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If you look at the credits for the Planes of Chaos Monstrous Supplement, you'll see the following: "Thanks to L. Richard Baker III (the Abyss), Colin McComb (the Abyss), Gary Gygax (goristroi), Richard Hunt (asrai), Stephen Innis (lillend), J. Paul LaFountain (Outer Planes MC), Carl Sargent...

I just invented it now. I think it actually contradicts some of what I had come up with earlier, since I think before I had Corin be from Cania (since I had his mask be made of ice). I don't see any problems with the rest of your ideas.

One thing to keep in mind is that there was, some time before the Reckoning, a major reshuffling of pit fiends. Baalzephon and Furcas worked for Dispater originally, and Zaebos and Zapan worked for Belial. Yet by the time of the Reckoning, each of the Dark Nine worked for a separate Lord of the...

Chourst once went one-on-one with Primus, too, but he barely escaped Mechanus alive. [Dragon #221, page 77]

Baalzephon and Furcas were mentioned in 1st edition. They both formally worked for Dispater. Baalzephon was Dispater's Prime Minister, and Furcas led 12 companies of barbazu. What's more, it was the same Baalzephon and Furcas in the Dark Eight in Planescape. They were the only two remaining...

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...

In 1st edition, all planar rulers were treated as lesser deities by default. That included everyone from Lolth, Graz'zt, Fraz-Urb'luu, and Baphomet to Primus, Ygorl, Ssendam, Asmodeus, and Tiamat. In 2nd edition, they were handled differently depending on the author and the context. In Monster...

Yes. You can find it right here.

Darkmantles are without a doubt new to 3e. There are sketches on the WotC site showing how Sam Wood first conceived of them (originally, the ethereal marauder was going to be the "new piercer"). No, I don't miss the piercer.

Okay, this is how it seems to fit together Rereading Hellbound: The Blood War in light of the Fiendish Codices (revised in light of the new Dragon Magazine): The Draedens In the raw void at the beginning of the multiverse, the draedens - titanic, tentacles creatures - dwell alone in the...

I think many of the original slaad lords were corrupted by the baernaloths, becoming the first of the obyriths.

We have just a few major events to think about: # Law shaping the Outer Planes from Chaos. As described in one of the FCI myths, the Abyss was the waste product, the refuse left over from that event. This is described in a different way in Guide to Hell's Twin Serpents myth, with Law symbolized...

This is my version of their history Ancient Lords of Baator The following should be considered speculative rather than definitive. It's disappointing when mysteries are solved and explained, but it's fun to theorize about them. The Law-Tainted Everyone's darkest suspicions are true: the...

Whoa, I wasn't criticizing you! My question was rhetorical, not combative. I felt I needed a strong "finish" for my last paragraph, that's all. Baalzebul may well have been older than them, but he was busy being older in the Seven Heavens. It could have been eons (the word is thrown around a...

No, they didn't. They left some things out that I thought were important to add.

Tanar'ri become unique when they become powerful enough that they don't have to rely on the reputation of their caste to strike terror in others. For example, everyone wants to become a balor because the image of a balor equals automatic respect throughout much of the Abyss. If a tanar'ri...

That's another change worth pointing out. In Planescape, in Dragon #223, Bel was a unique fiend. "Bel has only recently discovered how to create an avatar. The avatar takes the form of a burly humanoid with a jutting chin and powerful arms. The avatar's skin is slightly tinged with red, and...

This was an okay post, Olaf, not as good as your last few, but you've given yourself a hard standard to live up to. I give it three and a half stars.

It might, but the Book of Vile Darkness reports it as fact, not misdirection, misleading an entire generation of gamers. A bit too clever for her own good, since it meant she was ignored or abused in many campaigns.

A Guide to Hell made the Hag Countess' main schtick her attempt at gaining true divinity [page 44]. This was not mentioned in 3rd edition, but I wonder if her strange transformation in the Fiendish Codex II was actually her own doing, some disastrous result of a failed apotheosis, and Glasya...