Fiendish Codex Thread (revivified)

[Shade]

Pulled this off Google cache. Here's BOZ's original post:

Cross-posted here to generate some interest on those forums: http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=931

This book has been the most anticipated WotC release for me in, I don't know how long. probably since Lords of Madness, and I'm a lot more excited about it than I was about Lords of Madness!

For those that have been under a rock for the last 6 months or so, FC1 is going to be a book about demons/tanar'ri in the vein of Draconomicon, Libris Mortis, and Lords of Madness, by Erik Mona and James Jacobs, due out on June 6 (06/06/06, eheheheh). I just wanted to generate a little more buzz and get people talking about it. (We also now know that there will be an FC2, focusing on devils, later this year.) James and Erik have been producing the "Demonomicon" series of articles for Dragon magazine for over a year now, so it should be no surprise that they got this assignment. If you don't know a whole lot about the book, I've collected about everything I know or could guess in this post. I'm sure they've discussed it on the Paizo forums and probably in other places, but they have commented a whole lot on ENWorld, so that's where I took my references from.

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You might want to wait until you have plenty of free time before really looking at this stuff!

My pal Shade first catches a clue of what Erik and James are working on back in September (and his guess is pretty close to the truth): http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=148261

A thread I started, actually, to get ideas for the Demonomicon articles before the beans were spilt on the big project (with innocuous comments from Erik and James therein): http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=142163

The original thread to address the book now that we knew what it was, posted several months ago and more than a few pages long: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=150288 (features a fair amount of commentary from both Erik and James)

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Erik looking for info, presumably for Kostchtchie, for either FC1 or Dragon #145: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=161589 (not a major thing, but a small hint at the details they're going into)

Some threads I started to dig up as much info as I could to help out Erik and James: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=152741, http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=153838, http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=154911 - given how much I posted, who knows how much of it will be used, though Erik did post a number of replies in each and remarked that these threads were very helpful.

Another thread about FC1 with responses: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=170046

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Other tidbits from Erik (James has been less vocal about the book thus far):

In previous editions [Abyssal Lords] were more like DvR 6-10, but this time around they realized that having your high-level paladin travel to the Abyss and kill Orcus was totally awesome, and this should be expedited as much as possible.

Giving them enough power to reasonably control their own planes was not thought to be a priority.

Just you wait.

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Unless something changed in editing, Charon is mentioned in the forthcoming "Hordes of the Abyss." There aren't a lot of details other than that he is "the greatest of the marraenoloths" and that he knows the Styx better than anyone in the multiverse.

Erik, if you can tell us, did you use the 1e or 2e name for Charon/Cerlic in Hordes of the Abyss?

Charon all the way. Why change something that's such an important part of mythology? It'd be like changing Anubis to "Phyllis."

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I just finished co-writing a book on the Lower Planes (Hordes of the Abyss), and I referenced liberally from all editions of the game with little fear of conflicting material.

A similar list [of Abyssal layers] (and a list of all known demon lords and princes) will appear in the appendices of "Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss."

 

[Shade]

If anyone wants to reclaim any other posts in that thread, go here.

 

[Razz]

Mine was just whether we'll be seeing a return of the Molydeus or not?

 

[Shade]

Let's hope so! (and I believe we will)

 

[BOZ]

Erik hinted very strongly that the molydeus is going to reappear. the chasme is also verified as being included.