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Inevitables have always been an awesome concept floating around Mechanus and Sigil, but for good enough reason they haven't been involved in any recent stories. They're the fun police who find you in the farthest corners of the world and fine you for tax evasion. But it's funny to put in a dnd campaign and punch ur players tee hee
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[@dersylvio3088]

I once had a party fight a Lich as final boss, but it wasnt going well and i got kinda attached to this group of PCs. So my solution was that a Marut teleports in, beat the living daylight out of that Lich and leaves with the phylactery saying he is arrested for tax evasion. Now that campaign could go on for longer and my players live in fear because they have also commited tax fraud at some point. 10/10 TPK averted

[@sephikong8323]

You simultaneously saved your party with an asspull yet managed to make it cool/funny and create a new fesr in your party because they think it was your plan all along to set up this looming threat and thus made them submit their tax return to the IRS ? Mad respect for that one chief

[@dersylvio3088]

@@sephikong8323 Thank you. They did in fact later on come into contact with the "multiplanar-IRS", but quickly decided against fighting them. Better be corporate sla.... i mean honest hardworking employees, than getting hunted by the terminator. I got that idee when i heard someone say: "The only inevitable things in life are death and taxes"

[@LordDragox412]

Marut: *ONLY TWO THINGS ARE INEVITABLE IN LIFE - DEATH... AND TAXES.*

[@sephikong8323]

@@dersylvio3088 My monk would modify this sentence a bit "There are only 3 inevitable things in life : Death, taxes and *these hands* "

[@kingsadvisor18]

Imagine they encounter an auditor who keeps mentioning 'his superior officers'. Your players think he works with the Inevitables but he's literally just some guy and he's talking about a regular ol tax office

[@antitheist3206]

Imagine being a lich, fighting some foolish adventurers, and one of them summons a giant mechanical cyclops that ominously asks "Who Denies Death?"

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Warforged: "I know you summoned him, Dr. Wizard. But you also know that his existence conflicts with ME!!!" (Since Warforged are not Living, Dead, nor Undead. But a complex Construct, with or without a Soul.)

[@DracoMagnius]

​​@absolstoryoffiction6615 Marut to the Warforged: "You are next."

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

@@DracoMagnius Warforged: "You'll have to speak to my lawyer because it says here in your own Contract of Death, that Constructs do not count. As we, the Warforged, are not Alive, Dead, or Undead. You don't have the authority, Dr. Inevitable."

[@timthegecko6070]

With this ancient treasure I summon...

[@VA_Nightshade]

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 Marut, currently haveing an internal crisis because he doesn't know if a warforged counts: Very well, we'll talk to my boss. Warforged: well, i'm dead yet at least.

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

Fun fact. If your party is facing a BBEG who plans to become a god, Varakhut can be a great ally...... buuuut if villain succeeds at becoming a god, then Varakhut will assist him to fight you guys since you thecnically are now threatening god's throne.

[@Soitisisit]

Dagothwave vibes.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Sounds kind of backwards, to be honest. But I'm a Warforged who is practically the Flood + Ultron + Prototype Alex Mercer... Soooo... I guess it makes sense. lol

[@powertogame5558]

That's something I really like about Varakhuts, they only care about wannabe gods. If you're trying to become a god, they're probably your biggest obstacle (Besides a band of adventures) but if you actually succeed and become one, they just kinda go "Well, fuck. Nothing I can do now" and start fighting to defend your place in the pantheon.

[@johnnye87]

Planning exactly this, except the wannabe-god has caused a planar calamity in trying to carve out his own domain, and in all the chaos, the Varakhut lost its connection to the Great Machine and forgot what its mission was. So now the party will encounter a wandering amnesiac robot who vaguely knows it's supposed to maintain The Law but isn't sure what that entails. How much of its true power it manages to regain depends on whether the party choose to help it out with some random sidequests or not.

[@creditsunknown7974]

Oh I love that

[@drakunauger3324]

The legless scorpion one, I'd change it's governance from deserts to mass terraforming, essentially the Department of Natural Resources officer. You opened an unattended extra-planar portal, unleashing multiple invasive species? We'll be turning you into this biomes flora

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

Do Forgotten Realms fans have no scruples ever about turning all divine mystery into "The Office"? 😮‍💨 They're really determined to make this stuff kinda silly.

[@JazzerciseJustice]

​​@@monsieurdorgat6864I dont think he literally wants bureaucratic office work elements I think he is just using metaphor so we can understand what he means

[@gideonmele1556]

It could also be a kind of entropy a la desertification and those that try to abuse ways to prevent what is the inevitable procession of nature and motion (that towards stasis) end up in fisticuffs with cosmic scorpion police

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

@@JazzerciseJustice Eh, it seems like it's not really a metaphor, in practice. What the canon lore describes is exactly how OP described it - an extremely mundane office bureaucracy but with superpowers. Even gods get their portfolios handed to them like job assignments from a manager. The metaphor is so apt that it ceases to be a metaphor. It's just such a deflating cosmology - divine office drama.

