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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 5181179" data-attributes="member: 6562">To D&D as a whole? Meh, take 'em or leave 'em, many other things can fill their role in the game.To my D&D campaign? Both were central, in a big bloody way.[sblock]Demons were essentially biological weapons of an early race against incursions by the Far Realm, and as a method of preservation they worked about as well as kudzu, taking over the world of their creators and a near infinite number of worlds thereafter, each of which is now a layer of the Abyss.Devils were fallen servants of a divinity (from the usual cardinal sins IMC), but I actually like 4e's story that they murdered their former deity better, so if I run with this again that'll be what happened. Either way, they somehow decided that Law works best without any pesky biological life forms around, and are now actively trying to create armies of the dead and stop the cycle of reincarnation.The Great Wheel was originally just the course of a river of psychic / life energy, which ran from the origin of life (Mount Celestia) through Faerie, then through every mortal world and finally returned. Over the aeons, this flow became corrupted, and now the river runs one-way, flowing from Celestia through Faerie to the mortal worlds -- and part of it runs into the Abyss, where it becomes corrupted, and this vile flow is known as the river Styx. The river Styx runs from the Abyss through several hellish prison-planes until it ends at the gates of Hell, flowing down all nine layers and somehow ending up in the Pit. Nothing ever leaves the Pit.[/sblock]Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

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