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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2301548" data-attributes="member: 11697">Writing this up over dinner... looking at the Rod of 7 Parts box set, Hellbound, and the Monstrous Compendium Annual vol 4 that has the Spyder Fiends in it.I don't think it's ever called the Blood War. I'll have to look up some stuff though. Far as I can tell, it's its own thing and an end to it probably won't have any immediate impact on the Blood War, though ultimately it might nudge the multiverse towards law ever so slightly. The baatezu don't seem to be involved, and it's just the Queen of Chaos with her own brand of Tanar'ri waging the war, not any larger segment of the Abyss. So I think it's safe to say that it isn't the Blood War, but a tangential conflict on the prime material instigated by one Abyssal Lord and her vassals.Doesn't truly seem likely since the Queen of Chaos's minions are a subrace of Tanar'ri, and she's an Abyssal Lord herself of the 'Steaming Fen' layer. Now according to the Blood War timeline, neither the Abyssal Lords nor the Lords of the 9 are noted in existance before the start of the Blood War, so if something like the Queen of Chaos's war with the Wind Dukes occured before that point I'd suspect there'd be mention of it. It was probably early on, at around the point in the Blood War timeline that the Abyss and Baator became aware of the existance of the Prime Material, which for some time they weren't except that larvae were entering their respective planes from 'somewhere else', but collectively they didn't pay much attention to it till later (though the 'loths seem to have been aware of it, though they didn't seem to care since they didn't/couldn't use larvae to make more of themselves like the Tanar'ri and Baatezu would later on)There's also mention of her contributions to the Blood War, though it seems to be just to pacify the other Abyssal Lords. The Blood War seems to be less of a concern of hers than her conflict with the Wind Dukes, and law in general. She strikes me as more chaotic than evil, and so while the rest of the Abyss is slaughtering the Baatezu in an attempt to define the true nature of evil, she's more concerned with trying to cripple the broader forces of law on her own outside of the Blood War.Honestly I like the idea that was mentioned above that the Queen of Chaos might have simply done her war as an aside to the Blood War, taking it to the prime material whereas the rest of her kind were embroiled in their own conflict in the lower planes.</blockquote>

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