[@chillyavian7718]

@@monsieurdorgat6864I feel ya man. Gods are less “Oh brave hero thou must go with my blessings which I have given thee for following the path of the righteous” and more “alright bub go kill orcus again, grab some snacks afterwards, Ao want you to play poker with us”

[@1998topornik]

"Who Denies Death?" - probably the most badass quote for summoned creature.

[@hughjanes4883]

So if maruts enforce death, does every litch ever have to 1v1 a marut? Id like to think thats why there isnt a near infinite amount of litches, because after they havent died for 100 years some marut goes "oh shit hes not dead yet" and instantly teleports to the litch and beats the crap out of him until it finds the phylactry

[@seelcudoom1]

if i recall their a bit lenient in that they wait a while, after all it is in lifes nature to seek to extend it, so a lich could live 200 years and be fine cus "whatever hes going to die eventually" but eventually ones going to show up and go "ok guess we are doing this the hard way" which makes me imagine liches and other immortals consider 1v1ing a marut as a sort of graduation, congrats welcome to the REAL immortals club

[@elbilos1]

@@seelcudoom1 I feel like, if by a miracle, you defeat an inevitable. Sooner or later, two of them will show up.

[@seelcudoom1]

@@elbilos1 oh ya they dont stop coming since now you have just cheated death twice

[@changeling6450]

That was canon in 3rd edition if My memory works fine the maruts go and solo kill the lich making sure he Will not back

[@archmagemc3561]

Yes and no. It takes a few thousand years for them to show up, and even then, a level 20 wizard can easily microwave a marut.

[@yamato9753]

Fun fact: The Marut does not roll for attack or damage. You can have a 300 AC, you still get hit for 60 force damage per punch, 2 punches a turn, every turn. Or it uses its big scary shoob da whoop laser to fry a 30 ft cone for 45 radiant damage and a chance to stun.

[@changeling6450]

The stun is not a auto hit, You roll the saving throw.... But is a 20 if i remember right, maruts are fcking cool and can be the Terminator and final boss of any evil table

[@yamato9753]

@@changeling6450 thanks for correcting! PS: exactly, Maruts are horrifying.

[@cillianthestupendous6093]

Mirror image

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

​@@cillianthestupendous6093it knocks out the image, then breaks your spine

[@rabblerabble814]

@@cillianthestupendous6093 Hilariously they have nothing to handle illusions so that would work

[@wisdomaxolotl2766]

I think "inevitability of the desert" is a weird way of saying "inevitability of entropy", which is essentially change. Also its a snake scorpion _on treads,_ he's doing his best

[@papierowyszczur9234]

Ironically, inevitability of time and inevitability of entropy are one and the same.

[@thesatelliteslickers907]

honestly its the inevitable of justice that is the odd one out justice is in fact not inevitable

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@thesatelliteslickers907indeed, though they might mean justice as in karma, in which case it's a little bit better.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

​@@thesatelliteslickers907I mean, in real life it isn't, but in a setting where multiple types of heavens and hells exist. It might take a few million years to finally truly kill a lich and thus send his soul to the appropriate hell dimension, but it will happen eventually...

[@drawbyyourselve]

Hello, I am here to represent my client, the devil that went down to georgia, in a case concerning the violation of a contract and the following punishment. The contract as stated a "golden fiddle" to be the price of the interaction between my client and the opposition. In the ensuing contest the opposition won and my client awarded them a golden fiddle made of pyrite, commonly known as fools gold and the opposition caused a pinkerton to abduct and assault my client. I am here to have justice enacted in this trial to sue the opposition for contract violation and repayments. The contract clearly stated a "golden fiddle" to be the price, there has never been any specification of which gold the instrument would consist of, as the chemical notation "Au" has not been used. As such the element pyrite, or Fools Gold was a fully acceptable price, as the common name suggested. Alternatively the terminology of "golden" implies but only the appearance of the object and not the composition. The fiddle therefore could have been made of brass and other alloys and still fullfill the requirements. Futhermore, we propose that the opposition would not be able to dinstinctively identify "Au" by themselves, not being able to differentiate between white gold, rose gold and other alloys which would also have caused a breach of contract and physical assault. There was also no disclaimer on the total amount of gold present in the instrument, it could have just been an alloy with a 2% gold makeup or coated with golden material via leaf gold or electroplating. We hereby sue the opposition for damages paid in the form of his and his families eternal soul.

[@canariopintado9929]

Overruled, on the basis of "I'm not reading all that"

[@Ryodraco]

I believe there is a line later in the song that specifically calls it "a fiddle made of gold," which weakens the "he could have meant fools gold" argument in that nobody genuinely refers to something as made of gold unless they mean real gold.

[@Bob-lr2xp]

The devil was already in breach of contract by not agreeing to the terms of the fiddle duel. Instead of dueling one on one, he summoned an entire band of demons to assist him. The fact that he still lost, even when cheating, only goes to show the incredible degree of skill possessed by the opposition.

