Demon Lords

KL said:
I remember in Dragon Magazine, there once mentioned a demon lord named Gorion.

Extremely obscure. This is from "Lords & Legends" in Dragon #139. The name was mentioned once, with no description, in the entry for Shugar.

Of course, back in the old days before AD&D, Nasthrapur was an example of the random demon generator.

From the "Demon Generation" article in Dragon #13. He was an example "6th-level demon" made by the system described therein.
 

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Grover Cleaveland said:
Thralhavoc was a balor who ruled Abyssal layer #348, which is now dominated by the nalfeshnee Taphaon, of the Fortress of Indifference. The best source of info on this is Hellbound: the Blood War though bits of it get mentioned in the 3e Manual of the Planes and in the Book of Vile Darkness.

BOZ, are you limiting yourself to TSR/WotC demons?

- Rip

Where was it that mentioned Thralhavoc was a balor? Thralhavoc, like Volisupula (Planes of Chaos) and Zzyczesiya (Faces of Fiends) was mentioned in name only.
 

Gygaxian demons in the Gord books

I have read some of those awful Gord books that Gygax wrote. I mainly skip most of them and concentrate on his treatment on the Lower Planes, which fascinates me. There is a hostof new demon princes (with familiar ones under different names).

In the books, the following demon lords are listed as: Fraz-Urb'luu/Var-Az-Hloo, Juiblex/Szhublox, Lolth/Arachne, Verin/Vuron. Other undetailed MM2 demons had slightly different spellings like Eblis/Eblitis, Socothbenoth/Socothbenothas, Azazel/Azazael.

Demon princes that were mentioned, and some had crop up in other websites, developed by others:

Mandrillagon, a sibling of Demogorgon, resemble a huge blue-faced mandrill, rules two layers.
Ushablator the Chaos Horror.
Zortolagon, said to be one of the most powerful demon princes.
Bulumuz, decribed in the web somewhere as a lord of madness.
Elazalag, an abat-dolor princess, of the same species as Graz'zt.
Cagrino (according to myths, related to the chargin grues/demons)
Marduk, the king of fire demons who is one of the "Monarch of Demonium"
Ogrijek, lord of the four winged hawk-man zubassu
Trobbo-gotath, a "greatest demon of earth".
Apepi , a cobra-headed lord who wields a kopesh.
Uliel - Probably a balor that serves Zuggtmoy.
Shabriri - one of the proto-demons, said to be multi eyed. He is NOT Cabiri as some suggested.
Palvlag - a protodemon of fire.
Nergel/Nergal - in the books he is a minor prince of the undead, specifically umbral undeads.
Levithan (probably Leviathan) - undescribed but in real world myth, an enormous female seas monster.
Lugush - undescribed, prehaps a corruption of "Lugh".
Ariax - a prince whom Graz'zt had triumphed over and whose holdings expanded Graz'zt empire to eight planes. Perhaps same as Areex.
Vastyi - the toadmaster, supposedly an amphibian demon lord, although some identified him as the god Wastri.

Other lordlings include Vloorm, Agadin, Zerkaar, Chidun, Zomar, Yuibiri, Arioch (named used for a devil), Nexroth (name used already for a pit fiend).

Speaking of Verin/Vuron, his "stats" were listed in For Duty and Deity, and basically, he is a male marilith, which I think go against what we know and accept about him.
 

Alzrius said:
Extremely obscure. This is from "Lords & Legends" in Dragon #139. The name was mentioned once, with no description, in the entry for Shugar.



From the "Demon Generation" article in Dragon #13. He was an example "6th-level demon" made by the system described therein.

Oh, also this one, he is kind of like Kerzit, a powerful unique demon, but not a lord or prince: Quaolnargn, from the 1e DGG in the Melnibonean mythos. A "toad-shaped demon from the Abyss".
 


BOZ said:
would he be copywritten by the people who own the Elric stuff though?

I'll take "Almost Assuredly" for $200, Alex.

Seriously, it's a virtual guarantee that that name is one that appears in the Elric novels (I haven't read them, so I'm not positive, but it seems extremely likely), and as such is their IP. White Wolf has the licensing rights to make an RPG game out of said novels, so anything else would be in violation of their copyright (or something). There's a reason that section (and the Cthulhu section) of the 1E D&Dg had to be removed.
 

Alzrius said:
Seriously, it's a virtual guarantee that that name is one that appears in the Elric novels (I haven't read them, so I'm not positive, but it seems extremely likely), and as such is their IP. White Wolf has the licensing rights to make an RPG game out of said novels, so anything else would be in violation of their copyright (or something).
Yes, the name Qualnarg (or however it is spelled) is certainly in the Elric books, and some of the other eternal champion books as well.

The copyright issue is troublesome and a little unresolved, though.
Chaosium (not WW) does the Elric/Stormbringer RPG, and says they have the right to do it. Michael Moorcock says he hasn't got a cent from them, and so kind of disputes their right to it, but as far as I know he hasn't taken any legal action. And there's probably some good reason for that.
Wouldn't want to step in there trying to use the name, anyway. ;)
 


a tanar'ri Lord, Lindyrm, is mentioned at the beginning of the module The Deva Spark, but only briefly.
 

also, went looking for, and found additional mentions in the Demonomicon articles themselves. :)

found Pazuzu's ex-g/f Lamashtu mentioned a few times in his article. :) she was "She Who Erases," the demon queen of monstrous birth and deformity.

Socothbenoth is mentioned in Frazzy's article, as having tried to force him from his home plane - that's all we've got there. :)

Ugudenk is also discussed in Frazzy's article, the demon lord of worms and hungry parasites (apparently one of James' favorites, hmm could he possibly appear in Age of Worms?), and has insinuated himself into Frazzy's home realm.

i know that Zuggy's article featured two new demon lords as well, but i don't have my own copy yet. anyone care to name them here?
 

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