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-Planescape: Planes of Chaos
-Planescape: Monstrous Compendium Appendix I
-Planescape: Monstrous Compendium Appendix II
-Manual of the Planes 1st Edition
-Manual of the Planes 3rd Edition
-Planescape: On Hallowed Ground
-Deities and Demigods
-Forgotten Realms: Champions of Ruin
-Polyhedron #118: Forgotten Deities
-5e Adventurers League: Turn Back the Endless Night
-Legends & Lore
-Forgotten Realms: Powers & Pantheons
-Forgotten Realms: Sword Coast Adventurers Guide 5e
-Wikipedia articles on Ragnarok, to reference how D&D's version intersects with real life mythos - Ігри
Nidhogg: Eats the sun
Surface dwellers: die
Underdark dwellers: it`s free real estate
Nidhogg: crushes the planet
Under-dwellers: surprised Pikachu face
I think even the under-dark dwellers would die out from just the sun dissapearing. They may not like direct sunlight, but the climate they prefer is supposedly somewhat hot, and without the sun it would get extremely cold. Also important to ask if any joint in their food-chain depends on sunlight more directly, like even vampires would be indirectly dependent on the sun because their prey needs it so survive, but the underdarkk could be so isolated that only the cold would really matter for that
@@zakosistThermo vents is what is likely keeping the Under dark hot, not the sun. As far down as the underdark, the suns heat would not penetrate the planets surface. Only way to get that hot is Thermo vents from the core.
The greatest villain is my DM. He never gives us enough loot.
A crime punishable by death.
@@sithmaster4305 and eternal slavery to dm hood by necromancy afterwards.
ikr wdym that goblins don't have any gold after we spent 2 days clearing their lair...
@@The_SupremeSage god damn
Could be worse. He could be giving you electrum.
Dendar devoured the first sun of Realmspace? That could explain why Toril's sun is not actually a gaseous, self sustaining plasma ball but a giant rock with countless portals to the Plane of Fire.
That seems dangerous. Isn't that just a way for elemental chaos to come through?
If I were a creature that sustains myself by devouring nightmares, I'd want to destroy the thing that wakes people. I'd destroy the thing that symbolizes hope for new beginnings. I'd destroy the sun. That's probably why she does it.
Everybody's looking for some deep tactical/philosophical reason to eat the sun. It'll destroy hope, it'll make Dendar stronger. Maybe the sun just tastes really damn good
@@agentchaos9332 That too XD
@@agentchaos9332 Good point.
I've never had sun, I wouldn't know.
@@agentchaos9332 Something tells me it must be very spicy. I can imagine that it would be a Dragon’s favorite meal.
If you destroy the sun the planet will die...
Looks like Ubtao didnt betray Dendar. It just protects it through "imprisonment" to deceive gods.
I like that idea lol, I can imagine Dendar being to impatient to fully recover so Ubtao is like no stay and rest or I'll make you.
That would make sense since they could easily just enter every few hundred years to fight her and make sure she doesn't gain enough power.
There's also some renditions of the story about Ubtoa and Dendar that implies that they are two sides of the same coin; Ubtoa IS Dendar
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Dendarr also neatly filled the role of Apophis in my Egyptian themed campaign. A great sun eating serpent in a dark plane who eternally battles the gods? Perfect.
maybe Nidhogg and Apophis are just names that people of various belief systems give to Dendar?
Dendar looking at the sun. 'with Italian hands'.
"That is one spicy meatball!"
In my first Eberron campaign, Dendar was the reason that the Quori were trying to stop the Turning of the Age. She’d burrowed into the heart of the plane as a means to access Eberron’s crystal sphere, and would emerge to consume all reality once the age turned. Sadly, my players were not able to stop this (they actually caused it by accident). However, it is campaign canon that the parents of one of the PCs from my current campaign ultimately saved the world by using Xoriat to travel back in time by several millennia.
Nice to see an Eberronian.
If I were to import Dendar into Eberron I’d probably just use the Adventure League Statblock and use it to represent Masvirik, since they’re another ancient apocalyptic serpent who wants to eat the Sun.
@@InquisitorThomas That's a good idea. I actually have the Cold Sun as a separate antagonist in the setting; I'll look into using the Dendar stat block for his avatars.