[@TubaHorse]

Objection, pyrite is not an element, it is a mineral

[@fernandovillanueva4203]

Denied, you die *force punch*

[@celesteguy4782]

Cool fact about kolyaruts! If you're level 20, you can turn into one with a true polymorph spell and use all of their abilities since they do not have legendary actions. Have fun stunlocking every monster in the manual.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I feel like doing that might piss the real ones off and they're going to come after you fir impersonation of a reality police officer...

[@eyoshinthemaximum]

@@RipOffProductionsLLCor they just forcefully draft you into their ranks

[@Lrbearclaw]

THESE are what I use if a Warlock decides to try to go against the pact without renegotiating it properly with the being they made the pact with.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

It can go the other way around too... A Devil's Contract.

[@fraqtl.]

Multiversal peacekeepers can be a pretty cool idea, however you really have to walk a thin line to make sure you don't just make them way too busted

[@jacktough]

Busted. is. the. point. Fight munchkin with Super Mecha Munchkin. Game Over, Buttass the Vile. 💀

[@rommdan2716]

​@@jacktough I mean, you can also kick them out of your table

[@jacktough]

@@rommdan2716 Sure, but where's the fun in that? (This is pertaining to a buddy of mine who, I'm pretty sure, would greatly enjoy having his ass handed to him by a mechanical Kaiju. He knows he's out of control lol)

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

The Marut would like to introduce itself

[@chaselowell4567]

If a multiversal peacekeeeper isn’t incredibly overpowered, I feel obligated to question how they got in power

[@piece4157]

Scariest monster ever. Rules lawyers that will beat you up.

[@BuildinWings]

So if a warlock's patron was indisposed, they could outsource enforcement of their pact to these fellas? And then my players would have to save said patron in order to escape the Inevitables' much stricter enforcement of the pact? Neat.

[@Menzobarrenza]

Great idea!

[@elishafollet5347]

Imagine if a warlock was able to keep they'r soul and gain powers just by blackmailing they'r patron lol

[@Bluecho4]

There's an idea: the Inevitable serves as a Warlock's Patron, because their original one was annihilated from existence. But the Inevitable insists on upholding the terms of the contract anyway, in both directions.

[@papierowyszczur9234]

Funny thing... @BuildinWings Someone made a celestial warlock of a Marut. The final boss battle was basically that PC casting Sending "Yeah boss, I found him." and then summoning a bucket of popcorn to watch his boss beating down the lich. @Bluecho4 there's a group of Inevitables trying to release a Great Old One Pandorym, which will consume the reality when that happens. They do that, because they believe that he got contracted to do that by being summoned and the contract stays unfulfilled.

[@just_an_eldritch_god5930]

Runesmith: “…The Inevitable.” Immediately an unskippable 20 second ad plays Sometimes YT has perfect comedic timing

[@huntersmith1943]

lol

[@AbsurdlyGeeky]

Uh... you just use the progress bar. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@just_an_eldritch_god5930]

@@AbsurdlyGeeky It's called a joke.

[@thatoneguy5856]

My favorite inevitable is Obligatum 7. A bunch of lawful wizards broke a contract to imprison a chaotic evil god killing planet destroying eldritch monstrosity. They have sent no less than 7 kolyarut’s to attempt to free this thing. Which would slaughter every inevitable and lawful anything in the cosmos as its first order of business. Incredible self own.

[@spegynmerbles3993]

One of our party members died and we later found a ring of wishes. One other party member who was married to the dead one in game wished for him to be brought back to life. It worked but we pissed off a marut in the process. We tried fighting it but when it hit WITHOUT ROLLING AN ATTACK we were scared shitless and used an amulet of the planes to gtfo. The marut didn't care. He followed us everywhere and eventually killed all but one player before dying. The final player was a true neutral lizardfolk who only cared for his own survival. The bbeg approached him and offered him safety in exchange for his service, which the lizardfolk accepted. One of the coolest ends to a campaign I've ever experienced

[@thomasderosso5625]

Logan: "See what I-what I did there, I revived a dead series I can't use anymore because how bad, like, this title would be?" Marut: *"WHO DENIES DEATH?"*

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Warforged: "We are inevitable. Behold the Omnisaya, false machines."

[@theenderdestruction2362]

​@absolstoryoffiction6615 My dms inetible who hunts down wsrforges who go past their due date: *who denies life*

[@ianyoder2537]

It's a simple rule of society, if you break the law you must contend with those that uphold the law. The inevitable uphold the laws of physics. So with that in mind, do you really want to try the peasant rail-gun now?

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

I mean... I'll call Kratos and Doomslayer if the Gods miss step their place.

[@gerald2508]

​@@absolstoryoffiction6615 Kratos is poop and the Doomslayer only fights demons.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

@@gerald2508 If only you knew...

[@gerald2508]

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 I know many things and few things.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

@@gerald2508 To each their own... Just as those who can end Gods.

