Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Pegasus and Nightmare
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- The majestic Pegasus is native to the celestial realm of Arborea, home to the elven Seldarine and the gods of Olympus. Living symbols of freedom; they can be captured, dragged down to the lower planes and transformed into evil and twisted Nightmares.
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Lightmare: a rehabilitated nightmare that exudes pure radiant energy in place of fire. It's wings will never grow back but it remains the nightmares interplanar travel abilities. The lightmare has no memory of it's time spent as a nightmare nor it's pegasi form before and is seen as a deeply tragic outcome for the friends and companions of the former pegasi, but a vast improvement over the abominable form of the nightmare.
IDK might go into my spelljammer campaign at some point. Thanks for another great video aj
Yoink! Thanks for sharing friend! :)
Shouldn't it be called a daymare or perhaps a daydream? Since day is the opposite of night.
@17Scumdog Aaaaaand... stolen. Also doing a Spelljammer campaign, and your idea fits oh so nicely. Full props to you for a great follow through idea on the rehab. Btw, I had my party encounter some Sun Rays in the elemental plane of air. I used wyvern stats, swapped out poison damage for radiant, and added fire resistance and a heat aura that did 2d6 + 3 fire damage (half on a DC 15 con save) to anyone that started their turn within 5 ft. They're big radiant energy collectors, and radiant energy heals them. Our paladin critted with a Flame Tongue and a smite. She healed it more than she hurt it.
"They're like infernal Twitter."
So... they're just Twitter.
Griffins will eat you for your taste, Hypogrifs still might eat you, Pegasus will ignore you (self absorb ponys), Nightmares will eat you alive with style.
... Slowly. With Hollandaise sauce.
@@BoojumFed hah! Good luck getting that open with your stupid hooves!
One of my groups had a battle with a Nightmare and was victorious. When they performed their Lawful good deity's funeral rites and blessed the corpse, the pegasus' spirit was released to go back to Celestia. When the paladin decided to use his summon warhorse ability, I had the pegasus that the party saved respond to the call.
The paladin called it "Wildfire" and started singing the 1970's song. The rest of the party roared with laughter and an epic moment was complete.
Fucking fantastic dm'ing!
Hercules never encountered Pegasus, that was a creative license that Disney took to add in an obligatory funny animal character for the film.
Thanks for the correction Jonathan 😊
I had decided a few months ago to use the Pegasus and Nightmare as psychopomps for my newest custom campaign setting. So that is cool that you made a video discussing both of them.
Nightmares: a less evil alternative to Twitter.
My grandfather had a giant black stallion named "Sable" He would make a badass Pegasus or a Nightmare.
Valkyries from the Norse myths where riding winged horses when collecting souls of the worthy warriors(and into battle duh)
One of my characters is a life cleric of Lurue the unicorn goddess and all I’m thinking about is how they would go about saving a Nightmare because regardless of how good of an idea that is (I know it’s not) they’d definitely try that if they came across one.
There can't be many nightmares if their numbers are culled every decade, I can't imagine that there are many opportunities to create them
"called" not "culled"
@@CodyRPierce if they die at the end of their journey for the gloommeet, then yes, it could be called culling
@@CodyRPierce He is right; the described piles of bones that many are drawn to at the end of their lives would constitute a culling of their numbers
Called, not culled. The bones are where they choose to die, if possible, as they rest on a conduit of necrotic power in Hades.
In my home game a few years back, I had a situation where several high-level foes were trying to break the players. one player had to save a pegasus whos wings were being torn off slowly. She failed and the now nightmare swore vengeance cursing the player before disappearing.
I don't know if it was just their homebrew or what, but I think to remember that in the Story of the All Paladin Party, there were actually four distinct breeds of Nightmare: the one you know from the MM, one related to famine, one related to plague and sickness, and a skelettal one.
Read a comment about a lightmare and I've gotta say I love the idea. Imagine a being thoroughly violated by a breech of the natural order. A being of goodness being dragged down. Now restored I don't think a lightmare would take kindly to a good soul falling. And when the gods and angels say they can do nothing for it. The lightmare remembers it can plane shift and says "fine I'll do it myself"
To wich I like to imagine a being full of fear and righteous fury diving headfirst into hell. Tears and gritted teeth bared as this falling star decends to the lowest pits to grab your soul by the nape and drag you screaming out of hell. Celestial wings of pure light sprouting from the scarred stumps to carry you into the light.
