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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 7805449" data-attributes="member: 53176"><p><em>Infernal Calling</em> is a 5th level spell. And is the lowest spell level possible that can get you access to a devil without entering into a contract (such as find familiar), while having an option for total control if you somehow manage to find that devil's talisman. Otherwise you could charm it, force it to speak It's true name, and then have advantage on controlling it. The spell only lasts for an hour, but I would imagine having a repeatable hour of control would enable some crafty wizard to work out how to enslave a devil for longer.</p><p></p><p>Which incidentally, would involve the devil's true name and making a talisman for them.</p><p></p><p>The funny thing about devils is that they don't have a true name at first.</p><p>The first step to making a devil is to make a Larva, which is what happens to evil souls naturally when they die and go to the nine hells, or you could expose a living soul to evil extraplainar energies to forcefully mutate it into one. After you have a Larva, you have two options: Leave it alone and it will grow into a Nupperibo, which are nearly useless if you don't have another Devil telepathically control it (and even then they aren't good for anything that needs more than dumb muscle). Or you could drain it of it's magical divine essence and make it into a Lemure, which is marginally more tolerable, but less strong than their cousins. Ether way, they lose all their memories and their name (and thus True Name), and one of the things a higher ranking devil could do is tell them to obey the commands of a mortal.</p><p></p><p>Now this is where things get interesting. When a Devil is promoted, it gets it's True Name, intelligence, and basically becomes really useful. In order for a Lemure or Nupperibo to be promoted, it has to earn the favor of a higher ranking devil somehow, which is makes them swear fealty to that higher ranking devil.</p><p></p><p>So in short, if you want just an army of devils, all you need to do is establish total control over one devil. Then mutate some people into larva using the energies of hell. Follow up by using the first devil to force the resulting Lemures and/or Nupperibo to obey you (which you can use as-is for low grade manual labor or fighting.) Then force your first devil to promote a few of those underlings intro lesser devils, while giving you their true name, and make those secondary devils swear fealty to you while breaking their fealty to the first one. Dispose of the first devil as you see fit, preferably by dunking it into the River Styx so it can't rat you out.</p><p></p><p>Now you have a standing army of devils disassociated from hell at your beck and call, and you can make more as long as you can throw money into getting more people to sacrifice for your scheme.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 7805449, member: 53176"] [I]Infernal Calling[/I] is a 5th level spell. And is the lowest spell level possible that can get you access to a devil without entering into a contract (such as find familiar), while having an option for total control if you somehow manage to find that devil's talisman. Otherwise you could charm it, force it to speak It's true name, and then have advantage on controlling it. The spell only lasts for an hour, but I would imagine having a repeatable hour of control would enable some crafty wizard to work out how to enslave a devil for longer. Which incidentally, would involve the devil's true name and making a talisman for them. The funny thing about devils is that they don't have a true name at first. The first step to making a devil is to make a Larva, which is what happens to evil souls naturally when they die and go to the nine hells, or you could expose a living soul to evil extraplainar energies to forcefully mutate it into one. After you have a Larva, you have two options: Leave it alone and it will grow into a Nupperibo, which are nearly useless if you don't have another Devil telepathically control it (and even then they aren't good for anything that needs more than dumb muscle). Or you could drain it of it's magical divine essence and make it into a Lemure, which is marginally more tolerable, but less strong than their cousins. Ether way, they lose all their memories and their name (and thus True Name), and one of the things a higher ranking devil could do is tell them to obey the commands of a mortal. Now this is where things get interesting. When a Devil is promoted, it gets it's True Name, intelligence, and basically becomes really useful. In order for a Lemure or Nupperibo to be promoted, it has to earn the favor of a higher ranking devil somehow, which is makes them swear fealty to that higher ranking devil. So in short, if you want just an army of devils, all you need to do is establish total control over one devil. Then mutate some people into larva using the energies of hell. Follow up by using the first devil to force the resulting Lemures and/or Nupperibo to obey you (which you can use as-is for low grade manual labor or fighting.) Then force your first devil to promote a few of those underlings intro lesser devils, while giving you their true name, and make those secondary devils swear fealty to you while breaking their fealty to the first one. Dispose of the first devil as you see fit, preferably by dunking it into the River Styx so it can't rat you out. Now you have a standing army of devils disassociated from hell at your beck and call, and you can make more as long as you can throw money into getting more people to sacrifice for your scheme. [/QUOTE]
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