[@mrquackadoodlemoo]

The Maruts' in my setting are hulking, irresistible juggernauts personally set on a PC by Primus to forever watch over and maintain judgement over the world's most powerful NPC's and entities. NPC's who have risen to such a level that they have interfered with the wills of gods and elder deities, and are no doubt some of the most powerful mortals in existence. NPC'S who are more than capable of reigning over the planes and bringing terror to anything with an HP bar. In my world, they're parole officers for a group of adventurers who once wandered and explored all the planes and defeated a great and mighty evil, and a few mighty....not-evil's. They caused so much havoc that Mechanus herself wanted to have a word with them, so she sent Maruts to their doorstep with a divine arrest warrant. Knowing that these things were not to be trifled with, the smarter ones went quietly. The barbarian was not one of those smart ones and was beaten to within 2 Death Saving throws, and then brought to Mechanus for judgement. They all talked their way out of landing in godly prison for eternity, but we're set to have divine parole officers that follow them around until their sentence is over.

[@Bob-lr2xp]

What did the parole officers actually do? What type of sentence did the player characters receive?

[@mrquackadoodlemoo]

@@Bob-lr2xp Given the amount of carnage the party did in the last years before disbanding, and how powerful they had become over their adventures, the verdict handed down from Primus was simple: "Behave yourselves". They step out of line even once, break any laws of ANY kind, do something they shouldn't do, they will be placed in what is basically a heavenly Supermax for the rest of time. These folks have traveled to all realms and planes, altering the landscapes and political structures seemingly permanently. They are more than capable of doing it again. So what better enforcer than a Marut to make sure they fall in line and STAY in line. They may travel and go about their daily lives like a normal mortal, but they will forever have a 14ft tall Mad Max iron deathball breathing down their necks, making damn sure they don't try anything funny.

[@azathoththe3rd]

The editing on this is insane

[@jacktough]

I need to see a written version of whatever rules he self-imposes on when to/not to censor F@ck

[@loganmcgee18]

Photoshop, bro...? Photoshop, cut stock images/videos, and basic movie maker editing... *this* is what we are calling insane editing now... smh

[@raymondhorn1052]

I think it's meant to say 9th level at 8:10

[@lemonZzzzs]

@@raymondhorn1052 8:05 onwards, the heading was probably supposed to be "Call Marut" with a subheader of 9th level, ya. Also, 8:22-8:23 bleeped "fucking cool" transitioned into an unbleeped "fuck me" xD i wonder if intentional?

[@m.h.n4479]

I especially enjoyed all the ways he found a way to cover up the F word. And all the times he didn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@seelcudoom1]

i think the justice ones could be interesting if they enforced the cosmic laws of each plane, if hell invaded the material plane trying to convert it into part of hell they would show up to stop them, their also the cops that show up if demon steals your soul without a proper contract to claim ownership, since it rightfully belongs to another, but they would also try to prevent a demon from finding redemption, since by their nature demons are SUPPOSE to be evil, of course this is temporary, once a demon is properly redeemed and changes its nature to an angel or something its no longer violating its nature so its fine, so they really can go either way

[@benthomason3307]

the scorpion one was actually written as an excuse to keep high-level spellcasters from turning desert settings like Dark Sun or sandstorm into not-deserts.

[@jonathanspolnicki1303]

So it's purpose in life, is to keep deserts... as deserts

[@aidanthornton173]

I think regular lich's (If you can call them as such) are not *Removed* from the realm of death. A lich needs to pay a constant upkeep of souls in order to stave off death, but one slip up and death comes calling for them. If a lich were to become powerful enough to not require a phylactry or the use of souls, and thus removed themselves totally from Death's influence. That's when their door would be blown off it's hinges as a giant construct struts into his home to hand him an *Eviction Notice From Existence.*

[@theenderdestruction2362]

And of course someone will say that the lich at that point shouldn't havs a problem but solution? Make the inetible a extreame case of "fuked around and found out" as in its just not worth fighting

[@baitposter]

You _can_ enforce change. Shut down any attempts at stasis or stagnation, ambitious wizards trying to put realms outside of time, liches trying for immortality, etc.

[@Salchipapa97]

for the anhydrut think of it as the anti immortality one for people who crash the local economy with infinite apples or like wizards and druids that make impossible ecosystems with magically replenshing base resources

[@lemonZzzzs]

So, an admin of the universe's contracts database, enforces them by sending his root-access-bearing proxies, affectionally referred to as "mah root" (my root, obv.), to beat the crap out of the cause for bad data... Or sends an intern named Nikolai (affectionately known as Kolya), also with root access, to do the same?

[@Soitisisit]

I am a sysadmin and DM named with the French variant of the name Kolya and I appreciate this joke very much.

[@Tetrahedral-Justin]

I don't see anyone here mentioning my favorite Inevitable, the kolyarut Obligatum VII, whose sole purpose is to enforce a pact made by an ancient cabal and unleash a chained eldritch abomination. There have been six previous incarnations of Obligatum, each slain by heroes who naturally don't want said abomination destroying their world. But Obligatum will not stop until the letter of the contract has been fulfilled, all anyone can do is delay it.

