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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6133881" data-attributes="member: 8863">FWIW, this is basically what Hellbound: The Blood War has to say about fiendish priests.  I don't know how much of this is contradicted by Faces of Evil.Demon priests tend to be the most common fiendish priests.  They prefer to serve gods who in 2e were ascended demon lords: Demogorgon, Baphomet, etc.  In Lolth's case, 2e pretty much assumed she was just an evil god and a fallen member of the Seldarine, while ignoring Q1's appealation of Demon Queen of the Spiders (or whatever it was).Devil priests tend to be somewhat rare.  It's rather strongly implied that Asmodeus (I say implied because PS never mentions Asmo by name AFAIK; Hellbound just says the "high-ups" of the Nine Hells.  Well, you don't get higher up than ol' Asmo) doesn't like devils serving various gods, seeing it as disloyal, so they tend to serve gods secretly.  Though of course, if one wanted to make Asmo a full-fledged evil god, then he'd probably a good number of devil priests, but like I said he's not mentioned in PS.Yugoloths never become priests.  It says nothing about them hating gods, just that they don't bother with becoming priests.  IIRC, according to the lore in the boxed set, the 'loths predate the mortal gods, so probably they're not impressed with them or something.</blockquote>