Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Naga Secrets!

[@armartin0003]

Naga: "What piece of my treasure have you come to claim?" Lich: "Just your company. The endless centuries get lonely."

[@keentrasborg2566]

Uguu~

[@slimecatking5373]

What type of naga does that?

[@MadAtreides1]

smooth, now I ship them

[@brotheralaric7177]

@@slimecatking5373 the guardian have mentioend as lwful good, maybe some have different alignement

[@amjthe_paleosquare9399]

Same. Planning on making my players encounter a naga. Long story, their fetch quest was originally meant to go and kill a Red Dragon, but we're all new, I'm not confident enough to run that, so now they'll find a naga chilliing in the lair of the Red Dragon she killed a couple centuries ago. naga taking a "small break" from humanity to go through the dragon's treasures and organize them. Joined by his adopted brother, a Cóatl and his daughter. Snek sibs, sneky daughter. Three bookworms chilling under a mountain cause they kinda introverted lol. Gave them a bunch of artifacts and things so my players don't get cocky and try to kill them. If they're smart and befriend the sneks, they get what they came looking for plus treasure and mayyybe an offer to get the naga as a patron, if they're confident and curious enough to multiclass into warlock.

[@megadon2]

4:51 Shapeshifters, birds, humans, lizards The four nations lived in peace until the lizard nation attacked

[@cavareenvius7886]

lizards would be more earth nation. Let be honest: Humans are the fire nation.

[@Geathsrighthand]

@@cavareenvius7886 ya your right humans love being the top monkey on the hill

[@Sara3346]

How do we know someone didn't shapeshift into lizards and then do that?

[@cankhovich1796]

similar to real life with draco reptilians

[@phoenixbarnes55]

Love this series. Maybe cover some legendary heroes or villains in the future. I think that would be cool.

[@sanddry738]

Lazarus It’d be so cool to have some lore video on big villains like Vecna, Acererak, Strahd, etc!

[@briggasnax8575]

hell yeah

[@Codemaster1138]

Lord soth

[@AaronSteinPittsburgh]

Orcus

[@Oshawott315]

“What the Monster Manual Won’t Tell You About Strahd”

[@NobodyDungeons]

one funny thing about D&D 5th edition is that many of the classes have an ability or something that gives them ever lasting life not immortality but ever lasting life and even more abilities give characters the ability to survive without food, water, sleep, or air along with the immunity to disease meaning you could play a specific character and 700 years later in the same universe you could play or find the exact same character that you played which can lead to some pretty interesting role playing opportunities

[@algotkristoffersson15]

Or just use wish to make it so "For the rest of eternity: whenever anyones age is higher than the age at which their race reaches peak physical condition they grow younger by one year each day until they are younger than the age at which their race reaches peak physical condition again"

[@hmnhntr]

​@@algotkristoffersson15A single wish isn't that powerful. They're not infinitely strong. Make one creature stop aging, sure. Everyone, forever? Not a chance.

[@skibur848]

*looks at a naga* “Bruh is that a face snake”

[@somerandomguy844]

there is one key difference between a monstrosity and a construct: monstrosties can reproduce, constructs can't

[@Banana-Boi]

So you cut off a monsters dick and it becomes a construct?

[@ChrissieBear]

Erhm, the real difference is that constructs aren't alive, they lack biological functions.

[@SuperOmegaBerserker]

Yea this was poor. Alot of monsters and demons cant reproduce. So demons would be. Fiend, Monster, Constructs????

[@martinmarvinii3139]

“Just you wait…” -Your local Bard

[@mtndewmslayer2564]

Monstrosity are just constructs that are closer to life

[@MrKoraboras]

"A mortal body is mortal and nothing will change it." *laughs in well-worded Wish*

[@findantu]

*blasts school of fish In ocean with loulams longevity. Ok were good for about 1000+years I'm sure at some point I could fire that off again. And even if has to be sentient I'm sure theres a goblin city somewhere or some sentient monster to drain.