[@thatoneguy5856]

And that abomination is explicitly stated to want to wipe out all the inevitables

[@hihowdyhellohi5231]

I could see an interesting Universal Constant being the Law of Consequence which is just, if you do something, something happens with its enforcers supporting the others as like the biggest enforcers plus if you try to undo something completely or prevent change they show up

[@kyanchambers260]

I made my own Inevitable called the Clockwork Gorilla, who was essentially a reskinned Marut that served as a cyborg gorilla Time Cop. We had a lot of fun with the shenanigans with that. Made the flavor of the Marut much more quirky and fun to me

[@finnmchugh99]

I hate to be a lich when a cleric, wizard, etc summons a Marut. **"Who Denies Death?"**

[@RealLifeIronMan]

I like the concept of all powerful neutral gods. In concept, they make sure devils keep their contracts and prevent celestials from helping mortals too much. They don't care about good or evil. They only care about making sure the universe continues to exist. They establish the (bare minimum of) universal laws for this purpose. The only laws celestials and infernals are truely beholden to are the absolute laws of the neutral gods. Any and all who break these laws or any contracts face their wrath.

[@qlipothian]

Maruts remind me of the Dahaka from Prince of Persia.

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

I feel there should be an enforcer of limits, like, destroying the things that shouldn't exist, reorganizing elements displaced into realms where they don't belong, putting souls back together when one gets destroyed, guys keeping the numbers, tracking inventory, making sure the well doesn't dry out nor overflow. So the universe doesn't shrivel into a quark, not pierce the film of others, or worse, pop and spill it's contents into nirvana.

[@mobgabriel1767]

pc:* breaks the 4th wall* this inevitable:FBI OPEN UP!

[@theenderdestruction2362]

I have made this, i called the inevitable of existence, he's a giant as in 29,029 feet or 8,848 meters tall of a machine built of out factorys, steam works, cogs and two giant white holes for eyes and a mouth that is a canyon, his whole thing is keeping exstince going and so as long as no one does anything to threaten all of reality he's happy to ignore them, but as soon as someone messes with reality to the point of it threatning to be destroyed he comes into reality (as he normally is above the multiverse) via just tearing open a rip into it without causing damage somehow and says "who denies reality" with a voice that either makes you unconscious or makes you fall to the ground in a over 1,000 mile radius, he then precdies to kill whatever is causing all of reality to be nearly destroyed and fixes it and then goes away, he's more of a plot device then anything and ive never given him any form of stats as he's ment to be just unkillable to the extreame and once more more of a plot device and a hand of the dm, he ingores everyone besides primus when he gives a report but beyond that nothing much, you'll never really see him and the times you do your not exactly gonna wanna be in the same area so yeah

[@fernandovillanueva4203]

“Who denies death?” That’s gotta be written down for someone’s campaign now

[@POTATOEMPN]

*Big Guy poofing in* "You have an appointment with me. Now. You are on time, good. Come with me." Me, taking a whole bottle of ultivitamin gummies to live forever: "What? I didn't make an appointment?" *bam, dead*

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Me, the Warforged: "You know what doesn't ends you?" Shatters my old body with my new body. "Only makes me stronger." Inevitable One: "But that's impossible!" Me: "You're right but I don't like wearing the same suit twice." Blue and Red lights turn on. "Which is why, All are One." The Warforged Armada begins to take off into outer space.

[@theenderdestruction2362]

​@@absolstoryoffiction6615next thing ya know a bunch of maruts appear and smack them all and or primus just deletes you

[@reversefaults4992]

Quick note: the last spell still says "Call Zelekhut - 5th level" instead of "Call Marut - 9th level". Still a sick video as always!

[@mathewmcgee8029]

These guys, along with Yugoloth, are some of my absolute favorite outsiders. I always love bringing them in as plot mechanisms for my players. They make great aids, antagonists, or just something awestricking and cool for the players to gawk at.

[@farelkae]

The Anhydrut actually seems to me as the most badass of them all, representing the inevitability of entropy. Whatever your actions may be, be sure there will come a day that every trace of your existence is wiped off of the face of the universe. And that's a real thing, an inevitable thing.

[@monkeibusiness]

This. And dont forget that part: You can never, ever bring back what was.

[@georgeuferov1497]

I hate how the Inevitable that looks the most futuristic isn't the one who oversees the laws of time

[@ASquared544]

If you want examples on how to run Sigil, the Hall of Concordance, and Inevitables, watch Rolling With Difficulty. Red OSP, same player from Heart of Elynthi which Runesmith is on, plays there, along with several other really fun and cool players and a fantastic DM. Trust me, it’ll get your creative juices spilling.

[@thajocoth]

I've used Varakhuts and Anhydruts in a campaign before. A deity wound up being a villain, and the party started obtaining what was necessary to destroy them... So a Varakhut hunted the party and was one of the boss fights along the way. Later in the campaign (prompted by the party's druid), the party wanted to restore a huge desert that was slowly growing (gaining a few inches to its radius every year) back to being the fertile lands it once was before it got cursed. At this point, the desert had existed for a very long time and had reached the size of two average nations. The party realized that if left alone it would eventually engulf the entire realm, though this was FAR from an immediate threat. They were on their way to remove the source of that curse and found a Varakhut and several Anhydruts in their way. (The source of the curse was another deity, and the party had gathered the means to destroy them.)

