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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 2925485" data-attributes="member: 38324">Since both Fiendish Codices are designed by freelancers, I would be surprised if there's much crosstalk between their designers. Besides the tip of the hat to the baernaloth origin theory, FC1 introduced a number of other older concepts - generation from larvae, for example, and most significantly the idea that slain demons respawn as lesser fiends if slain outside their home plane. There's also the issue of the power levels of diabolic rulers.FC2 has a lot of hurdles to overcome - it's got to reconcile 1e, 2e, and 3e lore on the subject (the Reckoning, Mephistophes' self-coup, changing views of Asmodeus, changing power levels of pit fiends), it's got to bring together all the new types of devils introduced in 3.x (ghargantulas, advespas, xerfilstyxes, paeliryons, etc.) into some sort of coherent civilization/hierarchy, and it has to ideally do all this in a way that feels fresh and new. In a tiny page count, too.</blockquote>