Zariel, Archduchess of Avernus | Archdevils of Dungeons and Dragons | The Dungeoncast Ep.269

"We require more Overlords!"

Player: I cast sacred flame.
DM: Zariel takes 6 shame damage.

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Playing a Zariel tiefling Vengence Pally in bg3. Gonna watch this for inspiration.

Uhhh, Demogorgon has a CR of 26, not 25.

Supply depots
Overlords
Pylons

Bowser is a Dragon Turtle Devil. Change my mind.

Rewatching this for campaign reasons, and given WOTC's recent decisions, it could be said they view our and homebrew like devils view souls. We are an inconvenient husk between them and it. It's practically theirs. LOL

Demon engines zariel is using humans as demon engines a great power source in like batteries souls are battery power

Not a definitive answer but Baldur's Gate 3 would indicate that she wasn't redeemed and is still alive

Where would tiamat want to live if she escaped avernus? As I am listening to this I would say mount celestial above bahumat level of 2. In my game lathander and mystra killed Helm and the 3 main gods are missing, muradin, chantea, Corolon... so much more than I want to type... but where do you think she wants to rule besides everything... edit and mount celestial is under attack therefore zariel has to decide where to direct her forces at 2 fronts celestial and avernus edit2 I just to the spoilers of acent to avernus maybe she would align with lathander again to gain higher standing over Mt celest and return to her old self... hmmm

How would zariel view lathander now after becoming the arch devil

You talked about hubris for angles would it effect asimar as well?

Zariel is in redemption now. She talked the talk now she is walking the walk.

You two have amazing chemistry

So she literally has sky battleships fueled by souls.
That’s pretty metal

Spawn more Overlords!

I have a player in my campaign starting at level 1 paladin whos a paladin of zariel who will be going to the battle she fell in at 3rd level to become a fallen paladin

F*ck’n Awesome!!!!!!
Could y’all maybe include a DM roleplaying segment with these crazy intelligent, powerful, fiends?
I wanna fast track bs my players through hell, and I think Asmodius (and the others) deserve more than just a jack black confrontation 😅
I want them to shit their pants basically.
Thank you again, your podcast is platinum 👌🏼

Zariel: “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.”

Zarial is dope though cause she got Asmodeus in a stalemate in the contract he made with her. She said yes to being an archdevil to win the war, knowing that once she does the angels are gonna finally we off their asses and beat the hell out of everyone because devils aren’t infinite. So he got her but she got what she wanted too

You guys should read over Zariel’s statblock from Decent into Avernus

"What is that, like 500° kelvin?! Idk, I'm just a scientist guy."

California looks forward to the "rain ambiance" of winter, eh? That's both sad and smart. Realistically speaking, rain beats snow every time... Romantically speaking... Y'all are stunted.

A excellent episode as always!

Overloards, thats what allows you to make more units for the zerg :)

Didn't your videos used to be 1080P?

“Incapable of forgiving the smallest slight against her”, sounds like how some people play lawful good paladins 🧐

I don't get why everyone seems to think that Zariel is the least of archdevils in terms of power. In Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy you can find Mephistopheles and Baalzebul's official stats, and they're CR 27 and CR 26 respectively. Those are both some of the oldest archdevils right up there with Asmo and their CR is equal or a smidge higher.

Listening on Spotify and have to say I’m from America but I love how you guys threw in meter and kilometers into the mix for everyone else and it was fun and funny how you did it. Anyways just a small thing I thought was fun. You guys are nailing it keep it up I love the show!

YES fiends, my favorite type of enemy, excited to see more of them this year!

The flail hand just wraps around the weapons handle like a snake.

as a long time fan, the slow format change is dope! the outro cracked me the fuuuuck up 😂

I still follow the original 1st edition d&d of Devils. Having said that I think DiceFreaks Gates of Hell makes the most sense.

I think Tiamat should be the lord of Avernus not Zariel

I'm digging this "Year of" thumbnail art. Will that design and your old thumbnails hit the new merch store soon?

I'm personally most looking forward to your episodes on the Obyrith! The ancient original demon lords who invaded the multiverse after fully destroying their own by consuming all life and resources.

My favorites are Pazuzu the Lord of the all the skys of the abyss who only grants the prayers of good souls as to corrupt them into being dependent on him, and Obox-ob the first Prince of Demons and lord of vermin said to even give Demogorgon the spooks.

Finally I've been waiting for you guys to talk about her

Descent into Avernus has the updated lore accurate stat block for Zariel

"Asmodeus is Bowser"
I can't remember: Is Asmodeus a good dad? If so, then yeah, that totally tracks. XD

I hope her role in the Trial of Asmodeus comes up in this

I will also add that I loved Descent… my silver dragon-born paladin helped redeem her and gained his own wings after wielding her sword temporarily. We are continuing our Descent deeper into Baator after we finish the current arc with different characters and go back to our old characters!

I know Bahamut loves his golden bois but hope he sees my silver and is proud of him!

For the Descent Into Avernus campaign I DM I have it that initially Asmodeus was very impressed with Zariel and her more brute force approach. However in the time since he’s becoming annoyed by her rashness and impulsive strategies. Her plan in the campaign goes against Asmodeus’ wishes. The influx of new souls for devils would be massive and tip the Blood War largely in the devil’s favour. They could win the Blood War and conquer the Abyss. However, Asmodeus doesn’t want to win the Blood War yet. If the devils win then the celestials will attack to prevent them from getting to powerful, and with his forces weakened too much from the war and spread too thinly across the Hells and Abyss the devils would lose. Asmodeus wants to win the Blood War on his terms when he’s ready and he knows he can defeat the demons and celestials. As such he is secretly aiding the party’s efforts in stopping Zariel and hoping they remove her. He can’t be seen directly helping them cause the other arch devils may see this as a weakness and so he uses agents to interact with the party and push them to do his bidding.

So all these people making tieflings based off Zariel do they become aasimar if she’s redeemed and becomes a solar angel again?

Yo I literally just built a Zariel Tiefling Hexblade! This episode will definitely help me flesh out my character 🤘

SHOUTOUT TO DEMIGORGAN!!!!

Fiends are not friends… but you might be THEIR food!

Shout-out to my cleric of Ilmater Tiefling’s infernal heritage contributor Levistus!