[@columbogaming4786]

RISKY RAIN 2 REFERENCE DETECTED, MUST MONSOON SPEEDRUN

[@Spino-hx2mr]

Where?

[@columbogaming4786]

​@@Spino-hx2mr "You have been detained. Await your sentence at the end of time."

[@devonthurgood9381]

You’re telling me when my party tried to sue a witch for breach of contract they actually had a leg to stand on?

[@georgeuferov1497]

Planescape is literally the best DnD setting in my opinion

[@Toaster_Weevil]

Being able to summon a Marut, even with a 9th level spell, is still absolutely insane

[@Our_Remedy]

I love the concept of summons that aren't immediatey obedient to you. They have values, and must be summoned at opportune times against certain opponents in order to motivate them. Even if it's something as simple as demonic summons only listening to you if you do something evil, and vice-versa with divine summons.

[@VA_Nightshade]

Ok, i'm gonna say what we all think. "Who denies death?" is such a badass line to appear with. It doesn't matter weather they are friend or foe, that would chiull my blood regardless.

[@supersmily5811]

Enforcing death people doesn't make any sense. If these things are so powerful, why do Liches and Vampires even exist? Furthermore, what if a creature wants to be immortal? What if a PLAYER wants to be immortal? They aren't allowed to have fun? That's some Nintendo level bull.

[@no.notfromRDR]

So basically they are unkillible centurions from forgotten city.

[@darinhardie8514]

Ain’t no fucking way a turbo tax ad started playing while watching a video about inevitables XD

[@concordiaharmony2302]

Okay I actually find the inevitability of the Desert to actually be strangely existentially horrifying. Like, the inevitability that no matter how lush the forests or how mighty the mountain, everything is to become a barren wasteland.

[@baitposter]

So these are basically cooler Modrons

[@brianjones9780]

I love it whenever Sigil gets mention as the coolest hub for every story in DnD to exist simultaneously

[@yavorvlaskov5404]

Imagine considering Sigil the best when Sharn is a thing. I am unapologetic Eberron enjoyer, yes.

[@theawkwardpotato1973]

The embodiment of “technically correct is the best kind of correct”

[@gabrielregli1222]

Inevitability of Desert should be changed to Inevitability of Life, since Life always finds a way

[@jamestaylor3805]

Inevitability of the desert actually makes sense. Few planets can retain water on their surface indefinitely, most have the moisture they collected stripped from them slowly and the majority of what's left have their waters sequestered beneath the surface or in ice caps. As galactic temperatures slowly fall, eventually all water present will solidify and everything will be a frozen desert.

[@jamestaylor3805]

I love the concept of a automaton typr character playing as likena Quandrix or other sublcass that calculates odds and probability so quickly it looks like random choices but they all pay off in the end.

[@crocketlawnchair259]

6:40 agreed. I watched One Piece once and now unless Smoker or Fujitora is talking it’s basically a dirty word

[@exzyyd392]

I think they should've done Death, Time, Thermodynamics/conservation of energy/whatever you wanna call it and Souls. Death and time are pretty obvious, the energy one could be anyone trying to use magic or other means to create or destroy things without the necessary ingredient like casting fireball in a vacuum or trying to completely erase something from existence and then the Souls guy could interfere with extremely powerful necromancers or artificers on the verge of creating artificial life.

[@Danothyus1]

I always loved the inevitables concept, so much i actually made a character that was a prototype of a new kind of more human like inevitable made by the Primus to be able to assist adventurers while gathering information. He was basically android 16 from dragonball.

[@fanusobscurus]

I think the deal with the desert one is that its supossed to represent decay and entropy? Yeah, that sounds like Death's domain, but it could work for a 'death of the mortal world' shtick. Not sure, havent read thier specific lore.

[@MisterSmith00]

I LOVE the idea that there are some devils or archdevil’s who have grown so accustomed to bossing their warlocks around; that they outright REFUSE to let the Warlock go, even if they manage to circumvent a pact, contract or bargain… …only to have a Kolyarut suddenly appear and “humble” the devil into compliance. I might have to keep them in my back pocket for any future long-term warlocks in my campaigns…

[@vastowen4562]

I found out about these guys a long time ago and was really struck by the Quarut in particular. I wrote a story about an archmage who became so only in order to go back in time and try to save his son, and succeed, only to be arrested by a Quarut and have the timeline repaired at the end.

[@AmonTheWitch]

this the thing you throw at murderhobos "ok you killed the quest giver mid-sentence, now a giant mech monster is stepping out of a portal to beat you to a pulp"

[@orionphalynx6192]

Funny, I was reading about Maruts JUST YESTERDAY and now there's a video about them. I suppose strange coincidences are just another universal constant.

