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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asha'man" data-source="post: 4923158" data-attributes="member: 52424">Originally, I intended to post all the lords of the nine and work my way down. They're still waiting in the wings, but most are only partially complete. Nor does it help production speed that I keep revising them. So... I thought I should put up some of the basic devils for now. First a note on the hierarchy. As with everything else in the Nine Hells, the Baatezu caste system is obsessively numerological, to be spesific, it is fixated on the number nine.As such, there are nine castes of true devils:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pit fiends</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gelugon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Malebranche</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Osyluth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hamatula</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Erinyes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Barbazu</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spinagon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lemures</li> </ul>Most castes, however, include one or more variant devil types for various specialised duties. Then there is also the various detritus of Lawful Evil outsiders: Imps, hell-hounds and hellcats, and the kytons of Jangling Hiter, in the layer of Minauros. These have no connection to the infernal hierarchy, but are tolerated and employed because (and only as long as) they are useful to the Baatezu powers that be. Lastly and most peculiar, there are the Nupperibo and Barregon. Appearing as crudely humanoid blobs of bloody clay, Nupperibo seem to be a type of Lawful Evil petitioner. Baatezu corral them wherever they are found and "demote" them to Lemures, inducting them into the Baatezu hierarchy. Conversely, Barregons are afforded great respect, ranking somewhere between Malebranche and Gelugons despite not being Baatezu at all. They are the guardians of portals leading from Hell to other planes, and of the river Styx, and they are most commonly found in Stygia. There seems to be some mysterious connection between them and the Lord of the Fifth, Leviathan, as he uses them more than any other type of devil as his agents and emissaries both in Stygia and beyond.</blockquote>

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