Guide to the Nine Hells of Baator | D&D Planescape

[@rejvaik00]

"Did you ever hear of the tragedy of Asmodeus the fallen? I thought not, it's not a story your gods would tell you. It's a myth of creation. Asmodeus once known as Ahriman was an upholder of order, so knowledgeable and so powerful he could influence the chaotic void to create law He had such a knowledge of law that he could even keep at bay the demon hordes. Unfortunately he couldn't convince the gods to decide upon the center of creation and without their uplifting wings he fell into the lowest pits of the hells. Ironic he could uphold the law, but not himself"

[@TheH8redd]

Always remember that Asmodeus is also called the Lord of Lies, so all the stories, myths and legends surrounding Asmodeus are probably all lies. Even what I just wrote here is mostlikely a lie. The only certainty we have about Asmodeus is that we don't truly know who he is, but even that is probably a lie...... Is he the embodiment of this paradox: I always lie? (If this statement is a lie, then I don't always lie and tell the truth sometimes, but if the statement is true, the statement is self defeatiing...)

[@derpasaurus155]

​@@TheH8redd are you telling me the archdevil himself would... LIE??!!😵🥴🤯

[@TheH8redd]

@@derpasaurus155How can a paradox LIE? Explain that to me. ( Refering to the I always lie paradox).

[@truthjustice6454]

Misinformation and Disinformation...😅

[@keith.vukasinovich]

Darth Plaguis loves this version of the story...

[@suy21]

Holy crap, one hour of Planescape content. Impressive, Wade 🎉👏

[@mattstackhouse6292]

Great video. The abyss is the most obvious next choice.

[@WadeAllen001]

Okay I've got one vote for Mount Celestia and one vote for the Abyss.

[@D--FENS]

​@@WadeAllen001This is the only request you'll receive for the Gray Wastes of Hades, so I'll leave it right here.

[@goblinbxtch7540]

@@WadeAllen001 Adding a Mechanus vote into the mix, I actually have the least amount of notes about it lol

[@babyqeels]

@@D--FENSI’m going to be that person and actually be the second person to request it! It’s by far the most interesting imo

[@danielrowan4716]

Mr Allen - I’m a huge fan of Planar Lore and this was a concise yet wonderfully thorough treatment of The Nine Hells. Well done. Asmodeus was listed in the 1e AD&D Monster Manual as the Ruler of Hell. Additional treatments of the hierarchy of Hell was provided in Dragon Magazine #76 from August ‘83.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

Why is it comforting to listen to videos about the structure of Hell? Thanks for your hard work in compiling and performing.

[@Garlly34]

Don’t intend to push your video releases into a certain direction, but man are you a great at making thorough and enjoyable guides to Forgotten Realms lore.

[@sheldorleconcher8870]

The satanic panic was really annoying...our group had to change gaming locations a half dozen times because of some sort of outrage and crazy accusations of devil worship and whatnot. As a teenager back then, it always struck me as weird that the "adults" couldn't see it was all made up. It still seems weird. Good content, btw. Even after decades of playing and DMing, it was interesting and gave me ideas for my current infernally influenced campaign. Thanks!

[@AndyMcGehee]

I still don’t know how my Dungeon Masters Guide survived the “purge of 1984” by my stepmother after I left home for college. I’d love to see the look on her face if she ever saw my copy of the Book of Vile Darkness.

[@truthjustice6454]

You all gettin' Woke now?😅

[@BeanLordClown]

What are you even on about​@@truthjustice6454

[@chipsalom]

The fact that adults could be so worried about kids really believing in such obviously fictional made up stuff has ever since caused me seriously cynicism about the legit level of belief of these Christian adults... Clearly some part of them was deliberately ignoring their instincts telling them they were believing bullshit, which is why they could be so worried and project onto kids playing an imagination game

[@SputnikKaiser]

Now we have people calling orcs racist and goblins antisemitic Are we much better today?

[@JM-qz4ik]

Very easy to listen to and understand. A phenomenal video. I can't wait to listen to more 😁

[@jakubus8906]

Your planescape videos are really good! Can't wait to see some more

[@WadeAllen001]

Thanks!

