I recall Tasha getting captured by Graz'zt first as thanks for her trying to capture him. She learned a lot from that and watching him while his prisoner, then escaped and returned the favor for him enslaving her. Then they had hundreds of years of going back and forth and they had this really weird, dysfunctional love/hate thing...
@@Cpt_JohnRackham This dude for sure either has some contacts or some type of partnership with WotC. Seconds after some new product is announced he posts a well edited video for it.
Daoud’s Wondrous Lantern first appeared in S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. It’s light has healing properties and can cast various spells like prismatic spray, from jewels that adorn it.
A good Pic and the summary for Daoud's Wondrous can be found in the Encyclopedia Magica Volume 2 pg 637 (TSR 2152) Book . As soon as it got the the part about not finding anything I jump up and when to the bookshelf before ever looking here on the comments and found it under "Lamp". and it source it from The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
And that info is in the top three Google search results for the item, so "I couldn't find any info on it" apparently means "I didn't look." I get that most modern players, who may have started with 4E or 5E, don't care much about the history of the game (which I totally understand) but this is a super famous classic module and it's easy to find information on it.
I kinda like the outside lore behind the spell tasha's hideous laughter where a young girl (named tasha) wrote to gygax and asked him about a spell that makes people laugh. So in my campaign "broken road" while running across various multiverses and well known characters from lore including a very Shakespearian mordenkainen, a mark hamil joker vecna (who was the good guy in the situation) and a tasha based on that child, an immortal 6 year old prankster dressed up as a witch with most of the stories about being simply that, stories or jokes. While Iggwilv does exist as a alternative future (even being a patron/partner to the group's hexblade) with the kid Tasha saying they are two different people (almost treating the hexblade like a big brother). Great video
My main character is a half orc sailor who ended up becoming a unwilling Warlock of Grazzt. He has spent the last few years researching demonology and specifically trying to locate the demonomicon of Iggwilv in order to destroy Grazzt and earn his freedom. His research is inconclusive as to how many volumes there are, some sources say 1, some say six or seven. I also thought that Grazzt commanded 3 layers of the Abyss not two. My character has gone to great lengths including commissioning an extra dimensional library where he can plot against Grazzt without being spied on, he even has a ghost librarian in his service from the Tiamat campaign. Thanks for the video.
wow, I think this is the first time I knew Greyhawk in more detail. Usually your vids are about Forgotten Realms or Oberron. I like it, keep more setting coming!
Yo Jorphdan, the ph is silent, you should do a mini series covering all the demon variants and what's unique about them. Any lore about them, that would be so awesome!
As someone whose going to be playing in a one-shot where my group and I are all playing famous wizards (me being tasha) I find this extremely helpful, tho still having a hard time building here character in 5e
Don't forget she has a base on the moon! I always wondered if the evil Rita Repulsa from power rangers was based on her. (There was some d&d in Japan in the form of Lodos War) .. Not researched, just noticing the correlation edit: or there's Japanese folklore linking with and moon and picked up by Gygax?
@@pieter-jandeboeck2595 The Dutch Were Trading Partners WIth Japan. It stands to reason that they traded much of what they could have with the Japanese. That Baba Yaga appears in cultures close enough that the Dutch could tell or sell those stories is enough to suspect that they might have.
@@stugod5000 hello random internet stranger from two years ago, i am a huge illyana fan and tasha fan and hexblade fan, i would love to hear more about this character
Belaphoss was the last boss of the video game Sword Coast Legends. I think he was created specifically for the game. His backstory is that he is Demogorgon's right-hand man but was secretly trying to gain enough power to dethrone him and become the prince of demons.
I'm guessing that Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms cross over to some extent, though being different crystal spheres on the material plane? Mordenkainen shows up in Curse of Strahd and Ravenloft kinda sits between worlds in the Shadowfell. So technically Mordenkainen and Tasha could wind up on Toril but probably stay in the planes/greyhawk for reasons.
The module you referenced TSR S4 has all the info on the lantern in it, in fact it is in the "tomb" of Drelnza, Iggwilv's daughter, along with the Demonomicon of Iggwilv. It is a great module, and can be converted to 3.5, or 5E without too much difficulty. I have DM'd this module many times through the years, and I highly recommend it. It has a whole section in the back devoted to new monsters and magic items. I have the original printing, but I also found it as a free PDF online.
