Pale Night
| Game background | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Mother of Demons |
| Home plane | Abyss |
| Power level | Demon lord |
| Alignment | Chaotic Evil |
| Superior | None |
| Design details | |
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Pale Night, the so-called "Mother of Demons," is an Abyssal Lord, both enigmatic and unbelievably ancient. In Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss, it was revealed that she is a member of the demonic race called the obyriths.
Pale Night's character (also named old Night) is based on John Milton's Paradise Lost's second book; In this text, she is said to sit besides the Throne of Chaos.
Pale Night was first mentioned in Faces of Evil: The Fiends (1997).
Pale Night appeared in third edition in Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss (2006).
Pale Night's form is incorporeal, and she appears as an empty flowing white shroud with the suggestion of a shapely female body underneath. It is said that Pale Night's true form, as befits an obyrith, is so hideous and terrifying that reality itself rejects it. The shroud that she "wears" hides it. To glimpse Pale Night's true form risks madness and death.
Ancient texts claim that Pale Night is the mother of Graz'zt, Lupercio, Zivorgian, and Vucarik in Chains. If she is indeed the mother of Graz'zt, she would also be the grandmother of Iuz, and possibly the mother of Rhyxali. Other texts make the bold claim that the entire tanar'ri race is descended from her in some way. As written in Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss, she speaks only very rarely and has not confirmed any of this. The same source quotes that she seems to have a mutual defense alliance with Baphomet.
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