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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6190801" data-attributes="member: 6686357">I've got some ideas for new outsider races to fill out the milieu.Geo-Metrons -- inhabitants of (insert absolute lawful plane here) and  exemplars of order, the Geo-Metrons manifest as floating spheres, cubes  and other polyhedrons that exist partially in the 4th dimension, giving  them a rather... <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/71b2757748ac7f16f01b45bcaec27c99/tumblr_mpkt9z8qm31qeo51xo1_500.gif" target="_blank">unique</a> <a href="http://k39.kn3.net/taringa/1/2/4/2/4/0/03/marduk5233/94D.gif?1555" target="_blank">appearance</a>. They attack by <a href="http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1369/11/1369113360872.gif" target="_blank">firing laser beams</a>. The ultimate goal of the Geo-Metrons is to restructure the mutliverse into a state of perfect, unchanging, self-defeating mathematical order, thereby averting the heat death of the universe caused by entropy and chaos. They even consider life itself an abomination for its chaotic, changing nature. The fate of races in their path is to be converted into "hyper-life" servitors (e.g. cenobites, husks, necrons, therians, nightmarish transhuman future gone wrong, etc); according to some sources, the Plane of Agony (see Tome of Horrors) was created by a Geo-Metron god named "Colossus" precisely for this purpose.Mazoku -- inhabitants of the Thousand Hells, the Mazoku are the least  evil of the devils, though this is a cold comfort to the souls of the  damned they are obliged to torture for a living (for the purposes of  purifying them of evil according to official doctrine, rather than using  them for fuel like the Katabolzu do). A quirk of the Mazoku is that  they become more humanoid as their power increases: lower class devils appear  animalistic or monstrous, while upper class devils appear as attractive  humans or elves. The Mazoku hierarchy is organized into clans that  jockey with one another for power, each led by a Demon King (gui wang); the Thousand Hells are collectively ruled by the Demon Emperor (yanluo wang,  "king of hell"), who takes a daughter from each Demon King as his  concubines, and his resultant children (who act as representatives of their respective clans) are then expected to compete with  one another for the blessing to become the next Demon Emperor. While  technically devils, the Mazoku refer to themselves as the "demon race"  when translating to other languages (their language does not distinguish  between demon and devil), and refer to other fiendish races  collectively as "akuma" ("fiend," as the word "mazoku" does not carry  connotations of evil like "fiend" does).EDIT: More ideas:Billions of years ago, twin primordial deities of law named Ahura Mazda and Ahriman set out to order the planes that were forming from the dreams of their father Chaos. Ahura Mazda represented Good, while his brother Ahriman represented Evil. Ahura Mazda wished to make the plane that would eventually become Heaven the center of the universe, while Ahriman wanted to make the plane that would become Hell into the center of the universe. So they fought, and Ahura Mazda won and reluctantly cast his brother into the lower planes. Ahrimane crashed into the deepest pit of Hell, and there he lay for eternity, dead but dreaming. From his corpse crawled the first of what would become the Ahrimanes: horrifying tentacled monstrosities that consumed all light they came across, the precursors to the devils.By the time of Lucifer's fall and the coming of the Katabolzu, the Ahrimanes had largely vanished from the known universe for unknown reasons. The few that still existed in Hell were but pale shadows of their ancestors, but even then the depths of the their evil and their order was so great that even Asmodeus feared them. So he killed the ones that could be killed, and the few that could not were imprisoned in vile ice and stone. Even then the nupperibo, weak devils formed from petitioners without outside interference, could still metamorphose into new Ahrimanes if given enough centuries. So these pathetic creatures are ruthlessly abused by the Katabolzu, and should they show any promise, sometimes "promoted" by being rendered down, purified of taint, and reformed into lemures.But the most disturbing of the Ahrimanes are not the tentacled monsters that battled the qlippoth in long past archaic days of old or the revolting nupperibos that still hold the Katabolzu in fear, but those few Ahrimanes who, unlike their brethren, were (and should they be alive today and wandering the planes, still are) physically indistinguishable from human beings. Billions of years before the gods and men came into existence.EDIT: More ideas:I'd like to use the visions of Hell, Limbo, Heaven, Purgatory and Pandemonium as they appeared in Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, since it's public domain and is very iconic. We can take some inspiration from the video game adaption since adventures in Hell will typically follow that kind of formula.</blockquote>

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