Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Bebilith and Pale Night
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2016
- Let's take a tour ride to the Abyss and the 600th layer, home of the Beast Lands, Baphomet, the Castle of Bone and the lair of Pale Night, mother of demons, creator of the Bebilith, enigmatic architect of the tanar'ri 'species' and enemy of the D&D universe.
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Pale Night reminds me strongly of Chambers' "King in Yellow".
"You, milady should remove your shroud !
- I Wear ni shroud...
- No shroud ? No shroud !"
“And then our party was attacked by a skeletal igloo.”
“A what?”
“A Skeletal Igloo.”
“How?”
“It jumped at us from the left and attempted to crush the Cleric.”
“No, I mean how is it possible for A) an igloo to be made of bone, and B) a skeletal building to attack someone?”
“Welcome to the Abyss kid”
Sounds like the dread gazebo.
Perfect. 😂
“She’s so hideous that reality itself rejects her.”
Yet Asmodeus still tapped dat
No no... Asmodeus got tapped.
Actually fought Grazzt once and got him to half health (I got a hyper buff from a planetar to do it due to being in an extreme holy site.) And on his turn he left but said he will get his mom. A few sessions ago I met his mom. She reduced me to 1 charisma before my turn came up I hit her twice and she respected me enough to use the true form to insta kill me rather then doing the horrific things that happen when you hit 0 charisma from a demon. All in all I would rate it a 9/10 of a time since she was not nearly as rude as some of the other demon lords i met.
So she politely killed you. That is a nice change of pace from the abyss.
@@sagesheahan6732 Pale Night is notoriously polite. Which tends to shock players who have experience with demons. If you manage to get to the Abyssal layer she lives on, and get past the infinite maze of Baphomet, and act nonhostile, she may let you live, or kill you quickly. If you act hostile, she'll kill you painfully and slowly.
It's strangely nice of chaotic evil pale night to hide her insanity inducing appearance.
I think that's not her doing anything, it's reality breaking down around her
In 3.5 you didn't get a willsave to resist madness when you saw her true form. You got a Fortitude save for your body failing to process what it saw so it never reaches your mind. If it DOES reach your mind, you just die. Flat out, instant death.
Ok that's actually a really interesting/ FU save.
"make a DC 30 Fort save."
"Nat 20 for 31! Booyah!"
"Okay your body is able to handle the horrors that it sees long enough for that horror to be processed by your brain, where each synapse commits cellular suicide. Your gray matter leaks freely from your head in thick streams of bloody puss. Gimme your character sheet."
An aspect of her that you can meet in _Expedition to the Demonweb Pits_ has a limited version of this ability. Succeeding on the save has the same effect, but failing "just" causes 2d6 Wisdom damage (1 point of which is permanent drain).
Pale Night gives new meaning to the phrase “junk in the trunk.”
"I built a house WITH THE BONES OF MY ENEMIES! "
Lolth: I am the Demon Prince of spiders
Pale night: and I took that personally
Pale Night is easily the coolest character in all of DnD lore I've come across so far. I'm about to start a campaign with Pale Night as my warlock's patron, hope this works out...
Lolikage Did you homebrew patron features, or did you just stick with the one that fit it the most?
So, how was it?
@@brianmead7556 He tried to know too much and is now in an institution.
@@TheBayzent I would actually theorize he is probably wondering the endless labyrinth in a psychotic episode or part of the bone citadel itself. 🤷
If not your theory: institutionalized.
@@sagesheahan6732 I believe the 'bone citadel' is considered an institution. So it could technically be all 3 at one time. Abyss is kind of wild like that.
I'd say the castle would have her "perfect" demons that survived the maze for a long long time or maybe reminds her of home a horror that she's nursing etc the maze has a reason to root out the weak so that's my best guess some sort of perfect horror she's keeping for her own means
Ps. Homebrew name of it would be something cool like the moonlit child maybe it takes a form of a small frail pale child
Sounds legit.
