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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grover Cleaveland" data-source="post: 2656235" data-attributes="member: 34932">Outsiders are defined in the MM as beings who were born from or contain the essence of an outer, inner, or transitive plane. In the case of outer planar beings, they're various ratios of good, evil, law, chaos, or balance given solid form - not actually "material" in the sense of the Material Plane, but of a solid spiritual matter that superficially resembles flesh. Some of them are evil (or some other force) refined from mortal souls, the "impure" alignments melted away in the process of advancement. Others were never mortal; some have been around since the planes first began to form, possibly long before the Material Plane was populated. Others are newly spawned as part of the plane's natural process of self-renewal. In all cases, they are living concepts first and souls of the dead at best a distant second. He's just quoting Faces of Evil, actually. It's much less illogical than you think.The Abyss is infinite, as is every outer plane. There's plenty of room. Tanar'ri are more numerous than most other planar races, but this doesn't mean they're any more powerful, any more than the fact that the Abyss has more layers means it's any more powerful than the other planes. Remember, they're Chaotic Evil incarnate, sentient, mobile pieces of the Abyss - they're exactly as powerful as Chaos and Evil is, their collective strength tied to the power of their alignment.As was mentioned, yugoloths generally don't breed unless they're on a plane far from one of the towers in which they normally artificially create new mezzoloths directly from the raw energy of their planes. Baatezu, modrons, and archons never breed. Presumedly eladrins and guardinals can breed, and slaadi do even more often than tanar'ri - it's one of the primary combat maneuvers of the lower slaad ranks, as you're no doubt aware.</blockquote>

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