I love the concept that Dendar came into existence because the very first living thing had a dream instead of a nightmare, and many wizard scholars wonder what would have spawned if fate went the other way
A nightmare is a dream.
Nightmares and Dreams are mutually exclusive. 💀
@@xXLunatikxXlul Not true in the slightest. A nightmare is just a dream that's especially bad, that's literally it.
@@Yasha277 wasn't even talking to you - but you're "description" or lack thereof is akin to a *laymens term.* Harvard states, "Dreams are understood to be recent autobiographical episodes that become woven with past memories to create a new memory that can be referenced later, but nightmares are simply dreams that cause a strong but unpleasant emotional response."
So no, they are not the same thing in your close minded brain. Go back to your conservative bubble 💀
@@xXLunatikxXlul Are you... Trolling? Like not only is everything you said dumb, but even the quote you just put literally says "nightmares are simply dreams that cause a strong but unpleasant emotional response.".... Are you, just mad at me for putting it in even more simple terms? Also known as semantics.
If we're gonna go that route, I'm calling you out for using the wrong "your".
Your idea of Dendar being the 'hero' at the end of Ragnarok and basically causing the whole world to restart reminds me of the one version of the true beginning/form of Asmodeus, with him being a colossal serpent and being responsible for the creation of the world. If your theory is true, then it could be that Dendar is the next Asmodeus in some future universe, or else that time keeps on repeating, so Dendar as we know them now, will be Asmodeus in the future, and Asmodeus was Dendar in the past...
I like the idea. My campaign is similarly based on the recurring theme of history stuck repeating itself, both good and bad, just recycled into a different form. You have a creator who is very Old Testament-tyrannical in wanting to be in control of all creation, and his anti-god parallel who wants to destroy it all, but only because God is using her dreams as the fabric of reality. (AKA, the universe literally runs on nightmare fuel.)
Although the universe sees her as absolute evil as she is the Destroyer of All things, if they actually let her kill her brother and get some decent f*king sleep, she would have the power to restore the multiverse to the way it was before God overthrew the cosmos to rebuild it in his image, but not many actually know that truth, and the few that do would rather not be erased, even if their reality as they know it could eventually come back.
The players in this situation are people caught up in the battle between the old "heroes" trying to keep reality intact, and the primordial beings wanting to assert control or destroy it all. Ironically though, it's their interference that can break the centuries-old stalemate, for better or worse. Especially now that there's a black water going around glitching people into Lovecraftian Far Realm zombies.
That just leaves one question: Who would be the future Jezerien?
he actualy made a vid aboıut ıt truth about asmodeus ı belive
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 One of the good dragon gods, maybe?
he did a good video that touched on a possible origin for Asmodeus that I really like.
ua-cam.com/video/fAHy5ToPLHk/v-deo.html
The amount of homebrew lore I had devised around the Night Serpent and Nidhogg being proven semi-canon to The Forgotten Realms has just reignited my drive as a Dungeon Master to levels I havent had since before the pandemic. Thank you MrRhexx for continuing to be a fount of knowledge and setting inspiration with these videos!
Regarding the idea of Dendar actually saving the world from Surtur and the other actors of Ragnarok, as kind of like a hero: I love the thought of Dendar being neither really good nor evil. But just like a presence, an inevitability that just happens. No matter who it might profit in the situation.
Eating sun would cast eternal darkness, which would lead to nightmare becoming an eternal reality and people living it, which would generate tremendous amounts of power. And as for why Toril-the one thing that stands out and comes to mind is Ao...
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It's very beautiful
She wants to destroy that world specifically because that's where all the nightmares are coming from - she hates them just as much as we do and wants them to stop.
Who knows? all the dreams comes from the ethereal plane and all existances comes from this plane too for some other reason... Even if you succes, it will restart all again... I would say, she would be in her eternal nightmare that can't devour
Is there any lore to suggest that the sun in Forgotten Realms is connected to dreams? Either thar it is a dream made manifest, or it's a portal to the realm of dreams, etc. Or maybe even that it naturally banishes nightmares? That might explain why Dendar is so focused on devouring it.
There is lore, but it is that the sun is a giant portal to/piece of the Plane of Fire.
It is most likely Dendar is wise enough to know 1) the light of the sun keeps Toril's life alive. 2) worship by that life is the source of the Gods power.
Eat the Sun, kill thier worshippers, starve the Gods, win the War.
