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<blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3331018" data-attributes="member: 38324"><p>Keep in mind that the changes in the hierarchy have taken place over many thousands of years. During that time, it's remained remarkably stable, considering how cut-throat and ambitious devils are - nearly all the nobles that existed all those thousands of years before the Reckoning are still doing the same jobs today. </p><p></p><p>Compare this with the Abyss, where minor demon lords and entire Abyssal layers rise and fall continuously.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You've got it all wrong. They certainly have traditions and force of law, but each archdevil represents a different, incompatible strain of Order. That's a major theme in the Nine Hells, that there are <em>nine</em> of them, nine flavors of Law that each seek to be dominant over the others. Baalzebul's order is not Belial's order, for all they might be allies. Dispater's order is not the order of Mephistopheles, and it is certainly not the order of Levistus.</p><p></p><p>So nine different hierarchies, nine different ways of ordering the multiverse, nine visions of tyrannical Order, the lesser eight subordinate for the time being to Asmodeus' greater hierarchy. But Asmodeus' rule is tenuous, depending on keeping his subordinates focused on one another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ripzerai, post: 3331018, member: 38324"] Keep in mind that the changes in the hierarchy have taken place over many thousands of years. During that time, it's remained remarkably stable, considering how cut-throat and ambitious devils are - nearly all the nobles that existed all those thousands of years before the Reckoning are still doing the same jobs today. Compare this with the Abyss, where minor demon lords and entire Abyssal layers rise and fall continuously. You've got it all wrong. They certainly have traditions and force of law, but each archdevil represents a different, incompatible strain of Order. That's a major theme in the Nine Hells, that there are [i]nine[/i] of them, nine flavors of Law that each seek to be dominant over the others. Baalzebul's order is not Belial's order, for all they might be allies. Dispater's order is not the order of Mephistopheles, and it is certainly not the order of Levistus. So nine different hierarchies, nine different ways of ordering the multiverse, nine visions of tyrannical Order, the lesser eight subordinate for the time being to Asmodeus' greater hierarchy. But Asmodeus' rule is tenuous, depending on keeping his subordinates focused on one another. [/QUOTE]
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