"wrote a terrible book", shows the fifty shades series. man my friend, you just made my day. I laughed way too hard at that and I love this channel just a little more now :P Edit: I just got to the second one and it just made it better. I love this joke waaaaaay too much :D

Y'chak is also the elder evil of karate chops. XD

@johngleeman8347

3 жыл бұрын

Also loves having staring contests with Pale Night. :p

The "Fifty Shades of Grey" joke made me laugh so hard. You're awesome, Jorphdan! :D

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

😀

There are a few things that some other sources have explored on the Far Realms that I want to elaborate on here. Aboleths aren't from the Far Realms, they were the result of the "stuff" of the Far Realms bleeding into this reality and squishing into a form that the multiverse is capable of handling. I highly doubt they could ever go back, because doing so would subject them to a whole other array of physical laws they weren't prepared to handle. For this next bit, I'm going to quote Vox's Quest Blog, as he's done a great job of explaining: "The Far Realms is outside reality. No, not in another dimension, we know what those are - those are the Planes. It’s outside reality; it is Somewhere Else. “It” is probably even the wrong term, since by definition any place (”place”) that isn’t the multiverse as D&D knows it is the Far Realm. To paraphrase Afroakuma, if the Great Wheel is a Lego brick, the Far Realm is a giant squid; if the Great Wheel is a bowl of Fruit Loops, the Far Realm is the theory that intelligences from Pluto rig the results of major sporting events. The contexts are not compatible. These two things do not go together in any way. Combining the two can only end in sorrow and woe. So mortals try to combine the two all the time, because we’re dipshits like that." (qm-vox.tumblr.com/post/186657231636/the-far-realms-vs-obyriths-cosmic-horror-in-dd)

@justnoob8141

9 ай бұрын

So… another series by anoher unrelated company of unrelated genre then?

@lelduck6388

Ай бұрын

@@justnoob8141 the far realm is raid shadow legends

Really handy resource for more effectively integrating the unknowable nightmares beyond reality into a 5E game is Sandy Peterson's Cthulhu Mythos. Rather than stating Azathoth, it addresses how to handle a bit of Azathoth bleeding into reality, for example

Whoever commented first is The Eldest.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

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@TheBroot0999

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan he's talking about me again. Bah. Just because I started playing during 1st edition....

@TerrariaGolem

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan *gruntingly gibbers jargon*

@NeilRubel-mh9kq

Ай бұрын

@@TheBroot0999 Me too. I started playing AD&D in 1984.

I love those little editing jokes like the panda in the pandemonium great video thanks

I'm not much of a lovecraft boi, but isn't Azathoth the sleeping one whose dreams we are

@scepta101

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@WormsWeGot

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Azathoth's dream is in essence the multiverse, or even beyond that. Constantly lulled by a (and I quote) "flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws." In layman's terms, his own creation (unbeknownst to him, from which he derives the nickname "The blind idiot God") works tirelessly to keep him lulled fast asleep. Should Azathoth awaken, all realities, even the mere concepts of life, death, time, space, everything in between, would seize to exist. But that's the beauty of the enigmatic Outer God, he is a "blind idiot" because he is unaware of what his dreams are doing.

@pancakes8670

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if Lovecraft himself ever wrote about the Universe being Azathoths dream. I could never find a source on that, but either way the idea that the Cthulhu Mythos is just a dream inside Azathoth is a popular one. Some interpretations don't paint Azathoth as the creator of the Universe, but rather just the creator of the Milky Way Galaxy, implying that Azathoth is the Sagittarius A Black Hole and that there is more in space beyond its dream.

Thank you Jorphdan T_T I love Eldritch horrors and the far realms and these videos (as well the others) always keep me happy and hoping for more when you can.

would have said the blood queen was shub niggurath, also remember reading somewhere when she came to this plane, before the gods a piece of her was copied like the effect of her brief moment of touching physical space reacted and that was how the first came into being and he is still about while a few of her spawn became elder evils as they were around time before time.

