What They Don't Tell You About The Duergar - D&D

[@MrRhexx]

The duergar description at the beginning is from Dscryb! Feel free to check them out, they do awesome monster, spell, and d&d location descriptions! dscryb.com/rhexx

[@smugmidoriya8924]

epic

[@dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd]

please do lore on the dwarfs humans gnomes and halfings please

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

Duregar, "Dourgar" - I call them _" Du ergar"_ anyways. ^_^

[@marcus4046]

Wow this is going to be good Love dwarves.

[@ericanightshade]

FINALLY more love for Duergar!~

[@AudrenDev]

So you're telling me that from the moment the duergar have understood the weakness of their flesh, it disgusted them?

[@KyleJordanGaming]

The flesh is weak! Praise the Machine!

[@ravishing_cadet4625]

Praise be to the Omnissiah

[@andrewmesser2899]

So you're saying that it's legit to have the 'Cult of the Iron Hand'?

[@setholsen7096]

They craved the strength and sertanty of steal.

[@RustyKnightGaming]

They crave the certainty of steel. They aspire to the purity of the machine. Your kind cling to their flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will be them to save you.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

I once met a Duergar who had been banished from his community for occasionally showing emotions that slightly resembled a form of mild happiness - he had been sent to the surface so he could learn from personal experience how there’s nothing to ever be happy or smile about - or die trying….

[@zeusdemi6858]

... how'd that work out?

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

@@zeusdemi6858 Well, after some horrifying adventures we parted ways, and the last thing I heard was him cursing loudly and angry at me as I unfortunately for a brief moment made him nearly smile and feel a slightly warm sensation where there were only supposed to be feelings of anger and hate, with my parting words, "til we meet again my friend".... But it's a harsh and cruel world, and being a Duergar banished to the surface is no joke, so maybe he's had more luck losing the ability to feel sensations resembling joy since... If not and you run into him some day, tell him Grímnir Hrafnsson will never forget the friendship we forged - I'm sure he will be delighted, but make sure to keep a shield nearby or have something to take cover behind...

[@erickchristensen746]

@@gorillaguerillaDK Who knows, maybe he will find happyness one day and create a society of other Duergar on the surface

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

@@erickchristensen746 Yeah, well, that was most definitely not what he was searching for. But you know what, maybe he will end up accepting that it's okay to be different, and that he might be a Duergar, but what he sees as a curse, might be a gift from some deity. When the other Duergars banished him the oldest of them did mention something about how he reminded them all to much of his awful grandfather, Ragdar Hjaldrgegnir who he also had been named after, who had been known to sometimes wander the surface, and had been an incredible fierce warrior. He was also know as among the Duergars as being troublesome and as someone who had an "awful temperament". But as that's from a Duergar perspective, it meant he would sometimes smile and even laugh joyfully, which to the other Duergars was even worse than if he had just killed random kinsmen in sheer anger. But the elders of the clans would not accept another one of these weirdos of the Hjaldrgegnir clan, so as their suspicion grew larger, they banished my friend from all Duergar communities. I have never, in all my traveling life, ever heard of a society of surface dwelling Duergars. My friend definitely has a strong preference of dark caves - but you know what, there's a multiverse out there and so far I've only been traveling parts of Toril, Mystara, and Krynn - and to tell you the truth, I have been a bit to occupied to even ask anyone if such a society exists. But you know what, weirder things has happened - so it's not unbelievable that something like it already exists somewhere out there. Although I don't even know if there's Duergars outside of Toril...

[@JosekTheNecromancer]

If I’m battling duegar and one smiles, he will be spared for the sole reason that he seems to have something to live for. Thank you for your wisdom strangers

[@W0lf7133]

The last time I was this early, the Duergar were just dwarves.

[@AEB1066]

The Duergar sound like Amazon warehouse workers.

[@GoblinGirlLindsey]

Illithids: “why does everything I whip leave me”

[@TheFatalcrest]

"All we want is to enslave a race of perfect servants so we can take over the world in peace! Is that so much to ask! Is it!"

[@justmega3455]

So parents are just Illithids

[@thebreadbringer]

Mind flayers seem to be capable of some amount of kindness towards their thralls. On occasion, it has been noted that they sometimes build up a pet-like fondness for certain thralls in their care, and mourn when they are killed in combat.

