So I was perusing the Book of the Damned for my upcoming Diabolist in a Way of the Wicked campaign, and came across this. "Before the Exodus, Asmodeus sought to create the perfect
being, an attempt to create a beauteous figure to outshine all
others in existence. Wisely understanding that no individual
could be all things to all creatures, he granted his creation
complete malleability of form, a body that shifted in response
to the deepest desires of all who looked upon it. The result was
terrible and insane, a thing of heaving
flesh, golden hair, and luminous
eruptions, which Asmodeus locked away
for all time."
Which got me thinking. If Belial is supposedly his second attempt at this, Who is the one described above? Where is it located? These are the types of things that I love to figure out. Any Ideas or conspiracies?
This is what happened when Asmodeus captured Aroden, used him as the base for the creation, and then locked him away in the Eye of Abendego storm. /conspiracy
This is what happened when Asmodeus captured Aroden, used him as the base for the creation, and then locked him away in the Eye of Abendego storm. /conspiracy
I don't think that would be it. If Belial is millennia old, then this thing would be even older.
Sounds like Jubilex, but that ain't Paizo's IP.
Sounds like somebody had a possible campaign in mind and wanted to leave it open if they ever put it together. This thing somehow gets loose and even Asmodeus can't find it because it keeps changing shape. It's mission is to destroy Golarion or at least anything treasured by it's creator (Cheliax) because it's pissed at it's dad.
...Or was it just totally insane because he was the one looking at it and he didn't like what that said about him?
Wow! That is actually a very good point, maybe that was his one mistake, he has to keep up his appearance as the chess-master, but even the lord of Hell makes mistakes sometimes
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...Or was it just totally insane because he was the one looking at it and he didn't like what that said about him?Wow! That is actually a very good point, maybe that was his one mistake, he has to keep up his appearance as the chess-master, but even the lord of Hell makes mistakes sometimes
or, the being is supposed to respond to the innermost desires of the viewer, Asmodeus is probs so self-righteous and narcissistic that when he looked upon his creation which reflected back to him his innermost desire, his god-level ego couldn't take it, and so he hid it away in disgust. In essence, he was disgusted with himself but blamed his creation.
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I haven't read the story, but it would seem to me that if Asmodeus thinks that *he* is darn near skippy the perfect supreme being, and his 'perfect' creation doesn't look a thing like him, then he's going to be mighty pissy about it.
There's an old saying that the most important thing a king can do is die (and pass on his legacy), and it's neat that Asmodeus, once creating his perfect creation, realized that he wasn't quite ready to pass on anything to a successor or gracefully fade away...
Maybe that's the story Asmodeus gives. He secretly leaked that as a rumor and his creation is actually right where it does him the most good. Right there is Cheliax. Or maybe it's one of the other gods that ascended from a mortal. Nobody would ever suspect Cayden Cailean of being an evil creation of Asmodeus... or even *gasp* Iomedae!
He's an immortal god, his creation is mutable. I rather like the idea that his creation is not an individual, but an evolving Dynasty that infiltrates all the Royal lineages all over the multiverse. Asmodeas HATES democracies for this reason as much as anything else.
I haven't read the story, but it would seem to me that if Asmodeus thinks that *he* is darn near skippy the perfect supreme being, and his 'perfect' creation doesn't look a thing like him, then he's going to be mighty pissy about it.
There's an old saying that the most important thing a king can do is die (and pass on his legacy), and it's neat that Asmodeus, once creating his perfect creation, realized that he wasn't quite ready to pass on anything to a successor or gracefully fade away...
Well, he seems to have wanted to create the perfect being physically, and while Asmodeus is certainly vain I don't think he's quite narcissistic enough to say that he's the sexiest-looking thing in the multiverse.
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I see two possibilities:
1) creating the perfect being was beyond the powers of Asmodeus and he locked his failure away so none could witness it.
2) against expectations Asmodeus succeeded in creating (in his mind) the perfect being, a being of pure law and evil, but the process drained him of much of his power. The new being was stronger than Asmodeus (now in a weakened state) and being perfectly ruthless showed no mercy towards its now inferior creator. The real story is that it is Asmodeus who is imprisoned and this new being who sits in his place masquerading as the ruler of hell.
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or, the being is supposed to respond to the innermost desires of the viewer, Asmodeus is probs so self-righteous and narcissistic that when he looked upon his creation which reflected back to him his innermost desire, his god-level ego couldn't take it, and so he hid it away in disgust. In essence, he was disgusted with himself but blamed his creation....Or was it just totally insane because he was the one looking at it and he didn't like what that said about him?Wow! That is actually a very good point, maybe that was his one mistake, he has to keep up his appearance as the chess-master, but even the lord of Hell makes mistakes sometimes
Maybe what he saw was Ihys?
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So I was perusing the Book of the Damned for my upcoming Diabolist in a Way of the Wicked campaign, and came across this. "Before the Exodus, Asmodeus sought to create the perfect
being, an attempt to create a beauteous figure to outshine all
others in existence. Wisely understanding that no individual
could be all things to all creatures, he granted his creation
complete malleability of form, a body that shifted in response
to the deepest desires of all who looked upon it. The result was
terrible and insane, a thing of heaving
flesh, golden hair, and luminous
eruptions, which Asmodeus locked away
for all time."
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Sounds like he accidentally created a being of pure Chaos instead of Law. Specifically, an over-engineered first attempt at a Succubus/Incubus . . . .