“She’s so hideous that reality itself rejects her.” Yet Asmodeus still tapped dat

@AJPickett

2 жыл бұрын

No no... Asmodeus got tapped.

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.

@alex117a

2 жыл бұрын

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."

@JanusHoW

Жыл бұрын

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).

It's strangely nice of chaotic evil pale night to hide her insanity inducing appearance.

@MySerpentine

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's not her doing anything, it's reality breaking down around her

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.

@sagesheahan6732

2 жыл бұрын

So she politely killed you. That is a nice change of pace from the abyss.

@Krishnath.Dragon

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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”

@brianmead7556

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the dread gazebo.

@sagesheahan6732

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect. 😂

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

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

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds legit.

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

@goolabbolshevish1t651

4 жыл бұрын

That's actually confirmed.

@cameronpearce5943

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@goolabbolshevish1t651

4 жыл бұрын

@@cameronpearce5943 AJ confirmed it with one of his videos a while back.

@cameronpearce5943

4 жыл бұрын

@@goolabbolshevish1t651 Nice!

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.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

agreed.. 'she' gives me the willies,

@jacobkuhn9072

4 жыл бұрын

I am currently in a campaign were I "ran in to her " got away and now she is after me .... 0.o

@evankurasu3190

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobkuhn9072 oh my...

@Pyre

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@starsfalldown1234567

2 жыл бұрын

I thought grazzt was an arch devil because of his humanoid appearance. And then later he's a spawn of pale night.

10:00 just noticed that single frame....I love it.

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...

@Birbucifer

5 жыл бұрын

Lolikage Did you homebrew patron features, or did you just stick with the one that fit it the most?

@brianmead7556

5 жыл бұрын

So, how was it?

@TheBayzent

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianmead7556 He tried to know too much and is now in an institution.

@sagesheahan6732

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dmjamesdavis3745

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Interesting part for more exploration: her fascination with chaotic good corruption

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.

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."

@AJPickett

2 жыл бұрын

Accurate.

I love geeking out on dnd lore.

@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.

@starsfalldown1234567

2 жыл бұрын

It's an illustration from itou junji I think.

It's 2024 and man I remember when these first came out! I still love coming back and listening to these!

Really, really nice work with the Pale Night imagery. The subliminal effect is... very effective.

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.

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.

The Bebilith is my fav demon in D&D behind my bois, the Quasit.

10:00 guess i should take a sanity check

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Of all the low down, dirty tricks I have played on viewers over all these vids, that one, I think, worked the best.

@-lijosu-

6 жыл бұрын

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!

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.

@princekermit0

5 жыл бұрын

i fapped to it.

@jawnsea4432

5 жыл бұрын

@@princekermit0 god damn savage

@princekermit0

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@connorcraig483

5 жыл бұрын

I did too and I regret it

@stevewinkleburg5300

4 жыл бұрын

@Rodney James cool

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.

Well played with the one-frame horror of Pale Night.

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?!

Great video. You painted a great image. Thank you.

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

Since radient energy damages some necrotic lifeforms, are gnome-made glowsticks radient poison?

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

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!

Look under the sheet and they roll a zero meaning their head just pops like a balloon

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? 😂

@nvfury13

3 жыл бұрын

February condensed.

@chickenborn7697

Жыл бұрын

How are you holding up? It has been a few years. Take care of yourself ^^

@emiliadaria

Жыл бұрын

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?

@chickenborn7697

Жыл бұрын

@@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. ^^

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

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!

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Will do, thank you!

Hey huge congrats on 2k followers man, here's to 5k!

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Arthur! Here's to 20K!!

@WoM

7 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett haha

@seanwarren9357

7 жыл бұрын

Onward!

@captainfiteer7360

6 жыл бұрын

Oh look, another KZreadr I've subscribed to!!!

@godlessrecovery8880

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett *less than 2 years and over 18,000 subs later* "Here's to 50k!

it's fun to find this and hear a 20k announcement and see you made it to 103k now, awesome stuff

Grats! I love the hidden images :)

@TonberryShuffle

5 жыл бұрын

Grazzt?

10:00 I like that. That's a nice touch.

Great video my dude

Just recently found you. You've done a great job with these videos.

2000! Congratulations, that is quite a milestone.

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

i enjoy recognizing all the mtg art you have in your videos lol

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.

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

If you ever want any help or ideas, you know where to find me :)

@TGShainoo

7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, thank you.