Yep, and it's a ludicrously powerful magic item, like so many AD&D artifacts were. Can Hold, Haste, Color Spray, cause Fear, cause Rage, Flame Strike, cast Confusion, Prismatic Spray, or Prismatic Wall, and, if you use the lantern on a target with 10', they don't even get a save. Also, as I flip through this copy of I've had for like 35 years or something, it's kind of shocking how many things debuted in this module. Graz'zt, Chasmes, Dretches, Marid, Dao, Behir, Bodak, and even the Slippers of Spider Climbing are in here, and none of those are in the original MM or DMG. That's how stuff got dripped into AD&D. One of the best parts? There's all this high-powered stuff in the module . . . and it's for level 6-10 characters.
Wonder if Tasha could be a patron for a warlock. Lol I mean, she does currently live in the abyss so..... Hexblade: I have named my weapon. Player: brah, it's a sword. Hexblade: it's a blade that i can summon out of thin air. Player: ok, so what did you name your blade. Hexblade: Kindness DM: smh, you named your pact weapon ...Kindness? Player: chuckles Hexblade: Yes, so I can kill my enemies, with Kindness. My patron Tasha would approves.
My Bard/Warlock recently took on Tasha as her patron. We did Wild Beyond the Witchlight as a side quest (it was heavily condensed) and my character asked Tasha/Iggwilv to be her sugar mummy because her current patron wasn’t treating her right. It was absolutely wonderful.
With the help of the internet I figured out it would be Tasha something on Friday evening. Spent the whole weekend on this video to get it out today XD WotC don't tell me nuth'n! ;)
Daod's Wonderous Lanthorn is a permanent/indestructible ever burning torch item repurposed as a lantern. As a permanent ever burning torch, it is a perfect source for any fire spells, conjure elementals (fire) and abjuration against flame, when fighting fire with fire is possible. 1e Artifacts were a bit broken.
The lantern has various lens that you can switch out for different spell effects. I believe it is an artifact. I remember a campaign where it was in use. I thought it cumbersome.
Good catch on Belaphoss. I remember coming across his stat block about a year ago sifting through some old Dragon+ issues and was surprised to find this hidden gem tucked away in an early issue. Seems like it was never reproduced in an official product though.
LOL Iggwilv would never wanna be a Lich, she's already got some Demon-Prince essence that gives her immortality. She likes being the Witch-Queen I think.
@@antonioiglesias427 SPOILERS She’s actually become an Archfey and goes by Zybilna and rules over the Domain of Delight as seen in Beyond the Witchlight. She also seems to be possibly edging towards becoming a good-ish person maybe (she’s currently Chaotic Neutral) as while she can still be sadistic and cruel at times, she does seem to be quite protective of children because of the emotion and potential they represent and forbids children from being harmed in her realms. It’s an interesting direction to go with her character. Will this be a permanent change? Will she return to her wicked power-hungry ways? Or will this represent a split in her character, swapping back and forth between Zybilna and Iggwilv like a Jekyll and Hyde as it suits her?
She wants to rule the Abyss? It’s weird to think she wasn’t envolved in Out of the Abyss. Or was she? I mean, Lolth never showed much interest in ruling the Abyss until The Rage of the Demons. Maybe Iggwilv was envolved?
Many people doubt that Iggwilv and Tasha are the same person, since in every apparition her stat block shows high level spells from different classes. So, she has multiclasses wizard, warlock and priest or her name is used by many half elves
Yes! I've been researching in-game artifacts. Ring of Winter and Wand of Orcus videos came from that. Book of Vile Darkness is on my list too! And actually this Wed will be another artifact video so stay tuned :D
1. I love Belephoss he seems awesome and possibly a new favorite demon. 2. Where do I find more stuff like that stat block for Belephoss, is it the Dragon Magazines? If so is there anyway to get older ones?
That was part of Dragon + Magazine. The older Dragon magazines won't be useful for 5e stats, only Dragon + I believe all the issues of the digital magazine are available online!