[@Tehluls1]

"...who frankly wanted to massacre all mind flayers" Didn't we just go over this with the Gith? For serving a giant brain they're really not catching on too fast

[@Xo-3130]

I mean they are alien to Reality so maybe the whole "stop making the sane mistake" is legitimately impossible for them to learn.

[@tyrant-den884]

Considering their behavior: I bet everyone calls them dowergar as a slur.

[@Zakvadr1995]

Using this!

[@embodying8moth82]

I imagine its the Dwarven N-word

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

What about "cliff face?"

[@johngleeman8347]

Glumgar is funny too.

[@alex-uw4mm]

drowgar

[@ryanaiden]

MrRhexx: “Completely hairless”… … sees a full santa beard … me: confused pikachu face

[@danielderamus9573]

They all bald with no arm hair. Also dwarf=beard

[@marcusc9931]

even their women are bald

[@theblackneon5396]

The beard isn't body hair, but a functional part of their bodies.

[@miriamvlachoulis6875]

I saw an old text post screenshot from Tumblr that said dwarfs cut off their beard to asexually reproduce

[@Morec0]

@@theblackneon5396 Hair serves a function.

[@Stealth_Saber]

Duergar would make great inherent edgelord characters. They already have the deep, dark, tragic backstory. Just give them a rogue class or assassin archetype and you'll be set lol

[@placeholdername3818]

Or Fiendish/Hexblade Warlock

[@GundamAngelicDevil]

Blood Hunter is great too, if DM permits.

[@Hektols]

Yes, but Duergar unfortunately don't have the stylized looks associated to edgelords.

[@Troglor048]

They seem to belong to the Shadowfell, but the underdark seems close enough.

[@johnkingsize]

Besides the back story, most things that edgelords wear, carry, say or do, they do because it makes them look better, more mysterious or without any reason at all. Not very duergarish. Ironically, duergars work as edgelords only on the edge.

[@Meanlucario]

Don't worry about uploading consistently too much. Unlike KZbin, we understand that life happens and bigger projects take time.

[@save_often]

“Completely hairless” - sports a huge beard

[@Hawkens4k]

You are not a true dwarf without a beard.

[@bray2964]

Maybe it's a fake beard

[@MrRhexx]

did you not see the size of that PITIFUL beard? BASICALLY HAIRLESS i would say

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

@@MrRhexx Pff! Barely appropriate for a Santa Claus!

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

Smooth down there

[@h4xx0rren3]

Epic, love the duergar. For the future, if you could do one on yugoloths, that would be amazing. Again though, awesome topic, the duergar.

[@manuelcamara6400]

Yes, Yugloths are great.

[@salimufari]

Weren't those included in his 2 videos on the Drow

[@manuelcamara6400]

@@salimufari No, you're thinking of Yochlol. Yugloths are the neutral evil equivalent of fiends. Where as Demons are Chaotic Evil, Devils are Lawful Evil. Yugloths are Neutral Evil, and super underrated imo.

[@madocmayhem]

Glad I'm not the only Yugoloth fanboy. Honestly two of my favourite npcs are found in uncaged; faces of Sigil, both Yugoloths. Though that book adds soooo much lore to lesser known races its unbelievable includinga freaking Titan. Gereleths, are another fancy of mine as I have no clue how 5e has adapted them.

[@D--FENS]

+1 for yugoloths

[@backonlazer791]

Asmodeus plays a big part in my campaign so knowing more about him would be great =D

[@sangheilijedi]

@NullLex00 my advice, listen to the band Ghost (Ghost BC in america) whenever I have an asmodeus moment I'll play an instrumental from them in the background

[@alexinfinite7142]

Asmodeus is so cool! Good choice. But he's pretty scary lol

[@Siegefriedd]

BIG SNEK

[@hawkshot867]

Asmodeus: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJTMYmmnfZyZp7s Couatls: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHKrqmiKpLV_fs0 That should be a start, I would comb through his videos for anything related to the Hells, Demons, Devils, couatls, etc. Asmodeus gets mentioned a surprisingly high amount of times lol.

[@realdragon]

Well it's really hard to know anything about him

[@sammyvillano9502]

I can only imagine the Ilithids looking at eachother seeing the Duergar secession and saying “Did you do that?” “No?” “We didn’t even have to do anything that time!”