[@GravSh4rk]

Love me a long form lore video. Currently in a plane hopping DnD game so this info is valuable to not let my party TPK

[@corporeal5980]

This was a much better overview than most videos i have seen on the planes. I'd definitely watch more even if im not a Forgotten Realms fan.

[@The_butler_did_it1194]

First time seeing your channel, I'm only seven minutes in and already subscribed. Awesome work! Super stocked to watch more of your dnd stuff.

[@Klavinoid]

Hell yea! Perfect timing. Your videos are becoming my primary source for Planescape information. Heres to many more.

[@mosom_]

Thank you for this incredible video, when the episodes on The Abyss and Hades come out I will die happy

[@aha1126]

This is sick! I have been scouring the internet for books on the lore of the hells and this video was a really great summary of all the information I was hoping to gain. Awesome job!!

[@WadeAllen001]

Glad you enjoyed it! Though to be honest when I made this video I was still in the mindset of focusing almost entirely on 2nd edition. So there's definitely stuff I left out from future editions, like from _Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells._

[@shaggyzor]

Just found this video in recommendation, subbed after hearing yer narration. Looking forward to more lore videos, love it!

[@SpectrumHazard]

Hell yesssss hype I love the Planescape/Great Wheel Cosmology vids, so cool to hear all about it

[@jaxongolf]

Hey Wade 🙏 I'm back behind the DM's screen working on a 5e homebrew, blending canon with the idea that Garden in Avernus is a planar convergence with a realm of Mount Celestia, and I've been really inspired by your videos. Thank you very much!

[@erikt3672]

Beautiful work man, keep it up! 💪🏽💪🏽

[@neceon4586]

This is such a comprehensive video. Thank you so much!!!

[@steved1135]

Nice work Wade. Takes a lot of research and time to put this all together.

[@JanSobieski3rdSiegeDefiler]

Amazing videos, loved your take on everything. Hoping to see a video on The Abyss soon!

[@jaxongolf]

Great explanation of evil using the corporate analogy.

[@charliebee5154]

Long form D&D lore that is well narrated? Automatic sub! 😁 Thank you.

[@justin.channels]

55:50 I like your note on pronouncing Malbolge. Think of the sound in the makeup/color rogue (but the thief) 😆 Great video, really.

[@chuvarova6052]

I loved this video so much. The lore, rules, and history are layed out nearly perfectly and concisely. The only thing I wish was talked about more was Malbolge and what happened to Malagard when Glasya took it over. The whole layer is covered in a bloated and fat Malagard's remains after she imploded. Her bones, hair, skin, blood, etc covers the cliffs and Glasya makes her home out of her huge skull. Other inhabitants carve out dwellings from her bones and skin and stuff. Also, a lot of cool art and new 5e lore for all of the Hells was included in Chains of Asmodeus and from the info provided from this video, I assume you aren't aware or chose to omit what was in that book. Not saying that as a bad thing necessarily since this is mostly following 2nd edition by default but I would have really loved the comprehensiveness of the lore of this video to go from 95% to 100%. Either way, superb video!!

[@WadeAllen001]

Thanks for the kind words! I've gotten feedback from a few people that I should include more lore from later editions, so I've started doing that.

[@jppitre]

Hell yeah! Running a Planescape game and your videos have been essential

[@IPH-1212]

damn this is a great video, well explained, good pacing and flow, thank you for making this

[@JFGraham26]

oh hell yeah, love your other two planescape videos

[@WadeAllen001]

I've got four other ones. I only correct you in case you missed them and would like to watch them. There's the guide to the outer planes, guide to the inner planes, the factions of sigil and their philosophies, and the sects of the outer planes.

[@JFGraham26]

@@WadeAllen001 I haven’t seen those yet. Sounds sick, will check them out. Thanks!

[@cernunnos_lives]

Great God's Below.... I'm loving this episode. Thanks for your hard work brother.

[@TurboWulfe]

Lve these long form vids, keep on keeping on 😎🍻🤘

[@rickywarren567]

Fantastic video bro. Absolutely brilliant sir!👏👏👏

[@ChrisGrahamkedzuel]

Love to see your take on Carceri.

[@destonlee2838]

Well done. And I can't give you what doesn't exist. I'll see you in Cania!

[@connorb7234]

Loved your outer planes video, and this one was awesome too 😊 my personal favorite outer realm is elysium!

