D&D Legendlore: Cyric the Lord of Lies | D&D 5th Edition God Breakdown

[@StrengthofSailorJupiter]

Seeing the lies, the consequences of the lies, and the butterfly effect of them? WOO thats a LOT of power to wield and incredibly cool.

[@oldmanshinji9662]

Hell yeah, thx for the idea. Got pc/npc trickery cleric that will use some of that plot juice.

[@PlanetEarth1369]

Sweet, another legendlore video!

[@itslegendlore]

Happy to brighten up ur day xP

[@onurbayramoglu880]

Great one! Really loved the character concepts and magic items addition

[@itslegendlore]

thank you so much! :) and i hope you get to use the magic item and character ideas as pcs or npcs

[@WouldUKindly47]

I’ve always felt Cyric is one of the most if not the most evil god in all of dnd. He caused so much death and destruction purely for the lols and he is completely insane.

[@gnomeawayfromhome7550]

Outstanding! I would love to see you cover the red knight as shes one of my favorite realms dieties

[@itslegendlore]

I shall put her on the list :)

[@Mistacll]

I love this!! My current character (campaign hasn’t started yet) is a fallen aasimar, and we’ve fudged how the race works a bit to make him a former underling of Cyric. This video has honestly given me so many good ideas for how a campaign could work out with this information. Too bad I’m not the DM lmao

[@itslegendlore]

That’s pretty damn cool :)

[@erdrickcapet3945]

Good video; but you made a pretty serious error in Cyric's backstory, kind of. You wrote "to steal her power and become a god" on the screen when talking about Cyric killing Mystra. But Cyric was ALREADY a god when he killed Mystra. The first god Cyric slew, which you don't mention, was Bhaal, Lord of Murder. He killed Bhaal while still a mortal, with a shortsword that it turns out later (much later) he finds out was Mask in disguise, the god of thieves. At the end of the Time of Troubles, when the gods were cast down to Faerun for stealing the Tablets of Fate, Cyric was raised by Ao to godhood to assume the portfolios of Bane, Myrkul, and Bhaal, while Midnight was raised by Ao to take over for Mystra. Later on Leira, goddess of illusion goes missing and everyone assumes Cyric killed her and took her power. Later on yes, Shar does talk him into killing Midnight who he already hated from when they were mortals for rejecting him and basically staying good while he became evil. Then Kelemvor gets raised up, takes over the death part of the the portfolio so death is now more neutral then evil in the Forgotten Realms setting, and then Cyric goes mad and gets locked away and does all the stuff with the book.

[@Dalskidj]

I’m running the sequel to a campaign another person in our group ran and in that campaign Cyric tried to murder Ao with an arrow covered in Tharizdun’s blood. As a result, in my campaign the BBEG is both Cyric and the demi-god that was born of the combining of Ao and Tharizdun’s blood when the arrow hit. Thus was born Zitoadrunah, a goddess of madness and corruption. She and Cyric are currently working against the party to try to break the balance of the planes and drive the world into madness. They just successfully created an Avatar for Cyric to adventure in a corporeal form and the party is attempting to protect the citizens near the ritual site and stall Cyric before he can cause catastrophic damage in his avatar. (Note: they all have pacts with gods, fey, or both and have semi-avatar powers so I am not a psychopath putting characters up against a god 😂)

[@josephphillips1409]

Also Kezef the Chaos hound is one of the coolest characters I've ever read about in a DND novel, worth looking into for anyone interested.

[@gavinstout1260]

This man is gonna be famous one day

[@itslegendlore]

Thank you so much :) I hope to get there one day

[@tosten666]

I think this is kind of the perfect plot-twist device for one of my players. She has a very "pure" monk (I don't believe I ever heard that character tell a lie) that serves the god Sol and is all about that sun-stuff. By now she revealed some inheritance she's not really sure about herself. but she is able to use burning hands and radiant sun bolt and whenever she does so, black veins pop up on her hands and arms before the spell bursts out. Now since I seem to have free reign over what that inheritance looks like I think "the black sun" who happens to get a kick out of fiddling with peoples lives might have had a hand in her creation and might want to pull her to his side. There are just too many things that fit right in. It's like she planned this all along :D

[@itslegendlore]

Go for it friend! I think it’d be awesome :) As alway def make sure the player is down with it tho beforehand

[@raymondparisza5094]

Currently in a party as a Padlock Our Lord Cyric has instructed us to find others for their army and to free him. The rest of the party doesn't know

[@itslegendlore]

Yesssss

[@Sy-wk1me]

Nice!

[@MrDrsausage2U]

I read the Cyrinishad as a bedtime story at an orphanage. They seemed into it. . .