[@cataquackwarlord5389]

Interestingly, the Monster Mythology book from 2nd Edition has a somewhat different story about Laduguer. When the other dwarven gods divided all the spheres of influence in dwarven life amongst themselves, they excluded Laduguer. The dwarves who followed him would not abandon their patron god, because he looked after their interests when they lived in the least hospitable environments, so they withdrew with him from other dwarves.

[@Hadojon]

Thanks for this one! Duergar play a big part in OOTA and Rime, two campaigns that’s Im running atm

[@tyrant-den884]

Asmodeus controlling the Duergar is even more interesting in my world, since the Mind Flayers (who haven't gone ferrel) are controlled by the Hag Countess's brain, which is (more or less) controlled by Glasya.

[@mediatorraptor3349]

Wait, so mind flayers are being controlled by devils?

[@cameronpearce5943]

The Hag Countess’s Brain??? Please explain, this has awakened some major lore thirst for me

[@Greenweeper1387]

@@cameronpearce5943 Isn’t the Hag countess’s body like… the entire 6th circle of hell? (Malbolge = 6th circle = Glasya’s Circle)

[@tyrant-den884]

@@cameronpearce5943 well Glasya lives in the still living masticated giant body of the Hag Countess. So I figured: what about her brain? If it's under Glaya's control (more or less) than it could make for an interesting surrogate Elder Brain.

[@tyrant-den884]

@@mediatorraptor3349 just in my campaign world. Not Forgotten Realms. Drow used an Aboleth WMD to destroy ALL the Elder Brains on the plane. Most Mind Flayers have actually gone feral from the shock, but some have started using the Hag Countess's Brain as a surrogate. Of course, Mind Flayers are inter-planar species, but non-resident Illithids are currently being very cautious.

[@monsieurszo]

I adore your content MrRhexx👑 only thanks to your materials I was able to create my own dnd campaign. only your materials are understandable enough for me, and moreover, they are the most accurate on youtube, I know every detail thanks to you. This is my first campaign as GM. It's not a perfect storyline, but definitely it doesn't have a single mistake in the lore thanks to you 👑👑👑 Best regards from Poland Rhexx

[@giovanne2143]

How did the campaign go, my guys?

[@Jonpo95]

Interesting note, the spelling of Duergar is quite close to the pronunciation of the Scandinavian name for dwarves but here it has a soft g. They are also closer to their origin in Norse myth.

[@Tomas229C]

00:00 The Duergar 05:46 Duergar origins 09:28 Mind flayers impact 12:05 Duergars now 14:11 Culture and religion 15:34 Duergar mythos 21:09 Asmodeus influence 25:32 Conclusion

[@pablocachaldora9199]

Already knew, but it's good to have some solid confirmation that Duergar are not simple "dwarven drow"...

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

Duergar have a pretty wretched mindset apparently. The more you know... Thought they are just normal Dwarfs but from the Underdark for quite some time.

[@sandrols7]

@NullLex00 And also Myconids.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@nulllex0099 There are non-dueregar grey dwarves and deep halflings but those might be from Greyhawk rather than Faerun too.

[@gasmonkey1000]

Ah finally. One of my favorite races, tied only with dwarves. I always imagined thei cities looking somewhere between a Dwarf Fortress military fort or a fort pretending to be a city.

[@placeholdername3818]

Ah my favorite race.... the Dwarves tied only with the Dwarves

[@gasmonkey1000]

@@placeholdername3818 Exactly. They're dwarves with the crazy turned up to 100

[@placeholdername3818]

@@gasmonkey1000 I just like them because they're Grey

[@juliengosselin4277]

So, ummmm... I can't be the only one who wanna know:what happened to the super Duergar the lone craftsman created? Is there an Überdwarf roaming around, or is it as invented as the rest of the myth?

[@dragonrenver]

that's easy, It is Moradin.

[@andrewwilliams2014]

@@dragonrenver you shut your heretical mouth lol

[@NoConsequenc3]

@@andrewwilliams2014 not only was it Moradin, but it was a legitimate improvement, which is why Laduguer was so angry about it yet could do nothing but sit back and watch.

[@Menzobarrenza]

@@NoConsequenc3 Lol. Nice.

