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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5255763" data-attributes="member: 78116">The Plane Above segment on Asmodeus always reminds me of something written from his perspective (or from a devils perspective), especially due to the tone and prose used. The Demonomicon may be an alternative view, where the demons take credit for Asmodeus' fall instead and another perspective. I actually don't mind such "contradictions" because I've always felt such things shouldn't be written into canon - instead left open to interpretation. The demons might be right according to the account in Demonomicon, or perhaps the Plane Above account is correct.I've never understood this obsession with having direct "Word of God" canon in books. What happened with Asmodeus is ancient history, having 100% known absolute fact seems contrary to the point and rather silly. I would expect different races - especially ones as biased and generally manipulative as BOTH Devils and Demons to have widely different accounts. If Demonomicon gave the same opinions as The Plane Above that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. Why would demons or devils for that matter tell the truth about such things? They'd have their own biased accounts - you would inherently expect them to be different.They're also different in perfectly acceptable and even logical ways. One account portrays the events as Asmodeus' doing and the other the demons claim responsibility. I wouldn't be surprised if a book on devils gives another account again. Personally having each side give a different account of things is a strength, because it leaves more room for DM interpretation and an overall "richer" universe. When demons are saying the same things as devils are about history, that is where nothing makes sense anymore.</blockquote>

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