First off, you obviously have NOT been doing your research. You have NOT been looking at recent discoveries in archaeology. You have NOT taken actual ancient history classes or dug into actual history of the Bible. Including what happened after the books were written. They were early and by the given authors. Yes there is more than enough proof of that. What about this? Is this 'convincing' enough? Three times at least God has intervened directly in my life and given me help. The last was a 3 part waking vision. Two scenes in that dream came true in exact detail. One about a year later, one 4 years later. IN THE WINDOWS IN THIS VISION THERE WERE GLOWING CROSSES. I REPEAT THE VISION CAME TRUE IN EXACT DETAIL LATER IN TIME SO ALL YOUR 'FACTS' AND 'LOGICAL ARGUMENTS' ARE BASED ON FALSE ASSUMPTIONS AND FAULTY LOGIC RELIGION DEFINITELY HAS BEEN USED BY THE DEVIL AT TIMES BUT JESUS WASN'T PREACHING ISLAM AND DOMINATION BY FORCE READ THE BIBLE AS IT IS FOR YOURSELF OVER AND OVER ACTUALLY ASK GOD IF HE'S REAL AND HIS BOOK IS THE TRUTH? "YOU WILL FIND ME IF YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART" NOTHING IN LIFE IS EASY - INCLUDING WALKING WITH GOD.

I'd love to see a video detailing "Turn of Fortune's Wheel". I heard that it was pretty unique in terms of how it handles Character Death.

15:43 Pretty sure the breaking of the own soul is a core part of the Avada Kedabra aka the killing curse. So Mrs Weasely should be fine.

Maybe I'm missing it in your series but I don't see the oddball planes (yet?) or did I miss them, i.e. Ethereal, Astral, and Shadow? Might be some more but I can't think of any top of my head.

Oh man. Great job

I was really enjoying the idea of putting on a long lore video to fall asleep to. An ad here and there is to be expected, and i dont mind one or two before i nod off But that's been 3 ads in the first ten mins of a 3hr video! So I'm afraid I'll be clicking away after i post this. I'm sorry buddy. You've obvs put a great deal of work into this video, but i guess I'll never find out.

This video is talking about literally defining meritocracy through total equality of outcomes. The point of a meritocracy is to eliminate culturally opposed classism. Wherein someone who comes from a family of bakers can go out get educated and become a politician. This system eventually causes a financial ruling class that runs on nepatism, but therein resets after they fuck up in their echo chamber.

If you have lingering questions and disagreements with Christianity, then the best way to solve that is to investigate the religion yourself. You can doubt what others say but you can't doubt yourself.

Love your videos! Some of the best dnd info I’ve seen.

I want to wander the hells. I want to so bad. It’s wrong, and foolish. And I’ll die I’m sure. But I want that

This video is very good. I would kill for an in-depth dive in the planescape Torment game. I played it as an introduction to the setting, and it was so complex and frustrating yet mysterious and intriguing. Although I never finished my adventure, I think you are the right man to honor that lovely game with a comprehensive analysis or a short of guide to surpass the complex lore barrier to help me and all the people who never fully understood the game enjoy it at its fullest.

This is a great video. Bringing back my memories.

35:06 My favourite fact about the outer planes that you didn't mention is the fact that no god is able to visit Sigil, because the Lady of Pain doesn't allow entrance of any god. We barely know anything about her, and yet she is powerful enough to effortlessly resist the influence of literal gods in her domain.

Pandemonium is just the Back Rooms

This is amazing information, thank you SO much for putting this together! This is exactly what I need as I am cobbling my first homebrew world together and want an Abyssal theme to the impending doom. Subscribed!

Heard Fraz Urb’luu used to be a archduke/ arch devil of the nine Hells or Duke of hell he used to be devil before banished to the abyss by asmodeus Fraz Urb’luu he used to rule over the chain devils before banishment from the nine hells to abyss and trying to return to the nine hells to take revenge on asmodeus banished them there in the first place to do that he needs to take off a magical schedule that prevents him from return to the nine hells put by asmodeus. Fraz Urb’luu he is a threat to demons and devils alike.

50:55 I like the fact that demon lord is not well-defined! It fits the chaotic nature of the abyss!

Wade, can we get videos of each of the outer planes, please? Perhaps one of the outlands? Your videos are very well done and appreciated.

The pronunciation of Sigil isnt weird, its germanic/norse. English is weird because you belive you have no clue how to make sounds outside your anglosaxic words. However you make north european sounds in a lot of your pronunciation , you just dont realise it

Please make separate, more detailed videos of each ward!

lady of pain is a evil being

If theres a lady of pain then theres a lady of pleasure. Its yourmommm.