Interesting part for more exploration: her fascination with chaotic good corruption
Graz'zt's mom is one scary, and dangerous thing. I don't know how you fight someone who reality has rejected. Reality said nope!!! This scares me more than the rest of the demon lords. Well anyone who likes hunting children is sick. But Pale Night takes it up to new levels.
agreed.. 'she' gives me the willies,
I am currently in a campaign were I "ran in to her " got away and now she is after me .... 0.o
@@jacobkuhn9072 oh my...
Of all the obyriths, She's arguably the 'truest' one. In a species comprised of Lovecraftian horrors, She is the only one reality itself can't even assign an image to.
Imagine it. The King in Yellow and the Black Goat with a Thousand Young and worse, all rolled into one. One of the first 'Mothers' of the multiverse.
I thought grazzt was an arch devil because of his humanoid appearance. And then later he's a spawn of pale night.
I have my own head cannon that Graz'zt is the son of Pale Night and Asmodeus, and is the true heir of the lower planes. King of Demons and Lord of The Nine
That's actually confirmed.
@@goolabbolshevish1t651 Oh nice, which source? I put it together from the stories about him being a devil who fell to chaos, and that he was a son of PN. I didn't know their was confirmation :D
@@cameronpearce5943 AJ confirmed it with one of his videos a while back.
@@goolabbolshevish1t651 Nice!
I’d love to see a pack of Bebiliths fight a Deathdrinker, and considering how egomaniacal the DD’s can be, it’s not a long shot to say one of them might walk through the Pale Night with his undead horde to test his mettle and prove his superiority.
10:00 just noticed that single frame....I love it.
I love geeking out on dnd lore.
20:10 "Just fly over the maze right into the castle!"
Pazunia, less than ten thousand feet above them: "So you have chosen death."
Paladin: "Wizard, why is the sky falling upon us?"
Wizard, passing their arcana check: "FFFFF-"
Pazuzu: *mouth pop* "Noice."
Accurate.
Really, really nice work with the Pale Night imagery. The subliminal effect is... very effective.
It's 2024 and man I remember when these first came out! I still love coming back and listening to these!
@10:20
I caught that. Oh God.
Your videos are always so good (I only just found them), but It's odd you left *out* some of the spookier details for this one.
How creatures damaged by her touch can be reduced to incorporeal versions of themselves, wrapped in a shroud like hers and held in stasis forever and how she intentionally keeps these victims floating in her palace, like her own personal gallery of macabre art.
How one of her combat tactics is simply to suppress the effect that hides her true form for a moment, and forcibly subject anyone fighting her to the understanding of what she really is. How in the fiendish codex from 3.5 the effect of failing the save isn't that spectacular ruinous madness you described but just outright death; the mind actually understanding what it sees and just *ceasing to function completely*.
(Also I'd love to know where that description of madness came from. The only thing I can think of that's similar is the way *devils* see the world all the time, but being able to force that onto a character is awesome).
And just, other people noted it in the comments, and I said it in another one, but in a species made entirely of Lovecraftian horrors she is the *most* terrible of all of them. She's the King in Yellow and the Black Goat with a Thousand Young and more, all at once, all wrapped together in what might be the very first 'Mother' in the D&D multiverse.
That's the kind of understanding that leaves someone never quite the same.
Again, great video like always.
It's an illustration from itou junji I think.
So you won't enter Pale Nights palace for any price?
What about for gaining the true names of Pazuzu, Baphomet or Dagon as payment?
That flash of the 1st Edition Cthulhu critter when showing Pale NIght still freaks me out.....well done.
I had to slow down the video and pause multiple times to glimpse the true form of The Pale Night. I have since been unable to sleep and all food tastes like the cold fatty parts on a piece of undercooked steak to me. Word to the unwise, do not seek that which you should not find.
i fapped to it.
@@princekermit0 god damn savage
@@jawnsea4432 its no nut November, so I am stuck doing everyone else's job. eventually.... you get to the place of despair. That point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested.
pretty and beautiful, then commonplace but tragic, which leads to unique and very exotic, which points to the taboo and the macabre.
this is but a waystation to the Cute and the tentacles one way, and sexualized gore the other direction. but both routes lead to the divine and the profane. Eventually... normal goddesses and stuff wont do it for you... and you find yourself chaseing after the elder abomination gods.... and even that gets blah.
so you got the scent of those who were before the gods and primordials....
and you look for epic level insanity milf. Nightmare Fuel is nice.