What's your source on Iggwilv plotting against the Demogorgon? I haven't found any references about it on your quoted sources, perhaps you missed one? I'd really like to read more about it :D
The whole "Grazz't was once an archdevil" is still kinda up to debate as to whether it's officially canon. Of course, DMs are welcome to tweak campaign settings to their own liking, so if you want that to be where he came from, it can be so in YOUR personal version of the D&D multiverse.
Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn is a magical item that uses crushed precious stones as fuel to cast light, and can burn for a century if properly fueled. It also had seven enchanted lenses originally, which could be used separately or in combination to cause the light from the lanthorn to produce magical effects, like Hypnotic Pattern, Hold, Prismatic Spray, Prismatic Sphere, Fear, Rage, and Confusion. Tasha also created an eighth lens that could produce a Slow effect. Tasha may have stolen the lanthorn mainly due to a desire to experiment on it, though it's found shining over the resting form of her daughter, who's become a vampire, so she may have thought she could modify it to cure her daughter (or improve on her daughter's vampirism). Three of the lenses have been lost, so some of the effects aren't producible without crafting and enchanting replacement lenses (the lanthorn is a minor artifact and very difficult to destroy, but the lenses are not and have no particular affinity for returning to the lanthorn if lost or stolen). Daoud's a hero-deity (basically a mortal who is lower in status than a demigod (who usually has divine heritage) but is becoming a god under the patronage of a full deity). He was a priest of Istus, the Goddess of Fate, and a philosopher-king when he was alive, then lost all his worldly possessions, but gained the wisdom to see through the pretenses of his society's principles and pretenses, and propose a new path based on brutal internal and external honesty, humility, and acceptance of fate. Greyhawk has a couple of unusual versions of godhood: 1. Hero-deities, who become the focus of legend, veneration, or great repute in life and are taken under the wing of a deity with similar interests who essentially vests them with a small aspect of their portfolio to act as a closer-to-humanity patron of that part (so, a Goddess of Fate vests a hero figure with the sub-portfolio of Humility (to accept fate), Clarity (to understand the workings of fate), and Immediacy (to act as fate wills). This is helpful for Istus, as she is a particularly aloof goddess, and Daoud gives her a more accessible aspect/helper). 2. Quasi-deities, who transcend mortality through means other than divine patronage. Usually they've traveled extensively in other planes of reality, created or interacted with powerful magic, and done other things that push their nature beyond the simply mortal. Quasi-deities, unlike hero-deities, cannot grant spells or answer prayers (unless they are actually present to hear the person praying, which is just regular listening and talking, which anyone can do). The main differences between the two are worshippers/venerators (hero-deities have them, quasi-deities may or may not, but often don't) and divine patronage (hero-deities have a deity essentially reaching down to give them a hand up toward becoming a god, quasi-deities don't, and often don't want to, have such a connection).
I wonder if Gygax or one of the other O'GMs tried to woo a girl named Natasha but her hag of a mother convinced her to find another man, thereby taking revenge upon both of them by immortalizing them within the TTRPG they wrote...
This is great. (was looking for a vid cause one of my newbie players asked because of the new book). Do you you have videos on Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen?
Xanathar is mentioned in the Undermountain video, but not specifically. Volo and Mordenkainen are on my list of topics! ruclips.net/video/H6xVUtRBeMQ/видео.html
Gonna be using her in my home brew campaign where she’s controlling a town as later a Wanda-vision Agatha reveal will happen cant wait to see their reactions
I don’t think Tash birthed a vampire spawn. Her daughter more than likely born human and was turned into a vampire. I’ll have to dig out my old TSR module to check.
I already found the spelling in the comments but was confused by the name Iggwilv that you kept mentioning but never spelled in your video, even when spelled all the other names. Great video and very good timed with WotC announcement. Thank you for your videos. My only (constructive) critizism of this video is that needs to include Iggwilv the spelling of Iggwilv
haha sorry! So originally the title of the video was "Who is Iggwilv?" but since WotC went with the name Tasha I changed it last minute. Thus when I made the video I didn't think I needed to spell it out.
While her associations and interests suggest she's an evil character, what has she done that's particularly evil? She seems more neutral (selfish) as she is mostly inspired to action by what her research dictates.
