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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 438184" data-attributes="member: 2072">Here's an excerpt from my "Beneath the Pinnacles of Azor'alq" background, as found here: <a href="http://www.lobi.com/bpaa/background/" target="_blank">http://www.lobi.com/bpaa/background/</a>   "When the Styx meanders through the bloodied layer of Avernus, the topmost region of the Nine Hells of Baator, the lampreys therein are often captured to form the amphibious hellbenders. These lizard-like creatures often find their way to the deeper water-laden layers such as Sygia, the fifth layer, where they are either transformed into gelatinous forms called nudibranche, or mutate into creatures known only as blacktooth terrors. Blacktooth terrors are free-willed water-breathing devils, often seen in massive schools encircling Levistus's Tomb.It is worth noting that, while Demogorgon holds power over the Brine Flats of Abysm on the fifth layer of the Abyss, lamprey are more inclined to inhabit the Abysmal Sea, a layer ruled in secret by the demon prince Dagon. Within the brood pouch of Dagon, the lamprey transform into demonstars, which resemble long-legged starfish, save for a glowing central eye and the talons which tip each leg. Demonstars serve as the quasits of the deep, in time forming into gretch or death rays.Though the populace of daemons may have fled Hades for the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna, the lamprey which remained upon Oinos in time took on a multi-legged form known as bristlers. In the shallows, more sedentary bristlers gather together and form shells of colorless white. Often these creatures, known as skullops, metamorphose into daemonic ferrymen, to tend to the needs of the meandering Styx. Those bristlers which embrace the unsteady currents of the Styx transform into the countless ranks of piscodaemons and hydrodaemons. As has been known to occur, in the depths of the Styx, a bristler may come in contact with a bloodworm, a form of Carceri petitioner found chiefly upon Porphatys in the care of the exiled titan Oceanus. The former finds the latter to be quite a delicacy, though, through digestion of the demodand energies, the bristler mutates into yet another form, that of the bloodworm. In time, the bloodworm degenerates into the amorphous doomjelly. While it is unclear what purpose Oceanus holds for his creations, their unremitting presence upon the White Caravel cannot be disputed. "   I have aquatic demons well taken care of  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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