I did too and I regret it
@Rodney James cool
The Bebilith is my fav demon in D&D behind my bois, the Quasit.
10:00
guess i should take a sanity check
Of all the low down, dirty tricks I have played on viewers over all these vids, that one, I think, worked the best.
lmao
actually, while you are here, would you mind if i asked a quick question?
you mentioned how in the maze surrounding the pale nights tower/castle, her creations skulk around as a way to test them
you said that they often resemble obyriths due to their experimental nature
is it common for these new demons to be in no way figuratively, actual obyriths capable of god hood should they pass these experiments?
and as a related question, do obyriths on occasion create other obyriths, and then those obyriths make more, until things get unavoidably more convoluted than they need to be
thank you ahead of time, this is for a campaign i participate in!
The "fallen attackers are forcibly used as a defensive force" thing is also in the story "Maze of the Enchanter" written by Clark Ashton Smith in 1932. A powerful enchanter picks a woman from the tribes to go with him to his palace as a sort of tribute. This woman happens to have a smart and athletic man attempting her rescue from the enchanter. As the man makes his way through a maze at the front of the palace, he is attacked by mutant gorillas. Later, he understands they aren't mutant gorillas at all. They are actually the mutated humans of tribesmen who tried to rescue their own women.
Slightly different concept, but pretty close in general.
Man I'd love to know some of things they had to hunt ordered by Pale Knight. How dangerous did those beings have to be?!
Well played with the one-frame horror of Pale Night.
These areas are so cool but I can't imagine how even a high-level party could last half an hour in them. It's a shame because I'd always wanted to have an adventure there but I feel like I'd have to just pull punch after punch to make it work.
Great video. You painted a great image. Thank you.
I have been binging your video while I work. It has been weeks and there still more to catch up on!! So much content. Keep up the hard work!
10:00 I like that. That's a nice touch.
I'm so happy to have found your channel! The details and suggestions you offer are great for beginning DMs (like me) to get a better understanding of the creatures and how to play them. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Will do, thank you!
Since radient energy damages some necrotic lifeforms, are gnome-made glowsticks radient poison?
after i slawed it down to see the 2 frame picture of pale night and then they describe the affects i could only think of docter strange when he was like WHY WOULD YOU PRINT THE WARNING AFTER THE SPELL
it's fun to find this and hear a 20k announcement and see you made it to 103k now, awesome stuff
Wow the bebelith is a bit toned down since 2e D&D, they could be a party wipe even for a fairly high level party in planescapes
Edit: yep shoulda watched the whole entry before i opened my trap
Just recently found you. You've done a great job with these videos.
2000! Congratulations, that is quite a milestone.
Thank you!
Grats! I love the hidden images :)
Grazzt?
Great video my dude
i enjoy recognizing all the mtg art you have in your videos lol
Hey huge congrats on 2k followers man, here's to 5k!
Thanks Arthur! Here's to 20K!!
AJ Pickett haha
Onward!
Oh look, another RUclipsr I've subscribed to!!!
AJ Pickett *less than 2 years and over 18,000 subs later* "Here's to 50k!
Seeing horrific things in ordinary objects. Seeing people around as decaying hunks of organic rot. Not being able to appreciate beauty because everything seems fleeting. Not being able to feel joy or pleasure. Everything appears as rotten, diseased, foul, disgusting...
OK, so a regular Tuesday? 😂
February condensed.
How are you holding up? It has been a few years.
Take care of yourself ^^
Wow. I'm a completely different person now. Thanks for asking, Chickenborn. 💚 Completely opposite. I appreciate ordinary things. I am incredibly open and friendly towards everyone. I can even see beauty in impermanence. I'm trying to make every moment count. Finding joy in little things. Paying close attention to the needs and feelings of others. Offering help whenever I can. People often tell me I'm a positive influence in their life and that I have a "calming aura". 😉 I cry from time to time like everyone, but I appreciate even sad moments of life. They make me slow down and reflect on what's important. I never imagined one can be this happy.
