MitD XV: The Other Dark One

[Shining Wrath]

Catching up:
I do like the suggestion that we ought to examine 2e monsters.
I think the idea that MitD must be a Fiend of any sort misses a few points - for starters, his personal growth, which Fiends typically don't do. By "growth" here I mean "evolving maturity of viewpoint and judgment, moving toward good alignment". Also that except for, e.g., Jubilex, the Fiends are usually not so hideous as to induce nausea.
Also, there's no record of Durin's Bane actually eating dwarves - just killing them because they were in the way.

The wizard had never seen anything like MitD. But Xykon, who is not an avid reader, thinks he's read something about MitD, and thinks he knows what MitD is. The "recognizability" of MitD's species has to lie somewhere in the middle. If it were really obscure, Xykon wouldn't know anything. If it were really common, the wizard would have seen something like it before.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

And we're at page 50. Oh well, I gave Crusher as much time as I could, but it was not to be.

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Thank you,

Grey Wolf