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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 5255166" data-attributes="member: 1288">Demons are destruction and chaos incarnate, yes.But never, in any edition, has that meant that they cannot be patient or methodical about it. Most aren't, sure. Most lack the capacity. But not all.Since the days of 1st edition, the demon princes have engaged in convoluted, byzantine schemes that take centuries or millennia to play out. (Look, in particular, at Orcus's various plans.) They've created servitors. They've built strongholds.Entropy can be a gradual process, but it's an inevitable one. I don't see any contradiction in the idea of a few specific demons taking the same approach. Sure, I wouldn't want it to be common, but neither is it impossible.Plus, the idea of a demon lord of alchemy and tinkering is just damn cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I haven't read Demonomicon yet, but if the writers aren't planning to expand on said demon lord themselves in the future, I may have to myself...But if you dislike the idea of a demon sitting around patiently crafting, consider this alternative:You have a layer of the Abyss full of bits of broken machinery and rusting metal. (It is, after all, just another form of devastation.) The lord of this domain has learned to create servitors purely by commanding/reshaping the realm around him, as many other demon lords do. But because his domain is full of broken machinery, the servitors he creates are machinery--not because he sat down to craft them, but because that was the raw material he had to work with when he animated his surroundings.Same result, different process.</blockquote>

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