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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 1377804" data-attributes="member: 11697">Very roughly here:Planescape: The Baernaloths were essentially the chosen servitors of abstract evil and were pushed out onto the newly formed planes where they created the Yugoloths as their children and servants. The Yugoloths purged themselves of chaos and law, and those fragments were pushed into the first mortal derived larvae upon the planes which became the first Tanar'ri and Baatezu. They were herded to the Abyss and Baator respectively. The newly made Baatezu somehow overwhelmed the Ancient Baatorians. No mention of Asmo during this time, though it is speculated that the Lords of the Nine, the original/oldest ones, may be either the warped (by law or chaos) Yugoloths that herded the early Baatezu to Baator, or they may be the strongest of those first Baatezu.Asmodeus is never described beyond being utterly in charge of Baator, the rest of the plane living in fear and marching in lockstep to his manipulations and orders. The paragon of tyranny, the prince of darkness. His name is never actually mentioned since that little is commonly known of him outside of Baator.GtH: Asmodeus is a fallen greater deity who spawns Pit Fiends from his blood. No mention of the earlier PS material here. Asmodeus is now said to be one of the creators of the planes, one of the so called twin serpents of law. He along with Jazirian the goddess of coatls create the planes or help mold them into shape then have a falling out, she's LG, he's LE. He loses and plummets to Baator. While being a greater deity he gains no power from worship but gains power actively from disbelief. We're told that if you die faithless you go straight to the 9th layer of hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200, regardless of alignment. This reinterpretation of Asmo collectively pisses off a large number of folks. Other folks think it's the coolest thing since Chef Boyardee made cheese ravioli.In order to reconcile the two drastically different tales, Asmo has to be altered slightly from the GtH incarnation. It is possible however, and that's a take that I use. I don't use the twin serpents of law idea however, I don't like it, nor do I feel it makes enough sense when compared with the other material out there. Jazirian doesn't even reside in Chronias the Illuminated Heaven which is typically cast as the diametric opposite of Nessus and Asmodeus, which GtH tries to make her. *shrugs*</blockquote>

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