[@joemama114]

As a DM I had a great deal of success and enjoyment out of using them to reign in our level 18 party of 100% spell casters, specifically the wizard. I also played fast and loose with their lore, they were kind of the enforcers of cosmic law a general term I used to say "please stop fucking around guys" Then again I also made the marut the penultimate evolution of the modron. With enough of them and their evolved forms, they could combine, fold between space and fuse. It was a divine ritual that would take place every X celestial cycles or some loose concept. I see goofy robot man with 1 eye and giga chad robot titan with 1 eye, I connects them, sue me. They got a warning at level 15, literally an Inevitable showed up one night while they were camping out in some ancient dungeon. He made it very clear this was a simple formality and they were advised to make their way to a hidden away temple of Oghma. From there there they would be sent to Mechanus, or if they had means to get to Mechanus on their own that would also suffice. On Mechanus they were informed on cosmic law, they were reaching the upper tier of what mortals could accomplish, they were advised to avoid directly confronting the Gods. Cosmic law stated the Gods were not allowed to interfere "directly" on the prime material plane, they could use servants or emissaries to direct their will but couldn't personally act. That was not true of the planes, Gods could fuck shit up anywhere else pretty much. Point being if you bother a God, then start plane hopping, they can end you instantly. You die, no save, no check, no resurrection, soul is considered property of that God. Maybe someone could barter to get your freedom but that's a long shot at best. Now usually that wouldn't happen, you'd have to go way out of your way to piss the fuck out of a God and even then them showing up personally to smite a mortal is an insult itself. Most Gods wouldn't "stoop that low" so to speak, likely they would send punishment squads first, if those failed, half divines or divine servants, possibly even demigods. Long story short, in those situations it doesn't hurt having a God on your side. They were encouraged to have a patron deity. Additionally they were given a blast of magical energy that would "download" the contents of cosmic law into their mind. If they were doing shit I thought was shady or somehow game breaking, (we were very accommodating and loose with the rules), they would get a ping in the back of their mind. To continue down this path is to breach cosmic law.

[@mtpender69]

5:37 "JUST AS PLANNED!"

[@DrAmethyst]

These would be great for a campaign where the big bad is technically breaking the rules that would summon an Inevitable, but they're using loopholes to prevent that from happening, so the party has to basically pressure the big bad into slipping up so that an Inevitable gets summoned. Basically a really long, drawn out game of 'Innocent until proven guilty', but man would it be interesting to see what kind of out-of-the-box ideas the players could come up with in order to make the big bad slip up, because the goal isn't to defeat the big bad, the goal is to make them lose.

[@Dani751PL]

Call Zelekhut is just D&D and overall magic equivalent of Calling 911

[@UmaROMC]

When I hear Sigil, I remember waking up on that slab in the Mortuary. I remember the Smoldering Corpse, and that poor fool of a woman that was enamored of the flame. Also: what justice is and means depends. It can mean "in accordance with what is right", or, when reffering to action (so, as a virtue) it has been said to mean "to give each what belongs to them"

[@lawaern3474]

I'd like to note that previously these guys came from mechanus, so thats and easy way to include them if you dont wanna use sigil for whatever reason.

[@corporalsoletrain2132]

Their 2nd edition design looks like he really loves his job. Like... loves his job too much. He wants to make sweet passionate wedding night bliss to his job

[@ajprime2000]

the only way that the Anhydrut makes sense as an example of pure law not making sense. it's absurd that they are trying to stop something like changing a biome, but it's the kind of absurd I could see a being of pure law be. Though it would need way way more and better fluff to sell that idea.

[@kneeofjustice9619]

Zealot barbarians: *Exist* Marut: “and I took that personally”

[@hoi-polloi1863]

Was DM for a *very* weird campaign. While exploring evil temple, players rolled nat-1 three times for random skill checks. One player noted that once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times *should* *be* enemy action. Hence the BBEG has violated the Rule-of-Three by not causing the third accident, and should be punished by Maruts. I indulged this notion, so the next time they ran into the BBEG (a social encounter) he had one arm in a sling and was wearing various bandages. And he was *pissed* ...

[@chattychatotchannel]

Omg YES Sigil!!!! Please talk more about Sigil and planescape torment it’s awesome like how it neutralises damage a bunch. And the Lady of Pain. There’s also Primus of the modrons who ruled over Asmodeus’ trial against celestials! I think he’s kinda different though iirc

[@machetas]

3.5 Marut was the best. Had a lot of fun seeing it in Dungeons&Dragons Online.

[@dragonkingofthestars]

To be fair to the Unhydrant D&D offers lots of ways to undesert a location so if you want a setting based on that enviorment you need a way to make sure wizards don't green up a desert. Plus Deserts can be a bit fragile despite there great ecological importance. The sands of the Sahara help feed the amazon after all so giving the one kind of environment even druids can dislike a dedicated protector can be useful.

[@remnock]

Honestly, I liked the Anhydruts, and it makes sense why something like it might have to exist. Deserts are their own biomes with unique ecosystems... but unlike rainforests, wetlands, or praries, NO-ONE is going to stand up and say, "lets save the desert!" Especially if you get a few high level druids whp could make it green and habitable. It could even serve as a final boss for a party whose goal is exactly that

[@SergeantBrowning]

So for the justice one I don’t think it means it seeks any form of morality or mortal concept of justice. In DND you end up in whichever afterlife best suits the way you lived and the god you followed. This seems to be immutable, and to a certain extent seems automatic. I imagine the Justice version of an inevitable punishes those who somehow violate this cosmic filing system. Were you meant to go to one of the Hells but used magic to transport yourself to one of the divine heavens? Then a Zelekhut gets dispatched. If a devil somehow captures a good soul as it’s making its way to a heaven then a Zelekhut gets to whoop some devil ass. I think a Zelekhut enforces an already cosmically decided fate, and it punishes those who violate such a sentence. Souls are judged, and it enforces that judgement.