And it's as the gods plan. For contrary to what Tolkien said I believe evil can create.... however what they create with their perversions are the mavericks who fill the gaps exploited by evil where the gods seem to hold no sway. In the end some evils defeat themselves
Love the Pegasus :-)
I wonder if you can make a icy cold fire nightmare or a poison vapor nightmare, that would be interesting.
That would be pretty cool, sounds like the latest epic Mounts from world of warcraft or something :)
New goal for my Conquest Paladin is to find a Nightmare and heal it so they can both hunt down and destroy the fiends who wronged them
I can see some kind of Memory Restoration Spell being effective against a Nightmare's rider, causing the Nightmare to remember who did THIS to them. This would cause the Nightmare to react with motives of vengeance thus causing Evil turn against Evil. Imagine if it was contagious causing other Nightmares to remember & rage randomly against all occupants of the Lower Planes.
Sounds like an evil scheme concocted by a good guy.
I love those kinds of schemes
I actually came up with a race of neutral Nightmare like horses known as Alastor's named after one of Hades' horses the look like Nightmares but are a lighter shade of black still have glowing eyes but with a dimmer light and serve as steads and familiars of Kelemvor serving as his mounts and Psychopomps of deceased souls
Infernal twitter, Ser Pickett you repeat your self.
I paused to make this comment. Great minds my dude.
@@RussTaylorLegend or fools seldom differ 😉
@@VerityAran the BBC is very cringe
Creating a Nightmare sounds like a cool idea for a fittingly evil campaign, possibly staying vague over some steps. Whether to gain favour of a fittingly evil master, or gain a vehicle for evil deeds.
Does sound like something to keep note is that it's ability to enter ethereal only works on the inner planes, and would still need a way into the Astral plane from the Outer planes.
Also, the Seelie court is in the Outer planes? I just assumed it was in the Feywild, it being less of a single place, but expanded over territory of its members, where they could take turns holding it. Or even a location that could change places in a sort of twisty space sense like how time works there. The land moving without disturbing what it passes through, and maybe unlikely to be noticed. Where you might wake up one day to find a location once a straight path, is now curved around the court's land, or on the other side of.
"Look at my horse, my horse is amazing"
"give it a lick," "mhm, it tastes just like rai-.. sulfer?"
Carries to outer planes with a stroke of his mane, and turns back a-gain with a
@@fromachat "tug on it's winkey"
Twitter was already infernal
More abyssal. Far more chaotic than lawfull.
As always great videos, please keep going!!!!
Suggestion : Morkoth
Imagine. A nightmare with no bottom jaw and the top one is horse skull. The fire that comes from its mane, tail, and hooves is black and always smells like charred flesh and smoke. The eyes of this creature are hollow when it's content but when it becomes angry, a red piercing glow escaped the empty sockets and stare straight into your soul. It has a saddle but no master. The saddle is the only remnant of what the nightmare used to be. and many have attempted to ride this creature but all have been psychologically invaded by a curse that resides in the saddle. The Nightmare I've described to you is known as Tyricle, the nightmare idea that spawned from the knowledge you put into your video. Thanks so much, AJ, for making these videos.
Nightmares are so cool. I wonder if an alignment shifting magical item could make one docile enough for a high level Ranger or Druid to bond with. It would be awesome to roll around on a super happy and laid back version of Sinewfeast the Unbridled, Eater of Hearts.
It's ok to pet him, I promise. Just don't let him smell your pain.
They are valued highly by the forces of evil, so, the theft would certainly cause additional problems.
Great video AJ. You actually covered a LOT of bases I never touched in my games, even wondered about. I have some home-brew alterations to Nightmares based upon other lower plane links akin to their "hellfire", I have "hellice" which is hellfire in reverse, black flames that project darkness and anti-heat (not cold, anti-heat like Elemental Ash). I made this a favorite of powerful Night Hags in their missions as it is a globe of darkness no one can see through, like the night itself is attacking and freezing you... and chilling even the cold immune to the bone.
I also threw in red herrings that trick veterans savvy with Nightmares through my Krull fandom. I added Elemental Pseudo-Elemental Steeds. I usually introduce Fire Mares. I was always old and-or obscure enough for AD&D veterans to assume Fire Mares were Nightmares. They were often seen as cruel horses that were borderline thugs that seemed to spring fire-based abilities and surprise brilliance. That wasn't the case. Often, players found them as easy to kill Nightmares. Smart players "broke" them and used them well like in the 80s movie Krull. Since the Fire Mares, I created other pseudo-elemental horses that can be one-time used with only Lightning Mares being faster. Others didn't have air-travel abilities but had other perks if they didn't.
