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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2656230" data-attributes="member: 11697">It might help if you were at all familiar with the material you keep bashing.Outsiders aren't all created from individual souls, divest yourself of this idea because it doesn't hold true in every case. Not at all. Many of them are, many of them aren't.Among the true outsiders, we'll use as an example the trio of main fiend races, they're the physical manifestations of the abstract alignments of CE, NE, and LE. They might spawn from the raw substance of their native plane, they might breed with one another, or they might create the least of their kind from mortal petitioners. Baatezu and Tanar'ri use petitioners for this purpose, though the yugoloths don't.It's less that the fiends are exclusively created from the souls of dead mortals, they're not, than that some mortal souls happen to closely mirror CE or LE, or NE larvae who can be forcibly molded either way, becoming more like the fiends who recruit the most refined of those souls into their own ranks. The vast majority of them are killed or eaten or never used though, only the mortals whose depravity makes them fit to be turned into the least forms of Tanar'ri or Baatezu. For the Baatezu, lemures will on rare interval spawn from the essence of Baator. For the Tanar'ri, they'll spawn from the Abyss or screw each other or use petitioners to swell their ranks, they're not picky. Yugoloths don't form the least of their kind from petitioners, they have no direct link to petitioners, just to the raw substance of the Gray Waste and Gehenna. No mortal soul becomes a 'loth, though you could look at it that once the plane devours the essence of those mortal souls the worst of all of those mortals gets distilled into newly spawned mezzoloths.Which is one of the reasons that the Abyss tends to massively outnumber opposing armies of Baatezu in the Blood War. The Abyss in many ways is a giant breeding ground and slaughterhouse all in one, pumping out millions to die senselessly in the Blood War each and every hour of every day.As soon as the Upper Planes are actually at war with the lower planes in some sort of Blood War #2 they'll think of that, but the fiends are quite happily slaughtering one another at the moment thank you, so it isn't an issue. The celestials are quite happy to wait and let them butcher each other without them needing to get involved on any sort of organized scale.</blockquote>

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