[@MrKoraboras]

​@@findantu Yeah, as long as you can nail a 52 Spellcraft DC check to cast, it has no material components or focus needed and just 4k XP to cast. If you end up as an elder before you get to Epic Levels, procure a scroll of reincarnation and cast a geas on a druid to make him use it on you after you kill yourself. Random race can be easily dealt with through 'True Polymorph' - if you care - and then you can enjoy your eternal adult stage life, while becoming a wizard fisherman extraordinaire!

[@Carewolf]

Good luck as a stone.

[@junkfood7361]

I started playing D&D a few months ago but then I started DMing and I need more of these videos for story ideas!!!

[@zachariah171]

@FlyingAxblade clicked this comment to suggest the same! Haha

[@oopsiepoopsie2898]

Davey chapy I think that’s how you spell it makes really simple videos easy to understand, also xp to lvl3, and just experience don’t worry your first feel years of DMing you are gonna suck and make all kinds of shitty choices. You will learn

[@cobrakingofeart]

pick a movie (better if obscure) , make a campaign around the plot, don't tell the players, enjoy not having to work as hard

[@Spllyn]

@@cobrakingofeart Thats so lazy

[@Madbrad2000]

@@Spllyn if it's fun, why not

[@Mare_Man]

My Deep Gnome necromancer killed a giant Naga with a Negative Energy Ray. I rolled a natural 1 at some point during this process, which caused the Naga to be reanimated as a skeleton and attack the party again

[@kaitokobayashi6394]

Cool

[@sorath1396]

I feel like there's a dumb joke to be made here but it's slipping my mind...

[@Mattmur0]

I guess that naga still had a bone to pick with you!

[@thetacopunch]

so what your saying is a naga is bassiclly that scene in TV shows where they flashback to key events to see that one character who was always in the background

[@defensivekobra3873]

Notable examples of the trope?

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

@@defensivekobra3873 saw.

[@DellikkilleD]

@@defensivekobra3873 Fringe

[@petedarock1521]

11:25 god: healing knight: just let me die

[@GlueEater-ix9gl]

STOP LET ME GO

[@clinthazzard7397]

I was just thinking about that after this video lol. "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"

[@Willyt-zz7sl]

Thsi whole series is oddly incredibly relaxing just learning history where you can make ideas and just think

[@zakd2124]

The part you were talking about human vs. elf bodies and you brought up The Dragon Prince... MAN I got excited! Excellent show.

[@yasarozcandilek]

10:39 Percy's Resurrection from Citical Role, nice addition dude :D

[@Jickton]

I also had to double take make sure what it was and then remember the scene actually play out...

[@alivecoy]

@@Jickton Same!

[@deSolAxe]

Yeah, I wasn't really paying attention to imagery but... then I was like... hmmm that grey dude looks like Grog... and i just had to rewind to check XD

[@Alargator]

High level wizards should be able to clone themselves and then use Wish to transfer their mind, soul, and abilities to the new, younger body. At least, that's what I've been told.

[@jamesborn3603]

I believe there is already a spell for that, except it's after the first body dies

[@BigBoi237]

Cough Clone Cough

[@michaelwicker9538]

@@jamesborn3603 I think that's only for necromancer magic. Using conjuration or evocation would be really interesting.

[@KuLaydMahn]

Is there not any magic that can make a character younger? Iirc, there are effects that age characters, so in a world of magic and gods that definitely exist it stands to reason that rejuvenating would exist. In fact, in his video on Sphinxes he mentions that they have the ability to increase or decrease a person's age, but it's mentioned in the context of manipulating time so it wasn't clear on whether that change in age also involves a correlating change in experience. I.e. making a person 20 years younger also erases all the experiences they've had in the last 20 years (or at least that person's memory of them, since actually erasing the experiences altogether would involve some game killing paradoxes). Still...if magic can make you older it seems like it could also make you younger, unless the rulebooks explicitly state otherwise.

[@xyro88]

Couldn't you just use a mind switch spell? Make a younger clone or bring up a child under your care and training for the soul purpose of changing body in the future?

[@fatalfury66]

10:38 That's Vox Machina! The resurrection of Percy! Good choice for pictures!