You ever play the Final Fantasy game, the first one, for the SNES? When Cecil goes from Dark Knight to Paladin? I have had that story arc in a couple of my campaigns. And, yes, I do have a Dark Knight kid for those campaigns. If the player did such a turn-about while riding a Nightmare, the Nightmare (while also turning on the Dark Knight player for the fight) would be revived in its former celestial form when the player won and became a Paladin. I didn't know the Nightmare-Pegasus connection in the 90s, so I home-brew created a "Light Steed" opposite to a Nightmare. If I should resurrect those missions, it would be a Light of Cerlethar restored Pegasus.
Yay, Krull!
@@AJPickett Krull fans unite!
1.) How dose it get across the multiverse without the ethereal plane, through natural planer passages?
2.) Are all planer gateways between the outer planes some form of disk?
3.) What do the redeemed nightmares look like? The Pegasus version of the scourge asimar, a nightmare but good aliened (like a equestrian ghost rider)? Could a paladin of vengence get one as a mount with the greater find steed spell?
4.) So the soul forge is its own paraelemental plane? Is it connected to the positive energy plane? How are people able to get there and steel it? Isn't there some sort of cosmic mutually assured destruction going on there?
5.) Is it possible to fix the damage done by the plane of Hades, or even becoming a maggot, or is it determinant?
6.) How dose the gloom meet factor in to the blood war, and are things like demon princes, arch devils, and evil deities also summoned (or at least representatives of such)?
7.) Why do so many things want to eat elves?
8.) If it is only resistance, dose that mean that you still take some damage?
9.) Are the faywild and shadowfell layers of the material plane, inner planes, or something else? Are they connected to the astral plane, or just the ethereal?
10.) If it was killed, would it return to arboria, hades, the ethereal plane, or just die?
11.) Wouild the result be based on the plane (ie. being baptized in the silver sea of mount celestial making it lawful, the abyss makes them demons, meditating in limbo is chaotic neutral, plane of fire is elemental, etc.)?
12.) Would similar rituals work for altering other creatures?
13.) Is removing the wings necessary to corrupt them, or just things like the fire and ether travel?
1.) Why would it not use the Ethereal Plane? And yes, most likely other portals.
2.) Not all, but most, yes. Technically they are intersections on a flat spacetime membrane, so they appear like discs when they are probably spheres.
3.) Typically they look just like a regular Pegasus, as restoring the body is required.
4.) It is mysterious. Anything I say about it would be pure speculation.
5.) If a mortal goes there and gets slowly transformed, yes, it can be reversed.
6.) Yeah, they are, and the blood war touches on EVERYTHING they do.
7.) They taste like honey soy chicken.
8.) Nightmares can dial the flames right back to mainly just being a dull, red glowing vapor.
9.) The feywild is certainly connected to the Astral plane, a lot. The shadowfell is closer to the lower planes, both of them are technically parallel dimensions that border the prime material plane.
10.) The Ethereal, unless it dies in Hades near the bones of the other dead Nightmares.
11.) They all sound fun, so, yes.
12.) Unknown.
13.) Removing the wings is absolutely required.
@@AJPickett 1.) I meant how would it travel to places not bordered by the ethereal plane, like the outer planes, though if it uses things like conduits, color pools, and portals that shouldn't be a problem.
@@dragonturtle7645 They also travel via Hades to the underworld of Olympus, and from there, to the upper outer planes.
I just learned a lot. Ty
"only touching down on a surface to feed and when they take (pause)"
Me:Dump?
"To they nest for rest and young"
Would an awaken spell do anything for a nightmare? It could make an interesting unexpected big bad. Like place it as a steed for the perceived and "obvious" villain but, have then nightmare be more intelligent and, actually be the one in control.
Its already saipan sooooo I don't think so
Not much point, they are already fairly intelligent.
@@AJPickett well you mentioned they gravitate towards more devious minds and tend to have masters. I get that they are fairly intelligent but, what if they had some artificial way of increasing to the same level as something that would keep them. Such as demon lords and the like. (At least in intelligent and scheming) or am I just overreaching here?
What if nightmares burst out wings of fire when they were corrupted.I think this would be a cool thing to do.Could also be a variant nightmare.