[@nathanaelthomas9243]

Thanks for the video! Very well done 👍🏻

[@lutandomhlalase4416]

3:50-4:10 I just can't with you roasting a certain billionaire, I just fell out 😂😂😂

[@brentwalker9576]

My reconciliation of viewing other infinite layers (a quirk not unique to Baator) depends on the plane in question, but can be best described as “weather and planet gazing”. To a mortal, the description should feel uncanny, but the natives talk about it the way we talk about meteor showers, eclipses, and constellations. For some layers, the rest appear almost peacefully in the night sky, for others like rifts and tears in reality, and for other like an overlaid optical illusion, or shimmering like the aurora borealis. Embracing the weirdness and treating it as totes ordinary does a lot to let you keep each plane’s phenomenon feel right

[@Toddobvious]

Good call on the “bay-eh-tor” solution, I think that’s the best choice. I think all of these pronunciations should be based on which one sounds best

[@Craig_Tucker48]

Love your videos on the planes. They are the only ones you make that interest me but damn they are good ❤️ Though I think you mixed up the layer of Malbulge with the plane of Gehenna.

[@WadeAllen001]

Thanks! Malbolge and Gehenna do have some similarities, but I was taking most of what I said right out of the Planes of Law: Baator book. And many things were changed about Malbolge in later editions of D&D, so that might be contributing to the seeming mixup as well.

[@caelinnis]

I will master the hells. I am The Master Baator

[@jonstewart2233]

Finally, some one bringing proof of the true pronunciation.

[@Hugeandhandsomeman]

This was a great video, definitely make some more dnd content!

[@WadeAllen001]

Working on it!

[@Hugeandhandsomeman]

@@WadeAllen001 I can’t wait for your abyss video!

[@WadeAllen001]

@@Hugeandhandsomeman maybe I'll do that after the next one then, but I'm already pretty far into work on Mount Celestia.

[@Hugeandhandsomeman]

@@WadeAllen001 understandable, can’t wait if you do end up making it🙏🏻

[@sayerslayer1854]

Very nice collage and presentation

[@WadeAllen001]

Thanks!

[@xgoldies]

Thank you so much! You are appreciated🙏🏼

[@oguzhanozgenc7843]

Thank you so much! This is amazing

[@WadeAllen001]

Glad you like it!

[@truthjustice6454]

Entertaining and informative. Its important to establish that the Kytin in Memnos are actually not beholden to Mammon, and have their iwn Independent territory. Cenobites...

[@hasde_fo]

it just amazing piece of work, thank you Wade! though...please return my soul...

[@WadeAllen001]

It's mine now.

[@professorgrimm4602]

I love your example of Jeff Bezos as a lawful evil character

[@TheCoulsonlax]

All billionaires are lawful evil

[@johnmobley9369]

It’s been a favorite of mine.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

My preferred examples are Robert Moses and Henry Kissinger.

[@StonedPriest]

It's fitting. The Bbeg of the campaign I've been running is a cross of Vandal Savage, and Bezos. He's a long lived hobgoblin general who retired and started a shipping empire in a Spartan-esque society.

[@truthjustice6454]

I remember an amoral billionaire reference, not anyone specific. Time stamp?

[@AbstractDuality]

Subscribed. I want more.

[@chronochrome7837]

God, the absolute irony of the ad break I got going into the Maladomini section. I feel like Baelzabul just tried to strike a bargain.

[@blairshort1098]

Who would voluntarily become a resident of Dis? Vogon - "My Identity papers, Visa, letter of introduction and public enquiry findings, in triplicate."

[@swindler1570]

I love your lore content. Any chance we could get an underdark video? Or specific cities, like Menzoberranzan?

[@WadeAllen001]

That's a good idea. I haven't really done any non-Planescape stuff yet like that, but I should try it out. To be honest covering Faerun lore seems a little daunting because there's like 300 books on it. The Outer Planes have comparatively less source material to read through.

[@swindler1570]

@WadeAllen001 I totally get that. If you wanted to cover all lore tie-ins, across all source material, for a given topic, that would seem daunting indeed. But, it's probably okay to miss some niche interactions or historical events here or there. No pressure, of course - cover what you're comfortable covering. I'm sure you'd do it justice, though; particularly if you chose a narrowed scope to begin with.

