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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Low" data-source="post: 5592521" data-attributes="member: 6677986">Abraxas and  Socoth fit just fine with the two other books, but each of the three has  a different and conflicting take on Nocticula.The book of fiends describe her as a tutelary patron of women and of  earthly communion through sex and hallucinogens, served by half-plant half-succubi half-giant-leech demons called alrunes (it also  points that she envies the title of "witch queen" claimed by an  archdevil, but the rest of the article don't associate her directly with  witches); the fiendish codex gives this role to a unique shapechanging  tree (not sure where this comes from) called Alrunes and concerns her  with night; and the pathfinder book stapples her name (along with the  dominion over assassins and whores) on Malcanthet's throne.There's also the problem of pathfinder's Nocticula having dominion on  darkness and shadow demons, when these are the domain of Rhyxali,  Grazz't sister in previous D&D products, which is supposed to have  no enemy among the other lords. I guess she could have been killed  still, but I rather like her...I would solve the confusion by following the FC1 on Alrunes' concerns  about sisterhood the protection of women and add the Book of fiends's  characterization of Nocticula (concerns for women, fey, nature and  drugs, initiatic practices centered on the association of all of those,  plus the service of avenging and castrating demons), keeping Malcanthet  as the queen of succubi whose main concern is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing (with) the other  lords and princes, and making Nocticula a queen of night and of witches,  whores, assassins and whoever else relies on night's cover to pursue  their clandestine activities, as a mix of what's left of the three  versions. But adapting potential future pathfinder products where the queen of  succubi is also queen of darkness and assassins into this would be  difficult if these titles matter in the story. And I do hope for a high-level adventure path in the Abyss.</blockquote>

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