Clicked on the notification, still have to watch the video because I need the time to enjoy this and listen carefully. LOVE the Elder Evils and they have always been a staple in my campaign (I'm a Lovecraft fanatic). Thanks for posting this, you've been of great help for me for years and finally... THE ELDER EVILS 😍

On the far realm, the PH aint silent! One could also argue that it means... Phar Helm :p

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

haha

Check out the Savage Tide Adventure Path from Paizo's Dungeon Magazine run. Bilestone is an important component of a recurring cluster of demonic minor artifacts.

@jaywingate187

3 жыл бұрын

The Aboleth city in ST is so fun to run. And the concept of a Demon Lord manipulating the remnants of a far older, deadlier entity for his own violent ends is quite fascinating.

The Y'chak chops killed me. Thank you for those laughs. Always love these vids and super glad to see you taking on the Elder Evils!

that 50 SHADE was hilarious

Commenting for Black slime from Star Trek :))) love the videos on ancient evils, very interesting lore!

PANDAmonium hehe 🐼 2:45

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

good catch!

i think i remember bile-stone being a material used for special sacrificial daggers/altars in the book of vile darkness and as a desecrated/unhallowed flooring in the stronghold builders guidebook... basically it granted a bonus if used in evil rituals. think advantage on a check to get the attention of an evil god/outsider or counting as an evil altar being present for desecrate/unhallow spells.

I like the idea that aboleths interpret the outer gods as great aboleths.

I love this video I needed it for a patron to one of my players and the main villain. I know what to do for the villain

a cthulhu catfish appears!

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

Roll initiative

Excellent review, thank you, one of my fave extra-planar subjects! It’s interesting to see how people differently pronounce the names. Who’s to say what’s correct, madness!!!!!!!

+1 for the Starcraft 2 screenshot of creep

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

zerg ftw!

You look like Zach Galafanakis. Thanks for all the wonderful content. Your brain is an encyclopedia.

Always love a bit of good old elder evil madness. Excellent stuff

The karate chop addition to saying Y'chak nearly caused me to spit out my drink because of the ensuing guffaw

I absolutely loved your explanation of the Far Realm entities. One of the best explanations of how and why we perceive the unperceivable.

Cant wait for Hargut the Grey Pestilence! Great content as always

That was a quick change on the panda-monium joke :)

Shout out to SMITE's depiction of Cthulhu popping up. Love that game.

I love 2:46 the photoshop about "PANDA"monium

I would respect Y'chak the Violet Flame as an aspect of Nyarlathotep or Hastur (my top two faves in the Cthulhu mythos). But being an Eldritch god, he can manifest other forms in other avatars. Initially, being a Lovecraftian violet flame sounds a bit unappealing to me. LOL but then again, it is how we portray it in our games, I guess.

Great stuff, man. Love the jole thing but the bur you little interpretation of why we perceive "The Lords of Madness" at 3:10 draws me more into D&D. Thank you! This and "Book of Vile Darkness" are the most interesting things so far. Would love to watch you play some adventure concerning The Lords of Madness or heck... play with you!

Awesome. Perfect timing as my players are just realizing that The Eldest is working on bringing the Blood Queen into the prime material plane.

I really like the idea that Hastur, or, as it would be more correct, the King in Yellow, is the devil. Not Satan personally, but one of his henchmen, a powerful demon of lies and false teaching, who embodies his lies through art filled with devilish, God-defying meanings. I even came up with an angelic name - Haziel. The fact is that Chambers did not write Hastur as an "ancient evil", he described him in the context of the Christian worldview and even depicted him with many references to the devil and Lucifer. In addition, Hastur, as a Great Ancient extremely unprocessed character, can even be said to have no idea. But as the embodiment of the dark side of creative inspiration and power over the crowd in every sense of the word (Hastur-pastor-shepherd + King in Yellow + he called himself "Carcosa's Lie"), he is an extremely interesting idea.

This gives me end game ideas for my campaign.

I just found a patron for my villain in my campaign! Thank you

My head canon for the Far Realm is that if a multiverse is possible with infinite variations, and every "adjacent" realm to "ours" is only a slight variation (ala Rick and Morty), then there must be a realm that is the complete opposite of what we experience in every way.

Great and informative as always!

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

the Y'Chak chop got me

That hero forge service is pretty cool, actually... 👀

Loved this one, Lore Dude.

Ah, black greasy stone. Methinks GRRM has read some D&D lore.