As one of your first incusrion in Greyhawk, it's not bad but you missed a lot of infos on her. if you need info on the Daoud Lantern (which wasn't in her possession for a long time), how the Cirlce was killed or anything about the greyhawk characters history. Just ask, i've everything you need. BTW she's in the gey wastes hidding for her waaay too much powerful ennemies.
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I recall Tasha getting captured by Graz'zt first as thanks for her trying to capture him. She learned a lot from that and watching him while his prisoner, then escaped and returned the favor for him enslaving her. Then they had hundreds of years of going back and forth and they had this really weird, dysfunctional love/hate thing...
As functional as it can get for demonologist and demon.
Somewhere a studio exe is hearing a pitch for the sequel to the D&D film about these two being the Harley Quinn joker of this world
Great timing with the new release of Tashas Cauldron of everything.
I agree the same amount that Grazzt desires that Tasha tooshie.
It's exactly why he made video about Tasha...
Duh...
@@The_Yukki Videos like this usually take like a week or two to make, and TCoE was leaked only a day or two ago. Editing takes time.
@@Cpt_JohnRackham This dude for sure either has some contacts or some type of partnership with WotC. Seconds after some new product is announced he posts a well edited video for it.
Daoud’s Wondrous Lantern first appeared in S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. It’s light has healing properties and can cast various spells like prismatic spray, from jewels that adorn it.
Lens made of gem, you swap them to change its powers it can have 4 active at a time and oil made with crushed gems if I recall.
*Lanthorn
I also know from personal experience that if you possess the Lanthorn and let the fuel run out then you die along with it's flame.
I was going to say that. I'm kind of surprised LCoT hasn't been revived.
A good Pic and the summary for Daoud's Wondrous can be found in the Encyclopedia Magica Volume 2 pg 637 (TSR 2152) Book . As soon as it got the the part about not finding anything I jump up and when to the bookshelf before ever looking here on the comments and found it under "Lamp". and it source it from The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
You can find info and description of the Lantern, in the module Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Great dungeon delve. I ran a 5e version three years ago.
Awesome thanks for the info!
And that info is in the top three Google search results for the item, so "I couldn't find any info on it" apparently means "I didn't look." I get that most modern players, who may have started with 4E or 5E, don't care much about the history of the game (which I totally understand) but this is a super famous classic module and it's easy to find information on it.
I kinda like the outside lore behind the spell tasha's hideous laughter where a young girl (named tasha) wrote to gygax and asked him about a spell that makes people laugh. So in my campaign "broken road" while running across various multiverses and well known characters from lore including a very Shakespearian mordenkainen, a mark hamil joker vecna (who was the good guy in the situation) and a tasha based on that child, an immortal 6 year old prankster dressed up as a witch with most of the stories about being simply that, stories or jokes. While Iggwilv does exist as a alternative future (even being a patron/partner to the group's hexblade) with the kid Tasha saying they are two different people (almost treating the hexblade like a big brother). Great video
My main character is a half orc sailor who ended up becoming a unwilling Warlock of Grazzt. He has spent the last few years researching demonology and specifically trying to locate the demonomicon of Iggwilv in order to destroy Grazzt and earn his freedom. His research is inconclusive as to how many volumes there are, some sources say 1, some say six or seven. I also thought that Grazzt commanded 3 layers of the Abyss not two. My character has gone to great lengths including commissioning an extra dimensional library where he can plot against Grazzt without being spied on, he even has a ghost librarian in his service from the Tiamat campaign. Thanks for the video.
I’m a veteran DM and I didn’t knew about this “nice woman” until yesterday. So, thank you Sir, for all the information. Interesting character, indeed.
@lolo lollo
One who hasn't ran a campaign that needs to have her there maybe?
I love D&D and always learning lore and rules some day ill be a Veteran DM. Lol love the game tho.
wow, I think this is the first time I knew Greyhawk in more detail. Usually your vids are about Forgotten Realms or Oberron. I like it, keep more setting coming!
I love this video so much!!! Getting background on "Tasha" before Tasha's Cauldron of Everything releases is so nice
Yo Jorphdan, the ph is silent, you should do a mini series covering all the demon variants and what's unique about them. Any lore about them, that would be so awesome!