[@Loaderdani]

I was just thinking that.

[@Lucanoptek]

11:42 "A human body is only meant to last so much." Me a Oath Of Tha Ancients Paladin : *sweating*

[@mrkoolaiden239]

Yes! The DnD Lore is back! The wait is over

[@transeunte_]

Maaaan, I've been watching this channel for a few weeks, but for this video in particular I had to stop and comment to say I absolutely loved your narrative. Same for the dragon video series you really make it super interesting. Keep it going man you're awesome!

[@SterlingTurner]

YEEERRRRSSSS! I've been waiting for another DnD vid

[@TayGlorious]

Love that you are still doing D&D lore!

[@enanirwin2182]

Gods can keep mortals alive if they choose Eliminster lived well beyond a human life time.

[@DragonLordGabrielBrowncoat]

Enan Irwin yup and his information of the Goddess actually brings that up.

[@Geathsrighthand]

And had children with some crazy things like a song dragon

[@Nyrufa]

@@Geathsrighthand What was it's breath weapon? A death metal scream?

[@Geathsrighthand]

@@Nyrufa if i remember right it was a sonic boom. Just think hurricane type winds

[@Rikhardt99]

Thank you so much for making this series! I've always loved D&D and getting to know its more obscure lore is amazing.

[@JesusNikolai]

I’m so happy you didn’t stop doing this series. I really love your D&D videos

[@mosesfox52]

Loved the music in this video. Thanks so much for your work and delving into the ancient lore of these creatures.

[@eeveelovr133]

Nice video! It was great to learn about some more D&D stuff! Was certainly surprised to see art of a Flight Rising Coatl dragon at 7:42 but hey! nice touch :D

[@gracenblackwelder7727]

Yay you're still updating! This series is awesome and has given me so much inspiration for my home campaign!

[@rockclanhawkstar1454]

7:41 That is a Dragon from the game Flight Rising. It's a Coatl. :) Just wanted to make note of that. Great video BTW Love your work.

[@sanddry738]

WOOOOO more D&D! Always love how in depth these videos go into the lore and concepts. Great work as always!

[@swirlcrop]

I haven´t played D&D in years but your videos are so entertaining and bring back so many fond memories.

[@Kydrou]

i love these d&d videos

[@danielbrown9393]

High Quality, keep doing these and you'll cement yourself a good fanbase.

[@ericjimenez4360]

"Once your old age kicked in...." The clone spell would like a word with you

[@Aplesedjr]

Eric Jimenez pesky adventurers killing your inanimate clones would like a work with the clone spell.

[@meirwaxman350]

So, wait... at about 4:30 we learn that the Coatl god is one of the creatures formed from the World Serpent, but than in a another video, we learn that the Coatl god was one of the first two beings to exist.

[@skinnykin1]

What if a Tarrasque eats one? It's dead for good after that right?

[@kaitokobayashi6394]

Yep

[@stefanomartinelli7344]

@james Deer Tarrasque dies??? So for ever. A point to be made about this topic Is that the Tarrasque can permanently kill gods by destroyng the divine Essence. So, of It Is a god that brings them back to Life, It might be not possible for the god to revive them inside a Tarrasque, since the creature might destroy even the soul of the creature.

[@Nolifecoffeeaddict]

@james Deer tarrasque can literally eat God's

[@slimecatking5373]

All the replies are about what i wanted to point out.

[@asherdevin]

Apparently in 5e the Tarrasque is a wimp. No immunity to magic, no regen, no ranged attacks and the stomach acid is just regular acid. It's now killable by with polymorph and power word kill, goodberries, flying wizards, and clay golems, among other things. It's acid no longer destroys gods or artifacts, nor magical weapons or things immune to acid damage.

[@zbojca2006]

Hands down the best dungeons and dragons lore channel on YT, love your content man keep it up.