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I like the idea that people who are good at something find success in that thing and are able to be financially secure as well as respected by others. It's good to incentivize effort because that does matter and does produce results. Positive encentives are more effective then punitive action. I definitely don't want to live in a place where merit and effort don't mean anything. Such places exist, it's important to remember that.

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Sounds like a rather primitive worldview, more alchemy than science. It sounds so antithetic to life that i cannot really imagine any actual story being set there.Life would only evolve where certain elements mix but maybe just my imagination is too rational and shortsighted to be able to think such elemental worlds.

you are SO PRIDE of your ignorance! Poor of you!

lol. “Real”afterlife. That’s a good one.

planescape is so friggen cool

The point of meritocracy is to strive for it, and it's more about giving the best person the job rather than crying that some get aj advantage because society is better structured by a good doctor working on me as opposed to a Dr chosen merely to make up for the failings of meritocracy

Thank you!

What if there is a truely objectively correct philosophy, but it's simply imperfect. Maybe we don't have to reconcile every little flaw in our system to put our full faith and adherence into it. Just find the one with the most tolerable flaws and stick to it. The grass will always be greener on the other side anyway.

great visuals, great vid, thank ya muchly

Sorry, I pronounce it sijil. Stop pointless gatekeeping

Interresting fact about the lord of The Noisomve Vale, Tarnhem. He is actually the father of Acererak, and the reason why he has dissapeared is that he is imprisoned in The Fortress of Conclusion, by his son.

Dude, I’m so excited to fall asleep to these, I’m going to astral project into this video in my sleep and absorb all the knowledge.

Tbf when it comes to a lot of the pronunciation, it typically has a lot to do with the source of inspiration (or sometimes just direct source when a name is used from real world mythology wholecloth). For Baator its pulling from semitic language, specifically Hebrew where the root would be something like Ba'al. Not that it's trying to be an actual translation, but using phonetical elements. Since a lot of real world demonology used Hebrew words to name a lot of demons or devils, that's likely where they got the phonemes rather than trying to be linguistic, but it's still the likely reason for pronouncing it like that. Anyway, larger point being that it was a bunch of largely American white guys who knew a little about a lot of topics coming up with these names in the 70s and 80s, so trying to guess what roots and inspiration they were pulling from can be a fool's errand.

Great videos! How about Pandemoniom as the next plane?

It's not about whether meritocracies can exist. It's about becoming stronger from within and trying your best regardless of the circumstances. It could actually be the case that you're systemically disadvantaged and you very likely won't win despite trying very hard. But the best action to do in such a circumstance is to try your best regardless. The goal is not individual success. The goal is for a society to be prosperous. It doesn't really matter if meritocracies exist or not. What matters is whether you're learning from your mistakes and looking at what you can change. Its not about being fair. It's about the society pushing boundaries. It is about ambition. American exceptionalism succeeds for a reason. There's nothing objectively special about the landmass of America nor does magic exist. But simply the attitude and belief and confidence can make a huge difference. Also the concept of karma includes actions of your previous lives so nothing here debunks karma.

51:40 Or you could just realize that demons are chaotic, and having a hard definition of what a Demon Lord is would be too lawful

Dude where is the 666th layer?

Waiting on a guide for arborea!

SEA'GIL sounds stupid. I'll keep pronouncing it the "right" way! Not just because a group of uneducated idiots decided it to be so!

Sigil reminds me a lot if Alagadda ir maybe its Alagadda that reminds me of Sigil. Not sure anymore but boy do they seem similar 😅

In general Christian’s believe that if you just don’t believe it’s not heresy it’s when you do believe and state otherwise for whatever reason that you commit heresy

yeah. but you cant always trust the science either. because that also usually comes from a second hand source.. so were back to square one and nothing in truly knowable... welcome to epistemological hell... hope you come out the other end and say "fuck it, i dont know for sure either, but its not important to know for sure right now and we'll see whos right when we cross that bride."

Exquisite video. Well deserved thumb up. A lot of effort to put down to words in a simple and understandable way (even for a non-native english person like me). Jokes aside, completly agree with your statements. I consider myself being in the lucky side of life (my parents did really hard work to give me the better they could afford, and now they have a lot) after taking notice of the factor of luck in life and in the universe itself I become much happier and grateful than ever. Also I can now connect with people in other ways and try my best to listen them, not only look to understand them. We humans feel so free when we have the chance to be heard. Thanks a lot for the video and the reflection!! Cheers from Argentina!