I'll add it to my list!
As someone whose going to be playing in a one-shot where my group and I are all playing famous wizards (me being tasha) I find this extremely helpful, tho still having a hard time building here character in 5e
@@red_comet_3326 how did your one shot go?
Don't forget she has a base on the moon! I always wondered if the evil Rita Repulsa from power rangers was based on her. (There was some d&d in Japan in the form of Lodos War) .. Not researched, just noticing the correlation edit: or there's Japanese folklore linking with and moon and picked up by Gygax?
She has a lunar base on a medieval world? I knew she was powerful, but that's weird.
The Japanese knew about Baba Yaga because of the Dutch
@@dangnabbit1379 baba yaga does not appear in Dutch folklore.
@@pieter-jandeboeck2595 The Dutch Were Trading Partners WIth Japan. It stands to reason that they traded much of what they could have with the Japanese. That Baba Yaga appears in cultures close enough that the Dutch could tell or sell those stories is enough to suspect that they might have.
I highkey wanna make a warlock that serves Tasha as a patron now 🤔
The hexblade in my campaing I'm running serves Iggwilv and he loves it (especially since he based his character on magik from the x-men)
@@stugod5000 hello random internet stranger from two years ago, i am a huge illyana fan and tasha fan and hexblade fan, i would love to hear more about this character
@@Scatteredpast do it lololololol
Belaphoss was the last boss of the video game Sword Coast Legends. I think he was created specifically for the game. His backstory is that he is Demogorgon's right-hand man but was secretly trying to gain enough power to dethrone him and become the prince of demons.
I read the Artifact of Evil Greyhawk book never realizing this was who Iuz’s mother was.
Suspiciously well-timed! No idea she had connections to Baba Yaga, Grazzt, Iuz, and more. Can’t wait for this book!
Thanks Bob, It'll be an interesting book. I think it will really shake up gameplay!
You can find info on the Lanthorn in The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (not sure of the spelling).
I'm guessing that Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms cross over to some extent, though being different crystal spheres on the material plane? Mordenkainen shows up in Curse of Strahd and Ravenloft kinda sits between worlds in the Shadowfell. So technically Mordenkainen and Tasha could wind up on Toril but probably stay in the planes/greyhawk for reasons.
FINALLY! It's about time that some one made a video on my D&D lady crush! I love your concise, and well done vids, Jordan!
*☼ i cant wait till you get that 100k. your channel is awesome, and youve done your time!*
The module you referenced TSR S4 has all the info on the lantern in it, in fact it is in the "tomb" of Drelnza, Iggwilv's daughter, along with the Demonomicon of Iggwilv. It is a great module, and can be converted to 3.5, or 5E without too much difficulty. I have DM'd this module many times through the years, and I highly recommend it. It has a whole section in the back devoted to new monsters and magic items. I have the original printing, but I also found it as a free PDF online.
Yep, and it's a ludicrously powerful magic item, like so many AD&D artifacts were. Can Hold, Haste, Color Spray, cause Fear, cause Rage, Flame Strike, cast Confusion, Prismatic Spray, or Prismatic Wall, and, if you use the lantern on a target with 10', they don't even get a save. Also, as I flip through this copy of I've had for like 35 years or something, it's kind of shocking how many things debuted in this module. Graz'zt, Chasmes, Dretches, Marid, Dao, Behir, Bodak, and even the Slippers of Spider Climbing are in here, and none of those are in the original MM or DMG. That's how stuff got dripped into AD&D.
One of the best parts? There's all this high-powered stuff in the module . . . and it's for level 6-10 characters.
thanks! I added a DMs Guild link in the references section. I guess someone made an updated version of that old module! pretty neat!
Wonder if Tasha could be a patron for a warlock. Lol I mean, she does currently live in the abyss so.....
Hexblade: I have named my weapon.
Player: brah, it's a sword.
Hexblade: it's a blade that i can summon out of thin air.
Player: ok, so what did you name your blade.
Hexblade: Kindness
DM: smh, you named your pact weapon ...Kindness?
Player: chuckles
Hexblade: Yes, so I can kill my enemies, with Kindness.
My patron Tasha would approves.