[@itslegendlore]

Yoooooo xD

[@masenguerra7835]

My first introduction to cyirc was in the novel the sentinel which was apart of a series of dnd novels called the second sundering. The story’s main characters were 4 chosen of different gods and one was a chosen of cyirc but as a true chosen of lies tricked the others into believing he was a chosen of a god of dead. Cyirc even shows up and has a conversation through a dead tree forming a skull to converse with his chosen. All in all from the novel you hit cyirc right on the head with how you described him!

[@itslegendlore]

Thank you so much and Awesome :) I’m glad my research has worked to be thorough and accurate xP

[@Alex-cp6mq]

Only just started playing dnd properly, my life cleric managed to kinda break his last shrine XD

[@itslegendlore]

lmao xD it happens, glad you're gettin the handle of it

[@tmcallister201]

Plz read the avatar series from the forgotten realms books..

[@Florian0799]

I always thought the spellplague was caused by Karsus when he did his big mistake with picking Mystra on his unique 12th level spell. While he was about to defend the netherese empire. Well it would certainly be befitting of Cyric to spin deception and lies around all this. I wonder when the inevitables will come after him .o.

[@itslegendlore]

I thought so too originally xD but nope Cyric killing her the second time is what did it

[@Florian0799]

@@itslegendlore That is what he wants ua to belief @-@. Besides how can a way less powerful deity like Cyric kill one of the strongest deities in realmspace does not seems possible to me o.o

[@itslegendlore]

@@Florian0799 it was when Mystra had reformed into a mortal named Midnight I believe, and Cyric was traveling with her also as a mortal. When she was about to ascend to godhood he killed her and usurped the ritual for himself, becoming the Cyric we know today

[@Florian0799]

@@itslegendlore Good thing she somehow actually survived that and got revived. Forgotten Realms Wiki also states Elminster helped her become a godess after all. I do not belief anything Cyric related he is to deceptive and full of lies to take anything he says for genuine .o.

[@Parasmunt]

No you are thinking of Karsus Folly. Spellplague was Cyric murdering Mystra.

[@3dagalathor]

i keep hoping Cyric will be making a return to 5E d&d at some point. he's a fantastic villain.

[@itslegendlore]

agreed, he's too good not to use xD

[@KingOfMadCows]

The funny thing is that Cyric wasn't that powerful when he was a mortal. I think he was a 2 or 3 level thief dualed to level 5 fighter.

[@xpaowow]

I'm going to be playing a Paladin who was tricked into serving Cyric by claiming he was the chosen champion of a certain God and put him on a quest to spread the book to every high priest/ God he can. (any additional ideas would be welcomed)

[@itslegendlore]

Do it, absolutely love the character concept and will add more tips if I can

[@donovanmariandrexel7901]

I actually created a paladin that works with a necromancer who wishes to resurrect Cyric.

[@3dagalathor]

@@donovanmariandrexel7901 Cyric isnt dead, just exiled

[@donovanmariandrexel7901]

@@3dagalathor he is in this campaign.

[@jonathanperrott2298]

Great video, but Cyric had already been a god for a while when he killed Mystra. The god he "killed" (it ended up not being a permanent death) in order to steal his divinity was Bhaal. Ao the Overgod also gave him the divine domains that used to belong to Bane and Myrkul since they also "died" during the Time of Troubles and were kind of the ones responsible for the whole ToT in the first place by stealing the Tablets of Fate. When Cyric killed Mystra it was for 4 reasons: 1. Midnight romantically rejected him when they were still human. 2. Shar convinced him Mystra was plotting something against him because Shar wanted to replace the Weave with her Shadow Weave once Mystra died. 3. Midnight-as-Mystra was not as neutral as the old Mystra had been and was not allowing the servants of Cyric access to the Weave. 4. Cyric loves killing gods. It's his #1 favorite pastime.

[@therabbit317]

In 5th edition is he still trapped in the supreme throne? Was he released or is there a campaign to release him? So far I am making a game to release him in the first part.

[@itslegendlore]

I’m honestly not sure xD

[@ssaberwolf]

Isn't Asmodeus the Lord of Lies?

[@itslegendlore]

It’s one of his epithets yeah, Cyric is more lying for lying’s sake whereas Asmodeus is the use of misdirection and deceit through omission and contractual manipulations, rather than being a chaos goblin like Cyric xP

[@MonsterPrincessLala]

I am currently using him to run a game cult that's masking an mlm to just generally spread choas and I've spent 2 years building up this reveal that I'm pretty sure my players will not give a fuck about

[@itslegendlore]

Lol I feel that xD when the players don’t seem super interested in the meta plot of the game

[@davidsylvester2715]

Do you know your novel lores?

[@itslegendlore]

@@davidsylvester2715 sadly not as much as I want to xD I mostly dunno where to find them beyond the Drizzt series

[@josephphillips1409]

Man you are all over the place on the history.

[@itslegendlore]

Yeah definitely intend to remake this one with better organization

[@TheCyricson]

you have the timeline confused man