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Post by DOT on Jun 7, 2018 22:10:42 GMT -5
So I was chatting with Lucid in game, well mostly listening to all the interesting info "rl" typhon/set mythology. But the question came up, in D&D, if Set in Mulhorand is Typhon in Thay, but Typhon is actually the demon Pazuzu, then is Pazuzu Set? |
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Post by Munroe on Jun 11, 2018 23:13:32 GMT -5
Pazrael is listed as a deity on the Monster Deities table in Faiths and Pantheons (3e) and my understanding is that this is the major name Pazuzu uses in the Forgotten Realms, at least during our timeline.
The only information I've seen linking Pazuzu to Typhon is a 4e source (Demonomicon) that may not have been considering 3e Forgotten Realms source had already listed Typhon as a name Set used. Sometimes 4e is just really weird, but other times one writer just doesn't know what other writers have already done, particularly in campaign-specific books, and even moreso in campaign-specific books from a previous edition. My thought here is that the 4e writer was drawing the name from the same real world mythology without regard for how it was used previously in campaign-specific sources.
Though Sseth is a different deity, Sseth(aka Merrshaulk) was imprisoned by Set during the Time of Troubles and Set is hearing and answering prayers in that god's name. That's a major setting secret though, as Set is pretending to be the yuan-ti god and the yuan-ti mostly don't realize that anything is wrong, or they have a vague sense that something is wrong but don't know what.
Anyway, long story short, Pazuzu is not Set in 3e Forgotten Realms. Pazuzu is Pazrael though. And Set is Typhon. Set is also pretending to be Sseth, but he's doing it well enough that it hasn't been exposed yet, so you know nothing of that.
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Post by DOT on Jun 12, 2018 0:27:54 GMT -5
10-4 thank you much munroe  |
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