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<blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 2131039" data-attributes="member: 12153"><p><em>Disclaimer</em>: It was a tossup between General and Off-Topic, but I decided to post this here because of the number of people likley to respond in this forum. This is only mildly DnD related, and vaguely RP related, but I'm putting it here rgardless. I'm not bringing this up to be a discussion of religion, and I <strong>don't</strong> want it to go there, even though it walks a paralell path for a while.</p><p></p><p>What I'm looking to do is find out what people think Hell and Demons are like. Not statblocks, not Balors and Cythons, not the Manual of the Planes, but the metaphysical ideas of Hell. Whether 'In Your Campaign', 'In Your Opinion', 'In Your Belief', or 'In Your Imagination', I want to compare and contrast various ideas of Hell as a place, and Demons as a group of creatures. </p><p></p><p>I've seen Hell described in many ways over the years, and I don't have very firm opinions or ideas. Everyone's familiar with the "Eternal Damnations for Sins - Pit of Suffering - Lake of Fire" sorta deal, but I've always wondered if it wasn't something else. The Lower Planes of the Great Wheel Cosmology are another example of Hell (and I'm referrign to the whole shebang, not merely Baator) that's completely different. It doesn't need to be the Hell various religions of earth speak of, merely a hellish other world. Clive Barker's Hellraiser would be a lovely example of an alternative hell, and any experts on Barker's work are free to go into detail.</p><p></p><p>I've also heard lots of different ideas about Demons over my two decades and change worth of years. Whether "Indescribably Squamous Horrors," "Inhuman and Evil Incarnate," "Much Like the Most Wicked Men and Women - Very Human," or "Merely Misunderstood," people can't seem to make their minds up about these folks. From DnD Demons (and when I say Demons, I'm including Devils and 'Loths and evetrything else that applies) who seem more conserned with their own kind than the sould of humanity, to the aforementioned Cenobites, to strange creatures that are Demon only in name, the variaties seem endless.</p><p></p><p>Given that I'm playing in/writing a game/story focused upon a demon, these ideas have been floating about in my mind for a while now. I'm curious to see what sort of ideas EN World can come up with, given the ammount of time others have thought about these things.</p><p></p><p>So share with me your wicked ideas, and maybe something good can come from all this evil.</p><p></p><p>- Kemrain the [Evil], but not evil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kemrain, post: 2131039, member: 12153"] [I]Disclaimer[/I]: It was a tossup between General and Off-Topic, but I decided to post this here because of the number of people likley to respond in this forum. This is only mildly DnD related, and vaguely RP related, but I'm putting it here rgardless. I'm not bringing this up to be a discussion of religion, and I [B]don't[/B] want it to go there, even though it walks a paralell path for a while. What I'm looking to do is find out what people think Hell and Demons are like. Not statblocks, not Balors and Cythons, not the Manual of the Planes, but the metaphysical ideas of Hell. Whether 'In Your Campaign', 'In Your Opinion', 'In Your Belief', or 'In Your Imagination', I want to compare and contrast various ideas of Hell as a place, and Demons as a group of creatures. I've seen Hell described in many ways over the years, and I don't have very firm opinions or ideas. Everyone's familiar with the "Eternal Damnations for Sins - Pit of Suffering - Lake of Fire" sorta deal, but I've always wondered if it wasn't something else. The Lower Planes of the Great Wheel Cosmology are another example of Hell (and I'm referrign to the whole shebang, not merely Baator) that's completely different. It doesn't need to be the Hell various religions of earth speak of, merely a hellish other world. Clive Barker's Hellraiser would be a lovely example of an alternative hell, and any experts on Barker's work are free to go into detail. I've also heard lots of different ideas about Demons over my two decades and change worth of years. Whether "Indescribably Squamous Horrors," "Inhuman and Evil Incarnate," "Much Like the Most Wicked Men and Women - Very Human," or "Merely Misunderstood," people can't seem to make their minds up about these folks. From DnD Demons (and when I say Demons, I'm including Devils and 'Loths and evetrything else that applies) who seem more conserned with their own kind than the sould of humanity, to the aforementioned Cenobites, to strange creatures that are Demon only in name, the variaties seem endless. Given that I'm playing in/writing a game/story focused upon a demon, these ideas have been floating about in my mind for a while now. I'm curious to see what sort of ideas EN World can come up with, given the ammount of time others have thought about these things. So share with me your wicked ideas, and maybe something good can come from all this evil. - Kemrain the [Evil], but not evil. [/QUOTE]
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