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<blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 2771432" data-attributes="member: 1241">Ray Vallese on Zzyczesiyahere is the last of the responses on the topic of obscure Planescape demon lords.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&quot;Hi, BOZ - Monte forwarded your question to me. Sorry that it took me awhile to respond! I probably did add that reference to Faces of Evil, since I wrote most of Xanxost's narrative. And you may already suspect this answer, but it was a throwaway name. I just wanted an Abyssal lord who sounded like he'd definitely come at the end of the alphabet. I didn't come up with any kind of description or backstory on the guy (or girl, or thing). Anyway, Xanxost wasn't the most reliable narrator, so he might have been confused and garbled up some existing lord's name.In fact, if all you're looking for is some semi-official confirmation on Z., why not go with that -- scholars who've read Faces of Evil believe it to be a misstatement by Xanxost, which would hardly be surprising, but then again, the Abyss is endless, so who knows for sure?Or, if you prefer, feel free to make up whatever details you like about the lord. That's what I used to do a lot as a Planescape designer -- latch onto some small throwaway line written by Colin or Monte or someone else and spin it into some big new thing. I liked the sense of continuity when tiny things carried over from book to book.I hope this helps. Ray Vallese&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BOZ, post: 2771432, member: 1241"] [b]Ray Vallese on Zzyczesiya[/b] here is the last of the responses on the topic of obscure Planescape demon lords. :) "Hi, BOZ - Monte forwarded your question to me. Sorry that it took me awhile to respond! I probably did add that reference to Faces of Evil, since I wrote most of Xanxost's narrative. And you may already suspect this answer, but it was a throwaway name. I just wanted an Abyssal lord who sounded like he'd definitely come at the end of the alphabet. I didn't come up with any kind of description or backstory on the guy (or girl, or thing). Anyway, Xanxost wasn't the most reliable narrator, so he might have been confused and garbled up some existing lord's name. In fact, if all you're looking for is some semi-official confirmation on Z., why not go with that -- scholars who've read Faces of Evil believe it to be a misstatement by Xanxost, which would hardly be surprising, but then again, the Abyss is endless, so who knows for sure? Or, if you prefer, feel free to make up whatever details you like about the lord. That's what I used to do a lot as a Planescape designer -- latch onto some small throwaway line written by Colin or Monte or someone else and spin it into some big new thing. I liked the sense of continuity when tiny things carried over from book to book. I hope this helps. Ray Vallese" [/QUOTE]

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