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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3179037" data-attributes="member: 38324"><a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20061116a" target="_blank">Here are the November Previews</a>.Some comments on the excerpt:This makes sense to me, in general, but I think they failed to consider that Stygia is exposed to all the other lower planes via the River Styx. So demons can invade that layer without needing to teleport.This is the reverse of prior canon, where Bel reported to the Dark Eight rather than the other way around. The idea was that he owed the Dark Eight for his support in his coup against his predecessor, and Asmodeus tolerated his ascension with the understanding that he would continue to fulfill his prior duties leading troops in Dagos' ministry. This keeps him too busy to cause Asmodeus any trouble.At least in prior canon, this was true during the Reckoning, but hasn't been the case for thousands of years. Of the Eight, only Dagos continues to be anything like a general, and he commands all the legions of Baator, not just those on one layer. The others are in Malsheem heading vast C.S. Lewis-inspired infernal ministries, which is far more interesting.So does this book give Asmodeus a firm, objective backstory? And it's something to do with him being banished from the celestial realm? How dreary.Based on the little that's been revealed so far, I think I may skip this book.</blockquote>