
Mammoth Daddy |

I just rewatched The Sandman and it made me wonder:
Are there Malabranche in Pathfinder for planes such as the Dreamlands/Dimension of Dreams, elemental and transitive planes, or smaller demiplanes with mortal populations?
The lore I’ve read thus far suggests the answer is no, but it makes more sense that Hell would be interested in any plane with exploitable resources, beings and souls. There are entire mortal cities and nations among many of these planes, but they’re also sometimes much larger than a single world than Golarian.
Maybe these planes have multiple Malabranche orchestrating Hell’s interests there? I dunno, but I now wanna run a campaign where Hell begins invading the Dreamlands.

Pope Uncommon the Dainty |
Maybe these planes have multiple Malabranche orchestrating Hell’s interests there? I dunno, but I now wanna run a campaign where Hell begins invading the Dreamlands.
I would play in that game in one HOT second! The surreal battles that brings to mind, the metaphysical questions posed ("What happens when a highly legalistic, tricksy plane takes over dreams?"), the chance to revel in all the occult/psychic magic everything . . .

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The thematic role of the Malebranche (at least as originally envisioned when Wes brought them into the game) was that each of them serves as a devil in charge of Hell's conquering of a specific mortal world–aka, of a planet in the Universe. They're not really intended to be things that would represent an entire plane at all. Even archdevils can't do that.