[@ic3c0ld_w3bb2]

Good video Bro keep up the good guys Content

[@Buffaloguy1991]

I'm so happy you are doing dnd stuff again

[@LolindirAncalimon]

I love your D&D monster series. That's why I subscribed, they always inspire! You go in such depth that I feel amazed about your knowledge. Bravo, cleric of Ioun. :D

[@Danodan94]

Please discuss more reptilian species and races, particularly the Yuan-Ti and lizardfolk!

[@OpenDistrict]

I love the D&D series please keep making them I know elder scrolls is a big part of your content but this is amazing

[@ender_lord1202]

I'm not really a fan of the D&D naga but I'm always so glad when I see one of your D&D videos.

[@Chonk123]

Glad to see this series back

[@ripinchaos906]

Loved the video but you forgot one of the most important parts of reviving/resurrecting a person. Their soul needs to be free and willing to return, so you could theoretically slay a naga forever by trapping and consuming (read as using, not necessarily eating it via phylactery), or destroying its soul.

[@McDom023k]

A great video, I really enjoy this series, gets me thinking of how I can use such creatures in my campaigns down the line

[@porkchop3907]

Big fan of your dnd vids, looking forward to the next one man

[@JoeStoryteller]

Im now a huge fan of this series; I would like to see a group of lore videos around the various campaign settings, particularly Planescape and Eberron

[@carloss3499]

6:38 so hinting the time humans went to the astral sea, to then later be enslaved becoming the Gith

[@clinthazzard7397]

space lizards

[@EmethMatthew]

This is so cool. I didn't know all these details about the Creator races... Very interesting...

[@brade3092]

An episode on revinants, or maybe just different specific types of specialized undead would be really cool. Maybe monsters that track and relentlessly pursue their prey across great distances?

[@willbowman8245]

Pls continue making these d&d lore videos

[@GameJunkiez]

I love your D&D videos my dude, keep up the great work!

[@SirRichardOwen2]

Lore play and D&d? This is amazing

[@Charlie.G506]

Rhexx, love your videos man, great work

[@VitinhoSilvagostosao]

I freaking love this vídeos!

[@TrueInvisible]

beautifully well done! lore filled and thoughts filling! thanks very much!

[@bryanfisher1788]

"A mortal body is mortal, and that will never be change" -MrRhexx "If only our queen let us unleash the full might of the swarm... we would change that matter very quickly. Because we the swarm always evolves" -Abathur (before being killed for commenting the queen of blades leadership)

[@tony.v.g]

Oath of the Ancients(paladin 5e) make you an "Undying Sentinel" and you have none of the drawbacks of old age. Sooooo your god can ressurect you again and again and you suffer no drawbacks. win-win

[@loganshort7334]

Late reply, but "None of the drawbacks of old age" does not mean "immunity to old age" You'd just reach however long you're supposed to live and then die in your prime

[@tony.v.g]

I never said you get more years to live. But if you can live forever but have the drawbacks of the elderly, then this saves you.

[@CederichHower]

The Weaver, the Wyld, and the Wyrm! call the Werewolves we have found wyrm taint!

[@omlo9093]

I thought you would never do D&D lore videos ever again! Finally - more about a relevant franchise than irrelevent such as whatever Bugthesda is doing.

[@LinWasTaken]

fantastic work, so much detail.

[@Mario-qu6ro]