Late to the party, but looks like someone found their BBEG for his next campaign

90k subs in 6 years as of typing this. Good work Aj

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."

@heyllo1337

4 жыл бұрын

You mean the glazebru? Glaberzu I mean.

Shes possibly the most powerful being in dnd universe. More powerful than the greater deity

What a great video

Gz on 2k man great job.

@trentonmaloney3280

7 жыл бұрын

5header

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Congrats!

Good work by the way

She is responsible for making Troglodytes for the other Demon Lords.

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?

@AJPickett

3 жыл бұрын

I put Pale Night in the same category as The Lady of Pain... no stat blocks, no answers.

@empoleonmaster6709

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

10:15 Pause and you’ll make a Wisdom Saving Throw.

"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 :)

@AJPickett

Жыл бұрын

Hobbit power

10:30 - 11:30 wait, i thought thats how everyones life was... ~sigh~ im going to go play a couple rounds of russian roulette 🤣

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.

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??

@AJPickett

2 жыл бұрын

They could get lucky, Demon lords come in an endless variety so, there is bound to be some very stupid/unlucky demon lords :)

@Jcoombs2011

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

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!

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, the greater devils and the lower hells are on the cards for later :)

@TheMarsBriggs

7 жыл бұрын

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!

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.

...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?

@crypticdeath8653

4 жыл бұрын

Abyss*

@nvfury13

3 жыл бұрын

“Gave him a little brother or sister.”

Dang total nightmare fuel!

Bebilith sounds cool!

well........ I ain't sleeping tonight lmao. That thing is horrid! also awsome. Great vids dude keep um coming!

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Will do!

oh no I'm being stalked by a bebilith on Facebook! great video, congratulations on the gang o subs!

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

Book Title Pale Night, History and Lore: The conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.

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.

Oh you, I caught those subliminals.

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

freaky? I was going for freaky.

@kingstewy

7 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett I thought I might be going crazy, but that doesn't give you that much credit.

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

I kept the image pretty safe really.. I had some others which were much... much worse.

@pariswashington5543

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett i want to see them

@princekermit0

5 жыл бұрын

@@AJPickett nightmare fuel is my preferred sexual preference/attraction, at least when one of my avatars incarnate in the prime material plane.

So the plateau is basically Hueco Mundo ;p

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Hollow world... yeah basically, but quite a bit worse.

Bebilith seem very uninspiring as monster spiders go, it's not like someone bred Ungoliant with Komunga, now those would be some monster spiders.

That easter egg around 10:14 Why did I notice it only now?

Bebilith is the most metal monster that isn't a skeleton on an undead horse.

Great video. Can someone post a screen grab of Pale Night's true form @9:50?

Wish you hadn't glossed over the rescue mission. It was my favorite part of the fiendish codexes.

@AJPickett

7 жыл бұрын

It was certainly important enough to get a mention, sorry I could not spend enough time on it for you.

Those little flashes of Pale Night reminded me of a Living Wall. Look forward to your video on it(them?)

Agh, those fucking subliminals

Wait a minute. The worst will be a loss of taste and smell! Oh crap.

Hmmm sanity...is for the weak...

7:00 subscribed

Baby litch! You wish

It took me a while, but I got to freeze the image at 10:00. I feel accomplished.

@starsfalldown1234567

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like something from itou Junjis manga

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.

@AJPickett

Жыл бұрын

I paid my dues

Just deleted my FB account lol

bebilith. kick ass

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.

I like her!

Aw and here I thought pale night were best girl material. :´(

I know this is an old video, but does anyone know what the artwork for 13:00 is or a link for it?

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?

Seriously, the descriptions just sound like 1) They're from the Far Realm which is a section of their former universe. 2) The Far Realm is actually something outside normal time, formed and actually whats left of their former universe in the future when it truly ceases and all that remains is endless madness and temporal havoc.

@MySerpentine

3 жыл бұрын

Or their universe became part of the Far Realm as it died

Man I wish you would re-do Pale Knights video with your new score and creepy compliations. When I have nightmares the tune you played during the Deep Spawn video is the only sound I hear drowing out everything else unless something more profound in turn drowns it out.

whats the image you used at 9:51? its gruesome and I'd love to find more like it XD

Quick question : which sourcebook give you the lore that behilit come from Pale night ? I really want to know

2000 subs? Its 132k now :D Awesome stuff. Still. Like before.

Spider web technically doesn't burn either, but dust on it can burn. and it can wilt.