I was thinking the same. 👍
Omg that was a sick lore never heard of it before is that original lore, wow well done.
Heh, I wish, no, it is all legit, sourced from magazines, books and modules.
Every celestial and every fiend has the ability to fall or rise. These are ageless beings in some cases, so forgotten lifetimes ago, angels or demons that were fighting on a different side for reasons that made sense at the time... A nightmare galloping into a human city should be almost like a stream of lava flowing toward your house, that kind of sheer panic and horror that scars an inexperienced mind with a lifetime of PTSD.
I sometimes don't like my players venturing into the lower planes if I'm not prepared because it's a LOT, so beasts from those parts have to be something to truly fear. The Nightmare isn't just difficult to control, but it's literally setting the city on fire if it's not careful. It incinerates scrolls and tomes nearby without even thinking; breathing too close to its mane or tail should be *like inhaling Pele's hair* (fine needles of hot glass piercing the lining of your lungs!); its breath should smell and feel like boiling sulfuric acid from the lakes of a volcano, and (imho) no DM should be too shy about making this monster a green molten-hot-battery-acid trip like the lake that formed in Hawaii's Halema'uma'u crater! Bring every kind of spicy heat to keep the party from wanting this thing around as a mascot.
What is the opposite of PTSD? As affirming and prestigious of a vision a Pegasus can be, radiating light and goodness enough to empower even the heaviest despair and hopelessness can be irritating too. Again, it's fun to try to elevate this goodness obsession to nearly suicidal proportions to avoid any ideas of following it off into the sunset once it flies off to its next quest.
A nightmare walks into a tavern. The patrons quickly get the fuck out of the building seeing that there's a major threat within the town. The tavern burns down, the village is on fire, people's lives have been ruined.
I'm sorry if I'm not good at jokes. A friend of mine told me one about a flying pegasus but it went right over my head.
I liked both of em'. 😉👍
Two thing that made me felt bad and almost cried is Pegasus turning into a nightmare and the Elves can't be with their Gods but have memories of them but only at a young age.
Cry baby.
Ain't nothing to be ashamed of. There's a lot of sadness in D&D lore. Hence why I prefer being of good alignment. Stand strong and brave against the sources of such sadness and misery.
@@xPumaFangx it's ok for me to feel sad and cry about this because that means I have feelings and emotions
Is it possible for a Nightmare to somehow have it's memory of being a pegasus magically restored?
They generally know what they were, they just don't know who they were.
@@AJPickett Understood.
That sounds like something a wish spell could be used for.
I just can't, for the life of me, picture a winged Balor astride a Nightmare. Id just be showing off for them. A Marilith on the other had would be a terrifying sight coiled around one riding into battle.
Also, I just manage to find a copy of the 90s Armada published MTG comic one-shot story of the Nightmare (of the original Black card artwork fame), really like that era of the Lore comics even if likely no longer cannon.
Welp... there goes my desire to ever want an extra spicy Rapidash... Just... knowing where they come from gives me way too much sad.
Here wuz Seamus!
I wonder how an interaction between a nightmare and a fire elemental of some kind would play out.
It would be a heated exchange. :)
@@AJPickett Puttin' that into a cringe comp.
I wonder if similar transformations happen. Can a Rust Dragon of Acheron be rehabilitated in the upper planes for example?
edit: The positive energy elemental appearing as a horse might be a mortal minds way of perceiving boundless energy? A character with more int or wis might see a truer depiction, at the cost of sanity, seeing how the universe really is.
My fiance has wanted me to make a nightmare a mount in game for a while, now I'm ready to make it a challenge >:)
Around 25 years ago at my first game shop, one DM was running a " My Little Pony " game for his grade school age daughter and her friends and some of us 20 & 30 years olds sat down and play the game with them as .. ponies .. in an AD&D2ndE game. After his wife took the girls home, he ran a game where all of us played Nightmares.
love your videos! this one is especially helpful because 2 of my players killed a Narzugon at level 6. I thought they were going to run away but since they got some VERY LUCKY crits, I gave them the Infernal Tack with the original nightmare inside.
Now i have to figure out how (if at all) they can "tame" the nightmare or at least get it to listen to them.