My Bard/Warlock recently took on Tasha as her patron. We did Wild Beyond the Witchlight as a side quest (it was heavily condensed) and my character asked Tasha/Iggwilv to be her sugar mummy because her current patron wasn’t treating her right. It was absolutely wonderful.
Shes actually in the feywild rn
This video should be updated with the release of The Wild beyond the Witchlight
I love the Greyhawk setting
Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn is detailed in S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.
Tasha is hands down one of my favourite People in dnd lore!
Dude, did you know what was announced today or is this just a coincidence
With the help of the internet I figured out it would be Tasha something on Friday evening. Spent the whole weekend on this video to get it out today XD
WotC don't tell me nuth'n! ;)
@@Jorphdan Well that's a natural 20 on your investigation roll
@GunnGuardian Thanks lol!
@@Jorphdan INSIGHT CHECK!
Daod's Wonderous Lanthorn is a permanent/indestructible ever burning torch item repurposed as a lantern. As a permanent ever burning torch, it is a perfect source for any fire spells, conjure elementals (fire) and abjuration against flame, when fighting fire with fire is possible. 1e Artifacts were a bit broken.
Hey Jorphdan,
Could you do a video on Silverymoon and or the Silverymoon Conclave? There aren’t really any lore videos for it on RUclips.
The crone form is sometimes named "Louhi" (like in finnish myth) - source Gord the Rogue novels.
Love she's the Twist in the new adventure module. Finally have a proper 5e stat block.
Great stat block! I really want to use it
The lantern has various lens that you can switch out for different spell effects. I believe it is an artifact. I remember a campaign where it was in use. I thought it cumbersome.
Good catch on Belaphoss. I remember coming across his stat block about a year ago sifting through some old Dragon+ issues and was surprised to find this hidden gem tucked away in an early issue. Seems like it was never reproduced in an official product though.
Now if we could only get you covering more Greyhawk. That would be wonderful!
They just announced the "Tashas Cauldron Everything"
Funny coincidence =P
Have you considered doing a video on the circle of eight? The wizard group from Greyhawk.
Thank you for this explanation! I have a NPC witch with obscure past, I think I'll use Tasha's story as inspiration :)
"Help I'm being adopted!" literally made my spit a little water I was drinking at the time, LMAO
4:36 Shade so dark it dimmed the lights in my office * snerk *
I'd love to see a video like this on Tensor
Laughs hideously...
As mentioned already, Daoud's Lanthorn is detailed in the Lost cavern of Tsjocanth. Loved that mod!
I have been looking into old school games lately. This video makes me want to run a campaign in greyhawk with Tasha as the main villain.
Honestly, from what I’ve seen, Tasha just seems like the Mad Lad of DND Lore.
I came here knowing nothing but her name. I leave educated and intrigued. Thank you for the video!
My first episode of this channel and I'm hooked.
Okay, I had no idea who OR how awesome she is. May she become, not the Lich Queen we need, but the Lich Queen we deserve.
LOL Iggwilv would never wanna be a Lich, she's already got some Demon-Prince essence that gives her immortality. She likes being the Witch-Queen I think.
@@antonioiglesias427
SPOILERS
She’s actually become an Archfey and goes by Zybilna and rules over the Domain of Delight as seen in Beyond the Witchlight. She also seems to be possibly edging towards becoming a good-ish person maybe (she’s currently Chaotic Neutral) as while she can still be sadistic and cruel at times, she does seem to be quite protective of children because of the emotion and potential they represent and forbids children from being harmed in her realms.
It’s an interesting direction to go with her character. Will this be a permanent change? Will she return to her wicked power-hungry ways? Or will this represent a split in her character, swapping back and forth between Zybilna and Iggwilv like a Jekyll and Hyde as it suits her?
She wants to rule the Abyss? It’s weird to think she wasn’t envolved in Out of the Abyss. Or was she? I mean, Lolth never showed much interest in ruling the Abyss until The Rage of the Demons. Maybe Iggwilv was envolved?
Fun fact Daoud is arabic for King David from the bible and his "Lantern" could be a reference to the Ark of the covenant.
Many people doubt that Iggwilv and Tasha are the same person, since in every apparition her stat block shows high level spells from different classes.
