#chains of asmodeus

Hi! Thank you so much thsts so sweet!🥰

Hmmm! It depends on what you’re looking for! And I will tell you the Hells has been retconned to (heh) Hell and back so feel to take what lore you like and ignore other bits, DnD is supposed to be fun. The Nine Hells is my current hyper fixation though so I stay reading about it lol. I get a lot of my stuff from everywhere but I can definitely provide some links!:

So books!

Descent into Avernus: This is a great world building book if you’re looking to learn more about Avernus or Zariel, I have this book so I can vouch that it’s great. Even not just for world building, the campaign itself is super cool and gives you the option to be EVIL which is so lacking in a lot of RPGs these days.

Chains of Asmodeus: is a great reference for like the entirety of the Hells I haven’t dug through it completely but it’s good. Don’t agree with everything but! Take and leave right lol…Here’s a little link to it free online and a bunch of other DnD assets for freeeee :3

The Godborn: I’m holding off on ordering this to have in my own collection bc the Twilight Wars comes first but my friend let me go through theres and for characterization of Mephistopheles this book it’s great. This is a novel different than the two books above which are more DnD adventures just so you know.

Twilight War Series: These I haven’t read but follows Magadon Kest who is Raphael’s brother, I ordered Shadowbred since I’m about to finish Homeland and I’ll let you guys know if it’s any good! But I’m very excited about starting this series. These are novels.

Brimstone Angels: I have mixed feelings about these but I have used sections of it for reference, good stuff for kinda of conceptualizing cambion behavior. It’s a bit…idk. It’s not always to my tastes but it is a good book to paw through if you’re looking for cambion stuff specifically. These are novels.

Websites:

Idk if linking these will work but these are scans from a dungeon master issue a friend sent me about Archdevil Glasya’s killing of her mother, service to Mammon and rise to power….lots of great details about Asmodeus, Bensozia and Glasya’s family dynamic too.

Hells layers details! Great stuff and great art, of course I’ve set it to Cania bc duh but there’s a lot of stuff there.

It’s lacking its barebones but it’ll give you your base lore on characters, can’t knock it bc we need it. And it does have a lot of stuff.

For Meph specifically ^ DMs talking shop about Meph’s characterization, it’s funny and I agree with a lot of their interpretations. This is a sillier one though.

Some Baalphegor lore bc I’m miss Baalphegor’s number one fan!!!!! Not enough about her…my missing babyGIRL!!!!

Video Games:

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Some of the stuff in this is as crazy to me as Raphy ruling over all the Hells but I do like Mephistopheles’s characterization in this sooooo!!!! I watched a playthrough and if you want Meph mannerisms for writing and stuff I think this game is clutch. His voice in it is…hot. 🤭

I hope some of these point you in lore directions you like and gives you some interesting threads to follow! The Hells are vast and I’m still learning a lot. I love it though. Yay Hells :D

I opened my character sheet and saw in capital letters "REMEMBER DO HEROES' FEAST" so thank you, last week's me, for doing that.

So we begin in our manor! Our safe safe manor! And our druid poked her head out and saw a fucking pit fiend waiting outside, staring at the door.

Right into it?

We are surrounded. And they're supposed to 'escort' us to Asmodeus. But we still need to go to the library first so we can do some bamboozling.

2 pit fiends, 2 giant devils, and 2 fucking adult red dragons. My rogue is now trying to communicate with Asmodeus. He's agreed to let these guys be our 'escorts' rather than force us straight to his house. But he is still somehow tracking us.

Cleric: Peeping! Toms! You know who doesn't watch me shit? Mystra!

Pit fiend: Are you sure?

Cleric: ... One sec! *goes in the mansion to commune* Mystra this is the most important question ever, have you ever watched me take a shit?

Mystra: ...... No.

Cleric: Why was there a pause there?

Mystra: I could.

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Druid contacting Fierna through divination: Please tell us how Asmodeus can track us even without the divination magic?

Fierna: Ripples in a pond.

Rogue: That's fucking cryptic.

Cleric using sending to Fierna: Ok so you just gave Lost some cryptic fucking answer, tell me directly how Asmodeus knows where we are?

Fierna: You guys aren't subtle.

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Sooo basically we're thinking our magic abilities and tools are getting noticed when we use them. Which means. My detection and telepathic spells. So sad.

We're recalling to the boat on level 8 after telling the entourage we're taking another nap. Hopefully they'll wait another 16 hours until the door fades, and we're gonna go back down and sneak off to that library. I think the plan was to turn us into fart clouds?!

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We are now clouds and apparently flying fricken fast. Let's get to the library!

Oh fuck we followed my previous ping on 'fanciest books' locating. I think it took us to Asmodeus's castle. It is not secret, it's not at the end of a river, it's not an oasis. Shit. Keep going lol