@@jeffreyscott4997 well it could be also possible its a gate to postive energy
Ah. That's why My DM replaced Nidhogg by Dendar. It's actually how it is XD.
My character was quite nihilistic when he realised the threat of Dendar and contracted her as her warlock Patron. But it seems he will have the last laugh.
For the curious : Dendar only needs to uphold one thing in the Pact I made, to protect the Dragonborns if she is ever to be free. (My character being a dragonborn desiring to save his owns if the world were to end).
Definitely going to be a monkeypaw situation later down the road
@@placeholdername3818 She'll protect them with a biiiiiiiiig hug!
The DM is the biggest villain he can kill your character with the biggest power....Narration
"Your character choked on a chicken bone whilst eating in a tavern and died"
"Cmon at least give me a con save for that"
*Pulls up a list of Minecraft death messages, and rolls a d100.
The stories from a post- dindar world in which she is the creator goddess would be wonderful to read!
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This is just too perfect of timing. One of my players is planning on playing a Yuan-ti that has been led by visions to Icewind Dale. She has been shown many dreams by an extension of Dendar that has revealed a fallen neitheril city where there is a possible key to unlocking Dendar into the world. I do not know when or how the player will betray the party. But, I am IMMENSELY interested to see where this story goes and finishes.
:)
I have a question. In your video of asmodeus, you talked about him also being a great serpent that consumes the souls of non believers. Does he relate to dendar in anyway?
They're arguably the same species, both are top tier primordials( Asmodeus isn't ever called a primordial but if you follow the Ahriman origin story for him that's what he'd logically be classified as)
Nop, Asmodeus, If you belive the theory of the serpent, (cause there are more theories about where he came from) is an ancient serpen from before the gods and all the mumbo jumbo of the dawn war
No direct connection to Dendar, other than both being evil, serpentine supergods and filling similar niches on opposite sides of an edition-change retcon.
The "Asmodeus = Ahriman the Evil Cosmic Serpent" thing was 2E. It goes that there were two Cosmic Serpents, the source-&-embodiment of all Law in existence before the current multiverse. When they fought over whether heaven or hell should become the center of newborn reality, the good one was wounded so badly she was demoted to setting-neutral LG deity, and drops of her blood became the first couatls. The evil one, borrowing from Dante's Inferno almost to the letter, crashed through the "floor" of reality and the resulting crater is Baator.
In this version """""Asmodeus""""" is pure theatrics put on by Ahriman, whose real body is barely alive but slowly healing at the bottom of Nessus. What heals him is eating the souls of people who die without believing in *anything* strongly enough to draw the soul to a normal afterlife, *even based on plane-alignment affinity.* Once he's fully healed, by nutritional value of the Nietzschean "Last Man" apparently, he will remake the multiverse as he likes; "destroy" being a relatively benign term here.
AFAIK he is now actually "just" the most powerful Devil and those two functions are filled by the Wall of the Faithless and Dendar absorbing nightmares.
this lore adnd2 according to him Ahriman+Jazirian was a cosmic serpent of order, but also according to him they belonged to the ancient brethren, the ancient brethren included Ahriman+Jazirian, lady of pain and the nameless serpent, the ancient brethren were stronger than anyone else , they were higher than the overgod ao and everyone else, but ahriman + Jazirian during the conflict lost a huge part of their former power and left to heal their wounds, so according to adnd2 the lade of pain and nameless one serpent, the strongest creatures currently known, it was also said that ahriman +Jazirian spread a bunch of lies about themselves and all the plans all the gods and others do not know their true origin, their origin is known by lady of pain and serpent,and according to the lore adnd , no one except themselves and the ancient brethren can give them any kind of challenge,Ahriman+Jazirian are weakened and licking their wounds from their great battle and waiting for the day when they fight again, asmodeus-ahriman consumes the souls of non believers, Ahriman+Jazirian and, lady of pain and the nameless serpent, not the only members of the ancient brethren, those who are known and even those who are known are known to a couple of beings from all existence
I personally assume Lady Pain has become a replacement for Ahriman+Jazirian, and the nameless serpent (some people call him mok'slyk, but I can tell he's definitely not called that) his exact targets are unknown, but he's definitely not averse to someone breaking the sigil and opening the infinite spire, and secretly spreading knowledge behind the scenes to individuals through knowledge and so on achieves its goals, without acting with its own hands
so according to adnd2 lore - dendar, even tharizdun, atropus, elder elemental eye and others not the biggest threat to cause collapse of all things, but without a doubt they are able to destroy a couple of worlds or plans
mb tharizdun mb this guy is probably bigger than the others, but it's impossible to say for sure
@@sakizuyaayame7947 why would Jazirian spread deceit if she is Lawful Good?
