About this episode

This episode explores the character Glasya, her origins, and her impact on the lore of Dungeons & Dragons.

She's Asmodeus's least obedient daughter, a criminal mastermind he promoted just to shut her up — and it didn't work. This episode we're breaking down Glasya , Archduchess of Malbolge and Princess of the Nine Hells, and Sean's newest crush. from her obscure 1983 debut in Dragon #75 to her defining arc in Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells . We cover her murdered mother Bensozia, her decades-long vendetta against Levistus (Stygia's ice-bound "Prince"), and the two wildly different stories of how that murder actually went down. Then we dig into the Reckoning : the civil war Glasya allegedly started with nothing but forged rumors and a talent for manipulation — pitting Mephistopheles, Baalzebul, and half of Hell's ruling archdevils against each other while she walked away clean. We also unpack how she took Malbolge from the Hag Countess (whose literal corpse became the layer itself — towers made of fingers, lakes of bile, the whole nightmare), why her cults thrive among the oppressed despite her being Lawful Evil, and what her Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes tiefling bloodline means for your 5e game. In this episode: Glasya's stats, powers, and combat tactics (spoiler: she…

People in this episode

Host: Sean McDonnell

Topics covered

• DnD Villains
• Glasya
• Archdevils
• Malbolge
• Goetic demonology
• Civil war in Hell
• Cult dynamics

Keywords

• Glasya
• Asmodeus
• Bensozia
• Levistus
• Malbolge
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Archdevils
• Fiendish Codex
• Goetic demonology
• Mordenkainen's Tome

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dragon #75, Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

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