Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2688959" data-attributes="member: 11697">Individual Baatezu might want mortal souls simply to devour on their own, use them as componants in spells of the creation of items, etc but that's purely secondary to their racial goal. They, as a race, as an alignment made flesh, they don't want people to be evil, they want people to be Lawful Evil. They want mortals and mortal societies to embrace systems of cold, harsh, unwavering law. For every mortal who embraces these ideals the Baatezu grow stronger, and more and more petitioners will swell their coffers and swell their ranks.That's what the Erinyes are there for. They're the lawful version of the succubi, the ones who tempt with power and prestige, and above all -control- rather than lust. A king who wishes to see his country and people great once more, the duchess who wishes to drag her kin up to power in the royal court by any means needed, the mulla who wishes to crush a nascent country and insinuate his own branch of faith in the hearts and laws of that other nation: all of these are targets for the Baatezu. All those who seek to exert control, rigid and strong, with little regard for those slaughtered in the process by the unyeilding wheels of tyranny: they're ripe for the Baatezu to aid them, and give them just what they want.'Step into line, take your number, become one of us. Follow. Obey or die.' That's their goal.Of course, the Tanar'ri and Yugoloths are doing the same thing, with different ways of going about it, and with different quirks and particulars in the process. The Baatezu and Tanar'ri do it more in line with the propagation of their races and their need for soldiers in the Blood War, while the 'loths have a broader, more long term focus that has some twisted, quasi-religious aspects to it.</blockquote>

Verification