Good ideas for Warlocks and Aberrant Mind Sorcerers. Never bought that book, but it looked interesting.

I like that the Aboleths are interested in Piscaethces return to Toril, not because she will "Fulfill the prophecy and set her children in their rightful place above the gods" or something, but because it would settle a bet.

8:32 Shut up and take my gold pieces!

I love the karate chops for Y'chak

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

When you talked about the Violet Flame I was thinking to myself, ahh this could be a nice entity within dnd's lore I can replace with the King in Yellow. As soon as you name-dropped Hastur my heart melted 🤯

@Jorphdan

10 ай бұрын

😈

I’m running a Call of Cthulhu game with my players now a days. They’re about to encounter Tsathoggua. I pronounce it like this: Sa-tho-guwa

Hey Jorphdan, loved the video - I would love to see you cover Eberron's answer to elder evils without a far realm - Daelkyr, the lords of madness from the plane of Xoriat

@jaywingate187

3 жыл бұрын

Between the Daelkyr, Overlords and Quorri, eberron is overflowing with Lovecraftian entities looking to twist reality into knots

You need to do a video on all of the elderitch horror type beings and where they come from like the oberiths and different far realm beings. I just really find the far realms and other contorted and chaotic beings from seemingly absurd and horrific planes and other places. It doesn't even have to be the actual Far Realms It can be anything that's crazy like that or completely unknown. Like where do the oberiths come from if they didn't come from the far realm?

Lol the panda in pandemonium

@Jorphdan

2 жыл бұрын

🐼

Thank you Yorph, very cool

Semi-related topic: on the case of the Far Realm, I would like to think of them as something far more ancient and primordial than the Gods and Primordials (even the Overgods), Prime Movers, and even the Obyriths. In fact, I'd like to think that the Obyriths were spawned from the Far Realm and into their own dimension before they went haywire with their chaotic evil surge and nearly destroyed their dimension before Tharizdun discovered them.

@maguszeal5818

Жыл бұрын

Nice i think I'll adopt this principal. I feel like it fits thematically.

😲 wow! Never knew this my dude 👍

Yachak was the best part. Laught a lot hehehehe

Great vid

Volothammog? Watcher in the dark. Volothamp Geddarn intrepid observer. Coincidence? I think not. He’s nyarlathotep of faerun.

I expected a dissertion on the Abolethic Sovereignty, that's even bigger. Nice video as allways.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

Good call!

Love this channel

Great video

Lords of madness was a fun book to read.

Love the chops, but you missed one at 11:07. Great video!

Idk why but when I looked at the word evil I thought Elvis, Aboleth elder Elvis impersonator. Lol that would be a fun campaign.

I love “Hero Forge” I made my Tiefling Kelemvor grave cleric and a couple of weeks after get my beautiful mini Rhona the grave cleric met her God a little too early. She now sit on my display with my Lego Ecto-1.

My eyes went and did the dyslexia again. I read this video title as "Abolish Elder Elvis". Now I know who the next Lich I write is going to be modeled after. A CURSE A MY SOUL WHATS A WROOONG WITH ME...YOULL NEVA GONNA FINDA MY PHYLACTERY *shakes bedazzled pelvis* (insert mandatory Elvis "thank you very much" quote)

Hail the Chained God, hail Tharizdun!

Bilestone slingshot let’s go!

Let's get Lovecraftian up in here!

ty i love hp lovecraft and your videos

I'm a big fan of the visual Easter eggs

And now I need to find your source material. Great stuff here.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

I pulled mostly from the Lords of Madness 3.5 supplement. You can always find my resources to a video in the description towards the bottom. :)

Watching the series, waiting for the time of my BBEG Pandorim to enter the stage... :D

Thank you for the connection to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Cthulhu, one version, used silver colored fire and was over 200 feet tall. That's where dnd got the word " colossal"="cyclopean."

@bluebird3281

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was from the classical Greeks thinking the buildings of the Mycenaean Greeks were built by Cyclops'. Lovecraft just used the word.