[@Nopedropperperson]

This is way late to the party, but the infinite planes of descending size are actually mathematically and potentially, materially possible, it just isn't intuitive to the human mind. Infinities of larger and smaller sizes already exist and are used heavily in math.

[@JosefDerKaiser]

Let's be honest though, the Satanic Panic creating the Tenari allowed for some of the best DnD deep lore with Tharizdun and the Obiryth.

[@Natsirt666]

Great vid. Got a new sub.

[@WadeAllen001]

Thanks for the sub!

[@jasonhopper2130]

Dude. Malagard is her attempt to acheive Godhood swelled up and burst. Malbolge is a fetis wasteland of exploded hag guts. Her fingers became gigantic towers. Her ribs split and became the 2 mountain ranges that encircle the plane. Her skull swelled to enoumous Godlike portions and is the capitol of the plane and the palace where Glasya resides

[@WadeAllen001]

Yeah that's some cool lore. Do you think I should include more lore from later editions in these videos?

[@alvaro701]

​@@WadeAllen001 I think it would be a very interesting sidenote

[@100iqgaming]

i really like the tenar'ri distinction from the oberyth and the other one, in my game baatezu will refer exclusively to petitioners also

[@Sirfinchyyy]

Its worth mentioning that the larvae in 5e are basically currency and barely considered sentient.

[@thescandinavian8339]

Great vid One question.. what is the breakdown for the celestials... Or don't they have a breakdown like fiends?

[@WadeAllen001]

They do! I've gone over it in my Guide to the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia video. But basically it's archons = lawful good, guardinals = neutral good, eladrin = chaotic good, aasimon = any good.

[@soundconjurer4380]

I would say... "better view of the other layers..." maybe it's alluding to the nature of the plane rather than the topology, like bureaucracy becomes more strict, Asmodeus' designs and intentions for the other planes becomes more clear? I also had the issue with that view. I imagine each one is existe in a nested infinite space embedded through dimensional twisting which can be easily dismissed and not tought about.

[@WadeAllen001]

Yeah I like that idea.

[@Subtle-will]

I was thinking the planes spiral along a cone, so looking up you can see the planes coming down the sides. Meaning the lower you go the more you see looking up into the lighter layers

[@WadeAllen001]

Yeah it is described in a few places like that, where you get a more and more complete view of the plane the lower you go. But then if you think about that how does that work? Because if the layer above you is a larger slice of the cone, then it would take up all of the sky, so how would you see the layers further above the one directly above you? And wouldn't you just see the underside of the layers anyway? Of course I guess the answer is just that shit don't make sense in the Outer Planes.

[@Aristocles22]

49:27 Well, that makes Karlach's "this had better be sexy or violent" comment into new persepective.

[@PhoenixFlame321]

30:05 My take on the limbo vs heresy distinction is that: Limbo is for souls that were virtuous but never had the opportunity to learn the gospel and enter the holy covenant with Christ. Christianity has this thing called "The Original Sin", a vague idea that a seed of evil lives within us thanks to the first sin committed on The Garden of Eden and that can only be purged through Jesus' sacrifice. Since the orthodox belief is that one can only enter paradise while completely and utterly free of sin, being a genuinely good person isn't enough, you must be a baptized and faithful Christian to enter heaven (A foul, manipulative tactic to force others to join their cult out of fear of damnation) Heresy on the other hand is reserved for those that DID learn of the gospel of the holy church, but had the audacity to disagree and have their own opinions. Anyone that believes in anything that deviates from the teachings of the orthodoxy is damned to suffer even more than those chilling up in the first circle. It is a common trait of cults to persecute and condemn those that were once part of it but dared to leave. There's also a third even worse level of punishment in Violence, the Seventh Circle. It is divided into three parts and the third part of ring 7 is for the sin of Blasphemy, for those who not only dared turn their back to the gospel, but also spoke out against it and God himself. Critics get to burn in blistering sand and under a constant rain of fire.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

7:10 Minor quibble here. We can’t really judge the population in any meaningful way by the numbers of layers each has, if each layer is itself infinite. One infinite layer is as large or as populous as hundred infinite layers. It’s sort of dangerous territory in the lore, because it begs the question of why the good-aligned planes haven’t overwhelmed the evil-aligned planes with simple numbers. After all, the majority of known worlds have some form of civilization, government, or law. Meaning most petitioners would likely fall into some form of lawful, neutral, or good, or else the state would become decadent absent a strict power hierarchy, in which case it would be lawful evil.

