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  • @MrRhexx
    @MrRhexx  2 роки тому +146

    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

  • @AudrenDev
    @AudrenDev 2 роки тому +346

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

    • @KyleJordanGaming
      @KyleJordanGaming Рік тому +32

      The flesh is weak! Praise the Machine!

    • @ravishing_cadet4625
      @ravishing_cadet4625 Рік тому +17

      Praise be to the Omnissiah

    • @andrewmesser2899
      @andrewmesser2899 Рік тому +22

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

    • @setholsen7096
      @setholsen7096 Рік тому +16

      They craved the strength and sertanty of steal.

    • @RustyKnightGaming
      @RustyKnightGaming 11 місяців тому +13

      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
    @gorillaguerillaDK 2 роки тому +424

    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
      @zeusdemi6858 2 роки тому +21

      ... how'd that work out?

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK 2 роки тому +101

      @@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
      @erickchristensen746 2 роки тому +19

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

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK 2 роки тому +19

      @@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
      @JosekTheNecromancer 2 роки тому +12

      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

  • @GoblinGirlLindsey
    @GoblinGirlLindsey 2 роки тому +46

    Illithids: “why does everything I whip leave me”

    • @TheFatalcrest
      @TheFatalcrest 2 роки тому +1

      "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
      @justmega3455 4 місяці тому

      So parents are just Illithids

  • @W0lf7133
    @W0lf7133 2 роки тому +257

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

  • @AEB1066
    @AEB1066 2 роки тому +34

    The Duergar sound like Amazon warehouse workers.

  • @Tehluls1
    @Tehluls1 2 роки тому +41

    "...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
      @Xo-3130 Рік тому +5

      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
    @tyrant-den884 2 роки тому +263

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

  • @Stealth_Saber
    @Stealth_Saber 2 роки тому +239

    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
      @placeholdername3818 2 роки тому +8

      Or Fiendish/Hexblade Warlock

    • @GundamAngelicDevil
      @GundamAngelicDevil 2 роки тому +1

      Blood Hunter is great too, if DM permits.

    • @Hektols
      @Hektols 2 роки тому +12

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

    • @Troglor048
      @Troglor048 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @johnkingsize
      @johnkingsize 2 роки тому +5

      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.

  • @save_often
    @save_often 2 роки тому +50

    “Completely hairless” - sports a huge beard

    • @Hawkens4k
      @Hawkens4k 2 роки тому +5

      You are not a true dwarf without a beard.

    • @bray2964
      @bray2964 2 роки тому +2

      Maybe it's a fake beard

    • @MrRhexx
      @MrRhexx  2 роки тому +60

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

    • @Harrowed2TheMind
      @Harrowed2TheMind 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi
      @NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi Місяць тому

      Smooth down there

  • @h4xx0rren3
    @h4xx0rren3 2 роки тому +338

    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
      @manuelcamara6400 2 роки тому +8

      Yes, Yugloths are great.

    • @salimufari
      @salimufari 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @manuelcamara6400
      @manuelcamara6400 2 роки тому +12

      @@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
      @madocmayhem 2 роки тому +6

      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
      @D--FENS 2 роки тому +5

      +1 for yugoloths

  • @ryanaiden
    @ryanaiden 2 роки тому +174

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

    • @danielderamus9573
      @danielderamus9573 2 роки тому +31

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

    • @marcusc9931
      @marcusc9931 2 роки тому +7

      even their women are bald

    • @theblackneon5396
      @theblackneon5396 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @miriamvlachoulis6875
      @miriamvlachoulis6875 2 роки тому

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

    • @Morec0
      @Morec0 Рік тому +2

      @@theblackneon5396 Hair serves a function.

  • @cataquackwarlord5389
    @cataquackwarlord5389 2 роки тому +34

    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.

  • @sammyvillano9502
    @sammyvillano9502 2 роки тому +18

    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!”

