Not related to the "Princes of Darkness" book, but prompted by it.
Is there an in-world equivalent of the Demonomicon of Iggwilv?
An infamous big black book o' baddies that all the necromancers & demonologists in Golarion would love to get their hands on.
Yup! The various scattered folios of the Book of the Damned. For more info, see the Book of the Damned and PF 30.
Not related to the "Princes of Darkness" book, but prompted by it.
Is there an in-world equivalent of the Demonomicon of Iggwilv?
An infamous big black book o' baddies that all the necromancers & demonologists in Golarion would love to get their hands on.
Well, there is the Bright Book of Smiling Kittens. You don't even want to know what dark mysteries Sunshine, Lollipops and Puppies will reveal. I shiver to even imagine.
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Well not any that I know of or found in the source material so far. Im wondering if the Blood War is going on. I know in Fourth Edition it isnt.
The Blood War is WotC's intellectual property. There's not one in Golarion's Great Beyond.
Check out Pathfindre #18 for some more info about demons, also.
You don't even want to know what dark mysteries Sunshine, Lollipops and Puppies will reveal.
Well, none! They will relveal shining, bright, glaring, blinding mysteries. Mysteries of such sublime beauty that you cannot witness them without going mad.
Archfiend Blackguards who are exposed to these shiny mysteries are reduced to empty shells who cannot help but smile in terrible contentment, uttering "aaaaawww!" all the time.
Those unfortunate souls radiate niceness in lethal doses, and the radiation burn feels so mindshatteringly adoring!
It is said that this is how Aroden died.
The Blood War is WotC's intellectual property. There's not one in Golarion's Great Beyond.
There is, however, an aeons old conflict between devils and demons because the demons refuse to return the lawnmower, and won't sweep the sidewalk every (or any) saturday.
It's called "The Blood(y nuisance) War"
Dude, I didn't get to say too much about this before, but expect to see a lot of the Book of the Damned especially in the coming months. Princes of Darkness gets into a few of the details about the book, but the general shtick is that it's a SUPER evil tome that was thought destroyed a long time ago that pieces keep cropping up from. A big section on devils is what Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness is, but there will be others, some on specific fiends of notes, some on whole races, some maybe even on other evil things. There's a lot of flexibility here, and - in game - the more pieces of the book you have, the more powerful it gets. So yeah, think of the Book of the Damned as not just a rules supplement, but an in world artifact, and - in places - a player handout. Cool?
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Well, there is the Bright Book of Smiling Kittens. You don't even want to know what dark mysteries Sunshine, Lollipops and Puppies will reveal. I shiver to even imagine.
They've got a cleric of Desna in the party, so there are already butterflies.
The party have found fragments of a Book of Naughtiness and it's nice to have something official rather than just make something new up or give them a Mythos tome :) Looks like they've got themselves a bit of the Book of the Damned.
Of course, they're probably going to be more worried by the cute, innocent, fluent in abyssal, amnesiac prisoner that they rescued when they killed the cleric of Lamashtu who had the fragments.
I've named a few tomes, though none of them specifically about fiends. They're the in-game source material for the demiplane and other dimensions lore in The Great Beyond.
Reflections of Silver and Tarnish (a book of lilland origin)
The writings of Ylerimon Azhvin the Reformed (written on the flayed and prepared flesh of the book's author, a high priest of Zon Kuthon)
Tableau of the Void Between (Nidalese origin, otherwise no details developed yet, and I'm too lazy at the moment to look at my original notes on that section of the unedited draft of TGB)
The Book of Serpents, Ash, and Acorns - Shadows of What Was and Will Be (unknown origin, very ambiguous about the nature and intentions of the author, but a gigantic OOC easter egg to the Blind Clockmaker who sadly is WotC IP, and my fault for making at least his name but no other details so compromised - but don't read into the easter egg too much, because if ever expanded, it will go a different route because his kind don't exist in Golarion's cosmology)
Don't forget about the Gluttonous Tome from the Magic of Thassilon web enhancement!
Split into three parts called the Kardosian Codex, the Bone Grimoire and the Black Book. Each is a powerful artifact in it's own right. They become more powerful as they are brought together. But if all three are ever reunited,
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Dude, I didn't get to say too much about this before, but expect to see a lot of the Book of the Damned especially in the coming months. Princes of Darkness gets into a few of the details about the book, but the general shtick is that it's a SUPER evil tome that was thought destroyed a long time ago that pieces keep cropping up from. A big section on devils is what Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness is, but there will be others, some on specific fiends of notes, some on whole races, some maybe even on other evil things. There's a lot of flexibility here, and - in game - the more pieces of the book you have, the more powerful it gets. So yeah, think of the Book of the Damned as not just a rules supplement, but an in world artifact, and - in places - a player handout. Cool?
It's the Darkhold! ;-)
Don't forget about the Gluttonous Tome from the Magic of Thassilon web enhancement!
Oh don't worry about that one, we have other plots in mind for that naughty little work.
It's the Darkhold! ;-)
Oh cool! I just Wikipedia-ed this. Neat! Super cool that it's tied in with some Robert E. Howard characters.
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Dude, I didn't get to say too much about this before, but expect to see a lot of the Book of the Damned especially in the coming months. Princes of Darkness gets into a few of the details about the book, but the general shtick is that it's a SUPER evil tome that was thought destroyed a long time ago that pieces keep cropping up from. A big section on devils is what Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness is, but there will be others, some on specific fiends of notes, some on whole races, some maybe even on other evil things. There's a lot of flexibility here, and - in game - the more pieces of the book you have, the more powerful it gets. So yeah, think of the Book of the Damned as not just a rules supplement, but an in world artifact, and - in places - a player handout. Cool?
Thats actually a really cool idea to tie a game book into a in game magical artifact. Well i guess I should say series of books cause i want my demon book too.
Cool?
but, of course
That's a good one.
Tableau of the Void Between (Nidalese origin, otherwise no details developed yet, and I'm too lazy at the moment to look at my original notes on that section of the unedited draft of TGB)
And I was confusing the details on two of those books, so here's the original rough text:
"the writings of Y'lerimon Azhvin a potentially reformed half-fiend child of Nocticula, exiled from the Abyss, and the Kuthite text "Tableau of the Void Between" (self-scarified by its nameless author on their now preserved intestinal rumen)"
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Dude, I didn't get to say too much about this before, but expect to see a lot of the Book of the Damned especially in the coming months. Princes of Darkness gets into a few of the details about the book, but the general shtick is that it's a SUPER evil tome that was thought destroyed a long time ago that pieces keep cropping up from. A big section on devils is what Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness is, but there will be others, some on specific fiends of notes, some on whole races, some maybe even on other evil things. There's a lot of flexibility here, and - in game - the more pieces of the book you have, the more powerful it gets. So yeah, think of the Book of the Damned as not just a rules supplement, but an in world artifact, and - in places - a player handout. Cool?It's the Darkhold! ;-)
That's what I thought of. I used this years ago in a 1st Ed campaign; it makes a heck of a Macguffin, quite apart from whatever evil schemes the PCs might have for it (or it might have for them).