Sutur: "You can't defend me!"
Tyr: "No, but she can..."
*Dendar starts to eat Ygdrasil*
How about the idea that by consuming the sun (light as a Symbol of good) an the worldtree (earth as an element) the dragon/snake evolves into Io and starts the worldcreation again. I think I will use this idea as part of my own creationmythos in my homebrewworld 😊
Thanks for your great work. As always: every video of you reminds me that there is a lot to do homebrewing ❤️
ok so question... what would lord AO being doing during all this?
I mean he ended the dawn war by spiting Abear-Toril into two twin planet in different planes of existents, but on the same rotations. and since he maintains the bubble that the world is in, surly he would step in to put in end to it. Maybe the world serpent would actually end up destroying Abear and not Toril instead?
(also I am so sorry if I misspelled anything and this does not make any since at all...I am trying though...)
Now I want a villians series, Asmodeus, Vecna, Larloch, Acererack, Stradh, etc.
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This was one of the best ever episodes. I didn't know there was a campaign featuring Dendar
I love the idea of being a goodly aligned character working to free The Serpent because they believe in your story of her becoming beautiful. Would have to build on it but sort of an Anti Hero character being the only on believing in redemption for the Serpent.
Nice touch showing the art for the MTG card, The World Tree, when you were talking about Ygdrissil(sp?) Clever.
Wow awesome job. Was hoping to get something about Dendar. My campaign has Dendar as the ultimate villain and this really just helps to tie in everything.
The last DnD 5e campaign I ran was basically--while set in the Forgotten Realms--essentially was like Norse mythology meets Lovecraftian horror. It was focused on the Nordic tribes of the far north like Icewind Dale and the Spine of the World, residing there I had a homebrewed living dragon god that slumbered within deep within the mountains, and she was essentially the last line of defense against the Great Old Ones invasion into the realm, but more specifically Dendar aka Nidhogg. The party was essentially the slumbering dragon goddess' champions and agents tasked with fending off the invading forces of the Great Old Ones, especially in the case of Nidhogg whom the two dragonness' saw each other as rivals.
Makes me think of the true form of Asmodeus. A great back serpent that would engulf all creation.
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I would love to hear about a couple of the other universe ending events!! These videos were awesome!!
I just got your monster class pdfs and this is some awesome stuff. The deva and ghost and dragon are probably my favorite.
Really thankful that you made this video - I'm planning to give my players' Divination Wizard a pair of dice, and upon rolling Snake Eyes (two 1's), there'll be a chance of opening the iron door, and potentially releasing Dendar.
Before this video, I didn't know all the stuff about the iron door, or about the nature of her imprisonment, but now, it's just so much more enthralling to get them to roll their powerful dice, and maybe end the world... Woo! :D
So your idea is that if one player rolls bad you kill the whole party just because?
As a DM with direct association to Wizards of the Coast (formerly at least), Dendar eats suns because they are spicy.
I'd like to propose a theory. As a primordial, which you mentioned are not subject to the same laws or reasoning as the gods, Dendar may be the engine of the cyclical nature of the universe you mentioned. The primordial force driven to consume the powerful pillars of the worlds until the multiverse folds in on itself and is reborn in a different form, whereupon she is bound to begin the process again.
The most powerful being in the multiverse is a giant lizard that likes vegetables and hot poppers.
Thanks for the lore! ^^
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If anyone has played Adventurer's League modules and never gotten to play the Dendar modules...please play them cuz yikes. I played them as a 20th level character and I never felt like an ant before I played those modules. Lots of fun and a real possibility of having to retire a character permanently. 😂
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The most powerful villain is the Monster Manual because there’s so much it doesn’t tell us, but the Prophecy of Rhexxnarok foretells of its defeat by a mighty hero.