  • @Meanlucario
    @Meanlucario 2 роки тому +115

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

  • @backonlazer791
    @backonlazer791 2 роки тому +102

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

    • @nulllex0099
      @nulllex0099 2 роки тому +13

      There's an Asmodeus video from 2 years ago in this very channel.
      Basically, he's such a big character he's half compelling lore half writers actually writing whatever without cross references, that Asmodeus can be pretty much what you want him to be.
      At his most, he's the primordial embodiment of lawful evilness, along the god of Coatls, the lawful good one, who formed the Ourouboros and basically they were the universe. They fought, his crash into what would become hell harmed him permanently and now feeds on souls while conning all of existance into hundreds of plots.

    • @sangheilijedi
      @sangheilijedi 2 роки тому +4

      @@nulllex0099 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
      @alexinfinite7142 2 роки тому

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

    • @Siegefriedd
      @Siegefriedd 2 роки тому

      BIG SNEK

    • @hawkshot867
      @hawkshot867 2 роки тому

      Asmodeus:
      ua-cam.com/video/fci16qH7fqY/v-deo.html
      Couatls:
      ua-cam.com/video/fAHy5ToPLHk/v-deo.html
      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.

  • @tyrant-den884
    @tyrant-den884 2 роки тому +65

    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
      @mediatorraptor3349 2 роки тому +4

      Wait, so mind flayers are being controlled by devils?

    • @cameronpearce5943
      @cameronpearce5943 2 роки тому +5

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

    • @Greenweeper1387
      @Greenweeper1387 2 роки тому +7

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

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 2 роки тому +3

      @@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
      @tyrant-den884 2 роки тому +2

      @@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.

  • @Hadojon
    @Hadojon 2 роки тому +47

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

  • @juliengosselin4277
    @juliengosselin4277 2 роки тому +42

    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
      @dragonrenver 2 роки тому +20

      that's easy, It is Moradin.

    • @andrewwilliams2014
      @andrewwilliams2014 2 роки тому +12

      @@dragonrenver you shut your heretical mouth lol

    • @NoConsequenc3
      @NoConsequenc3 2 роки тому +20

      @@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
      @Menzobarrenza 2 роки тому +2

      @@NoConsequenc3 Lol. Nice.

    • @danielderamus9573
      @danielderamus9573 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @jonathancampbell5231
    @jonathancampbell5231 2 роки тому +44

    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
      @josephjones7020 2 роки тому +1

      Caught that too.

    • @wyatthill6252
      @wyatthill6252 2 роки тому +4

      Well Tolkiens work is the template for all modern fantasy

    • @ZacharyOsterman
      @ZacharyOsterman 3 місяці тому

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

  • @FreedomAndPeaceOnly
    @FreedomAndPeaceOnly 2 роки тому +39

    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.

    • @nulllex0099
      @nulllex0099 2 роки тому +7

      You soon learn the Underdark is the edgiest, nastiest place in 5e. The only things that are nice down there are deep gnomes and the floomphs. I can't ever spell that right.

    • @sandrols7
      @sandrols7 2 роки тому +1

      @@nulllex0099 And also Myconids.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 5 місяців тому

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

  • @Jonpo95
    @Jonpo95 2 роки тому +12

    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.

  • @pablocachaldora9199
    @pablocachaldora9199 2 роки тому +12

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

  • @gasmonkey1000
    @gasmonkey1000 2 роки тому +28

    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
      @placeholdername3818 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @gasmonkey1000
      @gasmonkey1000 2 роки тому

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

    • @placeholdername3818
      @placeholdername3818 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @monsieurszo
    @monsieurszo 2 роки тому +18

    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

  • @flibbernodgets7018
    @flibbernodgets7018 2 роки тому +19

    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.

  • @Aidan8et
    @Aidan8et 2 роки тому +6

    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
      @Phoebe5448 Рік тому +1

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

  • @sangheilijedi
    @sangheilijedi 2 роки тому +6

    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

  • @Tomas229C
    @Tomas229C Рік тому +3

    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

  • @MormonDude
    @MormonDude 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @nicolaspeters5980
    @nicolaspeters5980 2 роки тому +12

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

  • @mentalrebllion1270
    @mentalrebllion1270 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @dutchlinde56
    @dutchlinde56 2 роки тому +2

    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
      @D--FENS Рік тому

      That sounds a lot like the Chaos Dwarfs.