hey rhexx after the meridia loreplay i went on and read some lore and found something MIchael Kirkbride said about connection between meridia and kyne. I dont understand it completely but maybe it makes sense to you. Here it is: On Meridia: What no one has ever seen is the connection between Meridia and Kyne. Let that sink in. What do they-- when connected-- both govern? Think about KotN. One made the Knight, one opposed the Knight. One rained forever because he was gone. One said, no I will wait until he comes back. Quit mixing up gods and demons. They are just emotions. In magic, those are real feels. Meridia is the color of his return when curtained by rain. That blink in your eye when the postcard isn't answered? That weird huff in your chest when you're waiting for THAT text? That whole night you wait and force sleep so the morning comes? And you hear rain on the window pane and figure, fine, they weren't listening. Today isn't the day? WRONG. That's the day when you never knew you were at your best. You surrendered. You walked about, called a cab, or turned on the monitor to read the net, or walked the dog because at least the dog always listens. Took a shower, got MORE shit in your eye. Walked to the corner store to get saline because you didn't last night and you really have to put your contacts in. Worse, you're a parent now. With cataracts. And the only way your children easily talk to you is a phone screen, which you can only make out in color. A thing you can not quite perceive anymore, so your other sense compensate for it. Can't see right? Ears will for you. Can't hear right? Eyes will for you. Can you see the admixture of color and sound yet? You sense it. If even you can only taste the one that's gone. That's your only Memory and touchstone. Otherwise, why would you wait? Hope has a color and a sound and a taste and a touch and 11 more sense you don't know you have yet. And this is why you worship them. The gods and demons beyond your control. They went through it before you. They are your ancestors, and this is in the blood. They are your Aedra/Daedra. And sometimes their names get mixed up. Still the same: they show you the path. Even as an orphaned star, you will get HOME again. You always have your birthsign. Rejoin with it. That's your family. The star signs of the magic that rules this world. They know the way. All you have to do is look, hear, touch, taste or feel for their presence. It's in their job description.

[@KIllerOfBacon]

11:34 *existential dread increases* 12:48 Oh hey, Nagas! Forgot we were talking about those. Please continue...

[@Real_Iron_Smith]

These creator races are wild, Love seeing what they did and could do.

[@male272]

The picture at 2:11...Typical Newfoundland Dog...curiously friendly towards literally everything.

[@400and4]

>A human will live for it's human lifespan and that will be that. "Laughs in philosopher's stone"

[@danhammybazam2112]

Been waiting for more D&D lore

[@wiebevanherwijnen2276]

I love the fact that your videos always bring something more then what is in the books. I know there are wiki's out there, but i don't like the reading. So this is perfect!

[@ArchPendragon]

D&D series is great! Awesome Job man

[@vazak11]

Really neat stuff!

[@lordm0918]

Great video! Can you please do one with brief overview on several lesser known kinds of dragons.

[@alonkidroni141]

And here I was just about to use Naga in my campaign... Damn I waited for this video!

[@masenguerra7835]

Yesssss another D&D video!

[@evannibbe9375]

There’s a kind of magic you can use without using clerical spells or high magic to live indefinitely as the same human: cast the 9th level Conjuration Gate and call out the true name of the man on Earth (our Earth, not Toril) who reversed aging in mice: David A. Sinclair. Then with him around, he can direct your use of fabricate spells (or casting True Polymorph on a pig to make the appropriate objects for more complex things that go past the “high skill” prohibitions on Fabricate uses) to make all of the tools and buildings necessary to make the biological materials necessary to edit your cells to: 1) remove the human retroviruses. 2) utilize 3 of the 4 stem cell factors to literally undo aging.

[@Amathu]

This was like a Vsauce video, teaching you WAY more than you thought before you even realize

[@thorshammer7883]

What do you think about the lore behind the Low Elder gods of the SCP Foundation website?

[@Pharaphel]

I think I watched all dragon videos but only now I finally realized all that "trasher" is actually "treasure". Really thought It's some DnD term for hoarding wealth :)

[@hunterotte4085]

I remember about that rebirth process, there was an ancient necromancy based society in one campaign I was in. The main antagonist was the royal alchemist who was tricked by the king into making a trap for himself. The bottle had a liquid you drank and past that point- so long the bottle remain in one piece your soul will be put in the bottle after death and anyone who drinks or sniffs your spirit must roll a WIS save (15+souls proficiency modifier) or they instantly died via getting their soul ripped from their body and the bottled soul took over. The liquid attaching to the soul and anchoring to the bottle, basically meaning- infinite usage if used once. It took Red dragon scales (given I was a level 10 rogue, almost died, took its egg though! XD), Pheonix feathers (I almost caught it, luckily a shadow dragon was summoned at the exit- killing it for me), and the last ingredient took me foraging in the undead kingdoms capital in the main antagonists alchemy room for a special refined-powdered mushroom. I almost got mind controlled but got an insanely lucky nat 20 CON save, my tiefling blood just lit on fire and killed all these mind controlling worms the alchemist made a long time ago. And the main antagonist (who we didn't know was bad yet) actually made me the potion free of charge if he got to keep the extra ingredients left over, and even helped me hatch the red dragon egg. The npc's were the only ones who actually treated me with respect sadly... I joined him at the end as I simply like him more than the group who undermine all my plans, ideas, and solutions. He WAS apparently easy alone, with me added to his side it made for a very interesting fight so no one was angry and actually understood they could have treated my character better in the aftermath. It was a draw in a way, everyone but me and the weakest team member were dead- him was bleeding out with his last 5 hp. I was turned into an imp... I guess I technically won as I got out and lived with a imp colony I helped build- my best friend being the literal king of the ever growing colony, and the last member later died from his wounds.

