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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Draco Paladin" data-source="post: 890632" data-attributes="member: 3136">Devil names.I'm also happy that they're returning to the classic diabolic nomenclature. I'll take bone devils over osyluths any day. And baatezu simply isn't as diabolic sounding as devil.I'll be keeping the exotic names as flavor text though. Planar folk and specialists would call Hell Baator and call devils Baatezu. And devils would probably want to be called baatezu, and consider devil an insulting term.Now, here's my problem. Devils are baatezu. A barbed devil is a hamatula. A horned devil is a cornugon.  But what's the 'Baatorian name' for a pit fiend? (And on a related note, what's the generic name for abishai?) Any ideas?So far, I've thought of using following:Pit Fiend = Baalim. (I liked Malebranche, but that was used in the BoVD...)Abishai = Scaled Devil (I might also call them Draconians, as a nod to Dragonlance. After all, draconians were supposedly animated by the souls of abishai.)And what could the 'generic names' of demons be? All those Abyssal names ought to have more mundane counterparts.</blockquote>