How are you, friend?
@@emiliadaria I am very happy for you.
I can also relate. Life is precious. All of it.
I am having a good time, raising a family, and currently about to read yet another chapter from Lord of the Rings for the daughter as a bed time story.
They are now at the prancing pony.
Not everything is easy. Far from it. But all in all life is good. ^^
Thank you for these videos, im new to the hobby and toying with building a campaign for my group and your videos are really helpful.
If you ever want any help or ideas, you know where to find me :)
I appreciate that, thank you.
Gz on 2k man great job.
5header
Thank you!
Look under the sheet and they roll a zero meaning their head just pops like a balloon
I have to ask, if you ascended to some level where you so much as MIGHT be able to stand a chance against her, would you be able to hit her by punching the area AROUND the form of the veiled figure, slowly being able to guess her vague shape via enough attacks or is it only her figure that mortals can see that has a functional "hit box" so to speak?
I put Pale Night in the same category as The Lady of Pain... no stat blocks, no answers.
@@AJPickett Damn, thank you for replying with that. It really puts her sheer level of power into perspective.
On a related note, there is some grand insult to be made involving someone's true form being incomprehensible to mortal minds and reality itself.
I managed to pause the video at the right time to see those flashes when you shower her floating saw all the faces and eyes of the demons pretty crazy picture
Good work by the way
Another great video (glitch insert horror) 😏
Question! Could you help elaborate on the differences of Pale Night and Queen of Chaos since both are the mother of demons. Plus what is there relationship like beyond that they both are Oberynth.
90k subs in 6 years as of typing this. Good work Aj
Congrats!
Can you polymorph into a bebilith to destroy the denizens in the 9 hell's? What about making one a familiar or a mount?? And could they take on a demon lord??
They could get lucky, Demon lords come in an endless variety so, there is bound to be some very stupid/unlucky demon lords :)
@@AJPickett Hey, hey now. Don't you go tickling me fancy. Your fingers are cold!!😂😂 I'd like to see a demon lord or a player character riding one into a abyssal layer to save someone
Late to the party, but looks like someone found their BBEG for his next campaign
"Special 2k subscriber milestone", then five years and 100k subs later.. Great accomplishments AJ, no doubt a credit to your humble dedication and inspiring diction! Keep it up :)
Hobbit power
What a great video
At 20:48 there is this demon in the background that's huge and red furred with giant scorpion pincers. I thought if he was in a game the DM should give him a high pitched voice and should say lines like "I'm gonna give you such a pinch."
You mean the glazebru?
Glaberzu I mean.
Dang total nightmare fuel!
well........ I ain't sleeping tonight lmao. That thing is horrid! also awsome. Great vids dude keep um coming!
Will do!
oh no I'm being stalked by a bebilith on Facebook! great video, congratulations on the gang o subs!
Thanks man!
Will you be revisiting the Nine Hells in future videos? I found your channel while looking for more information on the plane and it's denizens, would love to learn more about it. Love the channel man, keep it up!
Yes, the greater devils and the lower hells are on the cards for later :)
Great to hear! My players are far from ready to deal with it but the Nine Hells and the Abyss are woven through the greater narrative. Can't wait to see more of your content and thanks for responding so quickly!
Shes possibly the most powerful being in dnd universe. More powerful than the greater deity
Great video. Can someone post a screen grab of Pale Night's true form @9:50?
Okay, celebrity-deathmatch: Pale Night vs Lady of Pain. Go.
My money's on Lady of Pain, but so little is known about either of them that it'd at least be an interesting discussion.
10:30 - 11:30
wait, i thought thats how everyones life was...
~sigh~
im going to go play a couple rounds of russian roulette 🤣
I have a Dungeons and Dragons story I am working on, in which Pale Night plays a key role. I want to read everything official about her, but I cannot find any directions online toward sources for a particular connection between her and the Bebiliths. Could you please tell me where you found that?
So the plateau is basically Hueco Mundo ;p
Hollow world... yeah basically, but quite a bit worse.
Oh you, I caught those subliminals.
freaky? I was going for freaky.