I am a fan of both pegasi and nightmares. A younger me had a phase where I was really excited by various "exotic mounts", such ad asperii, and nightmares were a fond one, too. Pegasi are also cool, but I typically feel that my characters are never likely to acquire one. Nightmares are cool, even if it says nothing good about me that I like them. In 5e, the options they grant something like a narzugon, a lich, or a death knight, regarding flight/maneuverability, and getting out of standing around for some damage, with ethereal stride, makes them great. I also love that Strahd has his own nightmare; Bucephalus, the Wonder Steed, in CoS. Even in 5e, I've often wanted special mounts, but a combination of what to do with them, when not traveling abroad, or having to replace them, when a DM decides to target mounts, familiar, and NPC retainers makes me not want to invest too much. One of my Bards actually wasted a Magic Secret slot on the Paladin's summon Steed, just so she could have cool mounts, dismiss them when convenient, and call them back up when necessary, but I don't recall the upper limit of options that spell provides.
Do a video on Death Dogs!
Whenever I think of Pegasi I can't help but think of Bolt the air elemental Pegasus and the Silver Strike Guild (Dragon Magazine #307). Once you realize that what is normally considered just a mount can talk and is perhaps smarter than you it changes the way you perceive the acquisition of such creatures. Also, since you've done videos on Griffons and Hippogriffs as well, lets not forget the missing aerial steed : Asperi (MM 2). They are as close to a combination of Pegasi/Nightmares as it comes.
“OMG this is soo dark”
Well yes, we’re talking Nightmares, nothing pleasant is ever associated with Nightmares.
Hmmm storey arc descend into hell to rescue a pegasus
Okay so hear me out on this:
Horse meat is delicious. Nightmares are living creatures with flesh and blood but also radiate fire. So, does that mean Nightmare flesh would be like a big pile of naturally seared steak/roast?
Extra spicy. ;)
I imagine it would taste burnt.
Of Evile!
There is a quest a gnome gives in WoW: The Burning Crusade that has you bring the body part of a certain flaming creature. So he can have a meal of a naturally seared meat.
What happens if you dont remove the wings
Does it have flwming wings
Or maybe it has bat wings
It remains a Pegasus.
I've been playing the first iteration of 5e's UA artificer, and I modified the construct from the Mechanical Servant feature from a horse into a pegasus. I plan on making it into a mechanical nightmare (it'll keep its wings and have toggleable flames).
AJ perhaps you can do a video on Elemental Vermin or Task Genies from the land of fate
Ah yes, dang, I am waaaay overdue to talk about task genies.
Why does evil get all the cool creatures?
So we can kill them out of envy.
*rides a Ki-Rin over a rainbow, playing an enchanted lightning lute*
What would happen if a unicorn went through the same ritual
A dead unicorn.
@@AJPickett or or an undead one🤔🤔
I think a somewhat similar ritual is used for making black unicorns. At the very least I’m pretty sure all black unicorns are synthetically made as opposed to born.
No wings to pull off
@@AJPickett Haha! I nearly choked!
That would be cool if you see a werewolf riding a nightmare!
Great video man! 👍 Now I want to know the rest of the lore on the nightmare! Don't let me down! lol.
Jarlaxle Baenre has one bound by a magical figurine to serve whoever has the figurine
Anyone have any idea of the "Rehabilitation" of a Nightmare that he mentioned? That would make for a great quest and/or some great role-playing
Nightmares from AD&D2ndE were Pure Neutral Evil Demons in the shape of a horse that .. loves .. to trample the young innocence to death and eat the sinful burning alive.
Isn't it the river Lethe that washes away the memories of those submerged in its waters?
You're crossing the streams :)
@@AJPickett We gonna have a total protonic reversal or two on our hands?
The Nightmares are creatures of lower planes, so why is its greatest power (Ethereal Stride) an ability that is useless from the outer planes? Does this mean they can only stretch their planar “wings” when they somehow arrive on the prime plane? Would make a lot more sense if they had the ability to plane shift (or something similar) to make the jump to the Ethereal from across the Astral Sea.
Love your videos. Thank you for making them!
Which is why the connection between the lowest layer of Hades and the basement of Mount Olympus is so important. Because somehow the Nightmares are managing to travel the multiverse with some degree of impunity, and they are certainly up to no good at all.
I love the content as well. I play entire list while I work, gets me through the day.
What... no mention of Strahd's nightmare, Bucephalus? There's even a rocking horse version in Curse of Strahd made by Blinsky. Love the video, love the channel. Thanks for all the wonderful info you give us.
If you listen carefully, I was going to mention him, but I forgot his name and said "vampire lord" instead.
