Ebonynightcloudstorm
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It depends on how far back you want to go with the dnd mythology
When you go back to !st ed there was no blood war, the concept of the blood war came with 2nd ed and then got revised with 3rd ed but in the original 1st ed it wasn't about the blood war and Bel was a duke in the service of Dispater commanding 3 companies of horned devils. Zariel wasn't around, just Tiamat
You should definitely check Dragon magazines 75 to 76 and issue 91 as well which goes extensively into the terrain of the nine hells and the rare precious metals and gem stones.It seems to people who came up with the blood war in the 2E weren't reading up from the Dragon magazines of 1E which gave a complete picture and filled in the gaps that weren't in the 1E monster manual and monster manual 2. The Nine Hells revisited is an excellent article, arjale and tantulhor, te two unique metals of the hells and Hellstones. The 2nd Ed people completely forgot about these Dragon articles when they did the blood war. They were only game playing a fraction of the story and downplaying everything else
When you go back to !st ed there was no blood war, the concept of the blood war came with 2nd ed and then got revised with 3rd ed but in the original 1st ed it wasn't about the blood war and Bel was a duke in the service of Dispater commanding 3 companies of horned devils. Zariel wasn't around, just Tiamat
You should definitely check Dragon magazines 75 to 76 and issue 91 as well which goes extensively into the terrain of the nine hells and the rare precious metals and gem stones.It seems to people who came up with the blood war in the 2E weren't reading up from the Dragon magazines of 1E which gave a complete picture and filled in the gaps that weren't in the 1E monster manual and monster manual 2. The Nine Hells revisited is an excellent article, arjale and tantulhor, te two unique metals of the hells and Hellstones. The 2nd Ed people completely forgot about these Dragon articles when they did the blood war. They were only game playing a fraction of the story and downplaying everything else