Dammm bro its been a long time since skyrim and its good that your still here
imagine spending 4 years on a Asgard D&D campaign and you finally get the throne of asgard but then Dendar eats you.
wow, I am using Dendar as a villain in my campaigns, and I was just about to look for more on it, perfect timing.
You don't need to tell me to look forward to it. I've been looking forward to it.
Starting a new character who will be a warlock of Dendar! Thanks for the great info
Whoa, Nidhogg is in DnD? Awesome and I wonder what Fafnir will be like in DnD.
When you said she ate a sun, that immediately reminded me of Dragonfable, where the greatest villain we ever face is this gigantic, and insanely powerful dragon-darkness-elemental, that at one point flies into space and eats the sun. It just flies into space and devours the sun whole.
It's a lot smaller when we fight it though, and we defeat it using the literal power of bacon. No, I'm not kidding. Bacon is an element in this game, and we use a powerful, elemental bacon artifact to kill the sun eater. This game is wonderfully silly some times.
Dragon Fable was so fun. Long live Artix Games.
Dragonfable is such a good game that’s still running! Highly recommend people download the Artix Launcher and play it. An amazing storyline and soundtrack.
@@sanddry738 Hell yeah. Easily one of my favorite games at this point.
Cool lore. Cheers!!!
Holy Moradin! I love when we get "the truth behind Asmodeus" level. I just love it!
I would love to hear and learn more about the Kalashtar and Quari.
mind blowing content, as always, sir!
In Norse myth Nidhoggr only destroys the tree after the battle, two Surviving humans emerge from hiding in the stump of the tree. And after that hilariously the souls gods and their foes emerge from Helheim and go up to High Heaven (above Asgard) which escaped the destruction. Lastly new gods emerge and rule over the world.
Many primordials seem to have this same motive of bring an age of entropic darkness. This may suggest that beings of elemental chaos have an inate instinct to destroy everything that is not themselves. It's possible this very act of conflict defines the primordials as individuals; if the many elements of the universe didn't constantly clash, burn and react with one another, would anything truly exist? What did the first beings of the Upper and Lower planes do before the birth of mortals? They fought against their other, constantly seeking the destruction of one another even when there was none to be judged by them.
11:24 I cant remember any times where I felt I had a bad dream, without being able to remember the dream. I've had nightmares many times, but I could remember what happened in them.
Mr. Rhexx giving us all the good lore and then a designated cool monster PC system.
It’d be really cool if the serpent turned out to be Asmodeous in disguise and he influenced Loki
Could you make a video that lists all the End World prophecies, events, etc, that are in DnD??? Maybe even make it a video series?
In the case of mystra, whose power comes from the weave and existed since before mortals. Would her power come from the worshipers? Or is it another case like with Ub Tao who has his own power and is also a god. Also, More videos about elder evils please!!! A series of the elder evils like the one you made about the gods would be amazing.
The goddess of magic predates the weave. She was created when Selune threw her essence at Shar and it intermingled. The weave just regulates magic on and near toril. Its likely that she might not be subject to the same rules. Since its stated and reinforced the only god stronger than her is Ao himself. Its why she has so many chosen. To ensure Mystra doesn't decide to take over so she invests them with potent power.
@@zacharyhawley1693 Thats what i was thinking, thanks for answering
Alright, I want more videos on other elder evils like Dendar. Cause this was amazing, whose with me?
Could you maybe make a video on the end of world in D&D: all the examples you gave at the end.
Thank you sir
True Primordial power. Loves this explanation.
An interesting aspect of the cyclic idea is that the end of the multiverse is described as a serpent wyrm obtaining incredible power and the start of the multiverse is also related to serpent wyrms as described in the couatl video and asmodeous one...
Dendar has always been such a fascinating villain to me because no matter how strong the threat or being dendar would know what that thing fears most.
rhex great video, can you dwelve a bit on Thor in whatever he has regarding to DnD? influence, lore etc
Ah the power of magic, now i can't help but wonder if with size that let her eat the sun wouldn't she be so big that coiling around the land would be hard.
Wait what are the size in D&D of the celestial body and of the lower plane?
Most Outer Planes, at least in some editions and/or cosmologies, are infinite. They literally never end. It's confusing as hell, as in, where the absolute hell does an *infinite* location even fit into, lol, but that's just how it is: The planes are iterally endless in size, even though it makes absolutely no logical sense.