[@danielderamus9573]

He says in the video that Laduguer turned the super dwarf into the first Derro

[@sangheilijedi]

This channel is really growing on me, and got me interested in all the old source books, and collecting them, If you play a wizard the Magic of Faerun is a must read

[@jonathancampbell5231]

I like how the "backstory" of Laduguer is just a twisted version of the Tolkien mythos with Laduguer as a more evil and pitiless version of Eru and the "first Derro" as a more pathetic version of Melkor.

[@josephjones7020]

Caught that too.

[@wyatthill6252]

Well Tolkiens work is the template for all modern fantasy

[@ZacharyOsterman]

If you were called a hertic for being enslaved. You'd be angry too.

[@DramaticFlora]

I love your lore videos. They are just fun, interesting, and inspiring

[@buzzfiend]

YES RHEXX ever since I played Baldur's Gate II, at the start, I always wanted to learn more about the deurgar! I've actually started constructing character and stat sheets for unique deurgar commanders for my own campaign. An armored hulk lumbers from around the corner, scales shifting as details grow clearer. A mace hangs from the creature's appendages, and the sound of a low rumble can be heard with every footstep of the beast. Rammagan has come. His darkscale plate shimmers as the breastplate chains hold the shambling construct onto the twisted dwarf. He raises his mace, and cries out a roar that shakes the ground beneath your feet. Six fire salamanders, chained with enchanted frost shackles, are led into the chamber and surround you. Imagine an armored brick, nullifying any enchantment magic and poison, turning invisible mid combat. You'd think he was a rogue fighter. Never consider invisibility. Deurgar are broken because they break expectations. That's why I love them for plot twists and betrayals. So much evil potential.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

Thanks for this! I was looking for an episode on this exact race. I’m fairly new to dnd so some of the commonly known race lore is usually beyond me. However my current campaign I have joined is the Icewind Dale module and I wanted to create a back up character that was this race. I just realized a bit late that I did know what to write for their backstory because I knew next to nothing other than some of that race being antagonists in the module in the later parts. Now this would be a back up character so I thought it suitable to have mine assist with my party should my current character fall but then I came to the realization that with not knowing anything of this particular type of dwarves culture I couldn’t think of a good motivation why they would be helpful. So yes, thank you, this is a very helpful guide for me in terms of helping inspire me on which direction to write my back up character’s background.

[@Aidan8et]

Can't wait until MrRhexx does Derro. My favorite distant dwarf-kin, they're like skinny duregar with (more than) a touch of crazy...

[@Phoebe5448]

Or those evil halflings (can't remember the name rn) or halfling vampires!!

[@MormonDude]

Just saw an ad for Dscryb with Mr Rhexx speaking…on a Mr Rhexx video.

[@Flashjackmak]

"Completely hairless" he says, at the duergar's beard slowly pans into view. Love these videos, the duergar are super interesting to learn about!

[@ashadder795]

Bald he meant bald, he just didn’t want to be mean

[@scottjones7948]

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, and Planescape: Torment. Best examples of a D&D adventure I ever saw. Dark Alliance, Brotherhood of Steel, and Champions of Norrath were what 5e is, now!

[@maxkogan3785]

Could you make a video on the Genasi? They're personally my favorite race in all of D&D and I feel they're really slept on. They're lore is quite fascinating as well.

[@shadowofseattle1338]

If I had money I'd buy your book, legit you are my favorite dnd youtuber

[@dutchlinde56]

I must say, the Duergar make for criminally underrated baddies, though I prefer their Pathfinder lore over their DND origin. In pathfinder, the Duergar were originally dwarves who choose to remain underground while the rest of their race migrated to the surface. Beset by all manner of horrors and catastrophes, the Duergar made a pact with a forgotten dwarven god, transforming them into the cruel, tyrannical slavers they are now.

[@D--FENS]

That sounds a lot like the Chaos Dwarfs.

[@carlmatusak7912]

The twist at the end was epic! Mind blown.

[@flibbernodgets7018]

When I think of the Duergar and a life of endless crushing misery, I'm reminded of the Corpus from Warframe, in particular the workers living in Fortuna who have to go in to debt to afford their own body parts and are constantly in danger of having them repossessed and being left crippled and destitute. Imagine you're traveling in the Underdark, and you've made your way to Gracklstugh. A song not unlike "We All Lift Together", but altogether drained of even the tiniest sliver of hope drifts up over the slag pits. You can't appreciate it though, because immediately you're being harassed by a Duergar who insists you owe him for the air your breathing. But he's elbowed away by another who gives you a ticket for occupying space on the street without displaying a license. Everywhere you go you're being charged for existing, racking up an enormous debt. You can't hope to pay it off in anyone's lifetime, and so you are declared bankrupt and sold into slavery. Gracklstugh is a large and prominent trade city, located on a major Middledark waterway. Anyone from anywhere could have purchased you. You wanted to explore the Underdark, and you will certainly go further than you ever planned to.