So, she has multiclasses wizard, warlock and priest or her name is used by many half elves
Not to be contrary but Bellaphoss is pronounced BELL-aws.
Cos the PH is silent. :D.
I'll show myself out.
*slow clap* ;)
Wow. I did not know all this about Tasha! She is Iggwilv??? and she is Iuz's mother??? Daaaammnnnn
Awesome, thank you for the information
New Jorphdan video? Yes please!
Great video
Thank you for doing a character from Greyhawk.
2:20 Where'd you find the alternate art for this card?
As always nice video!
Any thoughts of covering the book of vile darkness?
Yes! I've been researching in-game artifacts. Ring of Winter and Wand of Orcus videos came from that. Book of Vile Darkness is on my list too! And actually this Wed will be another artifact video so stay tuned :D
Thanks
1. I love Belephoss he seems awesome and possibly a new favorite demon.
2. Where do I find more stuff like that stat block for Belephoss, is it the Dragon Magazines? If so is there anyway to get older ones?
That was part of Dragon + Magazine.
The older Dragon magazines won't be useful for 5e stats, only Dragon +
I believe all the issues of the digital magazine are available online!
@@Jorphdan thank you master wizard, for your infinite knowledge
What's your source on Iggwilv plotting against the Demogorgon? I haven't found any references about it on your quoted sources, perhaps you missed one? I'd really like to read more about it :D
Hmm older video so I don't remember but I'll go over my script and try to find it
@@Jorphdan thank you so much! I have a player who's a big fan of the demogorgon, so I'd love to feature him more in our games :D
What will be the next player book after this one? Leomunds Book of Help and Support?
Leomund's Tiny Shelf of Everything?
The whole "Grazz't was once an archdevil" is still kinda up to debate as to whether it's officially canon. Of course, DMs are welcome to tweak campaign settings to their own liking, so if you want that to be where he came from, it can be so in YOUR personal version of the D&D multiverse.
Graz owns 3 soon to be 4. Just thought I'd update lore for you.
Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn is a magical item that uses crushed precious stones as fuel to cast light, and can burn for a century if properly fueled. It also had seven enchanted lenses originally, which could be used separately or in combination to cause the light from the lanthorn to produce magical effects, like Hypnotic Pattern, Hold, Prismatic Spray, Prismatic Sphere, Fear, Rage, and Confusion. Tasha also created an eighth lens that could produce a Slow effect. Tasha may have stolen the lanthorn mainly due to a desire to experiment on it, though it's found shining over the resting form of her daughter, who's become a vampire, so she may have thought she could modify it to cure her daughter (or improve on her daughter's vampirism). Three of the lenses have been lost, so some of the effects aren't producible without crafting and enchanting replacement lenses (the lanthorn is a minor artifact and very difficult to destroy, but the lenses are not and have no particular affinity for returning to the lanthorn if lost or stolen).
Daoud's a hero-deity (basically a mortal who is lower in status than a demigod (who usually has divine heritage) but is becoming a god under the patronage of a full deity). He was a priest of Istus, the Goddess of Fate, and a philosopher-king when he was alive, then lost all his worldly possessions, but gained the wisdom to see through the pretenses of his society's principles and pretenses, and propose a new path based on brutal internal and external honesty, humility, and acceptance of fate.
Greyhawk has a couple of unusual versions of godhood:
1. Hero-deities, who become the focus of legend, veneration, or great repute in life and are taken under the wing of a deity with similar interests who essentially vests them with a small aspect of their portfolio to act as a closer-to-humanity patron of that part (so, a Goddess of Fate vests a hero figure with the sub-portfolio of Humility (to accept fate), Clarity (to understand the workings of fate), and Immediacy (to act as fate wills). This is helpful for Istus, as she is a particularly aloof goddess, and Daoud gives her a more accessible aspect/helper).
2. Quasi-deities, who transcend mortality through means other than divine patronage. Usually they've traveled extensively in other planes of reality, created or interacted with powerful magic, and done other things that push their nature beyond the simply mortal. Quasi-deities, unlike hero-deities, cannot grant spells or answer prayers (unless they are actually present to hear the person praying, which is just regular listening and talking, which anyone can do).