AJ Pickett I thought I might be going crazy, but that doesn't give you that much credit.
I kept the image pretty safe really.. I had some others which were much... much worse.
AJ Pickett i want to see them
@@AJPickett nightmare fuel is my preferred sexual preference/attraction, at least when one of my avatars incarnate in the prime material plane.
Bebilith sounds cool!
Quick question : which sourcebook give you the lore that behilit come from Pale night ? I really want to know
...and then I say to Graz'zt "yo mama so ugly even reality said NOPE!" I laughed. He laughed. Now here I am in the Nine Hells. How'd you get here?
Abyss*
“Gave him a little brother or sister.”
Strange after watching this video I now want to buy local brands. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the subliminal advertising. :) Great work Bud. I really enjoyed it.
Your knowledge and dedication is always impressive. Excellent work.
She is responsible for making Troglodytes for the other Demon Lords.
That easter egg around 10:14
Why did I notice it only now?
I know this is an old video, but does anyone know what the artwork for 13:00 is or a link for it?
Wish you hadn't glossed over the rescue mission. It was my favorite part of the fiendish codexes.
It was certainly important enough to get a mention, sorry I could not spend enough time on it for you.
whats the image you used at 9:51? its gruesome and I'd love to find more like it XD
AJ, I saw that. Where can I find the pic you spliced in?
10:15 Pause and you’ll make a Wisdom Saving Throw.
Book Title
Pale Night, History and Lore: The conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.
Its been 4 years, but I'm doing a video a day, so ill be done in... another year. Jesus. You are, in a word, Fuckinamazinmate.
I paid my dues
Those little flashes of Pale Night reminded me of a Living Wall. Look forward to your video on it(them?)
Bebilith seem very uninspiring as monster spiders go, it's not like someone bred Ungoliant with Komunga, now those would be some monster spiders.
Why would a demon that exists to destroy demons that are too chaotic evil exist? Is this things existence preventing new demon lords from. Forming? Do material planes owe their existence to it halting abyss corruption across the multiverse? I don’t get the concept
Yeah me neither. Pale night is just scary weird.
Agh, those fucking subliminals
Bebilith is the most metal monster that isn't a skeleton on an undead horse.
2000 subs? Its 132k now :D Awesome stuff. Still. Like before.
Damn d and d already has hideous abominations walking around that are hard to look at.... I wonder how grotesque she has to be for all that to be happening to you ? If I'm a DM I guess if a character looks at her the visage will manifest things that each player finds most repulsive and unbearable to look at. In fact each may have a different grotesque image appear in their mind.
I wonder of these are just the "demons" that Iggwilv skipped, when writing her legendary book, or else why isn't she justa hagard, drooling nutjob, somewhere? And I get she's powerful; she could resist the taint of Graz'zt, and even turn it back on him some, while he wad fathering a child from her body, but some of this seems more mind-shattering than others, so i wonder if even she said "I don't need to know EVERTYTHING!"
I guess I wasn't aware that that was the origins of the bebilith, and while I haven't started them for 5e, I do have some lingering in Lolth's domain, and since my own headcanon doesn't allow gods to pack with warlocks; they can grant real power to clerics, and a better grip on that soul, I have Her use her most ancient bebiliths to pact with Drow arachnomancers. I guess now I'm uncertain if the Spider Queen; a deity and once Demon Lord, Herself, could command these great abysmal arachnids, but I think I'll stick with She can, at least in my verse.
AJ, what's your favourite song from Hardwired?
I think Atlas Rise has some serious potential, but the vocals are lacking the feeling they need.. Can you imagine Disturbed doing a vocal cover of that?
are devils and demons not the same in DD?
Wait a minute. The worst will be a loss of taste and smell! Oh crap.
How many babiliths would it take to kill a) a balor/pit fiend b) demigorgon c) a deva ?
impossible to say, too many variables.
Just deleted my FB account lol
Is that an actual figure (and if it is who by) at the beginning and at 10:00. I take it is Pale Night Obelith
That is a digital figure, and it fits the bill for what pale night looks like.
7:00 subscribed
Hmmm sanity...is for the weak...
i relay want to know more about her