[@iljagaimovic9166]

So they are like very practical dwarfs. I like how they don't decorate they equipment because of imagination, make them more warrior type than most of other races

[@MrFahqup]

I love seeing 2 table top content creators I'm subbed to collab, even if it's just BS'ing about kickstarter campaigns. Jacob is hilarious, and your vids are super immersive, so I feel like you 2 cover alot of what I'm looking for. People don't get the difference between advertising and endorsing.

[@metalmayham8920]

I have to say thank you for all your d&d videos. Iam a new dm, that feels almost enlightened by all ur videos showing me the bigger picture of what the "world" looks like. Im actually trying to make my own world and ur videos just flood my head with ideas. I loved your collaboration with changing the way armor and weapons are use and i plan on add that to my world. I would just love to talk to you and get more idea!!! But if anything i want you to know you are a celebrity to me and i know you have other big fans 🧔👍

[@muhdewsah8241]

Thank you SO SO much for doing this! Duergar are litterally my favorite. 🖤 Your videos are the absolute best.

[@vaughnlewis3443]

Closer and closer you get soon the dwarves and magic runes will come and I will be hear on this day. Upon that day I shall speak ( typing ) a big message for you. And thank you for the great video keep up the good work

[@mattkreais8240]

You are still the best lore videos i have found on youtube keep it up

[@gobbo1917]

The more I hear about the duergar and the drow, and how basically they were both victims in a sense, the duergar being an outright victim, and learning cruelty from their harsh treatment, and subsequent exile. The more empathy I have for them, and the more critical of an eye I cast on the base races which they branched off from.. Imagine being trapped, abused from all sides, and your cousins are nowhere to be found, and after you finally get out of your abusive slavery, when you're old and gray. Bearing all of the scars of the abuse that they did not even seem to care about, they call you a monster and shun you. Literally sounds like it's based off of some of the ''''righteous'''' groups of people, from real life. (It kind of loosely mimics the cycle of familia abuse / couple that abuse together when you think about their origins and how the duergar and drow have a tacit understanding through pain and sadness, whether they would admit it or not.) I also understand the dwarven fortress dwarves when they say 'there's nothing worse than an elf' now. 😂

[@jwall1646]

So glad one of my favorite races got a video. I’ve always wondered how they’d interact with gith. Also can’t wait for a hobgoblin vid

[@sangheilijedi]

Hobgoblins are my favorite

[@bluebird3281]

@@sangheilijedi I picture hobgoblins and Duergar occasionally having alliances to beat up the drow

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@bluebird3281 Oh for sure. Also they're said to ally with evil Stone Giants, but I feel fire giants would also be good ones. Because other than the blazing beards, a Duergar using enlarge might look rather like a Fire Giant.

[@tenshiumi9299]

I would love a video about the far realm, I don't even know of it's posible but aberrations are my fav

[@4stringfenix]

When I saw this video title, I mentally screamed "FUCK YEAH". I have always loved the Duegar and I'm so ready for this deep dive.

[@neon-lake]

That was more intense than I expected Great vid btw

[@eliasvernieri]

♥ everything and anything related to dwarven is always great content :P

[@coolnamebro7363]

Shouldn't the Duergar be resistant to being stunned instead of paralyzed?, that's what Mind Flayers are able to do and they shook off their enslavement so it seems more appropriate.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

Fuck your psionic blast

[@derskalde4973]

Awesome!! Funnily enough, I was busy just now writing history concerning the duergar for the campaign I'm currently running, so this is much appreciated. Also very interesting, that apparently, the story told in Mordenkainens is just a variant, that laduguer always was a god, and not an ascendet duergar. Thank you so very much for all your hard work.

[@colinstewart3531]

"The creature appears completely hairless..." Shows a drawing of a Deurgar with a large beard.

