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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2881495" data-attributes="member: 7451">Forgot to mention - they're the other obyrith in the Demons chapter. The demon princes that got "promoted" to obyrith are Dagon, Obox-ob, Pale Night and Pazuzu.The idea behind the obyrith is that they're the primordial Abyss-spawn, like the qlippoth in Armies of the Abyss. A combination of the Queen of Chaos' defeat on the Fields of Pesh and an invasion by eladrins nearly annihilated the race and drove it into hiding. The tanar'ri crawled out of their ashes (spawned by the baernoloths, perhaps? The book does not say, although the Black Scrolls of Ahm still maintain that the tanar'ri were birthed by the will of the Abyss itself).Dagon managed to escape the Queen of Chaos' conscription plans by virtue of his physical power and the value of his wisdom. His special insanity causes intense phobia of deep-sea creatures, and his tactics specifically state that anyone who escapes him will be the victim of nightmare spells for the rest of his life. Nice homage, I thought.Obox-ob was the Prince of Demons, but the Queen of Chaos stripped him of his title and gave it to Miska the Wolf Spider. Obox-ob tried to fight the Queen and was destroyed, but one of his aspects festered in Zionyn and regained some semblance of his true power. He seeks, of course, to murder Demogorgon and reassert obyrith dominance.Pale Night is kept alive, even though she is an obyrith, for some mysterious reason, perhaps because her claim to having mothered seveal extant demon princes is legitimate.And Pazuzu is actually an obyrith that evolved into a tanar'ri in order to survive. His maddening appearance has been commuted into the aura of servile avians, and he's gained the ability to summon tanar'ri.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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