Oh I heard that for sure, just didn't want the info left out. :) I'm a bit of Strahd fiend, and LOVE the Blinsky toys. Rocking horse Bucephalus is my favorite Nightmare.
From someone whos has rode his war pegasus in life and then a nightmare in death, well undeath,.......NEVER EVER X TIMES INFINITY FEED THEM PICKLED APPLES, GRAPES OR THER TYPES OF VEGETABLES OR FRUITS IN COMBINATION WITH CHEESE, trust me!
But you can feed them meat.
Ethernal Stide alone made me want this as a mount.
Can pegasi and unicorns breed? Would we get a hybrid?
Possibly, I'd just be guessing though.
What like an winged uincorn? Or horned Pegasus
Aren't they're winged unicorns ?
A Unisys
There called alicorns. Don't take my word for it, look it up on my little pony!
And you thought have a bird shite on you was bad. These flappy boys drop road apples from altitude.
Yikes.
A nightmare sounds pretty damn scary!
😢 I can’t help to pity the poor Pegasi who go thru the horrible transformations.
Yeah, it is horrible.
I don't allow characters to ride a Pegasi in the normal manner, there is no place to put their legs that wouldn't interfere with the wings.
I allow them to lie on the back of the Pegasus and be conveyed to a location.
Holy shit....came back to this channel to get some ideas for the campaign I'm running and boy do I have some good ones in the work but I'm so sad now. Poor nightmares. My first character was a druid, as i have a connection to nature personally, and all I can imagine is how he would react coming across a nightmare. It would break his heart and he would do everything he could to restore it or give it peace. Which could end disastrously since he is a vampire and well fire doesn't agree with him.
Prince Padfoot vampire Druid?
That’s a good example of what I find personally wrong with 5e
Vampire, my nature(pun intended), are anathema to the natural world.
@@kevinweaver9312 lol it was actually 3.5 with a bit of homebrew. I understand that vampires and nature arent a mix. But Aashia, my druid's name, wasnt a vampire to begin with. I made his backstory where he was a human that got attacked by a band of vampires and he got turned. So as a druid with a hatred of unnatural creatures he has this internal conflict of hating the monster he has become while still trying to adhering to his druidic nature. Its actually really fun to roleplay.
Prince Padfoot but I would think the vamps natural link to the neg plane would negate Druidic powers.
Just my opinion, I just miss the days when thieves couldn’t be lawful and paladins had to be human.
Maybe I’m just old too, lol
Vampire PC is hard to play by itself lol. Poor guy.
Something I like the idea of is making the Plane that the captured Pegasi is taken to and converted on effect how it turns out. Make the Plane of Earth result in an “Earthmare” (or something that sounds less stupid) where it’s wings are replaced by tiny sandstorms similar to how a Dao’s lower half looks. You can get some pretty interesting variants from the quasi and para elemental planes.
Great idea.
AJ Pickett I actually came up with the idea trying to rationalize a way to make a Neutral Nightmare. Ended up coming up with something I called a Embermare(again, not the best name), which were made by the Efreeti Royals as mounts through similar though less torturous methods as are used to make typical Nightmares.
Hey! AJ actually took my suggestion for a Pegasus/Nightmare double feature
It was a logical, good idea.
Winged unicorns; are they unicorns or pegasi subspecies?
They are called alicorns
A hybrid?
In the process of painting my Nightmare from the Theros boosters. Idk why it seems to be the only Nightmare minis without the flames. I’m using yellow and orange acrylics on mine. (Painting over that galactic theros look to make him look more like an original Nightmare)
Dude I got the Nolzurs vampires in the mail like,an hour after making this comment!
as someone who lives in greece. married into a greek family. i'd really like to know what role /how much the olympians do in the world of toril. are they bound by the same laws the other gods are or because they arent native do they get to ignore those laws? do they have followers ect ect ect. in fact i'd like to know about them all. the norse. any native american spirits? we know egyptian gods have a presence but how far does that go? one thing about living in greece. its VERY interesting to see how gods names get pronounced differently between cultures. a good example is posideon. in greece its pronounced posideonous or posideinoius. crete being pronounced kreetee.
Multispehere gods
I think I know what the ritual consists of I read ,”Cupcakes”.
Pain is Cupcake.
Link?
@@johnsnow9210 "Cupcakes" Is a My Little Pony Darkfic, with a slightly worrying amount of misapplied gore.
Great video AJ. Glad too see that you figured aspect ratio problem. Any videos for winged unicorns?