[@tyrannicaltypomichaeltester]

Id love to hear a more in depth Sharian intake. Her inclfluence on the planes etc. Good stuff

[@jonathanhallberg3009]

I'd love to see one of these videos about the Sahuagin and the Bullywugs.

[@tqbrowne]

I love this channel. Super helpful for my campaign right now!

[@Shrooms-gud4ya]

Well since the Drow are done and now Duergar as well, a certain question has been bugging me. If Drow are elves underdark version and Duergar are Dwarfs from underdark...is there a human equivalent as well? Of course I was thinking about the Gith races (Githiyanki and Githzerai) but perhaps there is a human race that was shaped and reformed by underdark and lives almost exclusively there

[@Sneemaster]

Maybe goblinoids?

[@dawsonhelf7922]

Don’t forget the Derro being under dark equivalents to halflings

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

Gith are not underdark races

[@badideagenerator2315]

there's also orogs (half ogre half orc) who are basically deep orcs. It'd be cool to see underdark variants of other races, imagine an underdark variant of thri-kreen.

[@Rpground]

With this I do hope you will be going into the Dwarfs next. Seems like the perfect segway into that topic.

[@darrinstanfill6846]

Duergar are just awsome. They are my absolute favorite race of all

[@meanietrooper]

Was looking forward to this. Currently enjoying playing my drunken Duergar.

[@gregkun1]

Feels like this was going in to 40k territory at the end . :)

[@Unknown-lf2kl]

dwarfs I would like to know a little bit more about them in dnd

[@Paul-tl4cn]

How does the duergar origin story in forgotten realms relate to other settings? The duergar exist in more than one crystal sphere, but does Laduguer? Is he a multi-spherical power? If so, did the duergar in the multiverse fall independently or was this a multiversal event?

[@noname-wl6ow]

Some things are left for the DM on purpose

[@havokmusicinc]

In most spheres, duergar are just a subspecies of dwarf, but sometimes they're specifically psionic dwarves

[@jonathancampbell5231]

I think this was multiversal.

[@seekthevisceral]

"It opens up so many doors." Thank you for being one of those doors, MrRhexx. :)

[@Domdrok]

Definitely didnt know much of this, thanks! Would love a dwarf video in the future!

[@robertjuangreggor2385]

This was a fantastic video, now looking forward to my grey dwarf death cleric 💀

[@Summonization]

Did not expect that rollercoaster lmaoo!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@Frederic_S]

Great video ... and I dont even play D&D. But in my system (the dark eye) there are lots of dwarf tribes too. Thank you for the inspiration!

[@davidpaulos2943]

Great video once again...When are you going to do a video on yugoloths? in my next campaign im gonna be a tiefling...whose bloodline actually came from a yugoloth

[@Onthisjourney409]

Halloween is coming soon. Perfect time for that night hag covent video

[@balintvasvari7573]

Well, most of those duergar illustrations have some pretty sweet looking armour

[@rejvaik00]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole Diggy diggy hole Diggy diggy hole

[@timolson4052]

Now I'm imagining a Duergar Hell Knight Paladin as a villain. Possibly leading a unholy crusade against the Dwarfs: composed of duergar, abominable constructs, and devils

[@commanderroddi7742]

This race grew on me that I am rolling a duergar druid (figured circle of the land - Underdark fits this race? though fighter, Oath breaker paladin or vengeance paladin, forge rogue, ranger (gloom stalker? monster slayer?) and there are other, artificer (batlesmith or artillerist fit), and even druids (circle of blighter, circle of spores), shadow monk would work too. Interesting lore, helps in rolling my new character.

[@scrub-lord]

Awesome, was looking for a lore dive on these guys recently. I've been getting ready to run the Forge of Fury adventure and was looking for some more info on them to better myself and assist on making the characters and area feel real.

[@markdowse3572]

The Duergar - Not only existing in the darkness, but living in denial too. They are thus twice damned it seems - and so perfect minions for Asmodeus.... 😈 Great video, MrRhexx. Lots of brilliant history, lore and detailed information. 👍 M 🦘🏏😎

[@thehohcollective5201]

This was so good you taught me things even I didin't know!

[@ShaunTripp]

I really like that you could make a Rune Knight and reflavour most all of the abilities as Duergars natural enlarge ability and psionic powers

[@RoyRivers159]

Loved the video! It would be awesome to get some more dwarven videos from you MrRhexx, especially the dwarven gods.