[@dagonslayer51]

You should check out the DM's Guild book "Chains of Asmodeus". It is a fascinating outlook into the nine hells

[@helloidharbl6753]

Glad you mentioned that. A LOT of stuff in the DnD texts is written in a way that suggests a non English speaker decided upon the words. And no, I don't consider ye olden tyme Englesh to be English.

[@Mr.Fox1213]

Man I really want to learn more about Mephistopheles, probably my favorite Archdevil!

[@WadeAllen001]

He's definitely got the coolest name of all of them.

[@Luredreier]

12:26 My take on this is math. Like how a imaginary number can be tied to a physical number through a equation. Actually, think of it like Minecraft. You take a portal to the nether, go somewhere and then take another portal out and it's much further away. Both dimensions might be infinite, but you could argue that they're different sizes even if both are infinite. Does that make sense to you guys?

[@iancasleton6356]

Infinite Infinite plus 1

[@tripNine1]

Crap. I was half asleep when I signed that apparently

[@ElPayasoMalo]

Asmodeus doesn't become a god until Fourth Edition said he absorbed the divine essence of Azuth, from what I remember.

[@WadeAllen001]

The origin story of Asmodeus being the cosmic serpent god Ahriman is from 2e (Guide to Hell). You're right though that according to other lore he wasn't a god until the Spellplague.

[@ElPayasoMalo]

@@WadeAllen001 I knew about that origin story. There's like three different origin stories from what I remember. Multiple choice past!

[@yellotoaster9368]

26:30 So here's why I struggle so much to get into D&D lore. Before coming to this video, I just watched another video about the story of Zariel. In there, it said that at the beginning, there was chaos, and then the gods of law formed and fought chaos. So, in the alignment thing, there was only law and chaos as opposites. Also, there were angels, among which Asmodeus was the best fighter. Then Asmodeus and the bois turned evil and signed a contract with the law gods to make him his own plane, Baator, where he could fight chaos and torture the unlawful mortals without the other angels complaining. Then the gods realised they got screwed over by that contract and tuned Asmodeus in a Devil and yeeted his ass into nessus. And this is when Evil and Good appeared on the alignment. The devils were lawful evil, angels lawful good and demons lawful chaotic. Now, here you come and tell me about good and bad serpents, Asmodeus being the bad one, and I have to completely throw out the window all I learned in the previous video. It's a total effin mess

[@WadeAllen001]

Yeah there's contradicting lore in each edition of D&D (and sometimes even within one edition). Really it's up to the DM to use which one they like best, or to use them all as stories without telling the players outright which one is the real story. The lore you just described sounds more like the lore of 5e as told in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. The reason I used the twin serpents story is because that's the one given in second edition of D&D that Planescape existed in (up until very recently because they've now published a 5e Planescape campaign setting set).

[@marselpanov8801]

combine opposite planes into one video. I think it will flow nicely

[@ElPayasoMalo]

I was surprised you didn't mention God Street in Dis.

[@WadeAllen001]

Probably because I mostly used 2e source material for this video. I've been using later edition lore a lot more in my more recent videos though.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

I feel like you should acknowledge the non-serpent origin Mo has in every edition but 2E.

[@WadeAllen001]

Alright. I've gotten a few comments asking me to include more lore from other editions, so I'll be doing that from now on.

[@SigfridSWE]

Bg3 comment; Raphaels lord/leige is mephistopheles. He says that in one of the endings, where he notes that even his "father mephistopheles...". Does that mean that Raphael probably are a Duke/Arch-Devil under his father Mephistopheles? Or... is he one of the Damned 8 or... is he a Combion... most people seam to think he is a Cambion... but it doesn't fit in my opinion... ayway.... any thoughts people?

[@WadeAllen001]

I figured he was a duke, just not an archduke like Mephistopheles is.