The main differences between the two are worshippers/venerators (hero-deities have them, quasi-deities may or may not, but often don't) and divine patronage (hero-deities have a deity essentially reaching down to give them a hand up toward becoming a god, quasi-deities don't, and often don't want to, have such a connection).
Points to the very module referenced regarding the powers of the Lantern.
Tasha in 5e appears to be a very chill and funny lady, despite also being depicted as an evil witch.
I wonder if Gygax or one of the other O'GMs tried to woo a girl named Natasha but her hag of a mother convinced her to find another man, thereby taking revenge upon both of them by immortalizing them within the TTRPG they wrote...
This is great. (was looking for a vid cause one of my newbie players asked because of the new book). Do you you have videos on Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen?
Xanathar is mentioned in the Undermountain video, but not specifically. Volo and Mordenkainen are on my list of topics!
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2:06 - what is that art piece from? Its amazing!
Great info. Thanks.
She’s the one who did the laughter.
Making Iggwilv Tasha was a mildly interesting retcon. Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter was the only spell bearing her name.
3:55 WAIT! Is there a theory that Iggwilv might be the same person as Liliana Vess? I know WoTC owns both IP. Is this a theory?
haha no no. There is just VERY limited Iggwilv art. I have to improvise :)
Gonna be using her in my home brew campaign where she’s controlling a town as later a Wanda-vision Agatha reveal will happen cant wait to see their reactions
Vader kneeling to the Mouse...that gets a like from me.
She willing? gave birth to a demon hybrid & a vampire spawn? That is some sorrowful laughter subject material...
I don’t think Tash birthed a vampire spawn. Her daughter more than likely born human and was turned into a vampire. I’ll have to dig out my old TSR module to check.
@@TheTerrainWizard please do so & ty
Amazing, thank you!
I already found the spelling in the comments but was confused by the name Iggwilv that you kept mentioning but never spelled in your video, even when spelled all the other names.
Great video and very good timed with WotC announcement. Thank you for your videos. My only (constructive) critizism of this video is that needs to include Iggwilv the spelling of Iggwilv
haha sorry!
So originally the title of the video was "Who is Iggwilv?" but since WotC went with the name Tasha I changed it last minute. Thus when I made the video I didn't think I needed to spell it out.
Did you get a tip on the release or did I just come late to the party, I only saw it today
There were rumors out on Friday, and the Internet Sleuths help me put it together. So I quickly made a video over the weekend :)
It would be great if you covered Greyhawk.
Enjoy some Greyhawk stories about Tasha: greyhawkstories.com/tales-from-the-flanaess/iggwilv-mother-of-witches/
Excellent content
fun fact I don't hear often about Tasha, is that Baba Yaga is straight up taken from Slavic Folklore. They didn't even changed her in D&D.
Hey , where did you find the parchment background? :)
Didn't know Grazzt fact noice.
Isn't the magical Lanthorn in the Caverns of Tsojcanth?
They need to create a 5th edition Greyhawk campaign setting.
Tasha the Wizard
Known for her hideous laughter
While her associations and interests suggest she's an evil character, what has she done that's particularly evil? She seems more neutral (selfish) as she is mostly inspired to action by what her research dictates.
Her 5e statblock states that she is CN
Nice history lesson
Good stuff
Well done
As one of your first incusrion in Greyhawk, it's not bad but you missed a lot of infos on her. if you need info on the Daoud Lantern (which wasn't in her possession for a long time), how the Cirlce was killed or anything about the greyhawk characters history. Just ask, i've everything you need. BTW she's in the gey wastes hidding for her waaay too much powerful ennemies.
So is Tashas cauldron of everything a module or a rule book?
It's a Rule Book!
So, tasha is a greyhawk characters or Forgotten realms characters?
Greyhawk!
THANK YOU.
Welcome!
@@Jorphdan HUH
One form away from Maiden-Mother-Crone.
oh man, I just finished 3-year long Out of Abbys campaign a few weeks ago. Surelly, this book could be relevant then :c
Greyhawk huh? No wonder I've never heard of her, I'm still trying to keep mystra and mystryl and midnight straight as far as lore.
Need Angel summoning rules!
I wish a had a magical lantern I could cast illumination with in real life !
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