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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GroverCleaveland" data-source="post: 1179356" data-attributes="member: 6935">Only the archons have a hierarchy as such. There's some discussion - as in who reports to which member of the Hebdomad. The other two races have a much more loosely structured society, although the eladrins have a ruling court.I think it would be a mistake to try to draw direct parallels between two unlike types of plane-born, and the book doesn't try to do that. They (tanar'ri, baatezu, yugoloths, rilmani, formians, slaadi, guardinals, eladrins, and archons) aren't the same race with nine different aspects, they're nine different races who manifest their respective alignments in nine entirely different ways. Some of them aren't even the original natives of their planes - there was another race that dominated the Nine Hells before the baatezu, the formians come originally from Arcadia, and the rilmani displaced a race called the kamarel. So the parallels aren't exact.But to answer your question, the closest equivalent to a balor or pit fiend among the archons would be the throne archon, which has a CR of 15. The equivalent among the eladrins would be the tulani, which has a CR of 18. See what I mean about inexactness? The maintainance of the cosmic balance doesn't depend on an ultraloth and a leonal arm wrestling every fifty years, so they don't have to be exactly matched in combat prowess. The celestials just have to be able to keep the fiends fighting one another and the Devil weighted down in his hole. And they have the angels on their side.(Incidently, it looks like the leonal would win that arm wrestling match).</blockquote>

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