[@evanhaukenfrers4765]

It's really interesting watching this shortly after the video on Asmodeus. It broaches the question: Is the lore contradictory, or is Asmodeus' true self an aspect of the former World Serpent? Even if he is, there are some aspects that still seem like they might be contradictory.

[@baronbeat2210]

I’d love it if you had video explaining the monstrosity creature type. Like explaining how to make a monster.

[@kosmasmolntovan2705]

awesome, as a dm your videos really kickstart my imagination. Please keep 'em coming :D

[@danilopez5600]

what about the demogorgon? I guess there are lots of videos about this,but i love how you present the lore. Also the forgotten realm gods would make a nice list

[@NobodyDungeons]

so for one of my campaigns I had a Naga guarding a library from anyone who would miss use the knowledge contained within and as time went on people who were worthy would be allowed to enter the library and take what knowledge they were permitted to take from the library and eventually the library was empty so with nothing to protect and having created a spell that gave it perfect memory using the information in the library the Naga gained a level of free will akin to the humanoid races as such it began to observe and question things delving into philosophy and learning more and more eventually making piece with a town of people and acting as a sort of adviser from the town

[@chrisrobo1]

One gods option to keep you going past your normal years is making you young again. In the Elminster series mystral turned him young when he was near death thus alowing him to continue

[@spencerjhette3518]

Love these man

[@MrNocturnalEmission]

Yo these Nagas crazy.

[@jeffphillips1832]

Nagas trippin!

[@AngelRaivan8579-xh4fr]

Naga stole my bike.

[@djjeeveslarue3499]

Naga please

[@adent6x7]

love me some dnd lore!

[@kostaskladis6665]

At long last! Another D&D video

[@001shadowknight]

hmm monks have timeless body feat, any caster can wish for said feat, a wizard can use the clone spell to keep reverting back to young age, the wish spell could even be used to remove that restraint of entropy as well.

[@hmnhntr]

Typically, in lore, most immortality still eventually breaks down. Otherwise there'd be tons of people from past eras running around

[@YaBoiMeatBallze]

You think a Couatl video would be possible? I have a celestial warlock with a Couatl patron, and I wanna know more about them.

[@AceTaxiaGaming]

Seeing Rayla and Callum has me hyped for season 3

[@ludwigerlebach9170]

Yaaaay another d&d video let’s goooo!

[@slipperyfish]

The Clone spell doesn't say old age isn't a viable way to die and come back in the clone, just that when you die your soul goes to the clone.

[@hmnhntr]

It's a thing from older editions that they didn't keep in the text in 5e for some reason. You didn't used to be able to make the clone younger, either. No idea why they changed that.

[@xxmarcosxx88]

d&d's back! Finally!

[@a.morphous66]

11:43 No matter how many times you are revived, your mortal body will decay before Season 4 of The Dragon Prince comes out.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Wass up my nagas?

[@wrxorion3955]

Love your content!!

[@willdavis3802]

Also seen in this series... "The GOD Cronus is the most powerful Godlike being in all the Realms" Also Rhexx "the God Moradin is the most powerful Godlike being."

[@eldritchlibrary3280]

Halfway through the music used is the same as my alarm. I spent too long being confused as to why my alarm was going off.

[@jerrin1528]

WOOT WOOT hes back!