I used Y'chak as an antagonist, using a colony of aboleth as the final showdown. The party is currently gaining allies in various underdark monsters, from kuo-toa to myconids to sahaguan and even potentially ithilid, if they agree to capture a dragon and bear witness to a trufully gruesome birth. As it stands, level 10s can't fight off dozens of aboleth, fight a Harbinger of Y'chak and a beefed aboleth, as well as two powerful casters. Y'chak won't be involved directly, but the violet pillar of flame is at the base of the final fight, and as the weave is torn asunder through spells, so too is the strength to keep Y'chak at bay. As it progresses, the flame expands and Y'chak grows closer. If the fight drags too long, she will burst forward, obliterating all life she can. The alter the pillar of flame spews from can be destroyed, preventing this from happening, but if Y'chak comes through, I've plenty of back-up plans to keep the campaign alive. One character is an avatar of Selune, another is blessed by a deceased homebrew deity, the third is a harbinger of y'chak as well, and would be spared until the end, and the fourth is literally born from magic.

Oh damn never been this early. And for an elder evil video. Love all things far realm/lovecraftian.

if you went to a lovecraft or forgotten realm, everything would be in stasis because everything would be in three dimensions. Atoms would not exist because everything would be euclidean. The physics teacher would be right to call a penguin a rectangle.

I see you used Tanabe Gou's brilliant adaptation of Lovecraft's novels to illustrate your point!

I think Quan chi from the new mortal Kombat is a warlock who's patron is based on Halashaner

So... a black mirror? Amazing. I think that when my epic fantasy Tiamat’s-War-of-Dragons campaign ends, I’m going to make my next one something more horror-themed and use some kind of great evil.

@derekstein6193

3 жыл бұрын

Make your new "great evil" a demon lord or something, but make it turn out that even it was messing with things beyond its ken. There is always a bigger fish (with tentacles).

@mke3053

Жыл бұрын

I run War of the Dragons.. but there were a change... tiamat was an Elder evil and his minions were aberrations and strange things. Players never find out it was the tiamat book, but love it any ways.

@Jorphdan Pathfinder has an excellent Adventure Path called Strange Eons, and the whole series is excellent. In the first adventure alone all the players wake up in a mental asylum with no memories. Then things get far worse.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

Oh nice! I'll have to check it out

@marthachampagne316

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan it has strong hp lovecraft and call of cuthulu vibes to it, you have been warned. i also saw a playthrough of it on youtube a few years back, even though the reached the end of the adventure they do not have a lasting victory, they only delay the inevitable.

I LOVE your work! That's all I wanted to say! 💞 lol

Best example of an Elder Evil would be the Elder God from the Legacy of Kain franchise.

all of the far realm is just Gary Larssons far side

Anyone know where to find the art at 4:04? Love it and would love to have it. Tried researching it, but nothing came up.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

triplecrit.fandom.com/wiki/The_Far_Realm

@pieanator1598

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jorphdan! I would have never guessed just looking up The Far Realm would yield the art.

Tnx

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is pleased with this video

@derekstein6193

3 жыл бұрын

Best. Warlock. Patron.

Very nice to see your face during the video.

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

😊

Your videos are informative but I your pop-ups just kill me 🤣

How about Zargon (the returner) reading the Lost City for 5e (by good man games9 right now will you make a video about Zargon too?

Yachacha is probably Pazuzu.

Phone of my favorite lores! (The ph is silent)

Bolo’s Guide to Nothingness...

in my top 3 of 3.5 books.

Would you please cover Birthright?

If only Lovecraft knew what kind of effect he would have later? If only RPG'S were available to him. I wonder what he would've created with others (without any of the negative implications about his xenophobia).

11:23 AAAAAAAAAA!!!

Honestly it would seem like Y'chak is more like Nyarlathotep than Hastur

These bad ass far realm creatures have inspired me to create a very lame far realm creature... I submit for your approval: GthYikkott ShiiBub. He doesn’t drive you mad by the sheer sight of him, he just approaches you randomly and says “so... hey... I forgot my sanity at home... can I borrow yours?” Or.. “so, hey guys, can I see your mind for a moment? I just want to look at it. I promise not to shatter it. I just want to see it a second. I’ll give it right back.” He.... ....doesn’t have many followers... 😕

I think your cat is a norwegian forest cat great cat have a nice day.