@@terraristit3752 well i guess now it make more sense regarding the eating the sun and coiling on the lower plane.... so infinite lenght and width, uh uh yes......
@@terraristit3752 well i guess now it make more sense regarding the eating the sun and coiling on the lower plane.... so infinite lenght and width, uh uh yes......
@@samuelesanfilippo222 Yeah, lol. Infinite lenght and width...The planes really are confusing af...XD
i wonder, which of the end time villians would win then in a battle for the end of the universe
That's a tall order. Outside of Asmodeus (him as Ahriman), Ahriman (as a distinct entity), Dendar, Tharizdun, the Demons (inclusive), and a few other deities that desire the end of the world and/or multiverse, I don't know all of the players. But I guess this question could be approached from two angles: the first is raw and situational power against each other, which mostly comes down to narrative arguments once you throw the ties that currently bind them out the door; the second is based on motivations, and I think that's where we might be able to pin down an easier answer. At least if we know the ultimate goals of all parties involved, who allies, etc... But it seems like we don't have that info on all of them.
All that being said, I think that laying out a set of assumptions at the top of a video to get rid of any ambiguities, there's plenty of information available to do both videos. But it would be a massive undertaking that would leave no stone in every setting unturned.
@@gogauze well yeah as each has powers not really seen by many so the possibilities are many, so who knows
@@lordkiller2298 indeed. But still, I like the idea of our illustrious dispenser of lore making a theoretical video covering the the apocalypse war of what happens next.
Dendar might like eating spicy heatballs.
She eats nightmares to get more powerful.
She eats the sun to end the world.
Now she loses her power with no fuel from human nightmares.
She recreates beings on the Earth to eat their nightmares.
Repeat forever.
Alternatively, she could also effectively be creating a living nightmare for all existence, if only to gain from its suffering. It would be interesting to cast "friends" on her (and it somehow actually succeed) to the point where you quickly figure out her motivations...right before she kills you violently.
Make a T-Shirt stating "Dendar ate my dream, sorry world" If there were a graphic of a serpant eating the sun, I'd buy it for a low price of $20.00
The abolith, also the spell weavers, and possibly the mind flayers.
If you look deeply into it, Aasmodeus is an even bigger villain, as well as ironically being half-creator of the AD&D multiverse. From his immobile near-dead state, he's been ruler and core physical being as well as power of pretty much the AD&D devils and their 9-layered outer plane. He is healing by eating immortal souls. He's the reason that those who consume souls merely have a temporary boost and are hungry again, the immortal soul eventually bleeds over to Asmodeus for him to finish absorbing. If he ever heals enough to merely move and bursts out carelessly, the multiverse snaps to pieces, starting with the 9 hells. And, to get to his hell-creating near-death state in which he's still a godlike devil, he fell an effective infinite distance at an effectively infinite speed but survived instead of died to form an infinitely large 9-layer outer plane around his body. He pretty much IS the Lawful Evil 9-layer outer plane. I think he'd see any other being aside from the Mt. Celestia denizen and other-half of the multiversal creation as mere nuisances. You are one of UA-cam's top AD&D sages, so you have to know what I'm talking about, my friend. Aasmodeus probably is pushing for Ragnarök for his own reasons. 😈🤔
I would love to see a theory video based on the lore where the end of times comes from one of the other beings listed starting at 21:50 and they unwittingly awaken the serpent and have to try and combat the serpent or face destruction themselves. Just your thoughts based on stats as to how it would go and what they would decide to do based on alignment and historical actions from said character.
Tharizdun is my fav character in all of DND i would love a video on him when the chance comes
I was kinda happy seeing fanart of evelyn of DCA swinging her axe at dendar:D
Will you ever cover Asmodeus’ fall and eventual rise in the future and how that could lead to the end of the world??
Kaldheim really gave some cool art for you to use :)
A pity that the link to the previous video is not linked in the description. Thanks for great content.
Really excellent as always
Neat, a primordial that isn’t just a more powerfull elemental. I wonder tough, why don’t gods send their avatars or organize giant crusades with their blessing to force the serpent into releasing some nightmares? Would it be too powerfull in its realm? I am not sujesting killing it, but disturbing it enough for it to retaliate, pushing back end of the world
You mean having army of good aligned beings in what is basically the middle of the evil aligned planes ? I don't know why but i think it might be a LITTLE difficult with all the evil gods, devils, demons, etc. and all...