[@battlepans1927]

I have a new character idea: Someone previously super OP who lost their memory and ability to walk and speak to the river Styx. Now they live in an infernal machinery wheelchair. (Idk the details about how they got the wheel chair) but they became a divination wizard trying to regain their memories.

[@CorinShadowblayde]

What is the source for Takhisis? The DL novels are pretty clear she is locked in the Abyss.

[@WadeAllen001]

Page 165 of _On Hallowed Ground._ It wouldn't be the first time that D&D sources contradict each other, though generally speaking I tend to view rule/supplement/adventure/setting books as more canonical than novels.

[@fleetcenturion]

32:39 - "Archons" are the petitioners of the Heavens. Zariel was an angel (or aasimon, in 2e).

[@WadeAllen001]

Good catch. Though I believe angels are also petitioners, they just get promoted from archons.

[@fleetcenturion]

@@WadeAllen001 - No. They were there from the beginning, not promoted from petitioners. Such a thing would only be possible, if a petitioner were to reach the uppermost layer of the Heavens, but that is only a theory.

[@WadeAllen001]

@@fleetcenturion there's a poster in the planes of law book that shows that trumpet and tome archons get promoted into aasimon if they perform their duties well.

[@fleetcenturion]

@@WadeAllen001 - Despite it being a borderline splat book, I suppose it's canon then.

[@joaoluizcamacho2733]

Pleaseee make one about Thanatos, the layer of Orcus in the abiss

[@danj-g6p]

I feel like it may have help clarified in the beginning. How they are corrupted soldiers, the whole good vs evil war going into the order vs chaos that actually led to it. But I get that is a rabbit hole.

[@Tromador]

Gentleman cutter, I'm really enjoying this series. Brings back fond memories of a Sensate Githzerai I once played. I hope you might be inspired to make a more in depth video about all the planes and attract some subs for your effort. I have certainly shared this playlist with my group. If I had one criticism it is your pronunciation of Sigil. I've always said /ˈsɪdʒɪl/ (soft g). I did look this up and the IPA I quote is what Wikipedia thinks is how one pronounces sigil, in context of magical runes. Still it's not the end of the world and I have learned quite a lot from these videos, so feel free to carry on and ignore my griping. 😅

[@WadeAllen001]

Glad you've been enjoying my videos! I pronounce sigil with a soft g when referring to magical runes, as Wikipedia correctly states it should be pronounced. But Sigil the city is not pronounced like sigil the word.

[@Safier_Poochy]

The next video should about the cosmology counterpart. The seven heaven of Mount Celestia. First the Hell and than the heaven.

[@WadeAllen001]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@Whichendup]

I have observed that you often bounce back and forth between editions and make allusions that all the lore is meant to be static, like during the Lord of the First explanation, but in fact there is a timeline of events that you are missing in your explanations. Zariel was the Lord of the First, then Bel got promoted to Lord of the First and Zariel his advisor, later on Bel lost favor with Asmodeus and he reinstalled Zariel as Lord of the First. All of those things happened in the lore. It's not the books or editions being contradictory, rather they happened at different eras. Before Zariel, Tiamat ruled the First layer. There's enough conjecture that we can assume even Graz'zt the Demon Lord, was once Lord of the First before he was corrupted by Chaos while on his mission in the Abyss, and after conquering three layers of the Abyss decided to stay to become a Demon Prince rather than go back to the Nine Hells hierarchy. In official D&D books it is stated Graz'zt was once an Archduke of Hell. Also stated: Asmodeus tasked Graz'zt with leading an army into the Abyss to retrieve a fragment of the heart of the Abyss, the shard of ultimate evil. Archdukes of Avernus typically are the ones who rule over the Dark Eight and the Devil army who fight in the Blood War. It's reasonable to assume that Graz'zt used to be Lord of the First. Probably even before Tiamat ruled the layer. In the lore Tiamat did not care for rulership of Avernus or being part of the Archdukes' plotting and politicking. So she gave up the title as Lord of the First, wanting to focus more of her energy on the Material Plane.

