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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grover Cleaveland" data-source="post: 2655233" data-attributes="member: 34932">There ought to be, though. Tanar'ri are, in a sense, all unique beings, each capable of evolving into any shape imaginable. In practice, they take on the shapes that have proven most successful in surviving the Abyss and impressing their enemies and potential allies, but there's no real reason the occasional deviant can't take on a unique shape, even if they're of less than arch-demon status. It's important to note, however, that "true" tanar'ri - those of hezrou status or greater - don't reproduce their own kind. Their offspring are lesser breeds; though they may initially resemble their parents, they will normally conform to whatever shapes are prevalent in the layer they find themselves in. So the offspring of a glabrezu and a marilith might, as it matures, become a succubus, an armanite, or a chasme depending on its environment and personal proclivities. If it manages to evolve into "true" tanar'ri status - and only a few manage such a feat - it might well decide to become some kind of five-armed abomination, though as this is a relatively untested form it might find it inflicts less terror and more incredulous laughter than it might have hoped for. I think there should be at least one, though, since it's kind of a neat idea. While tanar'ri are all about breeding with anything or everything - chaos spawning chaos, evil turning on and begetting itself - yugoloths generally prefer not to reproduce in that way, and I can easily see nycoloths and arcanaloths (the only two castes that might conceivably create a hybrid form) simply being genetically incompatible. Lesser 'loths always birth mezzoloths, while ultroloths birth arcanaloths.Baatezu females are sterile, so baby baatezu are out of the question.</blockquote>

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