Hordes of the Abyss: Q&A

[Ripzerai]

*blink* Wait... what in Gehenna is a 'water demon' in the first place? That's got to be some sort of goofy placeholder. Is there actually a 'water demon' in some source I'm apparently not familiar with?

Dragon #306 had an article called By Evil Bound by Mike Mearls. It included six non-tanar'ri demons, six yugoloth creations, and six non-baatezu devils.

The elemental demons were supposed to be the raw material of the Abyss animated by patchwork souls left behind from the remnants of a great Blood War battle. They included air demons, ash demons, earth demons, fire demons, ice demons, and water demons. As I said, they weren't tanar'ri: they were more like Abyssal mephits.

 

[BOZ]

rip, were those the same elemental demons found in Dragon Compendium 1?

 

[Ripzerai]

rip, were those the same elemental demons found in Dragon Compendium 1?

Sounds likely. I've never seen a copy of that book.

 

[Psion]

Dragon #306 had an article called By Evil Bound by Mike Mearls. It included six non-tanar'ri demons, six yugoloth creations, and six non-baatezu devils.

The elemental demons were supposed to be the raw material of the Abyss animated by patchwork souls left behind from the remnants of a great Blood War battle. They included air demons, ash demons, earth demons, fire demons, ice demons, and water demons. As I said, they weren't tanar'ri: they were more like Abyssal mephits.

It'd be odd to reprint those (or were they just printing the CRs?) since the demons at least were reprinted in Dragon Compendium.

Incidentally, I never did dig that they made mephits non evil in 2e/3e. IMC, I give them the fiendish template and make them formed of outer planar matter, much like this.

 

[Echohawk]

rip, were those the same elemental demons found in Dragon Compendium 1?

Yes

 

[Kobold Avenger]

So is there any mention of the living Abyssal fortresses?

What about any mention of Broken Reach, the fortress on the first layer that has the portal from the Outland's gate town of Plague-Mort?

Who is Obox-Ob? That seems to be one of the names that's unfamiliar to me.

Who is Dagon? I'm asuming it's not the Chthulhu mythos Dagon, and nothing like the Amorite God of grain and agriculture.

Is Malacanthet the Demon Lord that's sort of the 'matron lord' of Succub? Much the same way Pazuzu is the 'patron lord' of the Vrocks, Baphomet is to the Bulezau, and Jubilex is the Alkiliths.

In fact do they link certain demon types to certain demon lords.

 

[Li Shenron]

Some more questions:

- how much of the descriptions about the Abyss and its layers is reprinted from Manual of the Planes?

- how's the artwork, especially that of demon lords: are they illustrated, and how differently from BoVD (what kind of heads for Demogorgon this time? )

- what is said generally about demon physiology? does the book try to explain everything, does it make them similar to living beings?

 

[Mr.Black]

It's perplexing that the death drinker is listed in the book and yet has no reference. Perhaps it was cut from the final product?

 

[Shade]

It's perplexing that the death drinker is listed in the book and yet has no reference. Perhaps it was cut from the final product?

If so, it'll probably pop up in MMIV.

 

[JoeGKushner]

My book is out on loan so it'll be a few days before I have it.