Or maybe your talking about the part of Dendar that is in the plane of fugue, where anything less than very powerful stop to exist if they wander too far/long and army of evil being could just attack them from behind ?
Yeah, i don't think it can be done... Probably would be a good idea to get small groups of powerful being to hinder it or make more things like the door for when Dendar escape tho.
@@xaviermantha63 @Xavier Mantha I tought about raids by directly climbing down the Ygdrassil. Trying to march an army into the second layer of evil plane would be idiotic, but popping few strong individuals right at the beasts location didn't sound so ludicrous. And yes, evil gods will be much stronger in thei own plane, but really, what do they care. Serpent breaking out means that the creatures that they enjoy subjugating will simply perish. for many this is their own demise, for others end of entertainment, reason to exist etc. Nitthog isn't allied with anyone, he just wants to eat the sun, and from evil gods perspective this would be just forces of good weakening themselves, doeing somethig that might benefit them too. Probably this logic has flaws, I have no ideas how traveling along the world tree would look like, it was just a random thought
The gods simply aren’t that powerful. The Blood War is pretty much the only reason the prime material plane and basically all the planes can exist, because demons and devils so greatly outnumber and out-power the celestial forces that if they weren’t fighting each other they’d slaughter everything. I forget her name but that Angel who fell and is now an archdemon basically learned that the hard way when she tried to lead an attack on the 9 hells and got massacred, and for as powerful as demons and devils appear to be it’s also lore that Asmodeus could win it at any time but chooses to maintain the balance to disguise his true nature and continue to heal.
@@plagueofjoe Asmodeus needs the war so he can get more souls from the prime, true, but it seems strange to me that forces of good and evil are so severly outbalanced. Shouldn’t the universe keep some sort of equilibrium, so that even if demons and devils stopped killing themselves actively some sort of thin balance would emerge between good between good evil? Even if Asmodeus would beat the Tenari, good creatures would be much stronger on plains of their alingment, and good or neutral gods are venerated in much greater number on earth, so they would have greater agency at stopping a massive invasion. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that impending doom would make people belive more thus empowering gods. And we are talking about exerting influence directly from Ygdrassil, second layer of Hades is far from Blood Wars, and from main Demon/Devil armies. Even if after one such venture the place would become guarded, hindering World Serpent is worth it even if you do it slightly or just once
Damn, then dendar has eaten almost all my dreams.
wait, we don't know this thing motives... and he is a dark magic serpent.... i see Vecna getting involved
Vecna was actually Taught by Dendar in some settings
@@gamercore5216 wasn't Vecna taught by Mok'slyk? Dendar isn't a member of the ancient brethern.
@@dynestis2875 they're commonly considered to be the same being with different forms and/or titles/names across the multiverse.
For 'Ends of the World', you mentioned Ahriman, Chronos, and....?
That's an awesome topic, make a series on all of this! (I know we have a video for Asmodeus too!)
Tharizdun
@@olekorte15 Oh, got it. Thanks, mate!
Your monster classes PDFs are awesome! I'm loving reading the newest one that you've just recently put out.
I know it most likely won't happen, but it would be amazing to see the chromatic and/or gem dragons as playable classes in a future release. Maybe even be able to play as a Giant. I can imagine playing in a game that pits a group of PC giants against dragons, or even having a party that is made of both dragons and giants working together in a strained alliance to achieve a goal. Possibly fighting that new Vecna dossier that just came out on D&D Beyond. :)
I think a level 20 campaign where players have to stop all of the potential threats to the universe/multiverse could be interesting. You start with preventing Tharizdun from escaping then jumping to Ysgard to delay ragnarok and then go to Carceri to stop Cronos and then the Nine Hells to stop Asmodeus
4:44 mind blown.🤯
Adding to my dungeons & dragons playlist on my channel I got a bunch of videos there
Thank you for the video.
I like that this implies that the Sun is a nightmare dreamed up by some being.
Thanks for this.
Me.
And a can of soda not a foot away from my arm's range.
I wonder, how does this mix with Chronos (was it that one?), The titan capable of killing all the gods in battle without rest. Wasn't there a prophecy saying that once Chronos wakes up from the illusion that trapped him, he'd bring an end to the world?
are you referring to Chronos in DnD?