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Yugoloths: Do They Have an Identity Beyond the Blood War?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 7428773" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>Just to clarify, Anthraxus and the General of Gehenna aren't baernaloths. Anthraxus was originally an arcanaloth who became a unique being via a bargain with a cabal of night hags, and once free of his contractual servitude to them he eventually rose to become Oinoloth (and was changed even more by obtaining that position/title). The General of Gehenna is more or less a mystery, though the one fact that seems solid is that they may have been the first yugoloth to obtain the rank of ultroloth.</p><p></p><p>The baernaloths themselves aren't necessarily actually yugoloths. They're the oldest fiend race in existence, having formed from the raw substance of primal Evil before the Waste was touched/contaminated by either Law or Chaos. They created the yugoloths as servitors (telling them that they were their chosen children, when honestly they're most likely just disposable puppets with delusions of grandeur), and later instructed them in the process that purged them of Law and Chaos and led to the creation of the obyriths and ancient baatorians who they seeded into the nascent Abyss and Baator (and arguably created those two planes in the process). Prior to creating the other fiend races, one of the baernaloths (or a fusion of three of them) known as Apomps the Triple Aspected split from his siblings and created the gehreleths/demodands (the 'loths claim he did so in flawed imitation of them, and the demodands claim the 'loths were in imitation of them). Apomps was exiled for this and the plane of Carceri formed around him and his creations.</p><p></p><p>Only three baernaloths have been named in print: Apomps the Triple Aspected, Daru Ib Shamiq, and Harishek Ap Thulkesh the Blind Clockmaker (the last one I wrote).</p><p></p><p>2e provided stats for the baern, though it stated that most of the baern had eventually succumbed to the spiritual wasting of their own native plane and fallen largely into a state of torpor where they no longer cared to do much of anything and abandoned their creations and their original plans for reality. However a group of "mad baernaloths" known as The Demented avoided this and continued to act as multiversal puppetmasters, acting as "advisors" wanted or otherwise, to the various unique yugoloths. Only Harishek Ap Thulkesh is named as a member of this group, though I'd probably include Daru as well. Based on the flavor text the 2e baern stats don't really apply and they're probably godlike in nature.</p><p></p><p>They're mentioned in late 3.x as well in text that confirms their nature as having created the obyriths. 4e made them bodyguards for the Oinoloth, which I can't understand where that was coming from (and of note it was not the intention of the author of the 4e text in question to have presented them as such, but development changes, etc). 5e I haven't noticed them so far, but given the content in MToF I don't expect continuity with their 2e and 3.x content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 7428773, member: 11697"] Just to clarify, Anthraxus and the General of Gehenna aren't baernaloths. Anthraxus was originally an arcanaloth who became a unique being via a bargain with a cabal of night hags, and once free of his contractual servitude to them he eventually rose to become Oinoloth (and was changed even more by obtaining that position/title). The General of Gehenna is more or less a mystery, though the one fact that seems solid is that they may have been the first yugoloth to obtain the rank of ultroloth. The baernaloths themselves aren't necessarily actually yugoloths. They're the oldest fiend race in existence, having formed from the raw substance of primal Evil before the Waste was touched/contaminated by either Law or Chaos. They created the yugoloths as servitors (telling them that they were their chosen children, when honestly they're most likely just disposable puppets with delusions of grandeur), and later instructed them in the process that purged them of Law and Chaos and led to the creation of the obyriths and ancient baatorians who they seeded into the nascent Abyss and Baator (and arguably created those two planes in the process). Prior to creating the other fiend races, one of the baernaloths (or a fusion of three of them) known as Apomps the Triple Aspected split from his siblings and created the gehreleths/demodands (the 'loths claim he did so in flawed imitation of them, and the demodands claim the 'loths were in imitation of them). Apomps was exiled for this and the plane of Carceri formed around him and his creations. Only three baernaloths have been named in print: Apomps the Triple Aspected, Daru Ib Shamiq, and Harishek Ap Thulkesh the Blind Clockmaker (the last one I wrote). 2e provided stats for the baern, though it stated that most of the baern had eventually succumbed to the spiritual wasting of their own native plane and fallen largely into a state of torpor where they no longer cared to do much of anything and abandoned their creations and their original plans for reality. However a group of "mad baernaloths" known as The Demented avoided this and continued to act as multiversal puppetmasters, acting as "advisors" wanted or otherwise, to the various unique yugoloths. Only Harishek Ap Thulkesh is named as a member of this group, though I'd probably include Daru as well. Based on the flavor text the 2e baern stats don't really apply and they're probably godlike in nature. They're mentioned in late 3.x as well in text that confirms their nature as having created the obyriths. 4e made them bodyguards for the Oinoloth, which I can't understand where that was coming from (and of note it was not the intention of the author of the 4e text in question to have presented them as such, but development changes, etc). 5e I haven't noticed them so far, but given the content in MToF I don't expect continuity with their 2e and 3.x content. [/QUOTE]
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