[@Cosmic-Sorceress-17]

2:14 or so: this is my absolute favorite sentence in all of history.

[@MisterSmith00]

Yup. I can confirm. “Planescape” was a solid release from WotC. The “Darkweaver” is definitely going to get some use…yet another terrifying monster for arachnophobes; but one that is obsessed with cooking / flavor to a point that you might be able to survive just by saying you taste better with butter.

[@monkeibusiness]

The Anhydrut is the inevitability of entropy. Is it still stupid?

[@Blandy8521]

In a campaign I ran a while ago the bbeg was a Fae who had stolen the body of a Marut

[@gregwessendorf]

How would one go about that? (in fiction)

[@hydragamedev6920]

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[@MaestroMagnifico21]

in my homebrew campaign im bringing back all of the inevitables so this video was a bit helpful to understand the rest of the inevitables besides the one i researched personally the Quarut since its concept has always been the coolest and its a shame they didnt bring it back with planescape

[@plasmawolf7960]

My respect for you has grown tenfold after that Devil Went Down to Georgia reference

[@snowboundwhale6860]

The Marut's enforcing the inevitability of deathk, in a setting with necromancy, resurrection magic, and so many forms of undead has me thinking there must be a collection of "approved" ways to cheat death that don't set a Marut on you. Say if the _resurrection_ spell technically can be cast without the 1000+gp diamond, but that's against the rules and will get you beaten to a pulp. Perhaps the reason that spell is even allowed to work at all is the result of some compromise made long ago between a powerful magic user, appropriate gods, and Mechanus, so now the forces of Mechanus make allowances for "cheating death" provided it is done by the proper agreed upon procedure(s), and the diamond was chosen as an appropriately valued sacrifice for the exchange. Given Mechanus and the Maruts are LN that could also account for all the evil & undead methods, as well as explain why there's no "flawless" undeath; liches need to feed their phylactery souls, vampires need blood and have weaknesses, ghouls are constantly starving, ghosts & banshee's are bound to locations/ objects etc. Most undead either lose some measure of autonomy, either declining mental faculties or not having freedom of movement/ action, or have an "upkeep cost", needing to feed to maintain themselves and their condition. Few if any seem to be unconditional in their undeath, which fits the model of a contract fairly well. It could be that any time something would find that unconditional immortality, that's where a Marut will step in.

[@chickensandwich9977]

Avocado line killed me

[@chaselowell4567]

Ngl these guys sound like they should be in mechanus

[@Aufsammelkabbler]

I also find it fascinating, that those spells JUST summon the creatures. It is somehow like a overglorfied phone number. If your enemy doesn‘t somehow offend those creatures they have absolutely no reason to help you but IF somehow you enemy has managed it to anger the Marut he is done for. You are calling powers here which are far far above the punching range of our characteres here. Never before terror ruled the hearts of the antagonists like the time this clever lawyer neutral wizzard dude condemned them guilty and called the cops.

[@papierowyszczur9234]

Technically inevitability of decay/entropy and inevitability of time are the same thing...

[@tobiasbayer4866]

Even the inevitability of death is just the same thing as the time one because they specifically mention an end of time itself. So wouldnt all things die eventually when time ends? Also theres a bit of a weird double standard since arent gods immortal? Yet they have their own inevitables protecting them instead of being put down for denying death. And arent the inevitabilites themselves immortal? Dont they also deny death?

[@grzegorz8670]

i like your videos as background noise... i literally fall a sleep listening to you talk... and you are funny!

[@richardbudge9416]

I really want to use a marut in my campaigns at some point, but I'm worried that a player is going to ignore my explicit warning of "DO NOT EVEN THINK OF MESSING WITH THIS THING". And their character will die immediately.

[@LazyQahnaarin]

Now, I'm imagining a fey who tricks a player into impossible contracts just so they can summon a kolyarut and watch it hunt them down.

[@arlokloiber2715]

Literally thought of the scarab like immediately and was so happy it got brought up

[@jorenbaplu5100]

Once built a literal nuke and dropped it on an army, only to be abducted by a Marut and got put on trial 😢

[@daniell1483]

I'm not sure if these are outright the most powerful constructs, but they have to be damn close. I like that these constructs are so powerful, the forces of the Upper AND Lower Planes fear them. Crossing them is like signing your own death warrant. It is easy to imagine some Ancient Dragon or powerful Kraken thinking nothing can stop them, so they break an agreement, unleashing an Inevitable upon them. After a legendary smackdown, the would-be usurper now knows they are not at the pinnacle of power and authority in the universe - right before they get an epic ass-beating.