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When you consider that Cegilune had relations with the Giant god Grolantor, she could literally be the mother of the Night Hag species who would, technically be Giant Kin (considering the size and strength of many hags, that certainly checks out), also, as Cegilune began as a very beautiful goddess, one must connect her with the Fomorian Giants of the Feywild, who were cursed with their horrific ugliness, but, like the original hags and their goddess, they didn't start out that way… is there a connection between fomorians and Hags? Maybe…
Still waiting on that chocobo.
bok bok BAGOK!
The art reminds me of the skeckis from Dark Crystal.
Edit: You thought so too lol
Well can I at least cook it first?
Good video AJ
Please cover gloamings. Gloamings are cool.
If Diakks are natives of Hades, where do their souls go when they die?
And frankly, where do hags go upon death?
I actually have two questions. Paladins are legendary for having divine health. Is hades a location that would push their disease immunity to its breaking point because of its distance from the divine sources of a paladins powers and the fact that the first layer is the home of the worst diseases in existence? And second, devils try to ascend up the ranks to a higher level of devil. Do demons have a similar way to evolve or are stuck in their form there're in forever?
AJ: "So the lore for these things is scattered throughout a couple different systems and editions, and the end result is kind of incomplete-feeling overall."
Also AJ: "Remember how this whole channel is me taking all available lore about a thing and putting it together into a coherent whole while filling any holes I need to with original theorizing or personal canon so well it's legitimately hard to notice when I do it? Watch this."
Also I am personally offended by that art of the Sarcox, and it's only as I'm writing this I realize it's because the horrid thing is basically the Harpy from the Last Unicorn, I.E. an early childhood nightmare.
Isn't Babayaga a fey from the unseelie court in the forgotten realms. Some may call her a hag but I wouldn't really classify her as such.
Are you going to talk about hellcats?
See i keep hearing about parasites in the lower planes, but i don't recall hearing about any one species, still, is such a untapped potential, we are talking about supernatural parasites here, you just know some demented necromancer or experiment drunk alchemist is going for the chaotic potential inside all denizens of the lower plane, the fact is, much can be found in chaos, untapped and abundant potential to change reality, sure wild and chaotic, just rife with corruption, but limitless when it comes to potential, if there was a way to remove the evil, maybe convert one type of supernatural parasite into something else.
i envision a swamp with a small rift to the lower planes with humans dwelling in the mire that made a bargain to carry a parasite that gives magical powers, effectivally making them sorcerers, with rituals and whatnot to "purify" the creature and make it something they can use, and free themselfs from the contract, a tiking time bomb before they are consumed and fall to hades, under the control of a up – and – coming demon lord that specializes in controlling parasites and mutations.
you can basically play d&d alex mercer.
I now have this image of a flock of Diakk surrounding a group of PCs, clattering away like shoebills, and falling on the first creature to break and run.
Yes,YES: i want to see a dnd "HFC", hell fried chicken! Or, hades. Or, pandemonium/grey wastes…
I always thought the Skeksis were interested characters seems that they inspired these creatures and vice versa
Centuries ago the plains of Hades were literally covered with a breed of Diak called the commuter diak. The plain’s literally turned red from the reddish coloration on their chest. But overhunting has completely eradicated the species. Its a testament to the cruelty of the gods that the only word that any one ever used to describe the commuter diak was “tasty.”
Diakk… Diakk… Diakk… Diakk… Goose!
More and more itneresting, AJ, you exploring series about the lower planes is going to be your finest content by far!
Do you wonder if they lay Deviled Eggs?
and there is another reason why I'd bundle Dryads with the Hags. The Maiden who loos like early Cegilune & the Crones. now, who's the Mother?
I'd heard of abyssal chickens before, but these are a new one for me. Thank you for introducing me to them!
The forbidden chicken.
Love everything about Hags!!!
This humble petitioner requests more on Celigune.
looking forward to the next video too 🙂 Hags are probably my favourite creatures in D&D.
Hades Chicken vs Fish Dude. Let the battle to the death begin! Sorry AJ. It's been awhile.
…. so this is what my friend summoned from hell by accident…… hilarious.
Didn't know about these guys before so Thank you AJ. Don't use Hades very often honestly.
9:20 This sounds a lot like a Vrock. Like what would happen if an average Vrock survived a Blood War battle and survived some cosmic Law in the process.
"Right now I feel like I could take on the whole
empireparty myself" – DiakkGreat video AJ, such spicy (rancid) chicken. So… now that disease and infection seems to migrate from the Abyss to Hades, is the pro-life micro-biomes that constitute most of how multicellular life actually keeps being alive that functions symbiotically with their immune systems now part of the polar opposition of the recent shift of outer-planar origins of blights to their counterparts? I mean, the new edition writers want to shift the blights over, why are they not using the same reasoning to call in how the blights have a similar countermeasure from the other side that's part of the origin of life? You know, since they called in the complexities of science to call for the planar shift in a fantasy half-^ssed way because science is great until it's not for a fantasy writer.
Lazy steampunk writers are a bit more thoughtful on their creations, it seems. In Hades, flesh was supposed to be bland and not filling… not at all sensation-stirring… and those who starved to death in Hades were not supposed to because they were repulsed by the food, but because the planar energy of Hades (depression & nihilism akin) made them feel like eating was pointless. Only a pure heart, a truly devoted dark soul, or a complete narcissus (NPD) could really resist Hades's planar energy. That ironically works against travel in Hades… only apathy about the distance and time spent would allow the person there to actually cover any kind of distance.
So, Diakk have color and NPD fire. That would make them a great Hades life form, a thing that would thrive in Hades. I can see Larvae (NE Hades corrupted souls) evolving into Diakk.
As for Night Hags, you are very clever AJ… avoiding decades of implied nasty things, the sleeping things, they do to collect Larvae (killing via soul theft) to the one they "ride" every night. AD&D was a game created when the Moral Majority were running rampant and book burning… claiming that art that people who lived life created was what created those people. I was one of those devout readers who could read between the lines and honestly DM the darker side of AD&D with those who enjoy playing it that way.