[@Ares9804]

To be honest, the Duergar societal standards sound a bit like capitalism. "There's no happiness, just go work and get money."

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

oh my god, my made up dwarf race are literally just Duergar

[@andrzej6294]

Still waiting for Graazt and Malkizid getting the love they deserve. But ofc this video is absolutely great and thank you for it

[@bluebowser3347]

Dwarves may be a dying race due to their failure to adapt and change, but the Duergar are evidence that Dwarves can adapt and change. I wonder if the Duergar could outlive the Dwarf race.

[@92Uzumaki92]

Great vid! Would love to see a video from you about Aasimar!

[@EPICchuchu]

Great so it’s not dew-er-gar, but dew-re-gar. Cool, thanks for letting us know Mr. Ehrxx.

[@padalan2504]

KZbin: Yep, definitely talking about World of Warcraft. There's dwarves in there for sure... right?

[@grimeto7323]

21:49 Most gods were resurrected during the Second Sundering, right? Their gods are most likely alive in the current time of DnD.

[@Lanceweilder]

Yeah both of them are listed in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, so they seem to be back though we don't know specifics about their return.

[@darlhiatt8136]

That, or people just think they do. With Asmodeus taking over those jobs it would be hard for most to tell the difference.

[@TheOriginalCameron]

Yes, probable. We don't know exactly how, although, they can be raised through religious worship in quality and numbers.

[@Sigilstone17]

Quest-o-nomican looks cool, I backed it at the start

[@professord6968]

Duergar history covering all the different editions with the sources in clear view to boot. Original content that s the product of an accurate research and not a Copy Paste of Forgotten Realms Wiki and the likes of It. A video of almost half hour instead of 4/5 minutes. Despite the fact that i alteady Know 90% of this video conten,Sir, i in all honesty must admit that you are praiseworthy and deserving my subscription. Carry On!

[@lordm0918]

Nothing compares to my confusion when opening this video, hearing mr rhexx’s voice but seeing the skip ad button… I got discribe ad and was wildly confused lol

[@OliverurFace]

25:54 the coolest thing you've ever said

[@madocmayhem]

Sire Rhexx another amazing video and delve into lore. Thank you for all your work xD

[@venkelos6996]

I don't like the Duergar as much ad I've come to like the Drow, but this was fun. My two least favorite things about this group, as of 5e, are that even Mord kept their CRs low, and that, like the Githyanki, none of them really feel, to me, like they've capitalized on their psionic power. The strongest Drow stats are on pat with Demon Princes, at least by CR, and they have high casting power, can wrap themselves in great armor, and are terrifying. The strongest Duergar, on the other hand...are weak. Their king is like CR 5, and even their best ToF entries aren't much better. Part of this, I feel, is 5e not really knowing how it wants to handle psionics. There should be centuries-old Duergar psi-warriors, wearing their best armor, or mental shields, and wielding psychic blades or mauls, or able to harness the casting power of psions past, but nope. For some reason, like most other psychic races, they just won't weaponize it, and dont even seem particularly resistent, though they somehow toppled the Illithids. Oh well.

[@kly8105]

10:30 consider the opposite, what if the mindflayers messed with the duergar so much that it gave them a resistance and subsequently psyonics, or awakened latent psyonics? That would bring so many questions about lore concerning, whether the illithid really "came back" not because of what the lore says but rather because they effed up. (fat chance but its a hilarious notion to consider) I mean..... gith "developed" their psyonics under them too lol.

[@maitrecorbeau_gm]

Great video again. Now I got to check the asmodeus' video I didn't see yet ? *run*

[@michaelmyers1749]

Hey! First to watch. Huge fan of all your work. Keep it up!

[@mke3053]

Love it. Do one about Demodands/Gehreleths

[@ricardoweber5744]

Im in an Icewindale campaign (warning slight spoilers) My pc is a Swarm Keeper ranger named Yohan Frosh and isn't vindictive as he has a sinple nature gives and takes attitude. He is a local to Icewindale and he is determined to rid the land of the enternal winter. He didnt know much about Duergar until he was ambushed by a bunch of them attempting to steal a statue. After the party interrogating one (after killing the others) he realises they plan to take over the land and kill all its inhabitants. And that is when Yohan took it personally.

[@unluckysoul5494]

I'm ready for the other outer planes videos to continue or more undead