you of your memories, your very sense of self. Yes, it's a wonderful place to send your enemies, and ruling it by proxy would be a sweet gig, but actually living there? No thank you, sir. No thank you. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:39:08
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I thought Levistus is immune to the effects of his realm... But even if he's not, his mind/essence as an archdevil must have been hardwired to accept the effects as comforts rather than suffering. |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 09 Aug 2011 : 11:55:00
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| Well, Levistus is. But he's immune to pretty much everything, what with being trapped in an iceberg. Kind of a mixed blessing, that. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Aug 2011 : 03:32:12
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| I, myself, plan to free poor Levistus, the greatest swordsman in the multiverse. His wrath will be boundless. Let all Hell tremble. |
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Kno
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 10 Aug 2011 : 09:20:06
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Aug 2011 : 10:37:58
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Originally posted by Fellfire
I, myself, plan to free poor Levistus, the greatest swordsman in the multiverse. His wrath will be boundless. Let all Hell tremble.
Was planning on freeing him myself. Kind of hard to put his head on a pike when he's so deep in the ice, after all.
All part of an over-arching storyline I'm running involving the second Reckonning, bringing death to the disloyal in a consolodation of power for the master of Nessus. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Aug 2011 : 14:06:56
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How exactly does Levistus maintain dominance over his realm? Can't another archdevil just smash his "cage" and crush him with it? |
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jordanz
Senior Scribe
553 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 05:31:53
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Ok you know my favorite, time for some honorable mentions.
King of Ghouls - Iknow little about this guy but since ghouls are my favorite type of undead you cant go wrong here.
Orcus - he's like the obvious choice, he's the prototype for what most people picture as a Demon Lord
Kostchtchie- I always considered this dude to be the ultimate test for an epic level fighter. He's a brute who I'd love to see depicted in a novel. |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 09:07:59
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Originally posted by Dennis
How exactly does Levistus maintain dominance over his realm? Can't another archdevil just smash his "cage" and crush him with it?
Magical/psionic communication with his minions, and an avatar ruling proxi for him.
As for the cage; Asmodeus made it. As such it's enchantments are likely beyond the skill of any other archdevil to undo. Asmodeus wants Levistus alive, suffering in his prison. |
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Synthalus
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 11:43:42
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| my vote would be for Mephistopheles. He is so sinister and cunning. A true example of the way lawful evil should be. Gargauth is a close second though. i have always loved gargauth. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 16:24:56
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Originally posted by Synthalus
my vote would be for Mephistopheles. He is so sinister and cunning. A true example of the way lawful evil should be.
And he's the most ambitious. Which I think all archdevils should be. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 07:17:26
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 08:39:56
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Which books are the best sources for lore about Daru Ib Shamiq and baernaloth?
I'm going from memory, but I recall the Hellbound: The Blood War boxed set has scattered sections/info on the baernaloth. |
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 09:59:33
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Ayrik
Which books are the best sources for lore about Daru Ib Shamiq and baernaloth?
I'm going from memory, but I recall the Hellbound: The Blood War boxed set has scattered sections/info on the baernaloth.
I don't think Daru is mentioned outside of the Hellbound box set, though his kindred are mentioned elsehwere (2e Faces of Evil: The Fiends, 3.x Fiendish Codex I, a few times in Dragon/Dungeon magazine in 3.x).
The only other named baernaloth was Harishek Ap Thulkesh (named in passing in Dragon in a listing of demiplanes and their descriptions; no room to expand on him there, but I've done a lot of non-canon stuff online with him). |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2011 : 23:10:37
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My favored archfiend is the dead one sticking out
on the business end of my sword. |
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