  • @coolnamebro7363
    @coolnamebro7363 2 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @maxkogan3785
    @maxkogan3785 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @Unknown-lf2kl
    @Unknown-lf2kl 2 роки тому +11

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

  • @metalmayham8920
    @metalmayham8920 2 роки тому +5

    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 🧔👍

  • @gregkun1
    @gregkun1 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @buzzfiend
    @buzzfiend 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @iljagaimovic9166
    @iljagaimovic9166 2 роки тому +2

    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

  • @Grybster
    @Grybster 2 роки тому +4

    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
      @Sneemaster 2 роки тому

      Maybe goblinoids?

    • @dawsonhelf7922
      @dawsonhelf7922 2 роки тому

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

    • @adolfhipsteryolocaust3443
      @adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 2 роки тому

      Gith are not underdark races

    • @badideagenerator2315
      @badideagenerator2315 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @Flashjackmak
    @Flashjackmak 2 роки тому +1

    "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
      @ashadder795 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @scottjones7948
    @scottjones7948 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @tenshiumi9299
    @tenshiumi9299 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @padalan2504
    @padalan2504 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @davidpaulos2943
    @davidpaulos2943 2 роки тому +7

    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

  • @Dr.G555
    @Dr.G555 2 роки тому

    We are playing in Icewind Dale right now. My party is in the middle of the duergar fortress.

  • @undesired9702
    @undesired9702 2 роки тому

    It’s the “so.. back off bitches” at the end for me🤣

  • @colinstewart3531
    @colinstewart3531 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @Summonization
    @Summonization 2 роки тому

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

  • @Bidmartinlo
    @Bidmartinlo Рік тому

    Nasty looking dwarves?! Heeey! That's a grudging.

  • @broEye1
    @broEye1 3 місяці тому

    Might be interesting to have a Duergar character who found out about Asmodeus' deception and instead of embracing it chose vengeance, swearing to find some way to reach the great deceiver in the deepest pit of the Nine Hells and slay him once and for all.

  • @jonathanhallberg3009
    @jonathanhallberg3009 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @muhdewsah8241
    @muhdewsah8241 2 роки тому

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

  • @timolson4052
    @timolson4052 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @Paul-tl4cn
    @Paul-tl4cn 2 роки тому +4

    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
      @noname-wl6ow 2 роки тому +2

      Some things are left for the DM on purpose

    • @havokmusicinc
      @havokmusicinc 2 роки тому

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

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 2 роки тому

      I think this was multiversal.

  • @danielclark-hughes692
    @danielclark-hughes692 2 роки тому +6

    Thought this video would be... _shorter_
    I'll see myself out...

  • @EPICchuchu
    @EPICchuchu 2 роки тому

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

  • @carlmatusak7912
    @carlmatusak7912 2 роки тому

    The twist at the end was epic! Mind blown.

  • @Rpground
    @Rpground 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @unluckysoul5494
    @unluckysoul5494 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @commanderroddi7742
    @commanderroddi7742 5 місяців тому

    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.

  • @Onthisjourney409
    @Onthisjourney409 2 роки тому

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

  • @CNNBlackmailSupport
    @CNNBlackmailSupport 2 роки тому

    I see some Duergar, and I'm yelling "Bivvrip!" before going HAM.

  • @tyrannicaltypomichaeltester
    @tyrannicaltypomichaeltester 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @venkelos6996
    @venkelos6996 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @padalan2504
    @padalan2504 2 роки тому

    Most Illithid slave races tend to gain some form of psychic ability at some point. My theory is that it's a result of their breeding program, which leads to the brains being tastier and more filling, but also risks the race gaining a psychic power.
    If it wasn't for the short time periods these races had to spend isolated, we could also say that this was an indirect result, as the more mind control resistant slaves survived, while the weaker ones worked themselves to death. But if the world is anything like ours, then a few thousand years is not enough for that to happen.