[@WadeAllen001]

I will definitely grant that I didn't go into later edition stuff very much at all in this video and mostly talked about the Lords of the Nine as they exist in 2nd edition, but the differences in each edition often are (but not always) contradictions that are later smoothed out (or an attempt is made at smoothing them out) and retconned into a cohesive timeline. 4th edition provides lore about Graz'zt originally being a devil that was tasked with re-finding the Shard of Evil for Asmodeus (and 5th edition also mentions Graz'zt previously being an archduke), but 2nd edition and 3rd edition both have it that Graz'zt is the child of Pale Night, born a demon and not a devil. To accept the edition-spanning timeline is to retcon away the contradictions such as these, but I prefer in these cases to just view each edition as its own thing.

[@KevinBoosts]

I didn't find any chapters dedicated to the nine hells in the 5e planescape release..? Did I miss something?

[@WadeAllen001]

There aren't any. This video is primarily about original Planescape (2e).

[@KevinBoosts]

@@WadeAllen001 thanks

[@clevererjunior8422]

The more you gave on Asmdeus actually two more. the fallen angel story and slightly modified version of the fallen angel story.

[@DerexWolfheart]

There are different intensities of infinity so you don't need to worry about the math in that regard. If there are twice as many infinite demons as devils than that just means in a given battle there will likely be twice as many demons compared to devils

[@MikeHawk-h9p]

It’s been YEARS since I played but is there any character(s) that are neutral neutral

[@firstnamelastname7244]

28:38 This doesn't really make any sense to me. Why would someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife go specifically to the lowest layer of the plane of Lawful Evil, regardless of who they were in life?

[@WadeAllen001]

That's just how the universe works I guess. Or perhaps Asmodeus has done some sort of magic that makes it so. The "why" isn't really explained.

[@Luissera873]

You should do a video on mechanus

[@WadeAllen001]

Mechanus is a cool one, and I will definitely do it at some point. Maybe the next video? I don't know. Right now I've got one vote for the Abyss, one vote for Mount Celestia, one vote for The Gray Waste, and now one vote for Mechanus.

[@RevocerGM]

here's my soul: with thanks

[@MadAdamStudio]

Good video. Shame I'll never finish it.

[@clevererjunior8422]

I watched you elemental place video. You didn’t mention spell key once.

[@WadeAllen001]

True. I didn't go very in-depth in that video. I think at some point I'll go back and make videos for each of the inner planes.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

I think the problem with sigil is that the various planes are infinite in size and then there are an infinite number of material planes but sigil and the outlands are basically finite in size

[@WadeAllen001]

The Outlands is also an infinite plane. It has a finite boundary but the area contained within that boundary is infinite. Basically the distance between any two places in the Outlands is not constant. Distances are also not constant in Sigil and the city does not have a fixed size, but changes according to the Lady of Pain's whims.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

@@WadeAllen001 I see. I had to watch a few more videos. The Plane of Concordant Opposition is its other name. It is deceptive to think about the gate cities at the edges giving it a finite dimension - but no stranger than the other planes. Sigil is a kind of inverse of a prime material plane

[@pleasedontmakemefamous8301]

Is there enough lore to do one of these for every outer plane?

[@WadeAllen001]

Yeah. Perhaps not an hour for every one, but at least half an hour.

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

2:30 finaly, someone who understands that Evil and Good are only defined as Selfidh and Selfless, being Evil dosen't mean you can't be moral. Edit: feel the same about the Law/chaos part but this point is more understod by players

[@WadeAllen001]

Unfortunately we might not be completely on the same page. Being evil is defined as selfishness yes, which means that evil creatures don't necessary kill people or enjoy killing people, but how could an evil creature still be moral? How can one not care about others and be a good person? (Keeping in mind of course, that the more you don't care about other people the more you don't mind if they get harmed in the process of you getting what you want)

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

@@WadeAllen001 i'm thinking of it as that you can practice moral or ethical ideas for selfish reasons. like Pacifism, you might not care about others getting hurt but you might care about getting blood on your own hands and becoming "impure"

[@tahlialysse]

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.

[@SonySteals]

Bezos roast 👌👌

[@3X3NTR1K]

Actually ininities can be different sizes! Some are infinitely bigger than others. Several times over. Don't think about it too much though. Or at all.

[@heru7182]

The grief I got as a GM pronouncing Drow like Crow, instead of Cow.

[@Aristocles22]

37:01 Now we know where Wulbren Bongle will go after death.