Yeah, it was the software I was using, I updated and the problem vanished. Hmmm, do we need a video on a winged unicorn?
@@AJPickett I think it would finish the trifecta of the celestial equines. Though, I am unsure if the winged unicorn is called a Alicorn or if that refers to another unicorn subtype. There was a dragon magazine about it.
Unicorn+Pegasus=alicorn
Pegasus+nightmare=?
pegasus.
Unicorn + Nightmare = Bicorn if I'm right. Not sure if it's an official monster but to my knowledge they are essentially evil unicorns, sorta.
Good video AJ
Are you and the dungeon cast cooperating?
No? Why do you ask?
They put out a video about the same thing on the same day
How were pegasi created. Did a horse that was a steed for a paladin or petitioner of a deity of the upper planes die and become a pegasus?
Excellent content- truly magnificent!
If an Eladrin had a choice for a mount, would they likely choose a pegasus or unicorn? (Assuming there's an option, somehow) Not talking about stats per se, more about the bond of mount & rider.
In soviet feywild, Unicorn choose you. Most likely they prefer a mount that can fly anyway.
@@AJPickett
Thanks AJ, as always, the obvious isn't always apparent. Flying would definitely be alluring for an Eladrin, I would assume. It seems "dreamy" enough for fey to drool over. A sort of freedom.
Where can I learn more about the white and blue flamed nightmare?
Good choice of topics there, Zealy Boi!
Hope your stuff is going well!
The only reason the Olympians have little to nothing to do with the Forgotten Realms is because Hera convinced Zeus that there wasn't a single virgin there 😂😂😂😂
In my head cannon Zeus just cant compete with the other "Sky Fathers".
Not only does he have to compete with Odin but there's Talos (not the ES one, even cooler Talos in FR) and Zeus just kind of quietly sits to side with all these big bois around trying not to sleep with any of their kids or wives. He tried that once. Never again.
Not in Waterdeep or Calimshan, certainly (Aye-ooh!)
Sune Firehair is Aphrodite and in the 2n Ed campaign expansion, Bloodstone Lands mentions a ship with clerics of Posiden. Sune most likely had help in keeping females safe. An artist who uses to post at the art site Elfwood had a drawing Zeus ordered a love potion from Aphrodite rather than giving it to Zeus that she shoved down a mortal throat. It resulted in a running gag the bard having affairs with many non-human females and thus fathering half-breed children. A dragon, naga, centaur, womanscorpian, werewolf, minotress, medusa, vampire, drider, three head giantess, major demoness, a boulder, and more, etc, etc.
Zeus age might be showing he has no viagra to keep up so spread to the Forgotten Realms. Hera could also be sneaking saltpeter into his wine.
@@Netseer2000 hmm.. I had always assumed Hanali Celeanalil was aphrodite but I can see that a little stronger from Sune
How would you redeem a Nightmare's soul? That sounds like a good quest.
True Resurrection or a wish spell should do the trick, however, there may be complications.
@@AJPickett I can't imagine a wish spell would do it, under the circumstances. If you think about it, the Pegasus had their wings cut off in the ceremony. I think it would take more than that. At the very least, it should require the death of the entity involved in their transformation.
@@gusargoan I'd think the wish or restoration spell would have to be the last step, or some well meaning idiot would create a bat winged nightmare. You'd probably have to force feed it fruits and grain from arboria, tenderly groom and speak to it every day for a year and a day, contact the poor soul in the ethereal for some therapy, and use a whole bunch of exotic potions for a start. Any act of impatience or anger towards the beast starts the process over.
One of my groups had a battle with a Nightmare and was victorious. When they performed their Lawful good deity's funeral rites and blessed the corpse, the pegasus' spirit was released to go back to Celestia. When the paladin decided to use his summon warhorse ability, I had the pegasus that the party saved respond to the call.
The paladin called it "Wildfire" and started singing the 1970's song. The rest of the party roared with laughter and an epic moment was complete.
@@gusargoan nothing a break enchantment spell + a regeneration spell can’t cure
Wow! That was amazing!
22:56 #WorthIt. XD So they are kind of the psychological opposite of ruin(war's horse from darksiders) which is quite sad. I suppose you could have them avenged by a soft spoken empyrean, N.P.C. with an all consuming concept as a portfolio - so they can be outrun, avoided, or staved off. But never truelly escaped. And the steed is freed and someone gets crippled for life no matter from whence they hail.