  • @panagiotisagathopoulos391
    @panagiotisagathopoulos391 2 роки тому

    I mean, who the fck watches this video (or any of Mrrhexxx's videos) and decides to press dislike? What didn't you hear about the Duergar that you wanted?

  • @justacrittic1578
    @justacrittic1578 Місяць тому

    Duergar comes from the pronounciation of the Norse word "dvergar", it should therefore be pronounced "Dverg-garh." Duergar is also plural, if you respect it's roots, meaning a Duerg is a singular member of the Duergar race.

  • @4stringfenix
    @4stringfenix 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @ccswelding1599
    @ccswelding1599 2 роки тому

    "Dour, Sad, and just generally Angry all the time"...hhhmmm...I guess I'm a Duergar now

  • @Eliphas_
    @Eliphas_ 2 роки тому +3

    Can you do a video about Fraz-Urbluu please :)

  • @seekthevisceral
    @seekthevisceral 2 роки тому

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

  • @cbtenthusiast7133
    @cbtenthusiast7133 2 роки тому +1

    the skaven from warhhamer would fit right into the under dark and with its residence (except miconids)

  • @balintvasvari7573
    @balintvasvari7573 2 роки тому

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

  • @derskalde4973
    @derskalde4973 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @shadowofseattle1338
    @shadowofseattle1338 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @asexyhippy9368
    @asexyhippy9368 2 роки тому

    “So back off bitches” 😂 YES!! That was perfect!

  • @ShaunTripp
    @ShaunTripp 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @scrub-lord
    @scrub-lord 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @christophermurphree2315
    @christophermurphree2315 2 роки тому +5

    Am I really they only one who pronounces duergar Doo-ehr-gaar rather than Durh-e-gaar?

  • @grimeto7323
    @grimeto7323 2 роки тому +14

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

    • @Lanceweilder
      @Lanceweilder 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @darlhiatt8136 2 роки тому +5

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

    • @TheOriginalCameron
      @TheOriginalCameron 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @robertjuangreggor2385
    @robertjuangreggor2385 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @bluebowser3347
    @bluebowser3347 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @Manticorpse
    @Manticorpse 2 роки тому

    Hey funny coincidence, I got the dscryb ad right before this video

  • @MrFahqup
    @MrFahqup 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @logandaley1544
    @logandaley1544 2 роки тому

    “So back off bitches.” Had me in stiches.

  • @Sigilstone17
    @Sigilstone17 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @eliasvernieri
    @eliasvernieri 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @jwall1646
    @jwall1646 2 роки тому +2

    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
      @sangheilijedi 2 роки тому +1

      Hobgoblins are my favorite

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 5 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @alexrothman2078
    @alexrothman2078 5 місяців тому

    I want to play Duegar that learns the truth about Laduguer and Asmodias and rejects it. Taking an Oath of Vengeance against devils and those who consort with them to try and truly free his kin

  • @darrinstanfill6846
    @darrinstanfill6846 2 роки тому

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

  • @vaughnlewis3443
    @vaughnlewis3443 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @YeaItsMeMatt89
    @YeaItsMeMatt89 2 роки тому

    No one:
    MrRhexx:
    "Back up bitches."

  • @kly8105
    @kly8105 10 місяців тому

    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.

  • @andrewwilliams2014
    @andrewwilliams2014 2 роки тому

    🤣 "back off bitches" lmao that killed me

  • @maitrecorbeau_gm
    @maitrecorbeau_gm 2 роки тому

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

  • @mattkreais8240
    @mattkreais8240 2 роки тому

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

  • @donutlovingwerewolf8837
    @donutlovingwerewolf8837 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @neon-lake
    @neon-lake 2 роки тому

    That was more intense than I expected
    Great vid btw