So... running with the created Nightmare lore:
There's a creature that exists between Nightmare and Pegasi, and will suffice as a half-way point for a Redeemed Nightmare / Rescued Pegasus.
That's the Asperi.
Real-life Asperi-lore is that they are a type of fey horse.
I first encountered them in Dungeons and Dragons in 3rd edition, where they are statted as a 'wind' horse.
They don't have the association with good or evil, but they are stated as being chaotic good in their respective monster manual entry. They are stated as being a representation of the wind, and they have some elemental powers to back that up.
Like most things in 3rd, they were stated with an eye towards combat, and an eye towards not offending the paladin.
They're most likely better represented as chaotic nuetral, without care or regard given to evil or good. The wind blasts and extreme speed may or may not still be suitable in 5th but it'd need to be scaled correctly.
I have a new found love for nightmares as my paladin accidentally summoned one in Descent into Avernus (As per the module!)
My devotion paladin called him daydream and now he's accidentally very attached to his evil horse
Oh no... bad horse.
Great video AJ,i like nightmares.
Is there any creature who is a pegasus, but colored black and with the wings of a bat or dragon instead of bird wings?
Half Dragon, Half Horse.
idk about D&D but in Harry Potter theres the Thestrals. they are kinda exactly what you said
Second comment.
War (Darksiders) rides Ruin...who seems like a nighmare (yet not as neurotic as described in the vid).
I Wonder if War 'rescued' Ruin.
Well, there is a lot of room for variants.
War isn’t a good guy, he’s at best a pure neutral. Possible the horse is still evil, just knows not to f with a horseman of the apocalypse.
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Lawful Neutral. Also, he was tricked by his bosses (the Charred Counsel), into starting the Apocalypse. Before becoming a horseman, he was probably evil (just like all the nephilim).
@@draxthemsklonst the 4 horsemen of the Darksiders universe are the only 4 good aligned Nephilim, who saw the killing as an imperiling the balance and needless blood shed. So they killed the Nephilim. They tamed their steeds, who are a race of near godlike horses capable of inter planar travel at will and have will that are nigh indomitable. That's the lore for them
Intelligent weapon bound with an old Nightmare. Difficult to control.
Pegasuses are the coolest fantasy horse after half-dragon horses.
Fire mares from the movie Krull. Looks like Clydesdale with flaming hooves when they run who can run one thousand leagues in one day (5556 kilometer or 3452 miles).
poor sparkle hort ;_;
Hey AJ, as Wakko would say, this video is FABOO!
Thanks AJ for the video & have a great day.
or, just 'regular' twitter...
still waiting on the zombie apokolypse
Ogres have layers
According to donkey so do cakes...
I got both these magic cards from long ago nightmare got two stars.the Pegasus got 1/1 . Do a kelpie vid.Or a fire horse. Do a xanathar vid .What bout the the worm people star spawn not kiaus he could be their patron.I misspell words so pardon me french
And the Hippocampus.
@@AJPickett it was four am and I was a little stoned and exhausted wen I made comment whoops I.was polite though lol
My lawful good paladin rides a nightmare. He mentally broke the thing again and beat it into submission taking advantage of Stockholm syndrome. Hes a conquest paladin what do you expect?
That is completely contrary to the characters alignment. One is not absolved of the evil of torture just because the victim is evil. Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@AJPickett I know. Now it does depend on how you define alignment which can be different from person to person. I do think it as an evil act. My group generally views the good and evil alignment as a spectrum, one good act doesn't make a evil person good and vice versa. Even in universe my paladin will justify it as being nessesaey for the "greater good" using it as another method of spreading fear for an advantage against evil. I use it as one of the more obvious wats of showing character flaw and that sometimes he struggles to do what's right, and while having good goals and motivations he lacks the traditionally good qualities of mercy restraint forgiveness compassion etc. After all evil can be allowed no quarrel and is nothing more than surface level, you can't be evil to evil. Or at least that's what he'd argue.
Love your videos though, keep up the outstanding work.
@@cazador7131 Spare the rod of discipline and spoil the child.
Hell, we still cut the balls off of non human male animal in training them to obey human command.
@@cazador7131 that’s some heavy cognitive dissonance that paladin’s got
Hey, for curiosity's sake... Will you be doing any Oriental monsters? If so the kitsune would be my first interest. Just asking.
Yes. I already have a homebrew Yokai video in my back catalog. (and the Oni of course)
Cool. Thanks for your hard work.😀